Dec 5 2011 Diksa and Siksa only from Iskcon?

Sankarshan Dasa: Sometime back there was a article about the concept of Siksa Guru and one must only take diksa or siksa from within Iskcon. Which I think is not supported by shastra. I think HH Sivaram Swami supported this idea that Siksa only from Iskcon. But here is a shastric reference to refute that statement he made which I cannot agree
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Nov 19 2011 My essential message is this

Priyavrata das: Just love people and encourage them. Distribute prasadam or help someone else do that. Chant the holy name or encourage someone else do that. That is what the world needs
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Oct 18 2011 Homosexuality and the New Age

Abhaya Mudra Dasi: Homosexuality has become so prominent in the second half of the 20th century that is has been propagated as a lifestyle of choice. But it wasn’t always like this. Before the technological revolution, homosexuality was referred to in the most derogatory of terms
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Sep 14 2011 Report of JSSS KL Harinama: 10th September 2011

Rati Gopika dd: JSSS KL organized a Harinama instead of its usual monthly gathering at Sri Jagannatha Mandir Kuala Lumpur. This was done in conjunction with the World Holy Name's Week
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Sep 3 2011 Woman- Aham Brahma Asmi

Vrndavanlila dd: Aham Brahma asmi. While it is the truth, it has to be understood in the right perspective lest it turns spiritually self-destructive - we are in the relative world after all
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Sep 3 2011 Forgiveness

Parvati devi dasi: Personally, I am known internationally as such a heavy person, that whenever I'm in the audience and the subject of the chapter on "The Wrath of Mother Parvati" comes up, the speaker makes a point at directing a remark straight to me, usually in a joking way
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Sep 2 2011 ISKCON Nairoby temple news

Labanga Das: THE HARE KRISHNA’S FROM BANKEBIHARI TEMPLE in Nairobi were invited to pray at the official launch of the SIMBA CEMENT FACTORY on the 15th of June 2011 The chairman of this cement factory is one of our members. We went there with Uma pati prabhu the temple president, it was very successful
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Aug 27 2011 “Karmi clothes” and “devotional clothes” - Getting the definitions right

Chandrashekhara acharya dasa: The word "karmi" means "fruitive worker." The word "clothes" mean "items worn to cover the body." By definition, then, the words "karmi clothes" mean items worn to cover the body of someone who is a fruitive worker
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Aug 26 2011 Krsna and raw milk

Payonidhi das: Though I have never found it in sastra I have often heard that Krsna drank milk from the utter of cows in His Kaumara age. Police in LA , came in with guns and forced places that sells raw unpasteurized organic milk to give it to them and poured it all in the drain
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Aug 18 2011 Sri Narasimha Palana Prarthana by Kusakrata Prabhu

Kusakratha dasa: "I offer my respectfull obaisences to HDG. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Churning the nectar ocean of bhakti for Lord Govindadevas lotusfeet, he created great tidal waves that innundated the countries of the Yavana."
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Aug 17 2011 ME, ME, ME, ME!

James Rappai (Jeevanmukta Das): Varna-ashram! We already have the ashrams going strong. The Brahmacharis, Grihastas, Vanaprasthas and Sanayasis are all nicely revolving in their own orbits… what we now need are the varnas! So, isn’t it about time we sat down and divided ourselves into the four varnas—Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra?
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Aug 9 2011 Bhagavad Gita 1.1

Payonidhi das: Along with reading the purports of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Visvanath Chakravati Thakura to Bhagavad Gita some wonderful purports are there of all 4 Vaisnava Sampradays, Madhavaacarya,Sri Ramanujaacarya, Visnu Swami and Kesava Kasmiri, who is Nimbarkacarya that appeared during Lord Caitanyas pastimes
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Aug 9 2011 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa Pooja Offering 2011– My Homage to Srila Prabhupada

Premanjana Dasa: Srila Prabhupada, You are an ocean of mercy and friend of the poor. It has been some time since I was initiated and started trying to follow your instructions but I am always feeling very dissatisfied that I am not able to serve your 'transcendental lotus feet' properly
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Aug 5 2011 Lord Krsnas makara earrings!

Payonidhi das: Krishna's eyes are tired and intoxicated, His body is covered with nail marks and smeared with black mascara, yet He smells like a fragrant lotus!
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Jul 22 2011 The holy disapperance day of Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami

Payonidhi das: Vrindavan is the place of Radha Krsnas pastimes and in Vrindavan ,Gopala Bhatta Goswami revealed to Srinivasa Acaryas ekadasa to him as Mani Manjari
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Jul 18 2011 16 Sanskaar

Premanjana Dasa: By sanskaar it is meant that just as a child erases anything written incorrect with pencil and then writes correct word on the same rubbed place similarly on performing sanskaars any bad deed causing sorrows etc. imprinted on chitta gets erasedand pious, beneficial sanskaars get imprinted on chitta which leads to destruction of all bad karmas and consequently soul escapes from facing the outcome of bad karmas i.e. sorrows
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Jul 18 2011 Sri Gauranga-Ashtottara-Shata-Nama-Stotram and chanting the names of lord Caitanya

