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Daily inspiration

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 12, 2010 at 10:01am

Daily inspiration – the words of the Vaisnava Acaryas

Sri Narada-bhakti-sutra, purpoprt to Sutra 5:

The next item favorable for devotional service is niscaya, confidence. When one becomes disappointed in his service to the Supreme Lord, that disappointment must be rejected and replaced with confidence in attaining the ultimate goal, love of Godhead. The devotee should patiently follow the rules and regulations of devotional service so that the day will come when he will achieve, all of a sudden, a

Sonic technology awakens our potential

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on August 12, 2010 at 9:50am

Sonic technology awakens our potential

Question: In the Vedic tradition, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on sound, on hearing from a spiritual master. Why this emphasis?

Answer: Sonic technology is central to the Vedic program of spiritual redemption.

The Vedic texts explain that all of us are afflicted by spiritual amnesia. As spiritual beings, we are eternal and indestructible. But due to forgetting our spiritual identity, we live in anxiety and fear caused by the fragility and mortality of o

Don’t play “God”

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on August 11, 2010 at 3:52pm

*Don’t play “God”*

Question: What are the moral implications of the recent scientific attempts to create synthetic life?

In the recent experiments, artificial life has certainly not been created, but real life may well have been endangered due to such attempts to “play God.” While esearchers promise beneficial, often sensational, future results, the past track record of such promises shows counter productive, often devastating, consequences. In the field of genetic engineering itself, genetically-

Hare Krishna Maha Mantra

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 11, 2010 at 2:15pm

The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare is the sublime method of reviving our Krsna consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by the material atmosphere. The material atmosphere, in which we are now living, is called maya, or illusion. Maya means

The Importance of Preaching

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 11, 2010 at 2:14pm

Srila Prabhupada has given us a very valuable slogan; Preaching is the essence, books are the basis, utility is the principle and purity is the force. He also showed by his own example, and instructions, just how essential he considered this first item of preaching.

I personally heard and saw an example of this preaching mood in Srila Prabhupada in his last days. He instructed his disciple, the then President of the Bombay temple Giriraja Swami, about how to conduct the opening of the Juhu temple

Power of 'Nama Hatta' Preaching!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on August 11, 2010 at 1:30pm

Power of 'Nama Hatta' Preaching!

"In this modern age, it is most practical to apply the Nama Hatta form of preaching - cultivating people through small groups formed of the congregation. Nama Hatta groups can begin anywhere, without restrictions, whereas in a temple there are so many restrictions, not only spiritual but also material, in the sense that so many expenses must be met.

The Nama Hatta system start first with a small group, and then later, when the congregation grows, it is quite natura

IS SABOODANA ALRIGHT FOR EKADASI ?

Posted by Chitra Datta on August 11, 2010 at 12:24pm

Subject:SABOODANA MADE FROM MILLIONS OF "ANIMALS" ?

I am giving below rough translation on an article from one Nainmal
Surana published in Dakshin Samachar on March 31, 2010. Feel free to treat
this as you deem fit...or research yourself...

In Tamil Nadu, in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore
there are many saboodana factories. We start getting terribly bad smell when we are
about 2 kms away from the factories.

Saboodana is made from a root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root
each weigh

Indriya

Posted by Raghupati Raghav Das on August 11, 2010 at 11:33am

Pamho

Dear prabhu ji and mata ji

Please tell me how many type of indriya

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Puranas are not imaginative; they are historical records

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 11, 2010 at 10:37am

Hare Krishna Friends,

In life we are accustomed to thinking either of the material or the spiritual energy. There are so many literatures which fill ourthoughts with the material energy--newspapers, magazines, novels, etc. Our thinking, which is now absorbed in these literatures, must be transferred to the Vedic literatures.
The great sages, therefore, have written so many Vedic literatures such as the Puranas, etc. The Puranas are not imaginative; theyare historical records.

Source:Bhagavad Gita

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Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 11, 2010 at 10:24am

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Offenders of Lord and their Destiny

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 11, 2010 at 10:23am

Offenders of Lord and their Destiny

"One who considers the body of Krsna to be material should be driven out from all rituals and activities of the sruti and the smrti. And if one by chance sees his face, one should at once take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection." People jeer at Krsna because they are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny is certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - preach boldly

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 11, 2010 at 10:23am

preach boldly

August 10th, 1976

Today is the appearance of Lord Baladeva, but we all broke the fast because no one checked the calendar until it was too late. Srila Prabhupada wasn't happy about it but didn't react too strongly. He simply told us to observe it tomorrow.

