Czech, March 2015: Recordings
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Kadamba Kanana Swami visited the Czech Republic from 12-16 March 2015. You may read all about his stay by clicking here. Below are recordings which were captured by Antardvip and Klara.

You may listen online by hitting the ‘play’ button or to download, right-click on a title and ‘save target as’.

 

Audio

KKS_CZ_13 March 2015_Lecture_CC_Adi_9.48

KKS_CZ_13 March 2015_Lecture_SB_5.5.25

KKS_CZ_14 March 2015_Kirtan_Harinam_Mandir

KKS_CZ_15 March 2015_Kirtan

KKS_CZ_15 March 2015_Lecture_BG

KKS_CZ_15 March 2015_Lecture_SB_5.5.27

KKS_DE_16 March 2015_Kirtan_Leipzig

 

Videos

CZ – Arrival in Prague (12 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Mangal Aarti (13 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Srimad Bhagavatam 5.5.25 (13 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 9.48 (13 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Mangal Aarti (14 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Srimad Bhagavatam 5.5.26 (14 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Public Lecture (14 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Kirtan (14 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Mangal Aarti (15 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Srimad Bhagavatam 5.5.27 (15 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Evening Kirtan (15 March 2015). View on YouTube.

CZ – Evening Lecture (15 March 2015). View on YouTube.

DE – Evening Kirtan (16 March 2015). View on YouTube.

DE – Evening Lecture (16 March 2015). View on YouTube.

 

 

 

 

Loving And Serving Krishna’s Cows In Braja (Album with…
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Loving And Serving Krishna’s Cows In Braja (Album with photos)
Carol from Italy very lovingly serving our MVT cow, Sarawati, every morning she bathes her, brushes her, polish her hooves and horns, make ladus for her. She also painted her house with beautiful lotuses, creepers. She is a professional yoga teacher who has given up everything to live in Vrindavan.
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Service opportunities for August Gunacuda Dasi: Hare Krishna! We…
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Service opportunities for August
Gunacuda Dasi: Hare Krishna! We have the following Teaching services available for August 2015 at Sri Mayapur International School.
1)Boys’ Sports teacher- this can be part time or combined with the Middle School boys’ (11 to 14 year olds) Sastra teacher post.
2) Computer Science teacher. This is for Middle school ,IGCSE and AS Level (High School)
3) High School English teacher -this is mainly teaching boys at IGCSE level.
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Purusottama Month is Coming! You might already be aware of…
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Purusottama Month is Coming!
You might already be aware of Purusottama month and its occurrence this year. To put it briefly, when the full moon occurs twice in a month, i.e. in less than 29 solar days, then the month is divided into 2 and a leap month is added. This leap month is known as Adika mas or Purusottama month and it occurs about every 3 years. It is very dear to Lord Krishna and it is very good time to engage in full devotional service. This year, we are fortunate to have the Purusottama month starting on 17th June and ending on 16th July.
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Observing Purushottama Adhika Masa
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BY SIMHESWARA DASA

KUALA LUMPUR - Every year devotees get the opportunity to increase spiritual credits by taking part in the Kartik/Damodara Month Vrata. This year there is another special month for everyone to take advantage of and to earn 1000 times more spiritual benefits than the Kartik Month. And this month, the Purushotam Adhika Masa which begins on June 17 and ends July 16 (for Malaysia) happens only once every three years. For family members it will be the best time to take advantage and organize at least one day/night programme in your homes and hear from the Bhagavad Gita. All that needs to be done is to call our ISKCON centres (03-7980 7355 HQ) and arrange your home programme, invite your friends and relatives and join the bhajans, kirtan, Krishna katha and distribute Krishna prasadam to all.

  • A simple programme as this will bring many fold spiritual benefits to the host and all who participate.
  • What the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna says about this month and what many other great personalities say?
  • How to observe the Vrata?
  • How to break the Vrata after one month's observance?
  • What are the glories of Purushottama Masa?

