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Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami (1505-1579) is one of the six Goswamis of Vrindavana, leading disciples ofChaitanya Mahaprabhu. Raghunatha Bhatta's father, Tapana Mishra, was also a prominent follower of Lord Chaitanya. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu asked Raghunath Bhatta to go to Vrindavan and constantly chant the Hare Krishna mantra and read Srimad-Bhagavatam.

Every day, Raghunath Bhatta would sing the verses of the Bhagavatam to the Vrindavan residents, and his tears of spiritual emotion would wet the pages of the Bhagavatam as he sang. Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami never criticized anyone. He believed that all Vaishnavas are sincerely servingKrishna according to their realization and therefore one should overlook their faults. Under his inspiration, a wealthy disciple built the temple for the Radha-Govinda Deities in Vrindavan. 

Sri Raghunatha dasa took his birth in the village of Sri Krsnapura in the district of Hooghly. His father's name was Sri Govardhana, whose elder brother was Sri Hiranya dasa. Both of them were respectable wealthy land-holders belonging to the Kayastha caste. Their title, which was given by the King, was "Majumdar" and their yearly income was two million.

In his childhood Sri Raghunatha dasa studied at the house of the priest, Acarya Sri Balarama dasa. Haridasa Thakura was very merciful to Balarama dasa and occasionally visited his house. At these times Raghunatha dasa had the good fortune of relishing Thakura Haridasa's association and listened to philosophical discourses from him.

Sri Raghunatha dasa was the only son in the family of Hiranya and Govardhana and there was no limit to the care and affection which was showered upon him. Though he was brought up just like the son of a king, by the powerful influence of saintly devotees, he realized at a very young age that material existence

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Ok friends it is time for an inside story. The year was 1972. I had been living i the ashrams of my guru His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for the previous four years as a monk.in training. At that time another monk named Sudam Goswami and I drove from LA to Toronto to visit the ashram there.on some temple business. I was teaching Sudam our guru's sacred teachings on the road trip and in the process taught him our guru's teaching that all human beings are serving , even though they aren't all conscious that the ultimate act of service is to dedicate all service directly to Bhagavan Sri Radha Krishna. "That is the final and ultimate principle of Bhakti as a Yoga", I quoted from our guru's teachings of the Vedas, "You've gotta serve somebody." Sudam was from a Hollywood show business family and one of our reasons for going to Toronto was so he could meet with a friend who was in Toronto giving a concert. Thus it was that the next day h

Lord Ramacandra’s victory over the demon Ravana. A large effigy of Ravana is ceremoniously burned. - See more at: http://harekrishnacalendar.com/vaishnava-calendar/ramacandra-vijayotsava-2015/#sthash.NHGJ9YXA.dpuf

"One should have complete faith in the transcendental literature such as Shrimad Bhagavatam and other literatures that directly glorifies the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should also have faith in Vaishnava Tantra, the original Vedas, and Mahabharata which includes Bhagavad Gita, and which is considered the fifth Veda. The Vedic knowledge originally emanated from the breathing of Lord Visnu, and the Vedic literature has been compiled in a literary form by Shrila Vyasadeva, the incarnation of Vishnu. Therefore Vishnu should be understood to be the personal speaker of all this Vedic literature." (In the image: Incarnation of Vayu and Hanuman Shrila Madhvacharya).

   Madhvacharya was born Vasudev, son of Narayan Bhatt and Vedavati in the village of Padakakshetra, near Udupi usually taken as being 1238 AD., on the Vijay Dasami of Lord Rama. After  79 years of wonderful pastimes he passed on to be with his Lord, Shrila Vyasadev in the year 1317 AD.

   This self realised soul, Mukhyapra

Bhagavad Gita As It Is Original 1972 by Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna Gita Chapter 18 TEXT 36-37;

O best of the Bhāratas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.

PURPORT

A conditioned soul tries to enjoy material happiness again and again. Thus he chews the chewed, but, sometimes, in the course of such enjoyment, he becomes relieved from material entanglement by association with a great soul. In other words, a conditioned soul is always engaged in some type of sense gratification, but when he understands by good association that it is only a repetition of the same thing, and he is awakened to his real Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is sometimes relieved from such repetitive so-cal

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I remember one time Prabhupada met with some reporters. Prabhupada was explaining that this movement is presenting the science of God, the absolute truth, the absolute knowledge, the highest knowledge to mankind, and this will save mankind.

Dussehra (Dassera) is one of the significant Hindu festivals, celebrated with much joy in the entire country.

