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(Click on photo to see a larger image.) 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: Keep Your Life as Simple as Possible Uploaded from Bhaktivedanta Ashram--Austin, Texas USA By its very nature material existence is very complex and problematic. We are constantly tormented by so many difficulties such as birth, death, old age and disease. Therefore we should simplify our lives as much as possible by keeping our material arrangements to the bare minimum so that we can free up as much energy as possible to be absorbed in hearing, chanting, and remembering the wondrous Lord Sri Krishna on a regular daily basis. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Focus Your Mind on Krishna as Much as Possible http://www.backtohome.com/images/Krishna_with_cow.bmp Answers According to the Vedic Version: Question: Better to Work or to Renounce Work? Why does Lord Krishna consider working in devotion to be better than the renunciation of work? R.P. Answer: It's Better to Work for Krishna. Working in devotion is better than renunciation of work because the idle mind is the devil's workshop. Since the living entity is active by nature both mentally and physically, to stop acting and stop thinking is an artificial position, which cannot be maintained. Therefore instead of trying to become free from material existence by artificially trying to stop acting and thinking, one can be immediately liberated from material existence simply by engaging in devotional service to Lord Sri Krishna. This is confirmed by Srila Rupa Goswami as follows: h yasya harer dsye karman manas gir nikhilsv apy avasthsu jvan-muktah sa ucyate One who engages in the transcendental service of the Lord in body, mind and word is to be considered liberated in all conditions of material existence.--Bhakti-rasmrta-sindhu 1.2.187 Since even to maintain this material body. work cannot be given up, the best system for both material and spiritual success is to absorb one's life fully in acts of devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. 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Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – CC Adi 2.97-108 The Original Form Of Lord Krsna CC Adi 02.097-108 The Original Form Of Lord Krsna 1994-05-29 Lecture - Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 2.97-108 The Original Form Of Lord Krsna 1994-05-29 Radhadesh   • Email to a friend • •

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – CC Adi 2.101-109 Krsna Is The Source Of All Universes

CC Adi 02.101-109 Krsna Is The Source Of All Universes 1994-06-05 Lecture - Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 2.101-109 Krsna Is The Source Of All Universes 1994-06-05 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – CC Adi 2.91 Ten Subjects Described In Srimad Bhagavatam

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – CC Adi 2.91 Ten Subjects Described In Srimad Bhagavatam

CC Ādi 2.91-92: "'Here [in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] ten subjects are described: (1) the creation of the ingredients of the cosmos, (2) the creations of Brahmā, (3) the maintenance of the creation, (4) special favor given to the faithful, (5) impetuses for activity, (6) prescribed duties for law-abiding men, (7) a description of the incarnations of the Lord, (8) the winding up of the creation, (9) liberation from gross and subtle material existence, and (10) the ultimate shelter, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The tenth item is the shelter of all the others. To distinguish this ultimate shelter from the other nine subjects, the mahājanas have described these nine, directly or indirectly, through prayers or direct explanations.'

CC Ādi 2.91-92: «Aquí [en el Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam] se tratan diez temas: (1) la creación de los ingredientes del cosmos; (2) las creaciones de Brahmā; (3) el mantenimiento de la creación; (4) el favor especial que se da a quien es fiel; (5) los estímulos para la actividad; (6) los deberes prescritos para los que respetan la ley; (7) una descripción de las encarnaciones del Señor; (8) el final de la creación; (9) la liberación de la existencia material, física y sutil; y (10) el último refugio, la Suprema Personalidad de Dios. El décimo tema es el refugio de todos los demás. Para distinguir este refugio final de los otros nueve temas, los mahājanas han descrito éstos, directa o indirectamente, con oraciones o explicaciones directas.»

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 2.91 Ten Subjects Described In Srimad Bhagavatam 1994-05-15 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – CC Adi 2.39-67 The Original Source Of Everything

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture – CC Adi 2.39-67 The Original Source Of Everything

CC Ādi 2.39: "You are therefore the original Nārāyaṇa. This is one reason; please listen as I state the second.

CC Ādi 2.40: "The direct Lords of the living beings are the puruṣa incarnations. But Your opulence and power are more exalted than Theirs.

CC Ādi 2.41: "Therefore You are the primeval Lord, the original father of everyone. They [the puruṣas] are protectors of the universes by Your power.

CC Ādi 2.42: "Since You protect those who are the shelters of all living beings, You are the original Nārāyaṇa.

CC Ādi 2.43: "O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead! Kindly hear my third reason. There are countless universes and fathomless transcendental Vaikuṇṭhas.

CC Ādi 2.44: "Both in this material world and in the transcendental world, You see all the deeds of all living beings, in the past, present and future. Since You are the witness of all such deeds, You know the essence of everything.

CC Ādi 2.45: "All the worlds exist because You oversee them. None can live, move or have their being without Your supervision.

CC Ādi 2.39: «Por tanto, Tú eres el Nārāyaṇa original. Ésta es una de las razones; dígnate escuchar mientras expongo la segunda.

CC Ādi 2.40: «Los Señores directos de los seres vivientes son las encarnaciones purua. Pero Tus opulencias y poder son más exaltados que los Suyos.

CC Ādi 2.41: «Por tanto, Tú eres el Señor primigenio, el padre original de todos. Ellos [los puruas] son los protectores de los universos, mediante Tu poder.

CC Ādi 2.42: «Puesto que Tú proteges a aquellos que son el refugio de todos los seres vivientes, Tú eres el Nārāyaṇa original.

CC Ādi 2.43: «¡Oh, mi Señor! ¡Oh, Suprema Personalidad de Dios! Dígnate escuchar mi tercera razón. Hay incontables universos e insondables Vaikuṇṭhas trascendentales.

CC Ādi 2.44: «Tanto en este mundo material como en el trascendental, Tú ves todos los hechos de todos los seres vivientes, en el pasado, presente y futuro. Puesto que Tú eres el testigo de todos estos hechos, Tú conoces la esencia de todo.

CC Ādi 2.45: «Todos los mundos existen porque Tú los supervisas. Nadie puede vivir, moverse, ni existir, sin Tu supervisión.

CC Adi 02.039-67 The Original Source Of Everything 1994-04-10
Lecture - Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 2.39-67 The Original Source Of Everything 1994-04-10 Radhadesh

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Lecture - Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 2.39-67 The Original Source Of Everything 1994-04-10 Radhadesh

 

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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darshan

"He who has given me the gift of transcendental vision is my lord, birth after birth. By his mercy divine knowledge is revealed within the heart, bestowing prema-bhakti and destroying ignorance. The Vedic scriptures sing of his character."

(Sri Guru-vandana from Prema-bhakti-candrika by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura)

 

Let us take darshan of The Lord and His eternal associates while praying towards the spiritual master to bless us with divine knowledge of the sweet pastimes of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna. May we never again forget the nectar that comes from the words of the spiritual master.

 

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Australian News: Radha Gopinatha’s 40th Anniversary Schedule

Radha Gopinatha’s 40th Anniversary

& Prabhupada Disciples Reunion – May 21 & 22 2011

Anniversary Schedule

Saturday 21 May

4.30am Mangala-arati
5.00am Tulasi arati
6.45am Srimad Bhagavatam class by Srila Prabhupada (video)
7.30am Srila Prabhupada Maha Guru-puja
8.00am Special Darshan of Radha Gopinatha
9.00am Breakfast
11.00am Departure for Harinama Sankirtan downtown commencing Wynyard station
(York Street) 11.30am, ending at approximately 1.30pm
4.00pm Dinner prasadam served for all
5.00pm Evening program commences in temple, kirtan and bhajan, speakers
6.10pm Presentation of 68-page Radha Gopinatha commemorative magazine
6.30pm Speakers
7.00pm Gaura arati and kirtan
7.30pm Speakers
8.00pm Archival slide show, commentary Hari-sauri, Caru dasa and Kurma dasa
9.00pm Sayana arati

Sunday 22 May

4.30am Mangala-arati
5.00am Tulasi arati
7.15am Greeting of the Deities & Srila Prabhupada Guru-puja
7:45am Breakfast
9.15am Assemble for Harbour Cruise (at Jeffrey Street wharf Kirribilli)
10.00am – 2.00pm Sydney Harbour picnic and kirtan cruise
5.00pm Sunday Feast prasadam served
6.00pm Caru dasa presentation “Circle of Protection”
7.00pm Gaura arati
7.30pm Maha Abhisekha of Radha Gopinatha
9.00pm Sayana arati

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Caitanya Mangala, CA, USA: KulimeLA 2009: Krsangi Davis Performing at the Ford Theater in Hollywood

A newly released video of Krsangi Davis performing her “Spark of the Spirit” Dance during the KulimeLA 2009 Gala Evening at the Ford Theater in Hollywood, CA. “A Mosaic of Our Generations” was a night filled with honor, remembrance and celebration.

