How to Respond When Someone Hurts Us?
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When someone speaks harshly or acts cruelly toward us, how we respond depends primarily on their disposition. The Bhagavad-gita (16.04) mentions two distinct dispositions: godly and ungodly. In real-life, most people manifest  a blend of godliness and ungodliness. So, when analyzing any particular person, we need to consider their overall behavior over a period of […]

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On The Road to Recovery with Help from the Lord
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“…For many, the current situation continues to be draining: emotionally, mentally and physically. Knowledge however can help restore us…We need to depend on the will of Lord Krishna and also strive to be qualified to receive His mercy by building our personal character…” Inspiring thoughts by Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple President Visakha Dasi.

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Radha Krishna Records: Mantra Music Sees Upbeat Embellishments
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  London’s Radha Krishna Records is rejoicing a fruitful year ahead as it flows in to its 12th year as a not-for-profit record label. There is lately a wave of buzzing activity for the label as it introduces Mantra Lounge Volume 4 later this year, whilst presenting a brand new website with unprecedented offerings as […]

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Защита Господа Рамачандры
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Lord Ramacandra’s Protection

“It is My vow that if one only once surrenders unto Me, saying ‘My dear Lord from this day I am Yours’ and prays to Me for courage, I shall immediately award courage to that person and he will always remain safe from that day on.”

[ Ramayana 6.18.33 ]

Crisis what Crisis?
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By His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami

You write that things are in a crisis in England, with oil shortage and IRA bombing. Therefore, we have to take shelter of Krsna. If Krsna wants to kill us that is not wrong, if it is His desire. Our business should just to be to follow the regulative schedule, deity worship, distributing prasadam, chanting, book distribution and never mind the material danger. Krsna Consciousness means to be on the platform of deathlessness. Every sloka in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam is informing us of this. If you read these books carefully you will understand this platform of deathlessness as opposed to the material condition in which no one wants to die but no one can check death. Continue reading "Crisis what Crisis?
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Mantra Music sees Upbeat Embellishments
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Radha Krishna Records is rejoicing a fruitful year ahead as it flows in to its 12th year as a not-for-profit record label. There is lately a wave of buzzing activity for the label as it introduces Mantra Lounge Volume 4 later this year, whilst presenting a brand new website with unprecedented offerings as well as a refreshed YouTube channel. With its spirit of devotional positivity, the label is set to create an uplifting year for all.

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Lord Nrsimhadeva Reciprocates Instantly!
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By Pankajanghri Prabhu The fact that people just love to hear stories is one reason why some of the Vedic codes were gradually transmitted in story form, like the epic histories Mahabharata and Ramayana and the Puranas. When such stories concern the pastimes of the Lord and His devotees, they are called lilas. Being labeled Lord […]

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Locana Das Thakur Disappearance
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Lochana Das Thakur was born in 1523 in Kograma, in the Katwa block of Burdwan district. 

He was a disciple of Shri Narahari Sarakara Thakura, a dearest associate of Lord Gaura Raya. Lochana Dasa Thakura wrote Chaitanya Mangala which tells many pastimes of Lord Chaitanya not revealed by Vrindavana Dasa Thakura or Krishna Dasa Kaviraja.

Lochana Dasa Thakura also wrote many songs praising Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Shri Nityananda Prabhu, and Gauridasa Pandit. Lochana Dasa stressed that raganuga bhaktas must take shelter of Gadadhara Vrindavanishvari to attain Radha-Govinda prema bhakti.

Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura used to print and distribute Lochana Dasa Thakura’s Shri Chaitanya Mangala. Shrila Prabhupada was very fond of his bhajans. While singing Parama Karuna Shrila Prabhupada would plunge into the ocean of Gauranga prema.

Prabhupada wrote an extensive commentary on this bhajana: Bhajo bhajo bhai, Caitanya Nitai, sudrdha visvasa kori … “Lochana Dasa asks everyone, ‘My dear brother, just worship Lord Chaitanya and Nityananda with firm faith and conviction.’ Don’t think that this chanting and dancing will not lead to the desired goal; it will. It is the assurance of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that one will get all perfection by this process. Therefore, one must chant with firm faith and conviction.”

His samadhi is in 64 Samadhis area in Vrndavan.


 

Mayapur Community Member Shot Dead
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In a sad and shocking turn of events, a Mayapur community devotee, Rashik Shekhar Das, was shot dead in his office in Gournagar, just adjacent to the ISKCON property in Mayapur, West Bengal. The victim was shot point blank four times during the attack, which took place on the night of February 1st, between 6:45 […]

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Honoring a Great Poet – Sri Jayadeva Goswami Disappearance!
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Three hundred years before the appearance of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Shri Jayadeva Goswami served as the court pandita of Shri Lakshmana Sena, King of Bengal. Jayadeva and Padmavati (his wife and an expert dancer) used to worship Lord Shri Krishna with single-minded devotion. After some time, he left the opulent royal life to live peacefully […]

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Sri Radha—the Feminine Divine
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Hare KrishnaBy Satyaraja Dasa

The divine counterpart of Sri Krishna is known as Sri Radha. Together, according to the ancient Vaishnava tradition, this dual-gendered divinity is God-male and female dimensions of the Absolute Truth. Sri Radha is the complete energy, and Sri Krishna is the complete energetic source. They are nondifferent from each other, just as musk and its scent are forever merged, or as fire and heat are inseparable. Radha and Krishna are one, yet They have assumed two separate forms to enjoy loving pastimes. Numerous theological texts explain how this is so, but most thorough are the writings of Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, great masters in the Vaishnava tradition whose books have been translated and commented upon by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. To understand Sri Radha, then, English readers would do well to turn to Srila Prabhupada's books. Continue reading "Sri Radha—the Feminine Divine
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Jayadeva Goswami Disappearance
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By Ramai Swami

He was the author of Shri Gita Govinda, which is mentioned by Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami in the Chaitanya Charitamrita as follows (CC ML 2/11): “Day and night, in the company of Svarupa Damodara and Ramananda Raya, Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to hear with great ecstasy the songs of Vidyapati and Chandidas, as well as a drama composed by Ramananda Raya. Continue reading "Jayadeva Goswami Disappearance
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