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“Hi!” Greeted the gentleman, who, along with his wife, were walking down the same trail as Paramahamsa and I. We were sitting on a stone for me to catch my breath while also catching some sun. He continued, “Do you need some help?”
Maybe I looked a little helpless? I had my crutches leaning against the boulder stone and left leg pant rolled up to expose my surgical knee for receiving sun rays.
“No! I’m fine. Recently I had a knee replacement. Just doing some Physio right now.”
“Oh! I had my hip
अध्याय पन्द्रह – भगवान कृष्ण द्वारा योग सिद्धियों का वर्णन (11.15)
1 पूर्ण पुरुषोत्तम भगवान ने कहा : हे उद्धव, योग-सिद्धियाँ उस योगी द्वारा अर्जित की जाती है जिसने अपनी इन्द्रियों तथा प्राणायाम पर विजय प्राप्त कर ली है और जो अपनी चेतना को मुझमें स्थिर कर चुका है।
2 श्री उद्धव ने कहा : हे अच्युत, योग-सिद्धि किस विधि से प्राप्त की जा सकती है और ऐसी सिद्धि का स्वभाव क्या है? योग-सिद्धियाँ कितनी हैं? कृपा करकेमुझे बतलाइये। निस्सन्देह आप समस्त योग-सिद्धियों के प्रदाता हैं।
3 भगवान ने कहा : योग के पारं
Radhika Ramana Prabhu is a notable Vaishnava scholar. He holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Vedānta of Jīva Gosvāmī (Routledge, 2007), co-editor of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2013), editor of Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Philosophy: Tradition Reason and Devotion (Ashgate Publishing, 2014), and co-author of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Selected Readings (Columbia University Pr
“O lotus-eyed one, Your sweet voice and charming words, which attract the minds of the intelligent, are bewildering us more and more.” – Gopis to Sri Krishna , Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.31.8
It Might seem naive to wonder what God sounds like, to speculate about the tone of His voice and the language He employs when communicating with those near and dear. Because He is transcendental, we know He is beyond mundane sounds. Most religious people would simply say that when God communicates, He does so in
It was our determination to go somewhere where the wind is your friend and the water motion hits rhythmic notes when it meets the beach. Paramahamsa brought me to the Bluffs, where the cliffs are so impressive and everything about the space is therapeutic.
After a healthy fresh rain, the beach’s sand was just the right content of wetness for making sandcastles, or crocodiles. Our purpose, however, was to chill, strictly in Krishna’s service. At the picnic table of our choice, we sat down to go
अध्याय चौदह - भगवान कृष्ण द्वारा उद्धव से योग पद्धति का वर्णन (11.14)
1 श्री उद्धव ने कहा : हे कृष्ण, वैदिक वाड्मय की व्याख्या करनेवाले विद्वान मुनिगण मनुष्य जीवन की सिद्धि के लिए अनेक विधियों की संस्तुति करते हैं। हे प्रभु, कृपया मुझे बतायें कि ये सारी विधियाँ समान रूप से महत्त्वपूर्ण है अथवा इनमें से कोई एक सर्वश्रेष्ठ है।
2 हे प्रभु, आपने शुद्ध भक्तियोग की स्पष्ट व्याख्या कर दी है, जिसके द्वारा भक्त अपने मन को समस्त भौतिक संगति से हटाकर, आप पर एकाग्र कर सकता है।
3 भगवान ने कहा : काल के प्रभाव
By Acarya dasa, All-India Padayatra leader
On July 1 the All-India Padayatra reached Sanwara village in southern Rajasthan, the largest state in India. Sanwara is only about 25km north of Sirohi city, the district administrative headquarters, but the roads in the area are in such bad condition the oxen could not walk properly. At one point our ox Vijay picked up an injury to his leg which then troubled him.
That evening Vijay was sitting quietly and as we checked his condition, we found he had
The Ramayana depicts an incident when the monkeys serving Rama were brought brutally face to face with their limitations. While they were searching for Sita, they survived many dangers until they finally came to know her whereabouts: she was held in captivity by the demon king Ravana in his island fortress of Lanka. Delighted, they roared and ran toward the ocean. But when they came to the coast and saw the vast ocean extending unendingly into the horizon, their voices fell, as did their spirit
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lecture given in New York City on May 22, 1973.
Krishna’s greatest devotees are simple village girls who love Him without caring for His Godhood.
lalita-gati-vilasa-valguhasa-
pranaya-nirikshana-kalpitorumanah
kritam anukritavatya unmadandhah
prakritim agan kila yasya gopa-vadhvah
“Let my mind be fixed upon Lord Sri Krishna, whose motions and smiles of love attracted the damsels of Vrajadhama [the gopis]. The damsels imitated the characte
The wife of jazz great John Coltrane, a legend in her own right, met Srila Prabhupada and brought the Lord's holy names to the ears of thousands.
