Vyasa-puja Offering Book 2013
Dear Devotees,
ISKCON Bangalore will be publishing an yearly Vyasa-puja Offering Book, which will be offered to Srila Prabhupada on Vyasa-puja day. Devotees are invited to submit their offering so that it can be published in the book. please see the poster below for more details.
Please note last date for submitting your offering is August 5, 2013
Krishna fulfills the ultimate spiritual desire of everyone | Letter to Vrindavana Candra
video: PRABHUPADA TRANSLATES KRSNA BOOK INTRO | RALPHLAURINO
19 July, 1970
Los Angeles
My Dear Vrindavana Candra,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 12th July, 1970, and noted the contents.
I am very glad that Haladhara has gone to join you in Baltimore center. Now you are three men strong so carry on our program nicely and gradually more sincere souls will come. Do not be disappointed but be always engaged in pushing on Sankirtana, distribution of our literatures, Prasadam, and preaching and classes and sincere souls will come. It is only required that we work very sincerely and Krishna will provide all facilities according to our endeavor.
Regarding your first question: When a person becomes a perfect yogi he can transfer himself to any planet in the material or spiritual sky at his will. That is the perfection of the mystic yoga process. Generally the yogis are impersonalists, therefore they transfer to higher planets within this material world. This is explained in the Second Canto of Bhagavatam. In Chapter VIII, verse XIII of the Gita it is described that the yogi is thinking of the Lord while vibrating Om, so he goes to the Lord’s Abode because he is thinking of Krishna.
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You have to understand how Krishna’s potency is working
video: Watching a Timelapse of Plants Growing Is Grossly Alien | Casey Chan
Prabhupada, New York, July 17, 1976: [...] By the sun’s illumination we see practically how trees are growing their leaves, their color. Everything is due to the sunshine, we have got practical experience.
Where there is no sunshine, especially in these countries, all the leaves fall down, and as soon as there is sunshine, immediately millions and trillions of leaves come out. Immediately. Not that waiting. Immediately.
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Bhaktivedanta Archives: The VedaBase & Windows 8
video: Bhaktivedanta Archives Vani Samadhi
Dear Bhaktivedanta Archives Prabhus, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Help!
How do we get the VedaBase to work on Windows 8 computers? None of the techniques that we used to get it to work on Windows 7 seem to work for Windows 8! 
Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa
Madhuha Dasa
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Dear Pratyatosa Prabhu,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I asked the same question to Ekanatha Prabhu and below is his answer. We followed his directions in his email below, and now the same folio works fine on our new Lenovo laptop with Windows 8.
Your friend and servant
madhuha dasa
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Please follow the below instructions and you should be fine.
Changing the compatibility mode for the VedaBase to run in Windows 7 or 8 64 bit.
1. After the installation hangs or freezes, reboot your PC with the CD removed.
2. Right click on the ‘Views’ icon in C:\Bhaktivedanta VedaBase 2003\. (Views.exe)
3. Click on ‘Properties’.
4. Click on the ‘Compatibility’ tab.
5. Check the box next to “Run this program in compatibility mode for:”
6. And then choose the appropriate operating system
(Select Windows XP (Service Pack 2)).
7. Click on Apply and then click OK.
I hope this helps. Please let me know.
Sent from my mobile device
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/istagosthi/sKtTt-T82Zk
contains further information. (A tutorial on how to install the fonts)
To be poor man in this world, material world, is a curse for ordinary, general people
video: Iskconbangaloregroup
Prabhupada, New York, November 28, 1966: [...] So Lord Caitanya explained to the poverty-stricken man that simile. The astrologer is foretelling about the poverty-stricken man that, “You are a very rich man’s son. Your father has got so much wealth, but you do not know. Therefore you are suffering.” To be poor man in this world, material world, is a curse for ordinary, general people.
Those who are spiritually enriched, they have nothing to do with this poverty or richness of this material world. But those who are under the concept of material life, poverty is a curse for them. So living entities, they are not meant for being poverty-stricken because they are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, the supreme proprietor.
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Cow Protection Presentation | PDF Slideshow
BY: SATYAHIT DAS
Jul 21, 2013 — ALACHUA, FLORIDA (ROCANA’S SUN) — The following PDF is a very telling slideshow. It exposes the slaughter house industry for what it is — based on 100% ignorance. I presented it yesterday at the Gainesville public library and plan to present it in more places.
Please watch/read it and distribute it, so that as many as possible may gain a deeper understanding of the cruelty and ignorance on which the slaughter house industry is based.
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The Motto | Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto One, Volume 1 – 1962
video: 2013 Mayapur, H.G. Saci Kumar Prabhu sings, “Gauranga Bolite Habe”
Hasti Gopala Dasa: From the Srimad-Bhagavatam by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srimad-Bhagavatam First Part 1962
It is admitted even in the higher circle that in fact, the whole root and background of Indian culture is wrapped in the Sanskrit language. And we know that the foreign invaders of India could break down some of the monumental architectural work in India but they were unable to break up the perfect ideals of human civilization so far kept hidden within the Sanskrit language of Vedic wisdom.
Srimad Bhagavatam is the mature ripened fruit of the tree of Vedic literature ( pp. 66. ). We have just begun to give it rendered into English with broader outlook and it is the duty of the leading Indians to spread up the culture all over the world at this momentous hour of need.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabupada
Krishna Consciousness is not some invented process brought to America in an altered form | Letter to Martin Malles
video: What is Krishna Consciousness? (By Puranjan das pt. 1) | pada1008
July 22, 1969
Los Angeles
Dear Martin Malles,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter postdated July 17, 1969, and I have carefully noted the contents.
I am very pleased to note that you have been coming to our Krishna Consciousness temple in New York and what you are learning there from the disciples and from our literature is provoking you to think very deeply on the matters of self-realization. Actually, what the devotees there are telling you about the Hatha Yoga system is correct. In Bhagavad-gita you will find confirmation of the fact that this Hatha Yoga system is not so easy process as you have been led to believe by various “masters”.
To do actual Hatha Yoga one must not live in the city, but he must go to a sacred spot, and completely freed from all attachments and all material desires and disturbances, he must concentrate his mind upon the Lord within his heart. This process is not completed in just six months time, but it extends over many, many lifetimes. So in this age of Kali Yuga it is not possible to faithfully follow the procedures of Hatha Yoga because our minds are too restless and our lives are very brief.
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You are completely in the hands of the Nature | Lecture at Krishna Niketan, Gorakhpur
video: How Do Bees Know Which Flowers Have More Nectars | geobeats
Prabhupada, Gorakhpur, February 16, 1971: [...] You are completely in the hands of the nature. How, after shaving, how your hairs are growing, do you know?
Devotee: No.
Prabhupada: Then? It is completely under the hands of the nature. Similarly, everything is. As you cannot explain, cannot know how the hairs are growing, similarly, you cannot know how you are changing. It is, by nature, it is being done so nicely. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala… It is taking place. A flower is fructified. Can you explain how it is fructified? It is taking place. The foolish persons, they say “Automatically.” No.
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Mathematics of the Honeycomb: Chance of Physics vs Bee’s Intelligence
As Paramatma, Supersoul, the Lord is living in everyone’s heart, and from Him only does one’s power of remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness follow [mattah smritir jnanam apohanam ca, Bhagavad-gita (15.15)].
Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 2: “The Cosmic Manifestation”
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
video: Mathematics of the Honeycomb | Jill Britton
Nature.com: How honeycombs can build themselves
Physical forces rather than bees’ ingenuity might create the hexagonal cells.
Philip Ball | Nature.com
17 July 2013
The perfect hexagonal array of bees’ honeycombs, admired for millennia as an example of natural pattern formation, owes more to simple physical forces than to the skill of bees, according to a new study.
