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Your political preaching is encouraging to me

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 19, 2017 at 8:47

Swarup Hebel

"Your political preaching is encouraging to me. We should expose before the public eye that the lowest class of men are now taking the posts of leaders, and therefore there can be no peace or happiness. I have given the idea for a poster which shall be entitled: 'Select Real Leaders—Don't Spoil Life', and it will depict devotees as leaders, illustrating that real leaders have to be free of meat-eating and animal slaughter, illicit sex, intoxication and gambling. This poster is being prepared in L.A. and I want it distributed all over the world, and you can use it widely in your campaign for Mayor of Washington D.C."

(Srila Prabhupada letter dated January 16, 1974)

Except this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement, all the rascals, they do not know what is God

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 18, 2017 at 22:04

Swarup Hebel

"Except this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement, all the rascals, they do not know what is God. They have no clear conception of God, because they are sinful. We can give the name, address and everything of God, clear conception, not vague idea, 'God may be like this. God may be like that.' Why maybe? Here is God:

veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.30)

Clear conception. The śāstra, Brahma-saṁhitā, clear description of God: veṇuṁ kvaṇantam. He is playing on flute. It is not that the Muralīdhara, Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṇa, has been imagined by some poet. No. It is described in the śāstra, the form of the Lord. He is busy in playing flute, veṇuṁ kvaṇantam. Aravinda dalāyatākṣaṁ, His eyes are just like petals of the lotus flower. Veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda... barhāvataṁsa, there is a peacock feather on His head."

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, London, July 18, 1973)

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Initiation Ceremony 2017, Jaipura

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 18, 2017 at 21:30

Initiation Ceremony 2017, March 14

On the most auspicious occasion of Gaura-pūrṇimā, an initiation ceremony was conducted by Hare Krishna Community at Hare Krishna Village, Rajasthan.

Hare Krishna Community has been following the Ritvik system of initiation from the very beginning accepting Śrīla Prabhupāda as the ONLY dīkṣā guru. Śrīla Prabhupāda, in his teachings, especially in his 9th July 1977 letter outlined the Ritvik system of initiation to be carried out in order to accept new disciples after his physical departure from this world.

We accept and follow this Ritvik system of initiation as outlined in the 9th July, 1977 letter addressed to all temple president's and GBC members.

This time we conducted both first (Harināma) and second (Brāhmaṇa) initiation.

12 devotees took first initiation and 8 devotees took second initiation.

His grace Dayālu Nitāi Prabhu, Temple president gave a talk explaining that Śrīla Prabhupāda is our ONLY dīkṣā guru and also about the ten offence

Because I stick to Krishna's word. I, therefore, present Bhagavad-gita as it is

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 17, 2017 at 14:38

"Because I stick to Krishna's word. I, therefore, present Bhagavad-gita as it is. We do not make any amendment nor accept any amendment. And, therefore, we decry everything—Gandhi, Dr. Radhakrishnan, Aurobindo, this, that—all rascals. Because they tried to amend it. That is admitted by the science professor. They have all tried to make it modernized, but I have not done. Here is the spiritual master in the disciplic succession, so we remain indebted to him to understand the original traditional knowledge."

(Morning walk, Mayapura, March 22, 1976)

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Krsna's position

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 16, 2017 at 17:03

Amit Thakur DasAnudas

Prabhupada: When we speak of Kṛṣṇa, we mean God. Everyone has some vague idea of God, but no clear idea. Therefore God descends to show what He is. If we speculate on God, someone will think one thing and another person will think another. This is the result of speculation. But if God Himself comes and shows Himself as He is and speaks about Himself, that is perfect knowledge. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading that message. God Himself is speaking about Himself: “I am like this; I am like this; My form is like this; My activities are like this; My address is this and that—if you like you can come back to Me. This is the situation. Everyone can come to Me.” All this information is there in Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. In Bhagavad-gītā God speaks about Himself and presents Himself as He is. We have simply to take that information; then we can understand God. As soon as we understand God, we can go home immediately. It is a very simple t

Festival of Jagannatha Misra

Posted by Shri Nrsngha Dasa on March 13, 2017 at 16:52

Jagannatha Misra appeared as the father of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

SRI CAITANYA BHAGAVATA
Adi Lila Chapter 3.

1. Even before He took his birth, the Lord propagated the chanting of His holy name.
2. Streams of people went for their bath in the Ganga at the time of the eclipse and all the way they chanted the Lord's name.
3. Some, who from their birth never once uttered the Lord's name, now chanted that name on their way to the Ganga.
4. The sound of chanting emanated from every direction and the Supreme Lord, the best of the brahmins, smiled to Himself as He made His appearance.
5. Sri Jagannatha Misra and Srimati Sacidevi glanced at their child's beautiful face and were over come with unbounded joy.
6. Ladies stood around the child not knowing what to do; fussily they ululated in jubilation.
7. Relatives and friends hurried to see the new born child; Sri Jagannatha Misra's house was a scene of great exultation.
8. Srimati Sacidevi's father, Sri Nilambara Cakravarti, found esoteric and wonderfu

Gaura Purnima

Posted by Shri Nrsngha Dasa on March 12, 2017 at 17:00

"This account originally appeared in a short work by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura entitled, 'Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu: His Life and Precepts.' (dated 20th August 1896.)" This was taken from "Prologue" to "Teachings of Lord Chaitanya" (A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 1974. pages xiii-xxii.) Who better could we find to include here than the pure unalloyed Devotee, and foremost scholar in Vaishnava circles Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura to perform this task. He starts his essay;

Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya in combined Form of Sri Sri Radha Krishna.

"Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Mayapur in the town of Nadia just after sunset on the evening of the 23rd Phalguna (1407 Sakadba), answering to the 18th of February 1486 of the Christian Era. The moon was eclipsed at the time of His birth, and the people of Nadia were then engaged, as was usual on such occasions, in bathing in the Bhagirathi with loud cheers of Haribol. His father, Jagannatha Misra, a poor 'brahmana' of the Vedic order, and

Mind blowing Krsna, my favorite now i think.... TDasa

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 12, 2017 at 13:30

The residents of Vrndavana are eager to rise early, to bathe and dress, and eat, and go out to see who will be the first that day to touch Krsna ! His ever-fresh beauty enchants the minds of all, set against the cooling greenery and fragrant pastures of Govardhana Hill. They wish to see this beauty again and again. He is so enchanting, everyone is eager to drink more and more of that Divine sight!
And when Radha and friends enter the picture, it is like an overflowing well.

Breeaking the Silence! - Breaking Benjamin

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 12, 2017 at 13:18

We are worshiping Radha and Krsna, attraction.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 11, 2017 at 20:10

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Rama Rama

Just like here, the most prominent feature in this material world is sex attraction. So that is there in Krsna. We are worshiping Radha and Krsna, attraction. But that attraction and this attraction is not the same. That is real and here it is unreal. We are also dealing with everything which are present in the spiritual world, but it is only reflection. It has no real value.

Just like in the tailor's shop, sometimes there are so many beautiful dolls, a beautiful girl is standing. But nobody cares to see it. Because everyone knows that, "This is false. However beautiful it may be, it is false." But a living woman, if she is beautiful, so many people see her. Because this is real. This is an example.Here the so-called living is also dead, because the body is matter. It is a lump of matter. As soon as the soul goes away from the same beautiful woman, nobody cares to see her. Because it is as good as the doll on the window of tailor shop.

So real factor is the spirit soul, and

SPIRITNET

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 11, 2017 at 13:39

Rama Rama

Who can worship Krsna?

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 11, 2017 at 10:54

Amit Thakur DasAnudas

Krishna says,
aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
iti matva bhajante mam
budha bhava-samanvitah
[Bg. 10.8]

Who can worship Krsna? That is described here, that budha. Budha means most intelligent person. Bodha, bodha means knowledge, and budha means one who is wise, full of knowledge. Everyone is after knowledge. Here you have got this Washington University. There are many students. They have come here to acquire knowledge. So one who has acquired the perfection of knowledge or the highest platform of knowledge, he is called budha. So not only budha but bhava-samanvitah. Bhava means ecstasy. One must be very learned and wise, at the same time he must feel ecstasy spiritually. "Such person," Krsna says, iti matva bhajante mam. "Such persons worships Me or loves Me." One who is very intelligent and one who is transcendentally very full of ecstasy, such person loves Krsna or worships Krsna. Why? Because iti matva, "by understanding this." What is this

One has to transcend the mode of goodness also and be situated in unalloyed goodness, unaffected by any of the qualities of material nature.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 11, 2017 at 10:25

Srila Prabhupada...."The specific qualification for becoming the representative of the Lord is to be unaffected by the material modes of nature. The highest qualification of a person in the material world is to be a brāhmaṇa. But since a brāhmaṇa is in the mode of goodness, to be a brāhmaṇa is not sufficient for becoming a representative of the Lord. One has to transcend the mode of goodness also and be situated in unalloyed goodness, unaffected by any of the qualities of material nature. This stage of transcendental qualification is called śuddha-sattva, or vasudeva, and in this stage the science of God can be realized. As the Lord is not affected by the modes of material nature, so a pure devotee of the Lord is also not affected by the modes of nature. That is the primary qualification for being one with the Lord. A person who is able to attain this transcendental qualification is called jīvan-mukta, or liberated, even though he is apparently in material conditions. This liberation i

"...unless one is inspired or initiated by the authorized spiritual master."

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 10, 2017 at 21:10

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Jaya Radhe Byard

"...unless one is inspired or initiated by the authorized spiritual master."

