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"You need not become such a scholar. You require simply to understand Sastras Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, etc. and chant Hare Krsna Mantra as much as possible. The thing is if you give more stress on scholarly line, other devotees will try to imitate you. Already your wife has express such intention, and as soon as we…

Thanks to Manonatha Prabhu we can have darsan of Baldeo Dauji on the outer portion of Vraja Mandala. There’s lots of other nectar on Prabhu’s site so head on over.

Here you can have daily darsan of Krishna-Balarama in Vrindavana: www.vrindavandarshan.com  

Further to the previous article posted about the Bhaktivedanta audio recordings ….. " In the late 1980s all the known audio tapes of Srila Prabhupada were transferred from reel-to-reel and cassette to DAT as part of the normal archival procedure for preservation. More than a decade has passed, and with the development of new technology…

Here’s something that made me happy to read. For quite some time I’ve been annoyed by the fact that the audio series of Srila Prabhupada’s spoken lectures and morning walks are actually truncated from the original recordings. Often there are entire dialogues with essential teachings missing from the versions we can read in the Bhaktivedanta…

The swami’s whirlwind East Coast tour was just one small manifestation of a significant but sometimes quirky new trend: Big Business is embracing Indian philosophy. Suddenly, phrases from ancient Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita are popping up in management tomes and on Web sites of consultants. Top business schools have introduced “self-mastery” classes…

Before my presentation of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, almost all the English editions of Bhagavad-gita were introduced to fulfill someone?s personal ambition. . . . Generally the so-called scholars, politicians, philosophers, and svamis, without perfect knowledge of Krsna, try to banish or kill Krsna when writing commentary on Bhagavad-gita. Such unauthorized commentary upon Bhagavad-gita is…

?Patrolling On the Lord’s Command? by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur nadiya-godrume nityananda mahajana patiyache nam-hatta jivera karana In the land of Nadiya, on the island of Godruma, the magnanimous Lord Nityananda has opened up the Marketplace of the Holy Name, meant for the deliverance of all fallen souls. (sraddhavan jan he, sraddhavan jan he) prabhura ajnay,…

“We all know that there is a wide range of potential adoptive parents out there, including lesbians and gay men who can provide a loving home for children.” This is embarrassing. Makes me want to get out of the material world in a hurry though.

“I have heard that you may be going to Heidelberg, Germany, where there is a very large and important university. That is our best field. Become yourself very convinced and learned in our Krishna philosophy and take it into such university and contaminate everything with it. We are not afraid to challenge every mundane philosopher…

Check this out. This battle pits a 200 pound jaguar against and 300 pound anaconda. jivo jivasya jivanam

“The worldly people generally cherish doubleness of heart or duplicity, speaking out one thing abroad and concealing a different thing inside. And the funny part of it is that they are anxious to present this doubleness of their heart to the public as liberality or the virtue of conciliation. These double-tongued men give to the…