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"Similarly this Krishna Consciousness Movement is a treatment for reviving the memory that we all belong to Krishna's family. So we are trying to establish a replica of Krishna's family in this material world wherein there is no material activities. To avoid the material activities means to follow the four regulative principles and to engage ourselves constantly in Krishna Consciousness activities and to have the association of pure devotees. We should not give indulgence to our senses more than what is required just to keep body and soul together. We should not engage ourselves in very difficult tasks, and we should not talk anything more than what is necessary for spreading Krishna Consciousness. We should follow the regulative principles, regard being had to situation, circumstances and objectives. We should not be greedy and we should not mix with persons not interested in Krishna. In this way, we can make steady progress and maintain our membership in Krishna's family. Thus, at th
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Utilize Every Moment to Attain True Well-being 
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Śrī Bhagavān has said: “A truly intelligent person should shun evil company but seek the association of holy saints who, with their instructions, gnaw away the knot of our mind’s worldly attachments” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 11.26.26). This means that for our true well-being we should always accept the guidance of the true guru and not be misled by pseudo gurus. The guru never accepts preya-panthā, the path to pleasure, for he is a follower of śreya-panthā, the path to true well-being. And he instructs his disciples and others to walk along this real path as his own true guru instructed him. 

If a disciple asks the guru for permission to drink alcohol, the guru is sure to disapprove and never grant it. When the guru does not indulge the disciple in his prayer for the cravings of his mind, he might dismiss the guru. Such disciples accept only those gurus who are read

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Graphene Oxide in All Vaccines Makes the Vaccinated Walking Time Bombs

Graphene oxide in all vaccines makes the vaccinated walking time bombs CLAIRE EDWARDS

In a new video, La Quinta Columna reveal that graphene oxide (GO) has been found in saline solution, and they deduce that the use of GO is much, much more widespread and started much earlier than just the “Covid” vaccines.[i]  Babies have been found to be magnetic, and people who have not taken the “Covid” jab or been PCR tested or worn masks are also exhibiting magnetism, so it has to be coming from elsewhere. They deduce that the GO has been used in all vaccines, including tetanus, meningitis, children’s vaccines, etc., for some years.

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La Quinta Columna says that GO was also in the 2018 flu vaccine, and that could account for why people exhibit magnetism despite not having had the “Covid” vaccine.  This could also account for the high number of “flu” deaths after the 2018 flu vaccine campaign.

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Srila Prabhupada, prophet

*Govinda Dasi*
*June 25 at 8:32 AM*
This morning I was remembering something so very clearly. It was in *1968,* and on this particular day, *Srila Prabhupada* was looking very pensive, thoughtful, as if he were *watching a movie of the future.*
Often he would comment on *events in this world,* though we were never connected by *tv or internet—only an occasional newspaper* that would come our way.
But *Srila Prabhupada* would look around and seem to *know what was going on in the world as mystic seers do,* since those *siddhis were always available to him.*
I was always totally unaware of anything that was going on in the outside world, since I considered his room to be *MY world,* and *HE was all the people.*
I was young, *only twenty,* and nothing in the world of current affairs had ever interested me. In high school and college, only Thoreau’s *“Walden Pond”* sparked my interest.
On this day, I went in and sat down quietly in front of his trun
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Prabhupada did not accept criticism unless we had a positive correction.
I heard from secretary Prabhupada, Upendra, that devotees in Japan were thrown out of the country and that our Society is at risk. This disturbed me as I spent three years in Japan. I felt that the devotees there, headed by Gurukripa and Yashodananda, were in a passionate mood to raise money. They didn't want to register the Society and keep it in good condition.
In this restless mood, I entered Prabhupada's room. Srila Prabhupada was alone. I burned out ′′ I knew this was going to happen ". Srila Prabhupada looked at me as if saying, ′′ What kind of aboriginal entered my room?" I said, ′′ We are being thrown out of Japan, but we have Radha's Deity - Krishna is there ".
Srila Prabhupada was sad and said soberly: ′′ I didn't want this to happen. Ok you can come back ". I was shocked. I thought, ′′ Oh God, what have I done? I opened my mouth and now I need to get back to Japan. I didn't want to do this ". That's
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"So in the material world the varieties are reflection of the spiritual world. Here is also father, but this is imitation father. But there is also father, but that is not father..... It is imitation father. A friend is imitation friend. Real friend is Krsna. Real father is Krsna. Here husband, imitation husband. Real husband is Krsna.
Master, imitation master. Real master is Krsna. We have to give up this imitation."
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.2 – January 10, 1968, Los Angeles
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Analysis of Pre-1978 Book Changes: Srimad Bhagavatam -
Over 21000 changes found in Canto 1 to 4 1976+ revised editions
 
