tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69386573609089258172024-03-07T19:40:58.118-08:00Vrinda Parivar Washington District of ColumbiaOm Bhagavate Vasudevaya Namaha Om Bhagavate Vasudevaya Namaha Om Bhgavate Vasudevaya Namaha - nama om visnu-padaya krsna- presthaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine -(jaya) sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara
srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrndaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-55301191671137640892023-03-24T08:28:00.004-07:002023-03-24T08:28:57.113-07:00400,000 human species<p> <a href="https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Human_species#:~:text=Out%20of%20the%208%2C400%2C000%20different,life%20that%20are%20mostly%20uncivilized.">About Human Species</a> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-29851510666744022032023-02-16T02:01:00.002-08:002023-02-16T02:01:46.309-08:00Vijaya Ekadashi auspicious time - Vijaya Ekadashi on Thursday, February 16, 2023, Tithi Begins - 05:32 AM - Ekadashi Tithi Ends - 02:49 AM on February 17, 2023 - Parana Time - 08:01 AM to 09:13 AM, Feb 17, 2023Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-25936528465784188012023-02-03T06:27:00.004-08:002023-02-03T06:27:43.582-08:00Sri Nityananda Trayodashi 2023 | 03 Feb 2023 | <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsb4kmblQ6dUNjFU8aOkSInbgx93lP4gSEBO34VGKz7TY9PoUaLASIND1mPPUe5XnIdr31S6VijjN8_jQQXJnYBBVED5YnjFIf9cBk8GAysg5zyv-wsXzv76IccOmXmQ7h6K5aAd0N64QPQNvxBTM629Ic-SFFJB8afBf28gG6pqG0Xeha_qT1hhUoA/s1000/yayasrikrsnacaitanyaprabhunithiananada.jpg(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1000" height="565" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsb4kmblQ6dUNjFU8aOkSInbgx93lP4gSEBO34VGKz7TY9PoUaLASIND1mPPUe5XnIdr31S6VijjN8_jQQXJnYBBVED5YnjFIf9cBk8GAysg5zyv-wsXzv76IccOmXmQ7h6K5aAd0N64QPQNvxBTM629Ic-SFFJB8afBf28gG6pqG0Xeha_qT1hhUoA/w640-h565/yayasrikrsnacaitanyaprabhunithiananada.jpg(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-6512018258252817112023-02-02T09:51:00.002-08:002023-02-02T09:51:51.678-08:00<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gIx6kTuBY1M" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-63222930015867641832023-01-22T05:30:00.002-08:002023-01-22T05:30:42.880-08:00Do you know that this the the Absolute truth? The Lord says Un derstand that as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings rest in Me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-67214388318956958142023-01-21T05:31:00.004-08:002023-01-21T05:31:57.686-08:00How do you apply this piece of writing to current life ? There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One who understands this truth about Me also does not become entangled in the fruitive reactions of work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-12450407496674481432023-01-18T08:42:00.003-08:002023-01-18T08:45:10.134-08:00Pausha, Krishna ekadashi will started on January 17 at 6:05 PM and end on January 18 at 4:03 PMUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-56413312100493052452023-01-14T05:10:00.000-08:002023-01-14T05:10:02.939-08:00Do you know where this piece of writing comes from? Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses, control of the mind, happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, nonviolence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy – all these various qualities of living beings are created by Me alone.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-56768104731999053822023-01-13T20:45:00.001-08:002023-01-13T20:45:05.065-08:00do you know? y rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-35348960436404630012023-01-12T08:56:00.001-08:002023-01-12T08:56:21.060-08:00Can you guess where this piece of writing comes from: The sages said: Respected Sūta Gosvāmī, you are completely free from all vice. You are well versed in all the scriptures famous for religious life, and in the Purāṇas and the histories as well, for you have gone through them under proper guidance and have also explained them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-53999976836995831632023-01-11T03:35:00.002-08:002023-01-11T03:35:25.320-08:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0oGKU_K_7axaNsoX32XzPLfhXx8AwAZHQUGG6hQUJBP-KNaHUXRaunY2jlBxSSX4e7b9xuRwObYFSB_NBkjfTpJKbtpqPEpC075xr1Fsjun_kt7LQr-yfM8IqFyiMz-WgK9eq5kSPGsDXbXkRLdXJblmMlHZaYc71cApK_01U3juGA6P_uYERDA8D/s1600/Radha_Syamasundar_at_Krishna_Balaram_Mandir,_Vrindavan.jpg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0oGKU_K_7axaNsoX32XzPLfhXx8AwAZHQUGG6hQUJBP-KNaHUXRaunY2jlBxSSX4e7b9xuRwObYFSB_NBkjfTpJKbtpqPEpC075xr1Fsjun_kt7LQr-yfM8IqFyiMz-WgK9eq5kSPGsDXbXkRLdXJblmMlHZaYc71cApK_01U3juGA6P_uYERDA8D/w640-h480/Radha_Syamasundar_at_Krishna_Balaram_Mandir,_Vrindavan.jpg.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">In the supplementary Vedic literature, there is the following list of 32 offenses in the matter of serving the Lord: 1) One should not enter the temple of the Deity in a car or palanquin or with shoes on the feet.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 2) One should not fail to observe the various festivals for the pleasure of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/janmastami" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Janmāṣṭamī</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/ratha" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Ratha</a>-<a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/yatra" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">yātrā</a>,</i> etc. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">3) One should not avoid bowing down before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">4) One should not enter the temple to worship the Lord without having washed his hands and feet after eating. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">5) One should not enter the temple in a contaminated state. (According to Vedic scripture, if someone dies in the family the whole family becomes contaminated for some time, according to its status. For example, if the family is <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/brahmana" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">brāhmaṇa</a></span> their contamination period is 12 days, for the <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">kṣatriyas</span> and <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">vaiśyas</span> it is 15 days, and for <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">śūdras</span> 30 days.) </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">6) One should not bow down on one hand.