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Hare Krishna In Every Town And Village So far a Temple place is concerned, even there is no place, we can sit down underneath a tree and chant as I did in New York. Krsna will give a nice place. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Book Distribution Is the Hare Krishnas Most Important Activity There is no doubt about it, to distribute books is our most important activity. The temple is a place not for eating and sleeping, but as a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with Maya. Fight with Maya means to drop thousand and millions of books into the lap of the conditioned souls. Just like during war time the bombs are raining from the sky like anything... Related Articles (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Why do Bad Things Happen to Us? From your views Why do 'bad' things befall us? How does all that come into play? Is everything karma or can anything just happen? How would a KC devotee deal with let's say he's on the road preaching and someone stabs him badly, how would you view that? Or would you say that while in KC it would not be possible to be stabbed because Krishna is watching over us, especially (Letter from Madhudvisa dasa)  The Main thing is: I'M NOT THIS BODY The main thing is we understand we are not the body so no matter what we do to the body it will not give us satisfaction in the long term. (Letter from Madhudvisa dasa)  Prabhupada is Still Here and The Good Old Days Are Still Here I was never separated from Srila Prabhupada, even though for many years I could not understand this, and thought that I alone had been rejected by Krsna, that I alone could not be a devotee, because Krsna didn't want me, nor could I ever please my spiritual master. I couldn't understand how I had gotten trodden down so far, spiritually, after such dedication to the process for so long. But one (Letter from Madhavi d.d.)  The Moon -- Sadaputa's is the Bona Fide ISKCON Opinion? Thank you for your letter. It is a real eye-opener for me. Probably as most other devotees, I was just considering that opinion of Sadaputa Prabhu is bonafide ISKCON opinion. I forgot that the mission of our scientists is to present Bhagavatam to karmi scientists. (Letter from Giri-nayaka dasa / Madhudvisa dasa)  Questions From A Muslim With Answers From Khan I downloaded Bhagvad Geeta from your site and read it. I am extremely impressed and moved by the teachings of Krishana Ji. But being a Muslim, some questions arose in my mind. If you could help me to finding their answers, I will be grateful to you. Related Articles (Letter from Khan)  Plain Living and High Thinking It is my ambition that all devotees may remain self independent by producing vegetables, grains, milk, fruits, flowers, and by weaving their own cloth in handlooms. This simple life is very nice. Simple village life saves time for other engagements like chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra Related Articles (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Kirtana [chanting Hare Krishna] in Every Town and Village If you vibrate these transcendental sounds everywhere continually, it will pierce their ears and enter their hearts, and then their natural attraction for Krsna will be revived. Related Articles (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Preaching--First Become and Ideal Devotee Lord Caitanya said that one should first make himself perfect and then attempt to instruct others. There is no point in telling another man to stop smoking if you yourself are smoking cigarettes. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  |
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United Nations Organization and World Health Organization They have invented the United Nations and world health organizations. But all these attempts are exactly the same process as to water the leaves and the twigs. They don't know the missing point: Krishna. Related Articles (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Letter to Hayagriva dasa As you are remembering our old meeting days on the second avenue, when I first started my lectures there, similarly I also remember the incidents and speak to so many friends and disciples. So our meeting was Krishna's desire. Apparently it was accidental but actually it was Krishna's plan. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Yoga and the Master of Yoga I can challenge all these so-called yoga societies in the western countries that they are not standard in terms of Vedic yoga system. The preliminary processes of yoga system is to control the senses... But none of them practice like that, generally they are attracted by the bodily exercises only, haphazardly. Related Articles (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Psychology -- Can therapy and drugs save us from stress and depression? I am curious to inquire about psychology. Here in the West people have the idea that the way to deal with suffering and inner turmoil is to see a psychologist and/or take medication for stress and depression like anti-depressants etc. What is you take on this?
(Letter from Madhudvisa dasa)  Maintaining the Routine Work This routine work, such as chanting, speaking, rising early, cleaning, cooking and offering prasadam, arati, reading books--these activities are the backbone of our Society, and if we practice them nicely in a regulative manner, then our whole program will be successful. If we become slack or neglect these things, then everything else we may try will fail. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Ideal Householder Life--Better than Many Sannyasis I am so pleased upon you that you are showing the example of an ideal householder. Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura was also a householder, but he lived in so perfect Krishna Consciousness that he is better than many Sannyasis like us. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Reading Srila Prabhupada's Books I am requesting all of my students to read my books very seriously every day without fail. In this way, if your mind becomes absorbed at least one or two hours daily... (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Perfect Communism Your great founder of your nation, Mr. Nikolai Lenin, was very much intelligent, and he could understand that people become united only under the guiding principles of a commonly accepted philosophy or standard of truth. But if we examine the course of history, we must conclude, with Mr. Karl Marx, that this so-called standard of truth constantly changes. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  ISKCON--Copyrighting and Trademarking HARE KRISHNA!!! The Sankirtana Movement is not my invention. So how can it be copyrighted? (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  Prabhupada Enjoys the Govindam Record Album The record is so nice that I am playing it at least once in a day and it is giving me transcendental pleasure with tears in my eyes. I am sure this record will be the first-class hit as already opined by the experts. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)  |
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