In future you don’t do any changes without asking me first.
[Letter: Bhargava, May 29,1976]
 
Do not try to change anything without my permission.
[Letter to Radhavallabha, Aug 26, 1976]
 
The next printing should be again to the original way.
[Srila Prabhupada Conversation, "Rascal Editors,"June 22, 1977, Vrndavana]
Hare Krsna. 
Ananta Koti dandavats to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 
vāñchā-kalpatarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca
patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ
I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṇava devotees of the Lord who can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees, and who are full of compassion for the fallen souls.
The links below compare the first 4 cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam.
The comparison is done between the first prints and the later revised prints from 1976. 
Here only the 1976 onwards ed
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Three lost prasadam-related Iskcon Canada holidays/pastimes;

1 Varuni Juice day
2 feed the brahmanas sweets day
3 Ooorts
1 Once a year, I think it is Balarama's appearance day, i can't remember, the cooks would prepare buckets of Vaurni juice, made with whey and excess honey. The devotees would drink it, and get quite intoxicated and laugh and look swimmy-eyed a lot... great annual fun.
2 Also once a year, also cannot recall which day, the temple would bring out bowls of rasagullas and burfi and sandesh, and the brahamans would be fed so many sweets their mouths would be stuffed full of gulabjamuns. I used to donate a lot of mine to Swapana Prabhu, who would then feel obliged to eat all of them out of respect for the brahamanas! You'd feel it in your next day's japa though...
3 If one could somehow manage to steal some prasadam off of a favorite devotee's plate, it was called oorts, and consided most auspicious to eat or take.
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June 29, 1971 Srila Prabhupada: We can serve Kṛṣṇa in four ways. First of all, try to dedicate your life for Kṛṣṇa. That is first class. If not, then spare some of your money for Kṛṣṇa. If not, then give some words for Kṛṣṇa. Or give some intelligence. You can give. "Sir, if for organizing your this movement we know that you require money, but I have no money. So I have got a friend. He is rich. If you come, he will help you." This is intelligence.
You can serve Kṛṣṇa by intelligence. You can serve Kṛṣṇa by your money. You can serve Kṛṣṇa by your life. And at last, you can serve Kṛṣṇa by your words. Simply go door to door and request everyone, "Please chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. There will be no loss on your part. The gain you will see within one week. The gain you will see within one week if you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. But you are not losing."
If we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, as soon as our heart is cleansed . . .That is the first benediction of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, that our heart becomes cleans
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WHAT ARE WE THINKING ABOUT?

WHAT ARE WE THINKING ABOUT?
.........."When a living entity is accustomed to think of a particular subject matter or become absorbed in a certain type of thought, he will think of that subject at the time of death. At the time of death, one will think of the subject that has occupied his life while he was awake, lightly sleeping or dreaming, or while he was deeply sleeping. After falling from the association of the Supreme Lord, the living entity thus transmigrates from one bodily form to another according to nature's course, until he finally attains the human form. If he is absorbed in material thoughts and ignorant of spiritual life, and if he does not"........in the Purport of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.28
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is Chapter 8. Verse 6......Translation: "Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kuntī, that state he will attain without fail."
PURPORT:
The process of changing one's nature at the critical moment of death is here explained. A person
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Online Edition

Year-14, Issue 5 • 29 June 2021

Rays of The Harmonist

Dedicated to nitya-līlā praviṣṭa oṁ viṣṇupāda
Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja

Inspired by and under the guidance of nitya-līlā praviṣṭa oṁ viṣṇupāda
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja

 

What is the Most Severe Nāma-aparādha? 
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
 

Question 1
How can one attain perfection within a single lifetime?

Answer: If one gives up one’s free will and fully surrenders to śrī gurudeva, and then performs bhajana without duplicity under his guidance, one will attain perfection within a single lifetime.


Question 2
By what means can one know Śrī Bhagavān?

