The Whole Second Canto in Fifteen Minutes!!!
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Rasa – The Ultimate Experience of Love
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Our specific love for Krishna is just the beginning of the ecstatic spiritual experience called prema-bhakti-rasa. Love is the ocean …

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Flavors of Love
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Flavors of Love During the first stage, love begins as a vague feeling and gradually becomes very specific and clear. …

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Three Stages of Love
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Love develops in three stages. We begin in a condition saturated by the antithesis of love: selfish lust. In this …

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How the Hell is it the “First Day of Spring” Today!?!?
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Originally posted on Vic DiCara’s Astrology:
So today is, in the Indian spiritual / lunar calendar, vasant pañcamī – which, most people will tell…

My ISKCON, My Prabhupāda.
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[Regarding ISKCON] We have to redefine what “it” is. “It” is not something that belongs to “them.” ISKCON belongs to …

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How to Practice the Yoga of Love (英語と日本語)
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These are the notes for the discussion at the 2-day Kīrtan party at Ter Kabamba Mandir. How to Realize Your …

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“Associate with Devotees”?
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Śrī Rūpa advises that one of the five most powerful practices is sajātiyāśaya-snigdha Śrī-bhagavat-saṅga. The first three words, sajātiya, āśaya …

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Dress Properly! (Continues)
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Yesterday I made a post called “DRESS PROPERLY” (Playing on the popular, famous soundbite of Śrīla Prabhupāda saying “sit properly”) …

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!!!DRESS PROPERLY!!! “…schnik schnik nom nom”
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It’s completely silly to think that the way we dress doesn’t affect the way we feel. Completely silly. The way we feel, …

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Garlic STINKS!?!?!?!
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Its pretty obvious what’s wrong with eating meat – you have to kill other living beings to get it. But its not …

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Femininity and the Hare Krishna Mantra
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I’ll share a few more of my experiences on the subject of femininity. Essentially female means “open” and it means “amplification …

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A User-Friendly Veda?
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To be frank and brief, the Vedas are not user-friendly. Why not? Because they were not written for the masses. …

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Official Disciples
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It’s not that my official guru does not have an official guru, who also has official guru, and so on, …

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True Femininity
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The soul is an entity between two worlds. One world is an entirely masculine object. If the soul is attracted …

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Rocks that God Can’t Lift
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In logic’s flashier moments, it tries to play with ideas like, ‘if God is all-powerful, can he make a rock …

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Reality and You(実在にあなたの関係)
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This is the first of three very important discussions. If you attend all three you will get a complete introduction …

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Stop Arguing!
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Recently I posted a quote by my Gurudeva, Śrīmad Dhanurdhara Swāmī, to a Facebook Page I maintain on his behalf. …

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The Universe, According to ŚB 2.5.14
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Brahmā Jī explained the contents of the universe to Nārada: First of all there is jīva – life force, conscious …

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Māyā “Ashamed to be Seen” By Hari?
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There are two reasons Māyā-devī is ashamed to venture into Hari’s sight. One is that she is ashamed of the deceitful …

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Who Enlightened Brahmā?
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Generally we think Krishna enlightened Brahmā, and that’s a fine basic summary of what happened. But here is a little …

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Express your Convictions for Krishna – Passionately. Don’t be a fence-sitter!
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“When we don’t hear about the heroism of the Hero, the holes of our ears might as well be snake …

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This is “faith” (śraddha)
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न ह्यतोऽन्यः शिवः पन्था विशतः संस़ताविह। वासुदेवे भगवति भक्तियोगो यतो भवेत् ॥ na hy ato ‘nyaḥ śivaḥ panthā viśataḥ saṁsṛtāv iha …

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The Use and Uselessness of Varṇāśrama
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Please read generously. This is just a blog post, not an article or an essay or a book. My angle …

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Predictions of Liberation or Enlightenment Are a Bogus Hoax
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Reblogged from Vic DiCara’s Astrology: Astrologers can be extremely pompus at our worst moments, but never are we more presumptuous, …

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Brahmā’s Bestiary
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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.37-39 Parīkṣit: What names and forms does Brahmā create in this world? Śuka: He created the Prajāpatīs. Through …

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Understanding the Intro of Caitanya Caritamrita (Adi 1.30-)
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The first fourteen verses of Caitanya Caritāmṛta are extremely important. The author, Krishnadās Kavirāja, will explain them systematically and thoroughly over the …

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A Universal Penis
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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.26 निरभिद्यत शिश्नोवै प्रजानन्दामृतार्थिनः। उपस्थ आसीत् कामानां प्रियंतदुभयाश्रयम्।। nirabhidyata śiśno vai prajānandāmṛtārthinaḥ; upastha āsīt kāmānāṁ priyaṁ tad-ubhayāśrayam. A penis certainly …

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The Three Most Beautiful Poems You’ll Ever Read
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Cc Adi 1.15 जयतां सुरतौपंगोर्मममन्दमतेर्गति। मत्सर्वस्वपदाम्भोजौ राधामदनमोहनौ।। jayataṁ suratau-paṁgor mama-manda-mater gati mat-sarvasva-padāmbhojau rādhā-madanamohanau I am crippled, and my mind has …

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Coffee Talk
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tava-kathāmṛtam tapta jīvanaṁ kavibhir īḍitaṁ kalmaṣāpaham śravaṇa-maṅgalaṁ śrīmadātataṁ bhuvi gṛṇanti ye bhūri-dā janāḥ Discussion of Śrī Krishna is immortal nectar …

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Learning digests slowly
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विद्य कालेन पच्यते “vidya kālena pacyate” We can digest different things at different rates. Fruits digest so quickly, for example …

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Why Does the Soul Have a Form? (And other questions)
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Question: The population of India is around 1.2 billion now. It was a much smaller number in the 15th century. …

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Study Bhāgavatam With Your Whole Heart and Mind, and you will have No More Confusion or Doubt
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The text below presents Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.10.8-9. The entire Bhāgavatam is full of such profoundly deep knowledge and realization. Please …

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The Soul and the Supreme Soul
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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto Two, Chapter Ten, Text Eight yo ‘dhyātmiko ‘yaḿ puruṣaḥ so ‘sāv evādhidaivikaḥ | yas tatrobhaya-vicchedaḥ puruṣo hy ādhibhautikaḥ || …

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Snakebites of Separation
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tvad-alokana-kalāhi-daṁśair eva mṛtaṁ janam tvat-padāmbja-milal-lakṣa-bheṣajair devi jīvaya Someone is so near death, from the bites of the black snake of …

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Ten Topics of Bhāgavatam
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There are ten facets, ten topics, in Śrīmad Bhagavatam. 2.10.1 lists them. The next verse explains that the first nine …

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How to Realize All This? (4th of the “4-Verse Bhāgavatam”)
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Continuing from the third verse, we conclude the four-verse Bhāgavatam-core with Canto Two, Chapter Nine, Text Thirty-Six etāvad eva jijñāsyaḿ tattva-jijñāsunātmanaḥ …

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