"I have built the skyscraper skeleton, now you all intelligent American and European boys and girls fill in the spaces nicely in good taste. Do not deviate from our high standard. That will mean great dishonor to me. Push on in your preaching work as I have shown you, remain pure, enthusiastic, and optimistic, and Krishna will favor you with all good results and benedictions."

Srila Prabhupada Letter Bombay 22 December, 1971

Hare Krishna!  

God Is Watching  

Man: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure.
Man: Promise You won't get mad...
God: I promise.
  Man: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do you mean?
Man: Well, I woke up late.
 God: Yes...
Man: My car took forever to start.
 God: Okay...
Man: At lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait.
God: Huummm...
Man: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call.
God: All right...
 Man: And to top of it all off, when I got home, I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. But it wouldn't work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?
 
God: Let me see, the Angel of Death was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that.
Man (humbled): OH...
God: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.
Man: (Hangs his head in shame)
God: The first person

Once there was a sweeper in the Dwarakadish temple and he was very sincere and devoted. Every time he saw thousands of devotees coming to take darshan of the Lord, he thought that the Lord is standing all the time and giving darshan and He must be feeling very tired.

So one day very innocently he asked the Lord whether he can take the place of the Lord for a day so that the Lord can have some relief and rest.

The Deity of Dwarakadish replied, "I do not mind taking a break. I will transform you like Myself, but you must do one thing. You must just stand here like Me, smile at everyone and just give benedictions. Do not interfere with anything and do not say anything. Remember you are the deity and you just have faith that I have a master plan for everything." The sweeper agreed to this.

The next day the sweeper took the position of the deity and a rich man came and prayed to the Lord. He offered a nice donation and prayed that his business should be prosperous. While going, the rich man in

"One may kill an animal to enjoy eating it, but he will be bound by such an action. Thus in one's next life he will become a cow or a goat, and the cow or goat will become a man and eat him. This is the Vedic statement, and as with all Vedic statements, one may believe it or not. Unfortunately, at present people are educated in such a way that they do not believe in the next life. Indeed, it seems that the more "educated" one becomes, the less he believes in God, in God's law, in the next life and in sinful and pious activities. Thus modern education is simply preparing men to become animals. If there is no education to teach a human being what he is and whether or not he is this body, he remains no better than an ass. An ass also thinks, "I am this body," as do other animals. Thus if a man thinks in the same way, how is he different from any other animal? "

Srila Prabhupada,
Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, The Matchless Gift 3

Madhav Ananda Thanks - I know that there are many species & Although the Bhagavatam gives many details about ET civilizations, there is much to be interpreted..many have reason to doubt the work of Zecharia sitchen...I met an old "ex-Prabhupada" devotee Jiva -who has a whole story about the Annunaki & sacred Geometry work to "free us from the slavery to the Gods....So it could be a brainwashing tool from some of the Rakshshashas to destroy peoples' faith in Bhagavan..but good to recognize that there are many conflicting races of demons, demi-gods, ETs, angels etc..-Here is a listing in Srila Prabhupadas own words;

"SB 2.6.43-45: I myself [Brahma], Lord Siva, Lord Vishnu, great generators of living beings like Daksha and Prajapati, yourselves [Narada and the Kumaras], heavenly demigods like Indra and Candra, the leaders of the Bhurloka planets, the leaders of the earthly planets, the leaders of the lower planets, the leaders of the Gandharva planets, the leaders of the Vidyadhara plane

Śrī Godādevī Ālvar

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

  The life of Godādevī, or Āṇḍāl, was glorious, for it was filled by her glowing love for Godhead. The spiritual origin of her incarnation can be traced back to the Supreme Lord’s Nīlā-śakti potency.

In a town called Śrī Villiputtur, there once lived a person named Viṣṇucitta, who later became known as Periya Ālvar. He was born in a brāhmaṇa family and had a small garden where he grew sacred Tulasī plants with his own hands. One of his important duties was to weave garlands of fragrant flowers with Tulasī leaves and offer them to the deity there, named, Vaṭa-patraśāyī Bhagavān*.

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* The Bala-Gopāla form of Bhagavān who took shelter of the leaf of a banyan tree (vaṭa) at the time of universal devastation, while sucking His toe.

One day while he was picking leaves and flowers, he was astonished to find a wonderful baby girl, marvellously similar in beauty to Lakṣmī-devī, laying amidst the Tulasī plants.

Anatomy of an action

• Posted by Mahesh J C on July 3, 2015 at 5:30

Hare Krishna!

We go through 4 ascending stages of action.

1. Unconscious Incompetence:

When a child of 3 or 4 years is asked by her dad, 'Can you drive my car?'. The child replies, 'Yes dad, I can drive the car'.

This child is not conscious of her incompetence.

2. Conscious incompetence:

When this child is now 7 or 8 years old is asked by her dad, 'Can you drive my car?'. The child replies, 'No dad, I can't drive the car. My feet won't reach the brake and accelerator'.

This child is now conscious of her incompetence.

3. Conscious competence:

Now this child is 18 yrs and has just  got her licence to drive. She is driving the car slowly with her knuckle turning white from holding the steering tight. His dad asks her a question. The child whose is intently watching the road ahead, says, ' Dad, Sshh! can't you see I am driving!