Answer: One will have to hear with faith the kathā of Bhagavān coming from the lotus lips of śrī gurudeva. There is no way to know Śrī Bhagavān other than by whole-heartedly surrendering unto the lotus feet of śrī gurudeva. Onl

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"THE SPIRITUAL MASTER, BONAFIDE SPIRITUAL, MEANS HE HAS TO RECEIVE THE POWER FROM AUTHORITY. OTHERWISE IT IS USELESS. NO, IT IS NOT THAT ONE CAN BECOME SPIRITUAL MASTER OVERNIGHT."
Srila Prabhupada:
saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-
trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya
vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam
This song is offering obeisances particularly to the spiritual master, and the symptoms of the spiritual master are described in this prayer. The spiritual master has two kind of symptoms in his activities. One kind is called constant, and other kind is called temporary. So the first verse says that the constant symptom of the spiritual master is that he can deliver his disciples from the blazing fire of this material existence. That is the eternal qualification of spiritual master. Trāṇāya means for deliverance, and kāruṇya means compassionate, very merciful. The spiritual master comes to the deliverance of the fallen souls out
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    Spectacular post in all regards! This conversation is so relevant to current affairs that it could've taken place yesterday...Thank you and Hare Krsna
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    It's interesting that Srila Prabhupada used the word "satanic" to describe the government.
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      Vishnudas Art I was also taken back by that...
      The following conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and members of the United Nations World Health Organization took place in Geneva on June 6, 1974.
      Srila Prabhupada: All over the world, or anywhere in the world, you can make this experiment, just as we are doing. Live very simply. Be self-sufficient; get your necessities not from factories but from the farmland. And glorify God’s holy names.
      In this industrial set-up, capitalist or communist, only a few big men can be happy – so-called happy – at the expense of the other people. And because th
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"With prīti, with love. Chant every name, "Hare Kṛṣṇa," and hear. Here is Kṛṣṇa, here is Rādhārāṇī. That kind of chanting, quality. Not "Harekṛṣṇaharekṛṣṇakṛṣṇakṛṣṇaharehare . . ." Not like that. Not like that. Prīti. Teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti (BG 10.10). That prīti is required. That is the essential quality. Patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati (BG 9.26). Real thing is bhakti (devotion). Kṛṣṇa is not hungry, that you will give Him some good food and He will eat it, never mind in which way you can give. "Oh, here is purī, halavā. Kṛṣṇa must eat." Kṛṣṇa is not hungry for your purī, halavā. But if there is bhakti, if there is love, then He eats. Tad aham aśnāmi: "Then I eat, if there is bhakti, love."
(Prabhupada Lecture, June 17, 1973, Mayapur)
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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (ISKCON Founder Acharya)―
"On the earth there is a full display of variegatedness of life, which is originally started with the basic principle of air. Diseases of the body take place due to derangement of air within the earthly body of the living beings. Mental diseases result from special derangement of the air within the body, and as such, yogic exercise is especially beneficial to keep the air in order so that diseases of the body become almost nil by such exercises. When they are properly done the duration of life also increases, and one can have control over death also by such practices."
[Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) :― Canto 2: The Cosmic Manifestation, Chapter 5: The Cause of All Causes, Text 26-29, Purport]
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In the Skanda Purāṇa there is a similar statement: "Persons whose bodies are marked with tilaka, symbolizing the conchshell, wheel, club and lotus—and who keep the leaves of tulasī on their heads, and whose bodies are always decorated with gopī-candana—even seen once, can help the seer be relieved from all sinful activities.
Nectar of Devotion, 12 by Srila ĀC Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupada Prabhupada
A similar statement is in the Third Canto, 7th Chapter, 19th verse, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: "Let me become a sincere servant of the devotees because by serving them one can achieve unalloyed devotional service unto the lotus feet of the Lord. The service of devotees diminishes all miserable material conditions and develops within one a deep devotional love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
In the Skanda Purāṇa there is a similar statement: "Persons whose bodies are marked with tilaka, symbolizing the
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Srila Prabhupada - "If there is no chance of directly serving the spiritual master,
then the devotee does serve him by remembering his instructions only.
There is no difference between the spiritual master's instructions and the spiritual master himself."
 

We should always remember that a person who is reluctant to accept a spiritual master for initiation is sure to become baffled in his endeavour to go back to Godhead. Such person who is not properly initiated may present himself as a great devotee but in fact he is sure to encounter many many stumbling blocks on his way of progressive march towards spiritual realisation and the net result is that he has to continue the term of his material existence without any relief. Such helpless person is compared with a ship without a rudder as such a careless ship cannot reach her destination. It is imperative therefore to accept a spiritual master if at all anyone desires to gain the favour of the Lord. Service of the spiritual master is esse

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