What did the birth of Jesus teach us? That Godhead can be cute and adorable! That a life of sacrifice is God's demand. That detachment from selfishness and greed is Divine, to fight against them is required. That love over-rides selfishness. That we are valuable enough in God's eyes, that He would make sacrifices for our sakes. That we have rights to choose.
A conversation with His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Devotee: Prabhupada, you have said, “Preaching God’s message is a thankless task.”
Srila Prabhupada: Yes, just look at Jesus Christ—crucified. What was his fault? He was simply teaching God consciousness. Of course, he was not killed. Nobody cankill the Lord’s pure devotee.
Devotee: But ungrateful people tried to.
Srila Prabhupada: Yes. Such a great personality, the son of God. He wanted to deliver God consciousness. And in return, he was crucified. We don’t take Jesus Christ as insignificant. We give him all honor. He is a pure representative of God. Of course, he directed his preaching according to time, place, and circumstance, the era and region and people’s mentality. In any case, he is a pure representative of God.
Devotee: And he was able to do all his preaching in just three years, too.
Srila Prabhupada: He had so little time to preach—but still, what he did in three years is so wonderful.
Devot
Devananda understood the divinity of Sri Krishna Chaitanya and surrendered to Him. (In the image: Lord Sri Krishna Chaitanya).
Living in Kuliya during Sri Chaitanya's pastimes, Sri Devananda Pandit gave professional readings of Srimad Bhagavatam tainted with Mayavada philosophy. One day Shrivasa Pandit heard his Bhagavata-katha, began crying, and fell to the ground. Becoming disturbed by this display, the foolish disciples of Devananda threw Shrivasa out of the assembly. By silently observing this misbehavior of his disciples Devananda committed the hati-mata aparadha, the mad elephant offense of blaspheming a pure Devotee of Lord Chaitanya.
Later, by the mercy of Vakreshvara Pandit, an intimate Devotee of Sri Gaura Raya, Devananda understood the divinity of Sri Krishna Chaitanya and surrendered to Him. The Lord pardoned his offense and blessed him with bhakti. He serves in Krishna lila as Bhaguri Muni.
dinera adhika dayā karena bhagavān
Bhagavān Has More Compassion for the Fallen
by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja
C/O—Śrī Rādhe Śyāma Vasāka
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Vakila-Pāḍā, P.O. Rāya-Gañja
(West Dinājpur)
Date: 9 September, 1975
My dear object of affection [This letter was written to revered Umā dīdī],
“By his own will, the soul harbours millions of hankerings. Yet, without Kṛṣṇa’s Will, none bear fruit.”
Man’s desires and ambitions have no end, so they can never be fulfilled. However, Śrī Bhagavān fulfills the devotees’ wishes, so He is called, “bhakta-vāñcha kalpa-taru – a desire tree for His devotees’ aspirations.” His devotees, too, earn this title.
Because of your mother’s illness, you could not come to Navadvīpa. I understand. Your mother is a great Vaiṣṇavī and by nature very inclined to devotion. She has immovable faith and profound devotion for Śrī Hari, Guru, and Vaiṣṇavas. Therefore, you must accept that you have to sacrifice something in your efforts to s
We can increase our allowed members and add CHAT if four members cared to donate $ 5. per month. We already have two kind members who donate monthly, and they keep this site and our association afloat. Kindly show you care, take responsibility!
SO please four not the already donating members, kindly go to the donate button on the left margin of the front page, and pledge five bucks a month! If EVERYBODY pledge five dollars a month, then we could again distribute some books etc., but we would have to work together much more as a group. I'm not sure how to accomplish that, as we live far apart and im not currently free to travel ...
If two or three other devotee moved together or etc we could open a Temple.
Srila Prabhupada said that making devotees is more important than building temples. So, a huge service here would be if the members actually talked to each other once in a blue moon no pun intended. Those that accept our site philosophy might wish to start guiding and preaching e
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, the guru of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, appeared in Sri Ksetra Dhama.(Jagannatha Puri) on 6 February 1874 as the son of Srila Sacidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura. In his childhood he quickly mastered the Vedas, memorized the Bhdgavad-gita, and relished his father's philosophical works. He became known as "The Living Encyclopedia" for his vast knowledge.
