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Here are the latest updates for   "Planet ISKCON" - 79 new articles ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darsana Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Akrura das, Gita Coaching: SPIRITUAL WARRIOR BENEFITS Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters H.H. Sivarama Swami: Nrsimha Caturdasi and initiations in NVD Japa Group: Prayer To The Mind H.H. Sivarama Swami: Sri Vyasa-puja video Toronto Sankirtan Team, CA: Transcendental samadhi - ethos of Krishna consicousnes Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: To relieve problems Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: To relieve problems H.H. Sivarama Swami: Kirtan was the feature of the day in honor of Lord Nrisimhadeva H.H. Sivarama Swami: HG Tejiyas Prabhu speaks about Nrsimhadeva protecting us from our anarthas H.H. Sivarama Swami: Gaura Arati on Dayal Nitai Gaura Hari’s 30th anniversary H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread H.H. Sivarama Swami: Keshava Bharati Maharaja speaks on the ten offenses to the holy name H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – BG 13.26 Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Narada Muni’s Search For The Best Devotee H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation Ceremony of Acyutananda das Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Kirtan 2011-05-12 Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Spiritual Goals H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Transcription excerpt of His Holiness Tamal Krishna Goswami Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Take Out the Trash! H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami (Ret.): 318–Poem for May 22 H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami (Ret.): OLD FRIENDS H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Offering Of Disciples & Darshan H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant Subhavilasa das ACBSP, Toronto, CA: Annual anti-Abortion March and a Hare Krisna Perspective. Akrura das, Gita Coaching: WHY DO WE WEAR DEVOTIONAL CLOTHES? Maddy Jean-claude Durr, New Govardhana, AU: Finishing the Caitanya Caritamrta Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Weekly Round-up! ISKCON News.com: Amitabh Bhachchan Visits the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies Dandavats.com: A report from the Ivory Coast Dandavats.com: Radhadesh Kitchen department is looking for a cook for a season Dandavats.com: Business For Sale In Mayapur H.H. Bhakticharu Swami: “Soul Survivor”: A Powerful Killer Of Arrogant Claims Against The Eternal Truth Of Reincarnation. Toronto Sankirtan Team, CA: Power of a flower ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara prabhu Japa Group: I Wanted To Chant Like A Lover Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group Gouranga TV: Radhadesh Japa Retreat Drama 2011 More Recent Articles Search Planet ISKCON Prior Mailing Archive ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darsana Srila Vrindavana Dasa Thakura writes in his Sri Nityananda Caritamrta: "Who can describe the good fortune of the people of this world? Sri Caitanya and Sri Nityananda, the oceans of transcendental qualities, have descended to this world. False ego makes people devoid attachment to Sri Krsna. Knowing this, worship Lord Nityananda. May the holy names of these Lords, whose mercy delivered all the fallen souls, be the garland around your neck..." ...and here is Their darsana...   • Email to a friend • • Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1971 April 23: "You and your university are interested in hearing about Krishna philosophy. My life is dedicated to spreading this culture all over the world. This culture is so well planned that it would be acceptable by any thoughtful man throughout the whole world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 23: "Our latest edition Krsna Book can be distributed to every student and to the whole English speaking public. Make one advertisement: 'Read KRSNA the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Available in all bookstores, 3 Volumes - Rs. 15.'" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 23: "Our temple should be the via media for feeding the poor with food and spiritual knowledge. So we invite all hungry and naked people to come to us and we will give them food and clothing as well as Krishna consciousness. Our program should be based on this." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1973 April 23: "So it is very nice Mr. Neil Diamond has given $3,000.00to my Book Trust, that is practical help. Now you have to impress upon him that when talent is used to glorify the Supreme Lord, that is perfection of talent. So you become convinced of this Krishna consciousness movement and you will get the strength to convince others nicely." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1974 April 23: "The first preaching work is to become an ideal devotee. That will be strong preaching by behavior. There is no point in telling a man to stop smoking if you are still smoking. First make yourself perfect and then attempt to instruct others." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1967 April 22: "Never expect any good from society, friendship and love. Only Krishna is the genuine friend and it is He only who can give us all benediction. The separation which you are feeling on account of my physical absence is a good sign. The more you feel such separation the more you will be situated in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 22: "This is the age of Kali and people are not very much eager to accept genuine things, so don't be disappointed. To face difficulty in the course of preaching work is a kind of austerity. These difficulties do not go in vain. Such attempt gives us a lift on our progressive march in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1971 April 22: "Our principle should be only to do everything for Krishna under the guidance of the bona fide Spiritual Master. Perfection is to act with unflinching faith in Krishna and Spiritual Master and that will save us from all opposing situations. Just as you are all feeling separation grief for me, similarly I am feeling for you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 22: "In every college and university of the world, there are so many different courses to help students become more and more entangled in the material world. So our programs are so important, because we are giving all these young people an opportunity to develop real knowledge. I am so pleased that all of you are very enthusiastic for pushing on this program." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 22: "So the task is very great to give real knowledge, Krishna consciousness, to everyone, and I am so much encouraged by your determined efforts. Please increase more and more, and Krishna will help you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 22: "The formula for organization is very simple. The world is divided into twelve zones. For each zone there is one zonal secretary and their duty is to see that the spiritual principles are being upheld very nicely in all the Temples of their zone. Otherwise each Temple shall be independent and self-supporting." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 22: "Let every Temple President work according to his own capacity to improve the Krishna Consciousness of his center. Management is required but not that we should become too much absorbed in fancy organization. Our business is spiritual life, so whatever organization needs to be done, the Temple Presidents may handle and take advice and from their zonal secretary if necessary." