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dear devotees

dandavat pranams all glories to the lotusfeet of my Gurudeva and Srila Prabhupada

One can not worship Lord Caitanya and neglect the other members of the Pancatattva this will not please Lord Caitanya.

In chapter 5 of the Adi lila of the CC this has been explained in detail by Krsna das Kaviraja:

http://vedabase.net/cc/adi/7/en

These slokas describing the Pancatattva are so important I will post them…

Srimati Radharni appears from a lotusflower in the Yamuna same time She is born to Mother Kirtida ...are you confused yet hehe hehe?

i Dina Jani

Author: Narahari Cakravarti

TRANSLATION

1) On Radhika’s birthday no one in Vraja could remain peaceful. With great joy Nanda, Yasoda, and the others all went to Brishabhanu’s home.

2) Vrsabhanu greeted Nanda, and Kirtida greeted Yasoda. In the courtyard the cowherd people showered each other with yogurt, turmeric,…

Srila Haridas Thakura at some point chanted in a cave, and chanted 192 rounds daily , so he would have no bad association ,devotees used to visit him , but there was a huge snake that made it impossible for others to visit him and finally Srila Haridas Thakura prayed to Lord Paramatma to ask the snake to leave the cave, which it did.

 

One devotee born in Guyana lived in Hawaii when his grhastha life fell apart and his wife and children left him ,Vrindavana Bihari…

shaved headed Hare Krsna monk as Santa Claus on Yonge street Toronto

I can not imagine being on Yonge street in Toronto soliciting donations without a hat it was super cold when I distributed Srila Prahbupadas books there in 1991 December

this must have been in the 1970th and 80th ,I must say it was so freezing cold that December many gave 20 Canadian dollars and took a book,they must have thought I was super sincere because the wind and the cold was…

my dear student and disciple Miniketana Rama Prabhu chants Jagannathastakam daily and 1000 names of Lord Balarama and then also chant 64 rounds daily, I am inspired by him he is a real devotee of Lord Jagannath to chant this Jagannathastakam daily and I need to follow his footsteps

Jagannathashtakam by Adi Sankaracharya

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kadacit…

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One should not take the order or the socalled superiors to take to family life, we have seen this in ISKCON how sannyasis gets furious when you refuse to marry some female devotee they want you too , Garga Samhita also explains that Lord Brahma cursed Narada Muni before he wanted to just chant the glories of Krsna , Brahma cursed him to become born in the heavenly planets, and for some time he became a Gandharva and was singing songs of the…

This is from ISKCON Almvik Sweden , please note Sri Advaita Acarya without beard, Harikesa had Sri Advaita Acarya installed without beard in line with Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupadas instruction to never have Sri Advaita Acarya with a beard in Gaudiya Math as Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada called Sri Advaita with a beard for Sahajiya

ISKCON fasting used to be till evening and then only Ekadasi prasadam :

Skanda Purana states:

matr ha pitr has caiva…

I once stayed in an ISKCON temple where the TP took a fat salary and he was also stealing from the temple but somehow he wanted to borrow my Bhakti Ratnakara ,,, eventually I was asked to leave because I exposed that the temple was doing Demigod worship to make money and there were so many nonsense things going on ,he was suprised I asked to give me my copy of Bhakti Ratnakara back , I told him you make Vaisnava Aparadha and you want to keep my Bhakti Ratnakara also ,what kind of person are…

I thought I had written a commentary to Sri Advaita Prakash 12 years ago along with the rest of the book , but never mind I will write another .Lord Caitanya ordered Lord Nityananda to enter grhastha life and thus he went and married His eternal consorts Sri Jahnava mata and Vasudeva, previously as Lord Balarama in Dvarpara yuga Jahnava mata appeared as Revati :here is the pastime of Revati from Visnu Purana:from Wikipedia

Vishnu Purana narrates the tale of…

In 1986 i had the good fortune to meet and get the association of Visvambhara Goswami from Radha Ramana and he helped me and advised me in worshipping Salagrama Sila

and gave me blessings to worship Govardhana Sila ..one of the requirements one needs to worship Giriraja sila is to get the blessing of a Vrijabasi Vaisnava that is properly worshipping Sri Krsna, well who could be a better person than Visvambhara Goswami whos family has worshipped Sri Sri Radha Ramana for over 500 years on…

some interesting stuff about Rukmi :

Rukmi - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rukmi

Mahabharata character

Rukmi

Miniature Painting, Krishna releases the defeated Rukmi, Guler style, 1770, Chamba Museum, Himachal Pradesh

In-universe information

Weapon Sword

Family Bhishmaka (father)

Rukmini (sister)

Relatives Pradyumna (son-in-law), Rukmavati (daughter), Aniruddha (grandson), Rochana…