Main Prayers Used Daily in Iskcon; important! diksha memorization required!

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 20, 2020 at 10:00

Main Prayers Used Daily in Iskcon; important! diksha memorization required!

Simple and easy anywhere Vaisnava prayers...

Mantra prayers to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates should be spoken before chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra

sri-krishna-chaitanya
prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara
srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda

I offer my obeisances to Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa and all others in the line of devotion.

Mantra prayer to Srila A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine

I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, hav

Subhadra Devi katha...

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 20, 2020 at 4:27

Subadra of Mahabharata.

The society in which Lord Krishna lived, had no caste discrimination. People belonged to a particular caste according to one’s livelihood. Garga Muni, the uncle of Krśńa, was a Brahmin (Vipra), and Krśńa’s father, Vasudeva, was a warlike Kśatriya, and the guardians of Krśńa, Nanda, Upananda and others, were Ábhiira Kśatriyas because they tamed cattle. These two, Játrii Kśatriya and Ábhiira Kśatriya, frequently fought each other. Both were good people, but because of some misunderstanding, they were always skirmishes and fighting. Krśńa thought, if He united these two, it would be very easy for Him to bring about Great India.

He applied His practical approach. He got His elder sister, Subhadra, an Ábhiira Kśatriya, to marry Arjuna who belonged to the Jatrii Ksatriya clan. This He did with a view to make the Játrii Kśatriyas and the Ábhiira Kśatriyas stop fighting.

She is an important character in the epic Mahabharata and also appears in other

Quotes on farming

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 19, 2020 at 3:15

http://prabhupadanugas.blogspot.com/2014/07/srila-prabhupada-on-self-sufficiency.html?m=1

Srila Prabhupada on Self Sufficiency and Farm Communities

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada

Self Sufficiency

Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim German Spiritual Writer -- June 19, 1974, Germany

Prabhupāda: My idea is that all our centers should be self-supported. We do not like that idea that for your support you have to go 100 miles to get your bread. That is a very dangerous drawback. You produce your food locally and then support yourself. The main problem is what to eat, where to sleep. So we get some place and support ourself by producing our own food. We have already begun in New Vrindaban, New..., West Virginia, Virginia, and similarly in other centers, we are producing our food, grains, vegetables, fruits and milk. That is sufficient. But we don't kill any animals. That we don't do.

Letter to Yasomatinandana -- 14 October, 1976

But we are not going to develop a competitive farming ent

Prabhupada: We Vaiṣṇavas do not say that there is no need of fighting. We never say.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 10, 2020 at 9:31

Prabhupada: We Vaiṣṇavas do not say that there is no need of fighting. We never say. When there is need of fighting we must fight. Rather, somebody in New York, some Goldsmith, he was that, 'Why Krishna is advising Arjuna to fight, to become violent?'
So somebody protests like that. But there is no meaning of protesting against the action of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is our view. So we Vaiṣṇavas, we are chanting.
It does not mean that when there is need of fighting with avaiṣṇava (non-vaishnava) we shall lack in strength. We can fight. One gentleman inquired from me that 'Vaiṣṇavism makes one dull. He cannot act.' And, 'No. You have not seen a Vaiṣṇava.' In the two fightings, great fighting, the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata, the hero was Hanuman and Arjuna, and they fought.
Guest: They fought.
Prabhupada: Yes. And who can be better Vaiṣṇava than them?
Guest: Nobody.
Prabhupada: So Vaiṣṇava does not mean he is dull. No.
Guest: No, that is well proved. If there is need...
Pr

SP's Gita in Trinidad .Tobago

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 6, 2020 at 8:28

Sathish Kumar Balasubramanian

‎Manish Gaur‎ to Bharat : from Indus to Independence

If this picture had come from India, the country would have been declared communal and intolerant...

