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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Getting Srila Prabhupada's Mercy

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 6, 2010 at 5:55pm

Getting Srila Prabhupada's Mercy

Sastra states that only the most pious and fortunate can take to devotional service. Considering this, a devotee put it to Srila Prabhupada that his disciples were previously almost all wretched, unfortunate and devoid of pious activities. How, then, could they have got the opportunity to serve Krsna? "I have made your pious activities," Srila Prabhupada retorted.

Srila Prabhupada came to spread good fortune to the world. All who came in contact with His Divine Gra

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Love Means to Follow

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 6, 2010 at 5:54pm

Love Means to Follow

I want one student who follows my instruction. I don't want millions. Ekas candras tamo hanti na ca tarah-sahasrasah. If there is one moon in the sky, that is sufficient for illumination. There is no need of millions of stars. So my position is that I want to see that at least one disciple has become pure devotee. Of course, I have got many sincere and pure devotees. That is my good luck. But I would have been satisfied if I could find out one only. Lecture, San Francisco, Ju

Lord Jagannath in Puri

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on May 6, 2010 at 4:24pm

Lord Jagannath, the symbol of universal love and brotherhood isworshipped in the ‘Shree Jagannath Temple’ along with Balabhadra,Subhadra, Sudarshan, Madhaba, Sridevi and Bhudevi on the RATNAVEDI (thebejewelled platform). Lord Balabhadra is the elder brother, LordJagannath is younger brother and Devi Subhadra is youngest sister.

The Deities of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and ChakraSudarshan are made of margosa wood.

The tree worship is a very ancient cult. However the most acceptedand popu

History of lord Jagannath

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on May 6, 2010 at 4:00pm

On archaeological and epigraphically grounds we cannot definitelyestablish the historicalimportance of Puri before the 7th Century A. D. There is a commonlyprevalent notion that thetemple of Lord Jagannath is situated on a blue mountain and thereforecalled Niladri, Nilachal orNilagiri. But we find no mountain at Puri or any reference to a hill or amountain near Puri inthe history, it can be presumed that it might have been built on a sandhill called Niladri orthe Blue Mountain only on the ground

Lord Jagannatha is an ocean of mercy

Posted by meenakshi chawla on May 6, 2010 at 2:53pm

kripa-paravarah sajala-jalada-sreni-rucirorama-vani-ramah sphurad-amala-pankeruha-mukhahsurendrair aradhyah sruti-gana-sikha-gita-carito
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

Lord Jagannatha is an ocean of mercy and as beautiful as a row of blackish rain clouds. He is the storehouse of bliss for Lakshmi and Sarasvati, and His face resembles a spotless fullblown lotus. The best of demigods and sages worship Him, and the Upanishads sing His glories. May that Jagannatha Svami be the object

Prem Ras Madira

Posted by geeta kakkar on May 6, 2010 at 12:34pm

prem ras madira

Siddhant Madhuri
(Sweetness of Devotional Philosophy)

Suno man! Sabai shrutin ko sar.
A devotee says to himself, "Oh my mind! Listen to the gist of all the Vedas."

Ik maya ik jeev duhun ko, Ish brahm sakar.
"There are only three existences -- maya, the soul and God. Out of these three, God is the Governor of the soul and maya."

Mayadheen sanatan jeevahin, maya hi son pyar.
"The soul has been under the bondage of maya since eternity, and due to this, loves the material world."

Jeev brahm

HELP GURU MAHARAJ

Posted by Mahek Maheshwari on May 6, 2010 at 12:13pm

Bhakti Charu Swami’s Commitment to ISKCON Projects: Your Help Needed!
By Rupanuga das
Dear Well-wishers and Disciples of HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj!
I trust you are all aware of the many projects that His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj is spearheading to benefit ISKCON devotees and to help spread Krishna Consciousness throughout the world. These projects span a wide va

Just read this one book

Posted by chathurdevi on May 6, 2010 at 11:50am

Srutakirti das: It happened on three different occasions. I went in and
Prabhupada was reading Krsna Book and he said, “If you just read this one
book, you can be Krishna conscious.” He said, “You don’t have to read
hundreds of books. Just this one book.” He had his glasses on, and I was
sitting in front of him. Then he just looked at me and he said, “You don’t
even have to read the whole book, just one chapter. If you just read one
chapter of this book, you can be Krishna conscious,” and I’m nodding

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"The Art of Dying— the Way to Immortality"- HH Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj.

Posted by kartik on May 5, 2010 at 7:47pm

Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupda. All glories
to Gurumaharaj.
OnApril 9, about 40 young devotees came from Surat, headed by HG Subal Shyam
Prabhu. So Gurumaharaj gave a wonderful seminar on ‘The Art of Dying—the Way to
Immortality’. Below is the summary of the first part of the seminar.

The Art of Dying— the Way to Immortality

The problems of the body are janma-mrtyu- jara- vyadhi. This is the nature of
the body, especially when the body gets old, there

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Cultivating good vaishnava relationships

Posted by kartik on May 5, 2010 at 7:41pm

Cultivating good vaishnava relationships

Answers by HH Romapada Swami Maharaja

Question:I live in a devotee community and often feel that I don’t know how to associate with others. I love them and try to serve them but all too often I just don’t feel emotionally safe in their association. I don’t feel free to be open in case they hurt me and thus I am wasting my life constantly holding back (defending like a kicked dog). I am desperate for some clarification on this point.