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Prabhupada didn't take his walk this morning because his legs are swollen, but he still preached to everyone on the back balcony for an hour, prompting the devotees to present challenges to our philosophy, and then giving effec

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 19

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 11, 2010 at 10:22am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 19
padesu sarva-bhutani
pumsah sthiti-pado viduh
amrtam ksemam abhayam
tri-murdhno 'dhayi murdhasu

padesu -- in the one fourth; sarva -- all; bhutani -- living entities; pumsah -- of the Supreme Person; sthiti-padah -- the reservoir of all material opulence; viduh -- you should know; amrtam -- deathlessness; ksemam -- all happiness, free from the anxiety of old age, diseases, etc.; abhayam -- fearlessness; tri-murdhnah -- beyond the three higher planetary sy

ISKCON launches India’s first mobile TV spiritual channel on MiMobiTV

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on August 11, 2010 at 8:16am

26th July, 2010

Mumbai, INDIA: ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) with over 90 temples spread across the length and breadth of the country and millions of Krishna devotees all over the globe today went digital and announced a separate channel on Mobiles, in collaboration with Mobile TV leaders, Apalya Technologies and Neuron Mediatech, an ace content and software infrastructure company.

Irfan Khan, Co-founder, Neuron Mediatech opined “We have designed rich media spiritual con

Engaging our senses in devotional service!

Posted by Bhagavati devi dasi on August 11, 2010 at 2:27am

"King Ambarīṣa first of all engaged his mind on the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa; then, one after another, he engaged his words in describing the transcendental qualities of the Lord, his hands in mopping the temple of the Lord, his ears in hearing of the activities of the Lord, his eyes in seeing the transcendental forms of the Lord, his body in touching the bodies of the devotees, his sense of smell in smelling the scents of the lotus flowers offered to the Lord, his tongue in tasting the tula

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Misuse of Independence and the outcome

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 10, 2010 at 5:18pm

Misuse of Independence and the outcome

Kala Krsnadasa was influenced and allured by nomads or gypsies, who enticed him with women. Maya is so strong that Kala Krsnadasa left Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's company to join gypsy women. Even though a person may associate with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he can be allured by maya and leave the Lord's company due to his slight independence. Only one who is overwhelmed by maya can be so unfortunate as to leave Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's company, yet unless one

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Happiness never obtained by misusing of Independence

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 10, 2010 at 5:17pm

Happiness never obtained by misusing of Independence

When the living entity prefers to misuse his independence and glide down towards nescience, the all-merciful Lord first of all tries to protect him from the trap, but when the living entity persists in gliding down to hell, the Lord helps him to forget his real position. The Lord helps the falling living entity glide down to the lowest point, just to give him the chance to see if he is happy by misusing his independence.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Vulture's mentality

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 10, 2010 at 5:16pm

Vulture's mentality

Ali asked how one could understand God's love, and Prabhupada brought it to an even more practical platform. "This is the process, I've described. We have got Deity of the Lord, we offer foodstuff prepared very nicely, and whatever leftover is there, we eat. We dress very nicely with flowers, with ornaments; we give Him a nice place to sit down, to sleep. He also looks after our comfort. In this way, exchange of love."

A long and interesting conversation ensued with Ali asking

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 18

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on August 10, 2010 at 5:15pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 18
so 'mrtasyabhayasyeso
martyam annam yad atyagat
mahimaisa tato brahman
purusasya duratyayah

sah -- He (the Lord); amrtasya -- of deathlessness; abhayasya -- of fearlessness; isah -- the controller; martyam -- dying; annam -- fruitive action; yat -- one who has; atyagat -- has transcended; mahima -- the glories; esah -- of Him; tatah -- therefore; brahman -- O brahmana Narada; purusasya -- of the Supreme Personality; duratyayah -- immeasurable.

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Story of Lord Krishna

Posted by geeta kakkar on August 10, 2010 at 11:56am

Story of Lord Krishna - SRIMAD BHAGAVATA by Krsna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Krsna Steals the Garments of the Unmarried Gopis

1. During the first month of the winter season, the young unmarried girls of Gokula observed the vow of worshiping goddess Katyayani. For the entire month they ate only unspiced khichri.

2. After they had bathed in the water of the Yamuna just as the sun was rising, the gopis made an earthen deity of goddess Durga on the riverbank. Then they worshiped her with such aromatic substances

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Daily inspiration

Sonic technology awakens our potential

Don’t play “God”

Hare Krishna Maha Mantra

The Importance of Preaching

Power of 'Nama Hatta' Preaching!

IS SABOODANA ALRIGHT FOR EKADASI ?

Indriya

Puranas are not imaginative; they are historical records

Nectar

Offenders of Lord and their Destiny

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - preach boldly

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 19

ISKCON launches India’s first mobile TV spiritual channel on MiMobiTV

Engaging our senses in devotional service!

Misuse of Independence and the outcome

Happiness never obtained by misusing of Independence

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Vulture's mentality

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 18

Story of Lord Krishna

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