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Anxious About the Future?

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on March 12, 2010 at 9:38pm

Anxious About the Future?

Once two villagers were sitting under a tree and watching the sunset. They

were very close friends. After sitting quietly for some time, one asked the

other, "What are you thinking?"

"I am planning to buy five acres of land, a garden." The other friend

immediately said, "Don't buy the garden!"

The first one was surprised. He asked "why"? The second one replied, "I am

planning to buy a buffalo. Then, my buffalo will enter your garden and we

will fight, have misunderstandings and

Shree Krishna Lila

Posted by laloo patel on March 12, 2010 at 7:13pm

The
land where Lord Krishna was born and spent his youth, are still alive with the
Krishna- legend and still redolent with the music of his flute. Shri Krishna is
fondly remembered for his charm, his mischievous pranks and his extraordinary
exploits. Shri Krishna, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, was born in the Dwapara
Yuga as the eighth son of the Yadava prince Vasudev and his wife Devaki.

Lord
Krishna was a world-teacher and a lover of men. His divine form holds the heart
of India captive even toda

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Essence of All Disciplic Successions!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 12, 2010 at 2:10pm

Essence of All Disciplic Successions!

"We wander from birth to birth. Even we go sometime from one day of Brahma to another taking so many countless births. Going from one universe also to another universe, one creation to another creation.
Because once we're in a Brahmanda or Universe, we cannot leave until Lord Brahma dies or unless we get liberation. Either end of Brahma's life or our liberation. So we are here in the material world for a very very long time.
Guru Krishna Prasadaye Paye
We pray t

The glories of Bhagavad-gita

Posted by Ashem Satyajit on March 12, 2010 at 1:14pm

This is a great story

The glories of Bhagavad-gita - from Gita-Mahatmya of Padma Purana

This Bhagavad-gita is the destroyer of all sins. And that intelligent man who daily recites one chapter or even one sloka, one half sloka, or at least one quarter sloka, will attain the same position as Susharma had attained.”

Lakshmi inquired, “Who was Susharma? What class did he belong to? And what destination did he attain?”

Lord Vishnu said, “My dear Lakshmi, Susharma was a very wicked and a most sinful man.

Real Intelligence

Posted by Ashem Satyajit on March 12, 2010 at 12:35pm

Those who are intelligent never ask Krishna for anything. They only want Krishna. Although they may apparently seem to be very poor, wretched and distressed, actually they are very, very wealthy persons. Therefore they are known as maharajas, kings of the kings. Great kings come and bow down to them.

There was once a very opulent king who was also very charitable. One day he told all of his ministers, commanders, and other officers working under him, beginning from the lowest to the most importan

ISKCON kharghar celebrates the very first anniversary

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on March 12, 2010 at 12:34pm

For further details contact:
Ramchandra priya das
Contact :9223333545

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Making the Body a Temple for Service

Posted by kartik on March 12, 2010 at 10:47am

Making the Body a Temple for Service

There are many practices and analogies which are given to help us see the body in perspective. First, we mark our body with sacred clay or tilak on the forehead and eleven other places to designate it as a Temple, meant for spiritual practice. Therefore, we must respect the body and take care of it as part of our service to Guru and Krishna. This is very important to acknowledge due to the tendency to artificially deny the body without realization of the soul.

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Vyasa Puja Celebration in Mayapur

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 12, 2010 at 9:31am

This is to inform all Disciples and well wishers of HH Jayapataka Swami
Guru Maharaja :

HH's Vyasa puja will not be celebrated at Mayapur this year on the 26th
of March. This date has has been postponded to 29th of May.

