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Puspa Samadhi for Jayananda prabhuVishoka dasa: We're going to build a puspa samadhi for Jayananda prabhu, in Mayapura soon. Krsna Mangala prabhu is the main organizer of this project. We need some personal article of Jayananda, like a bead bag, or some item like clothing, or some personal effect, to use for the puspa samadhi, and we will purchase, or accept donation of such item. |
Due to technical dificulties we were unable to broadcast and record the Sunday Feast and Gaura Purnima festivities. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Dallas, TX
2010-02-28
SB 11.18.10: One who with long endeavor executes this painful but exalted penance, which awards ultimate liberation, simply to achieve insignificant sense gratification must be considered the greatest fool.
SB 11.18.10: Uno que con gran y continuado esfuerzo ejecuta esta dolorosa exaltada penitencia, que concede la última liberación, simplemente para alcanza la satisfacción insignificante de los sentidos se debe considerar el tonto más grande.
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.10 - The Srimad Bhagavtam is been called amala purana (pure ancient literature) since it has no influence of any of the modes of material nature.Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.10 - The Srimad Bhagavtam is been called amala purana (pure ancient literature) since it has no influence of any of the modes of material nature.
KulimeLA 2009: Bhajan Kutir – Volume 1 CD is now available at cdbaby and iTunes!
Heartfelt Kirtans lead by Kishori Mohan, Gaura Mani, Ananta Vrindavan, Vijay Krsna & Rasika Dasi. Click on the links above to hear previews of all the tracks and to purchase a copy today!
In ancient Sanskrit, Kirtan is the sacred, joyful, and spontaneous congregational singing and dancing for the glorification of the Divine. “Kuli” refers to a member of a “Community.” “Mela” means “Festive Gathering.” Combined, “Kuli Mela” tranforms into “A Celebration of Community.” These Kirtans were recorded live in the KulimeLA 2009 Bhajan Kutir at the New Dwarka Temple in Los Angeles California.
The Kuli Mela Association is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to serving an international community by supporting and encouraging its members to come together as friends in service, association and empowerment. All proceeds from the sale of this album go directly to Kuli Mela Association and help facilitate future gatherings and recordings. Please support KMA by purchasing this album!
I slept alright last night but woke up at 1:30. I was glad to begin the chanting early. But I fear I chanted on the surface even though I have completed fourteen rounds. Yesterday in the book Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava by Bhakti Vikasa Swami, we read about superficial chanting. There was a place that was supposed to be haunted by a brahmana but Bhaktivinoda Thakura was not afraid to stay there. People said that the place was haunted because the deceased brahmana was very potent since he always chanted Hare Krishna mantra. But when Bhaktivinoda Thakura stayed there, there was no haunting incident. He explained that although the man had always chanted, he had not actually chanted the Hare Krishna mantra in essence but had chanted only the syllables of the holy name. He was a sinful man and had not truly chanted the Hare Krishna mantra. Bhaktivinoda Thakura not only counteracted the chanting of the haunted place but delivered the deceased brahmana from his hellish position and liberated him by Bhaktivinoda Thakura's powerful chanting. I fear that today I may have chanted on the surface and that I do that sometimes. What does it mean to chant actually, to chant deeply, to chant the inner names and not the outer syllables? For a metaphor, I think of committed military outfits like The Green Berets or the U.S. marines. They don't do a superficial job, but they go in and fight crucially with all their might. You have to do it with your heart and soul. This morning's chanting was not at all sleepy and was rapid and on a certain level it was attentive. But it was definitely not deep. So I fear this concept of chanting the outer syllables of the holy names and not getting credit for chanting the actual Hare Krishna mantra. I don't want it to apply to me.
Chanting the outer form
only and not the actual
mantra—it is a fearsome
concept, and I fear it
very much. What if all my
japa is just going through
the motions? Your mind is
elsewhere, your intentions are
not fixed in prayer, you don't
cry out like a child for the
mother. All that time
wasted in superficial chanting.
Before my days are over I
must learn to actually chant
and not just mouth like a
parrot whose death squawk
will not be "Hare Krishna"
from the heart.
Here is Srila Prabhupada with his hands crossed on his lap, sitting on his vyasasana. Even though he was in his late seventies and eighties he was always limber enough to sit in the half-lotus position and didn't require a special old man's chair. In this picture he is wearing an almost reddish sweater over a turtleneck jersey. A simple wooden cane is draped over the arm of the chair. The chair resembles the first vyasasana he used in Bombay before the major temple was built. He used to sit in it in the outdoor makeshift temple and there received the first morning Prabhupada puja, vyasa-puja singing. He wears neatly applied tilaka and smears of sandalwood paste on his forehead. No books or karatalas are available yet but he is looking alertly at an audience of perhaps devotees singing kirtana. He looks regal and eager in this picture, wide awake and soon ready to deliver a lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam. His double garland of aromatic flowers sits neatly about his neck and under his hands on his lap. He is definitely the acarya ready and waiting as his disciples turn around and dance before him in ecstasy of chanting the holy name. The enemies of Krishna have definitely spotted him, but there is nothing they can do to stop him. He is fully protected by the Lord. "Tell it boldly Arjuna, My devotee will never be vanquished." No rowdy or terrorist ever attacked him as he sat in open view on his worshiped chair. He is relaxed and yet alert to what Krishna will have him do on this particular morning. He is a servant but he is fully in control of his audience and prepared to deliver them to the spiritual world. Every day he did this with very few exceptions.
