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Srila Govinda Ghosh - Disappearance

Sri Govinda Ghosh

Sri Govinda Ghosh, an intimate associate of Lord Caitanya, was known for his sweet kirtans at the annual Jagannatha Puri Ratha- yatra festival. Lord Caitanya would at once begin to dance whenever Govinda Ghosh would sing. Govinda Ghosh and his brothers Vasudeva and Madhava are eternal associates of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda Prabhu.

 

He made his home in Agradvipa, Vasudeva in Tamluk, and Madhava Ghosh in Dain Hat. Govinda Ghosh Thakur’s house is not far from Agradvipa in K

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Europe Yatra this summer

Hare Krishna

Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.


Last year we arranged Europe yatra for 23 days for a group of 60 devotees from here and visited many countries like London, Radha Desh, Paris, Switzerland, Italy, Somogovamous (Hungary), Austria, Nrsimha Kshetra (Jandelsbrunn), Praque. We visited 11 temples and through out had food caravan cooking two times full meal for all of us.


The cost per head excluding ticket and visa was approx Dhs 11,000/-  (USD 3,000/- or In

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One should develop a liking for residence in a secluded place with a calm and quiet atmosphere favorable for spiritual culture, and one should avoid congested places where non devotees congregate.

Association in every town and village:

 To search the audience of God in a lonely forest is considered to be in the mode of goodness. 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.6.21

Conditioned living beings are always after the favor of the goddess of fortune, although by nature she is moving from one place to another. I
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Defeating the Greatest Enemy

Our greatest enemy is selfishness, our foolish tendency to serve only our own needs while neglecting the needs of others. Selfishness is mere foolishness because no man is an island. By our very nature we are meant to serve others. In fact, the more we make others happy, the more we become happy and satisfied. This is the law of nature. Therefore the very best service we can render is to give all others the ultimate happiness of delivering them from the cycle of birth and death. This is accompli
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How Can I Retain What I Read?

Question: How Can I Retain What I Read?


I can't remember what I read in the Bhagavad-gita clearly . Is there a reason for this?  How can I sharpen my memory so that I can explain Krishna to others without giving them the wrong information? I'm too afraid to say anything when they bring God up.

Shivash 
 


Answer: Follow this Technique


In this Kali yuga, age of quarrel and hypocrisy we all have shortness of memory. Therefore if you want to memorize what you have read in the Bhagavad-gita, you will have

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Thought Of The Day

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

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Who Are You ?

Who Are You?

YOU ARE NOT THE BODY BUT A SOUL COVERED IN A MATERIAL BODY.

This is the main teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita.

“As the embodied soul continously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.” Lord Krishna, Bg. 2.13

You are a soul covered by a material body.

Your are bewildered by maya, the illusion of identifying the self with the body.

In this material body you will suffer t

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"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"Material world cannot be a happy place ……………….Nectarean MellowsActually in material world there can be no real enjoyment. Real enjoyment means, whole hearted, complete, saturated enjoyment. That can only come from the level of the soul because the soul is the real person. The soul is longing for that which is eternal because the soul is eternal. Within every pleasure of this world, there is a danger; there is the imminent end of this pleasure either through t
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BI%20A.jpg The Mumbai branch of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, a scientific and educational institution formed by ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada in the early 1970s, is set to offer two thought-provoking seminars this Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th.

The first seminar, organized under the name ISIST (Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology), will be held at the Nehru Science Center in Mumbai on the topic of “Quantum Reality—New Perspectives.”

Speakers include Professor Gary Bowman

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Dina%20Sarana%20A.jpg At this year’s meetings of the Governing Body Commission—ISKCON’s ultimate managing authority—in Mayapur, India, German Srila Prabhupada disciple Dina Sharana Dasi became only the second-ever woman to accept the position of full-voting GBC member.

Her path there starts a decade ago: One day, while washing pots in her kitchen, she had what she callseingebungin German—a kind of inspirational vision in her mind—where Srila Prabhupada told her something that would change her life.

