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"Planet ISKCON" - 31 new articles

  1. H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Wednesday 5 May 2010--Transforming Selfishness into Selflessness--and--Should I Go to Meet ...
  2. ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gopa-Vrndesa Prabhu
  3. Sutapa das, BV Manor, UK: All your eggs in one basket...
  4. Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: just read this one book
  5. Dandavats.com: ISKCON Utsav at Vishakapatnam
  6. Dandavats.com: Why should my child learn Sanskrit?
  7. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '426' from The Yellow Submarine
  8. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Little Drops of Nectar: His Humor' from The Yellow Submarine
  9. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Knowing Krishna Takes Time' from The Yellow Submarine
  10. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Krishna's Peacock' from The Yellow Submarine
  11. ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Sunday Feast Photos - May 2nd 2010
  12. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  13. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  14. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  15. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  16. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  17. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  18. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  19. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  20. ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami's Arrives in Toronto Tonight - 8:30pm!
  21. Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Krishna has a plan for us
  22. Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: “Monet Refuses the Operation” by Lisel Mueller
  23. Japa Group: It's So Important To Chant Well
  24. H.H. Sivarama Swami: Bhaktin Sejal, this is my confession
  25. H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: UPCOMING EVENT
  26. H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Saturday, May 1st, 2010
  27. H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Friday, April 30th, 2010
  28. Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: Protecting Our Oceans
  29. H.H. Sivarama Swami
  30. Gouranga TV: Bhajan – New Year's Eve 2010 – Nityananda Prabhu
  31. Gaura Sakti das & Adi Radhika dd, New Vraja Dham, Hungary: A walk in Voyage Sorgun
  32. More Recent Articles
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H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Wednesday 5 May 2010--Transforming Selfishness into Selflessness--and--Should I Go to Meet ...

The default consciousness of this material world is selfishness. In fact it is selfishness which is the very cause of our being here in the first place. Just as selfishness was our ticket for originally coming to this material world, selflessness will be our ticket out of here. Selflessness does not mean denial of the self's existence, which is the...

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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gopa-Vrndesa Prabhu

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.20.10 - Seeing everything as Krishna's mercy, one achieves real liberation.

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Sutapa das, BV Manor, UK: All your eggs in one basket...

Many people choose to reserve judgement when it comes to the cosmic questions of life. Does God exist? Is life a one-shot game or is there more after death? Different religions, different theories, and different directives – it can all be a bit confusing. There is a notion that it's dangerous to put 'all your eggs in one basket' by making a firm decision to follow a certain spiritual path. "Maybe I should keep all the options open and focus on being a good person" one may think. Spread the bet.

Interestingly we are all ultimately forced to make a choice. You may reserve judgement on God, but you still decide to live in the world in a certain way, and underpinning your lifestyle choices are certain worldviews. Everyone places their faith in something, even if they don't believe in God. So we may be afraid of the repercussions of making the wrong decision, but we'll have to make a decision anyway. By making a choice not to do one thing, you necessarily make a decision to do something else.

In my experience, the problem may not be that we have too many differing options, but rather that we are simply too lazy (or disinterested) to investigate the matter. I was recently walking down Oxford Street when I saw a man come out of the a travelagents with about 20 holiday brochures. I'm sure he's not planning 20 holidays, but rather wants to invest his yearly £1000 budget wisely – after all, it's a lot money and there a lot at stake! However, it seems that when it comes to questions of the ultimate destination we want the answer to just jump out at us without any kind of personal endeavour. Rather than allowing worldly trends to sweep us into the default path of life, we may do well to make even a passing investigation into classical literatures like the Bhagavad-gita, which give a profound insights into the perennial mysteries of our existence. A little research goes a long way.

