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"Krishna's face is decorated with ornaments, such as earrings resembling sharks. His ears are beautiful, His cheeks brilliant, and His smiling attractive to everyone. Whoever sees Lord Krishna sees a festival. His face and body are fully satisfying for everyone to see, but the devotees are angry at the creator for the disturbance caused by the momentary blinking of their eyes."

atha cainam nitya-jatam
nityam va manyase mrtam
tathapi tvam maha-baho
nainam socitum arhasi

jatasya hi dhruvo mrtyur
dhruvam janma mrtasya ca
tasmad apariharye 'rthe
na tvam socitum arhasi

          Sloka 26 simply reiterates that whether or not one accepts that the soul is eternal, there is no reason to lament. Without a soul, the body would be nothing more than a collection of chemicals and firing synapses, so why should anyone lament these?

          In text 27, Sri Krsna instructs that anything which takes birth will die and one who dies will be born again. As a result of this continuous cycle, one should not lament about the loss of the body and should instead fulfill the duty one is given. We know that the cycle of samsara is ongoing. The elements of this material world are constantly in flux. As Prabhupada states, “there are so many living entities generating out of matter every moment, and so many of them are being vanquished every moment, there is no need to grieve f

Prabhupāda : And there is no God? What a nonsense. If things are... Just like when you pass through a house, sometimes if you don't see—the house is not properly taken care of, or there is no light in front of the house, there are so many garbages, we immediately say, "Oh, there is no man in this house." And as soon as you see house is very nicely kept, there is light and the garden is kept, we understand there is a man. So this is common sense. If things are going on, everything is going on so nicely, how you can say there is no management, there is no brain? How you can say? What is this nonsense? How you can say there is no God?

Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami and The Appearance of Sri Radha-Raman

The all merciful Lord Sri Gaur Hari, as He travelled from village to village throughout the south of India, continued to distribute love of Godhead wherever He went. Hearing the nectarean names of Hari from His lotus mouth, thousands and thousands men and women felt relief from the blazing fire of material existence. Various wretched, miserable and fallen souls lives were completely rejuvenated and thus they became virtuous and happy. While causing rains of love of God to fall anywhere and everywhere, without consideration of time or place, Sri Gaurasundor came to the ancient holy place of Sri Rangakshetra on an island in the middle of the Kaveri river.

The temple of Sri Ranga Kshetra was extremely large, the crest of the temple tower pierced the sky. Throughout the day and night hundreds and thousands of pilgrims were going and coming to take darsan of Lord Ranganath. The temple hall resounded with the sounds of hundreds a

The Emerald Buddha (Phra Kaeo Morakot)  Wat Phra Kaew ,Thailand

     It is very interesting that Srila Prabhupada indicates Buddha’s “camouflaging” of his divinity. When we look carefully at some of the statements which issue from the Buddha (as we have done in earlier chapters), we see many clues as to his divine hypostasis. It is as though the Buddha did not wish totally to conceal his godlike identity. It peeks through here and there. And it seems that in this regard (as with Buddha’s vegetarianism) the Krishna devotees have preserved a vital aspect of Buddha-understanding which many “orthodox” Buddhists (in my view) mistakenly deny.

     But let us return to the Srimad Bhagavatam. Most fascinatingly, this scripture contains the following revelation, in which seeming UFOs and their malevolent operators find mention in connection with an interplanetary war, along with a saving Buddha:

“When the atheists, after being well versed in the Vedic scientific

knowledge, annihilate inhabitants

A summer boat festival for the Deities of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. In the Krishna Balaram mandir in Sri Vrindavana the devotees fill the large marble court-yard with water, make a pontoon boat for Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Shyamasundara's pleasure and take Them (the utsav vighraha) around the pond with kirtan and loving sentiments.

"Madhavendra Puri's body was completely full of divine love; so were his followers. He displayed uncommon love of God. Seeing a dark blue raincloud, he would fall down unconscious. Day and night he was intoxicated from drinking the ambrosia of Krishna prema." (Vrindavana Dasa Thakura) (In the image: from right to left Shri Gopal and Shrila Madhavendra Puri).

   Before Lord Chaitanya appeared He sent His eternal associates like Shri Advaita Acharya, Shri Jagannatha Mishra, Sachi Mata, Madhavendra Puri, Ishvari Puri to earth. Shri Madhavendra Puri took initiation from Shri Lakshmipati Tirtha in the Madhvacharya sampradaya. He had many but Shri Advaita Acharya and Shri Ishvara Puri were the chief disciples of Madhavendra Puri. In one way or another, all the Vaisnavas in Bengal and Kshetra mandala (Jagannatha Puri) were connected with Shri Madhavendra Puri. After Lord Chaitanya came many of his disciples joined Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement.

