Pankaja_Dasa

Is it possible to get an External drive like you said with in-built CD/DVD Writer? I checked price Drive is about £130. Writer about £40. I bet it wasn't that price 3 years ago when I got this computer.

Wow. I thought he meant he wanted some Disks like Cds/DVD. My computer holds 9Gig space. This is good idea to get. I could become a mobile 'CD-Ripper-Preacher'. Vedabase on the Go [Lectures]. Haha

Hare Krishna, A devotee said I need- 120GB ATA Hdd For 80GB Lectures and Video of BV Puri Maharaja. What's 120GB ATA Hdd and where do I get it? I have no clue at all.

Try searching google for 'sound card not working'. Maybe you sound card is not working hehe. Or are you listening through sound thru headphones DIRECTLY plugged into the computer. When I do this the sound also crackles a little. Speaker it sounds not bad. Also depends what quality sound card you have. You can change by going to Control Panel and Multimedia, change setting to Good or Better etc.

Maybe this will satify you!: TRANSLATION After the body of the Deity was cleansed, He was dressed very nicely with new garments. Then sandalwood pulp, tulasi garlands and other fragrant flower garlands were placed upon the body of the Deity. Madhya 4.63 When Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami was absorbed in remembrance of Lord Krishna, he would take the tulasi garland and the prasadam of Lord Jagannatha given to him by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, bind them together and wear them on his neck. Antya 13.134 Hare Krishna Hand Book 1970 "Devotees also wear small beads made of tulasi, a sacred plant, around their necks. These are called kunti-mala and further identify one as a Vaishnava." ___ Who do you think you are? /images/graemlins/wink.gif- Sanketya. Just like sometimes on the street some outsider, seeing you, they chant Hare Krishna only by the symbolic, sanketya. Because they see: "They have got tilaka, kunti." Therefore these things are required. Don't become immediately paramahamsa -no tilaka, no kunti and no bead bag. Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.2.13 Vrindavana, September 15, 1975 Finally-Our dear Krishna say-"O, my dear son of Kunti, just declare it throughout the whole world that my devotee is never vanquished." You have nothing to worry about.

Kanthi-mala is not same as Tulasi-mala. It is the same but the names are changed. Kanthi-mala say you belong to particular spiritual master. I think this is dying down a little. Since Tulasi-mala look exactly the same in Gaudiya-Vaishnavasim. I am not really sure if even we have actually things like Kanthi-malas? This is my 1`666 post. I hope nothing bad happens? Wheres my Tulasi-mala /images/graemlins/wink.gif

http://www.krsnaconsciousness.org/Gauranga/Bhagavata-Audio.htm Go here. Same person. Amala Bhakta dasa. I bow down to him. What a devotee!! His voice is best ever.

What do you mean offered? I guess you mean offered by your spiritual master [Kanthi-mala]. You only get that when you gain mercy of Lord Nityananda..

happy jamamastami- http://www.dgreetings.com/janmashtami/janmfls01.htm

Reality we all devotees. Just depends on consciousness at present time. I think may fall into trap of imitating pure devotees. And calling people raskal etc. I.e The example I think of is.. if Krishna called me a Raskal could I say it back to Him? [Don't think!]. Anyway you probably wouldn't. Same say if Guru says to you cannot. But we try to ACT like Guru and call people names. We not even qualified! How dare we?

No words. This is what I call Downloading.

Why don't you offer your respectful obeiences to Tulasi devi each day? Say the Pranama Mantra, offer like water. I don't know if you have, but you can go to almost any Hindu Home, they should be able to provide you. But you need Tulasi BUDS. When Tulasi devi grows really big, she Grows Buds.. that is what you need. Also she grows in warm place. We have in cold Uk. I think seeing the glories of Tulasi devi is amazing... I have been [?] a devotee for about 3 years. And I never thought my parents are, but somehow my mum has been serving Tulasi devi for about I'd say 3 years. And they recently went to Braj. So you see how they recieved this mercy. Not that I didn't get any mercy. But then I never desired to goto Braj, I want to goto Navadwipa 1st. Wishing you well. Haribol!

SB 1.10.3 Suta Gosvami said: Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the maintainer of the world, became pleased after reestablishing Maharaja Yudhishthira in his own kingdom and after restoring the Kuru dynasty, which had been exhausted by the bamboo fire of anger. PURPORT This world is compared to a forest fire caused by the cohesion of bamboo bushes. Such a forest fire takes place automatically, for bamboo cohesion occurs without external cause. Similarly, in the material world the wrath of those who want to lord it over material nature interacts, and the fire of war takes place, exhausting the unwanted population. Such fires or wars take place, and the Lord has nothing to do with them. But because He wants to maintain the creation, He desires the mass of people to follow the right path of self-realization, which enables the living beings to enter into the kingdom of God. The Lord wants the suffering human beings to come back home, back to Him, and cease to suffer the threefold material pangs. The whole plan of creation is made in that way, and one who does not come to his senses suffers in the material world by pangs inflicted by the illusory energy of the Lord. The Lord therefore wants His bona fide representative to rule the world. Lord Sri Krishna descended to establish this sort of regime and to kill the unwanted persons who have nothing to do with His plan. The Battle of Kurukshetra was fought according to the plan of the Lord so that undesirable persons could get out of the world and a peaceful kingdom under His devotee could be established. The Lord was therefore fully satisfied when King Yudhishthira was on the throne and the seedling of the dynasty of Kuru, in the person of Maharaja Parikshit, was saved.

