SB 5.11.6 – To break free from the mind’s vicious embrace, embrace Krishna’s lotus feet manifesting as his holy names
HOW TO GET FREE FROM FEAR
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Just take letter "s" out of the word "scared". So instead of thinking "I am scared", think "I am cared for".
Happiness in Krishna Consciousness
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Vaishnava wedding in Iskcon Hawai Temple with Ambarisha prabhu (34 photos)
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Brahmacari meeting in Mayapur with Jayapataka Swami (16 photos)
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Rangadevi & Sudevi
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Visvarupa Mahotsava
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Everyone must accept the spirit of sannyasa to enter into the Sannyasa Dhama – Goloka.
News from New Raman Reti, Iskcon’s Community in Alachua, north Florida, USA
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GITA MODEL
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ECO-Vrindaban Board Meeting Minutes 9-07-2013
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ECO-Vrindaban Board Meeting Minutes 9-07-2013
Mission Statement: ECOV (Earth, Cows, Opportunities & Vrindaban Villages) is dedicated to cow protection, sustainable agriculture, self-sufficiency and simple living — all centered around loving service to Sri Krishna, as envisioned by the ISKCON New Vrindaban Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Participating Members of the ECOV Board of Directors: Chaitanya Mangala, Krpamaya, Madhava Gosh, Navin Shyam and Ranaka.
Advisors present: Jaya Krsna
1. Prototype house at G7G
The Cabin roof was insulated this past week. It still needs flooring, a window, solar panels, a water catchment system, and potentially a composting toilet. Though it will not likely be fully ready for the October 5th opening, the ceremony will take place.
After hay harvesting is done, Tom and Ray will work on the cabin.
Although funding for the solar panels and floor pavers will come from other sources, more money is needed for labor and other aspects of the project.
WHEREAS: The ECOV Board wishes to complete the prototype cabin in the Garden of Seven Gates (“G7G”) as originally envisioned.
RESOLVED: The Board augments the project budget of the G7G prototype cabin by $3K.
2. Temple foundation plantings
Brikhasanga dug a trench, applied insulation and back filled on the temple building’s foundation.
3. Pine-tree trimming around Temple area
The project will begin after the foundation plantings are completed.
4. Reduce/Reuse Initiative
Navin Shyam will resend the final version of the three posters to Krpamaya to print, laminate, and distribute to the various reusable metal water bottle vendors.
5. Gopal’s Garden School
As requested by ECOV, Ruci and Ranaka are developing a September issue of a school newsletter, focusing on Radhastami activities by the students.
6. Bahulaban barn demolition
This will begin in October after the combination barn closing ceremony and G7G Cabin opening celebration.
7. Bulk grain purchasing
WHEREAS: The ECOV Board wishes to help improve the self-sufficiency of the New Vrindaban community.
RESOLVED: The Board authorizes a line of credit to INV of up to $20K to make bulk grain purchases, to be stored in the bins that ECOV has previously purchased and set up. Precise terms of the arrangement will be worked out in a separate written agreement between Ranaka and a representative of INV management.
8. Budget for Valley Barn maintenance
WHEREAS: The ECOV Board wishes to provide adequate shelter for its cows as well as maintaining buildings in its care.
RESOLVED: The Board authorizes a budget of up to $10K for repairing the roof of the valley barn.
September 20th, 2013 – Darshan
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New York City Harinam @ Union Square Park (108 photos)
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Boat Festival at Kalachandji’s Hare Krishna Temple in Dallas (127 photos)
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Kirtan At Villa Vrindavana, Italy, With Jahnavi Harrison 18th Aug 2013
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Kirtan At Villa Vrindavana, Italy, With Jahnavi Harrison 18th Aug 2013
When God Leads a Political Revolution
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This is a translation of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Canto Two, Chapter Seven, Śloka 22
Brahmā: When the hell bent government strayed from the moral path by controverting the philosophers who explained the spirit of the law, the Great Soul made them the oil in the sacrificial offering to fate. With his very sharp, terribly powerful axe, he uprooted those thorns from the earth, thrice seven times over.
Nārada: The Paraśurāma avatāra.
In his elucidation on this śloka, A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda comments that some of these governors/kings were able to flee from Paraśurāma to distant places, especially to Eqypt – where they founded the Egyptian civilization. He says this claim is supported by Mahābhārata. Elsewhere he has been quoted as including Greece and Rome among the civilizations begun by those who fled from Paraśurāma.
Within the name
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In the maha-mantra, there is a relationship. There is Krsna, the all-attractive Supreme Lord, and the vocative form of Hara which is Hare and that is the hladini shakti, the pleasure potency – pure devotional service embodied by Radharani, but also referring to any devotional service.
Hare represents devotional service to Krsna, and Ram represents either Balaram or Lord Ramachandra. Balaram is the embodiment of ecstacy, and is particularly the one who gives spiritual strength. So from serving Krsna, comes Ram, which is spiritual strength and ecstacy. Therefore transcendental happiness is experienced when chanting Hare Krsna in devotional service to Krsna.
Within the name
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In the maha-mantra, there is a relationship. There is Krsna, the all-attractive Supreme Lord, and the vocative form of Hara which is Hare and that is the hladini shakti, the pleasure potency – pure devotional service embodied by Radharani, but also referring to any devotional service.
Hare represents devotional service to Krsna, and Ram represents either Balaram or Lord Ramachandra. Balaram is the embodiment of ecstacy, and is particularly the one who gives spiritual strength. So from serving Krsna, comes Ram, which is spiritual strength and ecstacy. Therefore transcendental happiness is experienced when chanting Hare Krsna in devotional service to Krsna.
THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP HURTING ME
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"Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That's not a possibility. It's only when I BELIEVE A STRESSFUL THOUGHT that I get hurt. And I am the one hurting me when I am believing what I think. This is very good news because it means I don't have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I am the one who can stop hurting me. It's within my power." BK
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08.15 – The world is a hospital; be hospitable to the doctor
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Patients admitted in a hospital know that the doctor’s counsel is essential for their recovery. If some patients were inhospitable to the doctor, we would be appalled by their irrationality: is this a mental hospital?
Yet, might we ourselves be acting like those patients?
Gita wisdom indicates that the disease of misdirected desires afflicts us. Though we are eternal and spiritual, we crave for the temporary and the material. Whenever we lose our desired objects, as we inevitably do in due course of time, we suffer. Terribly. Repeatedly.
To heal us, Krishna, the Supreme Doctor, provides the therapy of devotional service. This process efficiently and expeditiously reverts our desires back from the world to Krishna. The Bhagavad-gita (08.15) assures that those who learn to love Krishna become forever free from this miserable world.
Krishna offers his expert help freely and lovingly through his various manifestations like the scriptures and the holy names. But we are often inhospitable to him. We misperceive that his guidance will interfere with our enjoyment in this world. We give him as less time as possible – and even in that time, we give him as less thought as possible. Our inhospitality is evident in our half-heartedness and distractedness in devotional activities like mantra meditation. By being inhospitable to Krishna, we aggravate our misery and perpetuate our hospital sentence.
Gita wisdom gives us the intellectual impetus to become hospitable to Krishna. When we adopt his guidance, the practice of bhakti-yoga cures us quickly. It also makes our recovery a joyful journey, as the Gita (09.02) indicates. Using the things of this world in Krishna’s service grants us meaningful achievement and perennial fulfillment.
By regularly reinforcing our intelligence with Gita wisdom, we can become inhospitable towards our irrational inhospitability to Krishna and help him to help us.
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08.15 - After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.
The mystic power of the Lord
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There is no difference between His [the Lord’s] mind and Himself (as there is a difference between ourselves and our present material mind) because He is absolute spirit. Simultaneously the Lord is present in everything; yet the common man cannot understand how He is also present personally. He is different from this material manifestation, yet everything is resting on Him. This is explained here as yogam aisvaram, the mystic power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
SB 5.11.5 The struggle to change what we hold in the mind can grant life’s greatest achievement
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Apology to Srila Prabhupada
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Dear Srila Prabhupada,
I am writing this because I sincerely regret blaming you for ISKCON’s apparent faults, and because my public apology was recommended by one dedicated disciple of yours. I’m sure you realize I was practically going crazy over my lack of Krishna consciousness, and I know you would forgive me, but I didn’t think enough of how my mad elephant behavior toward you would offend others to whom you are so dear.
I do not fully understand how the troublesome facts developed, how events happened in ISKCON that were so upsetting to me, but I remember now that I did not come to ISKCON to act as its police. I came to find Krishna, but experience forces me to admit my commitment to that goal has been mixed at best.
Yet I expected others to behave practically as perfect Vaisnavas. I judged devotees according to a standard much higher than I could keep myself, the opposite of what is advised for spiritual progress. Because of this, I became critical of devotees at every level, my faith was destroyed by it, and I decided Krishna or God must be imaginary and became an opponent of theism. I tested whether you would save me from such gross ignorance, and now I am ashamed.
So I have again become a mouse, trapped by maya. I doubt I’ve learned all that I should from this, but I’ve learned something. I need your mercy. Please save me from my foolishness and do something useful with me. Hare Krishna.
Janmasthami and Brighton Ratha Yatra Photos
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Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obesiances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Please see below link which contains the photos I took over Janmasthami
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100637659@N06/sets/72157635635867413/
and at Brighton Ratha Yatra.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100637659@N06/sets/72157635633944374/
Please accept my apologies for taking so long to upload them.
Your servant,
Dipak
HH Sankarshan Das Adikari
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World Holy Name Week 17Th To 26Th September 2013 (69 photos)
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Mass prasad preparation in Iskcon Baroda – Ganapati visarjan day (106 photos)
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Hollywood Directors visit ISKCON Delhi (5 photos)
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September 19th, 2013 – Darshan
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The passing of Srila Haridasa Thakura and the many lessons for us in this pastime (Part 2)
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New Vrindaban’s Radhastami Festival was THIS much fun!
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Vaiyasaki Das and Kishori on Channel 7 Jalisco in Guadalajara Mexico (42 photos)
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The Reflected Tree
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HH BCS & Bhaktivinoda Thakur Appearance Gallery (24 photos)
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A Visit to Astha Sakhi Mandir – Vrindavan (186 photos)
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Birnagar manuscripts breakthrough!!
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Jahnavi and Friends at The Chaitanya College Festival
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Jahnavi and Friends at The Chaitanya College Festival
When money offers security amidst uncertainty how can one give up material ambition for spiritual pursuits?
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From Milind Sonawane
The most common reason to hold ones possessions and strive for more is to address eventualities which money can resolve, such as disease, hospitalization, accidents or incidences leading to physical or mental dis-ability or any such life’s situation which money can ease out. All of this applicable to one self or his loved ones. If this uncertainty is addressed, many might exit the material aspirations and take the path of spirituality.
Please advice…….
How can we love Krishna when he is not like a normal person and doesn’t reciprocate immediately?
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From Dilip Singh
Does loving Krishna always protect us from all heartbreaks?
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What about when the spiritual master or a dear devotee departs, when a trusted devotee falls or when a loved one dies or betrays us?