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Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: just read this one book

Srutakirti das: It happened on three different occasions. I went in and Prabhupada was reading Krsna Book and he said, "If you just read this one book, you can be Krishna conscious." He said, "You don't have to read hundreds of books. Just this one book." He had his glasses on, and I was sitting in front of him. Then he just looked at me and he said, "You don't even have to read the whole book, just one chapter. If you just read one chapter of this book, you can be Krishna conscious," and I'm nodding my head, "Yes, Prabhupada." But he just kept staring. And then he said, "You don't even have to read the whole chapter, just one page," and he just ran his finger down the page. Then he's looking and he said, "You don't even have to read the whole page, just one line," and he ran his finger across the line of the Krsna Book. And I said, "Yes, Prabhupada." And he's still looking and he said, "You don't even have to read a whole line, just one word," and he pointed to a word in the book. He said, "Just one word of this book if you read you can become Krishna conscious because Krishna is in every word." And then he put his head back down into the book, and I offered obeisances and I left. But he said that about three different books to me over a year. "If you just read this one book." Once it was Nectar of Devotion, once it was Bhagavad-gita, once it was Krsna Book. But he said, "Any one of these, if you just read this one book, you can be Krishna conscious." He can understand Krishna is in every word, and this is what Prabhupada gave us. Nobody else has given us this, this direct connection to Krishna through His pure devotee.

>From Following Srila Prabhupada DVD

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Dandavats.com: ISKCON Utsav at Vishakapatnam

By Vrajendranandan Das

Below is a report on the recently concluded ISKCON Ustav held at Vishakapatnam. It was a wonderful program and a great team work was at display. I thank H. G. Samba Prabhu, his good wife Nitai Sevani Devi Dasi, all the temple and congregation devotees for organizing such a wonderful program

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Dandavats.com: Why should my child learn Sanskrit?

Ravi: Rutger Kortenhorst, a Sanskrit teacher in John Scottus School in Dublin, speaks on the value of teaching Sanskrit to children, based on his own experience with the language.

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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '426' from The Yellow Submarine

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3:45 A.M.

I had a bad night. Surprisingly I wasn't sleepy for my japa. I chanted at a relaxed but speedy pace and with a feeling of sincerity. I chanted silently in my mind but paying attention to the sacred syllables. It was good but basic chanting. I kept waiting to be hit with a heavy drowsiness from my poor night, but I kept chanting alright. After twelve rounds I decided to take a break and do my writing.

Chanting in your mind
the mantras stand out.
They pass by smoothly
without distraction. You
are surprised and grateful
for this unexpected gift.
The numerical strength builds
without stumbling like
a liquor-drunken man.
After twelve rounds you decide
not to press your luck
and turn to writing. After
a sleepless night it's too
good to be true, but you
take it as mercy and
pray to Nama Prabhu.


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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Little Drops of Nectar: His Humor' from The Yellow Submarine

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Prabhupada Smaranam

Prabhupada liked to make jokes, satirize, make us laugh. Even if he was involved in a stressful fight to get permission to build the temple in Bombay, or there was a court case in the U.S.A., or he knew some of his leaders were quarreling, there was always something funny that could occur to him and could make us break into smiles. He saw the merry side of things periodically and made a quip or humorous observation. Just as when he was in a very grave mood we became serious, so we laughed with him wholeheartedly when he tickled our ribs with a laughable point of view. He could be making fun of scientists or atheists or just something that made him laugh. He might be telling a story about the court jester Gopala Ban. Or he may have been making a joke at the expense of Dr. Patel and making the doctor laugh at his own foolishness. Being senior and spiritually advanced, Prabhupada could cut a joke at anyone's expense anywhere in the world, and they would accept it in good spirit. Once at the Bhaktivedanta Manor a girl asked him why we shave our heads. He replied that for philosophy it is better to keep a cool head and warm legs. (The girl was wearing a mini skirt.) All the devotees present laughed, and the mini-skirted girl smiled. Even his use of words like "rascal" and "fools" were graciously accepted, even in India where these words are considered harsh. He had genuine compassion for everyone, and so he could laugh without malice even at rascals and fools.

