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H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Friday 30 September 2011--Tasting the Supreme Bliss at Every Minute--and--Of Secrets I Am Silence.A daily broadcast of the Ultimate Self Realization Course Friday 30 September 2011 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger image.) Our Mission: To help everyone awaken their original Krishna consciousness, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. Such a global awakening will, in one stroke, solve all the problems of the world society bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and prosperity for all. May that day, which the world so desperately needs, come very soon. We request you to participate in this mission by reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and assisting us in spreading this science all over the world. Dedicated with love to ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and to you, our dear readers. For Transcendental Association Connect With Other Members of this Course. Join this Conference: http://groups.google.com/group/sda_students Today's Thought: Tasting the Supreme Bliss at Every Minute Uploaded from Tartu, Estonia There's one thing in this world that everybody has in common. Although nobody likes to suffer everyone is forced to suffer, even the so-called rich, powerful, famous successful people. But there is no need for so much suffering. All everyone has to do to become free from this suffering is to revive their original Krishna consciousness, which is now lying dormant within their hearts. This is done by reconnecting with the Supreme Person by serving Him with love. This simple method can be practiced even by a young child. Simply one has to bow down to Krishna or God, become His devotee, worship Him, and offer one's homage to Him. In this way one will become fully absorbed in Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day and forever be free from all the sufferings of this material existence. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Teaching the Secrets of Uninterrupted Supreme Bliss 26 September--Tallinn, Estonia http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Fall/Tallinn_Lecture1.JPG Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: Question: Of Secrets I Am Silence. Hare Krishna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my respectful obeisances unto you, How do you understand Prabhupada's instruction about silence in Bhagavad-gita 10:38 when he says, "..silence is most important because by silence one can make progress very quickly."? J. Raul Answer: Avoid Nonsense As Much As Possible To be practiced in the art of silence means to not hear or speak any mundane nonsense or to at least avoid it as much as possible. Instead one should hear and chant about Krishna as much as possible. Such chastity of the ears and tongue will greatly facilitate one's achieving the topmost perfection of pure love of Godhead as soon as possible. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Transcendental Resources: Receive the Special Blessings of Krishna Now you too can render the greatest service to the suffering humanity and attract the all-auspicious blessings of Lord Sri Krishna upon yourself and your family by assisting our mission. Lectures and Kirtans in Audio and Video: Link to High Definition Videos Link to Over 1,000 Lecture Audios Lecture-Travel Schedule for 2011 http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com/schedule Have Questions or Need Further Guidance? Check out the resources at: http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com or write Sankarshan Das Adhikari at: sda@backtohome.com Get your copy today of the world's greatest self-realization guide book, Bhagavad-gita As It Is available at:http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com/store Know someone who could benefit from this? Forward it to them. Searchable archives of all of course material: http://www.sda-archives.com Receive Thought for the Day as an RSS feed: http://www.backtohome.com/rss.htm Unsubscribe or change your email address Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Daily_Thought Thought for the Day on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ultimate.Self.Realization Copyright 2005-2011 by Ultimate Self Realization.Com Distribution of this material is encouraged. Simply we request you to acknowledge where it is coming from with a link to our sign up page: http://www.backtohome.com Our records indicate that at requested to be enrolled to receive e-mails from the Ultimate Self Realization Course at: This request was made on: From the following IP address:  • Email to a friend •  •Japa Group: Japa Retreat HighlightsHere is a very nice multimedia presentation that gives the highlights from Sacinandana Swami's Japa retreat in Radhadesh this year.  • Email to a friend • •
