Nowadays it is considered very egalitarian to think that no matter which pathway one takes it will lead to the same goal. Try to going to an airport to see if you can make this philosophy practical by taking any airplane and reaching the same destination. While such notions of doing anything and getting the same result may be the embodiment of political correctness, it should be noted in this connection that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. In other words our philosophy of life should n
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Hare Krishna to all the Vaishnavas,
Please accept my humble obesiances!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
The following is an excerpt from the lecture of HG Gopinatha Chandra Prabhu. I find it useful to share. Although we know all the principles of bhakti, but sometimes what we lack in our life is proper discipline and time management. And because of that our progress in bhakti hampers. So, this is a very useful lecture.
Time management techniques
A teacher entered a classroom with an empty jug and th
Reporting by Sraddhadevi Dasi
GBC Meeting Report #2
GBC Report: February 7th-9th, 2010
Strategic Planning for ISKCON’s future was the central focus for the second
through fourth days of the 2010 Annual General Meeting for ISKCON’s
Governing Body Commission. In 2006, the GBC Body collectively decided to
increase their attention on Strategic Planning, more specifically to spend
additional energy on defining and planning ISKCON’s direction and management
for Srila Prabhupada’s mission to be passed down to
The Lord's beauty resembles a dark cloud during the rainy season. As the
rainfall glistens, His bodily features also glisten. Indeed, He is the sum
total of all beauty. The Lord has four arms and an exquisitely beautiful
face with eyes like lotus petals, a beautiful highly raised nose, a
mind-attracting smile, a beautiful forehead and equally beautiful and fully
decorated ears.
The Lord is superexcellently beautiful on account of His open and merciful
smile and His sidelong glance upon His devotees. Hi
Advised in Srimad Bhagavat Gita one should culture knowledge in the following way:
1) One should become a perfect gentleman and learn to give respect to others.
2) One should not pose himself as a religionist simply for name and fame.
3) One should not become a source of anxiety to others by the actions of his body, by the thoughts of his mind, or by his words.
4) One should learn forbearance even in the face of provocation from other.
5) One should learn to avoid duplicity in his dealings with other
This is the maiden album released by His Grace Ekalavya Prabhu, disciple of His Holiness Lokanath Swami.
However, when I heard about the sound tracks they were simply wonderful. Ekalavya prabhu has nicely mixed western music with ancient vedic chants. This is a perfect fusion of east and west.
Ekalaya prabhu is a full time dedicated bramachari. He is himself a qualified sound engineer & a musician.
His sole purpose of releasing this album in service of Srila Prabhupada is to inspire the yout
Hospital distribution in Santo Domingo Food for Life Global volunteers are
continuing their distribution of freshly prepared vegan lunches for Haitian
survivors of the earthquake who are now being cared for in the Dr. Dario
Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo. Volunteers prepare the lunches at the
local FFL kitchen and then package them to be handed out at the hospital,
which specializes in trauma.
Haiti DistributionWe have made great progress in securing a working
relationship with other agencies to b
How to Always Be Absolutely Ecstatic
Nobody truly desires to be miserable. But yet most people are foolishly acting on a regular daily basis in ways that guarantee to keep them miserable. It doesn't have to be like this because there is a solution. There is a way that anybody and everybody no matter what situation they may be in can always be absolutely ecstatic. That way is called the science of self-realization. Just as there varying stages in the science of mathematics, there are also varying
Amar Jivan
My Life
(from Saraëagati)
(1)
ämära jévana, sadä päpe rata,
nähiko puëyera leña
parere udvega, diyächi ye koto,
diyächi jévere kleça
(2)
nija sukha lägi’, päpe nähi òori,
dayä-héna svärtha-paro
para-sukhe duùkhé, sadä mithya-bhäñé,
para-duùkha sukha-karo
(3)
äçeña kämanä, hådi mäjhe mora,
krodhé, dambha-paräyaëa
mada-matta sadä, viñaye mohita,
hiàsä-garva vibhüñaëa
(4)
nidrälasya hata, sukärye virata,
akärye udyogé ämi
pratiñöha lägiyä, çäöhya-äcaraëa,
lobha-hata sadä kämé
(5)
e heno durjana, saj-jana-varjit
Message for enlightment
HARE KRSNA
Most of the times, we lose our valuable time and opportunity in trying to correct the situations for better in order to perform our bhakti with full vigour however this is where we miss the point
If we just forget our situation, and just somehow push ourselves and in whatever situation we are in, just put our full heart into our service, our bhakti, then the situations automatically get aligned to our requirements over a period of time
In the path of life, learn to
Definition of pure bhakti:
anyabhilasita sunyam
jnana karmadi anavritam
anukulyena krsnanusilanam
bhaktir uttama
["The cultivation of activities that are meant exclusively for the pleasure of Sri Krsna, or in other words the uninterrupted flow of service to Sri Krsna, performed through all endeavours of the body, mind and speech, and through the expression of various spiritual sentiments (bhavas), which is not covered by jnana (knowledge aimed at impersonal liberation) and karma (reward-seeking activ
HOW TO DEAL WITH BLAMES
Yesterday one devotee was commenting that on each level of ISKCON management we find devotees blaming the persons on the level just above them for their problems. That is if one is a cook in the temple for example, one will blame the temple commander, if one is the temple commander one will blame the vice president, the VP will blame the President, and the president will blame the GBC or guru.
The standard way of dealing with this blaming situation (the one which leaders us
Mayapur GBC Meetings: Day 1
The 2010 Annual General Meeting of the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON commenced Saturday morning in Sri Mayapur Dham with Bhakti Caru Maharaja offering the traditional guru-puja ceremony to ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya, Srila Prabhupada, while Ekalavya Prabhu led anenthusiastic and inspirational kirtan. This year’s GBC Chairman,Romapada Maharaja, welcomed everyone in attendance and delivered areading from the tenth canto of Srimad Bh
1. The Tithi at sunrise rules the day.
2. If the Tithi begins after sunrise and ends before sunrise of the next day (Lost) it is combined with the next Tithi.
3. If the same Tithi falls on sunrise two days in a row, observances are scheduled on the first day; except Ekadasi, Amavasya, or Purnima Tithis which are scheduled for the second day.
Rules for Ekadasi :
Srila A. C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada makes an interesting comment in his purport to S
3 NICE Stories,*
*1. Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain, on the day of prayer all
people gathered and only one boy came with an umbrella. **THATS FAITH.***
*2. Example of the feeling of a one year old baby. When you throw him in the
air, he laughs because he knows you will catch him. **THATS TRUST.***
*3. Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to wake up alive the next
morning but still we have plans for tomorrow. **THATS HOPE. ***
Stop the construction of unnecessary bridge in front of keshi Ghat on Holy river of yamuna in Vrindavan
On Yamuna ji a two way highway bridge is being built to divert the traffic which, makes a half ring,
through the Keshi Ghat. This Bridge serves no purpose but reveals the cruelty towards our yamuna ji.
Just think after constrution of the bridge, how will it look in front of Keshi Ghat?
Let us go through what PROBLEMS & DAMAGES the bridge would bring...
• Decreasing the already scarce supply of swee
