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From Ravikant Jagtap P
Ramkrishna Mission prapogated Vivekananda as national spiritual hero. Isn’t it a failure of iskcon to do so for Prabhupada when he has transformed many lives? What can be done on personal level and widespread organizational level so that every Indian feels proud of Prabhupada? Now also many people don’t know about Prabhupada.
From Ravikant Jagtap P
Related to your answer on Macaulay as it is represented in history before britishers came to India many Indian were not allowed for taking education and many evils like untouchablity, sati, cast discrimination, child marriages, polygamy in their perverted form were existing and this was all because of vedic culture. Leaders like Mahatma Phule started women’s education and many other leaders supported British education system even today many Indians feel that they have Britishers gift that they are taking education today otherwise they would have been supressed by vedic culture. Is there any better alternative education system than education system influenced by Britishers?
From Ravikant Jagtap P
Why language should be Obstruction for our preaching in India everybody understands hindi but many people don’t understand English because of this many hindi audience feel left out and neglected?
From Ravikant Jagtap P
Spiritual knowledge is meant for Rajrishis who have intelligence to understand it and who have influence to make it understandable to others as number of devotees and resources are few we want to help people in most effective way. We are preaching to educated and wealthy people that is out of our desire to reach every one in long run. in war less wounded people are treated first so that they can assist in treating others but don't you feel aspect of reaching to large number of people is neglected and discriminately preaching is done? When we have spiritual ideals like Bhakti Tirtha Swami who preach in slums and also to influencing leaders without discrimination why we discriminate so much that people feel neglected when they come to us and don't take process seriously. As Lord Jagganath mercifully comes to give his darshan to everybody without discrimination, cant we reach more people so that they will feel loved and cared and misconception of iskcon is ment for rich and foreigners can be broken? As we reach to every person during book marathon without discrimination can’t this mood be followed throughout year so that we can spread Prabhupada’s glory more effectively? Sorry for long question and if any devotee feel offended by this question.
From Ravikant Jagtap
Krishna no name, but by His qualities we give Him names. If a man is very beautiful, we call him "beautiful." If a man is very intelligent, we call him "wise.' So the name is given according to the quality. Because God is all-attractive, the name Krishna can be applied only to Him. Krishna means "all-attractive." It includes everything
And in lectures he says gods original name is Krishna how to understand this contradiction? What do we actually mean when we say lords name is eternal?
Under the spell of illusion, living entities are trying to be lords of all they survey, but actually they are dominated by the material energy of the Lord. The Lord is the master of material nature, and the conditioned souls are under the stringent rules of material nature. Unless one understands these bare facts, it is not possible to achieve peace in the world either individually or collectively.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2013, Vrindavan, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.16.34)
To really serve in a mood of trying to please Krsna is not so easy. Obviously, a lot of people get restless and may want to leave so it does require special determination, I think. In the light of that I can say, “Give them enough rope so they can hang themselves.”
It means that in this regard, some people are not meant for this program. It does not mean there is no program. There is somewhere else but not this one. This program requires commitment. It requires that at least one understands that we are greatly blessed, that we can chant here in Vrindavan and that our whole existence in the material world has become so simple.
Can you imagine the complexities that everybody has? Look around, people have to make so many arrangements just for their mind. Just because their mind is driving them, whipping them and somehow or other (as a devotee), you do not have to. We came to Vrindavan; it is a rare opportunity that life can be so simple and that we can do such direct activities.
Lecture Janmastami, 10 August, 2012, by HH Prahladananda Swami at the Lika Summer Camp, Croatia from Lilasuka Das on Vimeo.
Janmastami Lecture – Leave the driving to Krishna 2012-08-10
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We treasure our belongings, especially those belongings that are worth a lot financially or mean a lot emotionally. Many people go even further, making their belongings the primary purpose of their life and making their belongings their defining identity.
Yet no matter how much we treasure our belongings, how long can they belong to us? At best for a lifetime. Frequently, not even for that long. They become devalued, even decimated, by the passage of time. Or they are dragged away by the vicissitudes of the world. Natural calamities like earthquakes can in one dreadful moment dispossess thousands of people collectively. Or smaller earthquakes within our bodies – heart attacks, for example – can in one heartbreaking instant dispossess us individually.
Though we know at the back of our mind that nothing will belong to us for long, still we feel driven to possess.
Why? Because it is our nature to possess. We just need to find out the belonging that will not let us down, that will belong to us forever.
Is there such a belonging? Yes, there is answers Gita wisdom. The Bhagavad-gita (02.40) points to this everlasting asset – the progress we make on the path to transcendence; the attraction we cultivate towards spiritual reality, ultimately towards Krishna. Time can’t even deplete, leave alone decimate, our spiritual credits; they will stay with us life after life, increasing whenever we perform further spiritual activities. Eventually, their cumulative balance energizes us with an irresistible attraction towards Krishna. This attraction transforms our life-journey, from a doomed chase after non-retainable belongings to a purposeful pilgrimage towards eternal love for Krishna.
And pursuing this spiritual possession doesn’t require us to renounce our material belongings. If we use them in Krishna’s service without becoming infatuated by them, they can become aids, not obstacles, in our spiritual advancement.
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02.40 - In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear.
by Lilasuka dasi
His Holiness Varsana Maharaj gave the early morning Srimad Bhagavatam class today, Janmastami, the Appearance Day of Lord Krsna.
Varsana Swami
Someone asked him, “Maharaj, what is the true meaning of “brijbasi spirit?” His reply was, “the essence of the brijbasi spirit is loving relationships. Brijbasis live in the land of Braja, of course, thus the name “Brijbasi”. However, it is not that we revere a specific tract of land as the “dhama” or holy place of pilgrimage. Rather, the dhama is more accurately a container, just like a vase, which holds “rasa”. “Rasa” is the synergy of all past, present and even future sweet relationships between the devotees and the Lord. The bottom line is that the spiritual master can make any place a holy dhama. It is, in fact, not the land itself, but the presence of the holy person that makes a place a dhama.”
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Srila Prabhupada: I was very naughty when I was a boy. I would break anything. When I was angry, I would break the glass hookah pipes, which my father kept to offer to guests. Once my mother was trying to bathe me, and I refused and knocked my head on the ground, and blood came out. They came running and said, “What are you doing? You shall kill the child.” Read more › 
168 paintings: Srila Prabhupada's life in cartoons Read more › Janmastami class.
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During the period of Lord Krsna's appearance, the killing of asuras or nonbelievers such as Kamsa and Jarasandha was done by Visnu, who was within the person of Sri Krsna Read more › 
For the first time in history, a unique Ratha Yatra procession was held inside the campus of Delhi Technological University, organized jointly by Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata(BI) and Delhi Technological University(DTU) Read more › Video of Revati dasi leading during New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
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(From the Italian newsletter "Movimento ISKCON") His Grace Anuttama prabhu – international ISKCON Communications director and current GBC vice-chairman – with great sensitivity and in his very own humorous way held a long seminar from July 8 to 11 in Villa Vrindavana, one of the finest property of ISKCON in Italy Read more › Day 1 Morning: HH Bhaktipurosottam Swami
