Hare Krishna,

Please "like" my page "Friends of Lord Krishna" on facebook. Now it has 67000 likes.

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If you want to be one of the devotees, who would like to answer so many questions I get from the fans, please write to me. I try to answer all but some times it is too much to handle.

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Hari bol

Iskcon of Tallahassee has opened a new restaurant/boutique and they are looking for some help. If you can cook delicious Indian dishes please contact me at subuddhi@gmail.com  with all the details. This position is for a devotee and not for some one who is looking to make big money.

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Hare Krishna,

With more than 44000 fans "Friends of Lord Krishna" is one of the more popular pages on Facebook. It gets around 3 million post views every month and any post can reach a possible 11 million friends of friends.

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Hari bol.

Please join "Friends of Lord Krishna"

I invite you to join my page "Friends of Lord Krishna" on facebook. It has more than 36700 members and gets around 2.1 million post views every month. You can get DAILY DARSANA of Sri Radha Krishna from across the world. You can also read inspiring notes, stories and quotes on Lord Krishna. Please invite your friends too.

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Pearls of Wisdom - 268

Demigods pray to Lord Vishnu:

O Lord, persons who are entangled by undesirable eagerness for the temporary body and kinsmen, and who are bound by thoughts of "mine" and "I," are unable to see Your lotus feet, although Your lotus feet are situated within their own bodies. But let us take shelter of Your lotus feet.

O great Supreme Lord, offensive persons whose internal vision has been too affected by external materialistic activities cannot see Your lotus feet, but they are seen by Your pure devotees, whose one and only aim is to transcendentally enjoy Your activities.

O Lord, persons who, because of their serious attitude, attain the stage of enlightened devotional service achieve the complete meaning of renunciation and knowledge and attain the Vaikuṇṭhaloka in the spiritual sky simply by drinking the nectar of Your topics.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 5 Verses 44-46

Pearls of Wisdom - 264

Uddhava to Maitreya:"O sage, persons who because of their sinful activities are averse to the topics of Transcendence and thus ignorant of the purpose of the Bhagavad-gītā are pitied by the pitiable. I also pity them because I see how their duration of life is spoiled by eternal time while they involve themselves in presentations of philosophical speculation, theoretical ultimate goals of life, and different modes of ritual."



Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 5 Verse 14



Uddhava condemns all those who are not interested in learning from Bhagavad Gita.

Pearls of Wisdom - 253

Uddhava to Vidura, "I consider the demons, who are inimical toward the Lord, to be more than the devotees because while fighting with the Lord, absorbed in thoughts of enmity, they are able to see the Lord carried on the shoulder of Garuḍa, the son of Tārkṣya [Kaśyapa], and carrying the wheel weapon in His hand."



Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Verse 24

Friends of Lord Krishna

I invite all the readers to my page "Friends of Lord Krishna" on facebook.

It is an humble attempt to attract more and more souls to Krishna. I need the blessings of all vaisnavas. I also request you to send this link to all your friends.

Thank you.

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A Poem by Amrita (11 years old)

Amrita Geddam from Waukesha, Wisconsin, wrote a poem on Krishna Janmashtami. Its amazing how a eleven year old thinks with so much maturity. I made a small video based on this poem. It has been uploaded on Youtube.

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxk31GE2Ng

Pearls of Wisdom - 172

Sometimes, to mitigate distresses in this forest of the material world, the conditioned soul receives cheap blessings from atheists. He then loses all intelligence in their association. This is exactly like jumping in a shallow river. As a result one simply breaks his head. He is not able to mitigate his sufferings from the heat, and in both ways he suffers. The misguided conditioned soul also approaches so-called sâdhus and svâmîs who preach against the principles of the Vedas. He does not receive benefit from them, either in the present or in the future.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 14 Verse 13

Pearls of Wisdom - 171

The conditioned soul sometimes personally appreciates the futility of sense enjoyment in the material world, and he sometimes considers material enjoyment to be full of miseries. However, due to his strong bodily conception, his memory is destroyed, and again and again he runs after material enjoyment, just as an animal runs after a mirage in the desert.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 14 Verse 10

A poem from a young devotee

Krishna

By: Amrita Geddam

Nilachala Bhakti Vriksha - Milwaukee

As His peacock feather

was proudly fluttering behind Him,

and as His hair, which looked luscious

as a divine river was flowing past.

Then as strings of pearls and emeralds

formed a crown for Him

as though lotuses in the river,

we see Krishna, the divine Lord and the Supreme.

At His left stood our beloved Gopi, Radharani.

Her eyes were locked unto Her lord,

Govinda and Her maple brown eyes

were always flashing one message-

I am your servant.

You are My heart and soul.

