When the living being turns away from Krsna then suffering begins. Happiness only exists in the relationship with Krsna so when we turn away from Krsna, we begin to suffer. Then Krsna has also added a little suffering, he added some sand-in-the-sweet-rice. Why is this so? Because Krsna loves living beings dearly and Krsna is more eager for living beings to go back to the spiritual world than the living beings are themselves. Therefore Krsna cannot wait, so sometimes he puts a little sand-in-the
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Looking at some of the headlines for last couple of days, I wonder if India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sincere desire, or a difficult-to-materialize dream, will ever come true. After Digital India, Make in India, Clean India, Skill India, and a number of other projects, the PM has now launched the Startup India project. Understandably, his intention is to elevate India’s image on the global map, and although everyone agrees that he is a man with vision, and I also believe he has a vision,
re is no division between the name and the named”(abhinatvaṁ nāma-nāmīnaḥ). This is certainly the Gauḍīya conclusion, but it does not mean that the name is just a sound with no meaning. It means that the the sound of the word is intrinsic to and inseparable from its meaning.
If the true Gauḍīya attitude is that name of Krishna has no meaning or is “beyond meaning,” why would the founding ācārya of the Gauḍīya school, Śrī Jīva Goswāmī, explain the meaning of the name in Tattva-sandarbha?
What’s
Lecture on Accepting Reversals in Brahmajis Spirit of Surrender by HH Radhanath Swami on 15 Jan 2016 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)
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Lecture on Experiences and Realizations by HH Giriraj Swami on 03 Jan 2016 at Dallas
(Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton in the home of a respected Chicago lawyer. He met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)
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Lecture on Glory of Srimad Bhagavatam and Vritrasura by Romapada Swami on 01 June 2015 at Detroit
(Romapada Swami‘s first encounter with Krishna consciousness came in Buffalo, in the shape of a lecture at the State University of New York in 1969. The lecturer was His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The following year, Romapada Swami joined the movement in Boston and was initiated in 1971.)
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apareyam itas tv anyāṁ
prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām
jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat [Bg. 7.5]
[Besides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature.]
If we closely observe the situation in the world it is full of exploitation: the ‘haves’ exploiting ‘have-nots’, strong exploiting the weak, masculine gender exploiting the female gender, human species explo
Tattva Darsi means to see the absolute truth. We get our knowledge from the Vedic literatures. Our mission includes traveling to different schools and festivals in North America and providing books on yoga & meditation. Our home base is in Los Angeles, California. We are a group of monks who live together in a monastery. We have a temple open to the general public with spiritual music (kirtan), philosophy, and vegetarian feasts. Our society is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
TEXT 66
nasti buddhir ayuktasya
na cayuktasya bhavana
na cabhavayatah santir
asantasya kutah sukham
na cayuktasya bhavana
na cabhavayatah santir
asantasya kutah sukham
SYNONYMS
na asti—there cannot be; buddhiḥ—transcendental intelligence; ayuktasya—of one who is not connected (with Kṛṣṇa consciousness); na—neither; ca—and; ayuktasya—of one devoid of Kṛṣṇa consciousness; bhāvanā—mind fixed in happiness; na—neither; ca—and; abhāvayataḥ—one who is not fixed; śāntiḥ—peace; aśāntasya—of the unpeaceful; kutaḥ—where is; sukham—happiness.
TRANSLATION
One who is not in transcend
Dear follower of Śrīla Prabhupāda!,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
This year, as always, we request you to submit your homage to Śrīla Prabhupāda for his Vyāsa-pūjā book by April 15.
In addition, if you’re a direct disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyāsa-pūjā book open to all of his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is also April 15.
In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of ISKCON’s foundi
Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome. The same sense is expressed by emotions such as craving. When a person desires something or someone, their sense of longing is aggravated by the enjoyment or the thought of the item or person, and they want to take actions to obtain their goal.
The functions of the mind are thinking, feeling and willing. When the mind is materialistic, or absorbed in material contact, it acts for material advancement of knowledge, destructiv
By Hari Narayana Das
Batam is the largest city in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia, across the Strait of Singapore, the third-largest city in Sumatra region and the eighth largest city in Indonesia. Located 20 km off Singapore‘s south coast, it is an industrial boomtown, an emerging transport hub and part of a free trade zone the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle.
His Grace Samudrasena das (leader of ISKCON Batam) under the guidance of His Holiness Subhag Swami Maharaj organ
By HH Kavicandra Swami
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what it means to give fifty percent. For most householders their income does not allow them to live and to give 50% to the temple.
The following from a purport by Srila Prabhupada might help to clear the air. I have inserted a few comments using [ ] to indentify them. The stress is on preaching, not what our our financial condition is. By finding some way to preach bhakti will be the most pleasing to guru and KRSNA. One need not
Question: From my understanding of your class on the nine stages of BHAKTI, it could take a number of years before one got any experiential taste of the practice.
Answer: No.
It’s true that it usually takes years (or lifetimes) to come to the stage ofruci (characterized by a taste for the beauty and joy of sādhana-bhakti), but nonetheless one gets small fragments and crumbs of ruci even from the very outset, the very beginning of being involved with Krishna-bhakti.
In fact, śraddhā itself (the
Lecture on Rising Above Goodness by Charu Prabhu in 2016
(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples.)
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Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome. The same sense is expressed by emotions such as craving. When a person desires something or someone, their sense of longing is aggravated by the enjoyment or the thought of the item or person, and they want to take actions to obtain their goal.
The functions of the mind are thinking, feeling and willing. When the mind is materialistic, or absorbed in material contact, it acts for material advancement of knowledge, des
Lecture on Pastimes of Lord Jagannath by Bhakti Vinoda Swami on 03 Jan 2016
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Lecture on Spiritual Determination by HG Tamohara Dasa on 03 Jan 2016 at ISKCON Alachua
(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 02, Text 41)
(His Grace Tamohara Dasa has been involved in ISKCON leadership for many years. In addition to services of temple president, BBT manager and director of two gurukulas, he served as the director of the ISKCON Child Protection Office,He has been a GBC member since 2006 and currently serves on the executive committee of the international GBC.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 16, Text 21 by HG Narayani Mataji at ISKCON Melbourne
(Her Grace Narayani Devi Dasi joined ISKCON in Boston in 1970. She has done many services for Srila Prabhupada including Deity worship in Calcutta temple, traveling book distribution in Western India for the Bombay temple, and teaching Bhakti Sastri, Bhakti Vaibhava and Bhaktivedanta courses in the VIHE in Vrndavana. )
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Consciousness is the essence of who and what we are. Consciousness exists without needing to be created, maintained, or destroyed. It expresses itself in various forms, seeking happiness. These forms need to be created, maintained, and destroyed. A specific form manifest from consciousness can die, but the essence of who and what we are never dies.
Is consciousness not even damaged by being stripped of its body? No, the soul is impervious – and is not really woven into the bodies it produces.
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