HOW TO OBSERVE THE PURUSOTTAMA MASA VRATA

1. Attending mangalarati without missing, chanting before mangalarati.

2. Chant Hare Krsna Mahamantra extra rounds for entire month: 24, 32, 64, 108.

3. Maximum Benefits by Observing Vrata in Vrndavana, Mayapur or any ISKCON temple.

4. Offering daily a ghee lamp,flowers and tulasi leaves to Radha-Krsna Deities.

5. Daily parikrama to Tulasi Devi and mandira parikrama (4 times).

6. Daily read Srimad Bhagavatam Tenth Canto cp. 14 Brahma stuti.

7. Daily chanting astakas and bajans( like Jagannathastakam and vaisnavacharya bhajans).

8.Fast till noon and eat only fruits or just vegetables without any beans or grains. (like ekadasi for one month!) once a day if you can. Or just eat mahaprasadam. Take a vow according to your capacity to follow.

9. Take a vow to avoid mundane topics.

10. Be careful not to blaspheme any devotees, brahmanas, saints, cows, sastras or especially anyone observing the Purusottama Month Vrata.

HOW TO BREAK THE PURUSOTTAMA VRATA AFTER ONE MONTH?

1. Offer pushpanjali and dandavats to deities and vaisnavas.

2. Give charity to brahmanas to best of your ability. **Best charity to give Srimad Bhagavatam to qualified Vaisnava devotee brahmana. This charity will deliverall forefathers to Goloka dhama and the association of Lord Purusottam!***Other recommended gifts: new clothes, pairs of new shoes

3. Feed brahmanas with prasadam

BENEFITS OF OBSERVING PURUSOTTAMA VRATA

1. All the holy places in the world come to reside in the body.

2. One who observes Purusottama Month with faith and devotion will go back home, BTG to serve Radha-Govinda eternally in Goloka Vrndavana at the end of his life!

These are the recommended vratas described in Padma Purana Purusottama Masa Mahatyam.

Glories of Purusottama month (from Padma and Skanda Puranas)

Lord Sri Krishna:

"Purusottama month has all the power I have to bless its observer.

One who follows Purusottama vrata will destroy all his past sinful reactions.

Without performing Purusottama vrata, one cannot perform pure devotional service.

The value of Purusottama month is far more valuable than all other types of austerities and religious activities mentioned in the Vedas.

Anyone who observes Purusottama vrata will return to my abode, Goloka, at the end of his life".

Durvasa Muni:

"Just by bathing in a holy river during Purusottama month, one becomes sinless. The glory of all other months is not equal to one-sixteenth of the glory of the Purusottama month. By bathing in a holy place, giving charity and chanting the Holy Name Krsna during Purusottama month, all miseries are destroyed; one attains all kinds of perfection and fulfills all his desires

Valmiki Muni:

"By observing Purusottama vrata, one attains more benefit than performing one hundred horse sacrifices. All holy places live within the body of a Purusottama month vrati. Anyone who faithfully performs Purusottama vrata will go to Goloka Vrndavana".

Narada Muni:

"Purusottama month is the best of all months, vratas and austerities. Just by faithfully hearing the glories of Purusottama month, one attains krsna-bhakti and immediately nullifies his sinful reactions. One who performs Purusottama vrata properly will attain unlimited sukrti and go to the spiritual world.

Naimisaranya Sages:

"Merciful Purusottama month acts like a desire tree to fulfill a devotee's desire".

“Sacred Herb” in Vedic Ceremonies
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Cakṣuṣa’s wife Ākūti gave him a son named [Cāksuṣa] Manu. This illustrates that humanity (manu) has desire (ākūti) in their eyes (cakṣu). They covet everything they see.

Manu’s Empress, Naḍvalā delivered Manu twelve sons, representing twelve facets of the ceremonies that fulfill humanity’s desires like a flowing river (naḍvalā).

She named her first son after the result of these ceremonies: Puru (many blessings). She named the rest of her children after the ceremonial aspects crucial for bringing about these blessings.

Her second and third sons she named Kutsa and Trita. Kutsa (sacred herb) is mixed with Trita (water) to prepare the most important part of Vedic ceremonies: the sacred beverage soma. Soma is offered to the gods in expensive goblets, along with great wealth. Thus her fourth child was named Dyumna (wealth).

The conduct of a religious ceremony cannot be shallow or facetious. The empress therefore named her next three sons after the three qualities essential to the performers of religious ceremonies: Satyavān (truthful), Ṛta (lawful), Vrata (dedicated).

She named her next two children after the all important beginning and endings of the ceremonies: Agniṣṭoma (praises for the invocation of fire) and Atīrātra (concluding dedication). Both of these must be done with great care and intellect, so she named her next child Pradyumna (intelligence).