WHEN YOU'RE CHANTING the maha-mantra," said the late Alice Coltrane, "your soul responds, because the soul knows these names." The wife of the great jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, she was known among her followers as Turiyasangitananda (which she translated as the Transcendental Lord's highest song of bliss"). She continues: "The soul re
By Mangalananda dasa
In June, of this year, devotees held the region’s first-ever Rathayatra Festival in the little New Brunswick village of Memramcook.
Devotees who live in less populated areas of Eastern Canada hold weekly in-home programs where they gather to chant the holy names, listen to lectures, and honor prasadam. In this area of Canada, they call themselves ISKCON Maritimes, which comprise of centers in Fredericton, Saint John, and Moncton, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Jhulan Festival is celebrated in the month of Shravana (August), from the eleventh day of the bright fortnight (Ekadashi) to the full-moon day (Purnima). This festival is celebrated to commemorate the childhood pastimes of Sri Krishna with His friends, the young cowherd boys, and girls, swinging underneath the trees.
Every day the Deities of Sri Radha Madhava are adorned with various jewelleries and gently swayed on a swing decorated profusely with flowers. The main temple hall is decorate
We have such a great philosophy. I am not this body. I am spirit soul. I am here to serve. All good stuff.
When this body receives pain, the pain is eased because you tell yourself, “That is not me. It may be connected to me but it is not me.” I have to convince myself of this reality from time to time. One of those times is now. Weaning off painkillers and accepting some uneasiness. That’s the way to go through the healing of my left leg.
It was so generous of my friend, Paramahamsa, to drive
Finally taṭastha-sakti is correctly understood as another name for marginal living entities who are inbetween the Spiritual energy and the material energy.
Srila Prabhupada - "So this material world is the taṭastha (conditioned) characteristics, and the spiritual world is the "personal" characteristics. So our effort is to get out of this taṭastha (conditioned) characteristics and to enter the permanent characteristics (Vaikuntha). That is called spiritual elevation". (Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 2
अध्याय तेरह - हंसावतार द्वारा ब्रह्मापुत्रों के प्रश्नों के उत्तर (11.13)
1 भगवान ने कहा : भौतिक प्रकृति के तीन गुण, जिनके नाम सतो, रजो तथा तमोगुण हैं, भौतिक बुद्धि से सम्बद्ध होते हैं, आत्मा से नहीं। सतोगुण के विकास से मनुष्य रजोगुण तथा तमोगुण को जीत सकता है एवं दिव्य सत्त्व के अनुशीलन से, वह अपने को भौतिक सत्त्व से भी मुक्त कर सकता है।
2 जब जीव प्रबल रूप से सतोगुण में स्थित हो जाता है, तो मेरी भक्ति के लक्षणों से युक्त धार्मिक सिद्धान्त प्रधान बन जाते हैं। जो वस्तुएँ पहले से सतोगुण में स्थित है
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A plaque commemorating with and when came here, as you’ll hear in a few minutes instructed we have to make sure no one goes hungry and for 50 years up to a thousand plates a day, no one has gone hungry. Yesterday. everyone who comes gets Krishna lunch Now, the song discussed how the price has gone up because um when I was a kid, a Brand-new car costs $2000. So, you all know now that makes sense but with the sun pointed out, it’s very important to you is the service at who hasn’
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Brahmatirtha: “…as mayor of Gainesville, there’s many challenges in this day of social media where the like button determines what is right and what is wrong. a little discretion. He has to deal with all of these contentions and he deals with it with grace, with dignity and patience that I do not understand. Just a dear person whose values are true and I say this in the core of my heart truly represent the very of the city of Gainesville. I’m very honored to have had him here w
This year, ISKCON is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the appearance of its Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – born in 1896 in Calcutta – with various efforts to honor him throughout the year.
On Saturday August 21st, ten days before Srila Prabhupada’s August 31st appearance day, devotees from the ISKCON Auckland congregation in New Zealand will hold Harinama Sankirtana in multiple suburbs around Auckland, as well as on the city’s main thoroughfare Queen
“You’re one of the top five,” said the therapist at Toronto West General Hospital.
“Meaning?” I asked.
“Of the five years I’ve looked at knee replacement patients you’re in the top five for recovery.”
Well, that certainly made me feel good. I had mentioned I’m a monk, a walking one, and I wore down my cartilage. The reaction to the marathon walks I’ve done astounded the physiotherapist, as did the Vietnamese doctor and a local assistant from Canada. Yes, I had three guys look at the leg and giv