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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Knowing Krishna Takes Time' from The Yellow Submarine

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Fix your mind on Krishna,
but do you know who He is?
Yes, He is the glorious cowherd
boy of Vraja, the one who showed
all the residents that He was
Narayana and that they could attain
Vaikuntha, but when they saw
that vision they were disappointed
that it was Vishnu and not Krishna.

Yes, but do you really know Him?
What do you mean, do I really
know Him? I know Him with
faith but not by experience.
I know Him from the books,
the adolescent paramour
who expands Himself into
countless Vishnu controllers
and who makes the great cosmic
movements occur and from
whose pore holes the universes
come forth like seeds and
grow into planets and from
whose navel a stem grows
and the first (secondary)
creator comes forth and sits
atop the lotus in austere
meditation when he hears the
"tapa" from the sky.

But are you just repeating
these things as dogma
or do you know they really
happened? I am not just
repeating "dogma", I am
reciting faithfully the science
of the Vedas
as given in the faultless sastra.
I am a sisya, and I accept these narrations
as truth. There is no other
proof. It is not blind
faith but a kind of
realization.

What kind of realization?
Have you seen Krishna dancing
with the gopis? I may
not have seen with my
material eyes, but I
see through the eyes of the
sastras. It's called
caksuh sastra, and is the
direct method of seeing
the transcendental realm.

I admit I have not been
with Krishna and the gopis,
I don't have the qualification
to be there yet. But I
believe it's true, and I have
a growing greed to partake,
freed of my material covering.

You see, by constitutional nature,
I am a resident of Vrndavana
or maybe Navadvipa, I have
a siddha-svarupa, a liberated
spiritual form which is
covered now by my mayic
illusions. I am a
sadhaka, a working devotee
who chants and hears
imperfectly and strives
to be free of attachment to
"I" and "mine".

I want to serve Krishna
unconditionally. I have a
desire. I also have obstacles
that are preventing me.
I am trying to be free.
I am at a lower stage.
But Krishna is in His
Vrajabhumi for sure,
and I may know it
even now when I hear about
it from my spiritual master
and the krishna-katha of the
previous acaryas. I
am not outside the
magic circle. I have
a connection. I am
waiting for a future time
when everything will be revealed
to me, by grace of
Guru and Gauranga.

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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Krishna's Peacock' from The Yellow Submarine

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The peacock is famous in krishna-lila. Krishna wears a peacock feather in His crown. The peacock is considered Krishna's favorite bird. In the "Descriptions of Autumn" in the Tenth Canto, Vyasa describes how the peacocks dance and become happy after the rains come and break the summer heat. To some they see the dancing of the male peacock as similar to Krishna dancing and trying to attract Radharani to His side. There are many peacocks even now in Vrndavana. In the evening they fly up into the branches of the trees and make cries as they roost. At the first sign of dawn they make their distinctive calls again. When the sun rises they fly down and congregate for the day. The cry of peacocks anywhere in the world reminds the devotee of Krishna, whether on a farm or a city zoo. Krishna and the cowherd boys not only imitated the dancing of the peacock but also other eccentric behavior of this unique bird, such as its neck movements and strutting. But no one can imitate the male peacock when it opens all its tail feathers in a full display of its beauty. The peacocks like to show off and are considered vain. They spread their feathers for the female peacock, but the mate will do it even when no female is present. Another peacock eccentricity is they chase each other around a tree in a nonstop fashion.