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 7) One should not circumambulate in front of Śrī <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>. (The process of circumambulating the temple is that one should begin circumambulating from the Deity's right-hand side of the temple and come round. Such circumambulation should be performed outside the temple structure at least three times daily.)</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 8) One should not spread his legs before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">9) One should not sit before the Deity holding the ankles, elbows or knees with his hands. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">10) One should not lie down before the Deity of <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">11) One should not accept <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/prasadam" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">prasādam</a></span> before the Deity. 12) One should never speak a lie before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">13) One should not talk very loudly before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">14) One should not talk with others before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">15) One should not cry or howl before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">16) One should not quarrel or fight before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">17) One should not chastise anyone before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">18) One should not be charitable to beggars before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">19) One should not speak very harshly to others before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">20) One should not wear a fur blanket before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">21) One should not eulogize or praise anyone else before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">22) One should not speak any ill names before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">23) One should not pass air before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">24) One should not fail to worship the Deity according to his means. (In the <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">Bhagavad-<a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/gita" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">gītā</a></span> it is stated that the Lord is satisfied if some devotee offers him even a leaf or a little water. This formula prescribed by the Lord is universally applicable, even for the poorest man. But that does not mean that one who has sufficient means to worship the Lord very nicely should also adopt this method and try to satisfy the Lord simply by offering water and a leaf. If he has sufficient means, he should offer nice decorations, nice flowers, nice foodstuffs and observe all ceremonies. It is not that one should try to satisfy the Supreme Lord with a little water and a leaf, and for himself spend all his money in sense gratification.)</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 25) One should not eat anything which is not offered first to <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">26) One should not fail to offer fresh fruit and grains to <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>, according to the season.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 27) After cooking, no one should be offered any foodstuff unless it is first offered to the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">28) One should not sit with his back towards the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">29) One should not offer obeisances silently to the spiritual master; or in other words, one should recite <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">aloud</span> the prayers to the spiritual master while offering obeisances. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">30) One should not fail to offer some praise in the presence of the spiritual master. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">31) One should not praise himself before the spiritual master. 32) One should not deride the demigods before the Deity.</div><div id="244497"></div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">This is a list of </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">32 offenses. Besides these, there are a number of offenses which are mentioned in the <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/varaha" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Varāha</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/purana" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Purāṇa</a>.</span> They are as follows: 1) One should not touch the Deity in a dark room. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">2) One should not fail to strictly follow the rules and regulations in worshiping the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">3) One should not enter the temple of the Deity without first making some sound. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">4) One should not offer any foodstuff to the Deity which has been seen by dogs or other lower animals. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">5) One should not break the silence while worshiping. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">6) One should not pass urine or evacuate while engaged in worshiping. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">7) One should not offer incense without offering some flower. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">8) Useless flowers without any fragrance should not be offered.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 9) One should not fail to wash his teeth very carefully every day. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">10) One should not enter the temple directly after sexual intercourse.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 11) One should not touch a woman during her menstrual period. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">12) One should not enter the temple after touching a dead body. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">13) One should not enter the temple wearing garments of red or blue color, or which are unwashed. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">14) One should not enter the temple after seeing a dead body. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">15) One should not pass air within the temple. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">16) One should not be angry within the temple. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">17) One should not enter the temple after visiting a crematorium. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">18) One should not belch before the Deity. So, until one has fully digested his food, he should not enter the temple. 19) One should not smoke marijuana or <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">ganjā.</span> </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">20) One should not take opium or similar intoxicants. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">21) One should not enter the Deity room or touch the body of the Deity after having smeared oil over his body. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">22) One should not show disrespect to a scripture teaching about the supremacy of the Lord. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">23) One should not introduce any opposing scripture. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">24) One should not chew betel before the Deity. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">25) One should not offer a flower which was kept in an unclean pot.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 26) One should not worship the Lord while sitting on the <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/bare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">bare</a> floor: one must have a sitting place or carpet. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">27) One should not touch the Deity before he has completed taking bath. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">28) One should not decorate his forehead with the three-lined <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/tilaka" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">tilaka</a>.</span> </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">29) One should not enter the temple without washing his hands and feet.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></div><div id="244498"></div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">Other rules are that one should not offer foodstuff which is cooked by a non-<i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/vaisnava" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Vaiṣṇava</a>. </i>One should not worship the Deity before a nondevotee. One should not engage himself in the worship of the Lord while seeing a nondevotee. One should begin the worship of the demigod Gaṇapati, who drives away all impediments in the execution of devotional service. In the <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/brahma" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Brahma</a>-<a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/samhita" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">saṁhitā</a></span> it is stated that Gaṇapati worships the lotus feet of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, and in that way has become auspicious for the devotees in clearing out all impediments. Therefore, all devotees should worship Gaṇapati. The Deities should not be bathed in water which has been touched by the nails or fingers. When a devotee is perspiring, he should not engage himself in worshiping the Deity. Similarly, there are many other prohibitions, such as one should not cross or step over the flowers offered to the Deities, nor should one take a vow in the name of God. These are all different kinds of offenses in the matter of executing devotional service, and one should be careful to avoid them.</div><div id="244499"></div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">In the <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/padma" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Padma</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/purana" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Purāṇa</a></span> it is stated that even a person whose life is completely sinful will be completely protected by the Lord if he simply surrenders unto Him. So it is accepted that one who surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes freed from all sinful reactions. And even when a person becomes an offender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, he can still be delivered simply by taking shelter of the holy names of the Lord: <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a> Kṛṣṇa, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> Hare/ <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/rama" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Rāma</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/rama" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Rāma</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/rama" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Rāma</a> Rāma, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> Hare.</i> In other words, the chanting of <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a></i> is beneficial for eradicating all sins; but if one becomes an offender to the holy names of the Lord, then he has no chance of being delivered.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br /></div><div id="244500"></div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">The offenses against the chanting of the holy name are as follows: </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">1) To blaspheme the devotees who have dedicated their lives for propagating the holy name of the Lord.