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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Bhakti Sara DasaISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Bhakti Sara DasaSB 11.20.12: The residents of both heaven and hell desire human birth on the earth planet because human life facilitates the achievement of transcendental knowledge and love of Godhead, whereas neither heavenly nor hellish bodies efficiently provide such opportunities. SB 11.20.12: Los residentes del cielo y del infierno desean nacimiento humano en el planeta tierra porque la vida humana facilita el logro del conocimiento trascendental y el amor de Dios, mientras que ni los cuerpos divinos ni los cuerpos infernales proporcionan eficientemente tales oportunidades. 11.2MBSrimad Bhagavatam 11.20.12 - We should take full benefit of human life for making spiritual advancement. Posted by Bhakti Sara Dasa at 7/5/10; 9:03:07 AM to the Daily Class deptISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Bhakti Sara Dasa
ISKCON Melbourne, AU: The Glories of Purushottam MonthAs we laboured in the garden to prepare the temple for Preeti Rupini's wedding last Saturday, Michael shared a secret behind his enthusiasm for his service. Janananda Maharaja had reminded Michael that - until May 14th.- we are in the month of Purushottama: 'This Purushottama month is more glorious than all other months, including Kartik month. The glories of all other months is not even equal to one sixteenth of the glories of Purushottama month. The merit of a person who takes a holy bath even once in this month is equal to the merit of taking bath in the Ganges for twelve thousand years...If you will take a holy bath, give in charity and chant the holy name of Krishna during this month, all your miseries will go away. You will attain all kinds of perfection...' (ISKCON Desire Tree) The best feature is that even aparadhas can be pardoned if we do devotional practice in this month. Because Michael wants everyone to enjoy the bliss of offering devotional service to Krishna in His special month, I am passing his secret on to you. Enjoy! Como estamos trabajando en el jardín para preparar el templo para el Sábado para la boda de Preeti Rupini, Michael compartió un secreto detrás de su entusiasmo por su servicio. El Janananda Maharaja había recordado a Michael que - hasta el 14 de mayo. - estamos en el mes de Purushottama: 'Este mes de Purushottama es más glorioso que el resto de los meses, incluyendo el mes de Kartik. Las glorias del resto de los meses no son incluso iguales a un décimosextas parte de las glorias del mes de Purushottama. El mérito de una persona que se bañe incluso una vez en este mes es igual al mérito bañarse en el Ganges durante doce mil años… si usted se baña, da caridad y canta el Santo Nombre de Krishna durante este mes, saldrá de todas sus miserias. Usted logrará todas las clases de perfección… ' ((ISKCON Desire Tree)) La mejor característica es que incluso los aparadhas pueden perdonarse si hacemos práctica piadosa en este mes. Porque Michael quisiera que cada uno disfrutara de la dicha de ofrecer servicio piadoso a Krishna en su mes especial, le estoy revelando su secreto con entusiasmo. ¡Goce! Srila Prabhupada's Letters1968 May 6: "Now you have to find out some person who can distribute our literature. If we have no outlet for selling the books it will be a problem. If there is nice distribution arrangement, then at least two to four new books we can publish every year." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1969 May 6: "There are at least twenty-five important cities in your country, so if we distribute at least 1,000 copies in each city, that is 25,000 copies in your country alone. So it requires only organization." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 May 6: "I tried to give aural reception to the words of my Spiritual Master and thus I tried to engage my tongue in repeating the same words without any change. I delayed to execute His order by so many years. But it was better I began late than never." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 May 6: "I have come to Malaysia. This place appears to be very prospective for our preaching work. People are inclined to give us land and a house. I'll try to open a branch immediately, either in Kuala Lumpur or Ipoh or Teluk Anson." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 May 6: "Please continue to send men out into the interior, village to village and town to town. I am very glad to hear how our festival program is going on so nicely in Germany. That you have opened one branch in Stockholm, Sweden is very good to hear." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 May 6: "As GBC member it is your duty to carefully make a broad program for implementing Krsna Consciousness in every sphere of life, in this way we will become respected as the most important members of human society." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 May 6: "They are simply cheating the mass of men by making false propaganda. We must expose these rascals by strong preaching and profuse distribution of these Krsna Conscious literatures." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 May 6: "I am very glad to know that Ananda Prabhu is staying with you. Please offer my dandabats. He is my old god brother. Sincere Vaisnava. Please treat him like your father. Do remain in full cooperation." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 May 5: "So far as distributing the $15,000 donation, I would advise you to send this money to ISKCON PRESS for printing Bhagavad-gita As It Is enlarged edition. So if you can kindly let me know your decision." Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 5: "So far your concern about management, the solution is to be always thinking of Krishna and the Spiritual Master, then maya cannot touch you. If you very strictly follow there is no question of ever falling down." Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Indefatiguable deathWhen we approach some gentleman and request him to become a reader of "Back to Godhead," sometimes we are replied with the words "NO TIME." They say that they are too busy in earning money for maintaining the body and soul together. But when we ask them what do they mean by the 'Soul,' they have nothing to reply. Dr. Meghnath Saga, a great scientist, was busily going to a meeting of planning Commission. Unfortunately while going in his car on the road he died and could not ask Death to wait because he had no time at that moment. Dr. Ansari, the great Congress leader, while dying in a moving train, on his way to home, said that he was himself a medical man and almost all his family men were so, but Death is so cruel that he was dying without any medical treatment. Therefore, Death has been described in the Bhagwat as the indefatigable. Death is awaiting everyone although everybody thinks that he may not die. There is life after death. The busy man should try to know this also as to whither he is going. This life is but a spot in his longest sojourn and a sane person should not be busy with a spot only. Nobody says that the body should not be maintained—but everybody should know from "Bhagwat Geeta," that the body is the outward dress and the 'Soul' is the real person who puts on the dress. So if the dress is taken care of only, without any care of the real person—it is sheer foolishness and waste of time. from March 1956 issue of Back to Godhead H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '428' from The Yellow Submarine4:15 A.M. I had a migraine yesterday afternoon, and it disturbed the evening with another headache during the middle of the night. But I was up at 2 A.M. and began my chanting. Somehow I have not been able to keep up a good pace, and I've only chanted nine rounds. I don't know why that is. There must be some inattention there, and the mind is flitting to other things than hearing the holy names. I'm grateful to be doing my japa without pain, and I should be concentrating more. I won't be too self deprecating about it but keep pushing on and try to improve the numerical count. I have been a little "spaced-out" and need to bear down more on the practice. Falling behind on the count tells me I'm not praying, not working. Japa is a workout not just a layback slow counting. My under average speed Krsna's names. Kurma dasa, AU: I Say Old Chap, What a Capital Idea!Today I catch the 3.5 hour ultra-comfy bus to Canberra, Australia's National Capital, and get set up for my very-full class tomorrow morning at the Cooking Co-ordinates cookery school at Belconnen Markets. On the way, I'll be reading "Black Lotus - The Spiritual Journey of an Urban Mystic" By Steven J. Rosen. By the way, here's our menu for the class: "The Indian Feast" Melange of Seasonal Vegetables, Moong dal, Cashews & Basmati (Khichari) Served with flame-toasted Pappadams and Fresh Lime Cheeks, Punjabi-style Tomatoes, Peas and Home-made Curd Cheese (Matar Panir) Served with North Indian Puffed Fried Breads (Poories), Assorted Crisp Vegetable Fritters (Pakoras) Served with a Duo of Fresh Chutneys, South Indian Mustard-tempered Carrot Salad with Lime and Fresh Coriander, Creamy Cardamom-infused Condensed Yogurt Dessert with Pistachios and Warm Saffron Syrup (Shrikhand), I have close to 40 students in attendance, so it should be a busy two days ahead. Let's get co-ordinated! H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'In Boston 1971' from The Yellow SubmarinePrabhupada smaranam We sit or kneel and look reverently to our spiritual master. This was Boston in 1971. We believe everything he says. We do whatever he asks. He knows he has us under his control. We are young disciples in awe of Prabhupada. He takes the responsibility of guiding our lives. He has taken our karma. He is grateful that we are submissive, but he wants us to be much more competent and organized and preach more effectively in Krishna consciousness. We are passive and await his commands. He have shaven our heads, and we wear eastern Vaishnava clothes. We have given up our American identities. But we are still very much Americans, only recently taken on the life of followers of Lord Caitanya. He knows we are trying our best, and yet we are not yet capable of much. We can chant on our beads, but it is difficult to control the mind. We don't know the esoteric truths of Krishna consciousness. We chant loudly on the streets of Boston, and he is very proud of us for that. We are learning how to distribute Back to Godhead magazine for twenty-five cents, but we haven 't learned yet how to sell his big books. He is patiently waiting for us to do more. He loves us, and we love him. We are at a sweet, early point in our relationship. It is growing to where we will be able to take more responsibilities, and he is grateful for what we are doing now. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Changing' from The Yellow SubmarineI want to be faithful to I'd tell of a morning walk He asked me, "Do you write I wasn't afraid of dandelions, didn't think I trusted a freely written But now I want them Would I like to go back Maybe I just think it's This is just an odd one You write each day I work up a sweat on You want to leave the H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'The Stars …' from The Yellow SubmarineFree write The stars and galaxies are beautiful in the blue sky. The astronomers are intimate with the galaxies in a scientific way, and the people who can designate their shapes and know their Latin names, are fortunate. They know an alphabet in a language which those ignorant of the galaxies are illiterate to. We illiterates don't know how to "connect the dots" and know the drama and panorama of the skies. We don't see an archer releasing a gigantic arrow across the skies. (Nor do we hear him.) We don't see a beautiful queen sitting on a throne holding a ruling mace or a scepter. Some of us can't even see a big dipper pouring something like milk down from the sky into a little dipper, although that is the easiest of all the groups of stats to ascertain. Some of us can't see that wonderful whitish night cloud, the Milky Way. It's worth taking a book out or going to a planetarium for some visits just to learn these things. And yet they are all temporary apparitions in the universe which is itself a temporary manifestation. The symbolical creatures with Latin names and stories are fictional propositions or fanciful creations made up by scientists, astrologers and astronomers. They are not real people, lions, bulls, oxen or whatever. Man has observed the stats and galaxies and created anthropomorphic creatures which exist only in his imagination. The stars and planets of the universe are actually peopled by living creatures described in the Vedic literatures. They are demigods, angels, and creatures good and mischievous known by names like Apsaras, Gandharvas, gins, etc. At present they can't be seen by telescopes because the scientists are not qualified. Each planet has its own atmospheric conditions, and only those in possession of the "visa" (permission given by God) can go there and see the living beings and live with them. Going to some planet is a material reward because material pleasures of a higher nature take place there. Going to some lower planets is a punishment because hellish sufferings take place there. Beyond the galaxies of the material universe is the spiritual sky where the eternal planets known as Vaikunthas exist. There God is worshiped and served in great awe and opulence by his eternal liberated servitors. Life on the Vaikuntha planets is sac-cid-ananda vigraha, full of eternity, bliss and knowledge. But beyond even the Vaikuntha planets is the planet known as Goloka Vrndavana where the Supreme Lord exists in his original most beautiful two-handed form. The special feature of Goloka. Vrndavana is where the Supreme Lord reciprocates with His servitors in more intimate relationships than is found even in Vaikuntha. In Vaikuntha, the Supreme Lord's pleasure is restricted by the formality and awe and reverence that exist there. In Goloka Vrndavana activities are conducted in krishna-prema or spontaneous loving service in rasas (or relationships) of servant, friend, parent or amorous lover. Each of these relationships is more intimate than the rest and amorous love (madhurya rasa) is the highest. The activities of the Vaikuntha or the Goloka planets can never be experienced by looking at the sky of the universe or even by traveling through the universe by the limited methods of spaceship travel. Only by performing pure devotional service on Earth can one be promoted to take part in the activities of the spiritual world, far beyond the galaxies of the material universe. ISKCON News.com: The Deniable Darwin
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Go to careforcows.org to contribute, or for more information. If the selection above is hosted by YouTube then after the video plays there will be several links presented to other videos. ISKCON News Weekly has no control over the selections presented and is not responsible for their contents.Japa Group: Questions and AnswersIn this next part of the Japa Retreat, Bhurijana dasa discusses questions and answers from the participants.