Engineer Bhushan Karihaloo at the University of Cardiff, UK, and his co-workers say that bees simply make cells that are circular in cross section and are packed together like a layer of bubbles. According to their research, which appears in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface1, the wax, softened by the heat of the bees’ bodies, then gets pulled into hexagonal cells by surface tension at the junctions where three walls meet.
This finding feeds into a long-standing debate about whether the honeycomb is an example of exquisite biological engineering or blind physics.
A regular geometric array of identical cells with simple polygonal cross sections can take only one of three forms: triangular, square or hexagonal. Of these, hexagons divide up the space using the smallest wall area, and thus, for a honeycomb, the least wax.
If there is light, where there is question of darkness?
video: MAYAPUR 1972 | Ralph Laurino
Prabhupada, New York, November 29, 1966: [...] So in this life, while we are in the material world, so we have our material body. So this devotional service, Krishna consciousness, doing everything in Krishna consciousness, this is just like, what is called, apprenticeship to reach that highest stage. The same thing will be there in your liberated stage in the spiritual kingdom.
But here, by the order of the sastra, by the guidance of the spiritual master, you are being trained up as apprentice. This is called abhidheya, abhidheya, practice, practice. But even in practice you will feel that “I am making progress.” It is such a thing. ‘Abhidheya’ bali’ tare sarva-sastre gaya. And,
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Dusyanta dasa’s article — Who is Guru? (From Rocana’s Sampradaya Sun)
Who is Guru?
BY: DUSYANTA DASA | Rocana’s Sampradaya Sun
Having enjoyed reading the presentations by Vraja Vilasa Prabhu over the last week I would love to continue the debate to hand. Mainly I agree with some of the points that Vraja Vilasa makes, but there are certain holes in his presentation and his representation of what he thinks Srila Prabhupada is stating.
From the beginning most devotees would agree that a Guru is vital. I am sure all camps would agree with this principle. I don’t think there is any dispute over this principle. To follow Srila Prabhupada and all the other examples given by acting in the way…
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God is within this universe, within your heart, even within your atom
video: Our Philosophy is that Everything Belongs to God – Srila Prabhupada | VanimediaMayapur
Prabhupada, Los Angeles, December 25, 1973: [...] So santah, those who are saintly persons, those who have developed love of Krishna, they can see Krishna every moment. Santah sadaiva. Sadaiva means “every moment”. They do not see anything except Krishna. That is saintly person. Rascals inquire, “Have you seen God?” “Not seen God, sir. He is seeing every moment.” There is no question of seeing God once. No. Sadaiva. Santah sadaiva.
How one can see sadaiva? Krishna is already there. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61]. The location is given here in the Bhagavad-gita, that you can see God, not you have to go far away from your place.
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Sankaracarya gave a hint about Brahman, teaching everyone to think, aham brahmasmi, “I am the spirit self”
video: Carmella Gitanjali Kirtan ISKCON Melbourne
Both Buddhism and Mayavada philosophy reveal only partial truth. Sankaracarya’s Mayavada philosophy accepts Brahman, spirit, but does not describe spirit in its fullness. Mayavada philosophy teaches that as soon as we become cognizant of our existence as Brahman (aham brahmasmi), then all our activities come to a stop. But this is not a fact. The living entity is always active. It may seem that in meditation one can stop all sensual activity, but still one is meditating, and that is also action.
While meditating on Brahman, the Mayavadi thinks, “I have become God.” In one sense, of course, it is correct to think, “I am one with God,” for as spirit souls we are all one with God in quality. But no one can ever become quantitatively one with God. In the Bhagavad-gita (15.7) Krsna declares that the living entities are “part and parcel of Me.” Krsna is completely spiritual (sac-cid-ananda), so each particle of spirit must also be sac-cid-ananda, just as a gold earring is qualitatively one with the gold in a gold mine. Still, the gold earring is not the gold mine.
A Second Chance:
The Story of a Near-Death Experience
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Timeless words from Srila Prabhupada – 1936 Vyasa Puja Offering
Gentlemen, the offering of such an homage as has been arranged this evening to the Acaryadeva is not a sectarian concern, for when we speak of the fundamental principle of gurudeva, or acaryadeva, we speak of something that is of universal application. There does not arise any question of discriminating my guru from yours or anyone else’s. There is only one guru, who appears in an infinity of forms to teach you, me, and all others.