Dina Sharana is car

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2514823117?profile=original2514823106?profile=originalSrila 2514823231?profile=originalBhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was born in the holy pilgrimage place of Jagannatha Puri to Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, a great Vaisnava acarya in the line of succession coming from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Although employed as a government magistrate, Srila Bhaktivinoda worked tirelessly to establish the teachings of Lord Chaitanya in India. He envisioned a worldwide spiritual movement and prayed for a son to help him achieve his dream.
On February 6, 1874, in the sacred pilgrimage town
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Tilaka

Tilaka: The Mark of God
By Nandlal
Anyone who wishes to acknowledge the simple truth that "I am Lord Krishna's servant" can wear tilaka, the clay mark devotees wear on the forehead and other places on their body. You may not feel you have much devotion to Krishna, but you're not prohibited from wearing tilaka, because it's a sign that you're trying to be His devotee. What's more, the qualifications for being Krishna's devotee soon develop in a person who learns the art of wearing tilaka.

Why Decora
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Worshipping Tulasi to Perfection

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 While traveling in British Columbia last week, visiting Saranagati and attending the Ratha Yatra, we heard a most inspiring story at the Vancouver Temple.

Dr. Sukumaran is an Auyervedic doctor, originally from the town of Kotakala in Kerala state, where his family owns and operates one of the biggest auyervedic hospitals and herbal remedy centers in all of India. It was there that he met and married a Canadian devotee, Rudrani devi dasi. Due to her preaching, he became a devotee and Gaudiya Vai

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Worshipping Tulasi to Perfection



 

 

 While traveling in British Columbia last week, visiting Saranagati and attending the Ratha Yatra, we heard a most inspiring story at the Vancouver Temple.

Dr. Sukumaran is an Auyervedic doctor, originally from the town of Kotakala in Kerala state, where his family owns and operates one of the biggest auyervedic hospitals and herbal remedy centers in all of India. It was there that he met and married a Canadian devotee, Rudrani devi dasi. Due to her preaching, he became a devotee and Gaudiya Va

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The Lotus Feet and Hands 
of Lords Nityananda Gauranga 

Each of the most Auspicious Marks on the Lotus Feet and Hands of Their Supreme Lordships Shri Shri Nityananda Gauranga have unlimited transcendental meanings associated with them and these should be the object of our meditation when we chant the Nityananda and Gauranga Mantrarajas and the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. Thus this webpage will be a very important tool for increasing the intensity and depth of our concentration during Mantra Meditatio

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Truth and Beauty

Hare Krishna,
  
 
  A nice article
By A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Back to Godhead Magazine #15,1967

It has often been argued whether truth and beauty are terms compatible with one another. One would agree willingly, some say, to express the truth, but since truth is not always beautiful—indeed it is frequently rather startling and unpleasant—how is one to express truth and beauty at the same time?

In reply to this we may inform all concerned that Truth and Beauty are indeed compatible terms.
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Tamala Krsna: Can Krsna give us the ability to someday remember every
word that you are saying to us now? Because I myself, I forget so
much. I want to hear just how you are talking and I can't.

Prabhupada: What is that? I don't follow.

Tamala Krsna: I want to be able to hear you saying exactly what you're
saying now. I want to always be able to hear it, but I forget. My
memory is very poor.

Prabhupada: Why? No. If we try... Memory may be poor. Everything
depends on cultivation. If you cultivate somethi
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Simply Wonderfuls

Bill was regularly helping Upendra in the kitchen and would delight in hearing him speak of the early days of Krsna consciousness in America. As Upendra busied himself stirring pots of vegetables and preparing a variety of savoury items, Bill would roll "Simply Wonderfuls" -- confections made from sugar, butter and powdered milk -- for the Sunday feast. Bill liked this association with Upendra, and especially loved prasadam. By now he had added 10kg to his once lanky frame, and
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Simply Wonderfuls

Bill was regularly helping Upendra in the kitchen and would delight in hearing him speak of the early days of Krsna consciousness in America. As Upendra busied himself stirring pots of vegetables and preparing a variety of savoury items, Bill would roll "Simply Wonderfuls" -- confections made from sugar, butter and powdered milk -- for the Sunday feast. Bill liked this association with Upendra, and especially loved prasadam. By now he had added 10kg to his once lanky frame, and
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