In Bhagavatam pradhana create aggragate material ingriedients. I didn't really understand what you said.

I think maybe because of Media [Television]. They can make Big Movies and sell more books, merchandise etc. Make Rides in Theme Parks. The thing is, you could do this with Srila Prabhupada Books as well [and they do] but the mass of people don't know about this. Or they do BUT choose to ignore it. Why? Because of sense gratification and lower consciousness [link there somewhere]. Watching DVD of Prabupada.. Says that in sense gratification there is only misery but in chanting names there is none. It's true.

Initiation - Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj The words 'Initiation' in the west and 'Diksha' in India are not synonymous. The words do not express completely the same meaning. India's spiritual characteristics and cultures are intrinsically different from the cultures prevalent in other countries in this world. Very often Indians find difficulty in using appropriate words to express their thoughts in other languages. This is because of the prevalence of materialistic way of thinking in other countries outside India. Even after about sixty years of independence, we are to face dominance of the western culture in India and day by day the influence of foreign culture is increasing. To understand the implication of spiritual thoughts peculiar to India, it seems necessary to introduce some words in their languages. As per English Oxford dictionary, 'Initiation' means: admitting or introducing somebody to membership of a group etc, often by means of a special ceremony e.g. initiate somebody into a religious sect, secret society, etc. By the word 'initiation', externally it seems to be at par with 'diksha' for mentioning the words group, religious sect and secret society. The definition of 'diksha' is given in Hari-bhakti-vilas referring evidence from 'Vishnujamala'- divyam jnanam yato dadyat kuryat papasya samksayam tasmat dikseti sa prokta desikais tattyakovidaih 'The procedure by which self-effulgent knowledge (Divine Knowledge) is conferred, eradicates the cause of all sins and because of that it is stated as 'diksha' by the wise who have realized the Divinity.' In the word diksha, the knowledge is divine and self-effulgent, which indicates that self-effulgent knowledge descends through bona fide preceptorial channel from Supreme Lord. Sin is the cause of sufferings. Cause of sin is desire for committing sin. Misconception of self is the cause of desire for committing sin. Nescience is the cause of misconception of self and aversion to Absolute Knowledge is the cause of nescience. So the root cause of sin is aversion to Sree Krishna, Who is All-Existence, All-Knowledge and All-Bliss. This Divine Knowledge only can be imparted by a bona fide Guru, the absolute-counterpart and grace-incarnate form of Supreme Lord. This implication of diksha is not clearly mentioned in the word initiation. Divine knowledge descends to a completely surrendered soul through revelation. One who has got realization of Supreme Lord can impart that self-effulgent knowledge to others also, provided the aspirant has complete submission to Lord and His Absolute Counterpart Guru. Conditioned souls of the world are not eligible to impart or to get that Transcendental Divine Knowledge. Initiator Guru must have two qualifications as mentioned in Mundaka Sruti are (1) Srotriyam- Well-versed in Sruti sastras- the Vedas and other allied scriptures, another interpretation of Srotriyam is- blessed by the descent of the Divine knowledge through preceptorial channel and (2) Brahma-Nistham- must have realization of Divinity. Only academic or theoretical knowledge is not sufficient, he must have practical realization also. After eight million births we have got this precious human birth, Supreme Lord is pleased by creating human beings because human beings have got the discriminating power between eternal and non-eternal, good deeds and bad deeds, they have got the capability to worship Lord. But other living beings have got no such conscience, discriminating power. So it is said 'Shubhasya shighram, ashubhasya kalaharanam'- when there will be good desire, we should do it immediately, otherwise later there might be some hindrance and obstacle to it and when there will be evil desire, you should make late to do it, you should not do it immediately- this is Ravana's advice to Lakshman. There is no guarantee that next we shall get human birth. It is stated in the Gita (8.6) - yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram / tam tam evaiti kaunteya sada tad-bhava-bhavitah- Whatever we shall think at the time of death, we shall get birth accordingly. The votary should have firm faith in God- Supreme Lord Sri Krishna. Supreme Lord is One, He cannot be many. Even a particle cannot be outside Krishna. He is the only sustainer and maintainer. By serving Him we serve all. If we pour water at the root of the tree, all parts of the tree will be nourished, if we give food to the stomach, all parts of the body will be nourished, like that we should have firm faith- by serving Him we serve all. Without serving Him, Who is the Prime Cause of all causes, we can neither do any good to ourselves nor to others, but only the valuable time of precious human birth will be unnecessarily wasted. Krishna has stated in the Gita (9.24) - 'aham hi sarva-yajnanam bhokta ca prabhur eva ca'- I am the only Master and Enjoyer. Srila Rupa Goswami has stated in 'Sri Laghubhagvatamrita'- 'Visnos tu trini rupani