From doing things for Krsna to looking after people who were doing things for Krsna to looking after people for Krsna, all these things come up in devotional service. The mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers us a golden opportunity that if somehow or other, we can take advantage in the service we do for this mission and in our personal behaviour and in our dealings with the vaisnavas, then surely we can go back to Godhead. As I said, in my youth, I was sometime careless in my dealings with ot
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अध्याय पचास – कृष्ण द्वारा द्वारकापुरी की स्थापना (10.50)
1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: जब कंस मार डाला गया तो हे भरतर्षभ, उसकी दो पटरानियाँ अस्ति तथा प्राप्ति अत्यन्त दुखी होकर अपने पिता के घर चली गई।
2 दुखी रानियों ने अपने पिता मगध के राजा जरासन्ध से सारा हाल कह सुनाया कि वे किस तरह विधवा हुईं।
3 हे राजन, यह अप्रिय समाचार सुनकर जरासन्ध शोक तथा क्रोध से भर गया और पृथ्वी को यादवों से विहीन करने के यथासम्भव प्रयास में जुट गया।
4 उसने तेईस अक्षौहिणी सेना लेकर यदुओं की राजधानी मथुरा के चारों ओर घ
The beauty found in this relative world pales before the beauty of Krishna’s perfect form.
People are very much enamored by the beauty of this world. The Vedic literature, however, offers us penetrating insight into the actual nature of material beauty. If people would take the time to hear from these revered sources, they would be surprised to learn that what is accepted as beauty within this world is but the pale, illusory reflection of the unlimited spiritual beauty of Lord Krishna, the Supr
This photo, digitally enhanced, shows Srila Prabhupada as a young gentleman.
After receiving spiritual initiation in 1932, Srila Prabhupada (then Abhay Charan De) sought to expand his pharmaceutical business both to support his family and to contribute to his spiritual master’s preaching mission. Even more important to him, however, were the rare occasions when he could meet with his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s affectionate dealings with
Prabhupāda: So the devotees are protected by the Viṣṇudūtas always, constantly. They are invisibly wandering all over the universe. We may see or not see, because we cannot see spiritual body with these material eyes. So even we do not see, the Viṣṇudūta is always protecting the devotees from the enemies.
As I have explained yesterday, devotees will have enemies. Kṛṣṇa had enemies. This world is such: envious. Ordinarily, they are envious. The whole world is full of enviousness. Even the greate
"So I am so much pleased upon all of the boys and girls in Los Angeles and all over the world who are understanding and appreciating this unique quality of our transcendental literature and voluntarily they are going out to distribute despite all circumstances of difficulty. By this effort alone they are assured to go back to home, back to Godhead. In order to change this materialistic society and prevent them from gliding to hell, first thing is to educate them. All decent men want to give ser
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur made an unequaled contribution to the ultimate, spiritual welfare of humankind. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur wrote in his preface to the Jaiva-dharma: “Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur is an extremely dear associate of Sri Chaitanya Chandra. In the course of time, when those who preached the desires of Chaitanya Deva had left this world to enter the Lord’s eternal pastimes, the sky over Bengal slowly darkened, covered by the thick clouds of sensual enjoyment
The sun is always shining, always existing, but we can’t always see it—it’s dark half the time. There's night and day. The sun does rise on schedule, though, so we’re not condemned to live without sunlight. You can predict when it will rise.
Krishna is the same way. He always exists. He also has a regular schedule for appearing in this world, which is mentioned in the Vedas.
Just as biological life depends on sunlight, our existence depends on the Absolute Truth, Who is ultimately a Person, the
By Madhava Smullen
Lord Jagannatha is coming.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 was the first year without a New York Ratha Yatra parade in 45 years – instead, Lord Jagannatha was driven down Fifth Avenue in a minivan, along with a virtual online celebration.
This summer, things are beginning to look different. The number of new coronavirus cases in the US has plummeted from a seven-day average of more than 250,000 a day in early January, to a daily average of less than 14,380 during the past
अध्याय उनचास – अक्रूर का हस्तिनापुर जाना (10.49)
1-2 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: अक्रूर पौरव शासकों की ख्याति से प्रसिद्ध नगरी हस्तिनापुर गये। वहाँ वे धृतराष्ट्र, भीष्म, विदुर तथा कुन्ती के साथ-साथ बाह्यिक तथा उसके पुत्र सोमदत्त से मिले। उन्होंने द्रोणाचार्य, कृपाचार्य, कर्ण, दुर्योधन, अश्वत्थामा, पाण्डवगण तथा अन्य घनिष्ठ मित्रों से भी भेंट की।
3 जब गान्दिनीपुत्र अक्रूर अपने समस्त सम्बन्धियों तथा मित्रों से भलीभाँति मिल चुके तो उन लोगों ने अपने परिवार वालों के समाचार पूछे और प्रत्युत्तर में अ
Jai Sriman SriNarayanaya namaha.
THE THIN LINE OF DIFFERENCE AND THE ART OF BEING THE ORIGINAL ONESELF.