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1973 April 22: "Since leaving India I have not received any report. So I would like to hear from you, how many men are there in Vrindaban and how the project is progressing there. Now we have got good respect there in India, so you boys manage everything intelligently and responsibly. That will please me very much." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1968 April 21: "I am always at your service and whenever you shall call me I shall come to your place and enjoy your good company. I have instructed him about this. Now cooperate with him and chant Hare Krishna. Please try to open a center there as soon as possible." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1968 April 21: "Now this is the golden opportunity with these nice American bodies. You have high intelligence, opulences, birth in the families of a rich nation. Use this opportunity to go back to Krishna, back to Home." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 21: "I am satisfied only to see that everyone of us is always engaged in their respective duties. The teacher's duty is to see that everyone is engaged in handwriting work. Who is writing good hand, that is a secondary question." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 21: "If we have to learn and then paint, it will be a long-term affair. But immediately we want so many pictures for all of our books, so all the artists may always be engaged in painting works and that painting itself will gradually teach them how to make things nice." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 21: "Always be alert. In rendering service to Krishna and His representative the Spiritual Master, we should always maintain this fearful attitude. This will advance you progressively in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1971 April 21: "For cheap circulation we can print small Penguin size paperbacks of KRSNA Book which can be sold at 75 cents, each book about 250 pages, so that KRSNA Book may come in three for a combined price of $2.00. Then we can print cheaply KRSNA Book for large circulation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1971 April 21: "You needn't spend $10,000 for machinery. That is not required. Do not depend on machines. We are not going to be large-scale business. We are more interested still in distributing our books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1974 April 21: "Print my morning walk about 'Life comes from Life' into a small book; this argument should be spread. Go on printing and distributing as many of my books as possible; this is your real work and your personal success." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1961 April 20: "As you have developed a deep love for me, I dare to ask you to send me financial help. Instruct your Embassy in Delhi and dispatch me to Japan on your behalf. I am feeling too much to meet you and the Congress so that we can build up a solid institute for spiritual cultivation. I shall await your instruction by cable." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1966 April 20: "Pratipada. Today I took my meals at Dr. Mishra's place. I took back the tape recorder and tried for its repair without any success. Evening meeting at 7 to 9 p.m. four persons attended. The collection $4.00. Expenditure for Bus fare .45." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 20: "All our girl devotees should be expert in Arcana and cooking. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. We shall touch the altar and Deity in very clean condition, so this point should be very carefully observed, then you will advance very quickly to the perfectional stage of Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 20: "There are editorial mistakes in the blueprint. I am giving herewith a note. But I am very much satisfied. This book will be sold by hundreds of thousands. Now you overflood the market with big and small books as many as possible." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Akrura das, Gita Coaching: SPIRITUAL WARRIOR BENEFITS A career as a Spiritual Warrior provides intangible and tangible benefits. SWs work closely with their teammates to innovatively accomplish missions important to spreading of transcendental knowledge. They constantly learn and push their physical and mental limits, living unconventional and out-of-the-cubicle lifestyles. Camaraderie Every teammate on a SW Team brings his unique identity, personality, intelligence and talents to contribute to the SW's collective abilities to rapidly adapt and innovate on the battlefield. Each man who wears the SW sings has endured the same extreme mental and physical challenge thus making the SW Teams the ultimate brotherhood. Teammates do not let each other down, on or off the battlefield. The relationships and friendships formed within "The Teams" last a lifetime. SW is a lifestyle rather than just a job or career. "The office" for a SW transcends not only the elements of the sea, air and land, but also international boundaries, the extremes of geography and the full spectrum of conflict. There is no "typical day at the office" for a SW. SWs constantly learn, improve and refine their skills while working with their teammates. For a SW, the only easy day was yesterday. Learning SWs constantly learn new skills, while improving and refining existing ones. The lives of their teammates and their mission success depend upon the individual and collective technical skills, tactical proficiency and attention to detail of each SW within his platoon or Team. For a SW, training is never complete. Qualified SWs can choose from hundreds of training courses that develop a SW's knowledge base and technical skills. The following are just some of the training available to SW's during their missions and careers: - Self Care - Success Partnerships - Mutual Assistance - Chanting School - Positive Language Training - Kirtan Jumpmaster Qualification - Preaching Dive Qualification - Maya Attack Defense - Spiritual Intelligence Analysis - Communications - Preaching Performance - Leadership Excellence   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1967 April 18: "You will be pleased to know that specially the younger section are accepting. I have now opened three centres, New York, San Francisco and Montreal. This branch is opened by one of my American disciples." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 18: "All our devotees are supposed to be brahmanas. Whatever they get in the form of contribution they can live barely to keep the body and soul together, and the balance spend for Krsna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 18: "You have retired from material life and Krishna has given you the nicest place in this material world to live in, so stick there and every month send one BTG Hindi composition to Tokyo." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1972 April 18: "I am very glad to hear that you are all happy in Vrindaban and that our Sankirtana party from Radha Damodara Temple to our new place is being appreciated. Please continue this." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1973 April 18: "We may not kill the demons but we can kill the demoniac tendency. So you should very enthusiastically lead the Sankirtana party and kill the demoniac tendency of the rascals." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1975 April 18: "If due to some past sinful activities, we are suffering some bodily miseries we should not become discouraged. Devotional service must continue under all circumstances." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1966 April 17: "Triodasi. Today up to 5pm I was in the Ashram. Came back at 6/15pm Paul was there. In the evening I came back to Bowery with the suitcase. One book due to Elsy was delivered to via the Studio. Book sale -- $10.00." Prabhupada Journa :: 1966   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 17: "This Krishna Consciousness movement is not for the Hindus only, it is for everyone, even the animals. Hindus generally are not so liberal, but Lord Caitanya is very liberal." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 17: "In KRSNA, Chapter 87, page four, the last line, I do not know what is this editing. This is an extraordinary word, so how it has avoided the vigilance of so many editors?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1970 April 17: "So if none of the editors knew this word, why was it pushed? Nothing uncertain should be pushed. Now what other discrepancies there may be like this? Or what is the use of such editing?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1970   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1971 April 17: "Re: Bhagavad-gita As It Is, are the pictures ready? the index, Sanskrit and English editing, layout, composition, etc.?? I am anxious to see this enlarged edition printed." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1973 April 17: "We are printing Krishna Trilogy, Sri Isopanisad, and NOD, all 100,000 copies each, and Krishna hardback, 50,000. So I am very much engladened. Just continue it solidly, that is my request." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973   • Email to a friend • •   Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1975 April 17: "Your going away, I did not take very seriously. I am very glad that you have come back. You should remain with him. That is your duty. He is a very good boy." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975   • Email to a friend • •   H.H. Sivarama Swami: Nrsimha Caturdasi and initiations in NVD   • Email to a friend • •   Japa Group: Prayer To The Mind Hello dear devotees, Here is a beautiful prayer so our minds can engage properly in devotional service. O my dear mind, in order to attain the direct service of Sri Sri Radha-Giridhari, who are always entranced by amorous desires, and the service of Their eternal associates, one should drink the pancamrita described by Srila Rupa Gosvamipada. This pancamrita is ambroasial nectar comprised by the following ingredients of service: 1) Arcana, worship of Sri Yugala 2) Sankirtana, chanting the glories of Their names, forms, qualities and pastimes 3) Dhyana, meditating upon Them 4) Pranams, offering loving obeisances to Them 5) Worship of Sri Govardhana daily in accordance with precepts of bhakti www.saranagati.net The chanting of the holy names is considered one of the best processes of devotional service and should be performed everyday with lots of attention and love. Harinam Sankirtan ki jay! your servant, Aruna devi   • Email to a friend • •   H.H. Sivarama Swami: Sri Vyasa-puja video Sri Vyasa-puja 2011 flower offering gourangatv May 22nd, 2011 Sri Vyasa-puja 2011 gifts 1. gourangatv Sri Vyasa-puja 2011 gifts 2. gourangatv kaunteya putra das says: June 29, 2011 at 4:16 pm (Hare Krishna All the glories to Srila Prabhupada Dear H H Sivarama Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisance as dandavat pranam at your lotust feet. I just visited your Vyasa Puja video and I am impressed by  your attention to each and every devotee with love and compassion. I will meet you at Mayapur to get Dharsan and spiritual inspiration Dandavat Pranam Maharaja Kaunteya putra dasa Miraroad, Mumbai, India Bhakta París, says: July 1, 2011 at 9:11 pm Hare Krsna with so much love Maharaja! Posted in Photos & Videos   • Email to a friend • •   Toronto Sankirtan Team, CA: Transcendental samadhi - ethos of Krishna consicousnes It is certainly the opportunity for us to experience what Samadhi is, to be absorbed in one activity, putting aside all other things. That activity being giving Krishna to others, making them fortunate. The difficulties that come along with that in terms of weather, in terms of officials, in terms of perhaps people not wanting us to be on street and what to speak of obstacles that our mind poses. This is all what it requires to actually become or overcome these things and to become a real vaishnav.To enter into Samadhi. Bhajananadis face them in some other form; we face them in this way. And when we practice doing so, we become practiced in meditating upon Krishna, being absorbed in Krishna. Srila Prbahupada often defines a first class devotee in terms of someone who is always thinking about spreading Krishna consciousness, when you are thinking about spreading Krishna consciousness you are thinking about Krishna’s service. And the other definition of a first class devotee is one who is always absorbed in Krishna’s form, Krishna’s name but the purity of heart required for both is the same. The actual focussing of the mind required for both is same; all that differs is the mood. One is enjoying Krishna consciousness and one is giving Krishna consciousness. And this mood of giving Krishna consciousness to others is the mood of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu it is what the Krishna consciousness movement is all about... Any devotee who makes reference to Srila Prabhupada’s books, lectures will see that Srila Prabhupada emphasised the distribution of transcendental literature as the main focus of Krishna consciousness movement and all other activities are made successful by that one act and they are also meant to support it. Prabhuapda has not been with us for now over 40 years however that mission of Srila Prabhupada that ethos of Krishna consciousness movement has not yet changed. Prabhuapda has stated that you can check the success of a temple manager, the spiritual strength of a temple, and the success of a yatra by how enthusiastic devotees are for distributing books and also how many numbers of books. Srila Prabhupada wasn’t fruitive in anyways, yet he did quantify the success of Krishan consciousness. He quantified the distribution of books and he wasn’t the first to do that. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also did that, he said ‘yare dekhe tara kaha krishna upadesha’ ‘prithvite ate yati nagaradi grama’. He is talking about large numbers. An excerpt from a lecture by HH Sivaram Maharaj titled Book distribution is transcendental Samadhi 2008.11.24 KecsKemet   • Email to a friend • •   Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: To relieve problems I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 20, 1975 and have noted your problems. My suggestion is that you please chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare; Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. This maha mantra cleanses the dust from the mirror of the mind and awakens us to a pure life of devotional service to the Lord, free from all anxieties. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Miss Wanda Bonner -- Vrindaban 24 August, 1975   • Email to a friend • •   Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: To relieve problems I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 20, 1975 and have noted your problems. My suggestion is that you please chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare; Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. This maha mantra cleanses the dust from the mirror of the mind and awakens us to a pure life of devotional service to the Lord, free from all anxieties. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Miss Wanda Bonner -- Vrindaban 24 August, 1975   • Email to a friend • •   H.H. Sivarama Swami: Kirtan was the feature of the day in honor of Lord Nrisimhadeva H.H. Sivarama Swami: Kirtan was the feature of the day in honor of Lord Nrisimhadeva

