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This short video is a talk given by Sri Nandanandana dasa (Stephen Knapp) called “The Power of the Ramayana,” given at the 2nd World Ramayana Conference held in Jabalpur, India, in January 26-29, 2020. He was a special invited guest for the conference, and his talk explains from the Valmiki Ramayana the different ways it helps uplift humanity from the ordinary miseries of life, up to and including liberation or freedom from material existence altogether. At 17:53 in the video, it shows Dr. Akhil

Once one engages in criticising Vaisnavas, it becomes part of one’s nature. One will do it again and again until ultimately one offends Krsna!

Once one engages in criticising Vaisnavas, it becomes part of one’s nature. It sets in and one will do it again and again and again until ultimately one offends Krsna. He who offends Krsna, how can such a person approach Krsna? Such a person removes himself from Krsna and comes to a greater distance from Krsna. This is great misfortune. Raghunatha Bhatt

A brahman (priest) had just finished dealing with the call of nature, and took a quick look at what had come out of his system, remarking, “You are so disgusting!” His output responded back saying, “I was a sweet ladhoo until I entered your company for a few hours.”

That was, perhaps, a lesson in gross humility.

I was chatting today with the foreman overseeing the renovations going on in our ashram. He was speaking about the sewage pipeline in our building. “This building, which is well over 100

From Back to Godhead

Which way does one go in moments of despair?

LORD KRSNA HAS TWO ENERGIES, material and spiritual, but they can be used interchangeably if one knows how. Just as the same electricity can be used to heat or cool a building, so Krsna’s energies can be used for different purposes according to the living entity’s desire.

That doesn’t mean that the living entity can control Krsna’s energies, only that he can use them. When a conditioned soul wishes to exploit the material nature,

ॐ  श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

श्रीमद भगवद्गीता यथारूप 

अध्याय पन्द्रह पुरुषोत्तम योग

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e33nvksOLbo&t=34s

1 श्रीभगवान ने कहा— कहा जाता है कि एक शाश्वत अश्वत्थ वृक्ष है, जिसकी जड़ें तो ऊपर की ओर हैं और शाखाएँ नीचे की ओर तथा पत्तियाँ वैदिक स्रोत हैं। जो इस वृक्ष को जानता है, वह वेदों का ज्ञाता है।

2 इस वृक्ष की शाखाएँ ऊपर तथा नीचे फैली हुई हैं और प्रकृति के तीन गुणों द्वारा पोषित हैं। इसकी टहनियाँ इन्द्रियविषय हैं। इस वृक्ष की जड़ें नीचे की ओर भी जाती है, जो मानवसमाज के सकाम कर्म

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When we start our devotional practices it is possible to keep them up for a while out of a sense of duty. For a while it is possible to practice devotional service mechanically out of a sense of “I have to do this.” But in the end we are not machines! We cannot practice for a long time, if we only do it mechanically, and not experience the taste of it. We can only continue steadily if we get a genuine taste for it – the sweet and relishable taste of bhakti.

You must know that there are two form

Let us try to learn the fundamentals of chanting of the Holy Name from Srila Prabhupada as our founder acharya explains its importance, the dos and don’ts and also the remedy if we commit offenses while chanting.

How should we do chant the Holy Name?

It is recommended that such chanting be performed very loudly. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Nārada Muni says that without shame he began traveling all over the world, chanting the holy name of the Lord. Similarly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has advised:

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When I was young we spent time at our aunt’s farm in the south of Ireland. She had 5 milking cows, all had names, and when she sat and milked them in the morning and evening, great conversations would be had. With the cows that is.

