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Perfection in Devotion!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on July 14, 2010 at 11:16am

"Lord Caitanya said that though Lord Krishna's pastimes are not physically present now, we could serve Krishna in separation. That is actually perfection in devotion - when we serve Krishna in separation.

Similarly while the spiritual master is present, it is an opportunity to try to learn as much about devotional service, so that you can take advantage because when the spiritual master is not physically present, you have to serve in separation.

So the ideal thing is to learn as much as w

Reflections of the SPIRITUAL WORLD!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on July 14, 2010 at 11:15am

GURUVAKYA

"The material world and its relationships are a reflection of God's own Spiritual world and its spiritual relationships. He made man in His image and He made the material relationships as a type of reflection so that they can feel that if they want to become like God, it gives them opportunities to have apparently similar kinds of activities.

But in fact they are like the shadow, and Krishna's activities are the original and pure. These are not real relationships. These are a play, a kin

Power of the Word: "HARI"

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on July 14, 2010 at 11:14am

GURUVAKYA

"The Lord (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) asked everyone to chant… Hari… Hari… Hari… Hari…

In the Skanda Purana, it mentions that if you chant the two syllables Ha… Ri… Ha… Ri… Ha… Ri… Hari… Hari… Hari… Hari…, then the Lord will steal away from you!... We all still look worried?… You know what he’ll steel from you??? You want to know?

If you chanted HARI… he’ll steel away from you all your SUFFERINGS! All your Contamination! That looks alright?

Someone comes steels your garbage do you mind? (laughte

Jagannath Rathayatra ( History of Jagannatha Puri ) Part - 2

Posted by Lakshman Poddar on July 14, 2010 at 10:50am

Jagannatha Puri, located on the eastern coast of Bharatam (India) in the state of Orissa (originally called Utkala or Udradesh), is a prime pilgrim centre in South Asia. The four famous param-tirthas (primary pilgrim centres known as Chardham) in Bharatam are Bhadrinath established in sattyayuga, Ramesvaram in tretayuga, Dvaraka in dvaparayuga, and Jagannath Puri in kaliyuga. The Puranas mention that the ancient Puri temple extends up to 10 yojanas (approximately 80 miles in diameter) and it was

Wild Kirtan Rathayatra KL

Posted by Amogha das on July 14, 2010 at 7:00am

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

July 14, 2010

"No one in particular seemed to decide what would

happen next but it just went on, like

waves, one after another. One devotee did

something like a Russian dance down on the

floor, shooting his legs out."

Last night about 400 devotees were at the

temple to greet Lord Jagannath, Who

returned from the 6 hour Rathayatra at

10pm. The kirtan was so jubilant, devotees

dancing together in several clusters across the

temple floor. They were spinning,

dancing in circles, moving in

जय जगन्नाथ

Posted by Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi on July 13, 2010 at 8:30pm

जगत के नाथ जनन्नाथ
जग दर्शन को हैं निकले आज
ये दिन बड़े ही दुर्लभ होते
दौड़ पडो छोड़ सब काज

भक्त वत्सल भगवान
मंदिर से निकल आये हैं
दया,करुणा ,वत्सलता
सब पर ही बरसाए हैं

एक बार जो कर ले दर्शन
कोटि जन्म के पाप कट जाए
खींच लिया जो रस्सा रथ का
जन्म-मृत्यु की रस्सी कट जाए

प्रभु ले नखरे
भक्त की ठिठोली
शरारतें प्रभु की
भक्त की बोली

कभी वो रथ पर ही
नही आते
कभी चलते-चलते
रुक जाते

अगर दर्शन देना चाहते कहीं
तो फिर प्रभु वही रुक जाते
आज भक्त भगवान के पास नही
भगवान भक्त के पास हैं आते

ऐसी ही लीलाएं प्रभु की
सुलभ

Jagannath Rathayatra ( The Rathayatra )

Posted by Lakshman Poddar on July 13, 2010 at 9:00am

The rathayatra often falls in the summer season of May-June each year and Puri becomes a vibrant scene of crowd attraction during the festival. Perhaps a million plus gather to witness the tumultuous event. This is one of the ancient festivals in Bharatam and a place of huge crowd attractions like the Kumbha-mela, Makara-sankranti, and Pongal festivals. The rathayatra festivities are organised and financed mainly by the Government of Orissa. As said, during the rathayatra, the three Deities are

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 36

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 13, 2010 at 6:56am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 36
yasyehavayavair lokan
kalpayanti manisinah
katy-adibhir adhah sapta
saptordhvam jaghanadibhih

yasya -- whose; iha -- in the universe; avayavaih -- by the limbs of the body; lokan -- all the planets; kalpayanti -- imagine; manisinah -- great philosophers; kati-adibhih -- down from the waist; adhah -- downwards; sapta -- seven systems; sapta urdhvam -- and seven systems upwards; jaghana-adibhih -- front portion.

