>The astrologer Garga Muni told Nanda Maharaja, “Your son krsna appears as an incarnation in every millennium. In the past He assumed three different colors-white, red, and yellow-and now He has appeared in a blackish color. For many reasons this beautiful son of yours sometimes appeared previously as the son of Vasudeva.
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- 11 Aug 2022
Verses and Praises of Lord Balarama.
“O Kesava! O Lord of the Universe! O Lord Hari, who have assumed the form of Lord Balarama, the wielder of the plow! All glories to You! On Your brilliant white body You wear garments the color of a fresh blue rain cloud. These garments are the color of the River Yamuna, who feels great fear due to the striking of Your plowshare.”
“All glories to Rama-ghata, where Lord Balarama performed His rasa dance. All glories to Lord Balarama, the son of Rohini. All glories, all glories to the residents ...
- 11 Aug 2022
Srila Prabhupada writes in the Srimad Bhagavatam: "In Kali-yuga, the duration of life is shortened not so much because of insufficient food but because of irregular habits. By keeping regular habits and eating simple food, any man can maintain his health. Overeating, over-sense gratification, overdependence on anther's mercy, and artificial standards of living, sap the very vitality of human energy. Therefore the duration of life is shortened." (SB 1.1.10)
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- 10 Aug 2022
Brahma Tirtha Das is a board member at Krishna House, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada, a professional mediator, and an advisor for the EPA, and the director of the City of Gainesville Planning Board. His initial conversations with Srila Prabhupada were recorded and later published in a book entitled Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
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- 10 Aug 2022
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Kripamoya Das (ACBSP) on Thursday, March 4th, 2021 at Bhakti Center.
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- 10 Aug 2022
Understanding Vaishnava relationships through the life of Vaishnavis in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta with Radha Dasi
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- 10 Aug 2022
Setting it on the table I lifted the receiver to my ear. I casually said to the now fully shocked Mr. Jain, pointing to the telephone receiver as I spoke “Forgive me but I have an important call.” Clasping the phone between my hands as in making Namaste, I closed eyes and uttered the prayers to my spiritual master: “Jaya om vishnu-pada paramahamsa parivrajakacarya astottara-sata sri srimad Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Maharaja ki jaya. Jaya Srila Prabhupada.
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- 10 Aug 2022
“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].” (Bg. 5.18) On the spiritual platform, the learned person not only gives up the duality of man and woman, but also gives up the duality of man and animal. This is the test of self-realization.
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- 9 Aug 2022
I knew him for the last eleven years of his exemplary pastimes. But to say I knew him is going too far. I watched him. I listened to him. I talked with him and corresponded with him. I followed him and obeyed him-and disobeyed him. I learned from him. I bowed down before him and prayed to him. I loved him, and still do. Through those eleven years, that person I first knew as the Swami, then as Swamiji, and then as Srila Prabhupada, guided my life.
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- 7 Aug 2022
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
An event, which took place in Mayapur that made bhakta Bob cry and changed his life
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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
Shri Raghunandana Thakura made his appearance within this world in Shri Khanda. In his home he became acquainted with the worship of Shri Gopinatha from an early age. One day his father, Mukunda Dasa, who was a doctor, had to go away on medical business.
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- 30 Jul 2022
Nrsimhananda das: Award-winning video on the science of vegetarianism, featuring important nutritionists, economists and celebrities. This film produced by ITV is currently being used by the Vegetarian Society and many other organizations to demonstrate the common sense of vegetarianism and non-violence.
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- 9 Jul 2022
One who always remembers your activities and My activities also, and who chants the prayers you have offered, becomes free, in due course of time, from the reactions of material activities.
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- 27 Jun 2022
“In San Diego a devotee was distributing small books in a parking lot. As he approached a car he saw a young man sitting in the driver’s seat. When the devotee knocked on the window, the man shouted, ‘Look, just leave me alone! Get outta here!’
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- 10 Jun 2022
Sacinandana Swami, a spiritual teacher and monk in the Bhakti tradition, is known for his significant contribution to the practice of meditation and kirtan. Dedicated to the process of inner transformation, he has spent fifty years in pursuit of genuine spiritual experiences.
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- 10 Jun 2022
- 10 Jun 2022
With some further research and help from His Holiness Bhanu Swami, we have concluded that there is really no basis in either 1) the scripture, specifically the Hari-bhakti-vilasa, the guidebook for devotional practices compiled by Sanatana Gosvami, or 2) Srila Prabhupada's instructions, for the idea that if one performs a full nirjala fast on Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi, that will negate any ill effects from having broken Ekadasi over the previous year
...- 10 Jun 2022