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AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - Founder Acharya of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appeared in a family of pure Gaudiya Vaisnavas in 1896 in Calcutta. From early childhood he showed signs of pure devotion to Lord Sri Krishna. At the tender age of five, he single-handedly organized a neighborhood Ratha-yatra festival to glorify Lord Jagannatha. He authentically decorated a small cart to resemble the Lord's colossal chariot in Puri. Besides leading the kirtana party, he organized cooking and prasadam distribution. With his enthusiasm and ecstatic love for Lord Krishna he engaged the community in chanting:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
Unlike other children his age who would waste their time playing, Srila Prabhupada preferred to visit the local Radha Krishna temple. For hours together, he would lovingly gaze upon the transcendental forms o
Why Does Service to the Self-Satisfied (God) Exist?
3 Oct
Why Does Service to the Self-Satisfied (God) Exist?
By: Babhru Dasa (BVKS)
Why is there always so much service opportunity in the sphere of Goloka Vrindavan (spiritual world)? How is it possible that service in the spiritual world never comes to an end? For example, in Goloka it is seen that when one finishes their service, they very 
eagerly accept a new service. For the pure devotee, it is simply painful to be without service. Furthermore, in relation with the material sphere, it is blatantly apparent that Goloka has far superior facilities for rendering service to Sri Krsna.
However, in the material world, we see that one who renders service without God-Consciousness is very happy when their material service is finished. Such persons are much more fond of receiving service than giving. They think happiness is to be had in being the receiver, not the giver. In the spiritual world, the exact opposite is prese
Ali-PADA and the Forty Thieves are a CIA DIVIDE AND CONQUER FRONT !!
1 They say that all other pure devotees are bogus.
2 They say we are supposed to chant 64 rounds.
3 They try to set themselves up as a new hierarchy of bogus bosses.
4 They say no diksha is necessary.
1. not true, ridiculous. but pada brains are too small to accomodate the divergence of instructions, they are inventing something as they cannot handle reality
2. its 16, otherwise 24 hours a day. sankirtan is more important than 64 rounds wasting time. this is bogus cheating of the worst kind.
3. they want to be your gooroo, bogus. Creeps like Puranjana, who was rejected as a sahajiya by Srila Prahupada himself, are pushing these lies.
4. Srila Prabhupada said diksha was necessary, warned not to expect honorary degrees, and travelled around the world conducting formal initiation ceremonies. I guess he didnt follow his own advice, right? offensive bastards.
These PADA-ite lies are clearly intentionally designed to
Śrīla Prabhupāda Says -
The God says that "Here is injustice, so you should fight." God says that. God never says that "I am God, Kṛṣṇa. I am your friend. You sit down idly and I shall do everything." He never said that. He said that "You must fight." That is our duty, not that God has given us hands and legs and you sit down idly and let God do it. This is not devotion.
[SB: Lecture 1.2.6 - Mauritius 5 Oct 1975]
Vasudeva Ghosh (Vasu Ghosh) and his two brothers, Madhava and Govinda, are eternal associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Fixed in madhurya rasa, they accepted Sri Radhika as their ultimate shelter (ashraya vigraha). The brothers expertly performed sweet melodious kirtans. Whenever they sang, Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda would immeditately dance in ecstasy. Every year they came for Ratha Yatra in Jagannatha Puri. They led the chanting in one of the seven kirtana groups arranged by Lord Caitanya.
Vasudeva Ghosh used his music and song to preach in Bengal. He wrote many Bengali songs about Lord Gauranga which are still sung by devotees. In one he says:
"If Lord Gaura had not appeared in this age of Kali, then how could we tolerate living? He has given the very essence, the very charm of life divine love without which it is impossible to live in this world. Without Caitanya Mahaprabhu how could we ever know that Srimati Radharani reigns supreme in the kingdom
Sri Rasikananda deva Prabhu at Remuna
Sri Rasikananda Prabhu (Rasika Murari) appeared as the son of a king. He became a perfect sage, Gaudiya Vaisnava scholar, rasika bhakta, and the most beloved disciple of Sri Syamananda Prabhu.
