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Comments on gita 18;66, purpose of life, how to attain it. - t dasa

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 7, 2025 at 4:13

Thomas Garden Tamoharadasa Acbssp

"Give up all paths and surrender to Me! I will deliver you, do not be afraid." -Sri Krishna in Bhavada Gita.

The Supreme Intelligent computor, we call Godhead, invites us to cease our prodigal play in matter, where we in fact suffer without cessation. The spiritual sky is perfect, under His control, and His associates do not suffer the pains and pleasures of mundane temporal lives any longer.

Knowing this, it behooves us to seek out our own liberation, by reinstating ourselves under Divine Grace.

★★★"Unless the Lord is superior to the individual soul, there is no question of prapadye, or surrender unto Him."★★★

"The Lord is always transcendental to the material manifestation, even though it appears that the Lord and the material manifestation are one and the same. According to the Vaiṣṇava philosophy, He is one and different simultaneously. The material energy is a manifestation of His external potency, and sin

Deity worship in the temple was introduced with all paraphernalia. As it is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 12.3.52):

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 5, 2025 at 3:43

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SB 7.14.39, Translation and Purport

My dear King, when great sages and saintly persons saw mutually disrespectful dealings at the beginning of Tretā-yuga, Deity worship in the temple was introduced with all paraphernalia.

As it is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 12.3.52):

kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ

tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ

dvāpare paricaryāyāṁ

kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt

"Whatever result one obtained in Satya-yuga by meditating on Viṣṇu, in Tretā-yuga by performing sacrifices and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord's lotus feet one can also obtain in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra." In Satya-yuga, every person was spiritually advanced, and there was no envy between great personalities. Gradually, however, because of material contamination with the advance of the ages, disrespectful dealings appeared even among brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas. Actually, an advanced Vaiṣṇava is to be respected more than Viṣṇu. As stated in the Padma Purāṇa, ārādhanānāṁ sarveṣāṁ viṣṇor ārādhanaṁ

snake’s business is to fatally sting other living entities. Rasa Manjari

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 5, 2025 at 3:30

Rasa Manjari

Srila Prabhupada replies: There is a short story in this regard, it is about a snake who became a devotee on the instruction of Narada, who instructed her not to bite anymore. As usually a snake’s business is to fatally sting other living entities, as a devotee it was forbidden to do so. Unfortunately, people took advantage of this non-violence from the snake, especially the children, who started throwing stones at it. She didn't bite anyone else, however, because it was her spiritual master's instruction.

After a while, when the cobra met his spiritual master, Narada, he complained, "I've given up the bad habit of biting innocent living entities, but they're mistreating me by throwing stones at me." Hearing this, Narada Muni instructed her: "Don't bite, but don't forget to expand your hood like you were going to bite." So people will run away with fear." Likewise, a devotee is always non-violent; he is qualified with all good qualities. But in the ordinary wo

Gour Govinda Swami Adventures con't 3. T-dasa

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 4, 2025 at 7:04

"I lived in a small hut with SGGS from 1976-1980, as secretary and later president, I guess ? It was not very formal there. I did all kinds of small service, including cooking for him, many things. It was easy, as we lived on the floor, and had no possesions to speak of. Maharajah did his work on top of a metal checkered-purple/black trunk, his books inside. A lota sat on the floor behind to his left. A large greenish toad lived behind that lota, and came in every evening to sleep there precisely, after catching an insect or two for his meal. Maharajaha never distturbed it.

I also helped draw him out from a Maha-bhagavata state to that of preacher to the Westerners. I informed him it was his duty to accept a little respect as a sannyais, and that we liked to ehr him speak. His daily lectures were concise enough for the daily schedule, but his Sunday lectures were often fiery and earnest and righteous and full of quotes and went on for two hours, lol. for real. He did not like to p

Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 4, 2025 at 6:41

Pushkaraksha Das

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Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja

A personal account told by Vaijayantī-mālā dāsī, slightly edited.