Payonidhi das: PAMHO AGTSP Devotees should also chant the names of Lord Caitanya ,even in Goloka Vrindavana this is so
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Jul 18 2011 Disapperance day of Srila Sanatana Goswami

Payonidhi das: dear devotees Please accept my humble obaisences All glories to Srila Prabhupada I was reading in Prema vilasa about the disappearance of Srila Sanatana Goswami ,and how Srila Rupa Goswami was very much affected by his divine disappearance
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Jul 12 2011 Lessons from the road. Dealing with Krishna’s laws of nature

Yadavendra Das: On July 11, 2011 at about 7.15 AM, as I was cooking rice breakfast in my Sankirtan van, I ran out of propane gaz and I had to quickly find the best price on 4KG of propane in a city where I had no experience in the matter
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Jul 11 2011 Save Lord Padmanabha’s Wealth from neo-iconoclasts Lord Padmanabha’s wealth belongs to Him only

Rajaram Dasa: Goddess Lakshmi resides where Lord Padmanabha is. For, the Lord is Lord Vishnu himself, whose consort is Goddess Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth. No surprise that such huge amount of divine wealth has been unearthed in the locked up chambers of Lord Padmanabha's temple in the present day Thiruvananthapuram, earlier known as the capital city of the Royalty of Travancore
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Jul 7 2011 Disapperance day of Srila Gadadhara Pandita

Payonidhi das: The incarnation of love who previously was the queen of Vrindavan, Radha, is now the beloved of Gaura named Srila Gadadhara Pandit. Svarupa Damodar himself indicated that he was Vraja’s goddess of fortune, the Lakshmi who was previously the beloved of Shyamasundara in Vrindavan
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Jun 30 2011 Disapperance Day Of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Payonidhi das: Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Adi-Lila, 3.30-31 (1) "Thus the lionlike Lord Caitanya has appeared in Navadvipa. He has the shoulders of a lion, the powers of a lion, and the loud voice of a lion. May that lion be seated in the core of the heart of every living being. Thus with His resounding roar may He drive away one's elephantine vices."
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Jun 24 2011 Bhagavad Gita 2.58..Lord Kurma has incarnated in this sloka

Payonidhi das: This Kurma, kamatha-rupena. Now, the surasura-gana, they are standing on the ocean. If you go up to your waist in the water, you become dangerously situated. But they were standing. This proves the law of relativity. Everywhere this law of relativity is working. You do not think, because you cannot stand in the midst of the water of the ocean, therefore nobody can stand
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Jun 13 2011 Perfection Of Life Is In Laziness

Premanjana Dasa: Prabhupäda: Huh? What is that economical progressing? So that means busy fool. Fool, they do not know how to satisfy the economic problem. That is recommended in the Bhagavad-gétä, annäd bhavanti bhütäni: [Bg. 3.14] You grow food grains. Then all economic question... But why you are not producing food grains?
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May 19 2011 A Story

Sunil Hariyani: I was walking around in a store. I saw a Cashier hand this little boy his money back saying “I’m sorry, but you don’t have enough money to buy this doll.â€
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Apr 14 2011 Quality of a Devotee : He Does not Make anyone his enemy

Chirag Dangarwala: “All the demigods and their exalted qualities, such as religion, knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in the body of one who has developed unalloyed devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Väsudeva.â€
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Apr 4 2011 Political Correctness: WHO started it, WHEN, and most importantly WHY!!!

Bill Lind: For the first time in history of the so called modern, refine, advanced and free society, we have to be fearful of what we say, of what we write, and of what we think. We have to be afraid of using the “wrong†words that present word denounces as offensive, insensitive, racist, sexist, or homophobic etc
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Mar 25 2011 The Conspiracy Theory Hoax

Raya Nitai dasa: On the top of the mango tree there is a very ripened fruit, and that fruit has to be tasted. So if I drop the fruit from up, it will be lost. Therefore it is handed over, after one, after one, after… Then it comes down
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Mar 20 2011 Gaura Purnima

Payonidhi das: Srila Prabhupada has instructed that we fast from grains and in the evening only take ekadasi style prasadam, sometimes we try to take short cuts.But if we want the mercy of Lord Caitanya how can we disobey Srila Prabhupada's instruction on the plea that Lord Caitanya is so mercifull.
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Mar 20 2011 Vasudevaya mantra

Bhakta Steve: I have read that the mantra Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya is recommended for beginners who may be committing many offenses, such as, not being steady in his or her observance of the regulative principles. The advice being that the Mahamantra accepts offenses while the Vasudevaya mantra ignores offenses and is therefore safer for the neophyte
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Mar 12 2011 Simhacalam, the hill of the lion

Payonidhi das: In Simhacalam in South India,Lord Varaha Narasimha is getting a new covering of Chandan in May, as instructed by Lord Varaha Narasimha Himself in Treta yuga to Urvasi and King Pururava
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Feb 20 2011 Srila Rupa and Sanatana Goswami about Lord Narasimha

Payonidhi das: Please accept my humble obaisences All glories to Srila Prabhupada This is part of a chapter from my upcoming Narasimha book. (not yet completed) May Lord Narasimha protect you
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Jan 31 2011 Does faith need religious institution ?

