June 2026 Blog Posts (11)

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Understanding queen Kuntis prayer and her death

TEXT 41

atha viśveśa viśvātman

viśva-mūrte sva-keṣu me

sneha-pāśam imaṁ chindhi

dṛḍhaṁ pāṇḍuṣu vṛṣṇiṣu

SYNONYMS

atha—therefore; viśva-īśa—O Lord of the universe; viśva-ātman—O soul of the universe; viśva-mūrte—O personality of the universal form; sva-keṣu—unto my own kinsmen; me—my; sneha-pāśam—tie of affection; imam—this; chindhi—cut off; dṛḍham—deep; pāṇḍuṣu—for the Pāṇḍavas; vṛṣṇiṣu—for the Vṛṣṇis…

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Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the most beautiful of them all ?

We grew up thinking I am the body ,,it is so pervasive in the material world ,,what we see if not our real self rather the reaction of our past karma ,,we as devotees know this ,,Srila Prabhupadas explains in the 3 chapter of Bhagavad Gita that love of Krsna has been transferred from love of Krsna to lust in the material world,, so basically we do not know who we are and what love is because often love in this material world… Continue

Some devotees went to Jagannath Puri and said I never saw Lord Jagannath I feel so unfortunate,, I laugh did you not see Patita Pavana Jagannath at the entrance to the Temple ? So you have taken Darshan

Patita Pavana Jagannatha.

While entering the Jagannatha temple at Puri from Simha Dvara (lion gate) the Deity of Patita Pavana Jagannatha is at base of the inside temple wall on the right. How He appeared is an interesting story.

Around 1730 AD, there was a ruler in Orissa…

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gandhena gāvaḥ paśyanti vedaiḥ paśyanti brāhmaṇāḥ

cāraiḥ paśyanti rājānaś cakṣurbhyām itare janāḥ

"A brahmana sees through the sastras. A king sees through his spies. A cow sees through its nose. And, an ordinary man sees through his eyes."

(Mahābhārata, Udyoga-parva, 34.32, spoken by Vidura to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

here is a link to Vidur Niti …

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What is my eternal relationship with Krishna ?

Srila Prabhupada came to give us clear understanding of the soul and and karma akama and devotional service,,but the question is to be raised do you know your eternal relationship with Krsna ? What rasa do you serve in in Goloka Vrindavana ? Or are you a Vaikuntha Bhakta,, or it does not matter at all to you because you are so absorbed in paying bills and have no time for your eternal relationship with Krsna ? Or you live in a temple and it…

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