Akrura das, Gita Coaching: GITA COACHING: SRILA PRABHUPADA'S SUCCESS SECRETSGITA COACHING: SRILA PRABHUPADA'S SUCCESS SECRETS: These 11 secrets, if you take them seriously and apply them, can change your life. (For all these points in his books, Srila Prabhupada sai...  • Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: INDIA'S GOT TALENTMadhavas' Krishna Connection  • Email to a friend • •ISKCON News.com: India Files Biopiracy Lawsuit Against Monsanto
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• Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: COACHING RELATIONSHIPGita Coaching gives an opportunity to experience a relationship in which you could express yourself freely, explore ideas and make important decisions to change your current reality. Based on trust and respect, support and challenge, openness and honesty, in a coaching relationship you are able to be himself. There is no hidden agenda. The coach has no other motive than to be helpful. This creates a 'safe space' for authenticity, exploration and discovery. It allows you to bring anything to the table without fear of criticism, exposure or judgement. It is rare to have this type of relationship with anyone – even with those close to us. Most people have an opinion to share. They give their views rather than helping to clarify ours. In a coaching relationship, the main intention is to help. Not in a soft, permissive way, but to concretely enable an individual to increase awareness, gain new insights and generate motivation to act. Creating an environment in which people can open up and have deep and rich conversations is at the heart of coaching.  • Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: COACHING BRIDGES THE GAPMorgan McCall noted in his book "High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders": "Personal change is an emotional undertaking. Uncertainty, fear, loss, damage to self-esteem, intimidation and humiliation are significant and potentially debilitating emotions ... As with any weighty challenge, knowing that people care about you and will offer support, can help someone hold on, try again, get back up and otherwise persevere." Coaching bridges the gap. It provides the necessary focused attention, support and challenge to ensure that we continue to move forward in a positive direction.  • Email to a friend • •ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Bhakti Sara DasaSrimad Bhagavatam 1.3.4 - Serious study of Srimad Bhagavatam in right association with correct attitude is required to develop the vision to see Krsna (...tac chrnvan su-pathan vicarana-paro bhaktya vimucyen narah). • Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: COACHING AS AN ENABLING PROCESSCoaching is an enabling process. It fits well into the modern world because it is opposed to a command-and-control leadership approach, which is slowly dying all over the world. A coach assumes that people have inherent capabilities, can learn quickly and, when correctly focused and inspired, will give of their best, and even out-perform what was expected of them. An effective coach enables people to discover the optimal ways of moving forward.  • Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: COACHING CONVERSATIONOne of the keys to bring out the brilliance of people is through conversation. Most life success is dependent on conversation, yet we live in an age where it is lacking. The pace of modern life means that we barely have time to connect. Everybody is rushing, rushing, rushing. When we do pause to talk to each other, the potency of the interaction is often weak. Our listening is shallow. We listen to argue, we listen to agree, we listen to interrupt, or we listen waiting for a chance to jump in with our point of view. We often fail to create time and space for meaningful conversations, which are very much needed. Coaching is a focused conversation, which enables you to gain new perspectives, understandings and solutions. The quality of the coaching conversation is influenced by the coach's positive intention. Because he intends to ad value to your life, you might experience a qualitatively different conversation to those that you are used to having in your daily life.  • Email to a friend • •ISKCON News.com: Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous for Human Consumption
• Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: ALWAYS BE SATISFIED AND HAPPYYou are doing your best to serve Krishna, that is very much appreciated, so do not lose enthusiasm out of frustration, that will spoil everything. Krishna Consciousness means we should always be satisfied and happy, not that we must work something impossible, becoming overburdened, and then because we are unhappy by so much trouble we lose enthusiasm altogether and give up all hope. No, if too much endeavour is there, that is to be avoided. Srila Prabhupada  • Email to a friend • •Gaura-shakti Kirtan, Toronto, CA: Whether it Comes to Cooking or Singing... It's the Same Blissful Service!Recently, on a bright morning, I had an interesting idea!
So, back to my idea! One bright morning I thought to myself, "Why can't Gaura-Shakti cook one Sunday Feast!?" Gaura-Shakti might be known for kirtans here and there but now Gaura-Shakti can be even known for cooking! :) Why not put all of our love into cooking for our wonderful weekly Sunday program? This is what yoga is all about - yoga means connection. Connection with the Divine (Krishna) and others can be done through chanting and also through cooking with love. Bhakti yoga, the yoga of love, can be applied everywhere, whether it comes to cooking or chanting. :) Reciprocation comes from chanting or honouring meals made with love! Stay tuned for an update on how the cooking went and you also might come by to one of the Sundays to try it out and... maybe help us out to cut vegetables! ;) --Tara  • Email to a friend • •Dandavats.com: Hare Krishna YMCA prankYoutube: Happy Hare Krishna disciples walk around people and start dancing YMCA and other happy songs A presentation of the Just For Laughs Gags • Email to a friend • •Kurma dasa, AU: Roasted Vegetable PizzaCold and wet conditions have returned to Sydney. and the mind turns to comfort food. Recently I prepared a pizza topped with a generous assortment of roasted vegetables and fresh mozzarella cheese.
I pre-roasted potato, white sweet potato, fresh fennel root, pumpkin, beets, grape tomatoes and zucchini in the oven while my homemade pizza dough was rising. I rolled out the dough and spread it on my pizza tray.
Then I removed the roasting tray of cooked vegies from the oven and three-quarter cooked my pizza dough. The vegies and fresh mozzarella were generously strewn, sprinkled with Greek oregano (rigani) and splashings of olive oil, and then returned to the hot oven.
The cooked pizza was finally served with a generous spiral drizzle of homemade rocket and almond pesto and topped with fresh rocket leaves from the garden, but by then my camera was out of battery power, so you'll just have to imagine how nice it looked - and, after the usual sanctifying mantras were uttered, how it tasted. • Email to a friend • •Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Not that everyone is required to join the societyWith reference to the boys holding kirtanas independently, our propaganda should be like that. That people may open different centers of their own, or each and every householder may have his own class at home. Not that everyone is required to join the society; they may take the idea from the society and introduce in their private life. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Rayarama — Unknown Place Unknown Date • Email to a friend • •New Vrndavan, USA: Palace Restoration Committee Minutes 8/5/11Participants:
Jeff Piasa from Kalkreuth, send by mail a quote for the lower roof.
It can only be answered if we have decided on the dome.
We need to know the cost of the materials and labor.
• Email to a friend • •Bharatavarsa.net: Book distribution seminar: This is for you Dravida PrabhuHari bol Dravida Prabhu, could you please edit this for me. Your servant, Vijaya das Hare Krsna Prabhus, This is my "smoke mantra." I approach a person I see who is smoking and say to them: "Just imagine if you gave up the habit of smoking, how much more money you would have in your pocket. You'll feel more alert, you food will taste good, Êand you won't Êget short of breath, smoking means slavery, and slavery means suffering. I am sure that you don't like suffering? (One man told me he was not suffering and started coughing). Can you just imagine how wonderful that would be? Throw that cigarette away, it's not only a waste of time and money - but your are wasting your life. Are you not aware of what its doing to your body?" Ninety percent of the people reply with anÊaffirmativeÊyes. I asks them: Well if you know then why are doing it? They more than often reply: I have tried to give it up. I reply: Don't try to give it up, just do it. They then reply: Well yes, I will one of these days. I reply: If you try to give it up, That means, you want to do it by your own strength - you cannot solve the problem with a materialÊsolution, that's like trying to fight fire with fire. Just when they think I have finished talking to them, I tell them that I am a travelling monk and my duty is to be compassionate to people who are suffering. Most times they reply with: Oh, that's interesting. I ask them if they know what compassion really means, and tell them, that compassion means to think less of yourself, but more of others. I then reply: "Oh by the way, I have something that will help you," reach into my sankirtan bag and hand them a Chant and Be happy, turn to the preface and ask them to read it. I watch them, most read with interest - some while reading nod their heads in agreement with what they are reading. I show them the Hare Krsna maha mantra and say to them, that each time they feel the urge to smoke, they should chant the mantra, as it would bring them real happiness. They take the book and thank me. I tell them: When I see you again, I will be glad to hear you tell me, I am free at last. Just before I say goodbye I ask them, "Say Hare Krsna," and they reply with Hare Krsna!