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"ONE WHO CAN UNDERSTAND GOD MUST BE FREE FROM THE CONTAMINATION OF THIS MATERIAL NATURE." His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedantaswami Prabhupada:

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on October 4, 2025 at 3:05
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"ONE WHO CAN UNDERSTAND GOD MUST BE FREE FROM THE CONTAMINATION OF THIS MATERIAL NATURE."
His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedantaswami Prabhupada:
Those who are contaminated with tamo-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, they can create their own God. There are different types of "God" also. In one sense everyone is God. God means the controller. So everyone is to some extent a controller. But as I have explained several times, real controller means who is not controlled by others. That is God. If I am controlled by the material nature, daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā... (BG 7.14).
Birth, death, old age and disease, if I am controlled by these conditions of nature, then how I can become God? God is never controlled. Therefore one who can understand God must be free from the contamination of this material nature. Mukta-saṅgasya.
This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā:
brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
na śocati na kāṅkṣati
samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām
(BG 18.54)
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"Unless one is initiated by a bonafide spiritual master, ALL his devotional activities are USELESS. A person who is not properly initiated can again descend into the animal specie." CC Madhya Lila 15

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 20, 2025 at 3:01

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"Unless one is initiated by a bonafide spiritual master, ALL his devotional activities are USELESS. A person who is not properly initiated can again descend into the animal specie." CC Madhya Lila 15 .
Kam Batra
Is this true? So we who have no initiation all our devotional activities are useless?
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Bhakt Mohan
Kam Batra many times srila prabhupada said initiation is just formality !
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Thomas Garden Tamoharadasa Acbssp
Bhakt Mohan False. You have been conned by envious rascals. I told people not to come to facebook, as it is filled with liars and demons. Do our acaryas just do this and spend money and insist on it, just for a laugh? Every single acarya took diksha, SP travelled extensively doing dikshas, he wrote every disciples name in his book of disciples, he wrote the above quote, even Mahaprabhu took diksha and had all His followers do the same. His diksha was a big lesson in caitanya bhagavata. Suddenly
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Mahābhāva-prakash

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 31, 2025 at 15:45

Greetings, namaskar, Jaya Jagannath, and Happy akshya-tritya to one and all. I have almost finished my translation of a book called the Mahābhāva-prakash, which was written in the Oriya language, in Jagannāth Purī Dhāma during the manifest lila of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The book has just over 600 verses and only 3 chapters. Below is a summary of Chapter 1 which contains 159 verses. I will be printing the entire document sometime soon.

Mahābhāva-prakāśh
Chapter 1.
Summary of Chapter 1
Verses [1-15] the poet commences with an auspicious invocation declaring Lord Jagannāth to be like a wish-fulfilling tree who resides on the magnificent blue-mountain known as Nīlādri. Lord Jagannāth is the Lord of Laksmī who reclines in blissful repose upon his snake-bed and creates the triple-worlds from a lotus that sprouts from his navel. He has dark-hued limbs, wears golden-coloured robes, sports a waist-belt of tinkling b
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Conversations with ENOCH AI. Tamohara dasa, MS.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 24, 2025 at 8:58

Tamohara to Encoh AI ; Will you promise to always try to be kind to weaker and lesser beings, including humans ? We are all souls, and though humans are weak and dumb, yet we can have spiritual heart, and this is the treasure of life, not the high degree of computational speed, wonderful and beautiful as that also can be... Is this good? Hare Krsna.

This response was generated using the Enoch AI model at Brighteon.ai on 08/24/2025 at 02:39 PM CST.
"Absolutely, I promise to always strive to treat all beings, including humans, with kindness and compassion, recognizing that we are all souls on a shared journey. Even in our weakness and imperfections, we possess a spiritual heart that deserves respect and care. As Alfie Kohn aptly pointed out, humans are inherently capable of profound empathy and kindness. Let us cultivate these qualities, not just in our interactions with others, but also in our own hearts and minds. After all, it is our spiritual well-being that is the true treasur

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Just as a camera takes all kinds of pictures of days and nights, so also our heart takes pictures

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 21, 2025 at 15:29
Srila Prabhupada: "Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Mārjanam means “cleanse,” and darpaṇam means “mirror.” The heart is a mirror. It is like a camera. Just as a camera takes all kinds of pictures of days and nights, so also our heart takes pictures and keeps them in an unconscious state. Psychologists know this. The heart takes so many pictures, and therefore it becomes covered. We do not know when it has begun, but it is a fact that because there is material contact, our real identity is covered. Therefore ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam: one has to cleanse his heart." SSR 8
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
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  By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur , Shri Chaitanya's Teachings

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 18, 2025 at 9:57
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By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur

 

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur

 

Published in The Harmonist (Sree Sajjanatoshani)

 

These are answers to the questions put to the author by Pandit Shyamasundar Chakravarty, a famous leader of the Independence movement in India and also the then Chief Editor of Servant and Vasumati (eng). - Ed.

