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23 Dec.12.   To commemorate the Holy Srimad Bhagavad Gita Jayanti today at home the following process is receommended as the minimum standard. Take bath and wear clean cloths. Then also put sri tilak. Then begin the worship of the Gita in this way: 1) Perform acaman 2) Offer Tulasi manjari plus sandalwood paste to Bhagavad-gita 3) Offer fragrant flower garland to Bhagavad-gita 4) Offer milk sweet plus Tulsi to Bhagavad-gita 5) Offer arotika (incense, ghee lamp, conch water) to Bhagavad-gita 6) Do parikrama of Gita book 7) Glorify Gita with following prayers (see below) 8)  Chant the mahamantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. 9) Perform the aarati for Bhagavad Gita As It Is with this prayer. For this aarati, prepare the set with one pancabati- ghee lamp in fuve, dhup, arghyam, puspa, bastra, chamar and pankha, ie inscense, lamp, water, flower, cloth, yak's tail and peacock fan. Using this aarati should ...

May all the citizens of the world and other living entities be blessed with the pure love, God consciousness and attain peace and tranquility in the year 2013. Vedic Cultural Home, Naamhat in Boxtel, NL prays this for you all. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Lord Krishna and Jesus Christ- an excerpt by Srila Prabhupada . Many people often wonder what is the view of Lord Jesus Christ in the Krishna consciousness movement. Srila Prabhupada, the foremost exponent of the Krishna consciousness movement explains that Jesus is Krishna's representative, son of God, and spiritual master. Below are excerpts from Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, and conversations about Jesus Christ and his relationship with Krsna. "If one loves Krishna, he must love Lord Jesus also. And if one perfectly loves Jesus he must love Krishna too. If he says, "Why shall I love Krishna? I shall love Jesus," then he has no knowledge. And if one says, "Why shall I love Jesus?...

Bhagavad Gita As It is edition is worldwide acknowledged as the best and true rendering and it is translated into almost all the world langauges . Gita Jayanti is observed on the 11th day, Ekadasi, (23-12-12) of the Shukla Paksha (waxing phase of moon) of Margashirsh month as per traditional Hindu calendar.On this day about 5000 years ago Bhagavad Gita was retold by Lord Krishna to Arjuna, which was taught to the Sun God at the begining of the creation.   The  Bhagavad-gita  is universally renowned as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom. Spoken by Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead to His intimate disciple Arjuna, the  Gita's  seven hundred concise verses provide a definitive guide to the science of self realization. No other philosophical or religious work reveals, in such a lucid and profound way, the nature of consciousness, the self, the universe and the Supreme. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada uniquely and truely pr...

Identity playes the role in determining the degree of happiness. There is no other tangible alternative, yet the best identity for the inner happiness and salvation is to realise the spiritual identity, not particularly of religious. Update will follow soon..

Everybody was invited and taste yourself the spiritual bliss.  Yet only the fortunate one who may have purity in mind turns up. But outstandingly the Mahasatsang, mahasankirtan, 8 hours non-stop chanting in different melodies the holy name mamantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare was done amid more than two hundred devotees in Amsterdam on 9th December.  The hall of the Clublite was full. The dancing in ecstacy bounced the floor continiously. It was ver wonderfully organised. It was the best example of teamwork the display of the Sanatan Dharma in true practice. In such sankirtan even the Lord Sri Krishna and His manifestations will be there including the great devotee like Hanuman. Sankirtan is the most enjoyable cultural event in which you will experiance the transcendental happiness as it will nourish your soul. Sankirtan is the recommended dharma for the kali youga. It is the event where everyone...

Old is gold, also in regard to dharma.  Here the modern world's the most emminent sage Srila Prabhupada explains, to what should we call as the religion? Listen this from Bhagavad Gita As It Is chapter 4 verse 3 . Who can understand it in the perfect way it was meant to, by the Lord Krishna? You will get all the answers. Currently the Hare Krishna movement is looked down and chanting the mahamantra is interpreted as primary exercise by a few followers of so called Manav Dharma founded by Sri Satpalji maharaj. They suggests instead to chant the 'unspeakble premordial name' of whom? known to only themselves. Prabhupad explains here the absolute truth, that will be good for all the human beings if looking for the truth alone from the authentic sources. The text and the purport of this verse is also reproduced below. Chapter 4. Transcendental Knowledge TEXT 3 sa evayam maya te 'dya yogah proktah puratanah bhakto 'si me sakha ceti rahasyam hy etad uttamam S...

On the occasion of Srila Prabhupada's Tirobhava Mahotsava 2012, here is a letter which HH Bhakti Charu Swami wrote for all the dear disciple children of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada --------------------------------------- Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Just a few days before Srila Prabhupada left this world, two very important personalities came to see him. They were the ex-Governor of Madras, Sriman Narayana, and his brother-in-law Ram krishna Bajaj, the head of Bajaj Industries. They asked Srila Prabhupada whom he would appoint as his successor. His Divine Grace replied that he was not going to appoint any successor. He was giving his legacy to all his disciples – whoever followed would receive that legacy. In this way Srila Prabhupada made it very clear that those who will follow his instructions will carry his legacy. This legacy is the mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu – the mission of spreading Krishna Consciousness all o...

