once a lady asks her husband, “ Mein aapke sapneme ati hu kya??? ” :p

Hare krsna dear friends. I am so excited today. You must be thinking what a joke!  Inspiration from 2 drunkards???? Are you insane! No no I am sane baba. But I do get so much of hope from the lives of these two drunkards.  ☺

About 5 centuries ago in west Bengal there lived two brothers, jagai and madhai. They were super well known for all their social welfare activities. I mean immoral activities. :p like robbery, murder, gambling, illicit affairs etc

Not only the people of nawadwip were afraid an

We all like music, songs..but there are very super serious species who will say they don’t like songs. But it’s a lie you know everyone is affected by songs..and the music of various instrument has halchal in their hearts :D

One may like a song so much so that he listens it every day, every day for a month, two months three months. chalo say for a year but not more than that..

but you know one song, a mantra is sung decades after decades, centuries after centuries in various melodies bringing chan

You must be aware of one famous idiom, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will

never hurt me. Is it real always??? I wish it could be. But in life most of our happiness and

distress is controlled by what people speak about us. isn’t it.

I remember, I was a school going kid, very sensitive one of my very good friend made fun of me

by calling ye moti, moti means a fat girl And I started crying. Hahaha.

It may be oral or written words it has a very powerful effect and sometimes one may forge

Chida-dahi Mahotsav celebrated today on the banks of river Ganga. Sri Sri Gaura Nitai deites were installed on a beautiful altar. HH Bhakti Nityananda Maharaj and HH Gauranga Prema Swami Maharaj spoke on the pastime of Danda Mahotsava. Many different preparations of chipped rice soaked in milk, yogurt and different fruits like mango, jackfruit and bananas were lovingly prepared in large quantities and offered to Sri Gaura –Nitai. . All the devotees bathed their own deities of Gaura Nitai in the

Ananda Vrindavana Devi Dasi: I pushed through the crowd to hold the rope for a few moments. We were in New York, on 5th Avenue, and the 3 large carts of the Ratha Yatra festival – an annual parade held in cities all over the world – were being pulled.
I held the rope and made my prayer – ‘Krishna, as I pull you to Vrindavan (Ratha Yatra symbolizes Krishna’s return to his home, Vrindavan), please pull me back to the spiritual world, back to loving you with full heart.’
As I released the rope and

Our article “Thoughts from the Astrology Tent” (Dandavats, Aug.21, ’09) generated much interest from Dandavats readers, and we received a number of inquiries that ranged from Krishna conscious astrology to the first Woodstock Festival in NY. However, in that article I mentioned that in 1969 “I was one of three devotees at the first Woodstock”. But no, there were four shaved-up brahmacharis in dhotis (and a number of future devotees, as I have since learned). My memory has been jogged by a recen

 After years of planning for its 50th anniversary, and nearly six months of celebrations this year so far, ISKCON is now gearing up for its Golden Jubilee Incorporation Day on July 13th, 1966. And temples, centers, and individual devotees all over the world are getting ready to do something big for founder Srila Prabhupada, whom many feel they owe their lives to.

After braving thirty-five days at sea on the Jaladuta steamship and two heart-attacks to bring his message of devotion to the Western

Three 40-foot high, colorfully-decorated Rathayatra carts hand-pulled by devotees and surrounded by thousands of chanting and dancing people —rolled down New York’s 5th Avenue June 11 to kickoff a national celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness better known as the Hare Krishna Movement.

The Rathayatra parade began at 12 P.M. at West 45th Street and 5th Avenue, and ended at Washington Square Park where it joined the “Hare Krishna Festival” for

Schedule of Events: Groundbreaking Ceremony 10 am
Cultural Dance and Music, Kirtan 11 am
Sumptuous Lunch Free for the Public 12 pm
When: Sunday July 10, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM MDT
Where: SLC Krishna Temple
965 East 3370 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84601

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Nowadays the great innovations of medical and scientific science can maintain patients alive, even those that in the past were given no hope to survive. These innovations can prolong the patient’s existence artificially even knowing that they will never regain acceptable health and life conditions. This situation is commonly called over-medication. The definition of cerebral death, since the end of the sixties has allowed for the development of transplant surgery. Before that time, the extracti

Bhima the mighty warrior of the Pandava dynasty requested one vrata day by which he could obtain the fruits of all the other days of vrata that he was incapable of observing. Vyasadeva advised him to follow this difficult vrata.

PADMA PURANA – Vyasadeva speaking to Bhimasena:

“Oh son, Lord Keshava, Who holds the club, disk, conch and lotus flower in His hand, personally told me that all of the merit achieved by fasting on whatever Ekadasis fall in one year can be attained by fasting on this one

Giriraj Swami: Ekadasi is one of the regular celebrations in the Vaisnava calendar. It is observed eleven days after the full moon and eleven days after the new moon of every month. Even in the thirteenth, or leap month, called adhi-masa or purusottama-masa, which comes every three years, during which no other festivals are celebrated, Ekadasi is observed. Ekadasi is known as “the day of Lord Hari” and is said to be “the mother of devotion.” Of the sixty-four items of devotional service listed

What is the relationship between effort and mercy? How much of our advancement depends upon our own efforts and how much depends upon the mercy we receive? In other words, can mercy actually be earned, and if so, how? And if it is earned, is it actually mercy?