I offer unlimited heartfelt praṇāmas at the lotus feet of my beloved gurudeva, oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja. By his causeless mercy, I am increasingly appreciating the astonishing glories of oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Mahārāja, to whom I also offer my innumerable heartfelt praṇāmas.

I offer praṇāma eternally to my ever well-wishers, oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda, to oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja, and to all pure Vaiṣṇavas in the line of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda.

I also offer my humble praṇāma to the respected sannyāsī-gaṇa and to all Vaiṣṇavas and Vaiṣṇavīs.

I have been feeling for a while that I should

Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jagganathapura

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 2, 2025 at 5:14

Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jagganathapura

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on October 3, 2021 at 19:05

We set out from Bhubaneswara early, taking bicycle rickshaw to the bus station. While waiting to board, Gour Govinda Swami explained to me the qualities of certain round white sweet balls which I had noted, displayed behind glass cases there. "These are a specialty of Bhubaneswara", he explained, "They cook sugar with cardamon, camphor, ghee, and black pepper, until it is well done and very hard. Very tasty, very sweet !" He smiled with an exclamation. Maharajah did not eat many sweets, or very rarely, neither did we have them about the ashrama much, and we had no taste for sweets shopping that early.

I moved into the ashrama from Canada, so after a while, I started to purchase occasional white-cardboard boxes of milk-sweets, in town. There were two shops I knew of, one fairly near the train station. I discovered the milk cake and misti dahi consequently. It wa

Jayapataka was always a low-IQ clown and thief, - Tamohara dasa

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 2, 2025 at 4:58

Jayapataka was always a low-IQ clown and thief, though he did do much service in early seventies before he went insane.. He came to the Toronto Rathayatra 2002 dressed like a Clown Deity, an over-sized over-dramatic clown deity. He did not stay at the Temple, but some fancy digs somewhere while in town. The Temple was not good enough for him.

He wore a huge brightly colored stupid turban, much larger than life, that made him look like a nutcase, and his karatalas were the size of garabage-can lids, like bigger and more clownish was better. I asked him streight, "Maharajah, could you have found at least some bigger karatals?" We all kind of smirked at his behaviors. It was clear to all that he was an egotist and mad. He was an actor fooling everyone for fame and money, to make himself the most important of persons, to be another Prabhupada after he murdered the real Srila Prabhupada...

Jayapataka is not normal. He is a narcissist, and likely psychopathic, that is my professio

Srila Gour Govinda visits Jagannatha Pura

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 31, 2025 at 3:42

Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jagganathapura

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on October 3, 2021 at 19:05

Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jaggnathpu

We set out from Bhubaneswara early, taking bicycle rickshaw to the bus station. While waiting to board, Gour Govinda Swami explained to me the qualities of certain round white sweet balls which I had noted, displayed behind glass cases there. "These are a specialty of Bhubaneswara", he explained, "They cook sugar with cardamon, camphor, ghee, and black pepper, until it is well done and very hard. Very tasty, very sweet !" He smiled with an exclamation. Maharajah did not eat many sweets, or very rarely, neither did we have them about the ashrama much, and we had no taste for sweets shopping that early.

I moved into the ashrama from Canada, so after a while, I started to purchase occasional white-cardboard boxes of milk-sweets, in town. There were two shops I knew of, one fairly near the train station. I

Tamohara's adventures series ; 2.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 29, 2025 at 5:42

Thomas Garden Tamoharadasa Acbssp

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Serving Srila Prabhupada's Shoes; Srila Prabhupada Memories

Posted by Welcome on December 12, 2009 at 0:30

Tamohara Swami, acbssp, M.S.

Chicago Rathayatra, '75

It was a warm humid summer in Chicago in Evanston at the Hare Krsna Temple, 1975. It was a wonderful temple, with Sri Sri Kishor-Kishori, Gour Nitai, and Lord Jagannatha Swami and his Brother Baladeva, and Their beautiful and sometimes ksatriya-like sister Subhadra devi, resplendent inside.