Very intersting and tangible evidences of the presence of the subtle body and its influence on the gross bodily activities are told to the audience of the Vedic cultural gathering by the very person who experianced it. The reference to the subtle body mentioned by the Lord Krishna, see Bhagavad Gita As It Is 15:8 verse was practically experianced and proved by a devotee Frank de Boer which he told convincingly. Here under reproduced in summary is his life experiance both by his gross and subtle body. Frank prabhu telling his journey of his subtle body 'As long as I can remember from my childhood, I was always painting a certain type of picture in my dream. This dream I saw almost every night and I was haunted by it. My mother is a very pious lady and believes in God. She is spiritually elevated and always enquisitive to know the absolute truth, the life and the force that makes this material body conscious, the vedic term to describe this  is her 'bramha jigyasa'. ...

Value education based on Bhagavad Gita As It Is begun.   His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami donates 5000 Bhagavad Gita As It Is.   Naamhat of Boxtel, Netherlands donated 500 Euros. Hare Krishna Vaisnav tradition has been supporting value education at all levels. This education focusses on the right understanding of the wisdom passed down by the Lord Krishna, particularly the Bhagavad Gita. Many centuries has passed away already however, the true essence of this transcendental wisdom was rarely understood in its true sense, as Arjun understood it and applied. But now with the dawn of the world's most authentic presentation of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is version by Srila Prabhupada, imparting the value education based on this source of wisdom began.  Currently, in an organised way under the project; Gita Champion League, His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj begun imparting this wisdom which focusses not only on distributing the book, Bhagavad Gita Asi It Is, but also enco...

Purify your existence. Eleviate your consciousness with the Vedic wisdom. It is possible just from your seating place where ever you are.  Teleconferencing is on from the world's most magnanimous saint His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj. It already  the 7th in the series. The 8th series giving you explannation on the Srimad Bhagavad Puran in on 4th November. See here the details on how to connect yourself for this class In the previous 7 classes broadcasted globally and also to individuals directly using skype can be heard in this link . In this online telephone conference on the Vedic wisdom you can ask questions to Maharaj directly. You need have Skype account. Then you need to add the conference skype name  freeconferencing.8053991000 . Naamhat Boxtel will also start broadcasting its programs every 3rd Saturday evening. The program will start at 16:00 hours Dutch time that is 1 hour ahead of gmt. Please add our skype name: naamhat in your skype acco...

  Homes will be lighted with special lamps, special prayers sung and meet and greet everyone, give charity and havest the yeild and offer to the creator- the Lord Krishna, all this is recommeded in the month of Kartic according to the Vedic culture. Very special month of the year in view of vedic culture is kartik that falls in the month of Oct/Nov. Its the month of Sri Damodar, another name of the Lord Krishna denoting His pastimes of playing with his mother and also liberate Nal and Kubera who gotted the body of trees owing to their bad action in the past. This month is the harvesting the yeaid of the year and the Vedic culture  celebrate this harvesting as supports self-sufficiency by means of agronomy and cow rearing. This is the most environment friendly way of livelyhood and one reaps the yeild during this month. And for the Lord Krsna is this month a favourite one. In this month, some five thousand years ago, Krsna, the supreme God came down from his abode the ...

Reproduced on demand of the readers. Saintly persons wishes only for the good of others!   Deity worship for God consciousness 23/2/10 A saintly women from Haridwar, disciple of Satpalji who founded Manav Dharma, Dharani Baiju mataji shared her experiance of self-realization. Addressing the Vedic Cultural house in Boxtel on 20th February, she explained the impersonal aspect of the supreme personality of Goadhead Sri Krishna.  She urged that the happiness can be found within, thus one has to look into thier self with the help of a spiritual master. The goal of human lif is to qualify spiritually to go back to the abode of our spiritual father, the Lord Krsna. She asserted that nawadays people are engaged only in eating, mating, sleeping and defending and thus the purpose of human form of life is forgotten. Just like, if you have a car and you put fuel in it but don't drive it to the destination the purpose of buying it is useless. Devotion to God is the only ...

OPINION By elevating yourself to Krishna Consciousness your goal of having a human form of life will be attained easily and quickly as you would qualify to get into the kingdom of God. On the earth too, you will live  in peace of mind.There is not other authentic quick and easy way. Every one needs peace and thus the human races has been in search of peace and happiness all the time. They are looking for the methods that would hopefully enable them attain peace mentally and physically. In the process some look out for the ascending order of methods, some the descendeing order. Both deserve equall respect although one method would be more beneficial and easy than the other depending on the individual themselves. The perfect wisdom to accept for peace or liberation is the descending process of wisdom. This means the proces of attaining peace and happiness by accepting the wisdom that is given by the absolute creator, Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This wisdom ...