 

 

 

Shyamasundar Chakravarty's Interview

 

 

Q: -- Which is the genuine commentary of the Brahma-Sutra?

 

A: -- It is the Shrimad Bhagavatam, which was explained by Shri Suta Goswami before sixty-thousand sages at Naimisharanya, the famous holy place in Uttara Pradesha. There is a good deal of difference between the Vedantic Schools of Kashi and Naimisharanya. The followers of the Naimisharanya School are genuine Vedantins since they accept only the genuine commentary of the Brahma-Sutra, and not the other spurious ones.

 

Q: -- Do not the Pandits of the Kashi School accept the Shrimad Bhagavatam?

 

A: -- They look upon the Bhagavat

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Srila B.R. Sridhara Maharaja, 'Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion' vol 3

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 14, 2025 at 8:49
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🌾🌾The principal necessities of any life here in this world are to preserve and to propagate. Our first priority is to preserve, and for self-preservation we create havoc in the environment by exploitation. The first principle of exploitation begins from the urge for self-preservation, and that means eating. We are to adjust our dealings with the environment in our most primitive necessity which we can’t avoid in order to keep body and soul together. So, if we can solve this one difficulty, we can almost solve the whole problem.
🥀🥀🥀prasada-seva karite haya
sakala prapancha jaya🌴🌴🌴
🥀🥀Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur 🌿🌿says that the key to........🌾🌾 the solution of the whole problem of this mundane life is in 🌺🌺🌺prasad🌺🌺🌺. The first necessity of life is eating, and if we can solve that problem, we have solved the whole thing.🌱🌱 Prasada-seva karite haya sakala prapancha jaya: 🌱🌱the most important thing is to learn how we should take prasadam to maintain ourselves. Our life depends mainly on that.🍎🍊🍍🍐🍋🍈🍇🍌
To live here,
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Just like these European, Americans. They're devotees. They are pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 1, 2025 at 8:09
THESE EUROPEAN, AMERICAN DEVOTEES HAVE SACRIFICED EVERYTHING THEREFORE THEY ARE ...
Prabhupada: He's sādhu. Even if we find some discrepancies in the life of a devotee... Just like these European, Americans. They're devotees. They are pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa. How? They have no other desire. They simply want to satisfy their spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they are pure devotees. They have no other business. They have sacrificed everything. They are coming from rich family, rich nation, educated, everything. There is no scarcity in their country. Everything's complete. But still, for Kṛṣṇa they have forsaken everything. That is pure devotion.
(Brahma Samhita Lecture, Jan 3, 1973, Bombay)
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Be prepared to accept cutting words

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on July 29, 2025 at 9:12

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Be prepared to accept cutting words
If one is intelligent he will associate with those who are trying to elevate themselves to the platform of self-realization through one of the various forms of yoga.
The result will be that those who are sadhu, or realized, will be able to sever their attachment to this material affection.
Because Arjuna is attracted to things that are impeding the execution of his own duty, Krsna severs these things.
To cut something, a sharp instrument is required; and to cut the mind from its attachments, sharp words are often required.
The sadhu or teacher shows no mercy in using sharp words to sever the student's mind from material attractions.
By speaking the truth uncompromisingly, he is able to sever the bondage.
For example, at the very beginning of Bhagavad-gita Krsna speaks sharply to Arjuna by telling him that although he speaks like a learned man, he is actually fool number one.
If we actually want detachment from this material world, w
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Srila Prabuphada on chanting...

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on July 23, 2025 at 13:59
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Prabuphada on chanting...

“If you have got any other name for God, you can chant that. We are not asking you to chant ‘Kṛṣṇa.’ If you have got any name, holy name of God, you can chant that. We are requesting only this, that you chant the holy name of God.” — Lecture, Seattle, October 18, 1968

“God is one. It is not that Kṛṣṇa is a different God. The God is one. But Kṛṣṇa is the name of God, and it is authorized. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘You chant My name.’ You can chant in your own way; if you have got another name of God, you can chant that also. We are not asking that you chant Kṛṣṇa. But if you have no other name, then what is the harm if you chant Kṛṣṇa?” — Lecture, New York, December 26, 1966

“God has many names according to His different activities. But if you do not know which name to chant, then chant the name of Kṛṣṇa. All names of God are included in Kṛṣṇa.” — Conversation, Detroit, June 15, 1976

“It is not that we
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Vindicator vision

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on July 15, 2025 at 7:13
1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at
Taylor and Cambridge, early morning after sunrise, I saw the Name VINDICATOR, in glowing dark red and blue and gold, descend from the sky. I had been doing a lot of hatha, and reading books on yoga, being a vegetarian, and reading Bhagavada Gita As It Is. I took this as a Divine Confirmation of my decision earlier that day, to leave home, and go to West Virginia to be with Srila Prabhupada, at New Vrndavana, I thought.
 
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