The main theme for KulimeLA 2009 was to “Honor the Past, Celebrate the Present & Envision the Future.”

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles Gurukuli Reunion, the John Anson Ford Amphitheater, nestled in the Hollywood Hills, was chosen as an ideal location for Kulis to come together to acknowledge their collective history and appreciate the many accomplishments of the pioneer Gurukulis throughout the past two decades.

Dressed in formal and elegant attire, approximately one thousand Vaishnavas gathered to walk the red carpet and participate in an amazing evening that beautifully showcased “A Mosaic of Our Generations.”

CLICK HERE to check out the growing Kuli Mela video and audio selections on Krishna.com.

In the ancient Sanskrit language, “Kuli” refers to a member of a “Community” and “Mela” means “Festive Gathering.” Combined, “Kuli Mela” tranforms into “A Celebration of Community.”

The Kuli Mela Association is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to connect our diverse and dynamic global community. We believe that by encouraging each other along our individual paths and by serving together in our shared goals we can make a positive difference in the world.

For more information please visit our KMA Facebook Page.

 

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Australian News: Our Humble Request

Dear Friends

This year we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s first visit to Australia. After arriving in Sydney in May 1971 Srila Prabhupada installed our beloved deities of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha. That was the official start of ISKCON in Australia.

On May 21 & 22 we are going to have a grand celebration to commemorate these two historical events. We are expecting a hundred of initiated disciples of Srila Prabhupada as well as many other devotees from across Australia arriving for this special occasion. This weekend will be packed with different attractions and will provide to us, Sydney devotees, with great opportunities to serve our guests and associate with so many wonderful souls.

As you can imagine, event like this will require a lot of cooperative work and effort. We, as the hosts of the celebrations, want to make sure that each and every of our guests will leave Sydney Temple with wonderful memories.

We therefore humbly request you to help us in organising these 40th anniversary celebrations. We will require a variety of service across the whole weekend, as well as in days leading up to and time after the festival.

Please contact us if you are willing to offer your time and skills to Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha and serve Them during Their 40th anniversary.
If you have volunteered before, and you’re aware of what you would like to do, then just suggest the area you’d like to be assigned to. Otherwise we will propose the services we require help with the most.

Please specify your availability, indicating date and time you’re accessible. Our volunteer coordinator Rajashekhar Prabhu will assign you to a Department Head, who will instruct you with the relevant details about your service.

We will need help during the entire period between 16-24 of May. The main focus is on the 21 and 22 of May, but if you are available before, or after the festival, we will of course be happy to get your help.

Please don’t miss this great opportunity to serve Radha Gopinatha and Their devotees.

Please express your service availability to Rajashekhar Prabhu : rajib.datta@gmail.com

Thank you very much

In the service of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha
Vara-nayaka das

180 Falcon Street, North Sydney NSW 2060. Australia. Phone: (02) 9959 4558

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Australian News: Srila Prabhupada: The Living Bhagavatam – Seminars by His Grace Hari-Sauri Dasa – Sydney Temple

Srila Prabhupada:
The Living Bhagavatam

Seminars by His Grace Hari-Sauri das

May 17, 18 & 19

Each evening 7:30-9pm

plus morning classes 7:45-9am

Hari-sauri das was born in England on November 17, 1950. He was initiated by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON on April 9, 1972 in Sydney.

He traveled with Srila Prabhupada as his personal servant and authored a series of books ‘A Transcendental Diary’ which detail all the experiences with Srila Prabhupada.

He will speak each morning and evening about his experiences with His Divine Grace so please come and learn about the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON from someone who was near and dear to him.

Offical website: www.lotusimprints.com

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Radio Show- Maha Mantra- with Jaya Radhe Shyam 2007-06-29

Radio Show- Maha Mantra- with Jaya Radhe Shyam 2007-06-29 Portland

Radio Show- Maha Mantra- with Jaya Radhe Shyam 2007-06-29
Radio Show- Maha Mantra- with Jaya Radhe Shyam 2007-06-29 Portland
KPSU Maha Mantra Show

Radio Show- Maha Mantra- with Jaya Radhe Shyam 2007-06-29 Portland

 

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Japa Group: Japa Retreat - Morning Discovery

Here Maharaja gives wonderful insights into chanting in the morning.

 

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Akrura das, Gita Coaching: VAISNAVA FIREWALK WITH LORD JAGANNATHA

This is a photo from 1908.
Maybe you have heard that people do firewalk during courses of a motivational speaker Tony Robbins, to overcome their fears and limitations.
Here you can see Krishna devotees walking with the Deity of Lord Jagannatha on a red-hot coal around the temple in Varanasi, India.

 

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Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: everyone should be strong

You ask me how to recruit strong devotees to come there. You have to prepare strong devotees, not import them. You yourself become strong devotees and teach others by your example. Importation is not a good plan; everyone should be strong by behavior and action.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Gurudasa — Hyderabad 24 April, 1974

 

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David Haslam, UK: Relationship, a life time of service

Have you ever wondered exactly what women get out of relationship, we see soon after the royal wedding that the press took great delight in photographing her doing the weekly shop. And it appears that with them infamous word’s “I do” is spoken it’s a sign up for a life-time of service and despite how [...]

 

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H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Google Group Now Formed for Students of Sankarshan Das Adhikari

A google group has been formed now for the students of His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari. This a place where you can share your realizations and inquire from your fellow students. If you would like to join this group, please go to: http://groups.google.com/group/sda_students Abhay Charan Das

 

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Subhavilasa das ACBSP, Toronto, CA: The Appearance Day of Srimati Sita Devi

Yesterday was the auspicious appearance day of Srimati Sita Devi. Of course the story of Lord Ram and Sita is well know and has been reenacted many times on various temple stages. So today's post focus on the actual appearance day of Srimati Sita Devi and some childhood pastimes which would reveal the glories of Sita Maharani.  

Janaka maharaj was ploughing a piece of land and then to prepare it for conducting a yajna. He unearthed a golden casket in which he found a beautiful girl and was overjoyed. A land ploughed by the yoke is called 'Sita', and so he named the baby as Sita.

Sita grew up and played in the palace of Janakaraj. She became well known for her beauty as well as her devotion. She could often be seen absorbed in the Deity of the Lord of the Surya-vamsa. She would sometimes lovingly enact the pastimes of the various forms of the Lord and relish His pastimes. In this way she revealed to those close to her that she was no ordinary young girl.

One day the  revered sage Parashurama came to visit king Janaka. He carried a bow with him. He left it at the doorstep of the royal hall and went inside. Sita saw the bow, ran to it and began playing with it as if it was a play-horse. Only those with great physical strength and daring could lift and handle the 'Vaishnava' bow. When Parashurama came out, the bow was missing. Ordinary persons could not lift it with ease and he, curiously looking around, spotted Sita playing with it as if it was a play-horse. The sage and the king were astonished.

In Sri Janakatayane it states,   
Oh daughter of Janaka, the blessed souls of refugees!  
Oh Consort of Sri Raghu Rama, bedecked with shining gem-ornaments!
Pray, protect me always!
You are the wind that destroys the clouds of demons like the hundreds-headed Ravana.
You are the indweller in the hearts of the devotees.
Your Feet shine with the lustre of gems set in the crown of Indra.

Jaya Srimati Sita Devi!

 

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Kripamoya dasa, UK: Sri Lakshmi Nrsimha Karavalamba Stotram

Here are the Sanskrit and English Lyrics of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Karavalamba Stotram – the Lakshmi Nrsimha Prayer said to be composed by Adi Shankaracarya. My apologies for any imperfections in the English translation. You can compare the lyrics with the song by watching the video:

Please understand that this is for your interest only. I do not endorse the Advaita philosophy of Adi Shankaracarya as the complete understanding of Vedanta. But I found it ironic that when he really needed help, the great preacher of impersonalism called upon the help of Nrsimha.

