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Bharatavarsa.net: Book distribution seminar: Preacher gets the mercy of the book distributorsBook distribution in Malawi, Africa by Murari and Rama Gaura We arrived a week back and have started going out on book distribution in the shops and outside colleges. Its quite different compared to other places I have been and so we are happy even when 1 book goes out. In one shop, (an ISUZU motorcar display showroom) I entered and went into the 'spare parts' manager's office. He was African bodied and looked quite the intellectual type. He showed a lot of interest and was excited when I explained the philosophy to him in brief and ulimately added up the price of all the books (laws of nature, life comes from life, civ and transc and SSR) and took all of them. He then said that he didn't have enough money but wanted the Gita next time. Apparently he knew something about it from before, he said he heard it was very good. When I asked for his card I saw he was a pastor. His name was Pastor Chewanga. He preaches Christianity. He says he likes to read a lot and heard about the Bhagavad Gita and had wanted to try and get one. Book Distribution News: Preacher gets the mercy of the book distributorsBook distribution in Malawi, Africa by Murari and Rama Gaura We arrived a week back and have started going out on book distribution in the shops and outside colleges. Its quite different compared to other places I have been and so we are happy even when 1 book goes out. In one shop, (an ISUZU motorcar display showroom) I entered and went into the 'spare parts' manager's office. He was African bodied and looked quite the intellectual type. He showed a lot of interest and was excited when I explained the philosophy to him in brief and ulimately added up the price of all the books (laws of nature, life comes from life, civ and transc and SSR) and took all of them. He then said that he didn't have enough money but wanted the Gita next time. Apparently he knew something about it from before, he said he heard it was very good. When I asked for his card I saw he was a pastor. His name was Pastor Chewanga. He preaches Christianity. He says he likes to read a lot and heard about the Bhagavad Gita and had wanted to try and get one.
ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Svarupa-sakti MatajiSrimad Bhagavatam 11.20.23 Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: all perfection in an eleventh of a second(Cc Madhya 22.54 states "The verdict of all revealed scriptures is that by even a moment's association [one eleventh of a second] with a pure devotee, one can attain all success.") Pancadravida: How does that work, that if somebody has the association of a pure devotee for only a lava, one-eleventh of a second, that he attains all perfection? Prabhupada: If he is so sincere.... Just like dried wood immediately ignites. And if it is moist, it does not. It is the quality of the wood. One takes three hundred years; one in three minutes. That's it. [break] One is dry from the material moist of contamination, he becomes immediately ignited in spiritual... Tamala Krsna: What is that drying process? Prabhupada: Drying process is for many, many years one has tried to become Krsna conscious, for many, many lives, bahunam janmanam ante [Bg. 7.19]. When he actually becomes man of knowledge he surrenders unto God. Otherwise he is lost. His drying process may take three minute or three millions years. Guru-krpa: But that knowledge that Krsna is everything comes by Krsna's mercy, Srila Prabhupada? Prabhupada: Krsna's mercy is already there, but if you are not able to take it... Pancadravida: Then you don't even have to hear from a self-realized soul. Simply by seeing him you can become completely purified. Prabhupada: Yes. Both required. The matches must be also all right, and the wood must be also. Then there is fire. If one of them is defective, then, it will not.... But when you go to the fire, you become dry. But willfully we put again water. This nonsense business makes us late. This process is already there, how to become dry. But instead of taking the process, we put water. Then how it will be ignited? The rules and regulations is the drying process. But without following the rules and regulation, if you again become a victimized by maya, then there is water and again dry it. So this is going on, watering and drying, watering and drying. No staightforward process for drying. That will help. But difficulty is that we dry and again water. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- March 11, 1976, Mayapur David Haslam, UK: Interesting fortnight, now the hard work startsIt’s been an interesting few weeks, the accumulation was an e-mail received out of the blue that is not only life changing but also means that I have a life time of work ahead of me, but I will come to that. I have been looking closely at my japa, and how to improve it not [...] ISKCON News.com: The Quest to Sort Out Competing and Comparable Religions
