Devarsirat

Very good idea, considering all the different backgrounds devotees are coming from.

It might help to a great extend to stop politics in the movement and greater kindness, understanding and caring between the devotees.

This is something Srila Prabhupada would have approved of, I am sure, of course, if the students are injected during the courses with institutional politics like "its only Iskcon and so on" gaudya math is useless and all these missconceptions are subtley or openly imposed into the minds of students,then whats the use?

Coaching is very good, but only if the unity of all genuine vaisnavas inside and outside of Iskcon is 100% encouraged in the process....

Remember Srila Prabhupadas Peace Formular...

By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada's PEACE FORMULA

The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others' property as though it were one's own and to thereby create an unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No living entity can violate them.

Only one who is Krsna conscious can easily overcome the stringency of the laws of nature and thus become happy and peaceful in the world.

As a state is protected by the department of law and order, so the state of Universe, of which this earth is only an insignificant fragment, is protected by the laws of nature. This material nature is one of the different potencies of God, who is the ultimate proprietor of everything that be. This earth is, therefore, the property of God, but we, the living entities, especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming God's property as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception. If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of peace on earth.

Foolish and so-called civilized men are claiming proprietary rights on the property of God because they have now become godless. You cannot be happy and peaceful in a godless society. In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna says that He is the factual enjoyer of all activities of the living entities, that He is the Supreme Lord of all universes, and that He is the well-wishing friend of all beings. When the people of the world know this as the formula for peace, it is then and there that peace will prevail.

Therefore, if you want peace at all, you will have to change your consciousness into Krsna consciousness, both individually and collectively, by the simple process of chanting the holy name of God. This is a standard and recognized process for achieving peace in the world. We therefore recommend that everyone become Krsna conscious by chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

This is practical, simple, and sublime. Four hundred and eighty years ago this formula was introduced in India by Lord Sri Caitanya, and now it is available in your country. Take to this simple process of chanting as above mentioned, realize your factual position by reading the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and reestablish your lost relationship with Krsna, God.

Peace and prosperity will be the immediate worldwide result.

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Our Humble Obeisances Jaya Srila Prabhupada

 

How it is with different dahl and beans, in all varieties of dahls it reads

in the packing that they should be soaked overnight or 4-5 hours.

Otherwise there is risk of poisoning.(?)

 

Some of our cooks commented that kidney beans and toor dahl should be

absolutely soaked, with split mong-dahl it is not necessary. In our temple

many cases dahl is not soaked at all.

 

Could someone explain more accurately, what causes this possible poisoning

and what dahls/beans are risky?

 

I know at least one of our devotees who had this kind of poisoning some

years back.

 

Your servant Muniraja dasa

Here in the UK it never says on the package about poisoning as far as I know, I think its mainly because they take ages to cook otherwise?

It's truly Kali Yuga....

 

freedomtofascism.com

What can you expect from the wannabe "big Controllers?" The non devotees need to get involved in all this, but for devotees, with all that what is going on in the world, ...

this is the time to get our heads into Hari Katha and have nothing to do with the mundane world. Devotees business is using all our senses to be full of sweet Krishna consciousness, inside, outside, above and below, left right front back and center, with sound, with feeling and with vision.

Dont get entangled, take a watchful and informed, but detached position and simply chant and eat prasadam, distribute books, go and see Narayana Maharaja, take shelter ....my advice for what it is worth...

Haribol, does your radio connection work? I click on radio see above, and the window pops up and I choose a station, but the field stays blank and nothing happens, thats with all stations.

How do I configure my browser, or norton internet security may be ?

what could be the problem?

Many thanks

Jai Shree Krishna,

 

Please visit

 

ttp://hinduinfo/

(add 'h' in front of this link to make 'http' then link to the website)

 

look at all the post which are mostly links to great Hindu websites and articles, CDs DVDs Books, Bhajan Translated, etc etc etc

 

Please join to see a glimpse of the RATH YATRA in Leicester.

I will be posting them soon.

 

Please feed back your opinion on this group here.

 

Oh its not group for chatting but simply adding links to good Hindu Websites.

 

 

Kiran Parmar

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I found this there

GODs WORLD Material Universe

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http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/arcturus-antares-big.htm

Absolutely amazing comparison of the Planets and Stars in Outer Space.

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Okay sorry cannot convert them, (the avi's). Find the codecs. ! Avi rules.

Thank you I downloaded from the link Bija send, would not know where to look otherwise, after installing windows media player only showed a still frame of the file?

Devarsirat,

if you have XP Windows download from this link. The videos you have downloaded should then work fine.

http://www.codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

Thank you very much, after downloading I got as far as having a still frame of the file but no further movement, like looking at a photo?

haribol, do you need to download all the files in order to make a complete whole or can they be played individually?

I have the latest edition of windows media player but I cant open any file so far i downloaded 3 of them

I also live in the past, but more in the 15th century then the 80s when it comes to computers e.g.

All that works is sound but no picture?

Thanks

Ys

Devarsirat das

I am stuck with this drugs, well is not heroin or crack or anything, but this ganja I have been getting very addectie too , and lately I been feeling very bad without using it, I am trying to quit , but each day that passes by, it gets harder and harder till to the point where I bewilder myself with ignorance, and where my fate should be the strongers, I loose my fate in krishna slowly, dont get me wrong, I been praying to krishna everyday, surrening myself everyday right after i shower, offering him my obediance love respect and devotion, for the last past year, the more days I spend sober, the harder it becomes, and is not that I have to intoxicate to belive in him, is because of the depression that fills what usual would be my cannabi high, and this depression really creates ignorance within me, that makes me act like a feen, that makes me act in darkest mode of ignorance, i try to chant or ask for help from krishna but it seems like he is leaving me alone here to battle my own demons, what do I need to do ? How can I quit this ganja, and how can I rip the mantle of my own depression, with the help of krishna , I donnt want to go to a materlist pshyologist and be describe certain drugs to overcome my own drug and addection problems, and the strongest enemy my own depression, how can I ask krishna for help, without offending him? What can I do ?

There are hundreds of devotees who have had experiences with drugs and all of them will tell you the same, you have to have the association of devotees in the temple, get a spiritual master and begin to follow devotional principles, practice bhakti yoga and make your first step to get out of this place "the material world" for good.

On your own it will be very difficult because of the lack of association with saintly people and the freedom you have to go out and get drugs at any time. You have to make arrangements to solidly restrickt yourself.

If you want to become free from drugs you have to go to a place where you cant get them and away from those so called friends and your old environment.

I did that in 1976 when I joined in Schloss Rettershof in Germany and found myself a year later somewhere on the streets of germany distributing books, realizing that I used to take lsd, speed and hashish every day for more the 10 years, but not anymore. That was a very good feeling.

In fact after moving into the temple I did not even miss it, from day one.

The constant chanting and service gave me the taste of a wonderful brilliant sparkly and beautyful consciousness, which surpassed by far everything I ever experienced until then and I was hooked and I am still hooked all these years later.

You need to understand, that by giving up material enjoyment and practicing spiritual life you are not loosing anything at all, in fact you are only gaining and that will become evident for you ones you just experience just a little taste of the beauty of devotion for Krishna.

In the light of that, everything else becomes tasteless and dull.

If you are really serious to get out of this and become self realized, here is a path which works better then brilliant.

There is no material solution to our problems in this world, we are spiritual by nature and need spiritual food and association.

Whatever is holding you back to move in with the devotees and give it your best shot, in reality what have you got to loose?

It worked for me and I will never ever go into any kind of drug again and you can understand, that if a good consciousness and a healthy body is possible for other people then it is available for you also, everything depends on the choices you make right now.

You have the amazing ability of forsight, so look into the future, your future, you think if you dont change what you are doing now, the future will be any different from your past?

Do you want to look back at this time in your life one day with hindsight and full of regret because you never made a serious attempt to change something now?

You have tried so many things in your past to avoid suffering and you failed miserably, so now is the time, to try something else, your old ways did not work, otherwise you would not be where you are now feeling miserable and depressed.

Try this, you will feel like a fish back in the water. But whatever you do, do not loose faith in Krishna, He will help you, its not His fault that you are experiencing so much trouble.

Everything we are experiencing is a result of our past choices, we have brought it upon ourselves and can not blame it on other people or circumstances, we need to understand this and take reponsibility for our actions, past and present, then things will get better.

Dont blame the world or god for what you are going trough as long as you do that you find that you are just hanging in there.

Have a good look at your self and say " I dont want to live like this anymore, I have had it up to here and from now on, I am taking responsibility and change my actions, i will make positive choices and reject everything that is bad for me and accept everything that is good for me, based on Krishna consciousness.

Make a decision and go for it walk into a temple and say here I am, I want to be a fulltime devotee and from then on everything will change as if by magic.

Haribol

Thank you very much, I wish I had known this ages ago, never to late hey?

No. We do not leave it up to the reader to decide. We accept the conclusion of Srila Prabhupada: "never mind what is your origin." That is his final conclusion on the subject.

That may be true when you preach to someone who is beginning trying to understand Krishna Consciousness, but ultimately it is important to know the final conclusion of everything concerning Krishna Consciousness.

Which is that we have not come from Goloka Vrindavan or Vaikuntha and that we have arrived from the tatastha-sakti region of the spiritual world.

