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Defamation of the Hare Krsna movement

by Axel Springer STERN Magazine

Statement by the International Society for Krsna Consciousness

After a few months ago in Stern magazine's biased reporting on the aims and activities of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness, we see it as our duty, in the public interest, to escalate the recent slanderous coverage, especially in the Springer press to comment.

Defamation of the Hare Krsna movement by Axel Springer STERN…

THE EROTIC PRINCIPLE

AND

UNALLOYED DEVOTION

BY

NISI KANTA SANYAL, M.A.

Prof. Nisi Kanta Sanyal

Senior Professor of History, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa)

REVISED WITH A FOREWORD

BY

HIS DIVINE GRACE

OM VISHNUPAD PARAMAHAMSA

SRI SRIMAD BHAKTI SIDDHANTA SARASVATI

SRILA BHAKTI SIDDHANTA SARASVATI

GOSWAMI PRABHUPAD

PUBLISHED BY

SRI SAJJAN SUHRID DAS ADHIKARI, M.A., B.L.

SRI GAUDIYA MATH, BAGHBAZAR,…

There is a website about ISKCON Germanys early days ,actually our ISKCON Denmark history was also affected by the German devotees

There first devotees that came to Denmark to preach where from Germany ,BhaktiBhusana Swami was then a grhastha and had a small daughter ,his wife had left ISKCON but he insisted to keep the daughter and her mother told the West German Police her daughter was kidnapped, because Bhakti Bhusana Swami had taken his daughter out of the temple and to Copenhagen…

Meaning of the Hare Kṛṣṇa Mantra

Once Vallabhacarya met Mahaprabhu in Jagannatha Puri and asked about the meaning of Kṛṣṇa’s name. Lord Caitanya was sitting amongst His most intimate followers including Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Advaita Acarya, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, Sri Svarupa Damodara, Sri Raya Ramananda, Sri Rupa Gosvami and Sikhi Mahiti. When Mahaprabhu failed to reply, Vallabhacarya repeated the question because he wanted to present his own scholarly explanation. Finally…

dandavat pranams at the feet of the true vaisnavas

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

This chapter explained the transcendental ecstacy of Lord Caitanya .He is the Supreme Lord and showing us to how serve Radha Krsna in the mood of a manjari .Lord Caitanya came to experience the love of Sri Radha and the Gopis and bestow manjari bhava on those who are qualified .Of course not everyone will become a manjari , most in the material world is…

SB 1.6: Conversation Between Nārada and Vyāsadeva

SB 1.6.1 — Sūta said: O brāhmaṇas, thus hearing all about Śrī Nārada’s birth and activities, Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God and son of Satyavatī, inquired as follows.

SB 1.6.2 — Śrī Vyāsadeva said: What did you [Nārada] do after the departure of the great sages who had instructed you in scientific transcendental knowledge before the beginning of your present birth?

SB 1.6.3 — O son of Brahmā, how did you pass your…

Prayers to Lord Jagannatha,

Sri Krishna as the Lord of the Universe

Jagannathastaka 

(As issued from the mouth of Lord Caitanya)

kadacit kalindi-tata-vipina-sangitaka-ravo

mudabhiri-nari-vadana-kamalasvada-madhupaha

rama-shambhu-brahmamara-pati-ganesharcita-pado

jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

"Sometimes in great happiness Lord Jagannatha, with His flute, makes a loud concert in the groves on the banks…

pranams to the vaisnavas

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga

all glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krsna says in Bhagavad Gita He is the chanting of His own Holy names ,Nama Astakam was given by Srila Rupa Goswami and is for our daily remembrance and benefit :

(1)

nikhila-sruti-mauli-ratna-mala-

dyuti-nirajita-pada-pankajanta

ayi mukta-kulair upasyamanam

paritas tvam hari-nama samsrayami

(2)

jaya namadheya muni-vrnda-geya he…

Chapter Two

Narada Endeavours to Remove Bhakti’s Distress

Sri Narada advice to bhakti devi-meditete on Krishnas feet

Sri Narada said, “O young lady, why are you in so much anxiety? Don’t be melancholy unnecessary. Just meditate on the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna and by His mercy you will be free from all misery.1

( 1. This is the only panacea for anxiety. When the mind is fixed on Krsna, it cannot experience agitation. That’s why devotees are always free from…

Srimad Bhagavatam Mahatmya- Padma Purana

Chapter One

The Meeting of Narada Muni and Bhakti Devi

Invocation

Obeisances unto Lord Sri Krsna

We offer our humble obeisances unto Lord Sri Krsna, whose transcendental form is bliss personified. He is the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of the universe and the destroyer of the three types of miseries.

