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H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Friday 11 February 2011--The Attractor of the Attractor of Cupid--and--Bhagavad-gita at Start of Battle?A daily broadcast of the Ultimate Self Realization Course(tm) Friday 11 February 2011 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to rejoin them. Our Mission: To help everyone awaken their original Krishna consciousness, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. Such a global awakening will, in one stroke, solve all the problems of the world society bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and prosperity for all. May that day, which the world so desperately needs, come very soon. We request you to participate in this mission by reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and assisting us in spreading this science all over the world. Dedicated with love to ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and to you, our dear readers. Today's Thought: The Attractor of the Attractor of Cupid Uploaded from Bhaktivedanta Ashram--Austin, Texas USA In this material world everyone is under the sway of Cupid or Madana. Even the powerful Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, his heart pierced by the arrows of Cupid, became controlled by the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Although Cupid is so powerful that he captivates everyone, he is captivated by the beauty of Krishna. Therefore Krishna is called, Madana-mohana, the attractor of Cupid. And even though Krishna is so attractive that he attracts the attractor of everyone, He is attracted by Srimati Radharani, who is therefore known as Madan-mohana-mohini, the attractor of the attractor of Cupid. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Krishna, the Amazing Madana Mohana http://www.backtohome.com/images/Kind_Krishna.jpg Answers According to the Vedic Version: Question: Bhagavad-gita at Start of Battle? In the first chapter of the Bhagavad-gita it says that the conch shells were blown by the warriors on both sides. When the conch shell is blown the war begins the very next moment. The attendance was four million soldiers (1.6 million Pandavas and 2.4 million Kauravas). Where was there so much time for the Bhagavad-gita to be spoken as the war was already on? Would four million people wait for two person's hour long conversation and then begin the war? Your servant, Dhaval Answer: Vedic Warriors Were Civilized You mention four million soldiers, but Srila Prabhupada has informed us that according to the Mahabharata 640 million men were killed during the eighteen days of the Battle of Kurukshetra. After the conch shells blew from both sides the battle was officially signaled to start. But it was put on hold when Arjuna dropped his bow and arrows and refused to fight. In Vedic warfare a soldier never attacks an enemy who has put down his weapons. The Vedic culture was indeed so civilized that millions of warriors would delay the battle until Krishna finished explaining the Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna. This is real civilization, not like the barbaric modern day warriors who will attack an enemy while he is sleeping or will kill innocent civilians. The Vedic age was so civilized that after attempting to kill each other on the battlefield the enemy soldiers would get together in the evening and socialize as friends. So it is not at all astonishing that they would respectfully hold off the fighting until Krishna finished speaking the Bhagavad-gita. 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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – SB 4.31.2 Eternally In The Back Of The LineSB 04.31.02 Eternally In The Back Of The Line 2008-12-16 Lecture – Srimad Bhagavatam 4.31.2 Eternally In The Back Of The Line 2008-12-16 Los Angeles • Email to a friend • •H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – SB 4.30.50-51–31.1 Insignificant Religious SexSB 04.30.50-51–31.1 Insignificant Religious Sex 2008-12-12 Lecture – Srimad Bhagavatam 4.30.50-51–31.1 Insignificant Religious Sex 2008-12-12 Los Angeles • Email to a friend • •H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – SB 4.30.43 The Art Of The Mood Of SeparationSB 04.30.43 The Art Of The Mood Of Separation 2008-12-03 Lecture – Srimad Bhagavatam 4.30.43 The Art Of The Mood Of Separation 2008-12-03 Los Angeles • Email to a friend • •H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – SB 4.30.41 From Ruci To Maha-BhavaSB 04.30.41 From Ruci To Maha-Bhava 2008-12-01 Lecture – Srimad Bhagavatam 4.30.41 From Ruci To Maha-Bhava 2008-12-01 Los Angeles • Email to a friend • •ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Nityananda Trayodasi Harinama
• Email to a friend • •H.H. Sivarama SwamiO Lord Nityananda! When will I receive Your mercy so that I can take shelter of Your lotus feet and give up my insolence and false pride? - Srila Jagadananda Pandit  • Email to a friend • •ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darsana
• Email to a friend • •Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Pump Be PumpingIt was 18 degrees (8 C) this morning at 11 am but the sun was bright and powerful causing the pump on my solar water heater to be doing its thing. Free hot water today. Our normal high for today is 40 degrees (5 C) but we won’t be seeing a temperature above freezing until Saturday. Since the start of December we have had consistently colder than average weather. We have had some snow but mostly it has been pretty calm. We see reports of huge storms but they have been going north or south of us. It is actually going to be a dry winter if this keeps up, though we have had snow cover almost continuously. A normal winter we get some snow then it melts, then we get some more. Even in January the January Thaw is normal, though this was the first year I can remember that we didn’t get one. Actually, we never have normal weather — every year is different and rarely follows “average”. Averages are calculated over decades and hold pretty true but any individual year invariably varies from it. Last fall for instance, we didn’t get a killing frost until the end of October with the average first frost being Oct 7th. Which was fine for all the greens and late stuff in the garden like Brussels sprouts but didn’t really help the tomatoes because once temperatures start going below 50 degrees (10 C) the compounds, one of which is called (Z)-3-dexenal, that give tomatoes their flavor degrade and they start tasting like store bought tomatoes. And it does get cool in October, even if it doesn’t frost. I like to plant rye on the beds after cleaning them up but until the tomato plants frost they are still full of moisture and hard to deal with. Once they frost they dry down and become brittle so it is easier to get them out of the cages I use for support and not so heavy to carry. By the time I got the cages cleared off and the beds rototilled so I could plant the