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Paramananda das's Blog – August 2011 Archive (57)

Balarama Jayanti

dear Laxmi Narayana Prabhu

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All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Balarama Purnima is fasting from all grains like ekadasi , and best is to take anukalpa prasadam in the evening or do nirjala until next day, In ISKCON the fast is set to noon.

When I joined in 1979 fasting for Lord Balarama was at moon rise, and some places we took ekadasi and other temples I believe sometimes grains was…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 10, 2011 at 7:51pm — No Comments

Sri Narasimha Palana Prarthana

My dear Goduncle Kusakrata Prabhu is little known to most in ISKCON but his translations of vaisnava literatures is very waste…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 9, 2011 at 12:17am — No Comments

Prema Vilasa chapter 12

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Here in this chapter we hear…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 8, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Bhagavad Gita 1.5

There is an audio version of Bhagavad Gita as it is at http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/articles/664/1/The-Bhagavad-Gita-In-Audio/Page1.html

In english, sanskrit ,hindi etc

Text 5

dhrishtaketus cekitanah

kasirajas ca viryavan

purujit…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 7, 2011 at 7:53pm — 10 Comments

Harinama and bookdistribution or bookdistribution and Harinama?

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I had transcendnetal disagreement once with Aindra Prabhu and another time with Tribhuvanath Prabhu over wether Harinama becomes before bookdistribution, or bookdistribution comes before Harinama.

Their arguments are of course right and based on millions of quotes from sastra :

kalim sabhajayanty arya

guna jnah sara-bhaginah…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 7, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Krsna and raw milk

Here in the US the goverment is cracking down on raw milk:

http://www.myhealthblog.org/2011/08/04/raw-milk-store-rawsome-raided-produce-confiscated-these-americans-are-crazy/…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 7, 2011 at 10:13am — 3 Comments

Prayers to Mother Ganges and meditation on Her glories from sastra and Srila Prabhupadas purports

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ganga-tire tat-payobhis tulasyah

patraih puspaih prema-hunkara-ghosaih

prakatyartham gauram aradhayad yah

srila advaitacaryam etam prapadye

‎1) Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, who with tulasi leaves flowers water from the Ganges shore and loud calls of love worshiped Lord Gaura and begged Him to…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 6, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Some glories of Nandagrama

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There is a beautiful series about Nandagrama on Yourtube

is so beautiful, there is 25 or so videos about Nandagrama alone about the various holy places in Nandagrama and area …

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Added by Paramananda das on August 5, 2011 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Matajis ,when it is time to run for your spiritual life!

Ajit Krishna Dasa Check this out, prabhu! What do you say? Let's see if my Prabhupada quotation will be accepted on ISKCON NEWS! Maybe they prefer the liberal approach instead of Prabhupada's direct words?…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 5, 2011 at 1:39pm — 7 Comments

Bhagavad Gita 1.4

Text 4

atra sura mahesv-asa

bhimarjuna-sama yudhi

yuyudhano viratas ca

drupadas ca maha-rathah

Translation

Here in this army are many heroic bowmen equal in fighting to Bhima and Arjuna: great fighters like Yuyudhana, Virata and Drupada.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

Even though Dhrishtadyumna was not a very important obstacle…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 4, 2011 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Gosvami Maharaja ~ Disappearance day

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In ISKCON we do not celebrate the disappearance day of …

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Added by Paramananda das on August 4, 2011 at 7:07am — 3 Comments

I pay my obaisences to Vamsi das Babaji from afar

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Many devotees are fascinated with Vamsi das Babaji that was celebrated on an equal level yesterday with Raghunandana Thakura.I object to this worship.

http://www.hknet.org.nz/parishad62.htm

" One day, a lady selling fish approached V.B., offering him some choice type of catch. Somehow or other, the Babaji's mind became attracted to tasting the fish. But he…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 4, 2011 at 4:18am — No Comments

Jayapataka Swami is not my Guru

One of his disciples was pressuring me to take reinitiation from Jayapataka Swami:

I wrote:…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 3, 2011 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Srila Raghunandana Thakura's disapperance day

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Today is the holy disapperance day of Raghunandana Thakura , and Bhakti Ballabh Tritha Maharaja has written a very nice

article about Raghunandana Thakura.

Parishads: Srila Raghunandana Thakur

by Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaja

vyuhas…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 3, 2011 at 7:06am — No Comments

Prema Vilasa chapter 11

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We learn so many things in this chapter about Guru disciple relationship ,first of all Lokantha das Goswami asks Narottama das Thakura to wait for one year before he

gave him Harinama…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 1, 2011 at 10:14pm — No Comments

Narottama das Thakura gets the mercy of Srila Rupa and Sanatana Goswami

Dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

This 10 Chapter of Prema Vilasa explains how Srila Narottama das Thakura recived the mercy of Lord Caitanya deposited in the Padmavati river and escaped from

home (to become a Hare Krsna) to go Vrindavana.Actually he was running.On his way Srila Rupa and Srila Sanatana Goswami appeared to him and even provided him with milk prasadam.

Thus Srila…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 1, 2011 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Krsnas Makara earrings

Lord Krsna is described to wear Makhara earrings:

In Govinda Lilamrta it is stated:

Govinda Lilamrta/ Nisanta Lila-1 Sri Yugala-Kisora Rise :

1/56 Krishna's eyes are tired and intoxicated, His body is covered with nail marks and smeared with black mascara, yet He smells like a fragrant lotus! Curling hairs decorated His forehead, plus mind-teasing Makhara earrings dance over His glossy cheeks, but herein lies a cunning sweet smile! Seeing…

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Added by Paramananda das on August 1, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments