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By Mahatma das

Dear Maharaja,

You were special. I have never met anyone like you. You were so cool, totally real, and uniquely funny; and you had this unusual sixth sense for making people Krishna conscious. You just knew how to get into people’s hearts, both devotees and non-devotees, and you knew exactly what was needed to do this in every situation. You touched the lives of many, many people because you were both a special person and deeply cared for others. You related to everyone and thus e

My dear Gunagrahi Maharaja,

Please accept my loving obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

You have always been most kind and a dear friend to me and so many others. When we met in 1978 you had established the beautiful San Diego temple and were transitioning to being the bhakta leader so you could concentrate on recruiting and training new devotees there. As I had the same service in Los Angeles, we naturally began visiting and calling each other regularly to compare no

Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. 
 
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ॐ 

श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

श्रीमद भगवद्गीता यथारूप 

अध्याय नौ परम गुह्य ज्ञान

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saevYxO0Sf0&t=115

1 श्रीभगवान ने कहा— हे अर्जुन! चूँकि तुम मुझसे कभी ईर्ष्या नहीं करते, इसलिए मैं तुम्हें यह परम गुह्य ज्ञान तथा अनुभूति बतलाऊँगा, जिसे जानकर तुम संसार के सारे क्लेशों से मुक्त हो जाओगे।

2 यह ज्ञान सब विद्याओं का राजा है, जो समस्त रहस्यों में सर्वाधिक गोपनीय है। यह परम शुद्ध है और चूँकि यह आत्मा की प्रत्यक्ष अनुभूति कराने वाला है, अतः यह धर्म का सिद्धान्त है। यह अविनाशी है और अत

Staying true to ISKCON’s Founder-Acharya, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s, vision that peace and prosperity be brought to the world through the distribution of sanctified vegetarian meals prepared with love and devotion, ISKCON Melbourne has continued to reach wide and far taking part in the distribution of nutritious FREE vegetarian meals.

Maintaining the goal, also expressed by their Founder, that no one within a 10-mile radius from an ISKCON centre should go hungry the Melbourne Hare Kr

From Christie Pits Park we took ten minutes for contemplation. Sanjit, Chris and I sat on a bench, tilted our heads back and did a bit of stargazing. The moon, Jupiter and Saturn were close to each other. Clouds, white ones, skirted by, obscuring those luminaries. The wind was just the best of breezes. It was a wind bath. “Of purifiers I am the wind,” Krishna states.

The morning began with contemplation on Krishna’s words from 13.21 of the Gita:

“Nature is said to be the cause of all material ca

“One should be more humble than a blade of grass.” OK, another “one should.” Becoming humble is difficult enough, what to speak of becoming humbler than a blade of grass. I know “I should”, but how do I actually do it?”

In this article I look at one often overlooked and extremely helpful way this is possible.

Do Not Resist
Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains that grass doesn’t resist when it is walked on or thrown around. It doesn’t complain or scream out, “How dare you step on me or throw me here an

Where it is written about Shiva visiting Gokul to see krsna; Srimad Bhagavatam does not has that story so where is it written!

ॐ 

श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

श्रीमद भगवद्गीता यथारूप

अध्याय आठ भगवत्प्राप्ति

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkYdX0oxrU&t=19s

1 अर्जुन ने कहा— हे भगवान! हे पुरुषोत्तम! ब्रह्म क्या है? आत्मा क्या है? सकाम कर्म क्या है? यह भौतिक जगत क्या है? तथा देवता क्या है? कृपा करके यह सब मुझे बताइये।

2 हे मधुसूदन! यज्ञ का स्वामी कौन है और वह शरीर में कैसे रहता है? और मृत्यु के समय भक्ति में लगे रहने वाले आपको कैसे जान पाते हैं?

3 श्रीभगवान ने कहा— अविनाशी और दिव्य जीव ब्रह्म कहलाता है और उसका नित्य स्वभाव अध्यात्म या

Rasa, when you talk about rationality. How to approach religion. Questioning assumptions. Faith. Debates, setting the terms of a debate.

Video: Click here

Source: http://www.dandavats.com/?p=89058

“Govinda’s,” the dining facility, which some people call “the restaurant,” was open today for the first time since the Covid-19 closure, and patrons are back. It has been a patient wait for folks. Over the months past I’ve been approached plenty of times by Govinda’s fans, in the course of my evening walks. It has been tough to tell people, “We’re closed!”

But now, that’s over. We’re closed on saying “we’re closed.” The food (prasadam) is the big attraction, as well as the atmosphere being a spa

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श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

अध्याय सात — भगवद्ज्ञान

https://youtu.be/Ctx3N-wQSd4

1 श्रीभगवान ने कहा— हे पृथापुत्र! अब सुनो कि तुम किस तरह मेरी भावना से पूर्ण होकर और मन को मुझमें आसक्त करके योगाभ्यास करते हुए मुझे पूर्णतया संशयरहित जान सकते हो।

2 अब मैं तुमसे पूर्णरूप से व्यावहारिक तथा दिव्यज्ञान कहूँगा। इसे जान लेने पर तुम्हें जानने के लिए और कुछ भी शेष नहीं रहेगा।

3 कई हजार मनुष्यों में से कोई एक सिद्धि के लिए प्रयत्नशील होता है और इस तरह सिद्धि प्राप्त करने वालों में से विरला ही कोई एक मुझे वास्तव

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श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

श्रीमद भगवद्गीता यथारूप

अध्याय छह ध्यानयोग

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyVXlMAR0AU&t=131s

1 श्रीभगवान ने कहा— जो पुरुष अपने कर्मफल के प्रति अनासक्त है और जो अपने कर्तव्य का पालन करता है, वही संन्यासी और असली योगी है। वह नहीं, जो न तो अग्नि जलाता है और न कर्म करता है।

2 हे पाण्डुपुत्र! जिसे संन्यास कहते हैं उसे ही तुम योग अर्थात परब्रह्म से युक्त होना जानो क्योंकि इन्द्रियतृप्ति के लिए इच्छा को त्यागे बिना कोई कभी योगी नहीं हो सकता।

3 अष्टांगयोग के नवसाधक के लिए कर्म साध

The sleep was deep in the Prime Minister Suite and after that morning shower, which has become more or less ritual, my window to the south revealed a flowing, wide Saint Lawrence, shady trees and the balance of the inn’s structures—something out of early 1800s history books. From the veranda I was chanting my gayatri mantras when Nimai Nitai came to my side. It was time to go.

Where did we go?

After a stroll through Gananoque’s downtown and the ferry docks for the Thousand Islands, Nimai took me