She named her final two children after the most basic, fundamental elements of the ceremony, the birch wood (Śibi) and kindling (Ulmuka).

— Translation of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.13.15-16

By Vraja Kishor dās [VrajaKishor.com]


Tagged: sacred herb, soma, vedic ceremony, vedic ritual

Bhagavatam-daily 237 – 11.11.43 – See various worshipable things as pathways to the supreme worshipable
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Notable progress
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 May 2015, Cronulla, Australia, Intro to Kirtan)

Question: Just wondering, some persons have been chanting for quite some time now and have asked me and I would like to ask you, what sort of symptoms should we see in ourselves if we are really progressing in our attachment to the chanting? If we are really doing it properly, is there some way we can know that it is really working in a progressive sense?

1978-08-32When we are progressing, first we gain stability. The chanting offers us an anchor. It offers us something deeper, something spiritual and naturally we begin to inquire a bit more about the meaning, about where it comes from. We may read something like Bhagavad-gita, a Vedic text which gives us some understanding where we begin to realize that we are spirit and that is an important point. We all have bodies and bodies are machines.

Just like when you go into hospital sometimes and they change a part or they fix some loose screws. I mean, it is just like when the car goes to the garage, right. What is the difference? It is a machine. They treat it like a machine also. The body is described in Sanskrit as yantra – machine. So as part of advancement, our awareness becomes broader and deeper. When we begin to realize that we are spirit then a whole spiritual dimension opens to us. Then, there is Krsna. Between the individual spirit and Krsna, there is a relationship and that relationship is always there. You know, HE provides the energy for the sun and the sun shines. HE provides the taste in what we eat, in the vegetables. HE provides… That is the first relationship.

The second relationship is from our side, a sense of gratitude. We no longer just take everything for granted and just throw garbage on top of the planet but we develop a sense of gratitude for the gifts that we have received. We see that we are receiving gifts, and then we return those gifts by giving ourselves… by giving ourselves for higher values, by giving ourselves for other people.

cpt_snana-yatraSo as some of these qualities begins to manifest in us – this sense of giving, this sense of doing something for the good of all rather than just being on the take, that is where we begin to notice the change from chanting. Then we realize that we get strength of mind through this chanting. We get focus. We are able to control our mind and focus on a goal and as I said, it can go higher and higher until one chants with pure devotion until one realizes everything is here, just in this mantra. Everything!

But that is very high and not all of us can reach that level but at least for some time, we get some attachment to the chanting. That is a blessing because again it brings this positive energy into our life and again, we become compassionate. Just like when we say no meat-eating, that is due to compassion. It is compassion! If the animals would have voting rights, I am sure they would start a vegetarian party. They want to live and why not let them live. Like this, gradually, these kinds of qualities begin to develop. So the mantra brings about a change in quality because it makes us aware of the spiritual totality that we are part of and we begin to take that place as part of a whole rather than seeing ourselves as me and mine on a separated entity. So in that way, we are advancing.

CC daily 134 – M 6.196-97 – Krishna’s qualities pull our mind towards him – other spiritual goals don’t
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Hare Krishna! Praying for the Welfare of Others Urmila Devi…
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Hare Krishna! Praying for the Welfare of Others
Urmila Devi Dasi: In summary, for intercessory prayer to be part of pure devotional service to Lord Krishna, it should be free of desires outside of that service, and it should ask for something favorable to the Lord. Such prayers should not stem from excessive attachment to the world. We can engage in intercessory prayer to deepen our relationship with Krishna, to develop a mood of humility and compassion for others, and with a desire to glorify our beloved Lord.
“I am praying to Krishna to offer you all His strength in the discharge of His noble service.” “I am praying for your long life and prosperity in Krishna consciousness.” “I pray that Krishna may bless you with a long life with which to open many temples and that in this very lifetime you may return back to home, back to Godhead.” “I pray to Krishna that you all may use your intelligence for Krishna’s service and not for any personal ambition.”
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Gauranga Festival in Ukraine, Day 2 (5 min video) Indradyumna…
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Gauranga Festival in Ukraine, Day 2 (5 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: Festivities continued throughout the weekend at the Gauranga Festival in Ukraine. The clear, fresh mountain air facilitated long and loud chanting of the holy names. Prasadam, cooked in ghee on open wood fires, was super excellent. And the association couldn’t be beat!
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