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ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Sunday Feast Photos - May 2nd 2010

Nine spiritualists accept Harinam Diksha (spiritual vows) from H.H. Bhaktimarga Swami

H.H. Bhaktivaibhava Swami visits to debut the Lost Village!
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Srila Prabhupada's Letters

4 May 1949: "I submit that nothing practical for uniting the different faiths of the world has come out of the All Religious Conference held recently. The practical solution is lying in the transcendental message of Sri Krishna as given in the Bhagavad-gita."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64

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1966 May 4: "Purnima. Today I went to search out Sakar but I was lost in the Subway. In the evening the meeting was held. It was nice. Seven gentlemen attended. Contribution received. Mr. Carl was very kind to give me a Tape Recorder which is better than the one I have lost."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1966

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1967 May 4: "One can be peaceful and elevated in Krishna Consciousness only by the mercy of a bonafide Spiritual Master. I am glad you shall have more time to perform kirtana. Your humbleness and sincerity will make you more and more advanced in Krishna Consciousness."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

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1969 May 4: "In our centers they are chanting on the streets every day and they are getting good remunerations, better than any job. Simply we have to work and people will give contribution for this good cause. It is better to get money by collections than to work."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

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1970 May 4: "Each and every Center is my life and soul for preaching this movement and I want that activities will be of the same standard. Come and see how things are going on here and meet with me personally for necessary instruction."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

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1972 May 4: "The GBC members should always travel from one village to another and visit the temples and do my work. In this way, they will avoid the propensity to sit down and plot and scheme how to eat and sleep. So you can advise them all to travel extensively on Sankirtana all over their zone."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1974 May 4: "I have the same feeling upon you as my beloved son. And I maintain the feeling hoping you will be a great help in the Krsna Consciousness Movement. It is possible for us to join together. If we meet before I leave I will be glad to discuss with you."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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1974 May 4: "A pure devotee actually has no problems for himself. His only concern is that so many rascals are suffering in this concocted civilization of illusory sense enjoyment, how can they be saved? So our Krsna Consciousness movement is made for that - for saving the rascals."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami's Arrives in Toronto Tonight - 8:30pm!

Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami (formerly known as Brhat Mrdanga das) who has been a spiritual guide, friend and teacher for many devotees at ISKCON Toronto accepted the order of sannayasa or renounced order of life recently.

Today, May 4, Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami comes back to Toronto for the first time since his acceptance of the monastic order of life. He has been an inspiration for devotees in Canada for over a decade and we want to make his first visit as a sannayasa to Toronto extremely special!

He arrives today at 8:30pm and an open call goes out to all devotees to come to the temple this evening as we certainly want to greet him in a special way with kirtan, flowers and much more!

Please join us in welcoming Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami tonight!

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Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Krishna has a plan for us


There is so much suffering and pain afflicted to the body and mind. When we witness such apparent injustices and suffering, it indeed feels sad and difficult to digest such incidences. In fact, we try our best to justify an unjustified act. When we cannot find justice legally, morally and spiritually is when people lose it. But the truth is no matter how much we try to justify, the suffering of a living entity has no bounds. Witnessing such suffering is even more suffering. Therefore this world is nothing but exploitation and suffering.

This suffering although painful to experience and witness is actually sanctioned by the Supersoul. So the solace we can take from our suffering or others' suffering is that ultimately Krishna has a plan, a plan that is like Him – Inconceivable and Just and for one's own ultimate benefit. Think of it like this, a doctor cutting the abscess caused by infection caused by wrong contact. In other words, due to our misbehavior we contract infection which needs to be cut open by a knife and cleaned. Although the operation of cutting the wound is painful…still it needs to be done for protecting the body. For an ultimate good, an immediate and painful incision is paramount for the well-being of the patient.

Using this same logic, we may endure lot of difficulties in our own lives but we can take consolation and peace of mind by knowing that there is a Supreme All Perfect and Just doctor who is operating every aspect of our life so that in the ultimate sense we come out hail and healthy. Therefore although there is pain and exploitation, we can cross over such reversals by taking shelter of Krishna that He will not abandon me for He promises kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati - O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes (BG 9.31)

Please take shelter of Krishna with the faith that He has a plan for us and is always looking after our ultimate benefit and in that shelter seek peace and happiness.