I am a very sensitive per

Prabhupada Smaranam- Little Drops of Nectar: His Humor

Posted by Krithika on May 5, 2010 at 12:43pm

Prabhupada liked to make jokes, satirize, make us laugh. Even if he was involved in a stressful fight to get permission to build the temple in Bombay, or there was a court case in the U.S.A., or he knew some of his leaders were quarreling, there was always something funny that could occur to him and could make us break into smiles. He saw the merry side of things periodically and made a quip or humorous observation. Just as when he was in a very grave mood we became serious, so we lau

Tulasi Devi

Posted by geeta kakkar on May 5, 2010 at 11:30am

Tulasi Devi ( Courtesy :Ravi sethuraman )

Srimati Tulasi devi is one of the most exalted devotees of the Sri Krishna. All scriptures stress on the importance of getting the mercy of Tulasi devi if one has to make progress in the path of devotion. In the Skanda Purana it is said: ‘Tulasi is auspicious in all respects. Simply by seeing, simply by touching, simply by remembering, simply by praying to, simply by bowing before, simply by hearing about or simply by sowing this tree, there is always aus

Never Give Up Chanting!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on May 5, 2010 at 11:25am

"No matter what impediments there may be, you have to chant Hare Krishna. Maya, the material nature and the material modes may give someone so many imagined reasons why not to chant. But none of them are real. It's all illusion. No matter what, we have to chant. It's the only hope. By chanting and remembering Krishna at the end of the life then we go back to Krishna's nature.Sometimes there maybe some personality clash. Some authority might not deal in a way we consider to be totally fair, so th

What is Real Pleasure?

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on May 4, 2010 at 5:05pm

"Everybody wants pleasure, this whole world is pleasure seeking. But pleasure comes on different levels. There is physical pleasures, mental pleasures and spiritual pleasures.

If somebody is mentally pleased, they feel physically content also. If somebody is spiritually pleased, they feel mentally and physically..things are open.

For instance, if somebody is not mentally pleased even if you give them a nice meal but they are very sad because a loved one is sick, they're not going to enjoy the meal

SRI GURU VANDANA

Posted by geeta kakkar on May 4, 2010 at 12:37pm

SRI GURU VANDANA
From "Prema-bhakti-candrika"

sri-guru-carana-padma, kevala-bhakati-sadma,
bando mui savadhana mate
jahara prasade bhai, e bhava toriya jai,
krsna-prapti hoy jaha ha'te

The lotus feet of our spiritual master are the only way by which we can attain pure devotional service. I bow to his lotus feet with great awe and reverence. By his grace one can cross the ocean of material suffering and obtain the mercy of Krsna.

guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya,
ar na koriho mane asa
sri-guru

Get High and Never Come Down

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on May 3, 2010 at 4:34pm

Dear devotees

Central Station, Sydney, 3 March 2010

I set out with Bhakta Oliver, a German devotee and another Auckland

Loft

success story. He had been approached by a sankirtan devotee but had

declined the SB 1.1 -- only to return to his hostel and find the same

book on the shelf! At that point, being the wise soul that he is, he

surrendered to the Loft programs. Every day for a few months he helped

the devotees there, and then he moved into the Auckland/Sydney

Brahmacari ashram.

Bhakta Oliver and myself

A little extra effort can go a long way

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on May 3, 2010 at 4:26pm

Madhavendra Puri Prabhu and I were at a college trying to engage in

Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu's most glorious sankirtan movement by distributing

books. We spent an entire week at this one college and told everyone

that on

Friday we were going to have a class to discuss and try some Bhakti

Yoga.

On the fateful day at least 10 students showed up and enthusiastically

chanted the holy names of Lord Hari and Krishna. Afterward I asked for

everyone's email and sent them a message requesting a reply from those

who

Gita Govinda

Posted by geeta kakkar on May 3, 2010 at 1:39pm

Gita Govinda - Meeting of Sakhi with Krsna
Song by Jayadeva Gosvami

When Radha saw Krsna enjoying affectionate exchanges with all the cowherd maidens in the groves of Vrndavana, she became indignant because he had not acknowledged her eminence. She immediately departed for another part of the forest and hid herself inside a shady bower that resounded with the drone of bumblebees.

yamuna-tira-vaniranikunje
mandam asthitam
praha prema-bharodbhrantam
madhavam radhika-sakhi
Translation
Bewildered by love fo

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Love Means to Follow

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 3, 2010 at 12:50pm

Love Means to Follow

To have a sentiment or feeling for Srila Prabhupada is very nice and is required, but the real thing is to do what he says. To say "I love" is easy, but the test is in following.

On a morning walk in Hyderabad (April 22, 1974) Srila Prabhupada took the position of a Christian. "I love God," he said, and challenged his disciples to disprove his position. Prabhupada rebutted all arguments until this one was offered: "If you love God, why don't you do what he says?" Srila Prabhup

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Feeling for Prabhupada

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 3, 2010 at 12:49pm

Feeling for Prabhupada

It is essential for every member of ISKCON to feel a strong, close bond of affection with Srila Prabhupada. Certainly he feels for us, his children and grandchildren. We have to reciprocate with him and feel his kindness if we are to develop real love in our hearts. That is what Krsna consciousness is all about.

Bhakti means love. Without love there is no question of bhakti.

It is not enough to just go on mechanically, as if Krsna consciousness were simply some humdrum formul

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Getting Srila Prabhupada's Mercy

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Love Means to Follow

Lord Jagannath in Puri

History of lord Jagannath

Lord Jagannatha is an ocean of mercy

Prem Ras Madira

HELP GURU MAHARAJ

Just read this one book

"The Art of Dying— the Way to Immortality"- HH Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj.

Cultivating good vaishnava relationships

Prabhupada Smaranam- Little Drops of Nectar: His Humor

Tulasi Devi

Never Give Up Chanting!

What is Real Pleasure?

SRI GURU VANDANA

Get High and Never Come Down

A little extra effort can go a long way

Gita Govinda

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Love Means to Follow

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Feeling for Prabhupada

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