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Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 12: "Now you have agreed to pay him $4,000 per month, that was a great mistake. Now you have to rectify by arrangement and agreement. I am simply surprised how all you GBC agreed to pay him $4,000 per month. So the mistake has been made, now it has to be corrected by other ways."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1966 May 12: "Astami. Today I enquired about registration of the League of Devotees. It is understood the expenditure will be about $300 including Lawyer's $200. Deposited in the Bank book a/c 10.00, Bus fare etc. .75, total exp: $16.75"  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 may 12: "I may ask you to go to some other part of the world. Will you have any objection? Practically, this organization is here because I have been always traveling. I never sat down in my old age. So you follow my example and preach widely all over the world, that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's version."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 May 12: "I want that all of my GBC secretaries do my work, always traveling here and there, seeing how things are going on in the centers and how the students are making spiritual progress. That is our real concern - the spiritual progress of life. That is duty of GBC."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1974 May 12: "Hong Kong is an important center and if the Chinese are approached intelligently they will become strong devotees. Now I know you are experienced manager but sometimes you have left. So you are now enthusiastic to stay and manage. So do not leave anymore and stay, then it is alright."  Srila Prabhupada's Letters1975 May 12: "If we accept the teachings of Bhagavad-gita As It Is without unnecessary commentary, then our spiritual movement will be successful. But, if we manufacture something of our own concoction - it will never be successful."  ISKCON News.com: Shroud of Turin is Real Enough
Srila Prabhupada's Letters1975 May 12: "I wish to develop a Janmastami Park near the Buddha Jayanti Park and construct a grand Krishna Balarama temple and keep many cows and invite all the residents of New Delhi to observe a grand festival on Janmastami day. That is my ambition."  ISKCON News.com: 'Long-Term Harm' of Too Much TV for Toddlers
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Japa Group: Bhurijana dasa - Japa RetreatIn this final installment of Bhurijana dasa's Japa Retreat, the topic of "The most essential keys to perfect our japa" is discussed.  H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '434' from The Yellow Submarine3:54 A.M.Same routine. I got up from bed at 2 A.M., and I've chanted rapidly. I raced with the clock. I have finished all of sixteen rounds. Finishing the quota so early is good, although I had to do it by a mechanical japa that was not deeply meditative. I regret I didn't do it more prayerfully, but I'm grateful that I had no pain and paid attention to the syllables of the maha-mantra. I have trust in the power of Nama Prabhu even when it is not chanted to perfection. It would be good if you could chant some more today to make up for the rapid mechanical japa with the first sixteen. I feel satisfied that I have finished the quota at an early hour. You finished your rounds read more from SDGonline - daily updates from The Yellow Submarine: My Bhajana Kutir journal H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'In Boston, July 1971' from The Yellow SubmarinePrabhupada SmaranamA favorite picture, I show it again. It's Prabhupada installing Radha Krishna (now called Radha Gopivallabha) in Boston in July of 1971. That's a long time ago. I was still dressed in white. The installation ceremony was simpler than was done in later years. Prabhupada supervised it and told exactly what paraphernalia to use, so it is a bona fide installation even though lacking some of the ingredients and procedures used nowadays. Only two people conducted the yajna. Prabhupada reads from the Gaudiya Matha edition of the Brahma-samhita, the Sanskrit prayers of Lord Brahma. He has come to Boston for a few days in the midst of worldwide quick-stop travels. Despite the simplicity, the ceremony is clean and neat and the Deities are very beautiful. The temple room is effulgent in late morning sunlight. Prabhupada has personally selected the deities in India, identical to Radha Madhava in Mayapur. I pour milk and yogurt on the Deities. The temple is filled with devotees, approximately twenty of whom will be initiated by Prabhupada on a next day. Boston is no longer a big, important temple with ISKCON Press having moved to Brooklyn, but Prabhupada has kindly come to the city at my repeated requests. He has recently been to Moscow and Paris and he will next go to Brooklyn. He is most affectionate and caring to have stopped to perform this installation, and he impresses us with the importance of Deity worship, that he personally took the trouble of coming and that he allowed me to assist him as priest. H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'The Songs of a Hare Krishna Man (Take Two)' from The Yellow SubmarineSongs of a Hare Krishna Man is You can still do it. For Prabhupada In Songs I say "Let us Everyday I pick a picture for my free write. I don't In Songs Jack Kerouac's You wrote Songs in Ireland "You mean you stay all alone H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Nature