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During a blisful initiation ceremony in the San Diego Temple, Giriraj Swami performed the initiations of Bhakta Will Southall who received the name Vaisnava dasa, Bhaktin Usha Madan who received the name Urjesvari dasi, and Bhaktin Farida Sharafutdinova who received the name Saraswati Devi dasi.
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Initiation talk and name giving (Right-click to download)
In Canto Twelve of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhumi, Mother Earth, says this: “Although in the past great men and their descendants have left me, departing from this world in the same helpless way they came into it, even today foolish men are trying to conquer me. For the sake of conquering me, materialistic persons fight one another. Fathers oppose their sons, and brothers fight one another because their hearts are bound to possessing political power. Political leaders challenge one another: ‘All this land is mine! It’s not yours, you fool!’ Thus they attack one another and die.”
Vaisesika Dasa
On the other hand, those who are enlightened use everything in Krishna’s service, knowing well that the world and everything in it belongs to Him.(This post has been viewed 2684 times so far)
Unconditional love.
BB Govinda Swami: We should be prepared to open ourselves up. We should be prepared to take down our guards. We should be prepared to dismantle our protective fences that we have around us. And we should say:
“I’m ready to serve You. So You just please do to me whatever is necessary so that I would serve You purely”.
Vishoka Dasa: Jayananda would often show a playful mood. He wasn’t just all work and no play. He would often say things and do things that reminded us that service to Krishna was fun and spontaneous, and just as Krishna has an amazing sense of humor, so do His devotees have a lively sense of humor.
Preaching in North Florida, Albany, Philadelphia, DC, NYC.
By Krishna-kripa das.
One should not be envious of those less advanced but should be compassionate toward them.
Serving is the best way to counteract envy.
Forgetting the source of our qualities and achievements causes us to be proud.
Our envy of others derives from our envy of Krishna, and that can be removed by service.
If we are not compassionate to those who do not have Krishna consciousness and give them the opportunity then we are acting enviously of them.
Sometimes on book distribution we want to benefit the people but they deal with us in such a way we give up on them, and we find our compassion has a limit, but if we were completely not envious that would not be.
Bhakti Tirtha Swami said that if you are not envious you will go beneath someone and push them up, not considering advancing your own position.
Helping someone comes from appreciating their value not from thinking we are superior and have something to give.
Glorifying those we are envious of counteracts the envy, but it is hard to do.
The Christian saint Theresa describes the most elevated persons see themselves as least qualified just as we understand from our tradition the maha-bhagavata, highest devotee, does.
Someone may have done so many things, but they are all insignificant compared to Krishna’s mercy.
It is not that we just offer respect to the Supersoul in others and neglect the souls themselves.
If I am superior and I am happy about it, or if I am inferior and I am unhappy about it, it is really the same thing.
Every soul has the potential to please Krishna eternally, so how valuable they are! Thus I should serve them.
We are not just receiving from superiors, but we receiving in all our relationships.
Relationships that are give, give, give, or take, take, take, are imbalanced.
When you are envious of someone you are distant from them, but when you serve them you start developing affection for them, and then they start developing affection for you.
Attention is the beginning of love.
Although Srila Prabhupada hated Mayavadis, when Dr. Mishra was sick, Srila Prabhupada cooked for him, and Dr. Mishra said that Swamiji had saved him by his love.
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“Krsna Wants to Give Us Love” by HG Mahatma Prabhu - April 14, 2018 (4 min video)
Krsna likes being controlled by his devotees. So why does he not easily give bhava and prema? Actually, he wants to give it, but we must want it more than anything else. If we want anything else, then he continues to withhold this love from us.
The Time of The Sages - Interview with John Stratton Hawley
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A transcendental tale of two cities (13 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: A transcendental tale of two cities: Novosibirsk and Bar...
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Preaching in Siberia (Album of photos)
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: I spent the last couple of days in Bratsk, in Siberia. It’s an obscure part of the planet, but still there are some very nice devotees there.
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For the first time, by the presence of all prominent ISKCON Leaders of Bangladesh, "Servant Leaders Applied Training and Education (SLATE)" camp are successfully completed this week. [God-family meeting]
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The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has already translated ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada’s books into 87 languages, and is distributing them all over the world. But even now, 52 years after ISKCON’s inception, new frontiers are being reached.
How to ignore others opinion of us? Kumārī Devī Dāsī asks.
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Lord Nityananda and Lord Nrsimhadeva in the forms of Their shoes and helmet respectively, continue to guide our tour and perform miracles. Although we were only scheduled to visit the Sri Sri Gaur Nitai temple in Poland, a last minute arrangement was made to also visit the Nava Navadvipa temple.
Each temple had about 25-35 devotees in attendance, and as usual the Lord was greeted with an arati, abhisheka and kirtan. Jananivas and Braja Vilas prabhus both spoke and presented an inspiring video. But the real miracle began when devotees started making their pledges. Each temple raised over $30,000 U.S. for a total of $60,000 in pledges, an unheard of amount for any program in this region.