Hare Krishna

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Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: “Monet Refuses the Operation” by Lisel Mueller

Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don't see,
to learn that the line I called the horizon
does not exist and sky and water,
so long apart, are the same state of being.
Fifty-four years before I could see
Rouen cathedral is built
of parallel shafts of sun,
and now you want to restore
my youthful errors: fixed
notions of top and bottom,
the illusion of three-dimensional space,
wisteria separate
from the bridge it covers.
What can I say to convince you
the Houses of Parliament dissolve
night after night to become
the fluid dream of the Thames?
I will not return to a universe
of objects that don't know each other,
as if islands were not the lost children
of one great continent.  The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.
To paint the speed of light!
Our weighted shapes, these verticals,
burn to mix with air
and changes our bones, skin, clothes
to gases.  Doctor,
if only you could see
how heaven pulls earth into its arms
and how infinitely the heart expands
to claim this world, blue vapor without end.

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Japa Group: It's So Important To Chant Well


It's so important to chant well, but it's not always something under your control. There are so many factors like physical and mental condition that make it difficult or easier to manage on a given day. It's like the weather.

From Bhajan Kutir #442
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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Bhaktin Sejal, this is my confession

I have a terrible voice and sing like a frog. If anyone likes my singing it must be due to Krsna’s bewildering potency.

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: UPCOMING EVENT




DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE & DINNER

LONELY PEOPLE - a 'tragic comedy'

directed by HH Bhaktimarga swami

RSVP to Nitai Priya

416-944-9505

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Saturday, May 1st, 2010

A Rocking Mantra Saturday

Toronto, Ontario

In different corners of the city, mantras were heard. At the Urban Edge Yoga Centre people signed up for a walk with the Swami (me), so at 10:30 AM I headed a crew of walking enthusiasts through one of the green trails. We began our walk of friendship or bonding with mantras to invoke an auspicious event – to make it a pilgrim's walk as differentiated from just a happy stroll with nature lovers in Toronto's central park system.

By that time a 24 hour kirtan, traditionally known as Astha Prahar, was well underway. The biggest pull here comes from the Bengali community. It is the 18th year for this event. It's the one place in the city where you will be sure to hear women ululating. By the time I reached there in the evening, that high pitched sound permeated the atmosphere along with the beat of the drums and the power of the mantra. That happened in the north-west end of the city.

In the city's east end, Scarborough, our visiting monk from Germany, Bhakti Vaibhava Swami, who has been around and active in Krishna Consciousness since 1970, facilitated a satsang, devotional gathering. There the main feature was the Maharaja himself, singing up a storm. He's a gentle soul and despite a serious headache, he managed to charm all in the sound of mantra.

Not a mantra chant but very much related was a seminar conducted by a visiting couple, Partha and Uttama. They were extolling the glories of family values. Their emphasis was on the unique role of grhasta as opposed to grhamedi. Grihasta refers to the life of a Godly-based family person. Grhamedi is defined as a person whose foundation is more 'me' centered, a sort of 'keep up with the Jones' syndrome. Partha and Uttama delivered the good message of wholesome family life, which in some way is a form of chanting since that is what rich family values are all about. The seminar took place in a humble corner of ISKCON's basement floor in town.

But perched on top of a glorious hill in posh Forest Hill neighbourhood, 130 early rising Girl Guides ranging anywhere from 6 to their teens, woke up after a day in Canada's famous castle, Casa Loma, to be entertained by a bhajan group, Gaura Shakti. Those girls, I was informed, took to chanting like ducks in water. "It was so exhilarating," said a member of the band. Where are you going to see young kids up at 7 AM on Saturday morning in their pajamas dancing in circles and reciting mantras with full enthusiasm?

So it was a Saturday that knew how to rock the mantra.

13 KM

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Friday, April 30th, 2010

Hell!

Toronto, Ontario

Today I obliged myself to speaking form the book "Bhagavatham" , in a section of Canto 5 describing the praises of a God manifestation called Ananta. Our morning study group discussed this particular chapter leading up to the subsequent one entitled, "Descriptions of Hell". That will be interesting.