of a Trap' from The Yellow SubmarineFree writeNature has set the trap and the big fly is caught in the pearly spider's nest. The spider is not seen in the picture, but he can enter whenever he likes and devour the fly. One living entity is food for the next. Nature is cruel. Krishna is not cruel, but He has set up strict laws. The living entities bring on the suffering to themselves by breaking the laws of nature. By committing sinful activities repeatedly, a spirit soul may fall down in the species of life and become a fly or spider or cat or dog or human or demigod. All these forms suffer the defect of dukhalayam-asasvatam, living in the miserable, temporary world in a body that suffers birth, death, disease and old age. It is no joke or fairy tale. The fly was enjoying itself, buzzing around eating little bugs and bothering human beings by landing on their bare skin and somehow liking that. But now he has made a mistake. Spiders deliberately weave big patterns of gossamer webs covering large areas of space. Flies and other insects get themselves stuck in this sticky substance and are paralyzed and cannot get out. Although a human being can break a spider web, an insect cannot. How severe and baffling are the punishing laws of nature. The lower species can do nothing but patiently suffer through their doomed lives until they slowly, gradually develop again to the human species. Then comes the chance to get out of the webs. But it is rare to get free. The sastras state that a living being wanders through the species of life but by the grace of guru and Krishna he can find a spiritual master and get the guidance of Krishna for freeing oneself from the material cycle of birth and death. The chance is rare, and a soul is greatly fortunate if and when he meets with the guru and gets Krishna's guidance. H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Seminar Art of Dying – The Way to ImmortalityThe Following lectures were given by H.H. Bhakti Caru Swami on Art of Dying - The Way to Immortalitynbsp; on April 10th #38; 11th , 2010 at ISKCON Ujjain. Akrura das, Gita Coaching: SEXAn important word in this verse is urdhva-retasah, which means brahmacaris who have never discharged semen.  H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.29-30The following lecture was given by H.H. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaja on April 12th, 2010, in Ujjain. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3: The Status Quondash; Chapter 21: Conversation Between Manu and Kardamandash; Text 29-30 H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.28The following lecture was given by H.H. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaja on April 09th, 2010, in Ujjain. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3: The Status Quondash; Chapter 21: Conversation Between Manu and Kardamandash; Text 28 Kirtan Australia.com: Canberra Maha Kirtan 1 MP3'sCanberra Maha Kirtan Mp3’s (Bitrate: 160kbps)
Speeches from Canberra Maha Kirtan 1 H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.14The following lecture was given by H.H. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaja on March 23rd, 2010. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam canto 7: The Science of God ndash; Chapter 15: Instructions for Civilized Human Beings ndash; Text 14 Gauranga Kishore das,USA: Nrsimhadeva Dreaming New Vrindavan was lots and lots of fun, it was great to see so many of our old friends, it was especially nice to see the old New Vrindavan brahmacari ashram gang,  all the residents of New Vrindavan, the columbus devotees, it was really nice doing service for the Festival of Inspiration and Malati Prabhu, spending time with the cows, seeing Radhanath Swami and spending some really nice time with Vaisesika Prabhu and Nirkula Prabhu. Despite some bad weather and the electricity going out in the middle of the festival it was a wonderful time, although a little smaller than previous years. But it wasn't all fun and games, we also had a mission, to bring back my Lord Nrisimhadev deity that I had left under the care of one of the devotees there. Somehow, almost as if He had a will of his own, He switched hands quite a number of times but now He is back by His own sweet will. While in New Vrindavan we heard some amazing stories about the Nrsimhadev deities there. Nitya Mukta who is the head punjari in New Vrindavan and a very dedicated servant of Lord Nrsimhadev has been having some amazing darshans with the Lord. One day she was sick so she was sleeping in her room when she had a dream where Lord Nrsimhadev came to her and told her that the pujari had switch his garland with Gopal Nathaji's garland, and that the garland was too small and it was choking him. She immediately got up and got ready and went down to the pujari room and noticed that indeed the garlands had been switched. To the astonishment of the brahmacari responsible she asked him "Why did you switch the garlands?" He couldn't believe it, no one had even seen what he had done at this point because the curtains hadn't been opened. My Lord Nrsimhadev also appeared to her in several dreams. She found him in the pujari room a while back and emailed me to ask if she could worship Him. I said that she could as