Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Meaning Of The Names PT.8
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Filled with ecstatic love, Radha sometimes sings the glories of Hari’s exploits quietly, and sometimes She sings them aloud. Those who are expert in the secrets of divine sentiments call Her Hara.
New Vrindaban Daily darsan @ March 14, 2014.
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When will I cheat the wife, children, friends, well-wishers, and other associates that have devastated my spiritual life, and with firm resolve flee to the forest where Lord Hari enjoyed pastimes?
[Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-90 Translation.]
The anxiety of the Lord
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If we want to approach Krsna in a mood of friendship, then we must fulfill his desire. An example is found in the Caitanya Caritamrta about Haridas Thakur.
At one point, Lord Caitanya was lamenting and saying to Haridas Thakur, ”What about all those living entities who are in different bodies where they cannot chant the Holy Name?”
Haridas said, “My Lord, please don’t be in anxiety. The echo off the trees is the chanting of the trees. When the Holy Name is chanted, the echo bounces off the trees and in this way, the trees are also chanting. So these living entities also get the mercy. Don’t be in anxiety.”
So, that’s very nice because usually it’s the living beings who are in anxiety and praying to the Lord, ” O lord, please take away my anxiety! O Krsna, somehow or the other, make it work, please! O Krsna, please protect me – Nrsimhadeva, Nrsimhadeva!”
Bhakti Vriksha Seminar and Book Distribution Awards Night in Mayapur (Album 41 photos)
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The annual Mayapur Festival is full of blissful events so that devotees can "recharge their spiritual batteries" and return to their respective countries to continue the spreading of Lord Chaitanya's movement. Read more › Prabhupada Letters :: Anthology 2014-03-14 19:05:00 →
Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64
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Prabhupada Letters :: 1966
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Prabhupada Letters :: 1967
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Prabhupada Letters :: 1969
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Prabhupada Letters :: 1970
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"PROCEED VRINDAVAN IMMEDIATELY. AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS.
- BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972
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Prabhupada Letters :: 1974
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Prabhupada Letters :: 1975
17 Mar 2014 – Festival of Jagannatha Misra
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Temple Decoration for Gaur Purnima & Holi 2014 in ISKCON-Delhi (Album 33 photos)
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Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Mandir (Hindi: श्री श्री राधा पर्थसरथि मन्दिर ) or generally called as ISKCON Delhi temple is a famous Vaishnav temple of Lord Krishna and Radharani in the form of Radha Parthasarathi, Opened in 1998, it is located at Hare Krishna Hills, in the East of Kailash area of New Delhi, India. Read more › Harinam-Sankirtan crew in Lakshman Jhula Rishikesh, Himalayas!!! (Album 36 photos)
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Vishnujana Prabhu from Slovakia, Gaura Karuna Prabhu and Nrsimha Caitanya Prabhu from Czech Republic, Syama Ras Prabhu from Croatia, and Harinamananda Prabhu from Australia travel all over the world doing harinama. Read more › ‘Live’ Bhagavad-gita Conference in Santiago, Chile (Album 25 photos)
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By Nirantara prabhu's preaching tour. Read more › March 14th, 2014 – Darshan
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Sally Agarwal visits New Vrindavan (USA) (Album 32 photos)
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Gopal and Sally Agarwal, an elderly couple who played a significant role in ISKCON’s origins. They are forever etched in the devotees’ collective memory as two of the Western world’s earliest recipients of Srila Prabhupada’s mercy. It was the Agarwals who hosted him in the fall of 1965, before ISKCON was even nominally born, giving him shelter, hospitality, friendship, and love. Indeed, for one month their home served as Prabhupada’s earliest refuge outside India. Read more › How can we increase our determination for waking up in the morning?
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If eating opulent prasad harms our consciousness how can we regulate our eating?
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On entering Vrndavana I asked one of our passengers “Aren’t you sometimes ashamed to be Indian?”