   "Madhavendra Puri's body was completely full

Shrinivasa Acharya Seeing his absorption in Gauranga prema, they knew he was "an embodiment of Gaura-shakti, the energy of Shri Gauranga Mahaprabhu." (In the image: Shrinivasa Acharya After witnessing Lord Gauranga's sannyasa ceremony at Katva, Chaitanya Dasa and his pregnant wife visited Lord Chaitanya in Jagannatha Puri. "Soon your wife will give birth to a son named 'Shrinivasa' said Lord Chaitanya, "and through Shrinivasa all the bhakti shastras of Rupa and Sanatana will be distributed." When his father left this world Shrinivasa visited the remaining associates of Lord Gauranga in Katva, Navadwipa, Jagannatha Puri. They blessed Shrinivasa and gave him valuable instructions for spiritual advancement. Seeing his absorption in Gauranga prema, they knew he was "an embodiment of Gaura-shakti, the energy of Shri Gauranga Mahaprabhu." He came to Vrindavana, toured the twelve forests, and took diksha from Gopala Bhatta Goswami. Shri Jiva Goswami taught him the complete philosophy of Gaudi

Prayer to Lord Nrsimha
(from Sri Dasavatara-stotra, p. 97)

"The battle that Arjuna is supposed to fight is inevitable, and is the will of Krsna, so it is his duty as Kshatriya to fight it. The cause is just and right. One should not indiscriminately harm anyone or anything; however, we are duty bound to perform certain actions. Provided they are performed out of devotional service to Krsna and not for personal gain or ego, the actions are not sinful. So, if Arjuna fights he will incur no sin, but should he refuse to fight, sin will be incurred." Ananta Sesa Prabhu

In his purport to Caitanya-caritamrta Adi 17.141, Srila Prabhupada  states:

"In the present day also, people all over the world may join together in the Krsna consciousness movement and protest against the present degraded governments of the world's godless societies, which are based on all kinds of sinful activities. Srimad-Bhagavatam states that in the Age of Kali, thieves, rogues and fourth-class people who have neither education nor culture capture the seats of governments to e

Hare Krishna!

The Scriptures mention the story at the beginning of creation when the representatives of the Devas (Demi-Gods), the Asuras (Humans) and the Rakshasas (Demon) approached their Creator, for guidance on how to improve them-selves so they can serve Him better.

The Lord spoke just one syllable to them “Da” and sent them back.

The three went back to their respective kingdom to contemplate what the Lord was trying to say.

The Rakshasas who were violent by nature understood the Lord’s message “Da” as Daya – be Merciful or compassionate to evolve spiritually

The Asuras who were controlling and possessive by nature understood the Lord’s message “Da” as Daana – Give to evolve spiritually.

The Devas who were by nature used to enjoying the nectar of heavenly planets understood the Lord’s message “Da” as Dama – be Austere (Tapasya) to evolve spiritually.

In Kaliyug all these 3 qualities of Devas (Satva), Asuras (Rajo) and Rakshasas (Tamo) are within us.

Hence each one of us takes home the mes

The test of a theory is in its implementation. While one can spend a lot of time analyzingthe process of bhakti, faith readily comes when one sees the theoryin action. Jayananda Prabhu is such a devotee who exemplified in analmost classical manner the process of bhakti from inception tocompletion. When he left his body on May 1, 1977, Srila Prabhupadainstructed that his disappearance day should be celebrated as thatof a great Vaisnava. Observing the pastimes of such devoteesgreatly reaffirms one's faith in the process of bhakti.

The background
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Jim Kohr was the all-American boy. Handsome, strong, intelligentborn in an upper middle-class family. A good student, he took adegree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University. However despite his outward trappingsof success, he was often unhappy, empty and dissatisfied with thematerial conception of life. Jim did not fit into the upper classcrowd, so it was not very surprising that he ended up driving cabsin San Franci

                                                All Glories to Srila Prabhupada !

pamho, vanca kalpa tarubhyasa ca...

One big question; If we are, as the voidists and impersonalists suggest, ultimately of One Identity with all that Be, then how did we fall into illusion in the first place? That would mean that Godhead/Om was overpowered by a force greater, and thus the unity is gone, and the force that did it is demonstrated as mightier than Godhead.

On the other hand, if we postulate one Supreme Godhead that includes infinite infinitesimal sparks of consciousness, like fires lit from the original, but tiny in comparison the the Whole, then it is sensible for there to be an energy or energies than can, if unguarded, overwhelm the tiny sparks, what we call jiva souls, and for their incarceration or illusion to thus be forced  by dint of greater powers in a hierarchy of empowered beings. At least one of the greater Beings as friend is wanted, one whom is not overpowered and is also