Posted by paras nagpal on November 14, 2009 at 2:29pm
"Chanting Japa should be done early in the morning with full concentration preferably during the Brahma Muhurta time. Concentrate fully on the sound vibration of the mantra, pronouncing each name distinctlyand gradually your speed in chanting will increase naturally. Do not worry so much about chanting fast,most important is the hearing."Srila Prabhupada 6/1/72
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Posted by paras nagpal on November 14, 2009 at 2:27pm
I was thinking about how our Japa directly affects our service....we chant to cleanse our minds of dirty things - material consciousness...and therefore prepare ourselves for service to Krsna.If our chanting is good quality and produces good consciousness...then we are able to better serve Krsna and remember Him always.
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Posted by paras nagpal on November 14, 2009 at 2:24pm
A devotee used this expression the other day to describe someone who is addicted to chanting the Hare Krsna mantra.It's a sign of advancement in Japa, when you are unable to stop chanting and feel as though you can continue all day....what a nice addiction to have! Unlike other unhealthy addictions in the material world, this addiction will solve all the problems of the plane
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Hari BolPlease accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.Our beautiful, saintly godbrother, Kuvera Das, drew his last breath this morning at 7:14. As most of you know, Kuvera endured a disease known as ALS for about the last 10 years. This past Sunday he required hospitalization for shortness of breath and dehydration as he was no longer able to drink water. He was discharged from the hospital the next day but was readmitted last evening. He was found to have pneumonia, which
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I have been to Vrindavan many times but this time was stranger than I imagined.usually I always reach Delhi and go to stay in Vrindavan for a few days and then return, but this time, unconventionally,Krishna was in no mood to call me so soon. I had nearly given up hope of reaching Vrindavan this year, when I had a dream.Srila Prabhupada came and asked me to follow him.Next day my son who drove the car, and my wife and a friend of hers, got into the car at 6 AM and sped to Vrindavan. We entered V
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The term Azhwar literally means "one who has dived deep into the depths of the transcendental bliss or God experience" It is a Tamizh ("Tamil" as often known) term. Tamil is the ancient language of South India also called the Southern language in contrast to Sanskrit, which often is referred to as the Northern language. Azhwars were born in South India in regions now referred to as the Tamilnadu along the banks of some of the well-known rivers of this region such as the Tamirabarani, Palaaru and
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Vrindavana Lila : Sankarsan Prabhu talks during Srila Prabhupada Disapearance day, remembering that Srila Prabhupada asked devotees to do something in Kolkata to establish it as His birth place
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Yeh saubhaagya mahapurush avam Bhagwaan ki kripa se prapt hota hei, ki jeev bhagwat-vishay ko samajhkar uski or unmukh ho.Chant Hare Krishna
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Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 13, 2009 at 3:59pm
Excerpted from the Lecture of HH Giriraj Swami, “ DEATH AND DYING IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS’.On May 19, 2005, Giriraj Swami was invited to address the physicians and nurses of San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care. This extraordinary institution has a staff of six hundred and serves, at any one time, 850 to 900 patients. It is the only hospice in the US that boasts its own free-standing hospital, treating terminally ill patients' incidental maladies as well as offering relief for their pain. Dr. Pa
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Pujari from Sri Adwaita Acarya's house in Santipura, West Bengal by Mulaprakrti devi dasiThis story was heard in Mayapura in 1980. A man came to the ISKCON's Caitanya Candrodoya Mandira carrying with him a copy of the Back of Godhead article about Srila Prabhupada, entitled A Lifetime in Preparation. "Just recently an amazing realization occurred to me that I wanted to share with devotees everywhere. I have been the pujari and sevaite at the house of Adwaita Acarya for many years. I was also the
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Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 13, 2009 at 11:10am
O Krsna! Please attract my mind by pulling it to You.O Hari! Please capture my mind by Your unsurpassed sweetness.O Krsna! Please purify my mind with knowledge about devotional service given to me by Your own devotee.O Krsna! Please make me able to relish Your transcendental name, form, qualities, pastimes, etc.O Krsna! Please make me able to relish Your transcendental name, form, qualities, pastimes, etc.O Hari! Please make me fit to serve You.O Hari! Please make me able to relish Your transcen
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Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 13, 2009 at 10:35am
A very simple question but so many people seem to get it wrong. Some even seem to think eggs are a vegetable or a fruit or "given naturally" and then okay to eat, some even think fish are part of a vegetarian diet - fruit of the sea....... There are some funny ideas out there, so we will try to clean them up and give some practical assistance herein .The word vegetarian, coined by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society in 1847, comes from the Latin word vegetus, meaning "whole, sound, fr
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Nov 10, USA (SUN) — Since October 18th, the Sampradaya Sun website has published 52 articles discussing what can be called "The Hrdayananda Goswami Issue". I apologize to the readers up front for adding to that sum, but I do so for a slightly different purpose.I would submit that the subjective importance that the editors of the Sun and its various contributors assign to HDG and his purported "influence", beneficial or not, is at best an exaggerated preponderance, and at worst, an egregious reve
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IAM GREATFUL AND THANKFUL TO THE DEVOTEES OF ISKCON DESIRE TREE WHO INSPIRED ME TO WRITE ON THIS BLOG I WAS ONLY WRITTING ON H.H.RADHANATH SWAMI BLOG BUT NOW I AM SO HAPPY THAT DEVOTEES FELT MY BLOGS WORTH WHGILE AND THEY INVITED ME ON THIS WEBSITE.I DONT DESERVE THIS BUT OUT OF YOUR KINDNESS U HAVE GIVEN ME THIS SEVA I WILL DEFINATELY TRY TO BE SERVANTS OF THE SERVANTS........PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH THIS POST .....
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Glimpses of the Lotus Feet of Srila Prabhupadaby His Divine Grace Om VisnupadSrila Bhakti Promod Puri GoswamiOnce Srila (Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura) Prabhupada was viewing the Deities of Sri-Sri Guru Gauranga-Gandharvika-Giridhari at the Sri Caitanya Math, standing on the front porch of the temple. The door of that temple is not very wide and Srila Prabhupada did not have his glasses on.Standing next to him was one of his dear disciples. The disciple thought perhaps Prabhupada could not v
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Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 12, 2009 at 2:30pm
January 3, 1975Share : Satsvarupa Dasa GoswamiPrabhupada lecture notesYesterday I heard Prabhupada give a lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.26 on January 3, 1975, in Mumbai. The false ego in the material world is divided into three according to the modes of material nature. Persons in the mode of goodness see this material world as it is. Those in the modes of passion are making plans without any aim of life. Those in the modes of ignorance are like animals. This ahankara makes one think he belo
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Chapter two, part two, of Our Affectionate Guardians by SwamiB. B. Visnu. The historical account of the relationships betweenSrila B. R. Sridhara Deva Goswami andSrila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and his society.____________________________I Take It on My HeadIt is clear in the following letter that Srila Prabhupada regarded Srila Sridhara Maharaja as his confidential friend and well-wisher throughout his life. Concerned about his failing health, Srila Prabhupada had written Sridhara Maharaja aski
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By Indradyumna SwamiWhen I arrived at my residence in Vrindavan-dhama, the strain of eleven months of traveling and preaching caught up with me, and I was unable to go outside for two weeks. I spent the time resting, chanting extra rounds, and reading. One evening I decided that the next morning I would finally go out to visit some temples.“There are over five thousand temples in Vrindavan,” I thought, “but even visiting the seven main ones might prove too much for me at this point. I’ll just vi
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Dear devotees,Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.I haven’t written since arriving in Mumbai for the GBC meetings about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I’m sorry about that.The meetings were basically nice. Our movement now has a Chief Executive Officer, Ramai Maharaja, who will be seeing that all our resolutions and decisions are followed up on. In the GBC Body many good decisions are made, but due to the pressing duties of all the GBC members, sometimes they are not followed up pro
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Radha Mohan Das : It has been forty years since ISKCON made its first mark on the streets of London. The unmistakable sounds of cymbals, saffron and shaven heads charmed and startled Oxford Street in London’s West End, reaching the Evening Standard with the headline “Hare Krishna Startles London”. Nowadays ISKCON is woven to the fabric of London life yet still parades of devotees sharing the Holy Names with shoppers, revelers, business people and international tourists is very common.1969 was th
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