Gaura Purnima Celebration @ Vancouver Krishna Balaram Mandir
Submitted by: Navadvipa Dasa
Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Below are some photos and a video clip of our Gaura Purnima Celebration here at Vancouver Krishna Balaram Mandir.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/vancouverkrishnabalaram/videos/10153880363946251/?l=8605349052250867144
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153880390436251.1073741904.581846250&type=1&l=71530b9181
Your Servant,
navadvipa dasa
Gaura Purnima festival 2016
Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa
Hare Krsna
We celebrated Gaura Purnima 2016 at Radha Krsna kunja by first going for Hari nama Sankirtan for about an hour and half.
Then we went to the nearby ashram of Kanhaiya and Noble prabhus for our full program of arotik, kirtan, class from Teachings of Lord Caitanya, then a lively discussion followed by abhisek, then prasadam.
And did I forget to mention Srila Prabhupada in his full size murti also showed up? And new Radha Krsna murtis
also showed up. Srila Prabhupada went with me and Radha Krsna stayed with Kanhaiya. Everybody was happy.
The devotees couldn’t stop looking at Srila Prabhupada and Radha Krsna…They are so beautiful..
Hari nama sankirtan ki Jaya !!!
damaghosa das
lots of pictures available below-click on the link… Continue reading
Biogenesis and the Birth of Modern Science
Submitted by: Narasimha Dasa
Biogenesis and the Birth of Modern Science
By Narasimha das
The ancient Greeks, specifically the renowned philosopher Aristotle (384 B.C – 322 B.C.), believed that living things were spontaneously generated from non-living matter. Aristotle was a naturalist who loved to observe animals and nature while taking long walks through the country. He noticed that ponds were full of various species, such as fish, frogs and tiny swimming insects. Later, in the summer months, many of these ponds would dry up and appear to become lifeless mud sinks or totally dry beds. But when the rains came, the same dry beds would fill up again with aquatic life. He wondered how all this life became regenerated. After pondering this puzzle for a long while, he finally concluded that earth itself had the power to generate life spontaneously with water and air under certain conditions. Observing the life cycles of insects on land, he came to similar conclusions: that rotting meat, animal fur and other non-living matter had the potency to generate various forms life under certain conditions. Continue reading
Hladini-sakti initiation event audio recording March 20 2016
Submitted by: Dhira Govinda Dasa
re: Srila Prabhupada re: Effective defense against the attack of Maya
Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa
The Maya is very strong and as soon as there is opportunity the Maya will come and attack.
Therefore everyone should be very careful against the attack of Maya.
And the only effective defense is to remain Krishna consciousness always.
Therefore everyone should be very careful against the attack of Maya.
And the only effective defense is to remain Krishna consciousness always.
Srila Prabhupada letter May 13, 1967
“We should not be attracted by the modern city life”–SP
Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa
Hare Krsna-
Below we have a short conversation with Srila Prabhupada about the farm projects. He wants to know why, if it is so wonderful and attractive the devotees don’t go to live there? If they get nice fruits, grains, open air,
milk, why they should not be attracted?
Then he says, we should not be attracted to this modern city life, but instead live simply, live off the land, become independent, chant Hare Krsna,and be happy in this way.
Hari bol
damahgosa das
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Srila Prabhupada states that he is the representative of God
Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa
Srila Prabhupada states that HE is the representative of God.
Jan 28 1977–
Pṛthu-putra: …to show me. They were telling me that “You are going to see the representative of God.” And when I came to that vision, I saw the person. At that time I didn’t know who (it) was. But I had some doubts in my mind, and I was thinking, “Oh, that’s probably another kind of propaganda.” This was all in the dream. But when I came to that person sitting on the elevated seat in that forest, surrounded by many, many devotees, that person looked at me and proved to me that he was the representative of God. But after, I forgot. Maybe one year or something like this. One or two years after…
Prabhupāda: So there is no doubt about it that I am the representative of God.
Pṛthu-putra: Yes. But when I was…
Prabhupāda: Either you dream or not dream, I claim.
Pṛthu-putra: Yes. But this thing was just confirming. When I saw you the first time in Amsterdam, you were the same person that I saw in my dream one or two years previously.
Prabhupāda: That… You have read Caitanya-caritāmṛta? Guru-tattva. Guru-tattva. So there it is clearly said that guru is the manifestation of God. So it is confirmed in the śāstra. And all the ācāryas accept it. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ **.
Satsvarūpa: But is it possible to also learn spiritual truths from this…, from representatives on the subtle plane?
Prabhupāda: There is no question of subtle plane. You are on the gross plane. You first of all study gross things, and subtle, we shall see later on.
SP tells a nice story of his first meeting with Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaja
Submitted by: Damagosha Dasa
1) Sept 8 1966 NY
So by this process, the transcendental name, the sound incarnation of the Supreme Lord, becomes manifest, manifest so that we can realize God simply by chanting and hearing. Simply by chanting and hearing that will be realized. Of course, there are some rules and regulations for chanting, but in the beginning we haven’t got to observe those rules and regulation at the present. First of all let us have the taste for chanting; then we shall be little careful that the rules and regulations are followed. In the beginning, if we stick up to the… Rules and regulations are subordinate, subordinate thing. Just like you enter into an office. You are appointed in some office to work. So on the very day, you do not know all the rules and regulations. But because you do not know all the rules and regulation, that does not mean that you cannot be appointed. First of all let yourself be appointed. Now, working, working, yourself you will know that rules and regulations: “This is the rules, and this is the regulation.”
Just like in my life, I will say one instance. When I met my spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, so as a gentleman meets as a gentleman, so he was sitting in a couch like that. So, and I also sat down on that very couch. So I did not know that what are the rules and regulations. Now, when I saw that his other disciples are coming, and they are sitting down, (laughs) so I thought myself, “Oh, I have done this wrong. I should not have sat with His Divine Grace.” So of course, I did not get down immediately, but I took it, and from next day I did not sit. So rules and regulations automatically was taught. So that rules and regulations is not very important. The important is… The thing is that we must take up. The first rules and regulation is that we must have some attachment for this. Attachment for this. Then, automatically, rules and regulation we shall learn. There will be no difficulty.
Srila Prabhupada re: Too much intelligence in material activities are detraction from Krishna Consciousness
Submitted by: Yasoda nandana Dasa
Krishna is very kind to the meek and simple,
so dullness of the material world and consciousness about Krishna go well together.
Too much intelligence in material activities are detraction from Krishna Consciousness. …
There is a nice story about Bharata Maharaja,
who remained just like a dullard, in order to avoid material association.
And he was known as Jada Bharata, but when he was tested,
Maharaja Rohugan found him highly advanced in Krishna Consciousness, and became his disciple.
Srila Prabhupada letter, June 20, 1968