We have been with Krishna formally similarly like the child is with the father before conception, but there is NO writing in any of Srila Prabhupadas books, that we have been formally cowherd boys, a gopy, or even a blad of grass in the spiritual world.

He does not even say this in any of His letters, He only makes suggestions which are easier to understand for neophite devotees in lectures and letters, but in His books we will find the final conclusion, He never writes that we have arrived here from Goloka Vrindavan or even from Vaikuntha.

C&P: "The living entities are manifested and are divided into two classes, eternally conditioned and eternally liberated. Such living entities are innumerable, and they are considered fundamental parts of Krsna. Material energy is manifested into twenty-four divisions. The creation is effected by eternal time, and it is created and dissolved by external energy. This manifestation of the cosmic world repeatedly becomes visible and invisible.

...The living entity in his original position is pure spirit. He is just like an atomic particle of the Supreme Spirit. The conditioned living entity, however, is the marginal energy of the Lord; he tends to be in contact with both the material energy and the spiritual energy. In other words, the living entity is situated between the two energies of the Lord, and because he belongs to the superior energy of the Lord, he has a particle of independence. By proper use of that independence he comes under the direct order of Krsna. Thus he attains his normal condition in the pleasure-giving potency." Bhagavad-gita 18:78

I never read Srila Prabhupada writing in any of His books, that the inhabitants of Goloka or Vaikuntha are originally tiny atomic particles of the Supreme Lord or that they are in contact with both the material energy and the spiritual energy

The final conclusion always comes from His books, not from letters or lectures. His books are the final say on the matter, how can it be otherwise, since we all know, that the spiritual master sometimes uses His preaching genius according to time and circumstance in order to attract the living entity to Krishna?

But ones the devotee is gaining more understanding he should only referr to His books, because they only represent the final conclusions.

Like a mother and father who are telling their baby that it came originally from a pond where it was sleeping on a big leaf and a Storch came and picked it up to bring it to mum and dad....

do not expect their child to always believe this simplified version of events, Srila Prabhupada obviously believed that first we should learn the basics of Krishna Consciousness, before we go on to higher more difficult to understand topics.

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The word tata means a shore or bank, like the shoreline of an ocean; and the verbal root stha means to be situated. The shore is not part of the ocean, yet it is not part of the land which borders the ocean. One situated on the shoreline is known as tatastha. He is situated neither within the ocean, nor on the land.

Food for thought:

To those who still believe that all living entities come from Goloka Vrindavan or Vaikuntha...

We have all changed our beautiful forms and lifes as servants of Krishna into the ugly forms we see here?

All living entities? Cockroaches, spiders all inhabitants of all the worlds and planets?

They have all been personal friends of Krishna ones?

Consider this.... there is a constant mass spiritual suicide commited by an immesurable number of Krishnas allknowing fully eternally liberated personal associates arriving from the Supreme Abodes Goloka Vrindavan and Vaikuntha to populate all the heavens and hells here everywhere?

Does that sound right?

Looks like lemnings jumping over the cliff one after another by the trillions

Srila Prabhupada never ever writes like this anywhere in any of His books and we should understand that its simplified verbal or letter preaching to those on a neophite level, its time to move on...

Haribol and dandavads Yhs Devarsirat das

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If we kill an insect unknowingly or by accident, whilest engaged in devotional service, that sin is immideately nullyfied.

I mean all my life

even as an aspiring devotee I have been bullied by friends,family and institutional authorities.

How can I put an end to all of this hellish pattern of abusive behaviour perpetuating itself again and again ?

I am only humble with devotees who can understand this mood and respect it and with devotees who can not, Iam assertive and "show my hood" in a calm and firm manner.

Confidence also means that you are not afraid to let others know how you feel about their behaviour, if they dont respond and change for the better, you should stay away from them, but do not criticize them.

However, If you also get bullied by friends and even relatives and it was something that took place even b4 you became a devotee, then it might be something in your personal make up, that triggers this of and you have to work on yourself a little, in order to get rid of whatever it is.

It could also be that you are to sensitive to what others do and say in your presence and see their intentions in a wrong way, if this is the case and you openly show your dissatisfaction, then this kind of reaction from you, can also promt further bullying and abuse, especially from non devotees.

You can write to me and tell me what exactly you are going trough and what the circumstances are, I might be able to help you, no charge.

p.w.w (at) ntlworld.com

There we are

Books are Sastra and for the final truth, spoken words are for preaching.

same with me , write to me and I try and help

p.w.w (at) ntlworld.com

how is a difficult question, i guess we can only speculate...

