This is a story which happened in Benares about 300 years ago:
There was one Brahmin who used to take bath in Manikarnika-ghat, a very nice bathing place. One day when he was taking bath he saw a young boy sitting on the steps crying. He felt very compassionate and he went and took the young boy on his lap and asked, “You look so beautiful, a nice attractive young boy. Why are you crying like this?”
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- 7 Aug 2022
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At the same time, the six pioneers from San Francisco, on their way to London received their Gayatri mantra, or second initiation. ~ Rukmini Walker
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- 6 Aug 2022
BB Govinda Swami: Gopa Kumara asked “How can I chant with pure love?” And they said “Well, if you want to chant with love you must know the Srimad Bhagavatam.” This shows that basically Gopa Kumara had traveled through all the levels of the material cosmos. He had even been Brahma but still he has not been scientifically trained in the science of loving Krishna. We can imagine he was even Brahma. But he did not understand the science of Krishna. He even went to Brahman by the power of his chanting but still he didn’t know how...
- 6 Aug 2022
“Always be careful, then in due course you will feel bhava.”
Rukmini: The pujaris in Los Angeles had a beautiful and high standard of Deity worship that didn’t exist anywhere else in the society.
- 6 Aug 2022
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- 10 Jun 2022
Pandava-nirjala Ekadasi.
Giriraj Swami: Ekadasi is one of the regular celebrations in the Vaisnava calendar. It is observed eleven days after the full moon and eleven days after the new moon of every month. Even in the thirteenth, or leap month, called adhi-masa or purusottama-masa, which comes every three years, during which no other festivals are celebrated, Ekadasi is observed. Ekadasi is known as “the day of Lord Hari” and is said to be “the mother of devotion.” Of the sixty-four items of devotional service listed in Srila ...
- 10 Jun 2022
As fire in the forest immediately burns to ashes an angry snake, so, by the previous order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His disc, the Sudarśana cakra, immediately burnt to ashes the created demon to protect the Lord’s devotee. ...
- 16 May 2022
Grade 5 activities for Lord Nrisimhadeva’s appearance day at Sri Mayapur International School (Album with photos)
Face painting and chanting extra rounds for Lord Nrisimhadeva’s pleasure.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/y1t93H
- 14 May 2022
Should I Forgive Him?
Once upon a time Bali Maharaja approached Prahlada Maharaja and asked him, “Which is actually best, forgiveness or the use of strength?” Prahlada Maharaja thought for some time and replied, “Neither forgiveness nor the use of strength is good in all situations. If one were to always forgive, then his servants, dependents and even strangers would disrespect him. ...
- 8 May 2022
A mother’s lesson in gratitude.
Radhanath Swami: When I was a little boy, my mother taught me a lesson. She always emphasized, more than anything else, the quality of gratitude. She told me, “If you are not grateful for whatever you have, you receive, you can never be happy. Because if you are not grateful, whatever you get, you expect something else, or you expect more, or you think that you deserved it. But when you are humble and grateful, then whatever comes to your life, the apparent fortune and misfortune, you can actually find happin...
- 8 May 2022
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- 29 Apr 2022
How can we chant in a way that it makes us forget the material world and run to Krsna? When you sit down to chant, there will be moments in which you notice that your mind wandered somewhere else – ‘Uuups, I was thinking about my shopping list, that I have to close this deal to get more money and that Suresh Patel said something bad about me – well, he can just wait – I will show it to him!’ You will notice, ‘Where was I? I am sitting here in saintly company, chanting, but what happened?’ What happened, my dear ...
- 27 Apr 2022
Padma devi dasi: We are all touched by the pastime of Mother Earth approaching Lord Vishnu for protection from “conceited demons dressed like kings” (SB 10.1.17) at the end of the last Dvapara-yuga. At that time, Mother Earth, known in the Vedas as Bhumi, was overburdened by “unnecessary military arrangements”, which threatened the peace, sanctity and religiosity of all the devas.
Needless to say, this threat to the Earth has only increased as Kali-yuga has progressed. In the 12th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhumi describes ho...
- 23 Apr 2022
In Canto Twelve of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhumi, Mother Earth, says this: “Although in the past great men and their descendants have left me, departing from this world in the same helpless way they came into it, even today foolish men are trying to conquer me. For the sake of conquering me, materialistic persons fight one another. Fathers oppose their sons, and brothers fight one another because their hearts are bound to possessing political power. Political leaders challenge one another: ‘All this land is mine! It’s not yours, you fool!&rs...
- 23 Apr 2022
A few thoughts
• “Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” Mark Twain
• “Good habits are worth being fanatical about”
John Irving
• “Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be,’
Julien Smith
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- 20 Apr 2022
From the ancient forest of Mayura-vana, to the secret lilasthan of Dana and then on to famous Mor-kutir, we’ll hear about Krsna’s dancing with the peacocks and how He and Sri Radha once even took the forms of peacocks to dance together in great happiness. ...
- 20 Apr 2022
- 16 Apr 2022
An old brahmin priest lived in a holy place, at an ashram, with his seven disciples. There they worshipped some very old and famous Deities of Radha and Krishna. Many people would come to see these Deities and make donations for Their worship.
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- 15 Apr 2022
Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose incarnations and activities are chanted by us for glorification, though He can hardly be fully known as He is
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- 15 Apr 2022
- 15 Apr 2022