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-those who are eligible for dying
e.g.
"These conditioned souls, beginning from Brahma down to the insignificant ant, they are all martya. Martya means there is a time when they will die."
- Lecture from A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Chapter Ten, Verses 2-3
http://vedabase.net/bg/2/en
The Nectar of Instruction
http://vedabase.net/noi/10/
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.3.27http://vedabase.net/sb/10/3/27/
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.11.2
http://vedabase.net/sb/5
Lotus Feet of Sri Krishna
Text 1
candrardham kalasam tri-kona-dhanushi kham goshpadam proshthikam
sankham savya-pade 'tha dakshina-pade konashtakam svastikam
cakram chatra-yavankusam dhvaja-pavi jamburdhva-rekhambujam
bibhranam harim unavimsati-maha-lakshmy-arcitanghrim bhaje
I worship Lord Hari (Krishna), whose feet are endowed with the 19 great opulences of, on the left foot, the halfmoon, water-pot, triangle, bow, sky, cow's h
भोपाल. भोपाल में इस्कॉन मंदिर बनाने के उद्देश्य से इस्कॉन संस्था के प्रतिनिधिमंडल ने सोमवार को मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान से मुलाकात की। इस दौरान मुख्यमंत्री से मंदिर निर्माण के लिए पांच एकड़ जमीन मुहैया कराने का आग्रह किया।
प्रतिनिधिमंडल ने बताया कि विश्व में 600 इस्कॉन मंदिर हैं। मप्र के इंदौर और उज्जैन शहर में भी मंदिर हैं। मुख्यमंत्री ने कहा कि मंदिर निर्माण की योजना और जमीन आवंटन के संबंध में आवेदन भेज दें, उस पर वे सहानुभूतिपूर्वक विचार करेंगे।
इस मौके पर संस्थ
My Memories of Srila Prabhupada
The second darsana was the famous interview with Mike Robinson of the London Broadcasting Corporation, a local radio company. Devotees were already crowding the room when Mr. Robinson entered. Mukunda Prabhu (now Mukunda Goswami), who was organizing the meeting, asked him if he wanted the devotees to leave while it was conducted. But Mr. Robinson didn't want to put others to trouble for his sake, and even though Mukunda asked him twice, he insisted that it was alri
My Memories of Srila Prabhupada
During this visit, Srila Prabhupada accepted several new candidates for initiation, including me. On the following Janmastami, our GBC, Hansaduta Prabhu, conducted the initiation ceremony on behalf of Srila Prabhupada. I was given the name Ilapati dasa brahmacari.
The second time I saw Srila Prabhupada was in England in 1976. Srila Prabhupada stayed about four days, and I was able to go on one morning walk with him -- the only morning walk I ever got to go on with S
Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 2 Text 28
tato visesam pratipadya nirbhayas
tenatmanapo 'nala-murtir atvaran
jyotirmayo vayum upetya kale
vayv-atmana kham brhad atma-lingam
tatah -- thereafter; visesam -- particularly; pratipadya -- by obtaining; nirbhayah -- without any doubt; tena -- by that; atmana -- pure self; apah -- water; anala -- fire; murtih -- forms; atvaran -- by surpassing; jyotih-mayah -- effulgent; vayum -- atmosphere; upetya -- having reached there; kale -- in due course of time;
My Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Upon seeing Srila Prabhupada coming slowly and majestically down the stairs, the devotees waiting outside the temple room
immediately bowed down. Everyone except me. I thought, "Let me see Prabhupada." Srila Prabhupada was glowing, literally.
He looked more grave than anyone I had ever seen before. I just stared at his divine form for a few seconds, and wanted to
go on and on just looking at him. But knowing and feeling it to be improper not to bow down, I also offere
PRABHUPADA'S QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Today, 15th March, now it is 7:35, gone, as soon as it is 7:36, you cannot bring back that 15th March, evening, 7:35, again. Even if you pay millions of dollars, "Please come back again," no, finished. Canakya Pandita says, "Time is so valuable that if you pay millions of golden coins, you cannot get back even a moment." What is lost is lost for good. "If you such valuable time spoil for nothing, without any profit, just imagine how much you are losing, how greatly
*In this world we spend hundreds of gallons of blood to bring a person out
of the clutches of maya*
Once some devotees were sent to establish a preaching center in Bengal. They
worked day and night, equipping it as a beautiful temple. When Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati arrived to install the Deities, he was very
pleased and asked about one brahmacari who had worked hard on the
preparations.
