01-Jul-95
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I'd like to ask You is it OK to offer to Deity a macaroni bought in a shop and prepared as normal? My question created from thought that macaroni were manufactured with warm by karmi.
12-Jul-95
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Such items as macaroni, spagetti, etc., which fall into the general catagory of pasta are not cooked by karmis. They are
29-Apr-95
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I have one question regarding theas plants. I heard that one can't to use dill in cooking for Deity. And I also heard that one can't to use lilac-flowers in Deity worship. Is it properly?
18-Apr-95
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Why do most ISKCON temples use canned and fr
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.19.28-32
QUESTION:
Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, O chastiser of the enemies, please tell me how many types of disciplinary regulations and regular daily duties there are. Also, my Lord, tell me what is mental equilibrium, what is self-control, and what is the actual meaning of tolerance and steadfastness. What are charity, austerity and heroism, and how are reality and truth to he described? What is renunciation, and what is wealth? What is desirable, what is sacrif
16-Apr-95
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The cooks are sometimes substituting papadams for breads. Is that proper/acceptable ?
Date: 22-Apr-95 17:45 SST
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If you mean by "breads" capatis, papadams have a totally different "funtion" in a menu. I always understood that they would be served (if one were not serving everything a
Hare Krishna PAMHO AGTSP
Dear vaishnavas we are group of devotees from Gujarat we have 150 indigenous pure breed cow. Who grazing only natural grass .
We are manufacturing ghee by Vedic method as following..
First we boil the milk on the cow dung cakes and wood stove. When it became cool
we add little curd in it. Next day morning it will be a complete curd. Now it is ready to churn.
This churning process is done with two people by wooden motor {MANTHANI} in mud pot. When churning process is completed
From purport of SB.6.7.24
From the instructions of Lord Brahmä it is understood that everyone should very
faithfully worship the brähmaëas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the
cows. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is go-brähmaëa-hitäya ca: He is always
very kind to cows and brähmaëas. Therefore one who worships Govinda must
satisfy Him by worshiping the brähmaëas and cows. If a government worships the
brähmaëas, the cows and Kåñëa, Govinda, it is never defeated anywhere;
otherwise it must
19-Feb-95
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Can one use clothes (dhotis, chadars) which had been washed in a public laundromat in Deity worship?
30-May-95
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… all the 'pujaris' I know wash their own cloth by hand, or it is washed by another devotee, ie. their wife, in the case of grhasthas. Astarata prabhu, as well as Jananivasa and Pankajanghri prabhus in M
26-Nov-96
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I have a question about cleanliness. I can be probably wrong, but I think I read it in Pancaratra Pradip, that after taking meal one has to brush teeth (and after brushing teeth one must take a bath) and that for pujaris it may not be all the time possible and in this caseone has to wash his mouth thoroughly (something like 16 times) and this replacenecessity to brush teeth and taking bath. And because pra