He preached convincingly against casteism and philosophical deviations from Gaudiya Vaisnavism. He tried to unite the four Vaisnava sampradayas by publishing their teachings. Srila Sarasvati Thakura earned the title Nrisimha Guru for his fearless and powerful delivery of the Vaisnava siddhanta. Mayavadis would cross the street to avoid confronting the "lion guru." Besides being a courageous preacher, he was ornamented with all divine qualities and full of ecstatic love of God. He established 64 Gaudiya Math temples in India and centers in
Facebook post; Support Trump, or support those who murdered Srila Prabhupada, you stupid asses!
So therefore these four animals have been mentioned: śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ (SB 2.3.19). And he is, this class of men, selecting a leader by vote, democracy. So this class man intelligence, just see.
And what class of man he will select? And how we desire to be happy by such elected men who is elected by these dog, hog, camel and asses? Are there any intelligent?
And you expect good government, peaceful state and... And the śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ. Therefore the others, they went to see the lion. So dog, hog, camel, ass will... "Oh, he's a lion." But what is a lion? It is also an animal, big animal. That's all.
Similarly, the so-called president and leader and Gandhi, they are also another animal, big animal. So does it mean an animal big and very powerful, he has got the human intelligence? This is civilization.
And when you say the right thing, that human life is meant for understanding God and prepare for the next life—"brainwash." This is li
Srimad Bhagavatam 10th Canto 22nd Chapter Summary by HDG Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Krishna Steals the Garments of the Unmarried Gopis
This chapter describes how the marriageable daughters of the cowherd men worshiped Katyayani to get Lord Sri Krishna as their husband, and how Krishna stole the garments of the young girls and gave the girls benedictions.
During the month of Margasirsha, every day early in the morning the young daughters of the cowherds would take one another’s hands and, singing of Krishna’s transcendental qualities, go
Anasūûyāâ, the wife of Sage Atri, was well known for Her chastity (pativratāâ). As a result, she had acquired tremendous power, due to which Deity Indra and other deities felt threatened. So, they went to Deity Brahmāâ, Shri Vishnu and Deity Mahesh (Shiva) and told Their agony. The trinity of Deities decided to test Anasuya’s chastity.
Once, when Her husband Sage Atri had gone out, the trinity of Deities disguised as guests and approached Anasuya asking for alms. She requested Them to wait till Sage Atri returned; but They insisted on being served food immediately. They further said, ‘we have heard that you serve guests food as per their wishes in your hermitage; that is why, we have come here.’ Anasuya agreed to serve Them food as per their wishes. The Deities laid down a condition that She should serve Them in nude. Baffled by this, She thought, ‘my mind is pure, the prowess of my husband’s penance will save me.’ She then contemplated upon her husband and got a thought, ‘these guests
SB 7.15: Instructions for Civilized Human Beings
SB 7.15.22 — By making plans with determination, one should give up lusty desires for sense gratification. Similarly, by giving up envy one should conquer anger, by discussing the disadvantages of accumulating wealth one should give up greed, and by discussing the truth one should give up fear.
SB 7.15.23 — By discussing spiritual knowledge one can conquer lamentation and illusion, by serving a great devotee one can become prideless, by keeping silent one can avoid obstacles on the path of mystic yoga, and simply by stopping sense gratification one can conquer envy.
SB 7.15.24 — By good behavior and freedom from envy one should counteract sufferings due to other living entities, by meditation in trance one should counteract sufferings due to providence, and by practicing haṭha-yoga, prāṇāyāma and so forth one should counteract sufferings due to the body and mind.
This is the annirversary day commemorating the day that Srimad Bhagavad Gita was spoken by Lord Sri Krishna to His dearmost devotee Arjuna at the place now known as Jyotisar Tirtha amid the waring families of the Kurus and the Pandavas at Kurukshetra. If one wishes one can still go and visit that place and see the monument erected there with Krishna as Parthasarati (the chariot driver) and Arjuna the warrior on their chariot. It is claimed by the ashram who maintain the shrine that the tree that is next to Them is a continum growth of the original tree witness that was there at the actual day of speaking.