Srimat Payonidhi Nikethana Chakra Pane,Bhogeendra Bhoga Mani Rajitha Punya Moorthe,Yogeesa Saswatha Saranya Bhabdhi Potha,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 1

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,Who lives in the ocean of milk,Who holds the holy wheel as weapon,Who wears the gems of the head,Of Adhisesha as ornaments,Who has the form of good and holy deeds,Who is the permanent protection of sages,And who is the boat which helps us cross,This ocean of misery called life,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Brahmendra, Rudra Arka Kireeta Koti,Sangattithangri Kamala Mala Kanthi Kantha,Lakshmi Lasath Kucha Saroruha Raja Hamsa,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 2

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,Whose feet is touched by the crowns,Of Brahma, Indra, Shiva and Sun,Whose shining feet adds to his effulgence,And who is the royal swan playing,Near the breasts of Goddess Lakshmi,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Gora Gahane Charathe Murare,Marogra Bheekara Mruga Pravardhithasya,Aarthasya Mathsara Nidha Chain Peedithasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 3

Oh Great God Lakshmi Narsimha,Oh Lord who killed the Asura called Mura,I have been traveling in the dark forests of day to day life,Where I have been terrified by the lion called desire,And scorched by the heat called competition, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Koopam Adhi Ghora Magadha Moolam,Samprapya Dukha Satha Sarpa Samakulasya,Dheenasya Deva Krupana Padamagadasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 4

Oh Great God Lakshmi Narasimha,I have reached the very dangerous and deep,Bottom of the well of day to day life,And also being troubled by hundreds,Of miseries which are like serpents,And am really miserable and have,Reached the state of wretchedness and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Sagara Vishala Karala Kala,Nakra Graham Grasana Nigraha Vigrahasya,Vyagrasya Raga Rasanormini Peedithasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 5

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have reached this wide unfathomable ocean of day to day life,And I have been caught by black deadly,Crocodiles called time which are killing meAnd I am also afflicted by waves of passion,And attachments to pleasures like taste and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samasra Vrukshamagha Bheeja Manantha Karma,Sakha Satham Karana Pathramananga Pushpam,Aroohasya Dukha Phalitham Pathatho Dayalo,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 6

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have climbed the tree of worldly life,Which grew from the seed of great sin,Which has hundreds of branches of past karmas,Which has leaves which are parts of my body,Which has flowers which are the result of Venus,And which has fruits called sorrow,But I am falling down from it fast and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Sarpa Ghana Vakthra Bhyogra Theevra,Damshtra Karala Visha Daghdha Vinashta Murthe,Naagari Vahana Sudhabhdhi Nivasa Soure,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 7

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,Oh, Lord who rides on the enemy of snakes,Oh, Lord who lives in the ocean of nectar,The serpent of family life has opened,Its fearful mouth with very dangerous,Fangs filled with terrible venom,Which has destroyed me and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Dava Dahanathura Bheekaroru,Jwala Valee Birathi Dhighdha Nooruhasya,Thwat Pada Padma Sarasi Saranagathasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 8

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have been scarred badly by the fire of daily life,And even every single hair of my body,Has been singed by its fearful flames,And I have taken refuge in the lake of your lotus feet, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Jala Pathithasya Jagan Nivasa,Sarvendriyartha Badisartha Jashopamasya,Proth Ganditha Prachoora Thaluka Masthakasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 9

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have been caught in this net of daily life,And all my organs are caught in that web,And the five senses which is the hook,Tears apart my head from me, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsara Bheekara Kareeendra Karabhigatha,Nishpishta Marmma Vapusha Sakalarthi Nasa,Prana Prayana Bhava Bhhethi Samakulasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 10

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have been struck by the fearful king of elephants,Which is the worldly illusion, and my vital parts,Have been completely crushed, and I suffer,From thoughts of life and death, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Andhasya Me Viveka Maha Danasya,Chorai Prabho Bhalibhi Rindriya Nama Deyai,Mohanda Koopa Kuhare Vinipathathasya,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 11

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have become blind because, the sense of discrimination,Has been stolen from me by the thieves of ‘senses’,And I who am blind, have fallen in to the deep well of passion, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Baddhvaa Gale Yamabhataa Bahutarjayantah,Karshhanti Yatra Bhavapaashashatairyutam Maam.Ekaakinam Paravasham Chakitam DayaaloLakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 12

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I have been tied by the soldiers of the God of death,By numerous ropes of worldly attachments,And they are dragging me along by the noose around the neck,And I am alone, tired and afraid, and so Oh merciful one,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Lakshmi Pathe Kamala Nabha Suresa Vishno,Vaikunta Krishna Madhu Soodhana Vishwaroopa,Brahmanya Kesava Janardhana Chakrapane,Devesa Dehi Krupanasya Karavalambam 13

Oh King of Devas,Who is the Lord of Lakshmi, who has a lotus on his belly,Who is Vishnu, the lord of all heavenly beings, who is Vaikunta,Who is Krishna , who is the slayer of Madhu,Who is one with lotus eyes, Who is the knower of Brahman,Who is Kesava, Janardhana, Vasudeva,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Ekena Chakramaparena Karena Shamkha-Manyena Sindhutanyaaamavalambya Tishhthan,Vaame Karena Varadaabhayapadmachihnam,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 14

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,Who holds Sudarshana, the holy wheel in one hand,Who holds the conch in the other hand,Who embraces the daughter of ocean by one hand,And the fourth hand signifies protection and boons, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Samsaara Saagara Nimajjana MuhyamaanamDiinam Vilokaya Vibho Karunaanidhe Maam,Prahlaada Kheda Parihaara ParaavataaraLakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 15

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,I am drowned in the ocean of day to day life,Please protect this poor one, oh, Lord, Oh treasure of compassion,Just as you took a form to remove the sorrows of Prahlada, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Prahlaada Naarada Paraashara Pundariika-Vyaasaadi Bhaagavata Pungavah Rinnivaasa ,Bhaktaanurakta Paripaalana Paarijaata,Lakshmi Nrsimha Mama Dehi Karavalambam 16

Oh Great God Lakshmi Nrsimha,Who dwells in the hearts of great sages like Prahlada,Narada, Parashara, Pundarika and Vyasa,Who loves his devotees and is the wish giving tree,That protects them, and so,Please give me the protection of your hands.

Lakshminrisimha Charana Abja MadhuvratenaStotram Kritam Shubhakaram Bhuvi ShankarenaYe Tatpathanti Manujaa Haribhakti Yuktaa-Ste Yaanti Tatpada Saroja Makhandaruupam 17

This prayer which blesses earth with good things,Is composed by Sankara who is a bee,Drinking deeply the honey from the lotus feet of Lakshmi Nrsimha,And those humans who are blessed with devotion to Hari,Will attain the lotus feet of the Brahman.

Sri Lakshmi Nrsimha Padarpanamasthu
Dedicated to the feet of Lord Lakshmi Nrsimha.

 

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Caitanya Mangala, CA, USA: KulimeLA 2009: Chaitanya-Nitai Performing at the Ford Theater in Hollywood

A newly released video of Chaytanya-Nitai performing her original song during the KulimeLA 2009 Gala Evening at the Ford Theater in Hollywood, CA. She dedicated her song to the Pioneer Kulis “who paved the way.” “A Mosaic of Our Generations” was a night filled with honor, remembrance and celebration.

The main theme for KulimeLA 2009 was to “Honor the Past, Celebrate the Present & Envision the Future.”

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles Gurukuli Reunion, the John Anson Ford Amphitheater, nestled in the Hollywood Hills, was chosen as an ideal location for Kulis to come together to acknowledge their collective history and appreciate the many accomplishments of the pioneer Gurukulis throughout the past two decades.

Dressed in formal and elegant attire, approximately one thousand Vaishnavas gathered to walk the red carpet and participate in an amazing evening that beautifully showcased “A Mosaic of Our Generations.”

CLICK HERE to check out the growing Kuli Mela video and audio selections on Krishna.com.

In the ancient Sanskrit language, “Kuli” refers to a member of a “Community” and “Mela” means “Festive Gathering.” Combined, “Kuli Mela” tranforms into “A Celebration of Community.”

