Author: Adi Sankaracarya

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kadacit kalindi-tata-vipina-sangitaka-ravo
mudabhiri-nari-vadana-kamalasvada-madhupah
rama-sambhu-brahmamara-pati-ganesarcita-pado
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

1) Sometimes in great happiness Lord Jagannatha makes a loud concert with His flute in the groves on the banks of the Yamuna. He is like a bumblebee tasting the beautiful lotus like faces of the cowherd damsels of Vraja, and great personalities such as Laksmi, Siva, Brahma, Indra, and Ganesa worship His lotus feet. May that Jagannatha Svami be the object of my vision.

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bhuje savye venum sirasi sikhi-puccham kati-tate
dukulam netrante sahacara-kataksam vidadhate
sada srimad-vrndavana-vasati-lila-paricayo
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

2) In His left hand Lord Jagannatha holds a flute, on His head He wears peacock feathers, and on His hips He wears fine yellow silken cloth. From the corners of His eyes He bestows sidelong glances upon His loving devotees, and He always reveals

pamho Tamohara Prabhu , agt A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada !                                                     Bhubaneswara Krsna-Balarama Temple

Thank you for posting this nice video on the unforgettable rasa rasika bhakta as HDG GAURA GOVINDA MAHARAJ, i stored the video. I am hoping to come in the same platform of a such exalted Vaisnava  from birth, as SRILA GAURA GOVINDA MAHARAJ.

I just associated few times with HIM in vapu seva, in north italy, and in london, but my association through HIS sublime realizations is still keeping going.  In vani seva,is a slow process, but pukka.

Toward the "step a day to take maha maya away", we know pure bhakti yoga is what everyone is looking for. It may be that it takes many lives, but it can take also a lava matra ie. a fraction of a second to get all the sarva siddhi hoy perfections in our daily bhakti yoga practice. 

Most important think is to not get discouraged, because we are proud to announce that we are conscious of kr

Likith Kumar
Prabhupada: Punah punas carvita-carvananam: "Again and Again chewing the chewed." But if they make it point that "If one is not Krsna consciousness, I'll not give a vote," then everything will be perfect, nice.

Hari-sauri: Some countries fine you if you don't vote. If you don't vote, they fine you just to make people vote, because they know otherwise everybody's so disgusted.

Prabhupada: Just see. I have never given vote. Since we have got this sva-raj, as soon as the vote question, I go away. Because I think, "Why shall I give this nonsense vote? None of them are liked by me." I avoid it. In my grhastha life, the municipal board and the......, I avoid. I don't believe in. So give Mr. Asnani some fruits.

Srila Prabhupada. Room Coversation January 8, 1977, Bombay.

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"So there was a whole big splash of political ideology going around ISKCON (74/75). There was a book about a conspiracy from The John Birch Society that made a big hit. And Prabhupada had confirmed that yes, it's a fact, there are conspiracies and the whole material society is being manipulated by a handful of vested interest groups, demons, raksasas, who take birth on this planet just to control and manipulate." (Ramesvara Interview - page 58)

“The GBC should all be the instructor (siksa) gurus. I am the initiator (diksa) guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am teaching and doing what I am doing. This is not a title, but you must actually come to this platform. This I want.” (Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 4th, 1975)

Tdasa; Srila Prabhupada told us, "I am diksha guru, you be siksha" paraphrase. So, he suggests both are wanted. Similarly, how many of us read and understood Gita, all on our own? For most, we needed association with disciples through parampara to understand, so, it is clearly the case that the books may be adequate, but is the follower ADEQUATE ?? I don't think so. So, when Gour Govinda Swami and others emphasize the importance of association with the person Guru, not just reading alone, it should be understood correctly. Srila Gour Govinda said that a tape alone is not enough, but he used them in combination with siksha. This Srila Prabhupada did. Now, it is incumbent upon all of us

Likith Kumar said;

"As such, vedanta-vadis, or the followers of the Vedanta, indicate the pure devotees of the Personality of Godhead. Such vedanta-vadis, or the bhakti-vedantas, are impartial in distributing the transcendental knowledge of devotional service. To them no one is enemy or friend; no one is educated or uneducated. No one is especially favorable, and no one is unfavorable. The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish their lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead. By such endeavor, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization. "
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.24

" DO NOT CENTRALIZE ANYTHING !!!

Each temple must remain independent and self-sufficient. That was my plan from the very beginning, why you are thinking otherwise? Once before you wanted to do something centralizing ..with your GBC meeting, and if I did not interfere the whole thing would have been killed. Do not think in this way of big corporation, big credits, centralization--these are all nonsense proposals. Only thing I wanted was that books printing and distribution should be centralized, therefore I appointed you and Bali Mardan to do it. Otherwise, management, everything, should be done locally by local men. Accounts must be kept, things must be in order and lawfully done, but that should be each temple's concern, not yours. Krishna Consciousness Movement is for training men to be independently thoughtful and competent in all types of departments of knowledge and action, not for making bureaucracy. Once there is bureaucracy the whole thing will be spoiled. There must be

There was a great devotee of Lord Caitanya known as Kholaveca Sridhara, who was a very poor man. He was doing a small business selling cups made from the leaves of plantain trees, and his income was almost nothing. Still, he was spending fifty percent of his small income on the worship of the Ganges, and with the other fifty percent he was somehow living. Lord Caitanya once revealed Himself to this confidential devotee, Kholaveca Sridhara, and offered him any opulence he liked. But Sridhara informed the Lord that he did not want any material opulence. He was quite happy in his present position and wanted only to gain unflinching faith and devotion unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya. That is the position of pure devotees. If they can be engaged twenty-four hours each day in devotional service they do not want anything else, not even the happiness of liberation or of becoming one with the Supreme. 

- Nectar of Devotion. Chapter 1. Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service

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