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Sri Tulasi Stava of Sristikanda of the Padma Purana

The Brahmin said: "Srila Vyasadeva, we have heard from you the glories of Tulasi Devi’s leaves and flowers. Now we would like to hear from you the Tulasi Stava (prayer)"

Srila Vyasadeva replied: "Previously a disciple of Shatanand Muni had approached him with folded hands and inquired about the Tulasi Stava".

Disciple: "Oh top most of all devotees of Lord Krishna, kindly relate that Tulasi Stava, which you had heard…

Putrada Ekadasi (Pausha-shukla Ekaadasi) The pious and saintly Yudhisthira Maharaj said, "Oh Lord, You have so nicely explained to us the wonderful glories of the Saphalaa Ekaadasi,which occurs during the dark fortnight (Krishna paksha) of the month of Pausha (December - January). Now please be merciful to me and explain to me the details of the Ekaadasi that occurs in the light fortnight (Shukla or Gaura paksha) of this month. What is its name, and what Deity is to be worshiped on that…

Taking shelter of Sri Nama Prabhu

Srila Prabhupada at the first initiationes asked for 64 rounds and some neophyte rascals said no Srila Prabhupada we can not chant 64 rounds and they brought it down to 16 ,however if we read Harinama Cintamani by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and all his other books ,we clearly see his full absorbtion in chanting when Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was magistrate in Puri he chanted 64 rounds daily but when he retired to Navadvipa he tooks Srila Jagannath…

at least you must chant 16 rounds daily that is Srila Prabhupadas instruction

Srila Prabhupada writes:

"So far as your question about arranging time, our first business is to regularly complete our chanting 16 rounds each day. Then we must offer to the deities mangal arati in the morning, and the other paraphernalia and activities shall be executed as time permits. If there is no time then we must disregard."

"Chanting japa should be done early in the morning with full…

ISKCON is not a free heaven for pedophiles

the ritviks say we will not visit ISKCON temples because it is full of pedophiles. THAT IS NONSENSE.What pedophiles?They have been kicked out except for two which is Satadhanya and Bhavananda that no only engaged in homosex but where pedophiles,I met on Nepali Guru kuli Acuyta in 1986 and he told me how Bhavananda, Satadhanya and Nitai chand "Swamis" had sex with him and other boys.I went to Harikesa and presented this .SHUT UP OR BHAVANANDAS…

Lord Balarama killed the zonal acarya system

when I was most down in my life in 1985 ,the darkness of the zonal acarya system seemed to have killed ISKCON ,Lord Nityananda Prabhu revealed to me He is Lord Baladeva in a sweet dream the picture I had of Lord Balarama became a live in my dream

goloka-dhama-adhipatihparesvarah

paresu-mampatupavitrakirtanah

bhu-mandalam-sarsa-pava-dvilaksate

yan-murdhnimampatu-sa bhumi mandale (1)

O Master of Goloka who…

the founder of the Ritvik movement was a drunkard!Known as maschine Gun swami !

Hansadutta did a great disservice when he fell down into illicit sex and drinking and shooting guns as a GBC ,sannyasi and ISKCON Guru ,he concocted that Prabhupada wanted to use the temporary ritvik system as permanent ,Because I Hansadutta failed thereso according to him ISKCON has no bonafide Gurus ,he did great harm ,Nityananda das and one more devotee also co founded this nonsense to brainwash devotees…

Unauthorized changes to Srila Prabhupadas books

Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge

TEXT 34

tad viddhi pranipatena

pariprasnena sevaya

upadeksyanti te jnanam

jnaninas tattva-darsinah

SYNONYMS

tat—that knowledge of different sacrifices; viddhi—try to understand; pranipatena—by approaching a spiritual master; pariprasnena—by submissive inquiries; sevaya—by the rendering of service; upadeksyanti—initiate; te—unto you; jnanam—knowledge; jnaninah—the…

Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge

TEXT 16

kim karma kim akarmeti

kavayo 'py atra mohitah

tat te karma pravaksyami

yaj jnatva moksyase 'subhat

SYNONYMS

kim—what is; karma—action; kim—what is; akarma—inaction; iti—thus; kavayah—the intelligent; api—also; atra—in this matter; mohitah—bewildered; tat—that; te—unto you; karma—work; pravaksyami—I shall explain; yat—which; jnatva—knowing; moksyase—be liberated; asubhat—from ill…

Lord Nityananda Prabhu was so merciful He wanted to forgive everyone and give them love of Krsna, actually His mood is different from Lord Balaramas that can not tolerate offences to Sri Krsna ,still Duryodhana the biggest offender was a devotee of Lord Balarama , he would chant 1000 names of Lord Balarama , Balarama Kavacha etc, but because of his envy of Lord Krsna and the Pandavas he was killed .Lord Nityananda Prabhu is so merciful,I was thinking of Jesus Christ who was so kind of…