The Kuli Mela Association is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to connect our diverse and dynamic global community. We believe that by encouraging each other along our individual paths and by serving together in our shared goals we can make a positive difference in the world.

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Seminar – Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Summary Day 2

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Seminar - Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Summary Day 2 - 2004-04-25 Radhadesh

SB 2.1.invocation: oḿ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

O my Lord, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

SB 2.1.invocation: oḿ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

¡Oh, mi Señor, la omnipresente Personalidad de Dios!, te ofrezco mis respetuosas reverencias.

SB 2.1.invocation: oḿ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

O Seigneur, ô Toi l'omniprésente Personne Divine, je T'offre mon hommage respectueux.

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Seminar - Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Summary Day 2 - 2004-04-25 Radhadesh

 

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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Seminar – Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Summary Day 1

H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Seminar – Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Summary Day 1

SB 2.1.invocation: oḿ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

O my Lord, the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

SB 2.1.invocation: oḿ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

¡Oh, mi Señor, la omnipresente Personalidad de Dios!, te ofrezco mis respetuosas reverencias.

SB 2.1.invocation: oḿ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

O Seigneur, ô Toi l'omniprésente Personne Divine, je T'offre mon hommage respectueux.

SB Canto 2 Summary Day 1 - 2004-04-24
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H.H. Prahladananda Swami: Seminar – Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 2 Summary Day 1

 

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Akrura das, Gita Coaching: Six Step Weekly Planning Process

Click on the title to access the Six Step Process.

If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.

TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS
1. Organize and execute around your highest priorities
2. Ask yourself often during the day: What is the most valuable use of my time - right now.
3. Manage time based on relationships not tasks.

 

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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami (Ret.): 308—Poem for May 12

www.sdgonline.org.

5:01 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 12

I endured a night of
headache and woke at 12:30
and took a med. Baladeva
reprimanded me for getting up
too early, but I like to begin
my japa by 2:00 A.M.
It’s better that way, and
then I can begin the poem.

In our reading of Cc.
Lord Caitanya is teaching
how the pure soul becomes
bewildered by maya whose
business is to make the living
entity think he is the product of
the material energy. Forgetting
Krishna, he suffers in many ways.
Reading useless literature
doesn’t help.

When I woke up I saw
a police car on the road
with flashing lights.
He was checking out a
driver for violations.
I feared when I turned on
my light he might knock
on our door and ask
me why I was up
so early.

In the autobiog. yesterday
I wrote of Prabhupada’s contribution of writing books.
I described his work and
said it would convince anyone
to become a devotee of
Krishna and stave off
the onslaught of atheism
so predominant in our
age.

My little life is
so small I don’t find
much to say, just
bare bones of a
quiet day. I sing
my creative energy
in a lyric of pure
freedom meant to
please music lovers
if there are any still
remaining in the world.
I make my song because
I am like the predawn
birds, and I have the urge
to play like the melodists
of jazz.

 

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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami (Ret.): OLD FRIENDS

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From Prabhupada Meditations, Volume III

Remembering Prabhupada

“When I was eight years old and in the fourth grade of elementary school, Miss Williams taught us a good lesson about forgetfulness. Some students had forgotten to do their homework, so she wrote the word ‘FORGET’ on the blackboard in very large letters. She then drew many arrows shooting at the word. It was a bad thing to forget. Later, Miss Williams covered up that section of the blackboard with a map of the United States. We all forgot what was underneath, but at the end of the year she removed the map and there it was—FORGET.

“Some forgetting is good. Prabhupada says, ‘We have to forgive and forget, or how can we live?’ Forget grudges and forgive minor offenses that people may commit against us. We should never forget Krishna, however, and we should always shoot arrows at our forgetfulness of Prabhupada. According to the scriptures, even a moment’s forgetfulness of the Lord and His pure devotee is the greatest loss .

“How do I remember Prabhupada? First of all, I remember that there was (and is) such a person as Prabhupada. Descartes said, ‘I think, therefore I am.’ That was his bottom line of truth. Our bottom line is, ‘I remember Prabhupada, therefore I am.’ I am now in spiritual life because my spiritual master delivered me from darkness. I do not forget that. I remember him and follow him.

“Our remembrance of Srila Prabhupada is more than nostalgia for a wonderful person who was here but who is now gone. Remembering Prabhupada is the cutting edge of our life at every moment. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said that when one forgets his guru, then all one thinks of is, ‘I run in a hurry for my bath. I become busy for preventing a cold. I run after other occupations different from the service of Sri Gurudeva.’ Basic remembrance of Prabhupada refers to the promises we made him at our initiations—the four rules and sixteen rounds and other obligations. We aspire to be Krishna conscious and to read Bhagavad-gita and his other books. We aspire to serve among his devotees.

“When we remember him in personal ways, that is the sweetness which makes life worth living. We may say duty is enough, but who does not crave joy, ‘the nectar for which we are always anxious?’

“I remember the soft saffron on Prabhupada’s body. I sense his stature. He was not tall or fat, but neither do we think of him as ‘gaunt.’ None of these words seem to apply. We met him in his seventieth year, yet we remember his graceful form. The movements of his fingers, hands, wrists, never lost grace, never slowed down or showed signs of palsy. He extended his pinky  in a delicate way when putting on tilaka, and his fingers did their ‘dance’ of spontaneous mudras while he lectured. The rest of Prabhupada’s body was also graceful. Grace is not possessed only by a youngster on a trampoline or by a ballet dancer leaping. Prabhupada was graceful in the way he used his cane and the way he put his feet forward when he walked briskly. He was graceful in the way he turned to someone who called his name. He opened and closed books and picked up objects from his desk in the same flowing way.

“When Prabhupada went on a morning walk, often a group of latecomers would catch up to him. Prabhupada turned and waited as they came forward happily and submissively. We liked being his disciples. His personal command and protection were so charming that it kept scores of devotees eager to follow him.

“Even if Prabhupada were to do something that might be considered ungraceful, our hearts went out to him with affection and protection. If Prabhupada stumbled on a rock in his path, we would not suddenly think, ‘Oh, this is not graceful.’ If a pretty girl suddenly bumps into a wall or gets her hat knocked forward, we may feel scorn and some humor, ‘Just see, the beautiful girl has lost her poise in the light of harsh reality.’ However, if Prabhupada bumped up against a material edge, we were hurt and worried. We rushed forward to help. That is what I mean by seeing him with love.

“We were not blind to the fact that Prabhupada was growing old, or that he was becoming ill and had to confront some awkward moments in the material world. These things, though, did not diminish the pure relationship of guru and disciple. Prabhupada had proven hundreds of times that he was the empowered representative of Krishna. He delivered us and continued to deliver us from maya by his many speeches and purports. He demonstrated his self-sacrifice by traveling many times around the world, always extending himself to help people. There seemed to be no reward for him, and there was nothing further he that had to prove. Still, he served the devotees and served the people of this world on behalf of Krishna. Whatever he did, nothing changed our fixed opinion of him as our worshipable guru.”

From In Praise of the Mahajanas and Other Poems (1983)

“Svayambhuva Manu

“Empowered energy of Hari,
to protect the virtuous and kill the demons,
he moves with the power of combined gods,
sun, fire, wind, punishment, piety,
and directly brings the will of Vishnu
to the entire earth and populace.

Nowhere to be found such kings today?
Yet if the people want it,
by proper training,
the ksatriyas can return,
but if it’s sin you cherish in your secular state,
then keep the rule by rascals,
and thus we have our pandemonium state.

Unlike the Kumaras,
he obeyed Lord Brahma
when asked to marry
for the purpose of beginning the world.
Over thousands of years he never grew weary,
his secret was ascetic devotion.

A Krishna-conscious king—
bold and fierce in military might
yet submissive to the right
of the brahmanas.
The demons
saw a lion in rage, but like a lamb
he approached the sage Kardama
and asked him to please
accept a perfect wife,
Manu’s daughter, Devahuti.

Although amidst riches
in his ksatriya palace,
he never succumbed
to lust, greed or malice.
The earth wails today
and its people are devoured
for the lack of such a king.
Our prayers and endeavors
are for his return—
the ushering in of bhagavat-dharma,
led by its protector,
a royal sage.

