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भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक

अध्याय तीन कर्मयोग

प्रकृते: क्रियमाणानि गुणै: कर्माणि सर्वशः ।
अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥ 27 ॥

प्रकृतेः– प्रकृति का;क्रियमाणानि– किये जाकर;गुणैः– गुणों के द्वारा;कर्माणि– कर्म;सर्वशः– सभी प्रकार के;अहङ्कार-विमूढ– अहंकार से मोहित;आत्मा–आत्मा;कर्ता– करने वाला;अहम्– मैं हूँ;इति– इस प्रकार;मन्यते– सोचता है।

भावार्थ : जीवात्मा अहंकार के प्रभाव से मोहग्रस्त होकर अपने आपको समस्त कर्मों का कर्ता मान बैठता है, जब कि वास्तव में वे प्रकृति के तीनों गुणों द्वा

From Mayapur to Melbourne, Brazil to Bangkok, New York to New Delhi, hundreds of thousands of Krishna devotees gathered at ISKCON temples and centers worldwide to celebrate Sri Krishna Janmashtami. ISKCON devotees first celebrated the festival with Srila Prabhupada at the New York storefront in 1966. Here are some highlights from reports shared with ISKCON News from Dublin, Finland, Juhu, Mayapur, London, Sandton, South Africa, and Washington, DC.

Janmashtami commemorates the earthly appearance

Each year I try to come for the Seattle Rathayatra, which goes over two days during the Labor Day long weekend. The first day started at a local park where devotees and guests came with their families.

As you can see in the pictures, there were stalls with free prasadam, snacks, books, kirtan and drama stage, and many others. A favorite attraction were the areas with calves and goats from one of our nearby farms. Their Lordships, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra sat on a beautiful swing.

Sourc

भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक

अध्याय तीन कर्मयोग

यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः ।
स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते ॥ 21 ॥

यत् यत् –जो-जो;आचरति– करता है;श्रेष्ठः– आदरणीय नेता;तत्– वही;तत्– तथा केवल वही;एव– निश्चय ही;इतरः– सामान्य;जनः– व्यक्ति;सः– वह;यत्– जो कुछ;प्रमाणम्– उदाहरण, आदर्श;कुरुते– करता है;लोकः– सारा संसार;तत्– उसके;अनुवर्तते– पदचिन्हों का अनुसरण करता है।

भावार्थ : महापुरुष जो जो आचरण करता है, सामान्य व्यक्ति उसी का अनुसरण करते हैं। वह अपने अनुसरणीय कार्यों से जो आदर्श प

The Seattle Rathayatra was held on the second day of the festival and started a few kilometers from the park. Their Lordships, Sri Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra rode majestically on Their chariot through the streets for two hours until They came back.

There was also a smaller Rathayatra cart in front and the kirtan was led by devotee children between ten and fifteen years of age. I started off the kirtan in front of the bigger cart and other devotees took over.

When Their Lordships were brou

The Governing Body Commission (GBC) has released its latest Meeting Highlights Report for August 22nd, 2024. The report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the online GBC meeting highlighting the key topics discussed:

“ISKCON GBC MEETING HIGHLIGHTS REPORT
22 August 2024

We are pleased to present the 22 August 2024 GBC Meeting Highlights Report. This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the online GBC meeting highlighting the key topics discussed.

A former student of psychology traces his life, from childhood to now from looking up to others to looking into himself.

On June 17, 1959, with summer vacation just a few days away, I walked onto my grammar school playground in a lighthearted mood. Just then my best friend Billy rushed over to me with wide eyes. Did you hear the news?!”

“What news?”

“This morning Superman killed himself! He shot himself in the head with a luger!”

At first I thought Billy was kidding, but soon I noticed that eve

By Payal Shah

(Adapted from a class given by H.G. Narayani Mataji in Sydney on the 24th of December 2019)

In older civilizations, it was possible to conceive, understand and retain spiritual knowledge by simply hearing from a spiritual master. In today’s day and age, however, the majority of us need to read scriptures alongside hear in order to learn, digest and remember spiritual knowledge. The foundation of the Krishna consciousness movement is predicated on the principles presented by Lord K

Discovering Spiritual Knowledge

The Deep Ecology movement is rooted in the conclusions of Professors Lynn White and Arne Naess. By the late 1960s, Prof White, a historian and university president who had studied the development of technology from medieval times to the present, published “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”. In that influential article, he identified society’s mentality of anthropocentrism (human-centrism) as the root cause of the ecologic crisis. Shortly after that, Prof Naess, philosopher and enviro

भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक

अध्याय तीन कर्मयोग

अन्नाद्भवति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भवः।
यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञः कर्मसमुद्भवः ॥ 14 ॥

अन्नात्– अन्न से;भवन्ति– उत्पन्न होते हैं;भूतानि– भौतिक शरीर;पर्जन्यात्– वर्षा से;अन्न– अन्न का;सम्भवः– उत्पादन;यज्ञात्– यज्ञ सम्पन्न करने से;भवति– सम्भव होती है;पर्जन्यः– वर्षा;यज्ञः– यज्ञ का सम्पन्न होबा;कर्म– नियत कर्तव्य से;समुद्भवः– उत्पन्न होता है।

भावार्थ: सारे प्राणी अन्न पर आश्रित हैं, जो वर्षा से उत्पन्न होता है। वर्षा यज्ञ सम्पन्न करने से होती ह

By Radha Mohan Das

Devotees from ISKCON Bhaktivedanta Manor participated in a special event in observance of the 150th anniversary of the birth of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. The event, hosted by the Gaudiya Mission at the Harrow Leisure Centre, brought together representatives from a number of other Vaishnava organisations who all glorified the great personality. ISKCON devotees wholeheartedly participated in a harinama chanting procession between the Siddhashram S

By Atma Tattva Das

Radha Damodar Dasa, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, has been a dedicated servant of ISKCON for over five decades. His journey within the Krishna Consciousness movement includes the significant effort of preserving 1,684 play scripts, which are not just text on a page but a living part of our cultural heritage. They have long been an essential tool for preaching as well as providing devotional entertainment within the community.

Radha Damodar’s involvement with ISKCON began in

There is some renovation going on. Yes, here at 243 Ave. Rd., the temple is making way for a much needed elevator to take care of the elderly and the handicapped. It is going to change the force of our handsome building, perhaps even improve it and add more dignity. The process of it getting there is rather messy but that’s what happens even when assembling a good-looking cake. Things get untidy.

From a series of lectures by HH Radhanath Swami, introducing the Spiritual Counselor System that has been successfully deployed at Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath Temple in Mumbai, Chowpatti.

Inroducing the Counselor System

Service To The Vaishnavas – The Highest Religious Principle

Vaisnavism has been manifested in its purest and most wonderful form through the love and teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates. The most beautiful aspect of Lord Caitanya’s pastimes is the loving interac

THE NEED TO SUBLIMATE INDIVIDUAL WORK FOR ULTIMATE PERSONAL SATISFACTION AND HAPPINESS

Many a times, we wonder “what bit of good have I done today ?” After all, everything said and done, life is pretty mechanical and also largely material. We follow the same working routines day after day, year in and year out, in whatever profession or calling we have chosen for ourselves, or had been pushed into or drifted into by the compulsions of need, convenience, location, education, ambition, or just in

The universe around us appears to be orderly and symmetrical. The planets rotate perfectly in their orbits. Our bodies possess complex circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems. Even the atoms are highly structured. All this suggests that the universe was created not by chance, but by an intelligent person. If human beings can create houses, skyscrapers, and many other structures, it is plausible that a person far more powerful than any human created the universe and everything in it.

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