Ê Yours in the service of Lord Sri Krsna and His devotees, Hare Krsna, Madhumangala das • Email to a friend • •Book Distribution News: This is for you Dravida PrabhuHari bol Dravida Prabhu, could you please edit this for me. Your servant, Vijaya das Hare Krsna Prabhus, This is my "smoke mantra." I approach a person I see who is smoking and say to them: "Just imagine if you gave up the habit of smoking, how much more money you would have in your pocket. You'll feel more alert, you food will taste good, Êand you won't Êget short of breath, smoking means slavery, and slavery means suffering. I am sure that you don't like suffering? (One man told me he was not suffering and started coughing). Can you just imagine how wonderful that would be? Throw that cigarette away, it's not only a waste of time and money - but your are wasting your life. Are you not aware of what its doing to your body?" Ninety percent of the people reply with anÊaffirmativeÊyes. I asks them: Well if you know then why are doing it? They more than often reply: I have tried to give it up. I reply: Don't try to give it up, just do it. They then reply: Well yes, I will one of these days. I reply: If you try to give it up, That means, you want to do it by your own strength - you cannot solve the problem with a materialÊsolution, that's like trying to fight fire with fire. Just when they think I have finished talking to them, I tell them that I am a travelling monk and my duty is to be compassionate to people who are suffering. Most times they reply with: Oh, that's interesting. I ask them if they know what compassion really means, and tell them, that compassion means to think less of yourself, but more of others. I then reply: "Oh by the way, I have something that will help you," reach into my sankirtan bag and hand them a Chant and Be happy, turn to the preface and ask them to read it. I watch them, most read with interest - some while reading nod their heads in agreement with what they are reading. I show them the Hare Krsna maha mantra and say to them, that each time they feel the urge to smoke, they should chant the mantra, as it would bring them real happiness. They take the book and thank me. I tell them: When I see you again, I will be glad to hear you tell me, I am free at last. Just before I say goodbye I ask them, "Say Hare Krsna," and they reply with Hare Krsna!Ê Yours in the service of Lord Sri Krsna and His devotees, Hare Krsna, Madhumangala das • Email to a friend • •ISKCON News.com: Walking Monk Crossing Canada to Meditate, Meet People
• Email to a friend • •Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Some Quality Cow Time
Filed under: Cows and Environment         • Email to a friend • •ISKCON News.com: Christians Outraged as BBC Drops B.C./A.D. Dating Method
• Email to a friend • •ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Vaisnava Family Resources - A Must-Visit Site for Families! The Grihastha Vision Team is a grass roots volunteer group of Krishna devotees who are mostly mental health or educational professionals. Our intention is to provide resources to support married couples and prospective couples primarily in North American ISKCON communities. However, the broader community of Vaishnavas, and anyone who is interested in spiritual married life are welcome to take advantage of the knowledge that is shared here. We want to help spiritualize your married life so that it will be an asset for your Krishna (God) consciousness. We welcome your suggestions to make this site relevant and useful.It's certainly worth clicking and exploring the Vaisnava Family Resources website for any members of our Toronto community who have families or are looking to perhaps get married or have kids soon!  • Email to a friend • •Matsyavatara das (ACBSP), Italy: DEATH. A stage of life (part 2/2) By Matsyavatara dasa (Marco Ferrini)
In the Fedone, Platone makes Socrate say, in one of his last phrases: "The time has come that I must go; every one of us continues with his or her program: I go off to die, you all go on to live, but no one knows who will be better off, only God knows". And Tagore wrote: "Birth and death are two parts of life, just like to walk you must lift a foot and then lay it down". Birth and death are two dots in a circle that the sages of the Veda call samsara, the repeated cycle of birth and death, since, like the Bhagavad gita teaches, all that is born will die and all that dies will be reborn. Birth and death are like awakening and going to sleep: we are here before we awake and we are here again after we have fallen asleep. The similitude between dream and death is very close. The fear of death, besides the terror generated from the unknown, from the journey to an unknown destination, is primarily constituted from the fact that we must