It was there I learned to milk a cow, to hear the sound of the swish-swish into the bucket. To see the bucket fill up with white goodness, and to marvel at the natural wonder of cows and milk. It was there I saw the connection between human and animal as I watched my

From Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and Gaudiya history, it seems that there has always been a tension between two kinds of followers of Lord Caitanya’s mission—the preachers and the reclusive practitioners. These are known as the gosthy-anandi (GA) and bhajan-anandi (BA), respectively. The debate between the two centres around how they realise the confidential essence of Lord Caitanya’s teachings, Vraja-bhakti, and the failings that each sees in the other’s practice. GA see that BA neglect Lor

A last little touch of the boreal forest marked the end of my stay in Thunder Bay. The Beaver Meadows Trail takes one through a sweet boreal forest, a forest that occupies so much of Canada, holding a treasure of a huge collection of freshwater. Check out maps of this extraordinary spread of trees, ancient rocks and lakes. People speak of rainforests, such as the Amazon but, as I understand, the boreal bush impacts the globe in a similar, environmental way.

If you are a walker you have to love n

ॐ  श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

श्रीमद भगवद्गीता यथारूप 

अध्याय चौदह प्रकृति के तीन गुण

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SesYsrC2tKc

1 श्रीभगवान ने कहा— अब मैं तुमसे समस्त ज्ञानों में सर्वश्रेष्ठ इस परम ज्ञान को पुनः कहूँगा, जिसे जान लेने पर समस्त मुनियों ने परम सिद्धि प्राप्त की है।

2 इस ज्ञान में स्थिर होकर मनुष्य मेरी जैसी दिव्य प्रकृति (स्वभाव) को प्राप्त कर सकता है। इस प्रकार स्थित हो जाने पर वह न तो सृष्टि के समय उत्पन्न होता है और न प्रलय के समय विचलित होता है।

3 हे भरतपुत्र! ब्रह्म नामक समग्र भौतिक

ক্লিক করুন এখানে লিস্ট দেখার জন্য

Hare Krishna hare Krishna Krishna Krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

It has been relaxing here for me, and also for Ananda, who came from Regina. Both of us are getting some walking in—a piece of trail here or there. A treat was to get to Kakabeka Falls, which translates as “steep cliffs.” That they are. It’s always inspiring to be at this location, where I marvel at the cascading Kaministiquia River.

A twenty-five minute walking trail is connected to the falls, as an added feature. A sweet smelling boreal forest cuts the high winds of the day and makes you appre

It’s easy to take mothers for granted. Some researchers recently followed around one such mother for a week in an attempt to estimate the monetary value of her ‘motherly love’. She took the kids to school, so they calculated how much a taxi driver would cost. She cooked the breakfast, lunch and dinner so they approximated the wage bill of a chef. The mother also played the role of a cleaner, psychologist, accountant and nurse to name but a few. They calculated the overtime the mother put in, and

By HH Sacinandana Swami

As I’m sitting here in Vrindavan, as the minutes, hours and days go by, I am more and more interested in the close God, not so much the distant God. I’m less interested in the God, Who is only thought about, but not experienced, Who is philosophized about, but not seen. As I chant, I think deeply about how to establish real contact with the Lord.

What he says is, “My Lord, I am directly calling out to You now, I am directly approaching You now, by Your various names. And

ॐ  श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

श्रीमद भगवद्गीता यथारूप 

अध्याय तेरह-प्रकृति, पुरुष तथा चेतना

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFzjfOmmWA&t=82s 

1-2 अर्जुन ने कहा— हे कृष्ण! मैं प्रकृति एवं पुरुष (भोक्ता), क्षेत्र एवं क्षेत्रज्ञ तथा ज्ञान एवं ज्ञेय के विषय में जानने का इच्छुक हूँ। श्रीभगवान ने कहा— हे कुन्तीपुत्र! यह शरीर क्षेत्र कहलाता है और इस क्षेत्र को जानने वाला क्षेत्रज्ञ है।

3 हे भरतवंशी! तुम्हें ज्ञात होना चाहिए कि मैं भी समस्त शरीरों में ज्ञाता भी हूँ और इस शरीर तथा इसके ज्ञाता को जान लेना ज्ञान क