 

like a mini satya yuga inside kaliyuga? that's interesting... why now? forever the skeptical idiot that I am, i am inclined to say that if this 10000 years started when Mahaprabhu was around, then this isn't much of a satya yuga (YET ) .

As it starts slowly it will fade away and you are seeing right now a huge increase of people all over the world becoming very interested in spiritual matters, you know the saying ...before it gets better it gets worse?

Why do they become interested in spiritual matters? becaue there is so much suffering right now it has increased so much and people everywhere getting more and more fed up with the life they are living. High taxes, cheating heads of states, war mongers and so on, it pushes normal folks into the right direction.

500 years ok that is not much at all, but for the world to change, so many other things have to happen first and i think the big spring cleaning has began to take place, the world will see many terrifying things in the years to come...

Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 3.7.9:

Quote: "According to Visnu Purana, Bhagavad-gita and all other Vedic literatures, the living entities are generated from the tatastha energy of the Lord."

Srila Prabhupada sometimes says the jiva falls from association with Krsna and sometimes he says the opposite. It seems to be contradictory, but I think this is according to time and circumstance and depends to whom he is talking but then in His books Srila Prabhupada states the final conclusion

"The conclusion is that no one falls from the spiritual world, or Vaikuntha planet, for it is the eternal abode."

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.16.26:

Bhaktivinode Thakura writes in the tattva viveka on page 55 "It should be understood that the jiva soul is neither produced of this material world, nor created in the transcendental world. They are originated from the marginal line between the transcendental and mundane spheres."

As far as I understand, the inhabitants of krishnas planets, are eternally liberated souls and they only descent to assist in one of Krishnas pastimes otherwise they never do.

The idea that there is an original of us in the spiritual world and we are like an expansion is a faulty speculation, put into circulation by one "high up" in Iskcon in a btg article ones a couple of years ago and has no foundation in any of our authorised books at all, so dont wonder if there is something like this and stick to what Srila Prabhupada writes, that is always best.

To understand the magic of 64 rounds one need only to chant 64 rounds. It's a world where surrender becomes second nature.

 

The proof of the pudding is in the tasting. Such a satisfying dessert. Never look back.

Yesterday I listened all day to Srila Prabhupadas chanting and in the same time run a slideshow of Radha Krishna Pics & Srila Prabhupada on my comp nonstop as well as chanting sometimes loud and sometimes inside, and as a result I became more then very happy and it is true, at such a time surrender is the only nature.

Haribol

Do a search for Swami Sivananda and pranayama in google. He has written a very nice book on pranayama, which can be downloaded for free from their website.

Thank you!

Skypename Devarsirat

http://www.indiangyan.com/books/yogabooks/yogic_prayama/misconceptions_about_pranayama_removed.shtml#Pranayama%20is%20dangerous

About missconceptions regarding pranayama

Skypename devarsirat

Pranayama should not be used as a substitude for chanting I think that is obvious, the health benefits however are many and for someone who is ill it can be incredibly effective.

Look up this link

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0861444000/026-0118221-1608456?v=glance&n=266239

I wondered, since I have had Radiology treatment round my neck, mouth and throat I have lost my saliva glands my mouth is constantly dry like the desert and i also experience a locking up of my jawmuscles including pain after chanting for an hour or so, i can only talk/chant for that time in one go, even if I pause and start again after maybe two hours its starts again ,just sooner and i have to stop again, it seems that the upper row of my teeth is dislocated from the lower part..so i work part time and do what i can. In these circumstances is it okay to listen lets say to Srila Prabhupadas chanting and chant together with Him in my mind, or simply chant in my mind? its obviously not the same but something.

Iwill never be able to chant 64 rounds or even 16 verbally, only in my mind and i would love being able to chant properly again.

I am just glad I got my ears to hear:)

i have been told that if your left eye flickers this is considered good luck, and if the right eye flickers this is bad luck.

 

has anybody heard about this before?

 

my right eye seems to be flickering for the past week, does anybody know the medical reason for this, could it be due to tiredness perhaps?

Thats completely normal and stops automatically after a while, its also completely harmless and most likely due to to much work on the computer or stress, not enough relaxation eg, so dont worry, try some proper relaxation and it will go away

i have been told that if your left eye flickers this is considered good luck, and if the right eye flickers this is bad luck.

 

has anybody heard about this before?

 

my right eye seems to be flickering for the past week, does anybody know the medical reason for this, could it be due to tiredness perhaps?

What causes it, is there a spiritual cause, what can remedy feeling ill 2-5 days of every month? (Quite a problem with employers)

Try accupressure for the pain which is very simple. My wife Sumitra dd always had to take strong painkillers and since she uses accupressure she was able to stop. Another great help can be hypnotherapy or self hypnosis which can be learned easily.