There were many devotees' vehicles, including the bus parties, lining streets all around the mandira. There was to be Rathayatara, initiations including a babaji sannyasa initiation for Audolomi Prabhu, Deity installations, and Srila Prabhupada would lecture on Ajamila from Srimad Bhagavatam.

Srila Pra

Tamohara's adventures series ;

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 29, 2025 at 5:40

Puri, con'td. part 4 Bhaktipurusottama Swami joins Iskcon.

We were on a bus, and behind us a young Orissan lad, Mahesh Candra Pattanaik, was looking at us with much polite curiosity. Padmapani Prabhu and I started talking to him ; Padma said, "We're with Swami Prabhupada, Krishna Movement." I asked him if he was a student, and he explained that he was, but also very interested in spiritual life and bhakti. We shared some details, and were invited to his home at 55 ? Hate Gurudeve Lane, there in Puri, that evening.

We went that evening, and met his very nice devotee father and family, shared Jagannatha prasada, did a little kirtan, gave a book or two. They were all quite fascinated by us, lol, hare krsnas, and we with them. They were a nice Vaisnava traditional family, humble, clean, simple, devotional sevatas of Lord Jagannatha. We were actually very blessed to have this association with the residents of the holy dhama, and a chance to serve them and serve with them.

material life impossible !

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 27, 2025 at 14:05

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List of Spiritnet ritvik-initiated Srila Prabhupada disciples Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 7, 2022

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 27, 2025 at 11:24

List of Spiritnet ritvik-initiated Srila Prabhupada disciples

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 7, 2022 at 17:33

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List of Spiritnet ritvik-initiated Srila Prabhupada disciples.; Mr. Al Roberts, was age 50, (now deceased); Vasudeva dasa. World's first ritvik-initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada, after1977. Ceremony performed in 1993, in Mission, British Columbia, Canada.

2009 or so onward; from USA; Mother Parvati devi, Shri Nrsngha dasa, Radha-Giridhari dasa (now deceased), Trnikrta-trnavarta dasa, from Hungary; Rasa Manjari, Serbia; Navina Krsna dasi, Prof Smith, of USA, Ananta Sesa dasa, Uganda; Radha Manohara, India, Krsna Caitanya dasa, U.K., Kay wilson to Sri Krsna Kirtana devi, India, Akash to Sri Advaita Acarya dasa, 2020.

Sudevi and others also took gayatri.

Bloops; Zero.

Members still actively preaching with Spir

Sri Krsna Kirtana devi did so much service. Obituary, Nov.. 2024

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 26, 2025 at 11:09

Our dearly loved Sri Krsna Kirtan devi dasi, ie Kay Wilson,, spiritnet brahmana and initiate, having served Srila Prabhupada for decades doing major service, passed on to Lord Nityananda's eternal kirtan a couple of months ago, Novemeber 2024, just learned of it. Her grown married daughter Radha dasi and family are left behind.

Sri Krsana Kirtan devi did so much service, all her life, and truly cared for the well-being of others. Gauranga! Hare Krsna! Many will miss her a lot in this world

If you simply want Krsna, that is all perfection

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 25, 2025 at 9:51

Rasa Manjari

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Prabhupada: If your desire is only concentrated on Krsna... Just like the calf. He came to Krsna: "Krsna, I want You. That's all." And Krsna embraces. That's all. If you simply want Krsna, that is all perfection. If you have simply accepted Krsna, there is no need of any more austerities or penances and knowledge. You have taken the real thing. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.9 – July 6, 1968, Montreal

Free PDF copies of all books are available for download at our informative website:

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 22, 2025 at 1:55

Nityananda Das

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I wondered what happened to the book about Srila Prabhupada's book editing and all the input from scholars, devotees, etc... yes! It is available... at a scholar's library price of $120. Well, I cannot afford that... is it available for free as a PDF anywhere? The books that will help restore Srila Prabhupada's divine mission should be free. Comments?