He was the principal disciple of Syamananda Gosvami. Accepting the order of his guru, Sri Syamananda, on his head, Rasikananda preached the message of Sri Gaursundar in the world for approximately 16 years. Thereafter he entered into his eternal pastimes through the lotus feet of Gopinatha at Remuna. On the first day of the bright fortnight in the month of Phalguna, Sakabda 1574 (1652AD), Rasikananda quietly slipped out of the village Santa without anyone's notice and walked to Remuna. Arriving there, he discussed Krsna-katha with the devotees there for a while and instructed everyone to serve Sri Krsna with devotion. Then, after requesting them to begin sankirtana, he entered the temple of Sri Gopinatha, and after touching Kshira-chora Gopinatha's lotus feet,
The festival commemorating Bali Maharaja’s surrender to Lord Vamanadeva, the dwarf incarnation of Lord Krsna. A Deity of Vamana is worshiped. - See more at: http://harekrishnacalendar.com/vaishnava-calendar/bali-daityaraja-puja-2015/#sthash.kSc6wvpJ.dpuf
Worshiping Govardhana Hill
KRSNA BOOK CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
While engaged with the brahmanas who were too much involved in the performance of Vedic sacrifices, Krishna and Balarama also saw that the cowherd men were preparing a similar sacrifice in order to pacify Indra, the King of heaven, who is responsible for supplying water.
As stated in the Caitanya-caritamrita, a devotee of Krishna has strong and firm faith in the understanding that if he is simply engaged in Krishna consciousness and Krishna’s transcendental loving service, then he is freed from all other obligations. A pure devotee of Lord Krishna doesn’t have to perform any of the ritualistic functions enjoined in the Vedas; nor is he required to worship any demigods. Being a devotee of Lord Krishna, one is understood to have performed all kinds of Vedic rituals and all kinds of worship to the demigods. One does not develop devotional service for Krishna by performing the Ved
BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA;
My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have sankirtana outside on the streets or in the park. That is your life and soul, first business. The next business is completing the chanting of 16 rounds every day. The next business is your editing. And if you find extra time then you can attend the temple ceremonies. Otherwise you can stop these activities. But outdoor kirtana, your editing work, and chanting of 16 rounds must be done. Outdoor kirtana must be done, even at the cost of suspending all editorial work. That is your first and foremost business. Temple worship is not so important. If need be, the whole temple can be locked. But the outdoor kirtana cannot be stopped. (Letter to Rayarama, 17 May 1969)
Spoken by Dhruva's mother (SB 4.8.22):
"You came to me crying, having been insulted by your stepmother, but I am unable to do any good for you. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind to His devotees that if you go to Him, then the combined kindness of millions of mothers like me will be surpassed by His affectionate and tender dealings. When everyone else fails to mitigate one's misery, Kṛṣṇa is able to help the devotee."
Gavin Swinden to Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupada " Then why do you love the soul? Because it is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we love the soul. So ultimately, the love goes to Kṛṣṇa. This is natural feeling of love between Kṛṣṇa, or God, and between living entities, but the māyā is interrupting the relation. It is called illusion. The process of interruption is called illusion. Otherwise we, every one of us, we love Kṛṣṇa. Every one of us. You analyze, you see that ultimately goes to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is said that nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti: "The loving attitude of the living entity towards Kṛṣṇa is nitya-siddha." That is eternally fact. Not that we are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, artificially we are creating some situation that a person may love Kṛṣṇa. No. That is not. That is not fact. We are cleansing the process which has covered our kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya (CC Madhya 22.107). The love for Kṛṣṇa is there
Dipa-dan, Dipavali, or Diwali (and Kalipuja) is a commemoration of Lord Rama’s return from exile to Ayodhya, His capital, following the defeat of the demon Ravana. (Vaisnavas don’t regularly observe Kalipuja, the worship of Durga Devi.) - See more at: http://harekrishnacalendar.com/vaishnava-calendar/dipa-dana-dipavali-kali-puja-2015/#sthash.Xin2UPA6.dpuf ;
Srila Prabhupada: " So this movement should be pushed very vigorously. And so far, we have become successful. And enemies will be always, as soon as there is something good. That is the way of material world. Even Krsna had enemies, what to speak of us. Eh? So many enemies, but He was powerful; He killed all them. Nobody could kill Him, but there was attempt to kill Him from the very beginning of His birth. He had so many enemies."