In the second picture we see Srila Prabhupada wearing a turtleneck jersey like the ones he used to wear in his first year in New York City, and the setting of the scene looks like his apartment at 26 Second Avenue. To his right someone has placed a globe of the entire planet. It is spotted with pins, mostly within the United States. At this time Prabhupada did not have many centers open so it may have been a projection of what he hoped would take place in the future. At any rate, in a few years, Swamiji's ISKCON centers would be spotted all over the world. "I have many temples" he told an early New York acquaintance, "only time separates me from them." Prabhupada coughs into his hand, indicating a winter cold and hinting at the fact that he was really not physically fit for constant travel and management.
These two pictures show the ends of the spectrum of Krishna conscious bhajana on the holy names. One is very quiet and contemplative, the other is as wild as a rodeo. The first picture shows a man chanting japa alone in a thick grove of trees. He is wearing white devotional clothes and his bead bag rests on his knee. The trees look old, and they are whitewashed for about fifteen feet up their trunks or covered with lime, perhaps to prevent animals or bugs. The chanter is in a world of his own although in the far distant background, on the left, we can see another chanter, in saffron. One can hardly imagine a more tranquil scene of quietude for personal uttering of the holy names. It may be Vrndavana, although such woody areas are quickly diminishing there. To be all alone helps quiet the sounds in the mind and helps one to concentrate simply on the repeated syllables of the maha-mantra. We can imagine that he is clearly enunciating, breathing regularly and bringing his mind to thoughts away from distracting images. Sitting alone in the forest is not a place where one will be easily disrupted by distracting experience.
The other picture shows wild kirtana that has broken up into circles of running and jumping. There is a man behind the right man in the foreground, and he is holding on to the main man's shoulders and being pulled along. In front of them, the man with his heels in the air perhaps has his hands around the shoulders of a man in front of him. Why such ruckus? Did Prabhupada approve? Yes, His Divine Grace was present before some wild kirtana dancing like this and he said, "They are enthusiastic." But they should concentrate on the sound vibration even while doing this high stepping. Lord Caitanya set the standard for wild kirtanas by performing them in public and jumping high in the air and crying out the names of Haribol! and Hare Krishna!
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The Bhaktivedanta Archives have more than 500 unreleased recordings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. These recordings are not transcribed in the Vedabase or published in any other way. A large percentage of these unreleased original recordings are not even preserved in a digital, non-time sensitive format. If nothing is done soon the original reels will completely demagnetize due to the influence of time and the sound will become forever lost. Please take a moment to sign this petition to show that devotees worldwide indeed want to hear all of this audio, and want it all to be released immediately. Please pass this message on to others. Thank you.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnated Himself as Sri Rama, appearing as the son of His pure devotee Maharaja Dasharatha, the King of Ayodhya. Lord Rama descended along with His plenary portions, and all of them appeared as His younger brothers. In the month of Chaitra on the ninth day of the growing moon in the Treta-yuga, the Lord appeared, as usual, to establish the principles of religion and to annihilate the disturbing
elements.
Every year New Vrindaban celebrates Ramnavmi with great joy and pomp. On Ramnavmi, the functions at New Vrindaban begin with mangala-arati at 5:00 am, followed by Sringar-darshan (where the Lord is decorated with new exquisite dresses), sacred abhishek, elaborate noon arati, offering of sumptuous bhoga and magnificent boat festival in the evening.
This year's Ramnavmi festival falls on 24 March 2010. Please watch out this space in March for more details of Ramnavmi celebrations at New Vrindaban.
1966 March 1:
"Saw the India office for extention passport. Still hopeful. Received letter from Secretary of Indian Prime Minister. Disappointing. Received letter from Universal book not encouraging.
Butter & Bus fare etc.
Expenditure .50
Income .15"
Prabhupada Letters :: 1966
1968 March 1: "I have induced my younger son, Brindaban De, to supply anything Indian that is sellable here and he has agreed. I think he may get 10% commission for his labor, and he can supply everything you may require from India."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1968 March 1: "When I came to your country I wasn't very much in comfortable situation. Still I had the strength of mind, and I stayed. Similarly, you can stay always in India even in the most inconvenient condition. For a preacher there is no difficulty anywhere, irrespective of climate and conditions."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1968 March 1: "This Maya will attack the body always, because the body itself is the source of all troubles. We try to make a solution of our misfortunes, but at the same time we want to keep this body. If anyone wants real happiness, he has to get out of the entanglements of this material body."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1968 March 1: "Take that house and live there, all three together, chanting Hare Krsna, and try to remain in transcendental peace. You cannot live together so you are living scattered. If you would have lived together with mutual cooperation, there would have been no trouble."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1968 March 1: "Jayananda is purchasing a nice house in San Francisco. He has asked my approval. I think I shall send my approval with pleasure and we shall install Sri Sri Radha Krishna Vigraha there in a permanent place."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1972 March 1: "It is our most important branch because it is located near a large university. If we can convince the intelligent class of men our success for saving your country and the rest of the world from a very dangerous condition is assured."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972
1972 March 1: "Instruct them in the principles of brahminical life, namely, to be always pure or suci. One's actions are not pure until the body is pure. Through all kinds of cleanliness habits, eventually one can be purified completely, and thus qualify oneself to meet God face to face."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972
Vishoka dasa: We're going to build a puspa samadhi for Jayananda prabhu, in Mayapura soon. Krsna Mangala prabhu is the main organizer of this project. We need some personal article of Jayananda, like a bead bag, or some item like clothing, or some personal effect, to use for the puspa samadhi, and we will purchase, or accept donation of such item.
