Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.28.33

dhyānāyanaḿ prahasitaḿ bahulādharoṣṭha-

bhāsāruṇāyita-tanu-dvija-kunda-pańkti

dhyāyet svadeha-kuhare 'vasitasya viṣṇor

bhaktyārdrayārpita-manā na pṛthag didṛkṣet

With devotion steeped in love and affection, the yogī should meditate within the core of his heart upon the laughter of Lord Viṣṇu. The laughter of Viṣṇu is so captivating that it can be easily meditated upon. When the Supreme Lord is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds r

I WONDER

If Srila Prabhupada visited you,

Maybe just for a day or two.

and came by unexpectedly,

I wonder what you'd do.


Oh, I know you'd give your nicest room,

To such an honored guest,

And all the food you'd offer,

Would be the very best.

And you would keep assuring him,

you're glad to have him there,

That serving him within your home,

Is a joy beyond compare.


BUT...


If you saw him coming,

Would you meet him at the door,

With arms outstretched to welcome

this honored visitor?


OR ...


Would y

One should take ‘darshan’ with great devotion and beg for The Deities mercy when one enters the temple. One should not, however, immediately look upon the Deities full in the face. The proper manner in which one should take ‘darshan’ of the Lord is described in Srimad Bhagvatam 2.2.13

SB 2.2.13

Historical Time Chart of Vrndavana

A Comprehensive Guide to Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma

• 1473 Appearance of Lord Nityananda.
• 1479 Madhavendra Puri visits Radha-kunda and Govardhana -establishes worship of Gopala later known as Sri Nathaji
• 1482 Advaita Acarya takes diksa in Vrindavana from Madhavendra Puri
• 1483 Appearance of Lokanatha Gosvami
• 1486 Appearance of Lord Caitanya
• 1487 Appearance of Gadadhara Pandita
• 1488 Appearance of Sanatana Gosvami
• 1489 Appearance of Rupa Gosvami
• 1491 Disappearance of Madhavendra Pur

• Intelligent people can see the problems.
• They try to understand the cause 1st before going for solutions.
• They know "why they r doing anything what r they doing".
• They try to understand the essence of the subject 1st before going for subject matter.
• Krsna says,"those who control their senses and remain fully conscious of Me", are of steady intelligence.

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy

In a lecture on this occasion in 1976 in Mayapur Srila Prabhupada quoted his
Guru Maharaja:

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada . . . continued that “There is
no need of establishing many temples. Better we publish some books.” He said
like that.
He said that “We started our Gaudiya Matha in Ultadanga. The rent
was very small, and if we could gather two-hundred-fifty rupees, it was
going on very nicely. But since this J. V. Datta has given us this stone,
marble stone Thakurbari [Datta donate

The Highest Vaisnava Sees Himself as the Lowest of All
by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada