Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu We here at Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Mandir celebrated the festival of Gaura Purnima today, and as you can see from the photos, it was very nice and many devotees attended. Fresh fragrant flowers from spring like forsythia, plum blossums, and […]
SB 9/4/63 TEXT 63 TEXT Translation The Supreme Personality of Godhead said to the brahmana: I am completely under the control of My devotees. Indeed, I am not at all independent. Because My devotees are completely devoid of material desires, I sit only within the cores of their hearts. What to speak of My devotee, […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Prabhupada We sent out an email recently by Bhaktivinode Thakur , detailing the conditions upon which the soul enters this world and therefore material consciousness. This began with the threadlike false ego, then intelligence, then mind, and finally the other senses so that eventually one is fully in the bodily or […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaj and Srila Bhaktivinode thakur I have been reading the book called Sri Caitanya Siksamrta by Bhaktivinode Thakur. In the Fifth rainfall section he writes…. “False ego is identity of the self with matter. The identity of the self with his cit (spiritual) body […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Here is a few short paragraphs in which Prabhupada quickly explains why the most common devotee, is light years ahead of even the greatest of materialists. Why is that? Because the materialist is only furthering his implication in Karma, while the devotee is getting free of […]
Hare Krsna to all pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Here in a few short sentences, Srila Prabhupada cuts thru volumes of sastra and so nicely explains our problems and how to simply solve them. Our problem, is we love matter much more than Krsna. He nicely explains how this is simply corrected which will give […]
The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama CC Adi lila chapter 5-selected verses compiled This is Gauranga Ananta- the combined forms of Lord Gaura (frontside) and Lord Nitai (coiled snake on backside) Lord Baladeva in Krsnaloka is Nityananda Prabhu. Therefore Nityananda Prabhu is the original Sankarsana, and Maha-sankarsana and His expansions as the purusas in the […]
In ancient times there were two brothers named Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha. They were demons born to sage Kashyapa Muni. They flaunted uncommon bodily features and had steel-like frames which grew just like mountains. Their bodies became so tall they seemed to kiss the sky with the crests of their golden crowns. They blocked the view […]
Hare Krsna to all pranams Glories to Prabhupada This is a very nice lecture by Srila Prabhupada- Why? Because he explains that God is not just an opulent God, surrounded by millions of goddesses of fortune and a huge family, not that He gives us a fragment of transcendental knowledge in His Bhagavad Gita, not […]
You have no feeling for Krsna 760623gc.nv Conversations Devotee (4): The difficulty is that we cannot understand, we cannot feel what pleases Krsna now, yet we can feel what pleases us, and that is the difficulty? Prabhupada: You have no feeling, that everyone knows. Therefore you have to carry out the order of […]
