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A holy man  was talking to God one day.
Priest; Sir, I want to know what is the nature of paradise and hell. (the kingdom of heaven, and evil)
In answer, the Lord presented two doors to the holy man;.
He opened one,  and they entered ... In the middle of the room was a large round table, and  in the middle there was a large pot, including a tasty vegetable stew. The Priest could smell the wonderful food, and became very hungry. The people who sat around the table were bone thin and pale as death. All were starving.
Each has a long-handled spoon in his hands. All of them reached the sabji in the bowl. But as the spoon handle was longer than their arms, they could not raise the spoon to their mouth !

The holy man shuddered miserably, seeing their suffering.
God then said  What in the hell did you see ?!
Then they both entered the second door. Opened it, and the sight revealed by God, was the same as the previous room. There was a large round table, a delicious pot of stew, which made the

HDG Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharajah Thakura Prabhupada

This world is a perverted reflection of the original world, which is our real home. Instead of passing our time here, we want to go back to our eternal abode. We are now very busily engaged in pursuing pleasant sensations gained by our senses from phenomenal objects. We should make it a point to eradicate the root cause of this, which has brought us to this world of delusion, apparent pleasures, miseries and troubles. The mind is the root of all evils and the root of all pleasure-seeking inclinations. So the mind should be subjugated first; that is, it should not be allowed to take initiative in anything. Ordinarily the mind controls our senses and the soul is lying in a dormant condition. The soul has delegated its power of transacting with the external world to the mind, and the mind has five ministers to help in the administration of the phenomenal world. But the mind is a not a dutiful agent of the soul. It a

Samadhi, Sri Sri Radha Ramana  Mandira

                                            Radha Ramana!!

Sri Gopala Bhatta Goswami was the son of Vyenkatta Bhatta, a brahmana resident of Sri Rangam, who was initiated in the Sri Sampradaya. The city of Sri Rangam is located on the Kaveri river in the district of Tanjor about ten miles west of Kumbhakonam.
Regarding this temple Sri Bhaktivedanta Swami remarks as follows. "The Sri Rangam temple is the largest in India, and there are seven walls surrounding it. There are also seven roads leading to Sri Rangam. The ancient names of these roads are Dharma, Rajamahendra, Kulashekhara, Alinadana, Tiruvikrama, Tirubidi and Ada-iyavala-indana. The temple was founded before the reign of Dharmavarma, who reigned before Rajamahendra. Many celebrated kings like Kulashekhara and others such as Alabandaru, resided in the temple of Sri Rangam. Yamunacharya, Sri Ramanuja, Sudarshanacharya, and others also supervise

Marcus Aurelius  - quote: People are born for each other. Or they teach, or they put up with them !

                          A flight of birds! 

We see them flying over the sea,  but physically we can not fly with them. What we can do, is to look up to them with love and joy in our hearts for God's creation; to gaze in admiring wonder at what we see He has made for us, with us!  The wise old oral tradition of such love of God's created world, is one of the pillars of life here in Europe.

Human thoughts, words; they  build, and can also destroy. Human love is often misapplied, mal-practised, and may ruin lives .. For example: many people say that the physical and cultural distance from the other people repells people away from each other, but this is not true!  People decide whether they like or dislike. Whether they live in the distance, or in close proximity, does not actually affect the outpouring of love. God gave us the loving capacity, and it depends on us  to utilize it or not

        ya rupa-maïjari-preshtha purasiad rati-maïjari
socyate nama-bhedena lavanga-maïjari budhaih
sadya gaurabhinna-tanuh sarvaradhyah sanatanah
tam eva pravishat karyan muni-ratnah sanatanah

Rati Manjari, who was previously very dear to Rupa Manjari and was also known by some wise persons as Lavanga Manjari, has become the worshipable Sanatana, who is non-different from Gaura himself. The jewel amongst sages, Sanatana Kumara, has also entered into him to fulfill a certain mission. (Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 181)

Sanatana's life before meeting Mahaprabhu

According to the Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana, Sanatana was born in around 1410 of the Shaka era (1488 AD). Narahari Chakravarti Thakur has described his ancestors in Bhakti-ratnakara (1.541ff) and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur has given a summary of this information in his Anubhashya to Chaitanya Charitamrita (1.10.84), which we have quoted in this book on page 12 in our discussion of the life of Rupa Goswami

Krsna's flute vibrates eight different tunes;

1. Demigods like Lord Brahma and Lord Siva break their meditation and forget everything when the first flute tune pierces their ears.

2. The Yamuna river begins to flow backwards.

3. The moon stops moving.

4. Cows run to Krsna and stand motionless to hear.

5. The gopis come running to associate with Krsna.

6. Autumn is created with rich foliage and blossoms and fruits, and stones melt.

7. All six seasons manifest with a southern breeze carrying sensuous and  wonderful fragrances of the aromatic forest flowers.

8. The eight note takes the form of the name of Radha, steals Her self control, and forcibly speeds Her to Her beloved Krsna. Overwhelmed by the flute's passionate whirlwind, Radharani paints mascara on Her lotus feet and red dye on Her eyes, fastens a necklace on Her waist, anklets on Her wrists, and she drapes Her blouse where Her dress should be!

Humanity's history book, a lot of bloody sheets and damned. Because people have not learned not to hurt others, it is not their own fault .

An adage says, when life gives lemons, make lemonade. If your glass half full of water, rejoice and be happy. Do not worry, it is only half a glass of water. Still do not know each other's cup. This is a great truth! The wise man is humble, even violet. The violet hides from curious eyes, silently lurks at the back of the gardens, forests and fields on the edge, forest edges away from the noise of the world .... And yet ... wonders who wants and knows how to find a miracle, you can find the violets.  