From Spiritualized Dictionary

“Overtone

“‘1. One of the constituent higher tones that, with the fundamental, comprise a musical tone; HARMONIC. 2. The color of the light reflected (as by a paint or varnish film) 3. A secondary or accompanying effect, quality or meaning usually of subtle or elusive character; IMPLICATION, SUGGESTION [An overtone, an aftertaste, a flavor that lingers in the mind].’

“Tones and overtones—it’s nice to have subtleties to create harmonics. Krishna consciousness is complicated like that too. The harmonics in spiritual life are created by tones and overtones, obvious and subtle meanings. It’s not complicated in the sense of a knot that needs to be untied, but in a pleasantly-layered way.

“For example, Balarama is Krishna’s servant, but there is an overtone of being Krishna’s older brother. Each group of gopis has different tones in their dealings with Krishna, and as the groups come together and separate, the groups blend and mix and then separate again. In this way, an unlimited variety of moods and exchanges are created. In our neophyte stage, we may not understand the richness of this variety, but as we advance and find our own love for Krishna, we will begin to understand more the subtlety of exchange. When the tones are combined properly in pure devotional service, the mixtures are beautiful. When they are not, it’s called rasa-bhasa, the overlapping of mellows that produces a discordant effect. Maternal affection for Krishna doesn’t mix properly with conjugal affection, for example. And there are other examples.

“Even in our life in this world, we can see this harmonic or discordant mixing. Suffering is often mixed with relief, and happiness contains an overtone of sadness. Life is bittersweet. In the absolute world, bitter and sweet do not conflict because Krishna is the master symphonic director.

“Krishna directs the entire material creation, but He keeps His distance from its workings because the jivas in the material world are not responsive. In an orchestra, the musicians follow even the most subtle hints and gestures in order to bring out the pathos, then the joy, the fortissimo, then the softness of the music. In the material world, the jivas do not look to Krishna for their direction. Therefore Krishna turns them over to the directress of this sphere. And she doesn’t use a baton to direct them, but a three-pronged fork made of the material modes.

“In the spiritual world, however, the jivas are different. They have surrendered everything to Krishna’s direction, to Krishna’s pleasure. Krishna doesn’t use a baton there either, He uses His eyebrows or His smile or the gestures of His eyes. The rasa dance is the apex of Krishna’s directions, and the gopis follow His slightest indication. Krishna doesn’t have to give orders in the spiritual world. He is so attractive to the devotees that they are mad with the desire to serve Him. The cowherd boys know when to fan Him, when to massage Him, and when to challenge Him to a wrestling match. They are expert. When they tell Krishna they are hungry, it is because they think Krishna might be hungry. By seeming to allow Krishna to serve them, they are able to give Him the highest pleasure. Krishna likes to orchestrate happiness in the hearts of His devotees.

“The image of Krishna as symphonic director is appropriate. When Lord Brahma returned the stolen calves and cowherd boys, Krishna displayed His Vishnu forms. Around each Vishnu form, Brahmas, Sivas, demigods and even insignificant living beings were dancing, accompanied by various kinds of music, and worshiping Lord Vishnu. The entire universe—all existence—is a kind of dance. Only in the spiritual world, however, are the devotees attuned to Krishna’s harmonies and overtones and able to play with Him. In this way they create the different layers and blends of feelings that comprise ananda.”

 

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Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Recipe : I’m A Winner

 

So excited! I won a prize! Couldn’t have done it without my friend Padi, who won 2 skycouch tickets to New Zealand the other month. People really do win! But you have to be in it to win it! So now I enter every contest I see!

Okay. Details. This was a recipe contest from Earth Balance.

I won 12 coupons for free Earth Balance products (aka a year supply), a bamboo cutting board, oven mitt and a copy of Forks Over Knives, t-shirt and a measuring cup! Squeeeeee!!!

Plus, I (along with 7 others) are eligible for the grand prize…

Tickets for 2 to NYC! Two nights in a hotel! A day at the Aveda Spa! Dinner @ Candle79 + your dish on the menu for one night!

I really want to win. Like, really really.

Sure I grew up in NJ, 30 minutes outside New York but I live in Florida now. And besides, New York is a whole different place from the New York I went to while in high school. There’s all new buildings!

Visit the Made Just Right page to view my winning recipe, which I designed with Candle79 specifically in mind. Doesn’t it seem like the kind of dish that a fancy vegan NYC restaurant would serve?

But that’s not all! I entered a bunch of recipes. Check them out here.

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ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Nrsimha Caturdasi Celebrations on Sunday!

Nrsimha Caturdasi celebrations mark the appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva, Krishna’s half-man half-lion incarnation who appeared in order to protect the saintly child Prahlada who was being tormented by his father, Hiranyakashipu.

This year, Nrsimha Caturdasi falls on Monday, May 16th however, celebrations will be taking place at the Hare Krishna Temple on Sunday, May 15th during our weekly Sunday Feast.

The festival will begin at 6:00pm and will feature a grand abhisheka (bathing ceremony) of Lord Nrsimhadeva, an interesting discourse on his appearance and qualities and amazing kirtan!

The schedule for the program is as follows (subject to change):
6:00pm to 6:25pm - Kirtan (Arati)
6:25pm to 6:30pm - Nrsimhadeva Prayers led by the Sunday School Children

6:30pm to 6:40pm - Welcome and Announcements
6:40pm to 7:25pm - Discourse on Lord Nrsimhadeva
7:25pm to 8:00pm - Special Abhiskeka (bathing ceremony)
8:00pm to 8:30pm - Kirtan (Arati)
8:30pm - Vegetarian Feast (Prasadam)

Due to the grand celebrations on Sunday, we wont be having a special program for Nrsimha Caturdasi on Monday. We hope to see you and your family at the celebrations!

 

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Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: How Have I Found You?

I have not been posting not for lack of topics. The garden is ongoing and full of news, and the Festival of Inspiration was a wealth of bloggable occurrences. I hope to get to some of that later.

Here is a quick post, a list of search terms that brought visitors to my blog yesterday.

 

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my father and the fig tree 1
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Giridhari das, Brasilia, Brazil: Angry Birds™ Yoga – How to Eliminate the Green Pigs in Your Life, Final Part

This is the fifth and final part of the “Angry Birds™ Yoga” series. Click here for Part I,  here for Part II, here for Part III and here for Part IV.

The Green Pigs

The Green Pigs are your enemies in life. Enemies who steal your happiness and your peace of mind, who trick you into living an unfulfilled life, and who cheat you out of the unlimited greatness you deserve.

The Small Pigs are those little things we do that make our lives worse, including: prolonging those habits we know to be bad, overworking, lying, over-eating, under-sleeping, long distance commuting to work, and not getting enough fresh air and contact with nature. It’s fairly easy to eliminate these Small Green Pigs if you take your wellbeing seriously.

The larger Green Pigs are greed, lust, madness, hatred, illusion, arrogance, envy and fear. Often they are further protected by helmets, hard-hats, sombreros, etc! These are very, very difficult to defeat. Only the Angry Birds™ Yoga pros have a chance to defeat them all.  The first step in eliminating them from your life, though, is just being aware of them – “know thy enemy.” Just being aware of them and recognizing how they bring you misery is a significant part of the process. People often think these qualities are bad for the victims, but actually the misery starts with the perpetrator. Being in a greedy, hateful, arrogant, etc. state of mind is in itself miserable and frustrating, what to speak of the awful results that will come to a person who acts out these states, and to the other people around him or her.

The Boss and King Pigs represent the very root of all our suffering: ignorance. Ignorance of our true nature, ignorance of what our true priorities are, ignorance of where we came from and where we’re going, ignorance of what we should do with our life, and ignorance of the divine – these lead to all the other problems.

The Bricks

It’s hard enough eliminating the Green Pigs when they are fully exposed, but often they are further covered by bricks of three sorts.

The Glass Brick represents laziness.  Most of us are unbelievably lazy when it comes to working on being a better person or on self-realization. If we don’t overcome this laziness, there is no hope for happiness. This has nothing to do with regular laziness. You can be a go-getter, hard-working rat race master and still be totally lazy when it comes to working on becoming a better person.

The Wood Brick represents false precepts and false concepts. We plan our whole life on erroneous notions of who we are and what’s good for us. We so often strive for the useless, ignore the essential and basically drive ourselves into a ditch of mediocrity and frustration.