leave the objective world, the body, our dearest people, the social position, the prestige, the richness, the pleasure of food, of sex and various possessions. Yet, doesn't the same happen during our dreams? In the dream doesn't the subject abandon its physical body? Doesn't he abandon the social prestige? He abandons a large quantity of things for which he has often developed a morbid attachment. The realization of the self permanence in a different dimension from the one of the wake state of consciousness, is something to be reinforced when we have the resources to make an investment of knowledge, to resolve the problem of death in life. Death, as the Veda teache, is a passage towards another dimension, passage through which we renew our lives' projects; it is not the end, but the beginning of a successive existential cycle. It is like exiting from a theatre scene and entering into another; the actor does not disappear, he is gone only to the observer's eyes; the same is for the living being at the death moment: the protagonist does not disappear, but simply goes elsewhere. The Gita compares the body to a dress; death is like undressing from old clothes and wearing new ones. Our prejudices, the social schemes, the way of facing certain phenomena and certain passages of life, are to be reconsidered at the renovated light of intelligence. The image of the self is not what the mirror shows. Death can lose its dramatic power if we come to a new vision of reality, by acknowledging and experiencing ourselves beyond the multiple masks of ego. The fear of being annulled, zeroed, terminated, is the product of a certain culture, a prejudice, a negative dogma that generates tormenting thoughts, swinging between remorse and irony. Many make irony on death trying to exorcise their fear, but the right approach to the phenomenon must be honest, serious, through an in-depth study, not only intellectual, but experimental. The subjective world and the objective world, the psychical introverted and extroverted functions and the needs of all the living being should be harmonized. It is by harmonizing these functions that we can grow up, that we can illuminate our personality. Life is a continuum, birth and death correspond to the appearing and disappearing of a physical body, and the same is for the appearing and disappearing of thoughts, illusions, wishes, opinions. If emotionally detached we put ourselves in the position of observers, we can see that the psychical contents float in our conscience as objects on the surface of a river, and therefore we can manage them at our best. What slips off our control, instead, is all that we identify ourselves with and obviously what we ignore. The fear of death is caused by the identification with our body. Who identifies himself/herself with the body they are wearing will experiment, as years go by, growing fear and terror of death. What wins death is love, together with consciousness. Love is the strongest feeling, it outlives death, because living means to give and receive love. To love in its widest meaning is to love life itself, therefore all that is living: all creatures. This should set our way of life, of eating, of relating with others. The more we love life and we understand its nature, the less we will fear death.  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1967 September 29: "Your service attitude for Krishna and your sincere attempts at being advanced in Krishna Consciousness will work with you and make your life more and more glorious and a happy state. I've nothing new to instruct you, the same old instruction namely constant chanting and attentively hearing the transcendental vibration Hare Krishna is the only process for self realization in this age."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1967 September 29: "The secret of success in the matter of Krishna Consciousness is devotion to the Lord and the Spiritual Master. So I am sure that even if I am not physically present before you, if you follow the above principles, still you will be able to execute all spiritual duties in the matter of Krishna Consciousness."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1967 September 29: "Regarding your dispute in your mind as to remaining a brahmacari, grhastha or becoming sannyasi, there is nothing to be bothered with. Anyone who is in full Krishna Consciousness and is dedicating his life for Krishna is already a sannyasi even if he is a married man. If you like you can become a householder and I've no objection to that."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1967 September 29: "Please know it that I do not approve anyone's separation who are married by me. If they disagree, they may live separately, but there cannot be divorce. When one is separate, one may fully devote in Krishna, but no more marriage. If this is not followed, I will not take part in anyone's marriage in the future."