Dwija Gauranga our local monk drove me to the airport to receive our guests Partha and Uttama who will be conducting a seminar on family life. Dwija joked that we will ask them to give us a class on the subject of Hell. "No correlation intended", he said.

In the chapter you read about 28 different hellish planets in some detail. There are many renditions or perceptions of what is hell. Common belief has it that it is a place where its hot, an inferno of burning flames. Comic strips have portrayed hell as that hot place with horned creatures sporting tails and carrying tridents and where no pizzas are served or where the coffee is cold. The Bhagavatham presents Hell as being an actual place of torture or punishment and having a geographical cosmic location. To some degree the descriptions are deliberately meant to instill some fear with a view to invoke caution within our behaviours. You might call it a reality check. After all not all acts of love stirs people to the right thing. We take things so much for granted. A dose of, "shock culture" may correct some while not all others.

One way to define hell is a place devoid of loving service to the Divine. Hell could be right where you are.

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Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: Protecting Our Oceans

From Sigourney Weaver at the Huffington Post

On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, at a time when our country's attention will be focused on what we need to do to protect our planet, I am honored to be in our nation's Capital to testify before Congress on an emerging environmental threat. I will be testifying before the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on the topic of ocean acidification.

Scientists have known for decades that when carbon dioxide mixes with ocean water it creates an acid; this is textbook chemistry. But only recently did they begin to realize what this growing quantity of acid would mean for ocean life. This new understanding has some of the world's leading ocean scientists deeply concerned.

What they say is this: the oceans are 30 percent more acidic today than they were during pre-industrial times and, if we continue burning fossil fuels as we are now, we will double the ocean's acidity by the end of the century. Scientists fear many organisms may not survive so radical a shift in chemistry. And some of those organisms form the foundation of ocean food webs. If they perish, what happens to the tens of thousands of species further up the chain? What happens to our shellfish -- our oysters, clams, mussels -- that appear particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification?

I first had the opportunity to address this issue in the Senate last fall, when I screened a short documentary I narrated on this phenomenon called Acid Test, made by my friends at the Natural Resources Defense Council. And after my Senate testimony this Earth Day, I am thrilled to show it to our nation's policymakers once again -- this time for a group in the House of Representatives.

Like that other film I was in this year, Acid Test has had an amazing run of its own. It aired on the Discovery Channel, has been shown in film festivals nationwide, and was selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association to run in kiosks in major aquariums and museums across the country. If you haven't seen it yet, catch it online here.

More and more people -- at home and in the halls of Congress -- are learning about ocean acidification and what we can do to stop it. Thankfully, we have solutions that will not only fight ocean acidification, but climate change at the same time.

Our policymakers have the power to add to the legacy of Earth Day by taking action that will protect people and the planet. Along with millions of other Americans, I will be urging them to put aside their differences and begin America's transition to a clean energy economy that will increase our energy efficiency and invest in renewable power, while cutting carbon pollution. By passing strong clean energy and climate legislation, Congress has the power to move us toward clean energy, tackle climate change and protect our seas from acidification.

I hope you will join me in calling on our leaders in the Senate to act.

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H.H. Sivarama Swami

One must try for the point when he simply hears Krishna and immediately all of Krishna, His Pastimes, His Form, His Quality, are in his thoughts. So to always be immersed in thoughts of Krishna this is our process. When we are full in Krishna then where there can be any chance for maya in us?

- Srila Prabhupada

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Gouranga TV: Bhajan – New Year's Eve 2010 – Nityananda Prabhu

Bhajan – New Year’s Eve 2010 – Nityananda Prabhu

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Gaura Sakti das & Adi Radhika dd, New Vraja Dham, Hungary: A walk in Voyage Sorgun

Forests of Sorgun is one of the most pleasant shores of Antalya. Hotel Voyage is one of the many hotels in the area. We all appriciated the fresh, mild climate, it was neither very warm, nor cold.

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