”May the Supreme Lord who controls all the living entities, engage our senses including our mind and intelligence on the spiritual path to obtain purity. The presiding deities of all the senses, using the light from fire, may help by retracting our senses from external sense gratification and steadily engaging them in devotional service. While…
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”Making one’s own self the lesser wood-stick and the Supersoul the superior wood-stick, the regular spiritual practice is to be the constant rubbing of them together so one should endeavor to bring out the hidden fire-like Supreme Lord from within in order to see Him.” sva-deham aranim krtva pranavam cottararanim dhyana nirmathanabhyasad devam pasyen nigudha…
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”(Lord Sri Krsna asked) You look very pleasing having such a shining wonderful looking body that looks like a demigod’s body. Who are you? How did you obtain this body and who forced you to take such an abominable low birth?” ko bhavan paraya laksmya rocate ‘dbhuta darsanah katham jugu psitam etam gatim va prapito…
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When real devotees see the Lord, either face to face or in His deity form in the temple, they always pray to please Him, as we see in this text. Pleading words to appease the Lord are called prayers. A person before the Lord without prayers is understood to be arrogant. One may externally act…
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”By nature, everything material is temporary whereas the enjoyer of the material objects, the living soul, is indestructible. Both the, perishable material objects and the imperishable spirit soul are under the control of the Supreme Lord. If one continuously contemplates in this way while keeping their mind completely absorbed in this thinking then at the…
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Bhagavat Dharma Samaj Vrindavan Festival and Parade of Lord Sri Sri Radha Govindaji in the streets of Sri Vrindaban Dham, India. March 2017. PHOTOS
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You are invited to Bhagavat Dharma Samaj’s annual Vrindavan Festival and Parade, that will take place on March 4th 2017, in Raman Reti, Vrindavan, India. Jay Sri Radhe!
”He then came near the Lord and stood before Him with his glittering transcendental body, wearing golden ornaments and bowing his head. Then Lord Sri Krsna, the master of the senses, asked him the following.” tam aprcchadd hrsikesah pranatam samupasthitam dipyamanena vapusa purusam hema-malinam PURPORT BY SRI KRSNA BALARAM SWAMIJI As soon as the python’s…
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”Those greatly advanced transcendentalists saw in their trance that very Supreme Lord who was satiated and enveloped with His inconceivable transcendental energies and found that He alone controls those causes (told in the previous verse) starting from time till the soul interacts and thus completely governs them.” te dhyana yoganugata apasyan devatma saktim sva-gunair nigudham…
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“Poverty-stricken people are free from pride; therefore, a poor person does not have any arrogance. Whatever misery he experiences by the will of providence become his genuine austerity for elevation.” daridro niraham-stambho muktah sarva-madair iha krcchram yadrc-chaya”pnoti tad dhi tasya param tapah PURPORT BY SRI KRSNA BALARAM SWAMIJI Austerity is the only way to become…
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