This child is now conscious of her competence.

4. Unconscious competence:

Now this child is

Krsna-katha Posts versus Forum and Dicsussion;

Generally, any posts including speculation or comparison to non-devotee concepts and ideas, written by contemporary devotees, or topics dealing with world news and opinions, or lectures etc written by devotees not of our direct line, should go to Forum, whereas straight up unquestionable Krsna katha from pure devotees, with some occassional exceptions, should go to the Krsna katha Posts section.  We are assuming our new readers do not necessarily know the difference from sastra versus Mothra.

We used to have them merged, eh-te-hey, as our native Indians in Winnipeg are oft  heard to say, but the devotees did not like it. We are trying to keep anything speculative or slightly different from Srila Prabhupada's teachings away from the Posts which are meant to be 100% sastra and undoubtedly truth and pure.

Admittedly there is an over-lap, and in such cases, the dingbat Editor, thats me! gets to disturb and fluster everyone with his arbitrar

HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupāda:

But I don't see that they have made one single kṛṣṇa-bhakta, neither they were kṛṣṇa-bhakta. What kind of Bhagavad- gītā they have read I do not know. I see by the result. Last word of Bhagavad-gītā is man-manā bhava mad-bhakto... (BG 18.65). Mām eva... Sarva-dharmān. That is study of Bhagavad-gītā. They do not speak of Kṛṣṇa anywhere, that "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person, you become a devotee." Now how he has read Bhagavad-gītā? I shall take it? Simply by jugglery of words? We have to see the result. They have neither made one kṛṣṇa-bhakta, neither they were kṛṣṇa- bhakta. How he has read Bhagavad-gītā? Tell me. This is the test. They... Whole country is after Gandhi or Aurobindo or big, big... But who is kṛṣṇa-bhakta under their direction? Now we are simply following Caitanya Mahāprabhu, yāre dekha tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'- upadeśa (CC Madhya 7.128). Just see. Thousands are become kṛṣṇa-bhakta. See by practical.

Alas, we're drowning deep
In waves of colored hue,
Raging winds and thrashing gale
Doth blight all reason true.

Tongues of fire licking flesh
Hell in all directions bound,
Scores of fallen angels
Bleeding stains upon the ground.

Madness, death and courting friends
Do rule this land below,
The nether regions manifest
Upon unsaintly brow.

No hope, no chance, no remedy

Salvation fled in fear,
Age-old human comedy's
Familiar laughing sneer.

And rows of dead, rising up
To punishment deserved,

Just to fall again to dust
Only mammon served.

Amidst this night of dread and fear
Our mindful Lord did send,
A rare and precious jewel of light
All broken dreams to mend.

Prabhupada -- the Lord's dear wish
To ignite the darkened soul,
Pouring immortal nectar sweet
All cups to overflow.

Our vessels full and lips still moist
Shall we now begin our task,
To spread his mercy everywhere
All souls rejoice at last!

In Honor of Srila Prabhupada
(by Padmapani das)

My Godbrothers have no life for preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of a temple, they engage disciples to get foodstuff by transcendental devices and eat and sleep. They have no idea or brain how to broacast the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Tirupati 28 April, 1974

Washington D.C.

My dear Rupanuga Maharaja,

Please accept my blessings.

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 17, from Washington D.C. and I have very carefully noted the contents.

Regarding Mayapur, as you have begun this program should be regularly followed once a year: meet in Mayapur and chalk out activities for the year. Then, next year meet and see how far things are being done and if necessary make changes for responsible GBC and presidents etc. The meeting is very valuable and must be carried out regularly every year. But one thing is that at Mayapur last time most of the time was spent discussing but no program was made firm for the year. For example, our Tama

Shishir Katote R

Question: Are gopis celibates?

Answer: There are 2 types of srinagar rasa that culminate into transcendental sex. First is sambhogeccha mayi bhakti and another is tad tad bhava icchatmika bhakti.

Although it may appear that sex here does not let gopis remain celibate, they in reality still are celibates. Why? Because there is no desire for personal sex gratification. The desire is to please Krishna, not their own senses.

"If you repeat Krishna, if you hear Krishna, incessantly you repeat without offense, then very soon the Lord will enter into your heart. And He will occupy your heart. Your heart will be the throne of the Lord. He won't go from that throne. And then the Lord will be yours. And if I am His:

Published on Oct 23, 2013

Kṛṣṇa is personally speaking about Himself. You haven't got to speculate like nonsense. Just like Gandhi speculated, "I do not believe that ever any person like Kṛṣṇa lived." Do you know that? This is Gandhi's statement, and he is mahātmā. The mahātmā's definition is there in the Bhagavad-gītā: mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ, bhajanty ananya-manasaḥ (BG 9.13). That is mahātmā, not to take advantage of Bhagavad-gītā. Of course, there are... So we do not want to criticize anyone, but sometimes it so happens. Big, big scholars, big, big politicians, they misguide people. That is the position of India. So many big, big leaders and politician and so-called swamis and yogis, they have exploited people by bluffing, and now India's position is: it is neither spiritual nor material. (laughter) That's all. Just like it is, the example is, if there are two boats and if you place your leg this boat and that boat, the position is very precarious. (laughter) Neither in this boat,