One need only be firmly convinced by the spiritual master that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If one decides this, he can make further progress by thinking of Krishna, chanting of Krishna, and glorifying Him. There is then no doubt that such a fully surrendered devotee will receive the blessings of Lord Krishna” […]
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Faithful devotion attracts blessings
Is God hard of hearing that his devotees need to chant his names loudly?
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If Krishna’s ultimate instruction is to give up all duties for surrendering to him why shouldn’t everyone join the temple?
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Is Krishna omninpresent as his energy or personally as the Supersoul?
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If the Supersoul is present in all atoms and the space between them, what is special about the Superoul in our heart?
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What happens to the Supersoul after death and after liberation?
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Is the Supersoul actually expanded in every heart or is it an appearance of expansion?
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Different religions arise from varying faiths in the modes
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As long as one’s faith is not completely in purified goodness, the faith is subject to contamination by any of the modes of nature… Thus we find different types of faith in this world, and there are different types of religions due to different types of faith” Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita As It Is, 17.3 purport
Mahabharata characters 50 – Arjuna 13 – Battling and serving the beloved grandsire
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Do the scriptures treat women as the property of men?
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How do we deal with people’s fear that ISKCON preachers will make ours sons into brahmacharis?
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What is wrong with worship of devatas if one understands them to be devotees of Krishna?
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How do we reconcile different Puranic versions of the origin of Lord Shiva?
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How do we know whether we desire to preach for fame or for pleasing Krishna?
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Experience confirms scripture, thus providing the highest pramana
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“Of all forms of evidence for establishing the truth, experience from one’s own life is the strongest.” – Brihad Bhagavatamritam Dig Darshini commentary 2.1.106
Why is Krishna worshiped in North India in intimate mood and Vishnu worshiped in South India in reverential mood>
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Mahabharata characters 49 – Arjuna 12 – The Gita goes far beyond violence to transcendence
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Can grihasthas who want to preach make preaching as their source of livelihood?
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The religious rural culture of India is being replaced by materialisitc culture. What can we do to counter this?
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Should we preach to make people ISKCON devotees or to make them better human beings?
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How can we understand which mode we are in?
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How can we stay in the mode of goodness?
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If one doesnt practice raganuga bhakti then how will one get the realizations needed to return to our svarupa?
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Does one have to practice raganuga bhakti to go BTG or is just departing in devotional circumstances enough
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Hearing Krishna’s pastimes with the gopis is said to remove lust, but it often induce lust. How do we understand
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Is it that we have to come to the stage of ruchi to hear these pastimes?
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Why does the mind develop bad habits more easily than good habits?
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Mahabharata characters 48 – Arjuna 11 – The divine heart calls the human heart to the path of love
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Mahabharata Characters 47 – Arjuna 10 – Arguments against and for fighting in the Gita
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Mahabharata Characters 46 – Arjuna 09 – Choose Krishna over the world
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Mahabharata Characters 45 – Arjuna 08 – The stunning victory at Virata
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Mahabharata Characters 44 – Arjuna 07 – Singlehanded triumph over the Nivatkavachas and Kalakanyas
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Mahabharata Characters 43 – Arjuna 05 – Heaven hath no fury like a woman scorned
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Ratha-Yatra – When the Lord comes out, let’s invite him in
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(An edited version of this article appeared in the Time of India’s Speaking Tree column with the title Yatra of love) Today some of us will see on the roads in our cities a massive procession that we recognize as a familiar festival – the Ratha Yatra Utsav, an annual festival that dates back to centuries, […]
Mahabharata Characters 42 – Arjuna 05 – Austerity and audacity for the pleasure of Lord Shiva
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Mahabharata Characters 41 – Arjuna 04 – All the gods bested at Khandava
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Mahabharata Characters 40 – Arjuna 03 – The match made with Krishna as the matchmaker
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Meditation on Bhaktivinoda Thakura pranama mantra
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namo bhaktivinodaya sac-cid-ananda namine
gaura shakti svarupaya rupanuga varaya te
Mahabharata Characters 39 – Arjuna 02 – Accepting exile to honour virtue
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Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contributions 4 – The Eastern Savior offers the zenith of religious experience among all the world’s religions
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Special Day Meditation Podcast “People from Europe and the Americas have not been satisfied with beauty of the rasa of parental affection (vātsalya) that Jesus propagated. By God’s grace, the hope is that they get addicted to the mature wine of the rasa of sweetness in the near future. It is observed that the rasas […]
Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contributions 3 – The sara-grahi redefinition of Panchopasana as progressive modes of comprehending the divine
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Special Day Meditation Podcast 5 levels outlined in Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s essay “On the Pure Religion of the Bhagavata”: 1. Shaktism – Worship of nature 2. Sauryaism – Worship of sun 3. Ganapatyaism – Worship of consciousness manifested in animals 4. Shaivism – Worship of consciousness manifested in humans 6. Vaishnavism – Worship of the Supreme […]