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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

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. ***

Nadiya Nagare Nitai Nece Nece Gay Re

LYRICS:

(refrain) nadīyā-nagare nitāi nece’ nece’ gāy re

(1)

jagannātha-suta mahāprabhu viśvambhara

māyāpur-śaśī navadvīpa-sudhākara

(2)

śacī-suta gaurahari nimāi-sundara

rādhā-bhāva-kānti-ācchādita naṭabara

(3)

nāmānanda capala bālaka mātṛ-bhakta

brahmānḍa-vadana tarkī kautukānurakta

(4)

vidyārthi-uḍupa caura-dvayera mohana

tairthika-sarvasva grāmya-bālikā-krīḍana

(5)

lakṣmī-prati bora-dātā uddhata bālaka

śrī-śacīra pati-putra-śoka-nibāraka

(6)

lakṣmī-pati pūrva-deśa-sa

Srila Prabhupada’s important instructions on preaching to the intelligent class of people
“..One thing: You must be attentive that our routine work--such as rising early, cleansing, chanting, temple worship, reading, sankirtana, etc.--should always maintained at the highest level of Krishna Conscious standard, as the smallest neglect or inattention to these matters of routine practices will cause all our other programs to fail. These things are the backbone of spiritual life. So it is natural th

An insignificant offering in the lotus feet of

HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI MAHARAJ

on his 64^th VYAS PUJA

Oh master, eternal master,

Well-wisher of me forever,

Deliverer of the fallen soul,

By teaching me a fool owl.

I am the greatest sinner,

Full of lust greed anger,

I pet envy proud illusion,

This can vanquish by your vision.

You are like a boatman,

On the shore of holy name,

To take us you are ready,

But it needs in us urgency.

Master you have the way,

But it needs sincerity,

This can send one to godhead,

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