Both programs were history making for these temples from the spiritual point of view, but also because no one ever expected there to be such a surge of financial support coming from the small number of devotees at these temples with limited resources. The maximum temple managers have ever collected was 2,000 Euros or about $2,500 U.S. for a Janmastami program. The Euro is a currency that is smaller than the U.S. dollar and doesn’t buy as much either in the European countries. For devotees to make large pledges in these countries is a great sacrifice and a sign of the devotion and love these devotees have for the Lord and His TOVP project.
We want to thank Their Holinesses Prahladananda Swami and Bhaktivaibhava Swami, the GBCs of this area for their cooperation and support, Krishna Kirtan das the temple president of the Sri Sri Gaur Nitai temple who also organized the program, Dwaraka Acyuta das the temple president of the Nava Navadvipa temple, and Kishor Kishora who, at the last minute, organized the Nava Navadvipa temple program and himself pledged 4,000 Euros ($5,000 U.S.).
All glories to Lord Nityananda! All glories to Lord Nrsimhadeva! All glories to all the devotees of the Lord!
Note: The photos are only from the Sri Sri Gaur Nitai temple.
The next stop on the tour is Slovakia where the temple of New Ekachakra Dhama is established. Lord Nityananda will undoubtedly be most merciful here upon visiting His own home. The complete Euro Tour schedule is below.
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We have some very good news. We have begun the walls all around the internal areas of the temple. The first area is the temple room. We started 3 walls with white marble and in the next few days we will commence with the red marble decoration.
After, we will also start the festival wall (center wall in the image).
This is a very beautiful decorative work with the marble. You can see how slowly the temple room is coming to life.
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SB 03.13.06-7 We Become Unhappy Because We Break The Laws Of Nature 2013-05-04
Lecture Srimad Bhagavatam 3.13.6-7 We Become Unhappy Because We Break The Laws Of Nature – Krakow – 2013-05-04
“In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (147-53) it is stated, “Sri Krsna’s pleasure potency, formerly known as Vrndavanesvari, is now personified in the form of Sri Gadadhara Pandita in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has pointed out that in the shape of Laksmi, the pleasure potency of Krsna, she was formerly very dear to the Lord as Syamasundara-vallabha. The same Syamasundara-vallabha is now present in Lord Caitanya’s pastimes as Gadadhara Pandita. Formerly, as Lalita-sakhi, she was always devoted to Srimati Radharani. Thus Gadadhara Pandita is simultaneously an incarnation of Srimati Radharani and Lalita-sakhi.” In the twelfth chapter of this part of the Caitanya-caritamrta there is a description of the descendants or disciplic succession of Gadadhara Pandita. (Cc Adi-lila 10.15 purport)
COMMENT by Giriraj Swami
“Gadadhara Pandit in Krishna-lila was Srimati Radharani. But, because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had adopted the mood of Srimati Radharani, Gadadhara Pandit did not exhibit the mood of Srimati Radharani but he took the role of supporting Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in his attitude as Srimati Radharani.”
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Gadadhara Pandit Appearance Talk (Right-click to download)
Sita devi, the wife of Lord Rama, was not born in the normal way, but of the Earth Goddess, Bhumi devi herself. In Maharishi Valmiki’s own words, Ramayana is known as the noble story of Sita — “Sita-Ayah Caritam Mahat”.
Janaka Maharaj, the king of Mithila, was ploughing a piece of land to prepare it for conducting a yajna. While ploughing, he unearthed a golden casket in which he found a beautiful girl, which caused him to be greatly overjoyed. Because land ploughed by the yoke is called ‘sita’, he named the baby, Sita.
Sita devi was to be given in marriage to anyone who could bend the powerful bow given to Janaka by Lord Siva. Lord Rama succeeded in bending that great bow and he married Sita. Their later, inconceivable pastimes are presented throughout Sri Ramayana.
BG 07.01 Mr. & Mrs. Goloka Vrindavan 2013-05-05
Lecture – Bhagavad Gita 7.1 Mr. & Mrs. Goloka Vrindavan Krakow AKA The process of learning about Krishna & No one born sincere
Worldwide Maha Mantra flash-mob for Love & Peace (3 min video)
Golden Age comes again?!
Well, surely at least a beautiful step towards it!
Welwyn Festival, UK - 19th April 2018 (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: You have asked me for suggestions of what to say to different persons on Sankirtana Party, but there is no specific saying to any person. Whatever we say we say to everyone. It doesn’t matter what is his age. Krishna Consciousness teaching does not depend on the age. It is the eternal platform of the soul. This is the meaning of transcendental; that is is beyond any consideration of material qualifications such as age or intelligence. Just like thunder in the sky does not need any explanation to any old person or to a young child, similarly, the transcendental sound vibration of Hare Krishna and preaching of Bhagavad-gita philosophy will act on everyone, regardless of whether or not they are understanding at first. When preaching you only repeat what you have heard from the disciplic succession and this will act. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Prahladananda – Tittenhurst 5 October, 1969
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