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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara prabhuSrimad Bhagavatam 11.21.19 - A person will inevitably be victimised by lust if they do not fix their mind upon the Supreme Lord, even though they may follow religious principles. Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Lecture - Braja Bihari das - Seminar - Finding Peace in Turbulent Times
While visiting Dallas, Braja Bihari das gave a seminar on "Finding Peace in Turbulent Times" - how to deal with difficulties that arise in the material world. Dallas, TX Download: 2010-04-19 - Braja Bihari das - Seminar - Finding Peace in Turbulent Times.mp3 Japa Group: Controlling The Mind?
What is the use of controlling the mind? You have to chant and hear, that's all. You have to chant with your tongue, and the sound you hear, that's all. What is the question of mind? Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk 3/2/75 From the Art Of Chanting Hare Krsna by Mahanidhi Swami  Dandavats.com: Street Chanting in relation to Book distribution and in IndiaBy Bhakta Nimesh Please see below two letters. One from Prabhupada's secretary, authorised by Prabhupada. It seems to address the topic of street chanting in India, as well as the comparative importance of street chanting and book distribution. The second letter is from Prabhupada himself to Ramesvara again regarding street chanting and book distribution Dandavats.com: 24-Hour Kirtan &WV Day in New Vrindabannvcommunications: On June 19, New Vrindaban will host a 24-hour kirtan, and will offer discounted admission to Prabhupada's Palace of Gold for participants of West Virginia Day Dandavats.com: Budapest Templebh. Tibor: Please look at our Budapest Temple and be the community's member! Sends your friends ourinvitation! - Budapest - Hungary Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: what expert and intelligent people doPersons who are very expert and most intelligent in understanding things as they are engage in hearing narrations of the auspicious activities and pastimes of the Lord, which are worth chanting and worth hearing. Such persons do not care even for the highest material benediction, namely liberation, to say nothing of other less important benedictions like the material happiness of the heavenly kingdom. SB 3.15.48 text Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Hare Krishna Dasi---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Letter PAMHO:19793712 (12 lines) From: Basu Ghosh (das) ACBSP (Baroda - IN) Date: 11-Jun-10 01:56 -0400 (11:26 +0530) To: Bhakti Vikasa Swami [141444] Subject: Hare Krishna Dasi ------------------------------------------------------------ Yamunanath Das, the Russian devotee who is married to Hare Krishna Dasi's grand-daughter telephoned me just now. Hare Krishna Dasi left to Moscow yesterday and reached there. However, apparently while on the way home in the train she passed away. This is all I know. Yamunanath's mobile number is:98704-00505. He asked me to pass on this message to you. He lamented that he desired that she leave her body at Vrindavan, but fate had it otherwise... (Text PAMHO:19793712) -------------------------------------- ------- End of Forwarded Message ------ Kurma dasa, AU: TinTin, World Cup and Cherry Pie
My son went to visit a school friend on Friday night to watch the opening ceremonies of the Soccer World Cup beamed live from South Africa. As I was falling asleep, my mind conjured a strange flow of consciousness. Thoughts of Africa led to memories of a childhood friend called Richard. When I was about seven, and attending Whitebridge Primary School in Essex, I used to frequent his old, rambling mansion in Palmerston Road. My friend had grown up in Rhodesia, and I recall gazing with awe at his Swahili editions of TinTin. But most of all I remember being invited to dinner and tasting the warm, sticky, fragrant cherry pie that their live-in maid used to bake. I can still remember the mouth-feel and taste-explosion of slightly crumbly, sugar-glazed lattice-pastry atop plump, sweet cherries, bathed in a puddle of fresh English cream. These memories are recorded on endless-loop, though we are talking circa 1959. Does it surprise you that most of my earliest memories are food-related? I didn't think so. But hold on; don't get your hopes up. There's only a couple of lines left of this posting, so you can see that I'm not about to share a recipe. I actually don't have one. And that's the gist of this blog. Does anyone have a tested and true recipe for cherry pie? If you do, I'd be most appreciative. Oh, and I guess all you salivating readers would be too. H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Two Guys and Spencer  H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010The Dandy Dhoti  H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Monday, June 7th, 2010Monday Usual  