purushakhyany atho viduh / ekam tu mahatah srashtri dvitiyam tv anda-samsthitam / tritiyam sarva-bhuta-stham tani jnatva vimucyate'-Here in this world we see male and female living beings, but actual Purush (male) is Supreme Lord and all living beings are the outcome of His energy (prakriti), tatastha sakti (marginal potency). When we see Supreme Lord as Purush (male) then we will be delivered from this maya, we shall have no desire to enjoy this world. The aspirant should associate with bona fide sadhu to get firm faith in God and worship God with different devotional forms to satisfy Him- mainly nine forms of devotion of which Nama-sankirtan is the best. We are to accept that which is congenial for His service and give up that which is prohibited viz. gambling, any kind of intoxication, illicit connection with women, eating meat, onion, garlic etc. which increase raja-guna and tama-guna such as onion, garlic etc. Harinam is medicine, remedy of the disease and food should be Prasad- so that which cannot be offered to God, we cannot take. This basis should be there before taking Harinam initiation. In addition, we should observe devotional vows viz. Ekadasi tithi, Janmashtami tithi, Advent Anniversary of Gauranga Mahaprabhu, Narasingha Chaturdasi, etc. We should wear Tulasi (holy basil) neck beads. There are two kinds of Guru- (1) 'So-called guru' who initiates to get worldly benefits for himself and his disciples. A bona fide Guru does not think himself as Guru while giving mantra to disciples. Outwardly it is seen that somebody is giving mantra and instruction and some persons are taking mantra for worship of God. But actually a real Guru never makes disciples with the ego of being Guru. He always serves his object of worship. Krishna is highly satisfied if those conditioned souls who are averse to Him, accept rules and regulations to serve Him. This kind of showing the actual path of eternal welfare to the aspirants or votaries is the greatest service of Krishna. Outside person by seeing the ceremony may think that one is giving mantra as Guru and other is taking mantra as disciple. True eternal servant of Krishna, wherever they may stay, their ultimate goal is to serve Krishna and His devotees and not for any other ulterior motives. There is a gulf of difference between a bona fide Guru and a pseudo guru- one is serving Krishna, his target is to satiate Krishna and other's motive is to get mundane non-eternal benefit. Those who give mantra with mundane ulterior motives are to suffer for the sinful acts of the disciples because they are not doing it for Supreme Lord's satisfaction. But the surrendered souls who are giving mantra as per direction of Guru and Gauranga for Their satisfaction, cannot get the fruits of the sinful actions of the so-called disciples. As God is Omniscient and controller of the fruits of actions, so nobody can deceive Him. Conditioned souls who are entangled by illusory energy are unable to remove their non-eternal desires imbibed in their hearts after passing through numerous births. It is not possible for them to remove the previous bad impressions by their own efforts. But if they take shelter to the lotus feet of a bona fide Guru without deceitfulness, by Guru's grace their spiritual life will be successful. Even Krishna has given warning in the Gita (9.30), 'api cet su-duracaro bhajate mam ananya-bhak / sadhur eva sa mantavyah samyag vyavasito hi sah'- A devotee who has taken absolute shelter to Supreme Lord Sri Krishna and does not stop worshipping Krishna steadfastly, in case does any abominable action due to the pressure of his previous bad impressions caused by bad actions, should not be condemned or censured for his evil deed, because he will have serious repentance for his bad actions, he will pray continuously to Lord to forgive him for the offence. This verse- this pithy saying of Krishna proves how much love he has got for the neophyte votaries who want to worship Him sincerely from the core of their hearts. Lord has directed his personal associate Arjuna to declare with pledge in the whole universe to all other forms of worshippers, Karmi, Jnani, Yogi etc. and worshippers of all other demigods that His worshipper will never be ruined, instead he will become a great saint at the earliest and he will get eternal bliss. In this connection this is to be seriously noted that offence of a hypocrite will never be forgiven, because his prayer to the Lord is only an outward show, he cheats himself and cheats others. He does not want eternal welfare. A deceitful person is ever doomed. It is already stated earlier, 'Shubhasya Shighram, ashubhasya kalaharanam'. There is no guarantee that we shall get human birth after our present birth. Why one should take risk. Atleast if you do worship sincerely for some years in the company of Sadhus, the association will not go in vain. That good impression sometimes may not remain permanently- but the momentum of good ideas in the heart will come again with greater velocity. So it is better to start bhajan immediately rather than not doing anything. Take absolute shelter and pray to Nityananda Prabhu and Gauranga Mahaprabhu. They have come to rescue all and give the highest Krishna prema to all, without consideration. Utter their names and pray to Them. It is the nature of Supreme Lord to rescue the surrendered souls. He has said in the Gita (6.40), 'Na hi kalyana krit kascid durgatim tata gacchati'- 'A sincere soul will never be deceived.' - Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj

Does anybody know how to get in contact with Rupter Prabhu, and get password to open the Rar [WinRar] Zip File. It has encrypted password for: Offline Windows/Unix version: VedaBase-en-20050126.rar (~14Mb) - may not work on some retarded Unixes. Link- http://www.vedabase.net/offline/ Oh yes, I e-mailed Rupter Prabhuji, but no reply. He must be somewhere without e-mails.

Thankyou, that article by BV Narayana Maharaja was wonderful, should be called 'Gauranga's ' like the articile by BP Puri Maharaja called 'Krishna's Heart'. Babhru Prabhu you point about correcting myself [and that will take some time] made me smile. And Prabhupada was so nice to that devotee, yet nobody could see it. I also have a point to add if I can that, maybe we should think of the character of great Mahajanas, or even great Vaishnavas like Prabhupada and think 'how would they act?' what character would they show?. I think that is ok to do. I am going to make something of that article by BV Narayana Maharaja, or write it down and memorize it. Dandavats.

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http://www.krsnaconsciousness.org/Gauranga/Key/gita_chant.htm

By The Publishers Guru (Vyasa) Purnima - the appearance of the anniversary of Srila Vyasadeva- [Extacted from Spainsh, Translated with Bablefish]- In this glorious festividad of Guru Purnima we have a very special opportunity to adore to the Guru and the holy people with great devotion. He is unfortunate that while a great person lives between us, we do not recognize that fact, we do not say good things of that person and we are always criticizing that person. Mr. Jesus Christ came with the potential to teach to thousands and thousands, to million and million people, but people did not allow to teach him for a long time, only could teach to twelve disciples and even of these twelve disciples, there was a person who found a form to make crucificar to Jesus. After its death, we thought about him, we adored to him, we prayed and others to him. Why we do not recognize its greatness when they are alive? Why we do not obtain the benefit to understand to these great saints and mystical wise people while still they live? The answer is that we are immature. There is much criticismo on living saints, but once they die, all people speak very well of them. All this criticismo only lasts until they die. Once they leave the body, all say only good things of them. All say: "Oh, that great santo was" And other things thus. Many people are arranged to render cultured to people only after their death, not while they are alive. Guru Purnima, is the day of Full Moon in which all those that considers students, offer respect to their teachers. The children in scholastic age, the students and the disciples give presents to him to which they are helping them to learn and to develop a good character. All the teachers and facilitadores of Prohibition or knowledge, are seen like a reflection of the original teacher of the Prohibitions, Srila Vyasadeva, the literary incarnation of God and its name is invoked repeatedly during that day.

The fact that Most of Iskcon still refuces to acknowledge Gaudiya Matha, maybe not so bad in itself. But most are offensive. Plus political hypocracy is there.. I don't know why that is niether can I sence anybody making a solution. Maybe it is because we are forgetting to love Krishna.

Brahma-Creation Shiva-Destruction Vishnu-Maintainence Brahma is born of Vishnu Navel. Shiva is born of Brahma forehead. They work together to main this creation. Brahman is that which is beyond the sences or sence perception. That is God, and God in His personality is still beyond this. So we have Brahman [impersonal Brahamjyoti] and Bhagavan [supreme Brahman]. The Rays [brahmajyoti] is goal of Jnana-yogis. [Merge]. Just below this is the Stage which is called Nirvana [buddists want this]. Beyond Brahmajyoti [hey!] is Krsnaloka. THis is the Goal of Bhakti-yogis. Right under all this is the heavenly planets the goal of Karma-yogis. I hope that is clear enough. Now and again Krishna incarnates in this World. The main incarnation was 500 Years ago as you know. [Gauranga Mahaprabhu]

They don't seem to have any problems.

This Page has an exceptional passage about this Personality Lord Gaurachandra [also other names for same person are- Gauranga, Chaitanya, Mahaprabhu, Viswambhara] you will note it is rather long, because even in short His Personality is so blissful- http://srimadbhagavatam.com/introduction/en Start from here: [7th Paragraph]- A short sketch of the life and teachings of Lord Caitanya, The Preacher of Srimad-Bhagavatam. I'd save the HTML Page to read Later if it's too long for you.