Taking oath with Bhagwat Gita in hand, this picture is not of India but.....
A small Caribbean country across seven seas from India belongs to #Trinidad _ and _ Tobago.....
Yes, there will be a little surprise but this is the truth.....
First picture is of former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and present opposition leader of Indian descendant Mrs. #Kamal _ Prasad ji.....
The rest of the picture is of their colleagues, who have won as MP and are taking oath of post and privacy in culture with Gita in their hands...
This picture is not only a matter of pride for us Indians but also a slap on the cheek of the lowly Hindus who cursed Sanatan by wearing a secular stove....
From today, about one and a half hundred years ago, these children of our ancestors went as Girmitia laborers are the

Saturday, August 29, 2020 Ekadasi [Mayapura, West Bengal, Bharata Bhumi time] Fasting for Vamana dvadasi

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 28, 2020 at 12:50

Saturday, August 29, 2020 Ekadasi [Mayapura, West Bengal, Bharata Bhumi time]

Fasting for Vamana dvadasi

Sunday, August 30, 2020 Sri Vamana Dvadasi and Srila Jiva Goswami avirbhava tithi

Subject: Fw: Sri Vamana Dev sacred appearance day

compiled by Damaghosa dasa

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(On the right) Sri Bali Maharaja surrendering to Lord Vamana deva)

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WHOSE FOOT IS ON HIS HEAD?

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YES-- IT IS LORD VAMANA DEV, THE DWARF BRAHMANA INCARNATION

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SRILA PRABHUPADA DISHES OUT THE NECTAR.

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SB 8.22.2 Bali Maharaja Surrenders His Life
Bali Maharaja said: O best Personality of Godhead, most worshipable
for all the demigods, if You think that my promise has become false, I
shall certainly rectify matters to make it truthful. I cannot allow my
promise to be false. Please, therefore, place Your third lotus
footstep on my head.

PURPORT

Bali Maharaja could understand the pretense of Lord Vamanadeva, who
had taken the side of the d

What is the Local (spi) Doctrine ?

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 27, 2020 at 13:40

What is the Local (spi) Doctrine ?

1. Tdasa ; Lol ! Here at spi, we consider ourselves simply the modern followers of HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, as he taught and set the perfect examples. There is no such thing as "ritvik philosophy", per se, as we are simply following Prabhupada's philosophy.

Srila Prabhupada ;

" From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way. "

"Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not meant to be one-sided. Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement also should be all-pervading. It should touch everything, even politics, sociology, everything, if required. That is the aim. Because Kṛṣṇa’s mission is: yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [Bg. 4.7], paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām [Bg. 4.8]."

"Make your own field... and contin

Today we are very proud to welcome Advaita Acarya Dasa into the family of disciples of Srila Prabhupada

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 26, 2020 at 5:30

Today we are very proud to welcome Advaita Acarya Dasa into the family of disciples of Srila Prabhupada! Congratulations, Prabhu !! Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna ! He has pledged his eternal service to his beloved spiritual master Srila Prabhupada, and will be saying his gayatris with us daily, now.

Jaya Radhe !

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 25, 2020 at 23:35

Srila Prabhupada chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra 16 rounds

Posted by Akash on August 20, 2020 at 4:30

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God’s True Form Is Not an Idol by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 19, 2020 at 8:51

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

God’s True Form Is Not an Idol

by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda

It is true that God has no material body, but he has His sat (eternal) cit (all-sentient) ānanda (all-blissful) transcendental body. His body is only visible to eyes that are free from matter. To the material eye, God is formless, but to the transcendental eye He has His body of cit, or all-sentience.

Those mūrtis (forms of God) that are prepared and worshipped by those who have not seen this cit body of God – those who do not have true eternal eyes cleansed with the collyrium of love of God – are of course idols, and all the worshipers of those idols are indeed idolaters.

The worship of mūrt

Is that called ritvik acarya? Srila Prabhupada: Ritvik. Yes.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 18, 2020 at 17:24

Srila Prabhupada with TKG, prior to the May 28th recording. Let us take a look:

Srila Prabhupada: Yes. I shall recommend some of you. After this is settled up, I shall recommend some of you to act as officiating acarya.
Tamal Krsna: Is that called ritvik acarya?
Srila Prabhupada: Ritvik. Yes.

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"Oh, this is scientific." This is going on

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 18, 2020 at 9:27

Kirru Kumar

Brahmānanda: These particles that they have just recently found, the life-span is incredibly small---one-millionth of a trillionth of a second.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Brahmānanda: That's their life-span.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Life...

Dr. Patel: How they measured it?

Prabhupāda: Whatever they say, we have to believe. That's all. [laughter] Except Kṛṣṇa, we shall believe everything. When Kṛṣṇa says something = "No, no, these are all fictitious. There is no Kṛṣṇa, and these are all imagination." And as a rascal says, "Oh, this is scientific." This is going on. So we are not so fools that we shall believe these scientific rascals. We believe Kṛṣṇa. That's all. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We are not going to believe the scientific rascals.

