Hare Krishna!!
Mantra-Yoga:
A Necessity for this Age
By Stephen Knapp
This is the first chapter in his forth-coming book, "Prayers, Mantras and Gayatris." A Collection for Insights, Protection, Spiritual Growth, and Many Other Blessings. This should be published and available in another few weeks.
Using mantras or prayers is a means of doing a number of things, depending on our purpose. First of all, it is a method to raise our consciousness and prepare ourselves for perceiving higher states of being. It ca
Bhakti In Its Beauty Hits UK Bankers
Thursday 11th November 2010 saw history in the making with its first corporate sponsored event in the financial industry to host a Gaudiya Vaisnava sannyasi. In the heart of UK’s financial district of Canary Wharf, over 200 bankers and traders assembled 512 feet high in Barclays skyscraper for an evening event to celebrate the message of Diwali with Bhakti Charu Swami.
Over the past year bankers and traders from Directors to analysts have been gathering fortnig
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"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"
We want to put Krishna in the center of the world ……………….Nectarean Mellows
Marriage disputes, conflicts between religions, conflicts between gurus, disciples of gurus, conflicts between sexes and races, conflicts between nations, conflicts between every aspects of human society, animal society, plant society, insect society, “jivo jivasya jivanam”. Everyone is trying to eat each other in one way or other. It is all manifesting from this one illusio
man-mana bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yaji mam namaskuru
mam evaisyasi yuktvaivam
atmanam mat-parayanah
Translation
Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship
Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.
Purports
This chapter concludes by revealing the pure, simplistic way of worshipping the Supreme Lord Krishna by the words man-manah focus one's consciousness on Lord Krishna, mad bhakto be Lord Krishna's devotee, mad yaji give propitiation and worship to Lord K
Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai
"O brothers, who will go? Who will go?"
- by Srila Lochana Dasa Thakura
ke jabi ke jabi bhai bhava sindhu-para
dhanya kali-yugera caitanya-avatara (1)
O brothers, who will go? Who will go? Who will cross over this ocean of birth and death? This is a special Kali-yuga because Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has come.
amara gaurangera ghate adana –kheya vaya
jada andha, atura avadhi para haya (2)
At the bathing place of my Gauranga, there is a free ferry boat waiting. There is no restric
101%
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:
What Equals 100%?
What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?
Ever wonder about those people who say they
are giving more than 100%?
We have all been in situations where someone wants you to
GIVE OVER 100%.
Introduction
The Sanskrit word 'bhagavan' is explained by the great authority Parasara Muni, the father of Vyasadeva. The Supreme Personality who possesses all riches, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation is called Bhagavan.
Opulences
There are many persons who are very rich, very powerful, very beautiful, very famous, very learned, and very much detached, but no one can claim that he possesses all riches, all strength, etc., entirely. Only Krsna can claim this b
Suggestions for improving our chanting and getting a real taste for the holy names.
The NAMES of krishna are the repository of all happiness and the greatest wealth.If we chant properly,we will not experience material miseries, but we may experience what the materialist might mistake as misery:the spiritual joy of intence separation from KRSNA.
Since that joy comes from proper chanting,we might wonder how we can chant with attention and concentration,even if we are not yet pure devotee