H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Sunday, June 6th, 2010At the End of the Trail  Hanuman das, Croatia: Why my preaching don't have effect?The true guru constantly serves Hari. How can those busy with maintenance of their wives and children, who give full vent to their desire for enjoyments arising out of illusion, who try to employ Bhagavan, the highest entity to be adored and served, for supplying them fuel for the fire thereof, act as jagad-gurus or true instructors of people? Such non-dedicated persons cannot advise others to surrender to Bhagavan. Even if they speak bona fide instructions, such preaching bereft of practical examples in their own conduct is ineffectual. (BSV II, pg 86)  H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '465' from The Yellow Submarine4:01 A.M.I slept peacefully with no headache and woke around 2:15 A.M. I chanted eight rounds so far, but rather slowly and mechanically. We read in the Second Canto yesterday that the chanting of just one mantra offenselessly can bring you perfection. In Caitanya-caritamrta, Satyaraja Khan asked Lord Caitanya for the definition of a Vaishnava. The Lord said a Vaishnava is one who chants Hare Krishna regularly. Jiva Gosvami is quoted as saying of all the nine principles of devotional service, kirtana must be emphasized. Before arcana and before vandanam, and after those principles, must be kirtana. Prabhupada said the International Society for Krishna Consciousness follows this process. And he wrote the whole mantra in his purport. So there is no escaping the importance of the Hare Krishna mantra. But it must be done without offense. I think I still must be chanting with traces of offenses in my lackadaisical mechanical way. It's hard to start off the day on the highest level, but you gradually work your way there. The mind is sluggish and needs to wake up to the importance of paying attention to the mantra. You have to give your whole heart there and make an effort. I pray to do better and depend on writing to help me also. It is a long road to perfection, and sometimes one cannot see the end. We chant as best we can and depend on Krishna's mercy to make up the balance. If He likes, He can credit us for better chanting or empower us to perform stronger. On our side we have to be aware and strive. You row in your H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Prabhupada Reading Newspaper' from The Yellow SubmarinePrabhupada Smaranam
He is on a street in New Delhi, on his morning walk, reading the newspaper and surrounded by Syamasundara, Madri Devi Dasi and Gurudasa. It's during the Indian-Pakistani war, and Prabhupada is reading the latest headlines. He used to write frequently of current events when he was publishing his Back To Godhead magazine in the 1940s and 1950s. He began publishing near the end of World War II. He quoted the Archbishop of Canterbury as saying, "They want the kingdom of God without God." He wrote his "peace formula" based on the Isopanishad verse that, "Everything belongs to God and is owned by Him. People should take only their quota, knowing well to whom everything belongs (Isopanishad 1)." He quoted the last verse in Chapter Five of the Bhagavad-gita (5.29), that peace will come to the one who recognizes the Supreme Lord as the proprietor, the object of all sacrifices, and the well-wisher of all living entities. He did not have faith in the League of Nations or the United Nations to bring about world peace because they come to meet with their same nationalistic concepts without recognizing that God is the center of existence and the proprietor. People of various nations should meet with a basic agreement on this point, or the United Nations will simply be an institution where new flags are constantly added, but God is forgotten. In a purport to the First Canto Prabhupada noticed that as he was preparing his writing, China was invading the border of India in a militaristic spirit. He said that for many years the two bordering countries had lived in peace, but now, for a lack of God-fearing mentality, they were going to war over an unimportant strip of uninhabitable land that was no use to either nation. During the 1970's when the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States was escalating, Prabhupada's disciples pressed him for a prediction whether there would be a third war and when. Prabhupada said the preaching of the sankirtana movement will be influential as to whether Krishna allowed a third world war. In general, Prabhupada avoided political commentary but said that the horrific bad karma that was accruing would have to react in wars unless it could be offset by people taking to the sankirtana movement. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Getting to Know Krishna' from The Yellow SubmarineKrishna is beyond our
There are saints in this world
I do not know the Lord
In my mind's eye, I see
I can enter in lila
This is all a real meaning.