The Stone Brick represents lack of mental clarity, confusion.  Bad lifestyle choices, pollution, noise and being too busy will cloud our mind and keep us dull and confused. In such a state, what hope do we have of being happy?

The Slingshot

The Sligshot is our life force, called prana in the Indian tradition and qi (chi) in the Chinese tradition. Our life force is limited. We only have so much time, so much intelligence, so much physical and mental energy. We have to use it wisely. We have to direct our life properly. We have to aim well, otherwise there is no chance we’ll do our best in life. The little things matter. Life is built from one action to another, from one word to another – right now.

Parting Words

By seeking wisdom (White Bird) and using your intelligence (Yellow Bird), by remembering your true nature (Blue Bird), by practicing meditation (Black Bird), living a noble life (Boomerang Bird), controlling your senses, starting with the tongue (Red Bird), with great determination (Big Red Bird) and last, but not least, seeking always the help of the Divine (the Mighty Eagle), you can blast away the Green Pigs of destructive mentality and lead a truly blissful and enlightened life!

I hope this brief presentation of Angry Birds™ Yoga has been helpful. If you want to learn more about the topics covered here, get in touch with me. It will be my pleasure to discuss them with you.

 

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Dandavats.com: Summer in Paradise

By Shyamsunder- Priya das

I am 14 and I rarely go to a temple except of course before exams, to pray to get good marks. Well it all started like this, I was as usual busy playing game on my Computer and my Mom was in the kitchen cooking, my father came in saying he came across this Bhakti Yoga Residential summer camp pamphlet at the RTC Complex and both my parents buried themselves into it, I was unaffected until they told me they have decided I will be going there. I immediately protested ” I am not going anywhere”

 

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Dandavats.com: Cakra-bandha for Srila Prabhupada

By Bh.Demian

Sanskrit poetry is enriched with a great variety of metrical patterns, figures of expression, and innumerable other features. The mere combination of short and long syllables in verses that have from one to twenty six syllables per quarter makes a total of 67.108,864 possibilities

 

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Dandavats.com: 35th Annual Panihati Festival - Atlanta

Sikhi Mahiti das: We have reached another ISKCON milestone, 35 years of Panihati festival at ISKCON Atlanta! The first Panihati Festival was celebrated at ISKCON Atlanta in 1976. There have been memorable events since then. Most recently, HH Jayapataka Swami attending the festival after his devastating stroke in 2009. When we asked about how to run the festival without his presences, he stated "I have never missed a Panihati festival and I don't plan on missing one now". Which brings us to the next milestone

 

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Mayapur Online: Blue Madhava

For the past seven days, we have been blessed with Radha Madhava wearing different vesas for our darshan. Today Madhava and Giriraj are anointed with beautiful blue candan. Blue Madhava darshan is one of the two famous darshans of the chandan yatra festival, the other is yet to come where he will be dawning rainbow colored chandan.

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Dandavats.com: Vaisnavi Seminar in Goloka Dhama Germany

Shyam Nama Dasi: Seminar Week Vaishnavis and women from 22.05.-05.29.2011 in Goloka Dhama Experience one week of spiritual Vaishnavi-Sanga in Goloka Dhama in the community of advanced devotees including HG Srimati Narayani Devi Dasi, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, a teacher at VIHE (Vrndavana Institute for Higher Education) and author of several books on the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad Gita

 

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H.H. Sivarama Swami

Nondevotees never care to take any instruction from the Lord, and therefore the Lord is silent in their case, although He witnesses all their activities and awards them the necessary results, good or bad.

- Srila Prabhupada

 

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Committed Couples

Moundsville, West Virginia

There have been alot of talking about parenting, coupling, and overall healthy relationships. Husbands and wives have united here at ISKCON's Moundsville country retreat, New Vrndavan, to take advantage of the seminars, a spin-off of "The Festival of Inspiration." These seminars are basically a reinforcement of the family unit. Called the Grhasta Vision Team these successful couples from various locations in North America do not exactly renew their marriage vows from decades past but they are here priming themselves for marriage counselling to others.

There is a great need-an understatement.

My personal admiration goes out to the cause and to those who have taken it up. It is a brave challenge. The war on the family is on. The state of ruined relationships that had potential to survive is disheartening. However, in spiritual circles such as the Grhasta group (grhasta meaning married person) is created.

This past weekend, and the follow up last two days have been encouraging for hopeful future couples as mentors sharpened their tools. I have sat in on some of these seminars as time allows and have come out feeling that warriors against the weakening of families are now well prepared.

I have made one observation about a couple I adore who are just totally committed to each other. I see them ever day in the waking hours as I do my walk, a loop around the lake.

This morning they were sitting together. Usually he was swimming in that very lake at whose edge they live. He enjoys the swim, actually more of a glide, while she is under a tree resting. He is most patient and she, maybe more. There on a pile of her homemade nest she roosts. She's expecting. She's a swan, a white swan and so is he. Each night they rest by each other's side expressing full loyalty.
Good role models, I'd say

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H.H. Sivarama Swami

According to one’s attitude, Krishna becomes one’s direct adviser, or Krishna becomes unknown. This is not Krishna’s partiality; it is His response to one’s ability to understand Him.

- Srila Prabhupada

 

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

In Order

Wheeling West Virginia

I don't always bother with names to county roads. We just walk them. Today the Miami crew and I took to the curvy northwest direction down a valley. We dropped in at a ghee factory and just beyond that a barn of mature cows and bulls, referred to as "aging cows"

Ghee, cows, country trails, walking. You can't get more satvic (mode of goodness).

For day two of Wheeling our chanting party set oursevles up at a park on the Ohio River. Not only was the spot more pretty than the previous day, people were also pleasant along the natural ambiance. A municipal statue of Walter Reuther, auto union leaders, and father of a friend, Lekhasravanti, looks over the the river.

It was the first time I had a violinst to play along as we broke from sitting. Allan a novice devotee of Puerto Recan decendt played a sweet violin as we passed by the city arena, and entered the "vibrant warehouse district".

I was rather pleased with his sound. It grabbed my attention a tough thing to do especially due to my meticulous nature when doing street chanting. Today as in all times in the public I insisted on a standard of discipline beginning with playing of the instruments to the way of the walking down the street. There must be some formation. I may tend to be a trite artistically militaristic about it. Our devotees are not always too accustomed to the approach.

"Two by two, two lines please." I shouted over their responsive voices to the mantra. Somehow they accepted the command until I must say it again because the lack of order has become a habit.

I believe in "Take order and there will be order."

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H.H. Sivarama Swami: Jesper Angenent asks

H.H. Sivarama Swami: Jesper Angenent asks

Jesper Angenent asks

“Can you kindly clarify what is recommended to read? Sometimes we hear that only by Gaura Nitai’s mercy can we get into Krishna Lila.

So should we first become atracted to Gaura Lila especialy when we are in the stage of Anartha Nivritti?”

H.H. Sivarama Swami: Jesper Angenent asks

 

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Monday, May 9th, 2011

Feeling Out Wheeling

Wheeling West, Virginia.

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder," was the theme of the class from Canto 10 of the book, Bhagavatam. Dravida, an expert at Sanskrit recitation of spiritual-evolved verses, was the morning's pundit. He affirmed that topic of a lofty nature is interaction between Krishna and His most cherished devotees involves being aware of thier confidentiality but to take a cautious path when entering into such mysteries. Such topics could be taken as mundane affairs and perceived as cheap. The phrase he used to describe premature advances into spiritual confidentiality as "sahajiya" which means easy. In any event Dravida's delivery was insightful.

After the class and a bulky breakfast a small band of pilgrims including myself and a brand new monk from Miami, Allen, set foot on an abandoned road trails in the area-trails that led to more abandonment. Homesteads now left to nature's whim were sights we came upon. Even the home, where our guru, Srila Prabhupada, had stayed in the seventies, still for the most part it remained intact.

Wander we did. Explore also. Plants of numerous kinds intrigued us. Signs of wild life by way of footprints and feces made us aware. People rarely hit the trail of our journey. Tics did land on us and our diligence at flicking off the little unfavorable bugs was a must. They seemed to like my legs. Upon returning for a shower before a chanting party engagement, these lyme disease carriers ended up crawling the with of my dhoti(lower robe). Disposing of them was not easy.

