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April Issue is published. Click here to read it: http://goo.gl/DkJv4g

HG Sesa Das, ISKCON GBC and Minister of Education, speaks About the TOVP (3 min video)
Watch it here: http://goo.gl/ALkqfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0-F2yxako

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Canada Couple Try to Live Prabhupada’s “Simple Life”
Gaura Nitai and Lala Gopi’s 100-acre “Govinda’s Farm” in King’s County, Eastern PEI overlooks the Northumberland Strait of Nova Scotia and includes a 140-year-old Victorian house, a barn and outbuildings. Today, the couple live in the house with their Gaura Nitai and Jagannath Deities and their 23-year-old son Rama, who moved back home to help out. “When we first came here, we paid cash for the land – we don’t take mortgages out,” says the likeably direct and plainspoken Lala Gopi. “After that, we only had $600 left to our name.”
Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/QKhxR9

Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple community has a “very serious message” for you! :-)
Please read it here: http://goo.gl/v84UPo

2015 03 30 SB 10 60 09 Clarity Of Bhagavad Gita Ranjit Prabhu ISKCON Chowpatty

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Разъяренному Маха-Вишну
самосветящемуся вездесущему
Нрисимхе в явлении страшному и всеблагому
как смерть самой смерти – поклоны.

[ Нарасимха-анустубха мантра ]

When Bhṛgu heard these curses upon the twice-born Brāhmaṇas, he retaliated with the Brāhmaṇa’s weapon: an inescapable curse of punishment: “Heretics and hypocrits shall be they who follow the ways of Śiva! Far-wandered be they from the true path of scripture! Lost be their cleanliness! Dulled be their minds! By tangling their hair and wearing bones and ashes they will think themselves Śiva’s disciples, but their true god will be rum! Indeed, what need is there for my curses? You are already such heretics, since you so vehemently criticize the Veda and the Vedists who uphold it for humanity. The Veda are the true “Śiva” – the true and eternal auspicious path. These paths were established in antiquity, and their authority rests directly upon Janārdana, Viṣṇu. There is no need for my curses, because heresy is the natural result of blaspheming the eternally valid paths of the supremely pure Veda. It is in such heresy that you will consider the Śiva, Lord of Monsters, as your god.”

Blessed Bhava listened to Bhṛgu’s curses, but when he heard the mention of Viṣṇu he meekly stood up without a word and left, followed by his followers. Even in the absence of Śiva, Dakṣa, and all their followers, the other creators of the cosmos carried out their elaborate ceremony for a thousand years, keeping Hari as the foremost object of worship.

 – Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.27~35 [end]

Shiva sat quietly, humbly through the entire debacle of curses leveled by Dakṣa, Nandīśvara, and Bhṛgu – but when he heard Bhṛgu try to claim that Viṣṇu was solely on their side he wanted to end the situation immediately, to avoid the chance that his followers might respond in a way that depreciated Viṣṇu.

The sacrifice went fine in the absence of the Brāhmaṇas headed by Dakṣa and also in the absence of Shiva and his followers, because those who remained were not a party to either side of the argument, but were simply intent on worshipping Hari by performing this elaborate Soma ceremony.

- Vraja Kishor dās

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 January 2015, Simhachalam, Germany, Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 7.16)

It is because we are proud, because we claim to know everything, because we are lazy, because we have no tolerance and everything disturbs us, and because we are addicted to enjoying our senses all the time, that we condemn others and cannot forgive them. So forgiveness is a big point, therefore I am emphasizing it a lot. So let us take this principle of forgiveness as a meditation. It is something that deeply affects us.

Question: How can we forgive in a case of vaisnava-aparadha, the greatest offence of offending a vaisnava? Lord Caitanya said that he would forgive everything but not a vaisnava-aparadha.

Still forgive! Because a vaisnava does not take an offence. There was this person who had put paraphernalia for worshiping goddess Kali, including wine and meat, on the doorstep of Srivas Thakur and the person who did that became afflicted with a horrible disease, leprosy, all over his body and worms were eating his body. So this person went to Caitanya Mahaprabhu and fell at his feet, saying, ‘You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, please relieve me from this suffering – please!’  But Caitanya said, ‘You are an offender of Srivas Thakur, so I will have you eaten by these worms for millions of lifetimes!’  But Mahaprabhu also told him that he could go to Srivas and beg for forgiveness. So he went to Srivas and Srivas replied, ‘That was no problem, I took no offence.’  Srivas just forgave like that and that is what vaisnavas do – they forgive!

But in case of someone else being offended, we object. We will defend others, but for ourselves we feel, ‘Who am I?’ If someone screams at me, I will think, ‘Yes, I have deserved it. Whatever they do to me, I have deserved it.’  When Haridas Thakur was beaten at twenty-two marketplaces, he still remained the well-wisher of the people who were beating him. That shows that devotees always forgive. If anyone is mistreating us – externally it may look like a mistreatment but actually for the internal reasons, it is totally right as we deserve it. We have to think like that. When I got shot me in the back, I tried to think like that, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’  I was trying to see that Krsna is kind to me, by giving me this special attention. We have to learn to think in this way when people mistreat us.

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