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अध्याय तीन – श्रीशिव तथा सती का संवाद (4.3)

1 मैत्रेय ने आगे कहा: इस प्रकार से जामाता शिव तथा श्वसुर दक्ष के बीच दीर्घकाल तक तनाव बना रहा।

2 ब्रह्मा ने जब दक्ष को समस्त प्रजापतियों का मुखिया बना दिया तो दक्ष गर्व से फूल उठा।

3 दक्ष ने वाजपेय नामक यज्ञ प्रारम्भ किया और उसे अत्यधिक विश्वास था कि ब्रह्माजी का समर्थन तो प्राप्त होगा ही। तब उसने एक अन्य महान यज्ञ किया जिसे बृहस्पति-सव कहते हैं।

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Medical professionals and healthcare heroes across the country are going above and beyond in the fight against coronavirus. This week, GBC Strategic Planning Team (SPT) invites you to meet, hear and learn from Krsnadasa Kaviraja Das on how to responsibly play our part in this fight. He is one of the many unsung devotee heroes who have put t

By Madhava Smullen and Anuttama Dasa

The coronavirus pandemic, which has now claimed over 276,000 lives in the United States, and 1.5 million around the world, continues to be a major health threat. And ISKCON temples have not been immune to the challenge.  

In addition to the sad passing of some senior ISKCON leaders and congregational members, whole temples have been closed for a period of time to protect the community and other visitors. These have included ISKCON’s international headquarters

Usually at this time of year I’m in Varadero, Cuba. I am typically at the beach, under the sun, making visitations to cities like Havana, Matanzas and St. Declaro. We hold kirtan sessions, give bhakti lessons, answer questions, walk the streets, etc. etc. I do miss the wonderful people there. I also miss the good company of another monk, a Swami from Spain. His name is Yaduananda Swami. He’s kind, cool and caring.

With everyone in the world being grounded, reminiscence becomes somewhat magnified

इस भौतिक कल्मष से छुटकारा पाने के लिए भगवान की शरण ग्रहण करनी चाहिए जैसा कि भगवद गीता (7.14) में कहा गया है -- मामेव ये प्रपद्यनते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते।

सर्वश्रेष्ठ मार्ग यही है कि शाप तथा वरदान से ऊपर उठा जाये और भगवान कृष्ण की शरण ग्रहण की जाये तथा दिव्य स्थिति में रहा जाये।  तात्पर्य श्रीमद भागवतम 4.2.27  श्रील प्रभुपाद

अध्याय दो – दक्ष द्वारा शिवजी को शाप (4.2)

1 विदुर ने पूछा: जो दक्ष अपनी पुत्री के प्रति इतना स्नेहवान था वह शीलवानों में श्रेष्ठतम भगवान शिव के प्रति इतना ईर्ष्यालु क्यों था? उ

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By Indradyumna Swami

As you know Vaisesika prabhu is heading up a worldwide effort to distribute 2 million of Srila Prabhupada’s books during this Christmas Marathon. It’s very exciting! He asked me to address the samkirtan devotees in the first of his online presentations yesterday. Here is my address. 

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By Chaitanya Charan Das

Suppose a plane flies from Los Angeles to New York. During 90% of its flight time, it is off-course. Why? Because of its own momentum and the atmospheric conditions.
How, then, does the plane get to its destination? By the pilot’s repeated reorientation.
During our life-journey, we are like the pilot and our mind is like our plane – it keeps going off-course. We may resolve to do something, but the mind proposes a hundred other things. And it proposes so subtly and swiftl

Rucira Devi Dasi: Himavati told me a story from the first trip with Srila Prabhupada to India. The devotees were living in tents and Hansadutta refused to sleep with her in their tent. All the other couples were sleeping together in their own tents. So she snuck into Srila Prabhupada’s room and slept in his closet.
The next morning she got up and snuck out. She said that day Prabhupada called her into his quarters. He said, “Himavati, you cannot sleep in my closet. This will cause rumors. People

 Across the world, COVID has, for better or worse, changed the way we do many things in our lives. Countless children have attended school, Sunday school and even 'camp' online this year. More than ever before, children live online - making new friends, developing established relationships, learn, recreate, etc. 

With the added stressors COVID has brought, it is no surprise that child abuse has increased, in person and online. It is important that as adults we recognize the ways that children co

By Giriraj Swami 

On October 28, 1972, in Vrindavan, Srila Prabhupada spoke on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.17:

srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah
  punya-sravana-kirtanah
hrdy antah-stho hy abhadrani
  vidhunoti suhrt satam

“Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramatma [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous w

I received my permanent bridge. It was installed in my mouth and it looks great. The word “permanent” may be deceiving. The only power that I understand to be of a lasting fixture is the soul. But, you know, I wasn’t about to have a dispute with my dentist on the use of the word. He even admitted it’s good for about 20 years.