We spanned ten kilometers of bush trekking. And then three more in the city of Wheeling in the shape of a chanting party, caught people's interest. Here also in the city a human being is hard to find. The streets appeared to be abandoned. Motorists were abundent.

As we moved along these streets with our forty-strong chanters, both men and women, I caught at an eye's glance a piece of history from the municipals plaques. Apparently the famous cross country US trekkers Lewis and Clarke camped out here at Wheeling on the Ohio River in 1805. Their adventures were well recorded. Also of interest was that the American Civil War began here in the hills of West Virginia, near this area.

Rich history. Yes. And now Wheeling's downtown maybe all the more rich with some awesome sound vibration in the air.

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New Vrndavan, USA: 24 Hour Kirtan 2011 – June 18-19

 

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The 24-Hour Kirtan (24HK) is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. The dates for this year’s festival are June 18-19, 2011. Held in the foothills of West Virginia at the Krishna farm community of New Vrindaban, the festival offers an opportunity to chant shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most gifted Mantra Music artists in the world. For the nearly 1000 people who attend this festival each year, it marks the beginning of Summer. Taking place on the third weekend in June, as per tradition, it falls one week after the New York Ratha-Yatra. The festival is free to all who attend including meals throughout the weekend. A $25 suggested donation is requested to help cover the costs of running the festival. Larger donations and sponsorships are welcome and can be made from www.Mantralogy.com/24.

 

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Sutapa das, BV Manor, UK: Split personality

Many of us on the spiritual path lead double lives. Carefully avoiding the image of a Bible-bashing religious nerd, we often end up hiding our spirituality and even compromising our principles just to fit into the crowd. Initially, people may appreciate the added spiritual dimension to life, but when ones interest grows, commitment deepens and priorities begin to change, that’s when the alarm bells start to ring. Parents are happy with the morality and principles that practice of spirituality brings, but later they fear you may become too detached from the world, lose your drive for success and renounce your duties towards the family. Friends think it’s cool and funky to ’think deeper’, but later they complain that you’ve changed and how your company no longer stimulates them. How do we balance our spiritual journey with our worldly relationships? Is it possible to maintain your principles without becoming a social outcaste?

In the second chapter of the Bhagavad-gita Krishna explains that “what is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.” Once, when asked what the purport of this statement was, Srila Prabhupada replied “they think you are crazy and you think they are crazy!” Materialists look at spiritualists and pity what they see as a conservative life of self denial and childish fairytale. Spiritualists look at materialists and lament their illusory pursuits for pleasure, foreseeing the frustration that comes from seeking substance in the shadow. Everyone has their own take on life. I guess the most important thing for a spiritualist is to come to terms with who they really are. There comes a point when you realize that life is too short to put up false pretenses and masks. If you’re not comfortable with yourself, don’t expect anyone else to be.

Interestingly, as a spiritualist matures, he is not only unaffected by the skepticism of others, but by his conviction and inspiration he can often influence and transform those very same people. Going to a deeper level, we realize we have lots in common with others. Everyone, despite their desires, aspirations and goals in life are all actually looking for the same things – peace, love, achievement, relationships, security etc. The only difference is that we are all looking in different places. In this way, a spiritualist need not see himself as a black sheep, standing out like a sore thumb in society. Rather they can be likened to a drop of red ink thrown into a pool of water – by boldly taking the plunge and confidently expressing themselves, they will colorfully enrich the lives of everyone around them.

 

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Mukunda Charan das, SA: It Is A Shame We Don’t Know Who We Are

‘It is a shame and unfortunate that through our own fault we don’t understand ourselves or know who we are. Wouldn’t it show great ignorance, my daughters, if someone when asked who he was didn’t know, and didn’t know his father or mother or from what country he came from? Well now, if this would be so extremely stupid, we are incomparably more so when we do not strive to know who we are, but limit ourselves to considering only roughly these bodies. Because we have heard and because faith tells us so, we know we have souls. But we seldom consider the precious things that can be found in this soul, or who dwells within it, or its high value. Consequently, little effort is made to preserve its beauty. All our attention is taken up…with these bodies of ours.’

(St. Theresa of Avila, The Interior Castle 1.1.2)

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Madri dd, South Africa: Namamrta Level 1 in Mauritius - 14-17th April 2011

The Bhaktivedanta College on Education and Culture (BCEC) held its second Namamrta. Level 1 Program in La Laura, Mauritius recently. Over fifty enthusiastic participtants gathered at a home in the centre of the island with determination to improve their chanting of the holy names. Those who attended the first such program cooked sumptuous prasad for all and allowed the previous cooks to attend.

Founder and Co-international director of BCEC - HH Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami co facilitates the course.



Co-international director of BCEC - HG Nrsimhananda dasa co- facilitates the course

 

Part of the group of attendees



Part of the attendees during japa session

Enthusiastic and grateful group

Part of the group

Comments: Vijaya dasa: Excellent sadhu sanga! The foour days left me with fresh enthusiasm for chanting my rounds.
 Madhava-lata dasi: Absolutely fabulous! I wish there could be more and more programs like this.
Kishan: This program has motivated me to practice devotional service with more vigor and attention.
Vedita: Outstanding. The days I spent at this program were the best days of my entire life.
Bhakta Ramprakash Bhantoo: I have learnt what the obstacles were in my attempts at spiritual progress. This was the most important four days of my life.
Jayashri devi dasi: The clarity and indept explanations were so simple yet so profound. It all went srtaight to my heart.
Bhakta Ram: This program was great. It was life altering!!!

 

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Gouranga TV: Kirtana

Kirtana; Jahnavi

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Australian News: Chandana Yatra Mahotsava: A multimedia event

“CHANDANA YATRA MAHOTSAVA” Begins on Akshaya Tritiya 6 May11 for 21 days
by Chandan Bhatia

A few years back HH Jaypataka Swami wrote on Chandana Yatra as follows:

In Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir the devotees were observing the charming and beautiful Chandana Yatra festival at ISKCON Sri Mayapur. Every day hundreds of devotees spent some time making sandalwood paste by grinding the wood on a stone grinder. This sandalwood paste is applied to the bodies of Lord Madhava and Nrsimhadeva. Jala-dana festival was also going on—-dripping water on the Shaligram Sila and Tulasi. In the afternoons the original Deities of Sri Sri Radha Madhava were taken to Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi lake and a beautiful boat festival was observed. The boat was decorated like a silver swan with a temple on it. After the boat pastimes the Sri Sri Radha Madhava were places in a flower house and swung in Jhulan style with devotees chanting and dancing before them. Like this every day of Chandana Yatra is a colorful festival filled with life and joy.

“Chandana yatra” starts on the third lunar day of the waxing moon of Vaisakha month, and continues for twenty days. Lord Jagannatha gave direct instructions to King Indradyumna to perform this festival at this time. Smearing the body of the Lord with ointments is an act of devotion, and the best of ointments is sandalwood paste. Since the month of Vaisakha is very hot in India, the cooling effect of the sandalwood is very pleasing to the body of the Lord.

Sandalwood paste is applied all over the body of Jagannatha leaving only his two eyes visible. The utsava murtis (functional Deities – Vijay utsav) are taken on procession and are placed in a boat in the temple pond. To commemorate this festival, Lord Caitanya also carried out water sports with his devotees.

Akshaya Trutiya tithi marks the beginning of the construction of the Rathas (chariots) for the ceremonial journey and sojourn of Lord Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra at the Gundicha Temple in Jagannatha Puri for a week.

Akshaya Tritiya:

Chandana yatra starts on this day, which is celebrated as well as the day on which Treta yuga began. Barley, one of the main ingredients for homa, which is the yuga dharma of Treta Yuga, was also created on this day.

Ganga devi also descended to earth on this day. Many common people have special puja on this day. One should bathe in a sacred river, give charity, perform japa and offer barley in a sacred fire, and offer barley preparations to the deity.

Akshaya Tritiya day is the very auspicious day – there’s no inauspiciousness to be found today so even checking muhurthas is considered unnecessary, so auspicious it is. Whatever one does for devotees, and for Krishna that person will get more benefit and it is eternal benefit and never lost. He said one story of a brahmana: there was a brahmana who had a very good wife and was poor. Whatever little money he got would get spent somehow.