May 22nd, 2011
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Bhakta Paris says:
May 22nd, 2011
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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Kirtan was the feature of the day in honor of Lord Nrisimhadeva

 

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H.H. Sivarama Swami: HG Tejiyas Prabhu speaks about Nrsimhadeva protecting us from our anarthas

HG Tejiyas Prabhu speaks about Nrsimhadeva protecting us from our anarthas

May 22nd, 2011
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HG Tejiyas Prabhu speaks about Nrsimhadeva protecting us from our anarthas

 

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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Gaura Arati on Dayal Nitai Gaura Hari’s 30th anniversary

H.H. Sivarama Swami: Gaura Arati on Dayal Nitai Gaura Hari’s 30th anniversary

May 22nd, 2011
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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Gaura Arati on Dayal Nitai Gaura Hari’s 30th anniversary

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread 1995-01-02 Radhadesh

Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread 1995-01-02 Radhadesh

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread 1995-01-02 Radhadesh

Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread 1995-01-02 Initiation Lecture- By Following One Becomes A Brahmin Not By Thread 1995-01-02 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Keshava Bharati Maharaja speaks on the ten offenses to the holy name

H.H. Sivarama Swami: Keshava Bharati Maharaja speaks on the ten offenses to the holy name

May 22nd, 2011
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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Keshava Bharati Maharaja speaks on the ten offenses to the holy name

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities 2001-05-12 Radhadesh

Lecture – Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities 2001-05-12 Radhadesh

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities 2001-05-12 Radhadesh

Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities 2001-05-12 Lecture - Initiation Ceremony- Determined To Associate With Divine Qualities 2001-05-12 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant 2001-09-27 Radhadesh

Lecture – Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant 2001-09-27 Radhadesh

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant 2001-09-27 Radhadesh

Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant 2001-09-27 Lecture - Initiation- Gradagraja, Janardana, Rukmini, Krishna Anandini- Become More Than God, His Servant 2001-09-27 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – BG 13.26 Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Bhagavad Gita 13.26 - Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer 2004-05-25 Radhadesh

BG 13.26: Again there are those who, although not conversant in spiritual knowledge, begin to worship the Supreme Person upon hearing about Him from others. Because of their tendency to hear from authorities, they also transcend the path of birth and death.

BG 13.26: Puis on rencontre ceux qui, bien que peu versés dans le savoir spirituel, s'engagent dans l'adoration du Seigneur Suprême parce qu'ils ont entendu parler de Lui. Prêtant volontiers l'oreille aux dires d'autorités, eux aussi triomphent du cycle des morts et des renaissances.

BG 13.26: Además, existen aquellos que, aunque no están versados en el conocimiento espiritual, comienzan a adorar a la Persona Suprema al oír a otros hablar de Él. Debido a su tendencia a oír a las autoridades, ellos también trascienden la senda del nacimiento y la muerte.

Lecture – Bhagavad Gita 13.26 Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer 2004-05-25 Radhadesh

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Bhagavad Gita 13.26 - Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer 2004-05-25 Radhadesh

BG 13.26 Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer 2004-05-25 Lecture - Bhagavad Gita 13.26 Initiation- Mukunda Datta D, Damodara D- Better Than The Average Golfer 2004-05-25 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Narada Muni’s Search For The Best Devotee

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Narada Muni’s Search For The Best Devotee 2001-05-26

Vyasa Puja- Narada Muni’s Search For The Best Devotee 2001-05-26

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Narada Muni’s Search For The Best Devotee 2001-05-26

Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Narada Muni’s Search For The Best Devotee 2001-05-26

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Initiation Ceremony of Acyutananda das

Lecture - Prahladananda Swami - Initiation Ceremony of Acyutananda das

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Inititation Ceremony- Acyutananda Das 2010-07-11

Inititation Ceremony- Acyutananda Das 2010-07-11

Dallas, TX
2010-07-11

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Inititation Ceremony- Acyutananda Das 2010-07-11

Initiation ceremony for Acyutananda das performed.