The faint line of difference , as they say, is thinest and super ambigious bordering between the good and the bad. Here the right interpretation makes all the difference. Please note, the traits considered could be clubbed under the following, if not viewed rightly.
KINDNESS — LAID DOWN & DOORMAT
REACHING OUT — INTERFERENCE
GENIUS — MAVERICK MADMAN
TO SHARE A PROBLEM– A LEANING LIMPET
Beautiful Bright Beginnings
Jai Sriman Srinarayanaya Namaha.
The only beautiful bond worth staying linked joyously here and hereafter is with our Lord SriKrishna and all the staunch devotees of our Lord SriGovinda. Then life well lived.
FAREWELL TO FAMILY & FRIENDS WHO HAVE DRIFTED AWAY . FANTASTIC! FINE! PLEASE STAY BLESSED. PRAYERS.
PLEASE LET’S LET GO OF THOSE WHO HAVE OUTGROWN US FOR THEY HAVE MOVED ON . SO SHOULD WE. WIN WIN.
At the outset, as always, I confess, that I am not a subject m
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Questioning modern theories on the history of evolution on the basis of available evidence, to determine without predjudice, how old the human species is.
An enhanced ancient photo of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and his family, including his son Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Thakur.
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, formerly known as Kedarnatha Datta, was born in 1838 in Birnagar, West Bengal. Growing up, Kedarnatha Datta preferred to sit and talk with the gate keepers and soldiers, and listen to them recite pastimes of Lord Krishna and Lord Rama than to play outside. Even from a young age, Thakura Bhaktivinoda was attracted to the pastimes of the Lord. Any tim
By Parijata Devi Dasi
The Devotee Care Directorate, together with GBC SPT is endeavoring to extend tribute to all the devotees in ISKCON who have unfortunately departed in the current pandemic due to Covid as well as non-Covid related death during this period (over the last year).
As part of this initiative, the Devotee Care team is compiling a consolidated list of these departed devotees from across the world; their names and photographs, and will display them on the official site: www.devotee
I met Mother Balai through my sister Padyavali, who lived in Kinross in the Eastern Transvaal. Whenever I visited Kinross I would do as much sankirtana as possible, and soon, through the effort of the devotees, a nama-hatta was established.
Padyavali regularly brought prasadam for Mother Balai and her family, and soon Balai; her good husband, Lenny; and her children, Shamenderan and Priyenderan, took up the process of Krishna consciousness.
Mother Balai and the devotees, including two devotees
The tussle between “freewill” and “destiny” has been primordial. There is one famous Greek play titled “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles. The main character Oedipus has the tragic destiny of marrying his own mother revealed to him by the soothsayer. Shaken by the revelation, he decides to escape his fate by leaving his royal parents and his kingdom, but ironically the more he tries to give a slip, nearer he gets to the prediction. Finally the fate takes the better of him. He later learns of the commis
अध्याय अड़तालीस - कृष्ण द्वारा अपने भक्तों की तुष्टि (10.48)
1-2 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: तदनन्तर सबके स्वामी भगवान कृष्ण ने सेवा करने वाली त्रिवक्रा को तुष्ट करना चाहा, अतः वे उसके घर गये। त्रिवक्रा का घर ऐश्वर्ययुक्त साज-सामान से बड़ी शान से सजाया हुआ था । उसमें झण्डियाँ, मोती की लड़ें, चँदोवा, सुन्दर शय्या (पलंग) तथा बैठने के आसन थे और सुगन्धित अगुरु, दीपक, फूल-मालाएँ तथा सुगन्धित चन्दन-लेप भी था। जब त्रिवक्रा ने उन्हें अपने घर की ओर आते देखा तो वह हड़बड़ाकर तुरन्त ही अपने आसन से उठ खड़ी हुई।
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By Prakash Govindan
Imagine this – you are a devotee of Krishna trying to follow Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and you are one of the over 300,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, or Chinese migrants in Singapore. You are on a meager salary and on a work visa which does not allow you to bring your family or kids into the country and hence you live alone with 10-12 others in crammed dormitory rooms. You perform the backbreaking, 12-hours-a-day work to build Singapore’s infrastructure. Then suddenly in late M
अध्याय सैंतालीस -- भ्रमर गीत (10.47)
1-2 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: व्रज की ललनाएँ कृष्ण के अनुचर को देखकर चकित हो गई। उनके हाथ लम्बे थे और आँखें नये खिले कमल जैसी थीं। वह पीत वस्त्र धारण किये था, गले में कमल की माला थी तथा अत्यन्त परिष्कृत किये हुए कुण्डलों से चमकता उसका मुखमण्डल कमल जैसा था। गोपियों ने पूछा, “यह सुन्दर पुरुष कौन है? यह कहाँ से आया है? यह किसकी सेवा करता है? यह तो कृष्ण के वस्त्र और आभूषण पहने हैं! “यह कहकर गोपियाँ उद्धव के चारों ओर उत्सुकता से एकत्र हो गई जिनका आश्रय भगवान