Lord Nityananda/ Lord Balarama has expanded Himself to serve Sri Krsna in all Rasas also as Ananga Manjari , in Gaura Lila Ananga Manjari became Jahnava Mata

Author: Vrndavana Dasa Thakura

Caitanya Bhagavata

Language: Bengali

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LYRICS:

(refrain)

antare nitāi bāhire nitāi nitāi jagatamaya

nāgara nitāi nāgari nitāi kathā ye kaya

(1)

sādhana nitāi bhajana nitāi nitāi nayana

tārā daśadika maya nitāi sundara…

Distributing Srila Prabhupadas books in Jaipure

Once I was sankirtana leader for the Vrindavana sankirtana bus we did sankirtana in Jaipure on Ekadasi and we sold lots of books, next morning I went to get Mahasweets from Sri Sri Radha Govinda to break our ekadasi fast when I got attacked from all sides by 7 large Monkeys and it happened so fast I dropped the bags to not get scratched or bitten ,some bags flew into the sky , and all the Hanuman monkeys had already emptied those bags…

Srila Jiva Goswami instructed all Gaudiya Vaisnavas to daily chant minimum 64 rounds and gave a Mahamantra Tika (commentary on the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra )

today is the disapperance day of Srila Jiva Goswami : The Mahamantra are names of Radha Krishna ,and Srila Jiva Goswami has written a commentary to the Mahamantra :

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

(1-Hare)

sarva-ceta-harah krsnas tasya cittam haratyasau…

Shut up chant Hare Krsna and the Narayana Kavacha

When I was serving in ISKCON Boston in 1993 the temporary Tp Jayagaurasundara das was envious and jealous of me so he complained how I chanted the Narayana Kavacha.My Guru Niranjana Swami chants is properly .The temple had started chanting it daily on my suggestion before the Srimad Bhagavatam class.We had the Susan Murphy case, Visnujana Swami had hooked up a girl that was a minor 15 Susan up with another older boy Greg and said they…

such a beautiful description of Lord Caitanyas taking sannyasa by Srila Sridhara Swami Srila Prabhupada dear godbrother ; A Tragedy of Separation

According to solar calculation, it was on the day of Makara-Sankranti, an auspicious conjunction of the stars, that Nimai Pandit went to Katwa to take sannyasa, the renounced order of life. After this, He would become known as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He swam across the Ganges and in wet cloth ran towards Katwa. Just before this, He told only…

Lord Caitanya took sannyasa on Makara Sankranti

Lord Caitanya chanted Gopi Gopi one day and the Smarta Brahmanas of Navadvipa got offended what is this nonsense chanting Gopi Gopi ? Lord Caitanya was absorbed in the mood of the Gopis, just like the six Goswamis that are all manjaris ,Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has helped us remember this lila in his Gauranga lila Smarana mangala stotram :

Verse 34

gopi-bhavat parama-vivaso danda-hastah pareso

vadasaktan ati-jada-matims…

Lord Caitanya took sannyasa on Makara Sankranti

Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaja

(The following is an excerpt of a lecture by Srila Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja given on the occasion of Makara Sankranti, the day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's acceptance of sannyasa, on January 14th 1984)

On this day, early in the morning, Mahaprabhu crossed the river by swimming at three o’clock or so, and ran towards Katwa. It was winter season, but He had no care for the cold. There was so much heat…

Aindra Prabhu once said Harinama is more important than bookdistribution I said no, that time I was managing a Harinama program in Copenhagen 8 hours chanting a day 6 days a week all year around in all kind of weather, because Srila Prabhupada did not agree with this philosophy of yours,and daily we also distributed many books, because Srila Prabhupada said three weapons against Maya, book distribution and Harinama and prasadam distribution ,so daily we distributed 1500 pieces of Prasadam…

Manager mistakes on Sankirtana

I could write a whole book ,how ISKCON managers made wrong descisions for sankirtana devotees, and properly one day I will write a book about so the future generation of devotees can learn from these mistakes.Of course the first mistake is that not enough devotees take bookdistribution serious and they do not make it their life and soul they are looking instead for comfort and positiones in ISKCON ,pure devotiona service in ISKCON means to dedicate your…

Chapter 1. Invocation of Auspiciousness

Sri Sri Prema-vivarta

রাধাকৃষ্ণপ্রণয়বিকৃতির্হ্লাদিনী শক্তিরস্মাদ্

একাত্মানাবপি ভুবি পুরা দেহভেদং গতৌ তৌ

চৈতন্যাখ্যং প্রকটমধুনা তদ্দ্বয়ং চৈক্যমাপ্তং

রাধাভাবদ্যুতিসুবলিতং নৌমি কৃষ্ণস্বরূপম্

rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī-śaktir asmād

ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau

chaitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ chaikyam āptaṁ

rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam

(Sri…