Initiation ceremony for Acyutananda das performed. Dallas, TX 2010-07-11 Inititation Ceremony- Acyutananda Das 2010-07-11

 

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Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Kirtan 2011-05-12

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Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Spiritual Goals

Goals give us inspiration and direction, and help endure suffering. They also turn suffering into pleasure. The nature of spiritual goals is analysed in this discussion.

Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Spiritual Goals

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Transcription excerpt of His Holiness Tamal Krishna Goswami

Tamal Krishna Goswami: “Just like we can see, one devotee from our society, you know him, Prahladananda Swami. Always blissful. He is always blissful. Why? Because he is always absorbed in remembering the pastimes of Krishna. That’s his sadhana. He has that technique. He memorizes pastimes of Krishna constantly and so he is blissful wherever he goes. Heaven or hell is the same for him. He doesn’t care. That’s a good example. (Srimad Bhagavatam class, Amsterdam October 1990)

 

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Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Take Out the Trash!

Society and media would have us believe that our life will be best when our we can light a cigar with a hundred dollar bill with a diamond studded cross hanging from our neck to show our social status. But those of us on the spiritual path know that these kinds of desire are just like trash cluttering up the heart. Material desires cloud our real need and interest in life, which is love; that valuable thing which no money can buy.

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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami (Ret.): 318–Poem for May 22

www.sdgonline.org.

4:25 A.M.

A Writer of Pieces

New format–I will begin with a poem written on the day of its printing. Then I will print random excerpts of books I have printed over the last 35 years. I hope this variety will be pleasing.

Poem for May 22

I could not sleep at all
last night. Pain in the eye
and sweating in the warm room.
I rose at 12:30 and began my
japa straining to keep awake.

When Vidura asked questions about
the Lord, Uddhava within went to
Dvaraka to be with Krishna, and he
returned to the material world fully
prepared to remember Sri Krishna.
He was one who in childhood
played with dolls of Krishna and
when his mother called him for breakfast
he did not wish to have it.
These are the symptoms of a
nitya-siddha. Prabhupada writes
that in his childhood he was fortunate to receive a Krishna
murti from his father and
he imitated the worship he had
seen in the Radha-Govinda
mandir in his neighborhood.

Yesterday I wrote a piece in
the autobiog about censorship.
I have been vexed and
harassed by abridgement of
freedom of speech. My
books are before their time.
Japa Reform Notebook and
Entering the Life of Prayer
were criticized when they came out but years later
they were warmly received.
Now I write unhampered
and publish on the cutting
edge. I could not sleep but
I’m awake buoyed by music to write
my poem. It’s smooth
and tuneful and I
fit in Krishna lyrics
to be true to parampara.
Krishna improvises words
that ride on wings
and fly through the spiritual sky.
He accepts my offering of purified thought
balanced in a 4/4 beat.
Each morning I tell the news of a sadhaka’s
day, blending it in
with the song of masters
of bop. It’s not
incongruous but harmonious
to present Krishna in
this way. “In foggy
London town the sun was shining everywhere.”

 

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From Prabhupada Meditations, Volume III

“Thank You for Educating Us in God Consciousness

“When I hear people make mistakes while speaking about God, I try not to be puffed up. Just because I have received the best education does not mean I should look down on others. Students at Harvard University or Oxford University may be better educated, but they spoil their treasure if they look down upon common people. Similarly, I do not want to be a snob in God consciousness, but I appreciate what Srila Prabhupada has taught us.

“I feel humbled sometimes when I see someone else’s faith in God. I also meet people who have more love for God than I do, even though they may not have received such a thorough education. I will never stop being grateful to Prabhupada, however, for giving me this education. In that sense, I am proud.

“In the modern age people are proud of their college degrees, but this is also an age of increase of atheistic propaganda. Therefore, unless we get a good education in God consciousness, we are liable to be misdirected by education. Godless education is worse than being illiterate. It is like a poisonous snake with a jewel on its head.

“In his evening lectures at 26 Second Avenue in 1966, Swamiji blasted the ignorance of puffed-up New Yorkers. He said, ‘You do not know anything. The whole world does not know anything. No one knows God. You think that the self is the body. You think that this life is for amassing money for sense gratification. This is all ignorance, all illusion.”

“Prabhupada said that love with the family and noble attempts to help people by altruism are both illusion; they will all be destroyed.

“In the morning, in an intimate setting with his own disciples, Prabhupada taught Caitanya-caritamrta. Even in the pedagogical sense, his was an accredited course in advanced spiritual knowledge.

“When Prabhupada heard that IBM was donating free typewriters to bona-fide educational institutes, he asked me to go get one. I met with the man, but when he heard the description of our ISKCON storefront, he said,  ‘I’m sorry, but these typewriters are only for educational institutions.’ I replied that Krishna consciousness is the king of education. It teaches absolute knowledge. Mathematics, for example, is one department of knowledge within the Absolute Truth. Therefore ISKCON is an educational institution. He decided not to argue with me, but said that he would send his representative out to check on the quality of classes at 26 Second Avenue. Of course, no one ever came. An impartial educator, however, would have to admit that learning was going on in Prabhupada’s classes. Prabhupada was teaching us the principles of spiritual science as passed down by the great acaryas of India.