The soul, the Supersoul, brahman, or the spiritual energy all around us, is eternal but that is not the same case for any dental office. The theme is “teeth” and such a cli

अध्याय एक – मनु की पुत्रियों की वंशावली (4.1)

1 श्री मैत्रेय ने कहा: स्वायम्भुव मनु की पत्नी शतरूपा से तीन कन्याएँ उत्पन्न हुईं जिनके नाम आकूति, देवहूति तथा प्रसूति थे।

2 यद्यपि आकूति के दो भाई थे तो भी राजा स्वायम्भुव मनु ने इसे प्रजापति रुचि को इस शर्त पर ब्याहा था कि उससे, जो पुत्र उत्पन्न होगा वह मनु को पुत्र रूप में लौटा दिया जाएगा। उसने अपनी पत्नी शतरूपा के परामर्श से ऐसा किया था।

3 अपने ब्रह्मज्ञान में परम शक्तिशाली एवं जीवात्माओं के जनक के रूप में नियुक्त (प्रजापति) रुचि को उनकी पत्नी आक

By Madhava Smullen

One of the catalysts for this was the 2017 Sanga for Gurus, GBCs and Sannyasis (SGGS) in Mayapur, West Bengal, at which it was felt that there should be a worldwide effort to increase reading amongst ISKCON members and leaders. Following this, ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission made a resolution in February 2020 to introduce an annual “International Sravanam Week.” The week ran from September 3rd to 9th and featured online study groups, webinars and daily Zoom interviews about

If you can draw a little attention of Krishna, yat karunya-kataksa-vaibhavavatam [Caitanya-candramrta 5]. Kataksa-vaibhavavatam, Prabodhananda Sarasvati says. If somehow or other you can draw a little attention of Krishna, your life is successful. Immediately. And how can you draw? Bhaktya mam abhijanati [Gita 18.55]: simply by serving Krishna. Take to the service of Krishna, as it is ordered by the spiritual master—because the spiritual master is the representative of Krishna. We cannot approac

Yogendra, The priest for the event, was all set up with his kund, a sacrificial apparatus for a fire ceremony in his home in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Etienne had his array of musical instruments—harmonium, mrdunga drum and hand cymbals—at his place in Moncton, New Brunswick, the next providence over. He was poised to play along with his daughter, Kunti. It was 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in Toronto, where I sat in our temple on Avenue Road, prepared to be on the same Zoom network as them for de

अध्याय तैंतीस – कपिल के कार्यकलाप (3.33)

1 श्री मैत्रेय ने कहा : इस प्रकार भगवान कपिल की माता एवं कर्दम मुनि की पत्नी देवहूति भक्तियोग तथा दिव्य ज्ञान सम्बन्धी समस्त अविद्या से मुक्त हो गई। उन्होंने उन भगवान को नमस्कार किया जो मुक्ति की पृष्ठभूमि सांख्य दर्शन के प्रतिपादक हैं और तब निम्नलिखित स्तुति द्वारा उन्हें प्रसन्न किया ।

2 देवहूति ने कहा: ब्रह्माजी अजन्मा कहलाते हैं, क्योंकि वे आपके उदर से निकलते हुए कमल-पुष्प से जन्म लेते हैं और आप ब्रह्माण्ड के तल पर समुद्र में शयन करते रहते हैं। लेकिन

अध्याय बत्तीस – कर्म-बन्धन (3.32)

1 भगवान ने कहा: गृहस्थ जीवन बिताने वाला व्यक्ति धार्मिक अनुष्ठान करते हुए भौतिक लाभ प्राप्त करता रहता है और इस तरह वह आर्थिक विकास तथा इन्द्रियतृप्ति की अपनी इच्छापूर्ति करता है। वह पुनः पुनः इसी तरह कार्य करता है।

2 ऐसे व्यक्ति इन्द्रियतृप्ति के प्रति अत्यधिक आसक्त होने के कारण भक्ति से विहीन होते हैं, अतः अनेक प्रकार के यज्ञ करते रहने तथा देवों एवं पितरों को प्रसन्न करने के लिए बड़े-बड़े व्रत करते रहने पर भी वे कृष्णभावनामृत अर्थात भक्ति में रुचि नहीं लेते ।

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As conditioned souls, our deepest problem is that we have forgotten our relationship with the Supreme Lord, and we are engrossed in thinking of material activities. In order to transfer our thinking power back to Krishna, we have received the Holy Name and the Vedic literature.

A basic piece of the Vedic literature is Bhagavad-gita. It was spoken at the beginning of Kali-yuga, 5000 years ago, and it addresses the specific situation of the modern man. In Kali-yuga, people are short-lived, their e

By Prana dasa

Award Winning

In September Bhakti Learning were thrilled to receive an award for Best e-learning Design at the Annual LearnX Awards held in Sydney, Australia. The category for the award was Shift-it-Online. We successfully demonstrated to the judges how we shifted traditional learning content to an online platform, using innovative design and delivery methods.

There were four broad categories upon which the awards were allocated; the quality of e-learning design, the functionality

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INSIGHTS, TAKEAWAYS & REALISATIONS

As Kartik comes to a close, we have the opportunity to reflect on the gifts that this special month has given to all of us. Sacinandana Swami will not only share his realizations and insights, but he will also tune us in to how we can carry on with the blessings we have received this month!

Sacinandana Swami, a spiritual teacher and monk in the Bhakti tradition, is known for his significant contribution to the practice of meditation and kirtan