Vaishnavas make sacrifices for the benefit of others (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HH Radhanath Swami today in Iskcon Mayapur
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- 6 Jan 2023
Who we are and who we are not.
Prahladananda Swami: We have to remind ourselves again and again who we are and who we are not.
- 4 Jan 2023
Our abilities are our endowments, not our entitlements (Based on Gita 07.08)
Chaitanya Charan Das: We all have certain abilities that enable us to make a contribution and gain satisfaction.
- 4 Jan 2023
Who’s the Mother of Magic Realism?
Mukunda Goswami: In the Ramayana, the vanara Hanuman takes flight like a bird, and enters supra-mundane realms.
Sometimes it’s fun to take a retrospective—a look back at what was happening in the world a few years ago. The following article originally appeared in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, on November 9th, 2005.
- 4 Jan 2023
Digesting the False Ego.
Sacinandana Swami: “When an intelligent person engages constantly in worshiping Me through loving devotional service as described by Me, his heart becomes firmly situated in Me. Thus all material desires within the heart are destroyed. The knot in the heart is pierced, all misgivings are cut to pieces and the chain of fruitive actions is terminated when I am seen as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.20.29-30)
- 4 Jan 2023
Master, when will I see God?
Master: When you are as desperate with longing as a man who craves for water after he has been lying for ten days and nights in the desert near the pyramids.
Pine for Him in the same way, feeling that you can’t live for even one more second without Him.
Then only, when your intense eagerness for Him will drive away your lust for the senses, will He come to you.[1]
Student: I ask myself – do I have enough determination to pursue this path?
- 4 Jan 2023
Greed…
Radhanath Swami: Wherever we see the greed for wealth, gold, power, prestige, name or fame – consequently we see a rise in hate, envy, fighting and war.
Greed is a source of misery because it never gets satisfied. Its demand increases more and more, despite of our efforts to pacify it. It is compared to feeding a blazing fire, no matter how much amount of fuel you put in, the fuel gets consumed in seconds. It always ends in dissatisfaction.
- 4 Jan 2023
Krishna’s devotees are beyond all material designations (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class in Iskcon Mayapur, Speaker: HH Devamrita Swami.
- 4 Jan 2023
Sudama das: It was a very hot day in Oregon, in August of 1968. I awoke rather early, which for me and the people I was around at that time was somewhat unusual. Usually, coming down from last night’s drugs, everyone would rise sometime afternoon. On that day, as on every day, I awoke with a feeling of separation, a searching for, a longing for…
- 2 Jan 2023
Mlecchas and yavanas!
Srila Prabhupada sent some American and European disciples to one of his sannyasi godbrothers’ ashram in India in the late 60s’. However, this sannyasi forbid them to cook or to perform arotika; they were Westerners and were thus too fallen to perform these services. Prabhupada never forgot this insult to his disciples: half a decade later, when that sannyasi asked Prabhupada for a contribution, Prabhupada replied as follows.
- 2 Jan 2023
No mercy, austerity and cleanliness in this age (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HH Guru Prasad Swami in ISKCON Vrindavan
- 31 Dec 2022
Is God cruel?
Sacinandana Swami: Recently I received a letter in which someone wrote: “I am struggling with the concept that Krishna fully loves the living entities. When I look at the way He deals with someone who does not surrender to His desires, it seems He is quite annoyed and punishes him with heavy circumstances like war, rape, death, doubts about the purpose of his life and many other sufferings. Is someone who creates cruel circumstances for all those who don’t do His will really full of unconditional love? Imagine someone who tor...
- 31 Dec 2022
Secrets to Living COMPLETE Life of Krsna Consciousness - New Year GOALS (20 min video)
Excellent suggestions from HG Vaisesika......
- 30 Dec 2022
Do you want to end the cause of the conditioned state of existence?
Read or listen how you can achieve it according to Srimad-Bhagavatam and Srila Prabhupada.
“Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in everyone’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of conditioned state of existence.”
- 28 Dec 2022
Power of Obedience by Gauranga Das (4 min video)
The ability to reciprocate with the changing demands of the Lord.
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- 28 Dec 2022
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death (video)
HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami speaks on Srimad Bhagavatam 04.07.35 at ISKCON Perth
- 28 Dec 2022
How I came to Krishna Consciousness - HG Jagat Purush Das (30 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: Happiness is meant for the devotees, not for the karmis, the jnanis or the yogis. It is the property of the devotees. Just like these devotees are chanting very happily. They are not expecting anything. They are happy by chanting. That’s all. Srila Prabhupada – June 22, 1975, Los Angeles
- 28 Dec 2022
One Story Four Truths (video)
Using the ancient wisdom of Srimad Bhagavatam to meet the challenges of life.
- 27 Dec 2022
- 27 Dec 2022
HG Srutakirti prabhu: Srila Prabhupada’s airline slippers from his last flight from London to Mumbai in September 1977.
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Is America Materially Advanced??
Srila Prabhupada: — Your seventh question, “How is it that there is so much material "advancement” in the USA even though there is no formal demigod worship? “ Actually there is no material advancement in the USA. Material advancement means there is amply opportunity for eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. Superficially, it appears that in the USA there is sufficient provision of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, but actually nobody is safe even ...
- 27 Dec 2022
Bhagavan: God the Person.
The bhakti tradition acknowledges the personal and impersonal aspects of the Absolute Truth, but values one of them as the more desirable of the two.
- 27 Dec 2022
Can the Sankirtana movement be stopped by material calamities?
Srila Prabhupada: “You have asked about whether nuclear devastation on this planet would effect the Sankirtana Movement. No, there is nothing that can stop the Sankirtana Movement because it is the will of God Himself, Lord Caitanya, that His Holy Name be heard in every town and village. Neither can the demons devastate this planet independent of the will of Krsna. Nothing happens without His sanction. If Krsna wants to kill someone no one can s...
- 26 Dec 2022
Schwarzenegger and Hare Krishna.
Sabhapati das ACBSP: I met with Arnie in Melbourne in 1974. I was standing as a devotee for the Australian Federal elections. (Inspired by Balavanta’s program in the USA)
I received a lot of TV coverage. Arnie saw the TV news report. At this time he had just won the title of Mr. Universe for the third or fourth time. That happened before his movie career. He phoned the next day. He was after his own press coverage and suggested that we team up ...
- 26 Dec 2022