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 2) To consider the names of demigods like Lord Śiva or Lord <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/brahma" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Brahmā</a> to be equal to, or independent of, the name of Lord <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/visnu" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Viṣṇu</a>. (Sometimes the atheistic class of men take it that any demigod is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/visnu" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Viṣṇu</a>. But one who is a devotee knows that no demigod, however great he may be, is independently as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, if someone thinks that he can chant <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/kali" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kālī</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/kali" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kālī</a>! or <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/durga" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Durgā</a>, <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/durga" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Durgā</a>!</i> and it is the same as <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a>,</i> that is the greatest offense.) 3) To disobey the orders of the spiritual master.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 4) To blaspheme the Vedic literature or literature in pursuance of the Vedic version. </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">5) To consider the glories of chanting <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a></i> to be imagination. 6) To give some interpretation on the holy name of the Lord.</div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"> 7) To commit sinful activities on the strength of the holy name of the Lord. (Because by chanting the holy name of the Lord one can be freed from all kinds of sinful reactions, it should not be taken that one may continue to act sinfully and after that chant <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a></i> to neutralize his sins. Such a dangerous mentality is very offensive and should be avoided.) </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">8) To consider the chanting of <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/hare" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Hare</a> <a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/krsna" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Kṛṣṇa</a></i> as one of the auspicious ritualistic activities which are offered in the <span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;">Vedas</span> as fruitive activities (<span class="Italic" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0.25in;"><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/karma" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">karma</a>-<a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/kanda" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">kāṇḍa</a></span>). </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">9) To instruct a faithless person about the glories of the holy name. (Anyone can take part in chanting the holy name of the Lord, but in the beginning one should not be instructed about the transcendental potency of the Lord. Those who are too sinful cannot appreciate the transcendental glories of the Lord, and therefore it is better not to instruct them in this matter.) </div><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">10) To not have complete faith in the chanting of the holy names and to maintain material attachments, even after understanding so many instructions on this matter.</div><div id="244501"></div><p><a name="244497"></a><a name="244498"></a><a name="244499"></a><a name="244500"></a><a name="244501"></a></p><div class="Normal-Level" style="font-family: "Georgia Ref Plus", Georgia, "Lucida Sans Unicode", Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0.0597222in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">Every devotee who claims to be a <i><a class="d" href="https://prabhupadabooks.com/d/vaisnava" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Vaiṣṇava</a></i> must guard against these offenses in order to quickly achieve the desired success.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-89981006705639645492023-01-10T04:36:00.003-08:002023-01-10T04:37:45.530-08:00Well! Can you guess where this piece of writing comes from "One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-81204092355726731722023-01-09T02:31:00.003-08:002023-01-09T02:32:12.419-08:00Can You guess where these two pieces of writing come from? 1) O Dhanañjaya, all this work cannot bind Me. I am ever detached from all these material activities, seated as though neutral. 2) Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-48733219060665678812023-01-08T03:04:00.001-08:002023-01-08T03:04:13.096-08:00Did you know that Raga bhakti is a state in which the follower of the discipline of love, [bhakti yoga], is aware only of God, and of all things as related to God.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-87091412998930309772023-01-06T23:30:00.003-08:002023-01-06T23:30:29.905-08:00Did you know that the verbal root “ḍubhṛñ” [which is the root of the word “viśvambhara”] indicates nourishing and maintaining. He [Lord Caitanya] nourishes and maintains the three worlds by distributing love of GodUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-58704418227550127482023-01-04T05:14:00.000-08:002023-01-04T05:14:01.355-08:00Do you that the principle deities of Vrindavan are called Śrī Rādhā-Madana-mohana, Śrī Rādhā-Govindadeva and Śrī Rādhā-GopīnāthajīUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-41675822597554711402023-01-03T07:59:00.003-08:002023-01-03T07:59:55.160-08:00Do you know that There are different stages of devotional service and God realization. Strictly speaking, anyone who accepts the existence of God is situated in devotional service.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-63664026119955936202023-01-02T04:52:00.002-08:002023-01-02T04:52:11.943-08:00May this Holy Pausha Putrada Ekadashi Vrat be the greatest!