“Anyone who studies Prabhupada’s books becomes educated in the most important subject. When a follower of Prabhupada hears a discussion of God consciousness, he spots contradictions or a ‘poor fund of knowledge’ wherever it occurs. Even a young brahmacari can note the flaws in the presentations of learned theologians or clergymen. Theologians are puzzled as to ‘why bad things happen to good people.’ Some of them theorize that God may be all-good, but He is not all-powerful. Some say that God cannot have a form or that God exists only in human relationships—but we can see this as a poor fund of knowledge.

“One of the benefits of a good education in any field is that one easily meets opposition from prejudiced or ignorant persons. Sometimes people would ask Prabhupada, ‘What is your faith?’ Prabhupada usually replied, ‘It is not faith, it is fact.’ He also said, ‘You may believe or not believe. That is a different thing.’ When a devotee meets a strong-minded atheist, the devotee sees right away that the atheist is only speaking for himself. We are not shaken in our convictions. Let us always thank Prabhupada for giving us the best education in the most important of all subjects. It is not a sectarian religious education. It is not less important than material knowledge. Prabhupada teaches raja-vidya, the king of education. Most of us are unqualified to receive this education, and yet we have received a full scholarship. Just as an underprivileged person feels fortunate to receive a scholarship to a top university, we are grateful that Prabhupada has accepted us at the university of Vaisnava brahmanism.

“A few colleges now give credits to Prabhupada’s students in courses based on his books. Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine Krishna conscious students will be given as much credit in the world as science or business students. If Vaisnavas become recognized as educators, that will be nice. If not, we will go on teaching. One who is trained by Prabhupada is better than a Ph.D.—yet he humbly thinks himself unadvanced.

“The subject in which we are trained, love of God, is unlimitedly vast. We can never know everything about Krishna. Therefore a Ph.D. in this field honestly says he doesn’t have deep love for Krishna. He realizes that if he had love for Krishna, how could he live in this world without Him?

“The accomplished student of Krishna consciousness never considers himself a master of this subject and never becomes puffed-up. He acknowledges that even simple people can receive God consciousness by the direct method of chanting the holy names. Prabhupada has taught us everything; he has given us the syllabus and the practices, and he has stressed humility. This is true education.”

From Spiritualized Dictionary

“Tetrachord

“The word originates with the Greek tetrachordon, meaning ‘four strings.’ It refers to ‘1. A musical instrument with four strings  2. The basic unit of analysis in Greek music, consisting of a diatonic or disjunct series of four notes or tones with an interval of a perfect fourth between the first and last and distinguished by the relative position of the half-step or steps or quarter-tones or tones in the series.  3. The musical interval of a perfect fourth.’

“Well, I don’t know enough about music to know. I have never heard of a tetrachord, and I certainly don’t know how to analyze music according to the ancient Greek system. I do know ‘music has charm to soothe the savage breast.’ I also know that Krishna’s flute-playing is the ultimate expression of musical truth. I have been reading in the Bhagavatam that the sadhana-siddha gopis were able to hear Krishna’s flute, but they were unable to run out into the forest to meet Him. Because these gopis so intensely thought of Krishna within their hearts and minds, they ‘gave up their bodies.’ Some people assume that this means they died, but the acaryas explain that they didn’t die. Rather, they gave up the material aspect of their bodies. The spiritual aspect then became predominant.

“By way of explanation, the acaryas say that an ordinary sadhaka also experiences this phenomenon. That is, he experiences both the material and spiritual aspects of his body. If, for example, a devotee listens to material sound vibration for sense gratification, he experiences the material side. This may be startling. We usually prefer to justify our sense gratification and not see it so starkly for what it is. If we listen to music that is not specifically written for Krishna’s pleasure or glorification, then we cannot claim that it is Krishna conscious.

“There may be some objections to this. We could say that everything is spiritual. Certainly some musical artists consider themselves spiritual, even if they are not God conscious—what to speak of Krishna conscious—according to the Vedic definition. Still, they see their music as an offering to God or an expression of spirituality, and we, as Krishna conscious persons, may agree that they have a point. It reminds me of a question I asked Prabhupada in the early days at 26 Second Avenue: ‘What about the God consciousness of the great Western thinkers?’ Prabhupada said, ‘Their God consciousness is their sincerity.’

“All right, but does it specifically help us to remember Krishna? Does it have that innate purity? Music evokes emotion. Pop songs evoke ‘pop’ emotion; classical music touches on something more subtle. Then is it harmless recreation to listen to music that evokes gross or subtle, but mundane, emotion, or is it yet another thing helping to bind us to the material world.
Although Krishna isn’t malicious, if we demonstrate a desire to engage in activities that help us to forget Him, He will facilitate our desire and even give us the intelligence to justify it. Therefore a practicing devotee restrains himself from engaging in such activities. He doesn’t want to touch that material aspect of himself too often. Rather, he wants to awaken the spiritual side, not just awaken it, but give it fire. If we engage in sense gratification, we will awaken something else. How long will we chase after that ‘something else’? Until the time of death? No, longer, because those desires will carry us forward into the next life. We’ll get a chance to finish listening to that last song. And by the way, it’s Kali-yuga. The entire planet is infested with war and plague. I’m not exactly sure where you’ll be born, but you have some pious credits. Maybe you’ll be safe.”