Also he did not have children. So under the strong request of his wife he went to Vasishta muni to know the reason for his suffering. Vasishta muni told him that in his previous life he was very rich and also had many children. But he was very stingy, he was not even spending for his own children. This is the reason for his being poor, also without children. Then that brahmana asked Vasishta muni why he got a good wife. So that Muni replied that somehow with some reason, he observed that the vrata of Vaishaka month for the last 5 days. So he got a good wife and also the brahmana birth. Then the muni advised him to follow at least the last 7 days left of Vaishaka month, with devotion to Lord Sri Krishna.

Since that brahmana observed the vrata of Vaishaka month for that at least the left out 7 days, he got sons, he became rich, ultimately he got Love of Godhead and went back to the spiritual world!

It is important to hear such a story/pastimes as this so that at least by hearing this, we engage ourselves in the service of Guru, the Vaishnavas and Krishna. Thus becoming inspired to always render service the devotee is always the beneficiary of such interaction with the Vaishnavas, one’s Guru and Lord Sri Krishna.

Live video and audio (with moving pictures) broadcast is now available from Sridham Mayapur

Please visit: http://mayapur.tv for the ecstatic darshan of Their Lordships!

Please find below the pictures from last year’s “Chandana Yatra Mahotsav” at Sridham Mayapur!

Simultaneously live video and audio broadcasts are also from the Temples around the world – London, Los Angeles, Prabhupada TV, live coverage of Jagannatha Rathayatra’s from around the world etc.

Morning darshan at Sridham Mayapur start at 7am India-time (GMT+5:30hrs) everyday.

SRI SRI RADHA-MADHAVA

“Cintamani Krishna-Vesha”

Cintamani Krishna – It refers to nectarean amorous pastimes of Sri Sri Radha & Krishna standing near shore of Yamuna decorated with golden pavements standing with their beautiful ornaments.

“The supreme abode of the Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is described in the Brahma-samhita as cintamani-dhama, a place where all desires are fulfilled. The supreme abode of Lord Krishna known as Goloka Vrindavana is full of palaces made of touchstone. There are also trees which are called “desire trees” that supply any type of eatable upon demand, and there are cows known as surabhi cows which supply a limitless supply of milk. In this abode the Lord is served by hundreds of thousands of goddesses of fortune (Lakshmis), and He is called Govinda, the primal Lord and the cause of all causes. The Lord is accustomed to blow His flute (venum kvanantam). His transcendental form is the most attractive in all the worlds — His eyes are like the lotus petals and the color of His body like clouds. He is so attractive that His beauty excels that of thousands of cupids.”

Sri Sri Radha-Madhava in “Lord Nrsimhadeva Vesha” on Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Appearance day

Morning Guru Puja and Puspyapanjali

Srila Prabhupada on palanquin for Temple Parikrama during morning darshan

Chandana-Yatra Mahotsav:

First day of Chandana Yatra-pictures-2010! http://Mayapur.com/node/1330

Chandana Yatra pictures http://Mayapur.com/gallery&g2_itemId=58244

Blue ‘Jagannatha’ darshan! http://Mayapur.com/node/1332

Vesha’s offered for Chandana Yatrahttp://Mayapur.com/node/1333

Chariot of Cupid: http://Mayapur.com/node/1347

Boat Festival:

Sri Sri Radha-Madhava Boat Festival!

 

Screensaver – Sri Sri Radha-Madhava Boat Festival! (downloadable) http://screensavers.iskcondesiretree.info/ISKCON_Mayapur_Screensavers/Sri_Radha_Madhava_Boat_Festival_Screen_Saver.exe

My Sweet Lord

Mayapur.tv Daily Schedule (Indian time):

4:30am-5:15am Mangala Arati (camera attended)

5:15am-7am Live Bhajans from Srila Prabhupada’s 24-hour Bhajan Kutir

7am-8am Morning Darshan & Arati of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Madhava, Sri Pancha-Tattva, Lord Nrsimhadeva, Guru Puja (camera attended)

8am-8:45am Srimad-Bhagavatam class (camera attended)

8:45am-10am Live Bhajans from Srila Prabhupada’s 24-hour Bhajan Kutir

10am-12pm Live Bhajans from Sri Mayapur Chandodaya Temple

12pm-1pm Bhoga Arati (camera attended)

1pm-4pm Live Bhajans from Srila Prabhupada’s 24-hour Bhajan Kutir

4pm-5:45pm Live Bhajans from Sri Mayapur Chandodaya Temple

5:45pm-8:30pm Gaura-Arati & temple programmes (camera attended)

8:30pm-4:30pm Live Bhajans from Srila Prabhupada’s 24-hour Bhajan Kutir

MAYAPUR TV:http://Mayapur.tv

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Vraja Kishor, JP: A Higher Taste

The Sixth Stage of Bhakti Yoga: “Taste”

Image by zigazou76 via Flickr

The heart is like a goldsmith’s forge. Devotional practice is the fire of that forge. Divine love begins as raw gold-ore. I place it into the fire. For a while, it remains cool and solid, but soon the fire begins to melt the pure gold. Becomes molten it begins to gives off a lustrous, beautiful glow. Now I begin to appreciate the beauty of divine love, I begin to develop a “taste” for it.[1]

To get the gold to melt I have to apply steady and intense heat – I have to be fixed in my devotional practices. Thus the stage of Taste comes after Fixation. Sustained deep and sincere devotional practice begins to activate the ore of divine love, and I develop a taste for the beauty of it. I begin to honestly “enjoy” my devotional practices.

Here is an example to illustrate:

The saint Narada said, “When I fixed my mind steadily upon devotional practices I gained an extremely pleasant and purifying taste for them.”^[2]

Previously I had to make a strenuous effort to concentrate deeply upon my practices, but now that I enjoy their taste, I concentrate effortlessly without distraction.

Narada describes, “Discussion of their sweetheart Kṛṣṇa flows from their mouths like a river flooding in all directions! Those who drink from this river never tire of it, and are not distracted at all by ordinary hungers, thirsts, fears, etc.”^[3]

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[1] The Sanskrit term for this stage is ruci. In the most literal sense, ruci means “luster” or “brilliance.” When something is lustrous and beautiful we appreciate it. When we appreciate something we “have a taste for it.”

^[2] BP 1.5.27

^[3] BP 4.29.40

 

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Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Wall Mounted Faucets In The Kitchen

Wall mounted kitchen faucets are common in older homes in the UK and Australia. Unfortunately, in the US, most people equate them with utilitarian restaurant kitchens. When I first began remodeling kitchens in 2007, I discovered the apron front sink and the wall mounted glory that is often installed with it. I adore wall mounted faucets on all counts. Elevated from the deck, these faucets are free of gunk coagulating around the flange so there is an instant sanitation boost. Whether done in a Victorian or modern design, the wall mount is an attention getter. Both the sink and the backsplash will attract extra looks, making your clean-up area shine.

Call it Victorian, cottage, French, or farm, the most popular wall mounted kitchen faucets evoke an antique or vintage feel. Often paired with oversized fireclay, soapstone, or cast iron sinks with an apron, this set-up is quaint, calling upon a narrative of simpler, more elegant times. For high end remodels, brands like Rohl and Herbeau often accent a Shaw’s fireclay sink. However, a similar look for less is available with faucet brands such as Kingston Brass or American Standard. Put it with the IKEA Domsjo sink and you are ready to wash.

Minimalist modern kitchens naturally incorporate the sylphlike wall mounted faucet, allowing for a completely clutterless countertop and airy look. Kohler makes a few contributions to this look, including the Karbon–which can read futuristic or steampunk, depending on the finish. Some modern kitchens even use bathroom vessel faucets without swivel spouts. This seems like a sacrifice of function but could work on a small bar or prep sink.

I’ve posted many pictures of wall mounted kitchen faucets over the last couple of years but here are a few more to keep you inspired. We have Victorian, vintage, cottage, and ultra-modern. What look is your favorite?

• Victorian Faucet on Green Mosaic, Cottage Industry Design
• Triple Wall Mount, Cottage Industry Design
• White Farm Sink, Southern Living
• Wall Mounted on Walnut, Henrybuilt
• Faucet on Chalkboard Paint, Bunker Workshop

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