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-60341876606462193902022-12-20T03:24:00.002-08:002022-12-20T03:24:13.144-08:00<p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ufP8nw-SZVw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p> <a href="https://vanipedia.org/wiki/Prabhupada_0002_-_Madman_Civilzation">Madman Civilization</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-19951725192005507552022-12-17T02:57:00.004-08:002022-12-18T07:15:37.986-08:00<p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jtPeyHDfoj4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><a href="https://vanisource.org/wiki/750519_-_Lecture_SB_-_Melbourne" style="text-align: center;">transcription of this super amazing lecture</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-60156083871689645992022-12-12T02:04:00.007-08:002022-12-12T14:43:22.496-08:00Today December 12 ,2022 is the disapperance of His Divine Grace Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswani Thakura Prabhupada's disappearance is being celebrated in Vrindavan India!Jai Prabhupada!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp68LEFYhXaJ3rtqLXnB0ttmWwi21ECeZH355aZ1YwvI9XY6tNB9xZLtMz-jRnWFAYa939cK537-29QzKzSZN3fKunAE_tVrby11ejZpRtvKpQGuBeTgVCPecjy56D8MO9nnReBOTrvQlhYD1QLMJC9HV02bzX2NCdZNVLlKICLeIZpyZrFsyCgUJylA/s2397/His_Divine_Grace_Bhakti_Siddhanta_Saraswati_Goswani_Thakura_Prabhupada_Disapperance_Day_Celebration_Dec_12_2022.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2397" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp68LEFYhXaJ3rtqLXnB0ttmWwi21ECeZH355aZ1YwvI9XY6tNB9xZLtMz-jRnWFAYa939cK537-29QzKzSZN3fKunAE_tVrby11ejZpRtvKpQGuBeTgVCPecjy56D8MO9nnReBOTrvQlhYD1QLMJC9HV02bzX2NCdZNVLlKICLeIZpyZrFsyCgUJylA/w250-h400/His_Divine_Grace_Bhakti_Siddhanta_Saraswati_Goswani_Thakura_Prabhupada_Disapperance_Day_Celebration_Dec_12_2022.png" width="250" /></a></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> sri-sidhanta-sarasvatiti vidito gaudiya gurv-anvave bhato bhanuriya prabhata-gagane yo gaura-samkirtanaih mayavada timingilodarajatan uddhrtya juvaniman krsna-prema sudhabdhi-gahana-sukham pradat prabhum tam bhaje</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura es bien conocido dentro de la selecta línea de magníficos preceptores Gaudiya. Él aparece en el cielo de la mañana como el sol radiante y llena la atmósfera con las maravillosas glorias de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, liberando a las pobres almas desamparadas que han sido devoradas por la ballena de la doctrina impersonalista. Adoro a ese gran maestro que les permitió a las almas caídas una preciosa oportunidad para experimen tar y sumergirse en la bienaventuranza que se encuentra en ese ambrosíaco océano de amor puro por el Señor Krsna.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.vcm.org.in/blog/srila-bhaktisiddhanta-sarasvati-thakura/">Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura – Disappearance day 12th Dec 2022</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Rock Salt"; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Rock Salt;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> His Divine Grace Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswani Thakura Prabhupada's quotes</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">1. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s instructions in Sikastakam, “param vijayate Sri-Krishna -Sankirtanam” is the only motto of the Gaudiya math.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">2. The Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna is the only enjoyer. Everyone and everything else is the object of his enjoyment.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">3. Anyone who does not serve Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is ignorant and a killer himself.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">4. To learn to tolerate is one of the most important responsibilities of those living in the math.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">5. Rupanuga devotees offer all glory to the original source instead of depending on their own strength.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">6. Those who perform assorted religious activities can not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">7. Become united with one purpose and serve Hari.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">8. Where there is discussion about Hari, that is a place of pilgrimage.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">9. We are not pious, sinful or learned or ignorant, we are the carriers of the dust of the feet of the</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> Supreme Lord Sri Hari and we are initiated by the mantra “kirtaniyah sada harih.”</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">10. My advice is, do not criticize others. Try to rectify yourself.</span><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">11. Our supreme duty is to serve the residents of Vraja who are afflicated by Krishna ‘s departure to Mathura.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">12. A pure devotee knows that everyone is the spiritual master. Therefore, a pure devotee can be jagad-guru.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">13. If we want to follow the path of true auspiciousness, we should give up the countless opinions of people and only hear the words of the vedas.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">14. Whatever is auspicious should be desired.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">15. An intimate devotee does not have any other desire besides serving the followers of Sri Rupa Goswami.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">16. There is no other way of associating with transcendence besides hearing.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">17. As soon as we lose the shelter of a protector, everything around us will become our enemy and attack us. Topics about Krishna spoken by a genuine saint are our only protector.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">18. A flatterer can never become a guru or a preacher.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">19. It is better to remain in millions of species like birds, beasts, insects and worms than become deceitful. One who is free from deceit receives auspiciousness.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">20. Vaisnavism is the other name of simplicity. The servants of the paramahamsa Vaishnavas are simple; therefore they are the best brahmanas.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">21. The only duty of the most merciful persons is to transform the degraded taste of people. If you can save even one person from the great force of MahaMaya, then that will be a greater act of philanthropy than opening millions of hospitals.