long as she understood that I was going to come and get him whenever I could. Sometime later I found out that she was no longer worshiping him, because I got an email from someone else saying that she had found him somewhere else in the ladies ashram. I was a bit surprised but didn't say anything. When we got to New Vrindavan I heard the story that Nitya Mukta had been worshipping Him but that He kept appearing in her dreams telling her to offer Him more elaborate service. Eventually she felt that she couldn't worship Him properly so she put Him away. She ended up switching rooms and in the process he got lost, someone else found Him, and also left Him, and eventually Kyra found Him. She took Him but didn't quite know what to do with Him. She didn't start worshipping Him because she didn't want anyone to know that she had Him, and she didn't even know who He belonged to. Eventually He appeared to Nitya Mukta in a dream and said "Kyra has me but she is keeping Me in my box, I want to come out." Nitya Mukta approached Kyra about it and told her about the dream. She was initially quite shocked but also happy that the Lord knew her name and wanted her to worship Him. She emailed me and let me know she had him and that she wanted to start worshiping him, although she didn't tell me about the dream at this time. Getting Lord Nrisimhadeva back was a big part of why we went to the festival, although after hearing all those amazing stories I was feeling a little inadequate in my worship but nevertheless I felt that I needed to have him back. Lacie and I spent a good portion of yesterday making a new outfit and jewelry for Him. Here He is on our makeshift altar.  And here is a close up, isn't he beautiful.  It is really nice to have Him back, he is an old friend, we've been together since I was about five. Kyra said that she had a dream that my son was decorating Him. Given his recent track record of dream appearances I have pretty good reason to hope this will come true. Just as a little side note, I've often heard that it is an offense for grhastas to worship Ugra Nrsimha, personally that never made sense to me and I've never seen any scriptural reference for it so I just assumed it was a superstition, but Lacie was a little worried so she asked Vaisesika Prabhu about it and he said that is a karma kandic mentality and is not out mood as followers of Lord Caitanya who aspire for pure devotional service. Since we've been back I've been doing some simple puja for Him and chanting Prahlad Maharaj's prayers from the Bhagavatam which is something I used to do but haven't done for a while, it has been really nice serving Him. Everyone please give your blessing that we can continue to serve Him properly.  H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.15The following lecture was given by H.H. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaja on March 26th, 2010, in Ujjain. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3: The Status Quondash; Chapter 21: Conversation Between Manu and Kardamandash; Text 15 H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.21.14The following lecture was given by H.H. Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaja on March 25th, 2010, in Ujjain. Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3: The Status Quondash; Chapter 21: Conversation Between Manu and Kardamandash; Text 14 H.H. Sivarama Swami: If while chanting devotees keep in mind Srila Prabhupada’s explanation of the maha-mantra,
ISKCON Melbourne, AU: How God Changes Your BrainIt seems neuro-science is adding to our everyday experience that the human form of life is actually designed for self-realisation. H.H. Sivarama SwamiWe are not human beings having a temporary spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Gouranga TV: Indradyumna Swami kirtan – Vrindavan kartik 2009 – Part 2/5Indradyumna Swami kirtan – Vrindavan kartik 2009 – Part 2/5 Gaura Yoga, NZ: Roar Sound FestivalAn evening of sacred beats, discussion on reality and all you can eat vegetarian dinner. Plus jam afterwards. Bring your own instrument. on Sunday May 30th. Starting at 5pm. At Gaura Yoga. Dandavats.com: The Glories of Sri Purusottama Month by Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda ThakuraBy Payonidhi das As Purusottma month is coming ot its end,I like to share this article by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura from the Harmonist (published by Gaudiya math 2001), but is is superb and right to the point on explaining this month of Purusottama by the holy writings of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Dandavats.com: Bhaktivinode Thakur on National Prayer DayBy Caru Das These are remarks which Caru Das made Thursday evening in the Provo Taberanacle as part of the National Prayer Day Observances across the country. Dandavats.com: HELP Needed in EnglandBhakti-lata dasi: Recently I have received a few letters from a couple women inmates from England. I am looking for a devotee(s) to correspond with them and send them Prabhupada's books. Sending books from USA is not economically sound. More Recent Articles |
they will understand the explanations of the mantra given by acaryas like Gopal-guru Goswami.
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