Free PDF copies of all books are available for download at our informative website: www.prabhupadatruthcommission.org

The Amazon.com “Personal Ambition” series:

Volume 1: Triumphant Departure: Complete Book of Poisoning Evidence

Volume 2: Anti-Prabhupada: Deviant Impact of Tamal Krishna Goswami

Volume 3: Pursuit of Srila Prabhupada’s Poisoners

Volume 4: Srila Prabhupada’s Mysterious Health Decline

Volume 5: ISKCON’s Hidden History: Coup, Scandals, Schisms, Utopia Lost

Volume 6: Deviations Spoiling the Sankirtan Movement: Corruptio

One need only chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 21, 2025 at 6:44

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"One need only chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. Everyone engaged in the practice of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra will be completely cleansed, from the core of his heart, and be saved from the cycle of birth and death."
(Srimad Bhagavatam 7.6.1, Purport by Srila Prabhupada)

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'DAYA' AND 'SEVA'. His Divine Service A.C.Bhaktivedantaswami Prabhupada:

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 20, 2025 at 3:52

'DAYA' AND 'SEVA'.

His Divine Service A.C.Bhaktivedantaswami Prabhupada:

Dayā. One must be merciful. Dayā means... When a man is suffering a fellow man, another fellow man must feel for it. That is called dayā. There are two things: dayā and sevā. Sevā means to give service to the superior, and dayā means to give service to the inferior. Both of them are service. Dayā, I mean to say... A man is suffering. He is in helpless condition. Just like in hospital, those who are patients, who are diseased, they go to the hospital There is also sevā. The nurse is serving.

The doctor is serving. But that is not sevā. That is called dayā. He is not obliged, but out of his compassion, he's giving service to the patient. That is called dayā. And sevā means superior. Just like spiritual master. Sevayā. Tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā (BG 4.34). Because the Vedic injunction is that "You must go to a spiritual master." Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). Abhigacche

PREDICTIONS ON THE APPEARANCE OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 14, 2025 at 12:38

PREDICTIONS ON THE APPEARANCE OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU.

Lord Caitanya is considered and was established by Vedic scripture as the most recent incarnation of God. The Lord always descends to establish the codes of religion. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.6-8) where Lord Krishna explains that although He is unborn and the Lord of all living beings, He still descends in His spiritual form in order to re-establish the proper religious principles and annihilate the miscreants whenever there is a decline of religion and a rise in irreligious activity.

Though there are many incarnations of God, all incarnations are known and predicted in the Vedic literature. Each incarnation performs many wonderful pastimes. But in Kali-yuga, the Lord descends in the form of His own devotee as Sri Caitanya in order to show the perfect example of how devotional service should be performed, and to stress the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra for this age by inaugurating the process of the sanki

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Not fit for a gentleman

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Comments on gita 18;66, purpose of life, how to attain it. - t dasa

Thomas Garden Tamoharadasa Acbssp

Deity worship in the temple was introduced with all paraphernalia. As it is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 12.3.52):

snake’s business is to fatally sting other living entities. Rasa Manjari

Rasa Manjari

Gour Govinda Swami Adventures con't 3. T-dasa

Final Darśana with Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja

Pushkaraksha Das

Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978 visit to Jagganathapura

Jayapataka was always a low-IQ clown and thief, - Tamohara dasa

Srila Gour Govinda visits Jagannatha Pura

Tamohara's adventures series ; 2.

Thomas Garden Tamoharadasa Acbssp

Tamohara's adventures series ;

material life impossible !

List of Spiritnet ritvik-initiated Srila Prabhupada disciples Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 7, 2022

Sri Krsna Kirtana devi did so much service. Obituary, Nov.. 2024

If you simply want Krsna, that is all perfection

Rasa Manjari

Free PDF copies of all books are available for download at our informative website:

Nityananda Das

One need only chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra

'DAYA' AND 'SEVA'. His Divine Service A.C.Bhaktivedantaswami Prabhupada:

PREDICTIONS ON THE APPEARANCE OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU.

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Not fit for a gentleman

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