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">22. Those who have not learned to develop their propensity to serve the Supreme Lord from self realized souls, no matter how pleasing their association may be, it should never be desired.</span><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">23. Preaching without practicing is nothing but a ritual of karma-kanda.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">24. If one just serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead and his devotees, his attachment to his household will diminish.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">25. Our main disease is to collect objects that are not related to Krishna.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">26. We have not come to this world to become an artisan of wood or stone, we are only peons of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mercy.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">27. We will not stay in this world for a long time. Only if this body falls singing of the glory of Lord Sri Hari will our birth in this body be successful.</span><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">28. The only desired object in our life is to collect the dust from the Lotus feet of Sri Rupa Goswami, who fulfilled the desire of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">29. This material nature, which is averse to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is an examination hall. Tolerance, humbleness, appreciation of others, etc., are favorable to develop our devotion to Hari.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">30. In every birth one gets a father and a mother. But one may not get instructions for his ultimate benefit.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">31. Although the activities of a devotee and the misdemeanor of a pseudo-devotee appear to be alike, there is a heaven and hell difference – like milk and limewater.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">32. Those who mistake dishonesty to be honesty (or a crook to be saint) will fall into great difficulty, as a person who tries to cheat an iron-smith by supplying him bad steel.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">33. As soon as we get to know the absolute truth, we should become fixed in it. Instead of wasting a single moment of time left, we should be engaged in serving Sri Hari.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">34. Many people mistake ‘imitation’ to be ‘following’. These two words are not the same. To play the role of Narada in a play is ‘imitation’ but to follow the path of devotion according to Narada Muni is ‘following’.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">35. He who is constantly absorbed in discussing about Sri Hari is a saint. One who is constantly engaged in serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a saint. One who in all his endeavors tries to serve Krishna is a saint.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">36. If the Supreme Personality of Godhead Narayana offers Himself, something remains unoffered, but a devotee can offer the Lord completely.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">37. Do not try to become a guru to become envious. Do not try to become a guru in order to become absorbed in material attachments. But if you become my unalloyed servant, if you have acquired my potency, there is nothing to fear.</span><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">38. A bonafide spiritual master is non-different from Supreme Personality of Godhead. If one cannot say that the spiritual master is the personal manifestation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one will not be able to utter the holy name of the Lord.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">39. In order to teach us how to serve Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself appears as the spiritual master.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">40. A living entity can not derive real benefit by reading hundreds of books or pretending to render devotional service according to his own ideas.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">41. Being cheated by those who mislead people in the name of hari-katha has become a sort of religion in this age.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">42. Someone will be able to understand the profound meaning of the impartial truth that is being spoken fearlessly after hundreds of lives or hundreds of yugas. Unless hundreds of gallons of hard-earned blood is spent, we will not be able to make people understand the truth.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">43. The Lord does not accept anything offered by those who do not chant one hundred thousand names of the Lord each day.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">44. Association is the principle impetus in human life to serve Sri Hari. Due to association of non-devotees, one gets material prosperity. Due to the association of devotees, the spirit soul gradually becomes absorbed in serving Sri Hari. This is the greatest shelter for a human being. Never become averse to that.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">45. Whenever there are material difficulties, the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes the shelter and allows one to serve him.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">46. As long as one has anarthas, one does not receive the good fortune of becoming a servant of Srimati Radharani. Those who discuss the transcendental pastimes of Srimati Radharani, the dearmost servitor of Sri Krishna, are sense gratifiers, covered enjoyers and prakrta-sahajiyas.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">47. When anarthas will be removed due to chanting the Holy Name, then Krishna ‘s form, qualities and pastimes will automatically manifest from the name. There is no need to make an endeavor to artificially remember His form, qualities and pastimes.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">48. All of you preach the message of Rupa Goswami and Raghunatha Dasa Goswami with great enthusiasm. Our supreme desire is to become the dust at the lotus feet of the followers of Sri Rupa Goswami.