28th May 2010, Devotees arrival
29th May 2010, Vyasa puja
30th May 2010, Initiation
31st May 2010, departure

On March 26th there will be no Vyasa puja celebration at all at ISKCON
Mayapur. ISKCON Mayapur will celebrate VP on 29th May when Guru Maharaja
will come back to Mayapur. But all de

Liberated speakers

Posted by Sanjeev Kumar Punj on March 12, 2010 at 6:51am

There was this devotee who spent a lot of time listening to bhajans. He listened so much that one day his speakers, who were constantly chanting the holy name, became enlightened..........moral of the story-- chant more with your own voice.

Jai Sri Krishna.

Krishana

Posted by Gandarvika(Renu) on March 12, 2010 at 3:59am

I am impartial to all

Those who give Me

Their heart's love are in Me,

as I am in them....

All those who take refuge in Me,

whatever their birth, race, gender,or

caste, will attain the supreme goal;

This realisation can be attained even by

thos scorned by socity...

BhagvatGita 9.29,32

Guru

Posted by Gandarvika(Renu) on March 12, 2010 at 3:34am

Guru is the mirror that reflects as well as the transparent medium that enables looking and seeing, enriching experience. He is both formless and in form, the silence and the utterance, the absence and the presence and both the shunya nothing as well as everything.

In him, the disciple see both what he wishes to be and what he is. The idea finally is to connect-connect so well and so spontaneously that you too, become the mirror, the formless, the silence, the shunya, and a transparency in which

Holy name of Vishnu is all-auspicious

Posted by Rocanadeva Dasa on March 11, 2010 at 11:49pm

Govinda/Krishna
http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/GOVINDA.htm

Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 8.24
http://vedabase.net/cc/adi/8/24/en1

Verse of the week: Holy name of Vishnu is all-auspicious‏
From: Your friends at Krishna.com (krishnadotcom@krishna.com)

sivasya sri-vishnor ya iha guna-namadi-sakalam
dhiya bhinnam pasyet sa khalu hari-namahita-karah

TRANSLATION:
“In this material world the holy name of Vishnu is all-auspicious. Vishnu's name, form, qualities, and pastimes are all transcendental, absolute kno

Sriman Grahila Prabhu leaves his body

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on March 11, 2010 at 11:37pm

We beg to inform all the devotees that Sriman Grahila Prabhu,

disciple of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, husband of Guru Seva

dasi and father of Smt. Nitai dasi, has left his body at 07.47 AM, 11 March, 2010 under

very auspicious circumstances in Sri Mayapur Dhama.

After a restless night symptomized with rapid breathing Grahila

prabhu left on this auspicious day of Papamocani Ekadasi surrounded by

a room full of well-wishers, chanting loudly the holy names of the Lord

and praying for his spiritual

What We Think About During Japa.????!!!????????

Posted by paras nagpal on March 11, 2010 at 8:42pm

In a recent discussion about Japa this question came up....it was in relation to the wandering mind and if we should think of anything...and what should that be. What do you think about during Japa? Please share your experiences with us.One suggestion by HH Sacinandana Swami was to meditate on the meaning of the mantra "Oh Lord, Oh energy of the Lord, please engage me in your devotional service" - his point was that if the mind is going to think of something it's better to think about the meanin

Material engagement and attachments are stumbling blocks on the path of self realization

Posted by jyoti ramkrishna khadse on March 11, 2010 at 8:21pm

Unrestricted sense enjoyment is the cause of material engagement , but those who are Krishna conscious are reluctant to engage in material sense gratification.And those who are not Krishna conscious should follow rules and regulation of the revealed scriptures. The propensities for sense enjoyment have to be stoped , otherwise they will be stumbling blocks on the path of self realization. Inspite of regulated sense enjoyment, there is every chance of falling down, therefore any attactment for re

Mirabai and The Sannyasin

Posted by Ashem Satyajit on March 11, 2010 at 5:00pm

Mirabai was a princess of Rajasthan. She was a woman of immense beauty and virtue.

In the course of time Mirabai was married to a prince. In his family everyone was a worshipper of the Mother-Power. Mirabai was the only worshipper of Sri Krishna. Because of this, a sad dispute arose every day.