"Brahmā is undoubtedly the speaker of the Vedic knowledge, but actually he was inspired by the Lord to receive such transcendental knowledge, as it directly descends from the Lord. The Vedas are therefore called apauruṣeya, or not imparted by any created being. Before the creation the Lord was there (nārāyaṇaḥ paro 'vyaktāt), and therefore the words spoken by the Lord are vibrations of transcendental sound. There is a gulf of difference between the two qualities of sound, namely prākṛta and aprākṛta. The physicist can deal only with the prākṛta sound, or sound vibrated in the material sky, and therefore we must know that the Vedic sounds recorded in symbolic expressions cannot be understood by anyone within the universe unless and until one is inspired by the vibration of supernatural (aprākṛta) sound, which descends in the chain of disciplic succession from the Lord to Brahmā, from Brahmā

Social, political, philosophical, religious, economic—everything can be solved by Krishna consciousness

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 10, 2017 at 19:44

Rama Rama

"The Krishna Consciousness movement can solve all the problems of life, all the problems in the world. Social, political, philosophical, religious, economic—everything can be solved by Krishna consciousness. It is very scientific and authorized. It is not a mental concoction or a sentimental movement. It is a most scientific movement. If you are sober, if you are actually reasonable, you'll understand that this Krishna consciousness movement is the most sublime movement for the welfare of the whole human society. If we are actually anxious for peace and tranquility in society, then we must be very serious about understanding Krishna consciousness."

Excerpt from a lecture by Srila Prabhupada (Founder - Acharya, ISKCON)

If you make your friendship with Krishna, that will never break

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 10, 2017 at 19:42

Rama Rama

Amit Thakur DasAnudas Harrai, India
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"In the material world, the friendship, it will exist for few years and then break. Therefore it is reflection. It is not real. If you make your friendship with Krishna, that will never break. If you make your master Krishna, you'll never be cheated. If you love Krishna as your son, He'll never die. Similarly, if you love Krishna as your lover or husband, He will be the best husband, the best lover. There will be no divorce. That is Krishna consciousness."

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, New York, August 1, 1966)

Srila Madhavendra Puri Disappearance

Posted by Shri Nrsngha Dasa on March 9, 2017 at 13:06

Srila Madhavendra Puri

Srila Madhavendra Puri appeared in the 14th century. He was a guru of the Brahma or Madhvasampradaya, one of the four (Brahma, Sri, Rudra and Sanaka) Vaishnava lineages that purify the world in the age of Kali.

Madhavendra Puri was the disciple of Lakshmipati-Tirtha. Madhavendra Puri's disciples included Ishvara Puri, Advaita Acharya, Paramananda Puri (a Brahmin from the Tirhu area), Brahmananda Puri, Sri Ranga Puri, Pundarika Vidyanidhi, Raghupati Upadhyaya, and others. Nityananda Prabhu is said by some to be Madhavendra Puri's disciple, others say that Lakshmipati was his guru, while the Prema-vilasa states that he was Ishvara Puri's disciple.

At the time of his departure from this world, Madhavendra Puri was completely absorbed in separation from Krsna and constantly repeated one sloka. This verse is considered by Gaudiya Vaishnavas to be the essence of expression of the mood of separation.

Madhavendra Puri's disappearance day is the sukla dvadasi of the month of

lol

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 8, 2017 at 15:53

No compromise ritvik

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 7, 2017 at 12:37

Aindra Prabhu Speaks about ISKCON : RELIGIO-INSTITUTIONAL PSYWAR

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 6, 2017 at 13:16

Mohini Murti Devi Dasi

Here Sripad Aindra Prabhus quotes :

"Let the over-intelligent, doggedly resorting to materially contrived managerial stratagems, injudiciously undermine the essential principle of keeping single-minded confidence in the lucid instructions of the institutional Founder-acarya; they’ll have to learn the hard way – as will the attendantly implicated!

Let hundreds of heedless sannyasis and guru-figureheads plunge from their pompous pedestals owing to their often sentimentally justified, inappropriately frequent, and overextended proximity in dealings with their female disciples and so on. Why should we lament or bother ourselves to in any way condemn or condone; these things are going on – and on – and will continue to go on and on and on . . . Trust no future however pleasant.

Let the upper-organizational oligarchy essay to save face by repeatedly rehashing their clandestine attempts to cloak the pitiable transgressions of the institutionally rubberstamped

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Your political preaching is encouraging to me

Swarup Hebel

Except this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement, all the rascals, they do not know what is God

Swarup Hebel

Initiation Ceremony 2017, Jaipura

Initiation Ceremony 2017, March 14

Because I stick to Krishna's word. I, therefore, present Bhagavad-gita as it is

Krsna's position

Amit Thakur DasAnudas

Festival of Jagannatha Misra

Gaura Purnima

Mind blowing Krsna, my favorite now i think.... TDasa

Breeaking the Silence! - Breaking Benjamin

We are worshiping Radha and Krsna, attraction.

SPIRITNET

Rama Rama

Who can worship Krsna?

One has to transcend the mode of goodness also and be situated in unalloyed goodness, unaffected by any of the qualities of material nature.

"...unless one is inspired or initiated by the authorized spiritual master."

Social, political, philosophical, religious, economic—everything can be solved by Krishna consciousness

If you make your friendship with Krishna, that will never break

Rama Rama

Srila Madhavendra Puri Disappearance

lol

No compromise ritvik

Aindra Prabhu Speaks about ISKCON : RELIGIO-INSTITUTIONAL PSYWAR

Mohini Murti Devi Dasi

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