Japa Group: Bhurijana dasa - Japa RetreatHere is a very nice Japa Retreat with Bhurijana dasa talking about various aspects of chanting. This recording covers the topic of Japa practice.
H.H. Sivarama Swami: B. Peter from Hungary was a practicing Christian who now chants 16 rounds and follows the principlesBh. Peter from Hungary was a practicing Christian who now chants 16 rounds and follows the principlesMay 6th, 2010But he is still troubled by guilt that he has abandoned Christ. How can he get over his doubts? [ 15:22 ] Tags: FAQ, World religions One Response to “Bh. Peter from Hungary was a practicing Christian who now chants 16 rounds and follows the principles” Em says: November 6, 2011 at 6:23 am Thank you – just what ive been looking for. Bh. Peter from Hungary was a practicing Christian who now chants 16 rounds and follows the principles But he is still troubled by guilt that he has abandoned Christ. How can he get over his doubts? Akrura das, Gita Coaching: EDUCATED IN HOW TO BE SATISFIEDAccording to the sastras, a brahmana, or a cultured person in Krsna consciousness, will not enter anyone's service to maintain body and soul together, and especially not for satisfaction of the senses. H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Monday, May 3rd, 2010You Stand Out H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Sunday, May 2nd, 20102 Problems with the 24 ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara PrabhuDaily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.20.11SB 11.20.11: One who is situated in his prescribed duty, free from sinful activities and cleansed of material contamination, in this very life obtains transcendental knowledge or, by fortune, devotional service unto Me. SB 11.20.11: Uno que se sitúa en su deber prescrito, se libera de actividades pecadoras y limpiado de la contaminación material, en esta misma vida obtiene conocimiento trascendental o, por fortuna, servicio piadoso a Mí. Srimad Bhagavatam 11.20.11 - The seed of pure bhakti, not mixed bhakti, is Srila Prabhupada's exceptional mercy upon us.10.2MB Posted by Tirthapada Dasa at 6/5/10; 5:26:42 PM to the Daily Class dept Daily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.20.11 ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Jaya Radha Madhava - Gangesvara PrabhuISKCON Melbourne, AU: Jaya Radha Madhava - Gangesvara PrabhuLength: 6:2023.6MB Posted by Tirthapada Dasa at 6/5/10; 5:21:48 PM to the Bhajana dept ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Jaya Radha Madhava - Gangesvara Prabhu Length: 6:20 H.H. Sivarama Swami“Society, friendship, and love, divinely bestowed upon man.” They say. (laughs) It is not divinely bestowed. It is not. It is entanglement. It is entanglement. - Srila Prabhupada Gouranga TV: Padmalochan Prabhu- – SB class (part 1), sloka 3-26-18Padmalochan - SB class (part 1), sloka 3-26-18SB 3.26.18: By exhibiting His potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead adjusts all these different elements, keeping Himself within as the Supersoul and without as time. SB 3.26.18: Exhibiendo sus potencias, la Suprema Personalidad de Dios ajusta todos estos diversos elementos, guardándose Él Mismo, dentro como la Superalma y fuera como el tiempo. Padmalochan - SB class (part 1), sloka 3-26-18 Subido por Mayapurvision el 23/04/2010 Padmalochan - Srimad Bhagavatam class (part 1), sloka 3-26-18 • • Related • • Namahatta.org: Devotee Care Seminars-Vijay Venugopal Dasa and Prema Padmini Devi Dasi We were invited to speak at the Bhakti Sangam retreat of Lokanath Swami Maharaja, at Chokhi Dhoni,near Pune. More Recent Articles
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