This is the 1974 Ratha Yatra in Melbourne, Australia. Prabhupada walked and did little dance steps the whole route without riding in the Ratha Yatra cart. On the evening of this day when I was mas saging Srila Prabhupada’s legs he remarked to me, “You were dancing nicely today”. His own dancing inspired me to dance and here I am yielding his cane while he plays karatalas. He is wearing flashy silk clothes, a white cadar and varied colored hat and turtle neck. A Gaudiya-matha san nyasi once cor
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If you are a little pragmatic person and you are a regular newspaper reader
and watch news in TV channels, it will not take long for you to realise that
something dispropotional when it comes to something concerned with Hindutva
related happenings. Be it recent pub attacks or attack on churches, you
cannot miss the a week long mayhem reported in the media. You can easily
make out that media are sitting hawks that prey out and demonize anything
concerning the right wing Hindutva
HARE KRISHNA MAY KRISHNA BLESS ALL OF US. SO THAT WE ALL CAN perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of KRSNA. (SRI CHAITANYA MAHA
The Killing of the Demon Trnavarta
1. One day, a year after Krsna's appearance, mother Yasoda was patting her son on her lap. But suddenly she felt the child to be heavier than a mountain peak, and she could no longer bear His weight.
2. Feeling the child to be as heavy as the entire universe, the astonished mother Yasoda put the child down on the ground.
3. While the child was sitting on the ground, a demon named Trnavarta, who was
Hare Krishna to all Devotees
Please Accept my humble obeisances
All Glories to Srila Gurudev
All Glories to Srila Prabhupad
I got this story from my junk mail box and wanted to share with devotees to know their opinion.
Hari bol
Radha Raja.
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A King had asked three questions which a teen aged girl had answered to the satisfaction of the King and all others.
The que
Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi
(The Nectar Moon of Sri Radha's Sweetness)
1. When will Vrndavana's queen Radha, Her eyes restless with love and Her limbs like waves in the flooding ocean of nectar, place Her merciful glance upon me?
2. O queen of Vrndavana, I take shelter of your lotus feet, which are flooded with nectar, which are cool and pleasing, and which, placed over Lord Krsna's heart, extinguish the blazing fire of desire that torments Him.
3. I pray that my heart
By circumambulating the cow , one attains the result of circumambulating the whole world . One should give cows in charity and protect her in all respects. A foolish person who beats or chastises a cow goes to hell . A person who gives some food and water to a cow attains the result of performing the horse sacrifice . There is no doubt about it . Rare are those who daily worship and serve the cow .
Brhat Parasara smrti , from the book Sacred Cow , trans. by Bhumipati das , Vrindavan Rasbihari Lal
Simply engage yourself in Krishna's service. That will protect you from any attack of maya. Maya can takeKrishna's place in our heart as soon as there is a slackness on our part. Otherwise, if Krishna's seated always, maya has no opportunity to occupy t
As while you're chanting and clapping your hands, as birds will fly off from the fields, so it's a good impetus….Haribol….Hare Krishna! (Everyone Clapping)"
HH Jayapataka Swami Lecture: BG 8.6 October 10th, 2001
http://www.guruvakya.com
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shrive
Overturning of the Cart
1. When mother Yasoda's baby Krsna was slanting His body to attempt to rise and turn around, this attempt was observed by a Vedic ceremony. In such a ceremony, called utthana, the child is properly bathed. Just after Krsna turned three months old, mother Yasoda celebrated this ceremony with other women of the neighbourhood.
2. After completion of the bath, Yasoda found that her child closed His eyes in sleep
Adisekar das: He had the sankirtan leaders of that time from Bhagavan’s
zone a little meeting with us. First he congratulated the devotees for the
results. And he asked the first question, I think the only question he asked
us, and he said, “Are you reading my books?” Then Brighupati said, “You
know, Prabhupada, we don’t have much time, we don’t have time to read.” Then
I heard, I was near, Prabhupada said, “What is the use?” I could see he was
deeply hurt. It was a major priority. Our life was to be
zone a little meeting with us. First he congratulated the devotees for the
results. And he asked the first question, I think the only question he asked
us, and he said, “Are you reading my books?” Then Brighupati said, “You
know, Prabhupada, we don’t have much time, we don’t have time to read.” Then
I heard, I was near, Prabhupada said, “What is the use?” I could see he was
deeply hurt. It was a major priority. Our life was to be
"Can a Woman Be First Class"
Sri Govinda: They would like to interview you and tape record possibly for using in one of their magazines.
Prabhupada: Jayatirtha, you can come here. If required, you will reply. What is that?
Jayatirtha: This is the article that Mrs. Wax has written, and it was published in Harper's. It's one of the big national magazines. It's about Gurukula.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Jayatirtha: It's nicely written.
Prabhupada: Oh.
Jayatirtha: It's called "Raise Your Hand if You're an Eternal Spi
Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 9
rajya-kamo manun devan
nirrtim tv abhicaran yajet
kama-kamo yajet somam
akamah purusam param
rajya-kamah -- anyone desiring an empire or kingdom; manun -- the Manus, semi-incarnations of God; devan -- demigods; nirrtim -- demons; tu -- but; abhicaran -- desiring victory over the enemy; yajet -- should worship; kama-kamah -- one who desires sense gratification; yajet -- should worship; somam -- the demigod named Candra; akamah -- one who has no material des
Milan Madhuri
(Sweetness of Meeting Krishna)
Gayo Hari, mo pai jadu dar.
"Oh, woe is me! Krishna has cast some magic spell on me!"
Haun Jamuna-asnan karan gai, tahan rah Nandkumar.
"I went to bathe in the Yamuna River and He came there all of a sudden."
Piya drig piya-ras-roop madhuri, drigan bachay nihar.
"Avoiding looking directly into His eyes, I drank the nectar of His divine beauty through the protection of my veil."
Ras-lampat drig pat ghunghat-pat, karan chat janu par.
"That very i
On Remembering Srila Prabhupada
Myself and many others practically perceive how the relationship with the spiritual master is not based on physical presence. I joined ISKCON as a young kid in 1975, when it was already a big world-wide organization. There was no question of just walking up to Srila Prabhupada and talking to him, nor even of getting an appointment to see him. We could attend lectures and darsanas, but felt (and were) too insignificant to ask him a question, even in the public forum
PRABHUPADA'S QUOTE OF THE DAY
"We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, so many nonsense things. We waste our time. Srama eva hi kevalam. We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krishna."
Vrindavan, March 31, 1976
Putana’s Deliverance
By Kamsa’s orders, the fierce demoness Putana went about killing children in towns, villages and pasture lands. Dressing herself just like a beautiful woman, she entered the house of mother Yashoda. Krishna showed the nature of a small baby and closed His eyes, as if to avoid the face of Putana. On that very spot, the fiercely dangerous Putana took Krishna on her lap and pushed her breast into His mouth. The n