Your wish is My work.

Then the Lord picked up His flute

and drew it to His lips.

At once Vrindavana became as though hypnotized.

Gopis danced around Him.

Their impeccable minds fixed unto Krishna.

Cows gave milk without complain.

Calves danced circling their mothers.

Everyone was in a joyous mood

and meanwhile, the sun shown down radiantly.

Krishna - The Majestic

Hare Krishna,

Watch the video and spread the glories of Krishna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-aLrHfduc

Pearls of Wisdom - 170

Every year the plowman plows over his grain field, completely uprooting all weeds. Nonetheless, the seeds lie there and, not being completely burned, again come up with the plants sown in the field. Even after being plowed under, the weeds come up densely. Similarly, the grihastha-âs'rama [family life] is a field of fruitive activity. Unless the desire to enjoy family life is completely burned out, it grows up again and again. Even though camphor may be removed from a pot, the pot nonetheless retains the aroma of camphor. As long as the seeds of desire are not destroyed, fruitive activities are not destroyed.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 14 Verse 4

Krishna The Majestic - Video

Hare Krishna,

Watch the Video - Krishna The Majestic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-aLrHfduc

Pearls of Wisdom - 169

In the forest of material existence, the uncontrolled senses are like plunderers. The conditioned soul may earn some money for the advancement of Krishna consciousness, but unfortunately the uncontrolled senses plunder his money through sense gratification. The senses are plunderers because they make one spend his money unnecessarily for seeing, smelling, tasting, touching, hearing, desiring and willing. In this way the conditioned soul is obliged to gratify his senses, and thus all his money is spent. This money is actually acquired for the execution of religious principles, but it is taken away by the plundering senses.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 14 Verse 2

Pearls of Wisdom - 168

When King Parîkshit asked S'ukadeva Gosvâmî about the direct meaning of the material forest, S'ukadeva Gosvâmî replied as follows: My dear King, a man belonging to the mercantile community [vanik] is always interested in earning money. Sometimes he enters the forest to acquire some cheap commodities like wood and earth and sell them in the city at good prices. Similarly, the conditioned soul, being greedy, enters this material world for some material profit. Gradually he enters the deepest part of the forest, not really knowing how to get out. Having entered the material world, the pure soul becomes conditioned by the material atmosphere, which is created by the external energy under the control of Lord Vishnu. Thus the living entity comes under the control of the external energy, daivî mâyâ. Living independently and bewildered in the forest, he does not attain the association of devotees who are always engaged in the service of the Lord. Once in the bodily conception, he gets different types of bodies one after the other under the influence of material energy and impelled by the modes of material nature [sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna]. In this way the conditioned soul goes sometimes to the heavenly planets, sometimes to the earthly planets and sometimes to the lower planets and lower species. Thus he suffers continuously due to different types of bodies. These sufferings and pains are sometimes mixed. Sometimes they are very severe, and sometimes they are not. These bodily conditions are acquired due to the conditioned soul's mental speculation. He uses his mind and five senses to acquire knowledge, and these bring about the different bodies and different conditions. Using the senses under the control of the external energy, mâyâ, the living entity suffers the miserable conditions of material existence. He is actually searching for relief, but he is generally baffled, although sometimes he is relieved after great difficulty. Struggling for existence in this way, he cannot get the shelter of pure devotees, who are like bumblebees engaged in loving service at the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 14 Verse 1

Pearls of Wisdom - 167

King Rahûgana said: This birth as a human being is the best of all. Even birth among the devatas in the heavenly planets is not as glorious as birth as a human being on this earth. What is the use of the exalted position of a devata? In the heavenly planets, due to profuse material comforts, there is no possibility of associating with devotees.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 13 Verse 21

Pearls of Wisdom - 166

When the living entity becomes exactly like a monkey jumping from one branch to another, he remains in the tree of household life without any profit but sex. Thus he is kicked by his wife just like the he-ass. Unable to gain release, he remains helplessly in that position. Sometimes he falls victim to am incurable disease, which is like falling into a mountain cave. He becomes afraid of death, which is like the elephant in the back of that cave, and he remains stranded, grasping at the twigs and branches of a creeper.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 13 Verse 18

Pearls of Wisdom - 165

Jada Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My dear King Rahûgana, the living entity wanders on the path of the material world, which is very difficult for him to traverse, and he accepts repeated birth and death. Being captivated by the material world under the influence of the three modes of material nature. (sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna), the living entity can see only the three fruits of activities under the spell of material nature. These fruits are auspicious, inauspicious and mixed. He thus becomes attached to religion, economic development, sense gratification and the monistic theory of liberation. (merging with the Supreme) He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world.

Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 5 Chapter 13 Verse 1