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 September 29: "I am especially happy to hear that you have got one Chinese boy there who is doing some translating work. Yes, the Chinese-speaking portion of the world is very huge and it requires to infiltrate gradually, especially by distributing my books widely in Chinese language. So his service is the greatest to Krsna."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1975 September 29: "The women devotees, they also come to Krishna. I cannot deny them. If the brahmacaris and sannyasis become steady in Krishna consciousness, then there is no problem. Whenever there is a young woman, we should remember Haridasa Thakura and we should think that these beautiful gopis are meant for the enjoyment of Krishna."  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1975 September 29: "When two GBC's are concerned, the whole GBC must consider. What can I do? I have appointed the GBC not to fight amongst yourselves but to manage. If there is fighting then how will you manage?"  • Email to a friend • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1975 September 29: "They have dog race, horse race, coca cola, pepsi cola - all unnecessary. If our farm projects are successful, then all this industry will be closed. We do not have to make propaganda, automatically people will not want."  • Email to a friend • •Gaura Nitai das, Mayapura, IN: Healthy in India... medical tourism opportunity.Hello.  We are going to be starting a service which will facilitate "medical tourism" in India. Medical Tourism? Since medical treatment in America and other "western" countries (at least the ones that do not provide universal health insurance) is outrageously expensive. We will facilitate foreigners' travels to and from India, arrange for their medical treatment and take them to various tourist or pilgrimage places throughout India at prices that will be a fraction of the medical care in the West. We have connected with some of the best doctors in all of India from various fields of medicine. We also have a team of experienced "India travelers" who can guide you throughout the exciting land of India. Our web site will be up soon but if you are anxious to start right away you can email us at healthyinindia@gmail.com. We have also been posting interesting facts and news about health in India here at Healthy in India. 
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Today I was asking myself this question "How can we live without chanting?" I found it impossible, even though I am not attracted to chanting as I should. I miss chanting when I do not do it at the time I should and I miss the feelings I get when I concentrate and pray before Japa. That is only Krsna's mercy to make us more enthusiastic and share with others how chanting can make us happier. I wish you keep on your good japa and always share your realisations with others. your servant, Aruna devi  • Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: WHAT KIND OF RESULTS?Have you ever thought about what results are you trying to achieve in your life? And why? You may achieve many external results, feel satisfied because of that and perhaps become famous too. But how long will this satisfaction last? Until we attain inner peace and satisfaction by connecting to the Source of all peace and happiness, all external results and achievements will not bring us lasting happiness. TAKE ACTION Are you ready to learn how to connect to the Source? Do you know what the Source is? Do you know how to connect?  • Email to a friend • •Akrura das, Gita Coaching: DEVELOPING A CAPACITY TO SWITCHWhat I need to practice every day is switching consciously from the mindset of a conditioned soul to a mindset of a devotee. Mindset means how do I see things, how do I think about them, how do I understand them. Mindset means thinking, feeling and willing (or desires). The most powerful tool for a switch to happen is asking ourselves the right question. What is the best question that will make for us that shift - right away? Here are few that we can use: - Am I thinking as devotee or as a conditioned soul? - How would a devotee react to this event? - How can I please Krsna (God) in this situation? - What can I learn here that will help me improve myself and make spiritual advancement? TAKE ACTION Think of a question that can help yourself switch from where you are to where you want to be. Think of another question that will help you react to every situation as a devotee, or in a way that will bring you the best results.  • Email to a friend • •The Loft, Auckland, NZ: Musical meditation – Saturday 1st OctoberKirtan is the most powerful form of meditation & yoga practise. It cures stress, worry, anxiety & sadness not to mention that it’s engaging, easy & 100% blissful. Kirtan is performed in a call and response fashion, accompanied with lots of great instruments. The mantras, which are sung, are ancient & scientific sound vibrations which [...] • Email to a friend • •David Haslam, UK: Krishna Has NO Sweets