TRANSLATION
Great philosophers imagine that the

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 35

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 13, 2010 at 6:56am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 35
sa eva purusas tasmad
andam nirbhidya nirgatah
sahasrorv-anghri-bahv-aksah
sahasranana-sirsavan

sah -- He (the Lord); eva -- Himself; purusah -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tasmat -- from within the universe; andam -- Hiranyagarbha; nirbhidya -- dividing; nirgatah -- came out; sahasra -- thousands; uru -- thighs; anghri -- legs; bahu -- arms; aksah -- eyes; sahasra -- thousands of; anana -- mouths; sirsavan -- with heads also.

TRANSLATION
The Lord [

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 34

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 13, 2010 at 6:55am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 34
varsa-puga-sahasrante
tad andam udake sayam
kala-karma-svabhava-stho
jivo 'jivam ajivayat

varsa-puga -- many years; sahasra-ante -- of thousands of years; tat -- that; andam -- the universal globe; udake -- in the causal water; sayam -- being drowned; kala -- eternal time; karma -- action; svabhava-sthah -- according to the modes of nature; jivah -- the Lord of the living beings; ajivam -- nonanimated; ajivayat -- caused to be animated.

TRANSLATION
Thus all

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 13, 2010 at 6:54am

On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

Often persons afflicted with ghastly diseases undergo inconceivable suffering, which ends in death. If a sincere well-wisher points these facts out to them, trying to inform them of the reality, they become angry and accuse him of being a pessimist or a religious fanatic. SB 11.2.2 purport

Srila Prabhupada gave the example of a man flying a kite at a cliff's edge. Totally absorbed, his eyes fixed in the sky, he does not perceive the danger of immi

bhaj le man mere madan gopala.. jeevan mein jitne bhi kasht tu paaye... saare dukhon se wo paar lagaye.. gale mein hai jiske banmalaa bhaj le man mere madan gopala..1. vrindavan ka pyaara basi..

Posted by kamal nayan gulati on July 12, 2010 at 9:12pm

bhaj le man mere madan gopala..

jeevan mein jitne bhi kasht tu paaye...

saare dukhon se wo paar lagaye..

gale mein hai jiske banmalaa

bhaj le man mere madan gopala..1.

vrindavan ka pyaara basi..

charon me uske hi hai, sangam,kasi..

jisko puje hain nit braj ki balaa

bhaj.....2.

naam jiska hai sukh kaari..

jo hai govardhan giri dhaari..

jisko sumir jan tare tatkala..

bhaj......3...

jo bhi uski sharan mein jaaye...

wo to usko gale se lagaaye.

das kamal wo jag se niralaa

bhaj..4...

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Ratha-yäträ Lecture By Sriala Prabhupada — San Francisco, July 5, 1970

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on July 12, 2010 at 11:00am

Prabhupäda: My dear boys and girls, those who have come here, I welcome you on behalf of Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu. Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu appeared five hundred years ago, and He introduced this Kåñëa consciousness movement. This Ratha-yäträ is one of the item of this Kåñëa consciousness movement. Jagannätha, just try to understand Jagannätha. Jagat means the moving world. Gacchati iti jagat, Sanskrit word, gacchati means which is moving. So all these planets, this universe, even the sun, ever

The Power of Reading Sacred Scripture

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on July 12, 2010 at 10:44am

An old farmer lived on his farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning he got up early, sat at the kitchen table, and read His Bhagavad-gita. His grandson wanted to be just like his grandfather, so tried to emulate him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa, I try to read the Bhagavad-gita just like you do, but I don’t understand most of it, and whatever I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. So what good is it doing me to read the Bhagavad-git

सुन्दर-सुन्दर कृष्ण कन्हैया,हाथ में वंशी साथ में गैया

Posted by Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi on July 12, 2010 at 10:22am