rye, it was well into November which usually is fine but then December came in cold and hard, the 11th coldest on record, and with snow cover so I don’t know how well established the rye got, it seemed like it was just sprouting out of the ground so I don’t know how much biomass it will accumulate in those beds. Most of the beds I got in a little earlier and they look lush and green. I spread compost and then plant the rye so fertilizing is out of the way for the spring. I till the rye in and that gives a lot of organic matter for the biotic life in the beds to chew on. As the saying goes, “Decaying organic matter is the engine that drives soil fertility. I just got my seed order from Berlin Seeds, an Amish business nearby in Ohio. I got some buckwheat to use for green manure on empty beds for the summer and for next fall I got some of what they call N Vest Ground Breaker Plus, which is a mixture of Austrian winter peas, a deep tap rooted radish, and some forage turnips. These are all things that will do well late into the fall, with the peas accumulating nitrogen from the air. They winter kill but leave a lot of organic matter on the soil for cover and when the radishes decay the roots leave deep channels in the soil, ergo the “Groundbreaker” part of its name. Or so they say. Sounds good in theory so will be interesting to see how it goes and the effect it will have on the 2012 garden. Filed under: Cows and Environment         • Email to a friend • •Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Cheat them, they'll like it...this Kali-yuga is so abominable that if you speak truth, then people will come with some rod to beat you. But if you cheat them, bluff them. they'll be bewildered (?), they'll like it. If I say I'm God, people will say, "Oh, here is Swamiji, God." They won't inquire, that "How you have become God? What is the symptom of God? Have you got all the symptoms?" Nobody inquires. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gétä 6.25-29 -- Los Angeles, February 18, 1969 • Email to a friend • •Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: my scheduleI am now in Gujarat 6 Mar to Mumbai 7 evening to Kolkata 8 to Bangladesh 14th morning to Kolkata, evening to Mayapur 18 Mar Fri to Kolkata 19 Mar Sa Gaura Purnima 21 Mar Mon to Mayapur 26 Mar to Hyderabad; in that area at least until 12 Apr Tu Rama Navami 28 Apr to 1 May Guruvayur yatra • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1966 February 10:  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1967 February 10: "Accept Krishna as your husband and He will never cheat you. He is competent to maintain any number of wives with full comforts because He is Omnipotent. So remain busy in the service of your Husband and you will be happy in this life as well as in the next."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 February 10: "Now everyone has heard how strenuously you induced George Harrison to contribute for our Krsna Book. Your attitude of humbleness and meekness in the service of Krishna Consciousness is the only qualification which can lead us to upper grade of Krishna Consciousness."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 February 10: "Each GBC man can act as my secretary for one month at a time as I originally planned. In this way you will all be trained up so you can manage things so nicely so that I may spend my time solely for translating my books. This I desire."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 February 10: "If anyone strictly follows the regulative principles of Krishna Consciousness then he will always remain enthusiastic and dynamic. So if there are any defects within our Society it is only symptom that the instructions of the Spiritual Master are being neglected."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 February 10: "Those who come to learn must admit they do not know who they are or who is God and then after admitting these things they must be willing to take to the process and follow the principles. Then they can obtain spiritual knowledge."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 February 10: "As I have suggested previously as they do in Christian religion they have so many convents where the women stay and they receive protection. The point is that the women must be protected and it is the duties of the leaders of our society to see that this is carried out."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 February 10: "I want that Mayapur be self-sufficient by having its own production of grains, vegetables, fruits and milk products etc., to the extent that you will be able to feed at least 500 men daily. This will be better than trying to arrange for maintenance funds to come from outside."  • Email to a friend • •David Haslam, UK: Mother Urmila’s books stimulates interest in KrishnaSo here are the first pictures from the schools here in Wales that were the first to receive Mother Urmila’s books, it’s stimulated much interest in the children who wish to here more about Krishna; so arrangement’s are being made for some visits in the next few months. Heres just a few pictures and comments: [...] • Email to a friend • •H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3, Chapter 19, Text 32FOLLOWING IS A LECTURE ON THE SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM CANTO 3, CHAPTER 19, TEXT 32 GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CARU SWAM IN ISKCON UJJAIN, INDIA, ON 30 January 2010 Transcription : Her Grace Archana Dasi Editing : Her Grace Hemavati Dasi Audio-version : http://audio.iskcondesiretree.info/index.php?q=f&f=%2F02_-_ISKCON_Swamis%2FHis_Holiness_Bhakti_Caru_Swami%2FSrimad_Bhagavatam Om namo bhagavate Vasudevaya Om namo bhagavate Vasudevaya Om namo bhagavate [...] • Email to a friend • •ISKCON Brampton, Canada: Sri Advaita Acarya Appearance Day - February 10, 2011Today is the auspicious day of the appearance of Sri Advaita Acarya and we have the celebrations tomorrow at ISKCON BRAMPTON...come join us for the glorification of Sri Advaita Acarya with kirtan...discourse and prasadam.
With the intense eagerness he continually worships the Shalagram of Sri Krsna with Tulasi manjaris and Ganges water. By the momentum of his spiritual force, his loud shouts pierce the coverings of this universe and, resounding throughout Vaikuntha, reach the ears of Sri Krsna.  • Email to a friend • •Dandavats.com: Poem for Bhadra Priya Prabhu by HH Bhaktimarga SwamiBhaktimarga Swami: Dear Vaisnav, you are leaving us today To take part in a much greater play Fleeing from this world, a mix of sweet and sour To ascend to the realm of the Higher Power. It's hard for those who knew you well. It's not for us to say or for us to tell. We can't be greedy demanding your presence We take from you and capture the essence |
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ISKCON Brampton, Canada: Sri Advaita Acarya Appearance Day - February 10, 2011
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