There is nothing more sweeter than being able to do the mangala arati transfers, the bliss arrived from such service is hard to discribe in words, the only thing that can be said is that you have to actually undertake the service in order to grasp and understand the beauty of this service. So since the beginning of this year it has been amazing that the devotees at The Manor have allowed me to enter into this sweet bliss of service and I am a little greedy in as much as my desire is to do as many as possible during my short visits; and so sat there I was lamenting that during this visit I had due to late arrival missed one and was sadly also going to miss another opportunity (or so I felt) Srutidharma Das gave an amazing class about how Krishna fulfills the desires of his devotees if that desire is in relation to spiritual advancement; it is available here Srutibharma Das (Krishna fulfills all desire) I would encourage you to listen carefully. The following day I was sat in the temple room still lamenting that at that time I could have been engaged in the mangala arati transfers but was enjoying the extra time doing Japa; Japa before Mangala arati is exceptionally sweet. At five past four, Sruitibharma Das who was the head pujari came running into the temple room with an announcement NO devotee wishes to hear, KRISHNA HAS NO SWEETS; there was immense SHOCK for those sat there, jumping up running to the deity kitchen a few sincere devotees, and myself quickly put together the plates; realizing how little time we had ran with the plates in our hands desperate to make sure Krishna had his sweets. But that is not the end of this perfect service, so much more need’s doing and so a service opportunity opens who can resist but to seize with both hands and great heart; and after the offering to Krishna of such beautiful sweets it was with great bliss that so many came looking for Krishna’s mercy in the form of Mangala Arati Sweets. I had two thoughts: remembering the previous days class I was amazed that Krishna realizing my desire was so kind as to create a whole pass-time just so that I could have my personal desire fulfilled; in a personal and intimate nature. And although lamenting Krishna didn’t have his milk (there was not enough time) he had his sweets. But also it reminded me that hearing a call from Krishna or his devotees there is two responses: It reminded me of how Krishna was so hungry he sent the cow-heard boys to the brahmana’s busy undertaking sacrifice, although they were engaged they had the opportunity to serve Krishna directly but was just too busy; they missed out. Krishna still being hungry sent the cow-heard boys to the brahmana’s wifes, upon hearing that Krishna was hungry stopped immediately what they were doing in order to see to Krishna’s needs; this is the mood devotees should have and develop. Krishna fulfills our desires to serve and advance in devotional life; sometimes in an amazing way; and I even managed to get not only my Japa rounds done but also some just for fun; for japa for fun is also amazingly sweet. As usual I’ve uploaded the recorded classes at the Manor and are as follows: HG Srutibharma Das (Krishna fulfills all our pure desires) • Email to a friend • •H.H. Sivarama Swami: Listeners ask: Can one make spiritual advancement if he/she is gay?
• Email to a friend • •Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Lord Chaitanya's reward for selfless service -with love from RussiaAbsorption during book distribution can make a devotee fearless. Ananga Mohan Prabhu, being absorbed in this seva landed up at the underworld den in Moscow. A neighbour warned him and his partner to not enter the building. Undaunted, the duo entered the premises and rang the bell. A mean looking man opened the door and asked them their names. Ananga Mohan Prabhu mentioned his legal name which in Russsian meant 'shark'. No sooner had he mentioned his name fifteen men pulled out their guns and pointed at Ananga Mohan Prabhu. 'Shark' was the rival gang leader with whom these thugs had serious fights. Even the police feared these two prominent gangs. Ananga Mohan Prabhu was fearless, and he told the men pointing guns at him about the kali yuga emergency, and the desperate need to take shelter of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who has come to deliver all the fallen souls of this age by awarding them the priceless gift of congregational chanting of Krishna's Holy Names. Meanwhile Ananga Mohan Prabhu's partner was nervous and kept pulling him back, to leave the place immediately. However Anaga Mohan Prabhu was focussed in his preaching, and believe it or not, after his twenty minute emphatic presentation of the Krishna consciousness philosophy, he distributed fifteen copies of 'Teachings of Lord Chaitanya' to these ill famed gangsters. Later as they came out of the building, Ananga Mohan Prabhu's partner was still shivering from the scary experience of seeing over a dozen guns pointed at them. He asked Ananga Mohan Prabhu if he wasn't frightened on seeing the guns.  • Email to a friend • •Mayapur Academy, Mayapur, IN: Russian language Bhakti Shastri
