The Fragrance of the Soul | Elevation to Krishna Consciousness
video: TheVedicStudent
Elevation to Krishna Consciousness, Ch 2 — The ambition for happiness is natural and good, but the attempt to derive it from inert matter by so-called scientific arrangements is an illusory attempt doomed to frustration. Those who are befooled cannot understand this. How a person is driven by the lust for material happiness is also described in Bhagavad-gita.
idam adya maya labdham
imam prapsye manoratham
idam astidam api me
bhavisyati punar dhanam
“The demoniac person thinks: ‘So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more.’ ” (Bg. 16.13)
This atheistic or godless civilization is a huge affair contrived for the gratification of our senses, and now we are all mad after money in order to maintain this empty shell. Money is sought after by everyone because that is the medium of exchange for objects for sense gratification.
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The Epitome of Compassion | Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Madhudvisa Dasa
The Epitome of Compassion | Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Madhudvisa Dasa
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Srutakirti Dasa
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Srutakirti Dasa
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Bhavatarini Dasi
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Bhavatarini Dasi
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Kanka Devi Dasi
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Kanka Devi Dasi
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Devadadhiti Dasi
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by H G Devadadhiti Dasi
Human beings are a minority on this planet | Conversation with Indian Ambassador, Stockholm
MUSIC: “Govindam adi purusam” by Atmarama das
Srila Prabhupada, September 5, 1973, Stockholm — Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. So God is maintaining everyone. So difference is that He is so powerful, He can maintain every living entity. He’s maintaining the elephants in Africa, who eat, at a time, forty kilos. He’s supplying food.
There’s no scarcity of food in the jungle for the elephants. Neither there is scarcity… In the hole of your room, you’ll find hundreds and thousands of ants. Who is feeding them, within the hole? Unless they’re eating, sleeping, the same thing are there. How they are living very nicely? But who is giving them food within the hole? A small hole.
You did not provide that hole. You did not provide their food. But there are hundreds and millions of ants. They’re living there within the hole very happily. Sometimes they come out. We see: “Oh, wherefrom so many hundreds coming?” So eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. That is God. He’s supplying food.
So there are 8,400,000 different forms of living entities. Out of that, 400,000 are human beings. Out of that, many are uncivilized. The uncivilized aborigines live in the jungle. They have no economic problem. They’re also human being. They never come to city for food. They are maintaining themselves.
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WWF: Living Planet Report 2012
Mai 15, 2012 | WWF UK
Wildlife declines while we consume more
http://earthbook2012.org/
So how is the natural world coping with our ever-growing demand for resources? WWF’s Living Planet Report 2012 shows that we’re putting huge pressure on wildlife – and threatening our own future well-being.
The report, which measures the health of 9,014 populations of more than 2,600 species, reveals a 30% decline in the health of species since 1970. And it shows that we’re consuming 50% more natural resources globally than our planet can sustainably produce.
Here in the UK, we’re not making enough progress to control how much we consume. Since the last report’s country-by-country analysis in 2010, the UK’s position has worsened. We’re now the 27th largest per capita consumer.
Watch this video of WWF Ambassador and astronaut Andre Kuipers launching this year’s Living Planet Report from the International Space Station.
A Guru Or A Paid Agent | Kurma Dasa
The School Master In The Modern Days Are Paid Agents For Giving Some Information, But The Spiritual Master Is Not A Paid Agent. Nor Can He Impart Instruction Without Being Authorised.
(Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.43)
The greater the concentration of wealth the greater the power to lord it over and manipulate others. One of the greatest sastric contradictions we find today is the concentration of wealth held by Iskcons sannyasis and gurus and Temple Managers. This wealth has been created for these men by their disciples and supporters, many going through great hardship to create the wealth for the sannyasis, who set the political agenda for the society each year at the GBC meetings.
Having such huge amounts of wealth at their disposal, allows these men to keep the apple cart up-right and to their advantage, rather than tip the apple cart over and share the apples with all the members of the society.
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Notes from the Bhagavatam (5) | Yashoda Nandana Prabhu
Good morning prabhus.
Obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
One more time again!! The devotees loved this one…pump up the volume, in fact DROP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GET UP AND JOIN!!
12 hour kirtan organized by ISKCON Bangalore
Michael Clarke Duncan: ‘I Am a Vegetarian’
Mai 14-2012, USA (PETA) — Nominated for an Oscar for his starring role in The Green Mile, FOX’s The Finder‘s, Michael Clarke Duncan‘s healthful vegetarian diet keeps him in the best shape of his life. Once plagued by illnesses and spending thousands of dollars on meat, Michael has turned his health around by going vegetarian. He joins Russell Simmons, Bill Clinton, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, and a long list of other healthy, compassionate men whose meat-free lifestyles help save animals’ lives and their own.
Watch Michael’s exclusive behind-the-scenes interview to hear his story:
Spiritual life means eternity, blissful life of knowledge | Arrival Adress, Stockholm
video: TheVedicStudent
Srila Prabhupada, Stockholm, September 5, 1973: So first of all we have to understand this distinction between the spirit soul and this material body. If we can understand what is that spirit soul, then we can understand what is this spiritual movement. Otherwise, simply on material understanding, it is very difficult to understand what is spiritual life or spiritual platform.
But there is. We can simply feel like that at the present moment, but there is a spiritual world, spiritual life. And what is that spiritual life? Complete freedom. Complete freedom. Eternity, blissful and full of knowledge. That is spiritual life. Completely distinct from this bodily concept of life.
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Bhagavad-gita “Classic” from the BBT! | OneIskcon.com
By Raya Nitai Dasa Vanacari | Oneiskcon.com
May 15, 2012, USA — Last year OneISKCON sent out a press release informing the society of devotees of the plans of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in regards to the printing and availability for distribution of the 1972 Macmillan edition of Srila Prabhupada’s bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Oneiskcon.com has also been following the progress throughout the last year.
I am transcendentally proud to announce that I have recently had the pleasure of purchasing twenty cases of original edition Bhagavad-gita’s from the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust!
Each case contains twenty hardbound (wonderfully constructed) copies of the unrevised 1972 edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Cases are priced at $100.00 US, so that puts the individual copies at $5.00 US each. These books the most beautiful books in the universe! They are selling like wildfire.
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Hare Krishna Mantra is the best Yajna Sacrifice | Letter to Yamuna
Sunday, May 17, 1970
Los Angeles
My Dear Yamuna,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your very nice letter dated 8th May, 1970, and noted the contents with interest. Thank you for your determination. For the way in which I am trying to expand I require so many sincere assistants.
So the program which you have listed for the students and your daily schedule are very nice, and your schedule is fully approved. Just see that everything–Aratrik, Bhoga offering, etc. is done strictly on time. When every moment one is engaged it is called avyarta kalatvam which means not to spoil even a single moment of life without Krsna Consciousness.
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Sri Sri Radha Vrindavana-chandra Mandir
Akshaya Patra Campus
Gopal Garh, Chatikara Road
Vrindavana, Mathura Dist
Uttar Pradesh, India
Dead Sound – Living Sound HD
video credit: SacisutaDasa
“That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavad-gita, paras tasmat tu bhavah anyah: [Bg. 8.20] “There is another bhava,” means nature, “that is sanatana nature, eternal nature.” This nature, this sky, is temporary. It has got a duration of life, maybe millions and trillions of years, but it is not permanent. It is emanating from the Supreme Lord’s breathing period. Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah [Bs. 5.48]. So after this sky, there is another sky, and the sound produced from that sky is omkara and Hare Krsna mantra. This is the sound vibration from the spiritual sky. Therefore it is effective immediately. Just like you contact thousands of miles away—somebody is speaking, and you can contact by the sound vibration you catch up with your machine, radio machine—similarly, the sound vibration from the spiritual sky you can also receive. That is Hare Krsna mantra.”
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.47
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bombay, January 22, 1975
An Invitation to all Prabhupadanugas | Malaya Giri Dham
Hare Krsna,
We are humbly requesting the attention of all sincere devotees of Srila Prabhupada,
We, at Malaya Giri Dham, the only Hare Krishna farm community in Malaysia, being a strictly Prabhupadanuga community, would like to invite like-minded Prabhupadanugas to come and stay for life and engage in positive service to Srila Prabhupada and engage in preaching activities in the region of South-East Asia (if not farther).
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One must know what the spirit soul is within this body | Letter to Mr. Nigam
Sunday, 11 May, 1975
Perth, Australia
Sri K. C. Nigam
Convenor, All India Spiritual Conference
Durgadevi Road
Kanpur, INDIA
My dear Mr. Nigam,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 11th, 1975 and have noted the contents.
Now, I am on world tour. At present, I am staying in Perth, Australia, then in one week, I shall go to Melbourne, then Fiji, then Honolulu where I will stay for at least one month. Then I shall go to Philadelphia and San Francisco, etc.
I am very glad that you are holding some spiritual conference, but my only request is to follow the standard method of spiritual consciousness. One must know first of all, what is the spiritual basis. Anyone who is accepting this body as the self, he is no better than the cats and dogs.
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Sunnyvale Prabhupada’s Temple Program
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Hare Krishna – Sir Ivan [HD]
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“Your ambition for chanting Hare Krishna exclusively is very good. But sacrificing the results of action is as good. A concrete example is Arjuna. He fought very chivalrously under the instructions of the Lord, and the Lord certified him to be the best devotee and friend of the Lord. So there is no distinction between chanting and offering the results of one’s activity. Sometimes under the garb of chanting people take to the habit of laziness, which is not required at all.”
Srila Prabhupada letter to Dayananda: May 10, 1968
prabhupadanugas
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- “Instinct”
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