Hearing: The Real Tradition
video: Hare Krishna Street Parties | SATURDAY AFTERNOON HARINAM (Watford 13 – 7- 2013)
By Vidura Das
In the article by Vraja Vilasa Dasa from the Sampradaya Sun Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right, the author writes: “Real surrender to Srila Prabhupada means we should follow Srila Prabhupada’s instructions on accepting a physically manifest guru…” I would like focus this article especially on this statement because this seems to be the central point from which the author makes his assertions. First and foremost, Srila Prabhupada has never instructed anywhere that we should approach a “physically manifest guru”. Sure there are places where Srila Prabhupada says we must approach a spiritual master, hear from him, render service under him, and inquire from him – submissively. These are the general aspects of the guru-disciple relationship. However, these aspects do not necessitate the guru from whom one takes initiation being present in his physically manifest [spiritual] body. All of the above aspects of approaching a spiritual master can be done through Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books, as the following quotes by Srila Prabhupada prove:
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That is the meaning of Parampara system | Letter to Bali Mardan
video: Hare Krishna Tent – News Coverage | The Guardian
15 July, 1970
Los Angeles
My Dear Bali Mardan,
Please accept my blessings. I am so glad to receive your letter dated 8th July, and I was expecting to receive it every moment.
[...]
I am very glad to know that you are keeping your accounts up to date with BTG and the book fund. This is good and proper management. So you continue to keep these accounts weekly.
I am also very glad to know that you think Melbourne a good place for establishing a temple and you are eager to accept this establishment of temples in the Australia area as your life and soul. Yes, as I have taken this work as my life and soul on the order of my Spiritual Master, similarly if you take my desires as life and soul, then the whole thing is immediately connected with Krsna.
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VEDIC VILLAGE REVIEW # 26 | Prabhupadanuga Farm in Fiji
July 16, 2013. New Jayapur, Prabhupadanuga Farm in Fiji
NEW PASSION FRUIT RACK
Passion fruit is a vine that requires a trellis, fence, or rack upon which to grow and produces round fruits up to 3 inches in size. They are used widely in fruit juices and condiments. We use them to make a juice drink for deity offerings (and subsequently, lunch prasadam!). The taste is superbly heavenly; there are yellow and purple varieties. Two years ago one of the first things I planted was 7 vines and Jordan built a rack . However, the bush sticks he used rotted quickly and we had to crawl underneath to look for fruits, an inconvenient and dirty chore. So it was time for a new rack, which was much larger, taller, and built from buabua posts (the longest lasting hardwood in Fiji) with strands of #8 wire. With leverage by long sticks, pushing by bodyweight, rerouting by tedious handwork, the myriad of tangled vines was propped up onto and hooked or tied to the new rack wires and poles.
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Surround Sound and the Big Mridanga
video: Narsimha Dev Appearance Day – Mayapur | Published on Jul 16, 2013
BY: RAKSHANA DAS
Jul 16, 2013 — AUSTRALIA (ROCANA’S SUN) —
I recently presented a compilation of quotes by Srila Prabhupada representing some of the methods in which spiritual knowledge can be imparted. I preceded the quotes by assuring the reader that they are not a challenge to the eternal principle of accepting a bona fide spiritual master and surrendering to him, nor an alternative to association with saintly devotees.
In response, one devotee proceeded to argue against Srila Prabhupada’s own quotes by using more of Srila Prabhupada’s own quotes, and then claiming victory by establishing unchallenged siddhanta in a one man argument against himself.
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If everyone becomes ruler or acarya, then how our International Society can be managed?
video: Netrotsava – A Divine Festival for the eyes
Suppose we are in a group, this, our International Society. If everyone becomes ruler or acarya, then how it can be managed? No. There must be some head. That is the principle in our practical life.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.7
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mayapur, March 9, 1974
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