Taste of Bhakti (Album 12 photos) Good morning #NYC, it’s…
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Taste of Bhakti (Album 12 photos)
Good morning #NYC, it’s #Brunch-TIme! Today is Gluten-Free Day (Ekadasi).
We have vegan & gluten-free buckwheat pancakes, bbq tofu, pan de yuca/queso, herbed potatoes in a creamy cheese-sauce, tofu scrable & much more.
All this along with vegan & gluten-free cupcakes, cheesecakes, cookies, pumpkin pie & carrot cake, available from 11 AM to 3 PM @ 25 1st Ave between 1st and 2nd street.
Hope to see you soon, Hare Krsna. 920-6-BHAKTI (24-2584)
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Every Day Just Write
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On August 1st, 2014, I began a 30 day x-ray (30dayxray.blogspot.com). This is a challenge to write every single day for one month. 

I took it to 60 days.

Then 90 days.

This Friday, I concluded the 90 day x-ray.

90 days, a blog post every single day. I believe that the single most powerful experience for me in publishing a post every day was to surrender. Let go. Share. A picture, some words, a full-on story, poetry, little things, big things, realizations about money, love, time, the holy name. Random thoughts, cohesive thoughts. Whatever. Just post. 

I posted.

I surrendered to the powerful current of this commitment to post something every day. Often I found myself at a loss and just lost. But because of my commitment, being lost was no excuse. So what if I'm lost?

Get found.

Post. 

"Whenever you find time, you write. Never mind, two lines, four lines, but you write your realization."

- Srila Prabhupada
Los Angeles, August 14th, 1972


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Does God create energy out of nothing?
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From: ABHIJIT SONWANE

Law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor be destroyed. It can be transformed from one form to another form. And God transforms his marginal energy into souls. Can god create energy out of nothing ? What is the reference saying that energy can be created by god out of nothing ? Can god destroy energy ?

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Darshan Room Discussion, October 29, Dallas
Giriraj Swami

10013024_10202696750953011_260270066_n“It is good for us that Krishna is unlimited. As one Devotee prayed when chanting Hare Krishna, ‘My dear Lord, you are so kind that as your Holy Name you are my constant companion.’ Krishna manifests Himself as His Holy Name, as talks about Him—when we talk about Krishna He is actually present. When our senses become purified by the process of bhakti  yoga then we can actually see Krishna, we can hear Him we can smell Him we can touch Him. He will reciprocate, and that is the goal.”

10.29.14, Darshan Room, Dallas

Nothing has changed
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 19 September 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture)
 
yashoda_damodarNothing has changed. Everything is still the same as it was when Krsna was here 5000 years ago performing his pastimes in Vrindavan.

Krsna was stealing butter and yoghurt from the houses of all the residents of Vrindavan and all of them complained to Mother Yashoda. Mother Yashoda could not believe such things when she saw the innocent face of her son. But one day, she caught him red-handed when Krsna was there with a broken pot of yoghurt, surrounded by monkeys.

“Now I have caught you, you rascal!”

“Oh Mother, I came in here and the monkeys had just thrown this pot down – I came to chase them away!”

It was not convincing. Mother Yashoda was not at all convinced, so she wanted to punish him and chased him with a stick. Of course, she never wanted to beat him, just scare him. But then, she scared him too much and he became very afraid. At one point she said, “You are such a friend of the monkeys, giving them all this butter and yoghurt. I will treat you like a monkey!”

Krsna said, “If you treat me like this, then I’ll go and live with the monkeys.” Then she became very afraid that he would really do it and she decided to tie him up, which also did not work. The rope was always too short by two fingers! It came to a point where she was taking a ribbon from her hair to extend the cord. The neighbours were looking at the fun and they brought more silken ropes from their houses. Mother Yashoda sent everyone to bring all the rope in Vrindavan, but it remained two fingers short – until she captured Krsna in the end, with her endeavour and by his mercy.

So nothing has changed. The very same condition as 5000 years ago – the same two fingers are still there today. The finger for our personal endeavour and the finger for Krsna’s mercy – these can capture Krsna.

That is happening now and we can capture Krsna if we want to. It does not matter where we are!

Gopasthami celebrated in Mayapur (Album 125 photos) Oh, how…
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Gopasthami celebrated in Mayapur (Album 125 photos)
Oh, how glorious are they whose tongues are chanting Your holy name! Even if born in the families of dog-eaters, such persons are worshipable. Persons who chant the holy name of Your Lordship must have executed all kinds of austerities and fire sacrifices and achieved all the good manners of the Aryans. (Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.33.7 Purport)
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Most Auspicious initiations in the Dham (Album 80…
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Most Auspicious initiations in the Dham (Album 80 photos)
Indradyumna Swami: One afternnon while in Jaipur we held an initiation for two young Ukrainian girls; Taralaksi dasi and Madhavi-lata dasi. The auspicious ceremony was made even more auspicious by the fact that it was held in the temple of Radha Gopinatha. Certainly an occasion the young ladies will never forget.
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Kirtan Academy
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Hare Krsna dear devotees! Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Due to the great inspiration and blessings HH Sacinandana Maharaj we are honoured and overjoyed to announce that in a very short time the second academic year of Mayapur Kirtan Academy is about to begin. Please make yourself a huge favour […]

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A day for Krishna’s Cows
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 Please view the following galleries: Gopastami Festivities Charan Darshan   Gopastami occurs on the eighth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Karttika. On this day, as Krsna entered the pauganda age he was initiated as a cowherder. Normally the pauganda age begins as a child enters his sixth year. Five years are […]

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Srila Prabhupada Honored
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 Please view the following galleries: Srila Prabhupada’s Offerings & Abhishek   Srila Prabhupada A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, was born in 1896, in Calcutta, in a Vaisnava family. His father, Gour Mohan De, named him Abhay Charan. His father’s only wish was that, Abhay would become a […]

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Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Festival, October 27, Dallas
Giriraj Swami

SPdis.jpgGiriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.2.30 during the morning program.

“We have to do things Srila Prabhupada’s way and therefore we need to know how Srila Prabhupada did things. Both from his instructions and from his personal example of how to do things. In this verse the same point is being made. The acharya accepts the boat of the lotus feet of Krishna to cross the fierce ocean of nescience. Although he uses the boat to cross the ocean, he also leaves the boat to behind so that others can cross. In other words he leaves the method by which he crossed behind and others who follow the same method can also cross and meet him on the other side. That method is taking shelter of the lotus feet of Krishna which through parampara also means taking shelter of the spiritual master and the other mahajanas in the line. Then that vast ocean shrinks and becomes just like the puddle in the hoof print of a calf.”

10.27.14, Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day, Dallas