The disciples told him, "Master, he became entangled with a lady. We rebuked
him so much for his behavior that h
*TEXT ONE*
*vaco vegam manasah krodha-vegam*
*jihva-vegam udaropastha-vegam*
*etan vegan yo visaheta dhirah*
*sarvam apimam prthivim sa sisyat*
*SYNONYMS*
*vacah -- of speech; vegam -- urge; manasah -- of the mind; krodha -- of
anger; vegam -- urge; jihva -- of the tongue; vegam -- urge; udara-upastha
-- of the belly and genitals; vegam -- urge; etan -- these; vegan -- urges;
yah -- whoever; visaheta -- can tolerate; dhirah -- sober; sarvam -- all;
api -- certainly; imam -- this; prthivim -- world; sah --
Chitralekha devi *dasi's daughter Sarisha, a civil engineer, was a participant at the 2010
South African Spiritual Retreat with BCS GuruMaharaja. Typically, in great awe
and respect of GuruMaharaja, she composed the following poem, this I share
with you all:
*Japa Walk with His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja*
*Small Feet, Quick Step –*
*Barely time to catch one’s breath*
*As we absorb each steady, clear chant –*
*The soft reverberations of*
*‘Hare’, ‘Krishna’ and ‘Rama’ –*
*Maharaja surges forward*
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| The Personality of Godhead, being thus very much satisfied | |
| http://saragrahi.org/Header%20Links/Bhagavat%20Sandarbha/10.htm Lord Brahmä's vision of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in Vaikuëöha is described in the following ten and a half verses of the Çrémad Bhägavatam (2.9.9-18): http://vedabase.net/sb/2/9/9/en The Personality of Godhead, being thus very much satisfied with the penanceof Lord Brahmā, was pleased to manifest His personal abode,Vaikuṇṭha, the supreme planet above all others. Thi |
ISKCON Pakistan Visit to Hindu Shrine Nurtures Peace
As negative media and public reaction greet the first formal talks between Pakistan and India since the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, could spirituality prove a more effective healing process?
Three months before the Delhi meeting of Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir yielded no breakthrough
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jnanam ekam paracinair indriyair brahma nirgunam avabhaty artha-rupena bhrantya sabdadi-dharmina
TRANSLATION: Those who are averse to the Transcendence realize the Supreme Absolute Truth differently through speculative sense perception, and therefore, because of mistaken speculation, everything appears to them to be relative.
PURPORT: The Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhea
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pranaih svaih praninah panti sadhavah ksana-bhanguraih baddha-vairesu bhutesu mohitesv atma-mayaya
TRANSLATION: People in general, being bewildered by the illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are always engaged in animosity toward one another. But devotees, even at the risk of their own temporary lives, try to save them.
PURPORT: This is the characteristic of a Vaisnava. Para-duh
Song by Jayadeva Gosvami
vasante väsanté-kusuma-sukumärair avayavair
bhramantéà käntäre bahu-vihita-kåñëänusaraëäm
amandaà kandarpa-jvara-janita-cintäkulatayä
valad-bädhäà rädhäà sarasam idam üce sahacaré
Translation
Once, in the splendid spring season, when Radhika was pining for Krsna, she began to search for him in one forest grove after another. Her elegant, young limbs, soft as madhavi flowers, grew weary and Cupid made her mind delirious with anxiety.
aneka-n
Therefore the Vyasa Puja is there. Once in a year the disciples are worshiping the spiritual master and trying to repay what he has received from the spiritual master.
Why we respect the Guru, Prabhuapda explains, because he does not manufacture. He say
The material world is but a shadow. If we hold our hand against the light it casts a shadow image. The shadow image is like an outline of the hand. It doesn't show the qualities of the hand, such as the hair, the skin, or the fingerprints. It is only a vague form.
Similarly, in the material world, what we see as admiration, servitorship, friendship, parental affection, or conjugal affection, these are all like incomplete shadows of their real form.
Just as the hand has so many variegated qualitie