Type: Walk
Date: Nov. 11, 1975
Location: Bombay

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"The dog will help me to cross the ocean."

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 15, 2020 at 0:19

Prabhupāda: Yes. There are so many things in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavata. Just like a dog is swimming, and somebody captures the tail of the dog and he thinks that "The dog will help me to cross the ocean." This kind of... So everyone is trying for liberation, but they are catching the tail of a dog for liberation.
Dr. Patel: He must get the ship in the form of God's name. Hmm?

Prabhupāda: In this way, practical instruction. Taking to yoga system, karma system, this system, that system, but he does not know that these are like the dog's tail. Nobody...

Dr. Patel: [laughing] They are criticizing you.

Prabhupāda: No, it is practically. Yes. You cannot cross over the sea by capturing the tail of a dog because you see the dog is swimming. So all this karma, jñāna, yoga, they are all failure. It is just like dog tail. You cannot cross over the nescience by capturing dog's tail. You must capture the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Tan aham... Eh?

Yaśomatīnandana: Eśa tat...

Prabhupāda: No. Samuddhartā mṛtyu-s

This is the quality. You'll not be forced, but automatically you'll desire.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 12, 2020 at 6:41

Kirru Kumar

Prabhupāda: Quality is different. Athāsaktiḥ. āśakti, attachment. Just like Rūpa Gosvāmī says that "How shall I chant with one tongue? And how shall I hear, two ears? Had it been millions of tongues and trillions of ears, then I could enjoy it." This is quality. Quality is not so cheap. Maybe after many births. For the time being you go on following the rules and regulations. It is being done by force. Where is the quality? So you wanted to understand quality. This is the quality. You'll not be forced, but automatically you'll desire. That is quality.

Type: Walk
Date: Nov. 2, 1975
Location: Nairobi

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Happy Janmastami to All !

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 10, 2020 at 16:39

immediately we see the scientists, kill

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 9, 2020 at 2:23

If you give him milk, he'll drink it and increase his poison. That's it. The result will be he will increase his poison. Better to keep them starvation. Therefore everyone, as soon as one sees the serpent, immediately kills. No consideration. "Here is a serpent. Kill him." Similarly, immediately we see the scientists, kill. [laughter] That is the only proccess, so-called scientists. So do you agree, Harikeśa, for kicking on the face of these rascals or not?

Harikeśa: Yes.

Type: Walk
Date: Oct. 26, 1975
Location: Mauritius

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Prabhupāda: You have to die. Stop this death; then there is credit.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 8, 2020 at 3:34

Prabhupāda: You have to die. Stop this death; then there is credit. If I become proprietor of the house, that is credit. And if I am living for four days, if they give concession, "All right, you can live two days more," is that very great benefit? I'll have to leave it. Similarly, you will have to die, today or tomorrow. It doesn't matter.
Indian man: But only [indistinct] can stop this death...

Prabhupāda: Nobody is... Rascals and fools will that = "I'll not die today. Tomorrow I shall die." [laughter] This is rascal. This is rascal. These things will be done by the rascals. "I'll not die today. I'll die tomorrow." This is rascaldom.

Type: Walk
Date: Oct. 25, 1975
Location: Mauritius

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Prabhupāda: Mode of goodness... If he thinks that he is happy, then he is fool.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 7, 2020 at 6:27

Harikeśa: What about if one is in the mode of goodness? Maybe one or two...

Prabhupāda: Mode of goodness... If he thinks that he is happy, then he is fool. The mode of goodness means one must know that we cannot be happy here. That is mode of goodness. And if he thinks, "I am happy," then he is not in mode of goodness; he's in darkness.

Type: Walk
Date: Oct. 20, 1975
Location: Johannesburg

Prabhupāda: So I can kill you; I am your guru.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 6, 2020 at 17:21

Harikeśa: Well, it's the mother's choice to kill the child or not. If the child isn't born yet, it hasn't come to life in the world, so the mother has the responsibility; she can kill it or not because it's her thing, her child, her production, so she can kill it or not.

Prabhupāda: So I can kill you; I am your guru.

Harikeśa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Who can say anything? I can kill you. Why police is there? I can say, "He is my disciple. He has fully surrendered. I can kill him." That's all. Will that argument save me from police action?

Harikeśa: No.

Type: Walk
Date: Oct. 21, 1975
Location: Johannesburg

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