From Srila Prabhupada Samadhi Diary

“Prabhupada’s Room

“Dear Srila Prabhupada,

“I’m in your rooms. You know how mental I am. You can smash me or pacify me. I tend to find fault, and I just wish to be left alone. People rub against me and the strain of any interaction seems a botheration. But this isn’t your spirit. You ‘rubbed elbows’ with the marijuana-heads, the acid-heads, the hippies of the Lower East Side and you transformed us. You said those who loved you will cooperate. I’ll continue to try.

“The letter on your desk today is to Ranadira, 1972. He has since gone from your service. You wrote to him that he was senior and serious and that if he kept it up, he would very soon reach ‘the supreme highest perfection.’ I look at this now and feel some sorrow. Still, I feel hopeful because what you promised to the devotees is still true, provided we follow your instructions. You wrote, ‘We must become so seriously responsible for practicing this Krishna consciousness, because the world is full of degrading elements . . . save the people.’ That was Srila Prabhupada’s concern. Save the people.

“‘So I count on you and your Godbrothers among those few men who are treading seriously on the path back home, back to Godhead . . . Do not fall back.’

“It will increase if we keep the standard he gave us; ‘Otherwise, it will gradually become mechanical and fade away like every other so-called religious movement.’

“Srila Prabhupada, you are still counting on us. We are still only a few men. The world is full of bad elements dragging people down. We can work to save them. We have to keep the enthusiasm and the high standards you gave us.  It has in some ways become mechanical. Hardening of the arteries is occurring, but also new hope and life. I’m fighting for my own life in which to stay as you describe in this letter, a senior disciple whom you can trust and who takes his responsibilities seriously. Now my duties have become refined, but they’re even more responsible than before. People look to me to set an example that there is still life in Krishna consciousness even after you practice it for thirty or forty years. Actually, the longer you practice spiritual life, the more enlivened you become.

“I want to prove myself faithful. I want to be in the spirit that you want me to be in. I think I know what that means and what I should do.

“You let me come into your room to write in front of you. It’s as if I’m your secretary again, hurriedly writing down something you say so that I can type it up for you later. I’m not exactly receiving dictation from you now, but I’m in that mood.

“I want to take the dust from your feet on my head. I’ll go now and do other duties for you. I’m your secretary and older student, but still a young boy in spiritual learning who needs to hear from his spiritual master. All glories to you, Srila Prabhupada.”

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat 2007-05

Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat 2007-05 Radhadesh (Book Distribution, Spiritual Master, Controversies, Ritvik) Lokanath Swami, Mother Jaya Bhadra. Prahladananda Swami also speaks throughout the recording.

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat 2007-05

Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat 2007-05 Lecture - Vyasa Puja- Just Repeat 2007-05 Radhadesh  (Book Distribution, Spiritual Master, Controversies, Ritvik) Lokanath Swami, Mother Jaya Bhadra.  Prahladananda Swami also speaks throughout the recording.

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Offering Of Disciples & Darshan

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Offering Of Disciples & Darshan 2002-05-26 Radhadesh (Part 2)

Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Offering Of Disciples & Darshan 2002-05-26 Radhadesh (Part 2)

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Offering Of Disciples & Darshan 2002-05-26 Radhadesh (Part 2)

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant 2002-05-26 Radhadesh (Part 1)

Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant 2002-05-26

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant 2002-05-26 Radhadesh (Part 1)

Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant 2002-05-26 Lecture - Vyasa Puja- Becoming The Servant Of The Servant 2002-05-26 Radhadesh (Part 1)

 

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Subhavilasa das ACBSP, Toronto, CA: Annual anti-Abortion March and a Hare Krisna Perspective.

A picture from last week's rally against abortion.

Last week witnessed thousands of people take to the street for the 14th annual anti-abortion march in Ottawa. Most of the Pro-life groups are Christian and we thought is would be interesting to get a Krishna Consciouss perespective on abortion, so we turn to the Srimad Bhagavatam (6.16.14) and the purport of our Guru, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.

bāla-ghnyo vrīditās tatra
bāla-hatyā-hata-prabhāh
bāla-hatyā-vrataḿ cerur
brāhmanair yan nirūpitam
yamunāyāḿ mahārāja
smarantyo dvija-bhāsitam

Queen Krtyadyuti's co-wives, who had poisoned the child, were very much ashamed, and they lost all their bodily luster. While lamenting, O King, they remembered the instructions of Ańgirā and gave up their ambition to bear children. Following the directions of the brāhmaṇas, they went to the bank of the Yamunā, where they bathed and atoned for their sinful activities.

PURPORT
In this verse the word bāla-hatyā-hata-prabhāh is to be particularly noted. The practice of killing children has existed in human society for a long time — since time immemorial — but in the days of yore it was very rarely performed. At the present moment, however, in this age of Kali, abortion — killing of the child within the womb — has become very common, and sometimes a child is even killed after birth. If a woman performs such an abominable act, she gradually loses all her bodily luster (bāla-hatyā-hata-prabhāh). It is also to be noted that the ladies who had committed the sinful act of administering poison to the child were very much ashamed, and according to the directions of the brāhmaṇas, they had to undergo atonement for killing the child. Any woman who has ever performed such an infamously sinful act must atone for it, but no one now is doing that. Under the circumstances, the women responsible must suffer in this life and the next. Those who are sincere souls, after hearing this incident, should refrain from such child-killing and should atone for their sinful activities by taking to Krsna consciousness very seriously. If one chants the Hare Krsna mahā-mantra without offenses, all of one's sinful actions are surely atoned for immediately, but one should not commit such deeds again, for that is an offense.