The occasion marks the occassion of Lord Rama and brother Lakshman approaching Mother Durga to ask her for her blessings in His planned attack on the demon Ravana. It is therefore considered that the Supreme Personality of Godhead's approaching her for blessings to remove material impediments to His spiritual goals should be the approach of the humble devotee of the Lord to clinche the important triumph of Lord Rama over the demon king, Ravana, the victory of good over evil.

"When a devotee is put into hellish conditions, he accepts them as Krishna's mercy: tat te 'nukampāḿ susamīkṣamāṇaḥ̣. He does not protest, 'Oh, I am such a great devotee of Krishna. Why have I been put into this misery?' Instead he thinks, 'This is Krishna's mercy.' Such an attitude is possible for a devotee who engages in the service of Krishna's representative. This is the secret of success."

(Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.16, Purport)

pamho tamohara prabhu agtACBSP,

As we know to follow the instruction of SRILA PRABHUPADA means to chant the maha mantra hare krsna as much as we can at brahma muhurta time. by listening the SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM class daily in this way we are serving SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA  directly until we realize that everything is krsna and in the same time different from SRI KRSNA like the milk come from the cow but the milk is not the cow. we can become krsna conscious by meditating on the sublime vani seva of SRILA PRABHUPADA constantly. we can become blissful again beyond the factor time and the five seeds of sinful activities, because one through the same factor time become rich in knowledge coming in from yato bhaktir adhoksaje by hrisikena hrisikesa sevanam bhaktir ucyate. this is bhakti.

With the senses and mind purify completely free from desire niskama, although almost everyone start the bhakti yoga through the sakama stage like dhruva maharaj did, but at the end a such exalted and determina

pamho tamohara prabhu agtACBSP!

  This comment come from the sublime nectar on the vani seva of our guru maharaj and is to help the new comers of SRILA PRABHUPADA  spirit net,to become a krsna conscious person. the living entity must come to the paltform of acintya abheda bheda tattvam. that means that all the forms of life materially and spiritually are SRI KRSNA and in the same time, different from SRI KRSNA, Who said in the SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA that the matter and the spirit are within HIS supreme personality of godhead, almost everyone is trapped in the false images of the fake reflection which is making by contaminate substances, and unless one realized that this fake image is also SRI KRSNA, one can't become krsna conscious,  but keep on to take birth and die alone with a lot of troubles to overcome life after life. that's why our beloved acharya used to repeat very often how important is to become a living entity conscious of SRI KRSNA.

Of course the material nature with all h

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"Never think that the Holy Name is some ordinary sound.
The Supreme Lord has placed all his powers in the Holy Name. So we pray that we may engage in welfare work for all humanity, that all souls may make the effort to go to the transcendental abode of the Lord.

The nature of the borderline energy, the tatastha-sakti, is that it can go in either direction. However, the living beings who belong to this energy are constantly attacked by temptation. They see the “marketplace of pleasures” and are distracted from their purpose, ultimately falling into a hellish existence.

This is the illusory nature of this world, and everyone is immersed and entangled in this illusion. Try to understand this yourselves and try to make others understand. It is our duty to make this effort. Let everyone know this truth.
This is the meaning of Vyasa-puja".

Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Goswami Maharaja

 Dear Prabhus,

I must ask for your help. I have a friend who has been an initiated devotee for quite some time, but in recent months, his faith has been failing. This is due to claims being made by some people in the scientific community about the likelihood of global extinction in the near future. The video he directed me to was from Dr. Guy McPherson. Please give it a watch: http://youtu.be/C8w5_t7r6lw

This is what my friend asks: “So- I am having a spiritual crisis with this.
How can we as spiritual beings instructed by Srila Prabhupada that we are not the body and that this world is not a place for a gentleman and that we have to perform devotional service and chant Hare Krishna to finally go back to Krishna Loka cope with sudden human extinction in the nearby future? It just seems to turn everything I learned into a myth... Is it not said that there will be another 320'000 years or so of Kali Yuga? Already S.B. prescribes the universe in a way I cannot understand. With the sun God

Associates of Śrī Caitanya – Part One
Six Features of Godhead

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. The associates of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya are constituents of Him. It is our object in this short paper to study the implications of these doctrines.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s active existence involves the undivided operation of the following six divine entities: (1) gurus, (2) devotees, (3) avartāras (divine descents), (4) divine manifestations, (5) divine powers and (6) Godhead Himself. All these are jointly and severally Divine.

As Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is identical with Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the active existence of Śrī Caitanya also implies the cooperation of the above six divine categories.

When Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya was pleased to manifest His appearance on this mundane plane, His six constituents also necessarily made their appearance as part and parcel of Him. In the marvellous work Gaura-ganoddeśa-dīpikā, we find several revelations about characters who are