Traditionally devotees come to Kurukshetra (Dharmakshetra) and recite Bhagavad Gita from early morning until the next morning, perform arati to Bhagavad Gita and to Krishna and Arjuna upon the chariot, offer lamps 'deep daan' at Brahma Sarovar, shloka recitals, shobha yatras and seminars on the significance of the Gita today.
Devotees who cannot get to Jyotisar Tirtha remember the b
Srila Prabhupada was a perfect acarya who was concerned with ALL ASPECTS of men's well-being in the world. He was not merely teaching a handful of students how to transcend, he was practical and wished well-being on all levels for all, and intended us to implement his wishes in full; here is some proof; Srila Prabhupada;
"It is not that our Krsna consciousness movement is one of the so many movements. No. It is the only one movement that can give
peace and life and prosperity to the people."
Bhagavad-gita 2.26 -- Los Angeles, December 6, 1968
Bhakti Sastriabhaya carana seva das said…
pamho tamohara prabhu agtACBSP,the meditation on the sublime vani of SRILA PRABHUPADA is the way to convert the cancalam he manah krsna in the rare platform called brahma nistham,this is what our guru maharaj is giving us to avoid to pass through bahunam janmanam ante and yesam tv anta gatam papam,actually HE is helping us to go back to SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA in this same life through acaryavan puruso veda,HG jayananda prabhu is the perfect example i mean he go back home in just one lifetime because he got the full blessing of a exalted paramahamsa parivrajakacarya 108 sri srimad ACBSP ki jai,we are in the list to become blissful again like HG jayananda did by setting up the perfect example for all the wretches born in families of meleccha ,yavana candala,bhuta, pisaca etc..therefore we say loulyam kalatvam is better to get greedy spiritually and our guru maharaj can give that to us in this way when that famous lava matra in suddha nam will com
We live on Mrtyu-loka, also known as Bhur-loka in this galaxy. Lives here are short, and the souls turn-around quickly to go to their next longer destinations, like a train roundhouse. Hence, Mrtyu-loka, the planet of death. Longer lives and mystic powers appear more strongly as one goes up the system ladder. Below, are advanced technology heavenly/hellish worlds, and there are outright hells, also.
Fourteen divisions of planetary systems
SB Canto 1
Within the stem of the lotus there are fourteen divisions of planetary systems, and the earthly planets are situated in the middle.
SB 1.3.2, Purport: The first puruṣa is the Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. From His skin holes innumerable universes have sprung up. In each and every universe, the puruṣa enters as the Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. He is lying within the half of the universe which is full with the water of His body.
And from the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu has sprung the s
Sri Caitanya Caritamrta - Madhya 16.78
gadadhara-pandite tenho punah mantra dila
odana-shashthira dine yatra ye dekhila
TRANSLATION
Pundarika Vidyanidhi initiated Gadadhara Pandita for the second time, and on the day of Odana-shashthi he saw the festival.
PURPORT
At the beginning of winter, there is a ceremony known as the Odana-shashthi. This ceremony indicates that from that day forward, a winter covering should be given to Lord Jagannatha. That covering is directly purchased from a weaver. According to the arcana-marga, a cloth should first be washed to remove all the starch, and then it can be used to cover the Lord. Pundarika Vidyanidhi saw that the priest neglected to wash the cloth before covering Lord Jagannatha. Since he wanted to find some fault in the devotees, he became indignant.
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The BBT could not allow Srila Prabhupada to teach that Jagannatha Dasa Babaji actually *initiated* Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, for that would indirectly sanction Srila Prabhupada *initiating* for many generations to come simply via his transcendental knowledge, with the ‘formal initiation’ administered via the Ritvik system that he set up. IRM Adridharana Dasa (01-02-09)
We highlighted previously in newsletter No. 20, how Bhakti Caru Swami’s Bengali translation of the Srimad Bhagavatam had omitted a very key verse from Srila Prabhupada’s original version. The omitted verse in question would itself have destroyed the GBC’s position that they were duly authorised to be Diksa Gurus in ISKCON. This of course was shocking, since it showed that Srila Prabhupada’s books were being ‘edited’ not to bring them closer to the originals as claimed, but rather doctored to prop up the GBC’s bogus Guru philo