There came a time when, utterly dejected and frustrated, Mirabai left her husband's palace and went to Brindaban to live. It happened that a Bengali sannyasin, who was also a great worshipper of Sri Krishna,

Why do we shout in anger?

Posted by Ashem Satyajit on March 11, 2010 at 5:00pm

A saint asked his disciples, Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm,

we shout for that.'

'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint.
'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout
at a person when you're angry?'

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.

Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their

"We change our name at initiation, but if we don't change the consciousness, then what is the use? Our point is that the consciousness has to be purified. It says in the first Canto of the Srimad Bha

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on March 11, 2010 at 4:41pm

"We change our name at initiation, but if we don't change the consciousness, then what is the use?Our point is that the consciousness has to be purified. It says in the first Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam 'janata agha viplavah', that in every shloka and every verse of the Srimad Bhagavatam, it has the potency to create a revolution in our sinful consciousnessSimilarly we should be detached from our materialistic point of view and become attached to cultivating and developing this type of spirit

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Quote from Padam Purana

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 11, 2010 at 1:50pm

"If all types of worship, worship of Lord Krishna is best, and better
than the worship of Lord Krishna is the worship of His devotee, the
Vaisnava."

(Lord Siva - Padma Purana)

Your Servant In Service Of Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev,
Sachin Kumar Gupta
Chant:Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.& be Happy

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Srila Prabhupad's quote

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 11, 2010 at 1:46pm

"The materialist thinks that persons engaged in Krsna consciousness
are crazy fellows wasting time by chanting Hare Krsna, but actually he
does not know that he himself is in the darkest region of craziness
because of accepting his body as permanent."

(His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - srimad-
Bhagavatam 3.30.3, purport)

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Anxious About the Future?

Shree Krishna Lila

Essence of All Disciplic Successions!

The glories of Bhagavad-gita

Real Intelligence

ISKCON kharghar celebrates the very first anniversary

Making the Body a Temple for Service

Making the Body a Temple for Service

Vyasa Puja Celebration in Mayapur

Liberated speakers

Krishana

Guru

Holy name of Vishnu is all-auspicious

Sriman Grahila Prabhu leaves his body

What We Think About During Japa.????!!!????????

Material engagement and attachments are stumbling blocks on the path of self realization

Mirabai and The Sannyasin

Mirabai was a princess of Rajasthan. She was a woman of immense beauty and virtue.

In the course of time Mirabai was married to a prince. In his family everyone was a worshipper of the Mother-Power. Mirabai was the only worshipper of Sri Krishna. Because of this, a sad dispute arose every day.

There came a time when, utterly dejected and frustrated, Mirabai left her husband's palace and went to Brindaban to live. It happened that a Bengali sannyasin, who was also a great worshipper of Sri Krishna,

Why do we shout in anger?

A saint asked his disciples, Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm,

we shout for that.'

'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint.
'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout
at a person when you're angry?'

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.

Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their

"We change our name at initiation, but if we don't change the consciousness, then what is the use? Our point is that the consciousness has to be purified. It says in the first Canto of the Srimad Bha

Quote from Padam Purana

Srila Prabhupad's quote

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Making the Body a Temple for Service

Mirabai was a princess of Rajasthan. She was a woman of immense beauty and virtue.

In the course of time Mirabai was married to a prince. In his family everyone was a worshipper of the Mother-Power. Mirabai was the only worshipper of Sri Krishna. Because of this, a sad dispute arose every day.

There came a time when, utterly dejected and frustrated, Mirabai left her husband's palace and went to Brindaban to live. It happened that a Bengali sannyasin, who was also a great worshipper of Sri Krishna,

A saint asked his disciples, Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm,

we shout for that.' 'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint. 'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shoutat a person when you're angry?'

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.

Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their

Note: this page contains paid content.

we shout for that.'

'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint.
'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout
at a person when you're angry?'