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A poem originally written by HDG Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in the early 1870's.

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tava kathämåtaà tapta-jévanam

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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

Issue No. 221 Çré Ämalaké-vrata Ekädaçé 25 February 2010 Circulation 2,812

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Always Enthusiastic

His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I am so pleased to hear from you that the book distribution

has increased five times than before! Similarly,

I have heard from Chicago and other places also that

they are increasing five times than before. That is very

encouraging to me. You are, I can understand, very

enthusiastic to endeavor for big things on Krishna’s

behalf, and all of the new students there at our Boston

center are also feeling enthusiasm from your example.

That is the business of a leader: He must always be

enthusiastic and inspire others to be always enthusiastic.

Then he is a real leader. And that enthusiastic

mood

Prabhupada, Sri Gaura-Purnima, Mayapur, March 16, 1976: Today is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s appearance day, so we must discuss this very thoroughly, that, that Rupa Gosvami understood it. Therefore we have to go through guru. Rupa Gosvami is our guru. Narottama dasa Thakura said,

rupa-raghunatha-pade, hoibe akuti, kabe hama bujhabo, sri-yugala-piriti

If we want to understand the transcendental position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then we have to go through guru, guru- parampara system. Otherwise it is not possible. Rupa-raghunatha pade hoibe akuti.

Unless we accept this process, unless we submit… This whole process is submission. Krishna wants this. Sarva-dharman parityajya [Bg. 18.66] So if you want to approach Krishna, you have to become very submissive. And to whom? “Krishna is not here. To whom I shall submit?”

No. To His devotee, to His representative. The business is submission. So Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared this day for giving mercy to the fallen souls who are so fo

From harikatha.org; (NM)

Then we returned to Srila Gurudeva’s(NM) bhajan kutir, Srimati Vrnda devi told Gurudeva that she had noticed him offering some prayers also to Nandi ji, and asked what was he praying for. Srila Gurudeva replied that he was requesting Nandi with folded palms to pray to Siva ji that we may obtain his mercy in his form as Sri Gopisvara Mahadeva (Lord Siva in the form of a Vraja gopi.) He said, “What mercy can we receive from Gopisvara Mahadeva? He can benedict us with gopi-prema, the pure love of the gopis of Vraja.”

On the previous day Srila Gurudeva spoke briefly about Siva-Caturdasi, the appearance day of Lord Siva. He first posed the question: if Sadasiva is eternal, without birth and death, why are we celebrating his appearance day? Srila Gurudeva then replied by saying that also we celebrate the appearance days of Sri Krsna, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and Sri Ramacandra, who are also eternal. The fact is that in his naravata-lila (human-like pastimes), on t

Unfortunately, today’s government leaders are generally dishonest and irreligious, and thus all the affairs of the state suffer. In the name of democracy, rogues and thieves fool the innocent populace into electing them to the most important posts in the government. Recently this has been proven in America, and as a result the citizens condemned the President and dragged him down from his post. This is only one case out of many.

In Kali-yuga, people have no shelter. Due to corrupt government, they are uncertain of their lives and property. The mass of people should always feel secure because of the government’s protection. Therefore, how regrettable it is for the government itself to cause a breach of trust and put the citizens in difficulty for political reasons. We saw during the partition days in India that although Hindus and Muslims had been living together peacefully, manipulation by politicians suddenly aroused feelings of hatred between them, and thus the Hindus and Muslim

BY: GOURA BOLA

Feb 07, INDIA — The main teaching of Vedic (or Hindu) literature is as follows: "I am not my body, I am pure spirit soul, part and parcel of Krishna."

It is easy to write or say the above sentence. What matters is if the sadhak (or bhakta) realizes the above statement. If you don't realize it, does it matter what kind of society you are part of? That society can be called Hindu, ISKCON, Hare Krishna, etc. I would like to explain to you what the above means, so that the readers will know if they truly understand the above statement. It is useless to write articles if you don't understand these basic principles. The worst obstacle for bhakta is to think that one realizes these concepts when one doesn't.

1) The truth is that the self is not body or inert matter. Self cannot even be touched by matter. Self has assumed affinity to matter. Body and matter is perishable and self is imperishable. When one realizes this fact, one stops giving importance to the perisha