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">49. Do not give up devotional service even if there are innumerable dangers, countless insults and endless harassment. Do not become disheartened that most people in this world do not accept the message of unalloyed devotional service. Never give up your devotional service and hearing and chanting about Krishna which is your everything. Always chant the Holy Name becoming more humble than a blade of grass and more tolerant than a tree.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">50. We do not want to become great fruitive workers or religious leaders; all we want is to become the dust at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa Prabhu. That is our original identity.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">51. We should never display any kind of aversion towards sankirtana-yajna which is perfect sacrifice, complete with the seven forms of sacrifice. If we have gradually increasing love for that, then everything will be accomplished and we will attain ultimate perfection. Just preach the words of Rupa and Raghunatha with enthusiasm and courage, with complete dedication to the followers of Sri Rupa.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">52. If I stop preaching the unbiased truth due to fear that people will not like it, I am accepting the non-vedic way, rejecting the vedic way. Then I become an atheist and I lose my faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the personification of truth.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">53. In this material world there are only two representatives of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; the transcendental sound vibration of the Holy Name, and his eternally transcendental deity incarnation.</span><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">54. The deity is worshipped by the Holy Name – sentient is served through sentient.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">55. For the pleasure of the Lord, His devotees call Him by His Holy Name to render service unto Him, not to fulfill their own desires.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">56. The deity is the merciful incarnation of the eternal form of the transcendental Supreme Personality of Godhead of the spiritual sky (Vaikuntha). It is direct proof of the personal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vaishnavas do not imagine whether God is a person or impersonal. They are not idol worshippers.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">57. Just as the purports of the vedas have been briefly described in the Brahma-sutra and the vedanta-bhasya, the conclusion and purport of the Srimad-Bhagavatam has been similarly described in a brief and accurate way.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">58. Unless one studies Srimad-Bhagavatam under the guidance if a bonafide Vaishnava acharya, he will not be able to understand the real purport of the Brahma-sutra. Srimad Bhagavatamis the original commentary of Vedanta-sutra.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">59. Sri Jiva Goswami specifically explained that Srimad-Bhagavatam is the original commentary of Vedantasutra.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">60. The word “devotion” can not be applied to anything besides ‘Krishna ‘. ‘Krishna ‘ is the only subject of devotion. Brahman is the object of knowledge, Paramatma is the object of nearness, but Krishna is the only object of service.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">61. Every word has a two-fold aspect; conveying a meaning based on knowledge and a meaning based on ignorance. The aspects of words that indicate something other than Krishna, Visnu or Sri Caitanya, conveys the mearning based on ignorance. In knowledge everything indicates Krishna and signifies Krishna.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">62. What the ignorant masses understand about the ‘Krishna ‘ is not the real object of the word Krishna. In other words, ‘God’, ‘Allah’ and even the Sanskrit words ‘Isvara”, ‘Paramatma’ etc. only indicate a great energy coming out of Krishna. They do not indicate the total aspect of the word ‘Krishna ‘.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">63. There is no work as auspicious as serving the spiritual master. Of all worship, the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the greatest. But the worship of the lotus feet of the spiritual master is even greater than the worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unless this is firmly realized we can not understand what saintly association means; we cannot understand what the shelter of a spiritual master means; we cannot understand that we are dependent and he is our maintainer.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: times;"><br style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #002626; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">64. If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-15992895126259709862022-12-03T03:57:00.003-08:002022-12-03T05:23:54.960-08:00<p> </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-dI9i8mnmRE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p> <a href="https://iskcondesiretree.com/page/mokshada-ekadasi">Mokshada Ekadasi is soul food lean more click here!</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgysecOllmnYm34y1ncXF6HyMPpFP3w1u4FFxmFRv_0K_PgFTUAG8aP2-C-T8nA8_pJeCR6A5mMOMOIfweu6L0Fd4VFKoN7J83eNPZooxNqmjqB8YhcAzkc9Pu3MrMDTq1a43Rx8fZj-SMHBlwbI8owXQ3ZqDoaPRsFcMT_gkBcdenD-ccJHoLOimZv/s499/bhagavadgitatalcomoes_agift%20on%20this%20holy%20ekadahi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgysecOllmnYm34y1ncXF6HyMPpFP3w1u4FFxmFRv_0K_PgFTUAG8aP2-C-T8nA8_pJeCR6A5mMOMOIfweu6L0Fd4VFKoN7J83eNPZooxNqmjqB8YhcAzkc9Pu3MrMDTq1a43Rx8fZj-SMHBlwbI8owXQ3ZqDoaPRsFcMT_gkBcdenD-ccJHoLOimZv/w428-h640/bhagavadgitatalcomoes_agift%20on%20this%20holy%20ekadahi.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p> <a href="https://vedabase.io/es/library/bg/18/">Oprime aqui para leer el Capitulo 18 del Bhagavadgita</a></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-6292081974938462182022-11-14T04:40:00.007-08:002022-11-16T05:37:51.635-08:00Extremely important news: Ukranian Devotees Update<p style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwEp2rLUXFDN2nXBn0wRqn1M5Dw7rQ24Vm48xdpv0QjXpAN0xhzcFzqJp0dPTzjX0T429Vrw_5lGQXb7zGigA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">Mataji Ananda Devi Dasi President of the Potomac ISKON temple of the District of Columbia, United States Of America, November 13th, 2022.