Puskaraksa das: my posting on the open blog of the World Economic Forum in regards to the topic discussed as mentioned earlier / below, was: Faith, sraddha in sanskrit, is the first step for one who engages on the spiritual path...
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Jan 2 2011 Ending the Politicization of Krishna Consciousness?

Pusta Krishna das: Is it too much to hope for? When we consider that the Bhagavad Gita ofSri Krishna was delivered on a battlefield involving complexities that Arjuna, the heroic devotee, never wished for, we might be filled with resignation over the possibility that the sweetness of Krishna consciousness, what attracted each and every one of us to Krishna in the first place, might rise to the pinnacle of importance that it is
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Dec 12 2010 ‘Realizations on the jiva’s ‘fall’ from Vaikuntha

Gauragopala dasa ACBSP: Drutakarma Prabhu's paper is an excellent read found here http://www.scribd.com/Jiva/d/1732507 and clearly explains ISKCON's understanding on the 'origin of the jiva'. Jayadvaita Swami also nicely explains ISKCON's excellent policy on this subject at this address - http://www.jswami.info/jiva
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Oct 23 2010 The Truth About Land Use in the United States

Sarva Rasa dasa: By far the greatest impact on the American landscape comes not from urbanization but rather from agriculture. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, farming and ranching are responsible for 68 percent of all species endangerment in the United States
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Oct 18 2010 Vijaya dasami

Payonidhi das: I previously posted 108 Names of Lord Rama and some nectar about Lord Rama, today is the day to pray to Lord Rama to kill any Ravana mentality in the heart, desire for wealth and illicit sexual enjoyment
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Oct 16 2010 Misconception about Jayananda Prabhu, he also distributed Srila Prabhupadas books

Payonidhi das: I recall having read Jayananda Prabhu giving Srila Prabhupadas money for printing,or it could have been from the many remembrances I have heard by various Prabhupada disciples
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Sep 13 2010 Vyasa Puja Offering 2010

David Kuehn: Haribol. This offering was offered at Vancouver temple at Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja Celebration 2010-by Adhiyajna Das
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Sep 8 2010 The Supreme Court of India initiating Criminal Contempt charges against members of Madhu Pandit Dasa’s GBC

BLR Correspondent: The High court of Karnataka on their own initiative filed criminal contempt charges against MPD, his servants (Jai Caitanya, Chancalapati, etc) and his lawyers for scandalizing the courts
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Sep 7 2010 It is not that we first have to be contacted by the modes of material nature to fall down from Goloka or Vaikuntha

Gauragopala Dasa: To say we DID NOT come from Vaikuntha is to say we came from the impersonal Brahmajyoti and Srila Prabhupada rejected that idea
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Jul 31 2010 Identifying Right from Wrong

Chirag Dangarwala: The capability to Identify Right from Wrong is of vital importance for everyone. Yet it is astonishing that most of us baffle and many a times walk into arguments regarding this basic concept
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Jul 29 2010 A Little Encouragement Goes a Long Way…

Chaitanya Mangala dasa: Prabhupada: You have to submit. You cannot remain independent. That is the first condition. Sisyas te 'ham,sisya. Sisya means voluntarily accepting the rules offered by the spiritual master. That is sisya: "Ah, yes, I agree to abide by your order."
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Jul 29 2010 Miniskirts… Skirting the Issue

Kapila dasa: I appreciate the recent discussion in regards to the recommended attire of a brahminical devotee. It is always good to be reminded of the most correct form, and to recognize standards which apply to temple environments
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Jul 22 2010 Crossing over the material world

Chirag Dangarwala: For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murari, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoof-print
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Jul 20 2010 Shukracharya in the Horoscopes of Devotees

Abhaya Mudra Dasi: Shukracharya is a great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is great soul although he is often disregarded simply because he is the guru of the asuras. Shukracharya is not a simple character; his exalted qualities are hidden. Often he acts in a twisted manner because it is not easy to direct his demonic disciples towards the path of devotion
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Jul 15 2010 Lusty for Bhajans?

Ishvari Devi Dasi: In my entries Slaughtering Chastity and Twilight of Destruction, I wrote about some experiences that led me to lose my higher taste for chanting the holy names of Krishna. Chanting, the essence of our education, means three things: japa, kirtan and bhajans
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Jul 8 2010 Twilight of Destruction

Ishvari Devi Dasi: After reading Slaughtering Chastity, Indradyumna Maharaja requested I write a follow up story focusing on how the chanting of the holy name saved me from destruction
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