Humble obeisances to Sri Sukadeva Gosvami

We pay our humble obeisances to Sri Sukadeva…

SB 1.5: Nārada’s Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for Vyāsadeva

SB 1.5.1 — Sūta Gosvāmī said: Thus the sage amongst the gods [Nārada], comfortably seated and apparently smiling, addressed the ṛṣi amongst the brāhmaṇas [Vedavyāsa].

SB 1.5.2 — Addressing Vyāsadeva, the son of Parāśara, Nārada inquired: Are you satisfied by identifying with the body or the mind as objects of self-realization?

SB 1.5.3 — Your inquiries were full and your studies were also well…

“ Sachidanand rupaya vishvotpatyadi hetve, tapatraya vinashaya shri krsnaya vayam namah ”

In Naimisharanya, where 88,000 sages had assembled for a sacrificial yagna for a thousand years, Suta expounded the glory of Shrimad Bhagwat and informed Saunaka and the other sages that Shrimad Bhagwat secures the attainment of moksha by any person just as Pariksit attained it when Suka expounded the Shrimad Bhagwat to him. Sutapuran then commenced the discourse by giving an insight of the…

Lakshmi Narasimha Dandakam

Lakshmi Narasimha Dandakam

(To remove fear of enemies and rejoining of our dear ones who have parted from us)

Thwayi gathavathi dandakaranya veedhim , parithyajya rajyam, sahaiva sriyaa sithaayaa savinayabhara lakshmane nanuyathe pithusthe giraa Rama sarve sumanthraadhayaa kshanamapi na vishe hire vipra yogam thava smaarayantha smaranthascha ye kosalaa parama purusha divya Lakshmi narasimha prabho thwad padaalambha lagnaan namasyaam…

Sri Chaitanya

Adi Lila Chapter Two

All glories, all glories to the beatific Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who is Sri Jagannatha Misra's son and the Supreme Lord of all.

All glories to Lord Chaitanya, the life and soul of Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Gadadhara Pandita. All glories, all glories to the shelter of Sri Advaita Acarya and the other devotees.

All glories to Lord Sri Gauranga and His associates. One receives loving devotion to the Supreme simply by hearing…

February, 1968

680201iv.la

Interview

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February 1, 1968, Los Angeles

Interviewer: I think the first question is kind of basic, is why is everything always taped at all the...

Prabhupāda: Because we have got so many branches, they want to hear me, my singing, my speech, therefore they record it and send it to different branches. We have got thirteen, fourteen branches: one in New York, one in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Boston, Montreal, Vancouver,…

Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play

Between Śrīla Prabhupāda and Hayagrīva

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April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco

Prabhupāda: ...recording?

Hayagrīva: Good.

Prabhupāda: The first scene is that people passing on with saṅkīrtana movement as we have, as we usually do, very nice procession with mṛdaṅga, karatālas and that bugle, all people, just in the ordinary way. We have to make a nice procession. The second scene is that Kali, the personified Kali, a person should be…

SB 1.4: The Appearance of Śrī Nārada

SB 1.4.1 — Vyāsadeva said: On hearing Sūta Gosvāmī speak thus, Śaunaka Muni, who was the elderly, learned leader of all the ṛṣis engaged in that prolonged sacrificial ceremony, congratulated Sūta Gosvāmī by addressing him as follows.

SB 1.4.2 — Śaunaka said: O Sūta Gosvāmī, you are the most fortunate and respected of all those who can speak and recite. Please relate the pious message of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was spoken by the great and…

http://truth.prabhupada.org.uk/circumcision-is-a-demoniac-attack-on-human-or-aryan-culture

they claim

CIRCUMCISION is bad for celibacy and why so many Jews became gays also. However there are gays and lesbians in Kali yuga

Jewish Hare Krsnas are more evil is the claim , but there are good and bad everywhere some of Hitlers SA(before SS) people where gays though when…

he gave a lecture day before Gaura Purnima in Mayapure on day before the 40th year of his taking sannyasa in Mayapure in 1979

and quoted Daksa Smrti first time I heard of this book ,interestingly it is actually a book about celibacy ,written by Daksa

no translation of the book online but a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=NmzGLdtSuXg

this was not in the…

I was thinking about the lecture this morning at ISKCON LA. Cooperation , COOPERATION , Srila Prabhupada said Krsna consciouness will only spread to the degree we cooperate to spread KC.Just like in war time .When USA was attacked on 7th December of 1941 by Japan ,Maya has already declared

war not only against United States but against every human being and animals on Earth , the Illusory energy is trying to destroy everything'

good in Kali yuga and Kali personified has the aid of…