Jagattarini Mataji shares some of her adventures with puppetry, and explores the fascinating history of the famous ITV Krishna Puppet Shows.
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- 13 Sep 2022
When the living entity is encircled by wife, children and home, he acts on the mental plane. Sometimes he is very happy, sometimes he is very much satisfied, sometimes he is not satisfied, and sometimes he is bewildered.
...- 13 Sep 2022
We should specially note in this verse the description of gatiṁ bhāgavatīm. To become merged in the rays of the Parabrahman, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as desired by the brahmavādī impersonalist, is not bhāgavatīm perfection.
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Question: Namaste Swamiji. It is said that we should always associate with selfless people, and that’s very critical. Then, how should we interact with the people who are selfish? As you say, we should also love them as they are also part of God. So, if we are surrounded by such people, how should we act?
Radhanath Swami: By being a good example. Of course, if those people open their minds and hearts for us to speak to them about higher virtues and higher truths in life, then that is our service to them—to offer them that higher ideal, th...
- 13 Sep 2022
Shastrakrit Das (book distributor): You can tell when someone is reading Srila Prabhupada’s books:
So this actress looking middle eastern lady and her young son parked their Porsche, walked past my book table and went inside the grocery store. I actually remembered meeting them in the past and how she was kind of puffed up, so I didn’t expect much.
- 13 Sep 2022
To anyone, even a new student of spirituality, who has some knowledge of atma, or spirit soul, knows that by nature atma is eternal. It is ever-existing, and neither it takes birth nor does it ever die.
...- 13 Sep 2022
Materialists answer that the world is a place for our enjoyment. This answer is problematic because distress and death pervade the world.
Some spiritualists, especially impersonalists, answer that the world is a place of illusion – it is just meant to be renounced. This answer too is problematic because it is largely impractical, and it renders meaningless most of the things we value: our talents, aspirations, contributions.
- 13 Sep 2022
- 13 Sep 2022
INFUSING NAMA JAPA WITH LIFE.
Sacinandana Swami: It is well known that chanting the holy name in good company is easier than doing so alone. This holds true both for japa and kirtan. When we chant in a group of devotees, we co-create a devotional energy and atmosphere that we get to enter into together. It is therefore said that sankirtana (kirtana performed with others) can create such extraordinary delight in the chanter that he or she will find it easy to remain focused on the holy name and experience divine taste in chanting.
- 13 Sep 2022
Caste system is probably among the most talked and most misunderstood current social controversies; misunderstood because it is based on a false premise- caste determination by birth
...- 12 Sep 2022
A nonmechanistic theory of consciousness.
In Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science (1981) (MNMS), Richard L. Thompson presents a nonmechanistic theory of consciousness drawn from the Bhagavad-gita, a summary of Indian’s ancient wisdom.
- 12 Sep 2022
Welcome to the daily reading from Srimad Bhagavatam by HH Kesava Bharati Das Goswami
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Perhaps George Harrison’s greatest influence on popular culture was in the field of spirituality - in particular his promotion of the Hare Krishna movement. Richard Williams introduces an extraordinary conversation between the late musician and one of the movement’s leaders, Mukunda Goswami.
- 11 Sep 2022
“Don’t take me to the hospital”
Srila Prabhupada did not like to be experimented on by drug giving doctors and in one story it was Gargamuni and Brahmananda that he got to take him out of the hospital, prematurely, in the eyes of the doctors.
- 11 Sep 2022
Srila Prabhupada explained, “In Maharaja Yudhisthira’s time, the government was responsible to keep people peaceful, without any anxiety. That is government—without any anxiety. And now the government means full of anxieties. You do not sleep peacefully at night. . . . This is our position, full of anxieties. Even we cannot sleep peacefully at night. This government. And here you see, compare the government—no anxiety. No anxiety. Just compare. So what is the use of this rascal government?
...- 11 Sep 2022
We need to remember that the essence of our relationship with Krishna is service; and that service requires us to be less conscious of ourselves and be more conscious of Krishna. When we think we are qualified to serve Krishna, the ‘I’ becomes more prominent than Krishna, which is unhealthy.
...- 11 Sep 2022
Srila Prabhupada: That is the test. How you are advancing in chanting will be tested how far you are free from material anxieties.
...- 10 Sep 2022
H.G. Gopal Prabhu’s class about the Acceptance of Sannyasa by Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON Vrindavan (video)
- 10 Sep 2022
Sacinandana Swami: We are discussing the road of sharanagati – taking shelter, which leads us to Lord Krishna.
Our third step is goptritve-varanam or accepting the Lord as one’s sole maintainer.
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- 8 Sep 2022
Bhaktivedanta Research Centre: In honor of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s disappearance day, BRC compiled an album of images, many of which include his original handwriting.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/J1yH3J
- 8 Sep 2022
Deena Bandhu dasa: A beautiful picture of Vamana Deva that is just near Kameshvara Mahadeva in Kamyavan. This is in front of the Panca Pandava temple on the way to Dharma Kunda where the Yaksa Prashna pastime of Mahabharat took place. ...
- 7 Sep 2022
The Monk's Podcast with Krishna Kshetra Maharaja. Krishna Kshetra Swami – teacher, writer, and traveler – is a disciple of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).
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- 7 Sep 2022
A visualisation of our lifestyle - a bit like animals in the zoo. So which one are you?
...- 6 Sep 2022