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The invasion of Ukraine began in the morning of the 24th of February, 2022. I remember driving on Mamalahoa Hwy, in the Big Island of Hawaii, ( my home ) on my way from work to my beautiful room that I was renting (for you know how much) at the Nakamuras farm in Kealakakua, and I saw and heard a group of Ukranian immigrants yelling"Stop the war in Ukraine!" and they were holding the Ukranian flag. Through our Vrinda Parivarivar International Gaudiya Vaishnavan religious society we were able to receive a small video of our adored Vaishnavan devotees in Ukraine that was published in the blog www.newageofactivism.com months ago. In the midst of a media black out glorifying the current war in Ukraine. We have been bombarded by newscasts telling all of us about the battles being won and little information about the trillions of dollars, euros, yens, that is being spent in another extremely stupid and ignorant "wargame" created for sense gratification with zero regards or care for the life of innocent civilians, in the meantime thousands of people are still in Ukraine entering the coldest and most darkest winter of our lives. Our Vaishnavan brothers and sisters in Ukraine who have chosen to stay in Ukraine are in need of "only" $50,000, in order to have generators. $50,000 an amount of money that is less than the cost of 2022 F- Series SD truck that most people in the United States, Europe, Japan, and India can easily buy. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yesterday, November 13, 2022 after the Sunday service at the ISKON Potomac Temple followed by delicious merciful Krsna prasadan (sacred vegetarian food offered to krsna) that guarantees a human birth in your next life. I was fortunate to be able to record the short video of Mataji Ananda who is the president of the Potomac ISKON temple and shortly after I had a brief conversation with Mataji Atma from the Casa de Sabiduria ( House of Knowledge) in Bogota, Colombia, she is one of the directors of Casa de Sabiduria who is also my therapist and Oida therapy Instructor. I told her that I donated $20,00 on behalf of Casa de Sabiduria. Mataji Atma of Casa de Sabiduria along with millions of others around the world who are going through a tremendous financial crisis of their own after the covid-19 pandemic was not even aware that there were still Vaishnavan devotees in Ukraine . Mataji Atma, expressed her concerned and said, "I hope that the money that is being collected for them gets to them!" Mataji Atma sends her blessing "May Krsna keep them safe and protect them!" </span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://iskconnews.org/ukraine-update-with-nrs/" style="text-align: left;">UPDATED: Ukraine Update with Niranjana Swami 2022-11-05</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shareyour.care/donations/">https://shareyour.care/donations/</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-74655314311882796442022-11-13T07:14:00.002-08:002022-11-13T07:14:13.801-08:00Rādhe Rādhe Rādhe Shyām Govinda Rādhe je srī Rādhe Govinda Rādhe Rādhe Shyām Gopāla Rādhe RādheUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938657360908925817.post-71764960629360444812022-09-24T05:40:00.003-07:002022-09-24T05:44:19.742-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"">(1)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaḿ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaḿ</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaḿ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaḿ prati-padaḿ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaḿ</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">sarvātma-snapanaḿ paraḿ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-sańkīrtanam</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(2)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(3)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">tṛṇād api sunīcena</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">taror api sahiṣṇunā</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">amāninā mānadena</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(4)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">na dhanaḿ na janaḿ na sundarīḿ</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">kavitāḿ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">mama janmani janmanīśvare</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(5)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">ayi nanda-tanuja kińkaraḿ</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">patitaḿ māḿ viṣame bhavāmbudhau</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">kṛpayā tava pāda-pańkaja-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśaḿ vicintaya</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(6)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">nayanaḿ galad-aśru-dhārayā</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">vadanaḿ gadgada-ruddhayā girā</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">pulakair nicitaḿ vapuḥ kadā</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">tava nāma-grahaṇe bhaviṣyati</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(7)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">yugāyitaḿ nimeṣeṇa</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">cakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitam</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">śūnyāyitaḿ jagat sarvaḿ</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">govinda-viraheṇa me</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(8)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāḿ pinaṣṭu mām</span></div><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">adarśanān marma-hatāḿ karotu vā</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">yathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">mat-prāṇa-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ</span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times;">(9)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">prabhura ‘śikṣāṣṭaka’-śloka yei paḍe, śune</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-family: times; font-size: 13pt;">kṛṣṇe prema-bhakti tāra bāḍe dine-dine</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0