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Maha milan – congregational preaching in Mayapur (Album 87 photos)
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In our temples we have no capacity to give shelter to all the people. House holder devotees have so many possessions, like their old father, mother, young children, land, cows and bulls. They cannot join the temple with all of these things. If they stay in their homes and do business or whatever, householder devotees can follow the rules and regulations, chanting Hare Krishna and a couple of times in a week gather together for a Nama-hatta program. Every day they will do their activities in their own house and in the evening they join together and do evening program where they can do aroti, Bhagavad-gita class, chanting harinama and prasada distribution. This is called maha milan. Read more › Gaura Purnima – Boat Festival
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New Vrindaban’s BlueHome Artworks Gift Shop looking for new owner
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The current owners of New Vrindaban’s exclusive gift shop for hand-crafted items, BlueHome Artworks , are looking for new caring people (or a person) to take it over.
Lilasuka and Jesse will be in their third year running BlueHome Artworks, which is beautiful and is becoming known, but, due to personal reasons, must give it up.
Very little investment involved for new owners.
There are 35 very talented consignors already producing exquisite hand-crafted artwork for sale.
INTERESTED OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO MAY BE?
Please contact Jesse: 724 231 9603 cell bluehomeartworks@gmail.com
304 845 2918 BlueHome store
or Lilasuka 724 263 5381 cell lilasooka@msn.com
Thank you! Hare Krsna.
Krishna Kishore Prabhu at Kirtan Mela Mayapur 2014 Day 1
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Krishna Kishore Prabhu at Kirtan Mela Mayapur 2014 Day 1
Expanding the intersection of our emotional circle and Krishna’s emotional circle
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When Kamsa’s capital Mathura and Kaurava’s capital Hastinapura were so close to each other why is there no record of any conflict between them?
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NoI 9 refers to the Mathura in the material world being the birthplace of Krishna as higher than Vaikuntha Where does Mathura in the spiritual world fit in this hierarchy?
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When Vali and Sugriva are born from the union of demigods (Indra and Surya with Aruni) why do they have a monkey form?
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Is the Nectar of Instruction a part of a larger work by Rupa Goswami?
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By hearing about a particular rasa say Madhurya rasa in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, we will become attracted to it But if our svarupa is in a different rasa what will happen?
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What is the relationship between the svarupa of the soul and its present seed form?
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NoI 17 Texts 10-11 – The glory of pure devotion in parakiya bhava
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NoI 16 Text 9 – The glory of the topmost of all dhamas
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NOI 13 Text 6 – Don’t be misled by material perception of devotees
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Is there a hierarchy among the five potent forms of devotional service? Is any one of them the highest?
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Severing Attachments
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Sharp Words For Truth Seekers
If, through yoga, the mind can be trained, then the mind is our friend. But if the mind is left untrained, then there is no possibility of leading a successful life. For one who has no idea of spiritual life, the mind is the enemy. If one thinks that he is simply the body, his mind will not be working for his benefit; it will simply be acting to serve the gross body and to further condition the living entity and entrap him in material nature. If, however, one understands one’s position as spirit soul apart from the body, the mind can be a liberating factor. In itself, the mind has nothing to do; it is simply waiting to be trained, and it is best trained through association. Desire is the function of the mind, and one desires according to his association; so if the mind is to act as a friend, there must be good association.
The best association is a sadhu or one who is striving for spiritual realization. There are those who are striving for temporary things. Matter and the body are temporary, and if one only engages himself for bodily pleasure, he is conditioned by temporary things. But if he engages in self-realization, then he is engaged in something permanent. Obviously if one is intelligent he will associate with those who are trying to elevate themselves to the platform of self-realization through one of the various forms of yoga. The result will be that those who are sadhu, or realized, will be able to sever their attachments to material association. This is the great advantage of good association. For instance, Krishna spoke Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna just to cut off his material attachments. Because Arjuna is attracted to things that are impeding the execution of his duty, Krishna severs these things.
To cut something, a sharp instrument is required; and to cut the mind from its attachments, sharp words may be required. The sadhu or teacher will sometimes use sharp words to sever the student’s mind from material attractions. By speaking the truth uncompromisingly, he is able to sever the bondage. If we actually want detachment from this material world, we should be willing to accept cutting words from the spiritual master. Compromise and flattery have no effect where strong words are required.
Dangerously Stupid
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High Rises Lead to High Rise in Disease
The number of cancer patients who are diagnosed annually is expected to nearly double in the next two decades, according to a recent report by the World Health Organization. The projected increase will be from 14 million new cases annually to 25 million new cases annually worldwide.