सुन्दर-सुन्दर कृष्ण कन्हैया

हाथ में वंशी,साथ में गैया

दाऊ पुकारे कह के कान्हा

लल्ला कहती है उनकी मैया

जीवन की धूप में है छैंया

भवसागर की है वो ही नैया

मटकी फोड़ी,माखन भी लूटा

उसपे ये नखरे हाय दैया

मन का मीत,जन्मों का साथी

राधारानी का है वो सैंया

सुन्दर-सुन्दर कृष्ण कन्हैया

हाथ में वंशी,साथ में गैया

Devotion Through Discipline!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on July 12, 2010 at 9:40am

GURUVAKYA

"The Lord instructs that one has to become fully Krishna conscious to discharge duties as if in a military discipline. Such an injunction may make things a little difficult; nevertheless duties must be carried out, with dependence on Krishna, because that is the constitutional position of the living entity.

The living entity cannot be happy independent of the cooperation of the Supreme Lord because the eternal constitutional position of the living entity is to become subordinate to the d

Jagannath Rathyatra Festival...

Posted by Vinayak Yadav on July 11, 2010 at 1:30pm

Jagannath Puri, is the abode of Lord Jagannath or Purushotham, the Lord ofthe Universe or the Supreme Personality of the Universe.

Jagannath Puri Dham or Jagannath Puri or even Puri as it is called, is situatedon the sea shore of the Bay of Bengal in the State of Orissa (India). It is one of thefour Holy Kshetras of India including temples at Rameshwaram, Dwaraka, Badrinath and Puri. The Annual Rathyatra Festival is the high point of all the festivals celebrated and has been attracting lakhs of

The Divine Encounter

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on July 10, 2010 at 11:16am

For your personal advancement I would like to suggest a powerful meditation with which you can establish a conscious connection with Sri Sri Radha and Krishna.
In this world there are many things that divert us from our relationship with God – things that focus us on other relationships with other people, our job, society, our dreams, etc. All these relationships are like smoke; one day they will simply float away into the air. At that time we will be left with the only one, eternal relationship.

RADHIKA ASHTKAM

Posted by shailendra badriprasad sharma on July 9, 2010 at 6:03pm

Shri RadhikastakamEight Prayers Glorifying Sri Radhikaby Shrila Raghunatha dasa GosvamiText 1rasa-valita-mrgaksi-mauli-manikya-laksmihpramudita-muravairi-prema-vapi-maralivraja-vara-vrsabhanoh punya-girvana-vallisnapayatu nija-dasye radhika mam kada nuWhen will Sri Radhika, who is a splendid ruby in the crown of all nectarean doe-eyed girls, a swan swimming in the lake of love for jubilant Lord Krsna, and a celestial vine sprouted from Vraja's exalted King Vrsabhanu, bathe me in Her service?Text

Glories of Jagannatha Puri Dhama

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on July 9, 2010 at 10:02am

Some of you are contemplating to also visit Jagannath Puri. Wonderful!

Here is short glorification of Puri - where the Lord Purusottama (the best of all persons) resides in this form of Jagannatha. It is taken from the Chaitanya Bhagavat:

From afar seeing the Jagannatha-temple flag, the Lord became plunged in an ocean of bliss. The wonderful, indescribable Lord loudly roared. His entire body trembled. He looked and looked in the direction of the temple. As He walked, the Lord recited a verse. In t

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Perfection in Devotion!

Reflections of the SPIRITUAL WORLD!

Power of the Word: "HARI"

Jagannath Rathayatra ( History of Jagannatha Puri ) Part - 2

Wild Kirtan Rathayatra KL

जय जगन्नाथ

Jagannath Rathayatra ( The Rathayatra )

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 36

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 35

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 34

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

bhaj le man mere madan gopala.. jeevan mein jitne bhi kasht tu paaye... saare dukhon se wo paar lagaye.. gale mein hai jiske banmalaa bhaj le man mere madan gopala..1. vrindavan ka pyaara basi..

Ratha-yäträ Lecture By Sriala Prabhupada — San Francisco, July 5, 1970

The Power of Reading Sacred Scripture

सुन्दर-सुन्दर कृष्ण कन्हैया,हाथ में वंशी साथ में गैया

Devotion Through Discipline!

Jagannath Rathyatra Festival...

The Divine Encounter

RADHIKA ASHTKAM

Glories of Jagannatha Puri Dhama

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