For the past six weeks the Mayapur Academy has been hosting the first Russian language Bhakti Shastri group in Mayapur. The course is arranged through the Russian Centre in Mayapur by Radha Prema Mataji and the devotees are very happy with the peaceful atmosphere provided by the Academy. We hope to have our own Russian language Diploma in Arcana course soon as well.         • Email to a friend • •David Haslam, UK: Gay Pride Day Harinam
Harinam in Central London (UK) Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Bengali Bhajan Sri nama Cintamani tohari samana Your divine holy name being non-different from you – is like touch stone. You have distributed your holy name throughout the entire creation and that is the essence of your kindness The inclination for misusing our independence brought us far far away from Krishna, but still in No circumstance he left us alone he remained forever as a super-soul in our hearts and accompanied with us, and nothing else but always directed us towards his holy name. Krishna came as Gauranga Mahaprabhue and taught us how to take complete shelter of his holy name in the association of his pure devotees who always relish the holy names; Srila Prabhupada and his faithful devotees who feast on the holy name are distributed to the great mass of people around the world dispersing this mercy in the form of the holy name’s in the form of harinama bhajans/ book distributions. The power of the holy name brings a great realization to those great servants of the holy name who take complete shelter of him, and the greatest fortune is to desperately take shelter of those great souls who are obsessed with the holy name’s of Krishna. So simply by sharing we allow others to connect with the super-soul no matter what fallen state they may find themselves in so the importance of harinam cannot be underestimated we can see by just this short video clip from the Gay Pride day Harinam how much joy is given to those fortunate enough to see and join in.
Hare Krishna • Email to a friend • •Japa Group: Let Us All Give Proper Respect
It's not always easy....Maya has many tricks up her sleeve, but with knowledge and determination we can overcome her allurements and give proper respect to Krsna when chanting. There is an example...if you call someone into your house and they come but you completely ignore them and continue to do other things - this is like calling out to Krsna (when we chant) and Krsna comes to your house but you completely ignore Him and do other things - then where is there a question of relationship? When we don't listen to the words of the mantra (and only listen to the mind's thoughts), it's like ignoring Krsna (as He is present in the sound) and it's the same when we do other things at the same time as Japa - we are not being attentive to our relationship with Him. Let us all give proper respect to the Supreme Lord and really try to fix our mind on the sound during Japa - give up inattention and take up good quality chanting.  • Email to a friend • •Dandavats.com: Dream WorldBy Chirag Dangarwala With the advancement of the ages, human consciousness had changed too. It is believed that today modern society has advanced far more than the ancient civilization. With more technology and equipments available at disposal, everything has become fast paced and instant. Material science has achieved a lot of progress than the yester years. This progress is thought of as an advancement in Civilization and is looked upon as a great achievement by the society • Email to a friend • •Dandavats.com: First video about the damage caused by the sattelite's fall on the earth!Taraka Dasa: It has been just released from the NASA the first video that shows the damage caused by the recent uncontrolled falling of the UARS sattelite on the surface of the earth • Email to a friend • •Dandavats.com: Columbus, Ohio rath yatraPremvilas das: ISKCON Columbus presents Rath Yatra ISKCON Columbus will be holding its 2nd annual Rath yatra on October 9th, 2011(Sunday) Rath Yatra will be a part of annual Columbus day parade and will begin at 2 PM sharp We will be pulling our cart as part of the parade and are expecting 10,000 people to see the deities of Jord Jagannath, Baldev and Subhadra and will be distributing packets of prasadam and books and invitation to the temple • Email to a friend • •Dandavats.com: Vrindavan Kartika Parikrama and FestivalDeena Bandhu (das) ACBSP (Vrindavan - IN): October 11 7:00 AM Vrindavan Temples 12 5:00 PM Moonlit Giriraja Parikrama 14 7:00 AM Radha Kunda - Kusum Sarovar 15 7:00 AM Madhuvan Talavan • Email to a friend • •Gouranga TV: Indradyumna Swami – Krishna Consciousness. Ekaterinburg 2006.09.20.Indradyumna Swami – Krishna Consciousness. Ekaterinburg 2006.09.20. • Email to a friend • •More Recent Articles
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