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Akrura das, Gita Coaching: WHY DO WE WEAR DEVOTIONAL CLOTHES?

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Q: Why do we wear devotional clothes?
A: So people can recognize us and ask us questions about spiritual life.

 

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Maddy Jean-claude Durr, New Govardhana, AU: Finishing the Caitanya Caritamrta

Ummm - a CC Set..

I want to avoid the pride issue but Srila Prabhupada instructed us to write something when we finish reading his books.  I would write and simply keep it to myself but what is this but talking to the mind when perhaps something I say may be beneficial to someone.  Today Friday 13th, May 2011 I have finished my reading of Caitanya Caritamrta.

The read was most exciting and most inspiring.  It was like giving life to a dead man.  I encourage anyone, whether not begun or currently doing so, to read Srila Prabhupada’s books.  If you miss this opportunity, you will not know the real extremities of satisfaction that can be experienced in life.  I have searched far and wide but I still have not found any activity more satisfying.  It is sometimes pain, it is sometimes pleasure, sometimes I am fully attentive and sometimes the words barely go in, but it is unlimitedly purifying and it somehow becomes truly joyful.  Instantly, at the point I finish this read, I cannot wait until the next read.

Srila Prabhupada puts so much love and so much life to this works, after Krsna Dasa Kaviraja has done the same, in the same fashion.  There is the love and devotion of these incomparably exalted saints, as well as the input of so many more.  There is an actual, current biography of God, in His most merciful form, and it is impossible to ever fathom the significance of all this.  If a moment’s association of a pure devotee will change your life forever then what of hours associating with many, who sacrificed so much effort for this to be read, what to speak of being totally connected to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.  Forget bathing in rivers, forget pilgrimage, just sit in one place, any place, and read this divine literature.  What could be more beneficial?

Adi-Lila is filled with philosophy I have never experienced before.  Madhya-Lila is filled with stories and dialogues that one could never even conjure.  Antya-Lila is filled with so many sweet encounters, and exceptionally high and esoteric moments that one may never realize a pinch of it in his lifetime.  I was considering the Tenth Canto esoteric until I reached the final phases of Caitanya Caritamrta.

Once again, I could feel no more fortunate than now, to have finished this, to have absorbed what I could by the causeless mercy of the writers, and to be able to encourage you all too also do the same.  There is no joy greater in my life that I have achieved and I do not say this to kid you.  I could give lip service to any mundane literature but no lip service could even begin to express the wonder of Caitanya Caritamrta.  If you want to be drawn closer to Krsna, if you want Radharani’s mercy and if you want to understand the true mood of Srila Prabhupada, then please read this literature.  You will never regret it; you will only wish to read it again.

Your aspiring, wretched servant, Madhavendra Puri Dasa (a fortunate reader of Caitanya Caritamrta).

 

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Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Weekly Round-up!

For some reason this week’s round-up is very non-foodish. Maybe that’s why my weight is down a few happy little pounds! To visit the source of these web finds, click the pic and you shall transport. XO

Little Green Notebook is one of my favorite blogs to salivate over DIY projects beyond my reach. This one, however, is totally do-able by two-left-thumbs-me. Unfortunately, I recently gave away my grand collection of vintage buttons. Still, I am bookmarking this button wall art project for when my collection overfloweths again.

Everything old is new again over at Retro Renovations. Check out this inspiring slideshow of vintage Wood-Mode kitchens and see how dated modern can look! Actually, I think the cabinets look terrific. Love me some wood slab doors!

I'm sorry but this 2 year old post from Female Ways contains a startling amount of cuteness. A great example of adding bright swathes of color to a stark white interior.

So, if you are ever in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland or Germany, do pick me up a pair of these Ilse Jacobsen boots. I don't care what color. Thanks!

Like a contest? Anne Taintor runs a monthly caption contest. Not sure what the prize is (or if there is a prize) but it is surely some good clean girl fun.

 

Design Kula, which hands-down wins my favorite newly discovered blog name for the week, gives a design pattern primer with this post.

 

Look at all that marble! Hold on there. Put your pants back on! It's (big gulp) FAUX!!! Featured on Apartment Therapy, Danika @ Gorgeous Shiny Things is basically the Kenneth Jay Lane of the stoneyard. Her blog is stylish, fun and she just opened a shop. Living the life, Danika!

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ISKCON News.com: Amitabh Bhachchan Visits the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Legendary Indian film actor and producer Amitabh Bachchan visited Oxford University on May 17th, to attend the Distinguished Ford Lecture and a dinner, both hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

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ISKCON News.com: Amitabh Bhachchan Visits the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

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Dandavats.com: A report from the Ivory Coast

By Kavicandra Swami

You might have heard about the violent politcal situation in the Ivory Coast for the past many months. Our temple there was flourishing there but is now in need of help. Most of the temple devotees, due to so much street violence, left the country, as did many citizens