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This year Purushottama Masa falls in the period 18 August to 15 September 2012

Activities for the most auspicious Purushottama Month

1.                    Establish the Deity/photo of Sri Sri Radha Krishna in your home and worship Them with love and devotion.

2.                    Offer daily puja by chanting the mahamantra; Chant as many rounds of Hare Krsna Mantra as possible: hare krishna hare Krishna krishna krishna hare hare / hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

3.                    Study

I. Introduction

Purusottama month, or adhika masa (extra month) is also called mala masa (dirty month) by the performers of karma-kanda because they cannot get any material fruitive results from their worship during this month. Our acaryas say it is called mala masa because devotional activities performed in this month destroy the dirt and contamination caused by sins. It is called adhika (extra) masa because Sri Krsna has placed all His potencies, mercy, blessings in this month, and also because

The Glories of Purushottama Month (from the Padma Purana)

Once upon a time, thousands of sages came together in the holy place called Naimisaranya to perform sacrifice. To their very good fortune the great sage Suta Goswami, who had been traveling to different pilgrimage sites, arrived there along with his disciples. The sages present were very enlivened to see him. They all stood up immediately to pay their respects to the great sage, offered him a very nice Vyasasana, and requested him with fol

Performing Bhakti to the Supreme Lord Purushottama

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Last week, our beloved Gurudeva H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj, was in Singapore and it was a totally blissful week for all of us. We thank Maharaja profoundly for taking the pain to come to Singapore at this age and enlightening us. I also thank H G Kalacakra prabhuji who was with us for a couple of days and whose presence ga

Translated from Padma Purana

Once upon a time, thousands of sages came together in the holy place called Naimisaranya to perform sacrifice. To their very good fortune the great sage Suta Goswami, who had been traveling to different pilgrimage sites, arrived there along with his disciples. The sages present were very enlivened to see him. They all stood up immediately to pay their respects to the great sage, offered him a very nice Vyasasana, and requested him with folded hands to sit down on it.

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…Once upon a time, thousands of sages came together in the holy place called Naimisaranya to perform sacrifice. To their very good fortune the great sage Suta Goswami, who had been traveling to different pilgrimage sites, arrived there along with his disciples. The sages present were very enlivened to see him. They all stood up immediately to pay their respects to the great sage, offered him a very nice Vyasasana, and requested him with folded hands to sit down on it.

The sages of Naimisaranya sa

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Sri Chaitanya caritamritam Tamil book release

05th May 2018, Saturday

Dear maharajas/Prabhujis/mathajis,

All Glories to Sri Guru And Gauranga!!

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All Glories to Sri Chaitanya caritamritam!!

“While I was at the school in Medinipur [in 1868] I decided that I would obtain and read books on Vaisnava dharma. At the Medinipur school there was a jati vaisnava pandit. I learned from speaking with him that Chaitanya Prabhu preached the vaisnava-dh

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Who are we really—
beyond who we settle for
without thinking too deeply
as most just blindly accept
as normal, conventional identities
that we’ve learned from others
and from our educational system
so it must be true, right?

Is it really a fact that
we’re our past sad or happy history?
What about our genes, race, ethnicity,
our skin color, occupation,
economic status, religious
institution, sect, or sanga,
state or region, political party,
conservative or liberal bend,
or our

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