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T dasa; Imagining that all is One and that all religions and everyone should be happy in that imaginary white-wash unfortunately will not work, as most of the world does not have such a vision. It has ALWAYS been Lord Narayana and His devotees pitted against a variety of cheats. It will almost NEVER be peaceful Vaikuntha down here, unless we the devotees help create some islands of safety and service harmony against a raging darkness.So let us be realistic and practical in our thinking and actions. We have friends and we have enemies, recognize them
How To Defeat the "Not So Secret" Societies' New World Order Agenda
The first conversation presented herein is from June 1976 in which Srila Prabhupada is asked about the world bankers' conspiracy to secretly manipulate and ultimately rule the world by dictatorship. Prabhupada replies that this is an open secret; in this degraded age those who have [print and thus control] money have all power to make conspiracy or anything, whatever they like.
In the next conversation, from January 1977, Srila Prabhupada reveals the solution: by establishing independent, God conscious, self-sufficient farm communities, we will bring about the collapse of this cheating, artificial way of banking, ultimately disempowering the Illuminati's demoniac New World Order agenda.
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Anyone who has got money, he has got power.
That is open secret. What is the secret? (laughs)
If yo
The Principle is No Change
“One should accept the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by bowing down at the lotus feet of the Lord. This means that anything spoken by the Personality of Godhead should be taken as it is, with great care and attention and with great respect. It is not our business to amend the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or make additions or alterations, as it has become a custom for many so-called scholars and swamis who comment on the words of Bhagavad-gita. Here the practical example of how to accept the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is shown by Prthu Maharaja. This is the way to receive knowledge through the parampara system.” (Purport SB 4.20.17)
yasya deve para bhaktir
yatha deve tatha gurau
tasyaite kathita hy artha
prakasante mahatmanah
“Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed.” (S
Sarasvati To Haravati - The People Of Croatia
Saturday, 12 September 2015 16:37 | 
Written by James Cooper |
The people of Croatia believe their roots are from Persia, Iran, their original name, Harvat, seems to come from the Harahvaita of Iran. According to academia Croat comes from Xrovat (Hrovat) which comes from the Slavic Xorvat (Horvat) which comes from the Indo/Slavic Xarwat (Harvat) and this is ultimately traced to Persia and the name Harahvaiti. Harahvaiti however is the corrupted name for the great Vedic Goddess Sarasvati, the mother of Sanskrit, the great river of the Rig Veda and the Goddess of learning.
The Persians have a tendency to replace a Sanskrit S with a Persian H, and so the word Harahvaiti is actually Sarasvaiti which is Sarasvati. An example of this tendency can be seen in their word for week which is Hapta, an obvious corruption of the Sanskrit Sapta meaning the same. Their name for the Sun is Hvar which is once again a corruption of the Sanskrit Svar
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Love the words of Sridhar swami
This plane of aggrandisement and exploitation cannot be the be-all and end-all of existence. “Exploit others and live.” That is suicidal in itself. Daily, civilisation and science are increasing the circumference of extortion of power from nature, taking a loan from nature, and that must be paid to the farthing. “To every action there is equal and opposite reaction.” This civilisation, wholesale, is a negative one. It is on debt from nature, and this debt must be paid back to the farthing.
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 1.13.47)
To maintain one body, thousands of bodies are to be sacrificed, and then only one body can stand. This is a filthy conception of life. It is suicidal in itself. So, this is no civilisation. It is not life. It a hateful form of life: at the cost of other beings, we are to maintain ourselves. “Thousands of lives must be sacrificed to maintain one.” This is a hateful conception of life. It is th
Sri Viracandra or Virabhadra Prabhu appeared on the ninth day of the dark fortnight of the month of Kartik. Krsna dasa Kaviraja Gosvami has given this description of Him in the C.c. Adi 11.8-12.
"After Nityananda Prabhu, the greatest branch is Virabhadra Gosani, who also has innumerable branches and sub-branches. It is not possible to describe them all. Although Virabhadra Gosani was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He presented Himself as a great devotee. And although the Supreme Godhead is transcendental to all Vedic injunctions, He strictly followed the Vedic rituals. He is the main pillar in the hall of devotional service erected by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He knew within himself that He acted as the Supreme Lord Visnu, but externally He was prideless. It is by the mercy of Sri Virabhadra Gosani that people all over the world now have the chance to chant the names of Caitanya and Nityananda. I there take shelter of the lotus feet of Virabhadra Gosani so that by His mercy my grea