Think of the individual person
But if I work in His sankirtana H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Changes To The Attitude' from The Yellow SubmarineFree write
These trolley tracks look like a recipe for disaster. By human error the tracks could easily be mixed up, causing the trolleys to crash. This situation is the simplest technology, with not much expensive precaution to prevent an accident. But even the billion dollar-plus Challenger space shuttle was mishandled by human error and exploded in space two minutes after it took off, killing all the passengers. The Hindenburg dirigible disaster was never supposed to have happened. It was the safest air travel of its time. And every year great, commercial jets crash, leaving no survivors. There is no way to prevent mechanically-caused or human error-caused accidents that cost many human lives. The forces of nature in the form of earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc., claim innumerable lives, and there is no way to prevent Mother Nature from wreacking havoc. We live in a world where there is danger at every step. The Vedic literatures admit that life is like an ocean of nescience, very difficult to cross. But the sastra say there is a way to shrink up the ocean of material miseries so that it is no more than the impression made in the mud by a calf's hoof. The remedy is the practice of Krishna consciousness, devotional service to the Supreme Being. Devotional service will rid an individual of his or her karma, developing love of God, which liberates one from having to return to the dangerous material life at the time of death. The pure devotee doesn't transmigrate to another body in the places of misery but liberates himself so he can go back home, back to the spiritual world, where life is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. In the spiritual world there are no mishaps, crashes or natural disasters. The material world is designed for disaster, because the souls who come here have an attitude of wanting to control nature. Rather than serve God, which is their natural propensity, they try to control God or become gods themselves. When the tiny living entity changes his attitude from servant of the Supreme and feigns to be the controller, he has to suffer in his false position. If all material machinery was used in the service of God rather than maya, the world would be much safer. During the reign of Maharaja Yudhisthira nature cooperated with humanity, and there was no drought but abundant rainfall. When man works in cooperation with God, he doesn't concoct dangerous schemes which bring about unnecessary deaths. This is the policy of living simply and thinking highly. There are no oil spill disasters or unnecessary space probes and emphasis on speed in travel. Life is peaceful and more God conscious. Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: “Fireflies in the Garden” by Robert FrostHere come real stars to fill the upper skies, Filed under: Poetry       The Loft, Auckland, NZ: Shabda - Kirtan MusicThe Loft invites you to a great evening of soothing music to unwind, de-stress and uplift the spirit. Shabda are here in Auckland to introduce a wonderful blend of eastern and western styles of music, incorporating sacred mantras you can hear or sing along to, that naturally uplift the spirit and bring joy to the heart. The amazing lighting and atmosphere is enough to chill you out completely and forget your worries. Don’t miss this new wave of kirtan music sweeping the globe! Opening night Saturday 19th June at 7pm
H.H. Sivarama Swami: How will we translate Srila Prabhupada’s books in the centuries to come when the meanings of words completely change?
Mayapur Online: Lord Nrsimhadeva's darshan with nails &a story by Lakshman Das.
Sri Jayadeva Goswami glorifies in Gita Govindam, "tava kara kamala vare nakam adbhuta srngam"- nails of Sri Nrsimhadeva as most beautiful in His lotus hands. For the last three days in Mayapur, our dear Lord Narahari gave darshan with beautiful long nails. Lord Nrsimhadeva's mercy even on non-devotees. Lakshman das Gouranga TV: Aindra Hare Krishna Kirtan – Vrindavan – 1-11-2009 Part 4/6Aindra Hare Krishna Kirtan – Vrindavan – 1-11-2009 Part 4/6 More Recent Articles |
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