Carcinogens are all around us today. They are in the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, in the cupboard of chemicals you use to clean your home with, in the makeup your wife/girlfriend puts on, etc. In the past, one may have had to make an effort to come in contact with them; now it is hard, perhaps even impossible, to avoid.
Those who are concerned over this tiding and intelligent, undiluted by the mood of docility and fear in society, may have asked why this is happening, who is responsible, how can it be counteracted….
Despite clearly making imprudent decisions, modern society still fails to learn or fails to keep up with the learning curb of Mother Nature. Inside the closed door boardrooms of our leaders, decisions are made which impact the entire world, but which are meant to benefit only a minority. Their apologies for misbehavior and promises of change are pleasing to the ear only, and do not carry enough integrity to right a wrong. These are the twilight times of the industrial ‘devolution’; and problems for everyone on this planet have been cataclysmically increasing since its inception. Indeed, by trying to control nature due to greed and lust for more of nature’s resources, more problems have been created with only very limited, and fleeting success.
Perhaps most horrific about the future of the universal problems the modern humanoid has to deal with today, is that they come from individuals, the frontiersmen of a new tomorrow, who had good intentions. They used their intelligence to innovate something which they believed would be helpful. They believed in their own subjective version of the utopian dream (i.e. the belief that what’s good for me is ultimately good); and under this presumption, those people who are lionized as ambitious, progressive, and downright normal are selfishly engaged at trying to titillate their senses better than ever at the cost of the welfare of all other living entities.
When will the next seemingly pious innovator ‘help’ us by adding one more nail to our coffins? They are just giving more rope by which people are tirelessly hanging themselves on – a society of babies that try to chew on whatever shiny new toy is given to them.
It is no wonder, from a perspective of common sensibility (perhaps ‘uncommon’ sensibility is more apropos here), that malefic causes such as GMOs, fluoride, the meat packing/slaughterhouse industry, etc. result in malefic effects. The cause and effect cannot be divorced because of some romantic or utopian dream of a happier world.
Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a saint and social reformer, commented on this in the 1970’s, before the vast industrialization of the East as we know it today.
“Simply a little high standard of living and they think this is advancement. And the Western civilization is influencing all other parts of the world in that way… There is no improvement, but it is maya [illusion]; they are thinking, ‘This is improvement… The progress is that they have got motorcar, and they have progressed how to die quickly… Formerly they were satisfied by tilling the ground, getting food grains. Now they have started factories. At the cost of thousands of men’s labor, some director is getting money and enjoying life.’”
If we want to make true advancement in the way of human life, we need to progress in the highest human sentiment – the human consciousness. Then true happiness and peace comes. But how much benefit does one accrue by living in a luxury high rise building but having the mentality and diseases of a rat? Indeed, to speculate and justify that our unending personal motivations for an ever-increasingly sweeter material lifestyle will not duly cause harm to us or to those around us is dangerously stupid.
Free Speech
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SMS Your Cares Away?
We live in an over-communicated world. Good etiquette insists we reply to all text messages within 10 minutes, be mindful of the mountain of emails building up in our inbox, and unfailingly return all ‘missed calls’ on our phones. Don’t forget to regularly post something witty on Facebook, follow your best friends on twitter and utilize all the free airtime minutes on your contract! It is, after all, good to talk. But what is the net result of this web of exchange? Does it bring a greater sense of relationship and community? Is it a case of being more connected, but further apart?
Silence, it’s said, is the art of conversation. We often struggle with a quiet moment. When it does arise, most will instinctively grab their phone in a drastic attempt to engage their mind. To see someone sitting and doing absolutely nothing is rare! Even more unusual is to be with another person and not say anything. It feels awkward and uneasy. Yet silence is imperative – it forces us to understand, assimilate, reflect and think deeply about what is actually going on. Oftentimes, however, in order to frantically fill those redundant moments we often end up generating substandard content to share with the world: meaningless, speculative and shoddy communication.
Don’t get me wrong, there is definitely room for chitchat, niceties, and light-hearted exchange between humans. It would be unnatural to jump to the other extreme of strictly regulating our every word. The Bhagavad Gita, however, offers the over-arching model to guide speech. Words, Krishna recommends, should be truthful, pleasing and beneficial. How much of our written and verbal communication would make it through this filter? Along with freedom of speech, it may be worthwhile to remind people of their longstanding right to freedom of thought.
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something” (Plato).