The evil is everywhere. Or circumvent, or attempt to get out of it. The bad is like a moor. If we enter into, or to lead, we can drown.

Steadfastly believe that everything we learn in life. At least, ought to learn. Every life, every birth is an option. Opportunity to become better people. If you manage to achieve this, we serve life as an example to

June 23, 2012   1966 June 23:
"Sasthi. Today Mike proposed to become a Vaishnava and married with his girl friend. Today while I was about to go to Karl's place, Paul implored me that if required he would go away this loft is mine. I was pleased hear all these from the young boy. So I stopped leaving of this place. Karl took the trouble of bringing back my bags."
Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 16:32 |

  1966 June 23: "So far your dress is concerned, I think you will require several suits for visiting gentlemen here. As a sannyasi I cannot take suits and boots but you are brahmacari so you can accept such gentlemanly dress."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 16:30 |

  1966 June 23: "You want to join first then talk with Sripada Maharaja. Do you think that cooperation with me here is not possible? Why this mentality? Is it my private business?"
Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 16:28 |

  1966 June 23: "Take everything as Srila Prabhupada's work. The Gaudiya Math instituti

At 1:51 on June 21, 2012, abhaya carana seva das said…

pamho tamohara prabhu,  agt ACBSP !

I got your good advice and i'm working on that, i mean, ahaituki apratihata, constant engagement in jivera svarupa hoy krsnera nitya dasa to get the spontaneous platform of raga bhakti.  I  will try to leave some comment on the story of the divine bhagavatam to awake my spiritual selfless mood service connected in the loving relationship with all the genuine prabhupadanugas who all the time meditating on the vani seva of HDG ACBSP by realizing that SRI KRSNA is everything.  And in the same time, when one forgets krsna, maya sukaya looks like it is everything!

Therefore, we need to keep connected altogether to awake this selfless mood of service in raga bhakti faster through good sat-sanga comments.  Because if the mind is SRI ANIRUDDHA DEVA ,then SRI KRSNA HIMSELF help us by making things more clear in our minds.  Through good comments HE speak to us by trying THEIR best to save us!  May be we

As a father in his amusements with his young children, God is spreading all sorts of delicious food all over the earth and expecting that His sons should gather all the scattered blessings and, without the exercise of reason in consequence of a strong feeling of love, offer all the blessing to the Father whom they love more than their lives. The Father again, in reply to their kind feelings, gives back the blessings to the children and tells them these kindlier words, "O! My children! These blessings intended for you!

Out of your natural love you bring them to me for my enjoyment; but I have naturally no wants to supply. But then I have accepted that part of your offering which corresponds with me, viz. your unmixed love and disinterested affections for which alone I am exceedingly anxious. Take back these sweet things and enjoy them."

 This process of disinterested love, which dry reason can never brook, sanctifies the food we take, and leaves us to harmless enjoyment for all t

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura;

To the Saragrahi Vaishnava, the temple has such thrilling charms which the ordinary Rationalist can never understand. We do not mean to say that Reason is a foolish principle. On the contrary we do not find better admirers of Reason than our humble selves. We hold that man's superiority amongst all created beings consist in man's possessing the noble gift of Reason.

What we maintain in this, that independent of this noble principle there is another higher gift in man which goes by the name of Love. Reason helps Love to maintain its proper bounds in the Spiritual world. Love often tends to degrade itself by exercising its functions on objects other than God and converts itself into lust for woman, wine, meat and gold. Here Reason advises her to rise higher till she reaches her proper sphere above. Thus we find that the object of Reason is to help Love and not to create it. Reason may be properly styled as the servant of Love and must always be subject t

Garden monk said…

pamho tamohara prabhu agtACBSP,

you are right prabhu that one drop of pure love of Krsna  is enough to go back home, says SRILA PRABHUPADA ... in kali yuga it's impossible to do everything with love, so many distractions are there ... manda bhagya upadrutah. this is the future of all the citizens of this age who refuse to awake the mood of devotional service by accepting the harinam diksa from our beloved acharya. normally ordinary people beg God to save them at time of need, especially when they are dying. but we know that's too late. therefore we beg SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA to save us all the time,  because is all the time time of need not just when we are dying.

anyway we are already dead materially, but ordinary people are thinking i'm alive, let me enjoy, i'm independently the supreme controller. but without bhakti it's just a illusion. that's why we are lucky, because we feel the urge to use the time to come out from this bitter illusion. but for the living dead, that bitter illusi

Who is The Topmost Object of Service?

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Srivasa Thakura is the intimate associate of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and is Sri Narada Muni in krsna-lila. Srila Gurudeva spoke on a drop of his glory on June 1st, 2002,  and we are enclosing his words of wisdom herein. The main topic of Srila Gurudeva's class was the subject of ruci, or taste for krsna-bhajana, and he gave Srivasa Thakura as an example of a pure devotee who had no taste in material affection due to his taste for bhajana:]

Vamsi dasa Babaji was always in a mood of intimacy with Caitanya Mahaprabhu. You, on the other hand, are always engaged in maintaining your life. Sometimes business is very good, and you think, "Oh, this is very good." And sometimes it is down and you think, "What to do? What to do? What to do?" You forget to chant and you forget to worship. This is not ruci (taste for bhakti). If you are in the stage of ruci, all items for your maintenance will come to you automatically. If anything is not coming for your maintenance, like money, food, or anything