UNIVERSAL LEADERS

Universal Leaders, Javier Figuerola
A few days ago in Australia met the leaders of the 20 richest countries in the world. They spoke of the war in Ukraine, that worries them, but did not talk about how we can help African poor who are suffering from the disease Ebola did not talk about that together we will end hunger in the world, did not talk about we will invent alternative energy for not exploiting the oil to Mother Earth and certainly not talked about how we come to know God and love Him. Those people do not care about the suffering that others are suffering from Ebola, hunger, etc. Such people are only interested in power and control others through fear, they are people with a very sectarian and crippled mentality are nothing nice or friendly. His only business is to transmit fear of others, and through fear to control the masses, if people were not sheep, if people were smart, pure, happy and free could not control. The only crisis There is universal leaders, people who suffer when they see others suffer and no matter the skin color, neither country nor creed, or language, etc., and are happy when they see others happy in God consciousness. The world is full of atheists, and political parties take advantage of the atheistic philosophies to promote materialism. Srila Prabhupada always said that people who fear these infernal leaders who chant the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.
I share these maxims on friendship:
The friend must be like money, before you need it, the value is known. If you feel you lost all sense, there's a love you will always be a friend. A friend is a person you can think aloud. Friendship is more difficult and rarer than love. Therefore, we must save as. A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. Friendship is one soul dwelling in two bodies; one heart inhabiting two souls. He who seeks a friend without faults you run out of friends. True friends will have to upset occasionally. The friends you have and whose friendship've tested, engánchalos your soul with hooks of steel. True friendship is like phosphorescence, shines better when everything was dark. Friendship doubles your joys and sorrows divided in half. If there's anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even justice itself, that if you go through the world with friendly look, you make good friends. He is my dearest friend and the most cruel of my rivals, my confidant and my betrayer, who supports me and that depends on me; and the scariest of all: It is my equal. Friends are like blood when it is injured come without being called. Friends are those rare beings who ask us as we are and wait to hear the answer. The bad friend is telling us to face the unpleasant things; the enemy's said behind us as we did not know, nothing happens. A true friend is one who stands by you when they would rather be elsewhere. A false friend is like a shadow that follows us while the sun lasts.How rare and wonderful is that fleeting moment when we realize we have discovered a friend! Look no friend to kill the hours, but seek him with hours to live. Friendship is everything. Friendship is worth more than talent. Worth more than the government. Friendship is worth almost as much as the family. The real friend is one who knows all about you and still your friend. One of the joys of friendship is knowing who to trust. If you want to form a judgment about a man, watch who your friends. Rebuke a friend in secret and praise him openly. Perfect friendship is the good and resemble those of virtue. They wish each other good in the same sense. The friend is another self. Without friendship man can not be happy. God did not create borders. My goal is friendship with the world. The friendship could only take place through the development of mutual and in a spirit of sincerity respect. True friendship is a plant of slow growth. No better friend or father to oneself. Take your time in choosing a friend, slower but I still change it. A friendship without trust is a flower without perfume. Man likes to see his friend humbled before him; for most friendship is based on humiliation. Good sources are known in the great droughts; good friends, in the unfortunate times. What makes unbreakable friendships and doubles its charm is that it lacks a sense of love, for sure. Each shows what is on the friends you have. Preferid, among friends, not just those who are saddened by the news of all your misery, but even more that I do not envy your prosperity.
Chant the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.

CHANT HARE KRISHNA WITHOUT OFFENSES

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, we understand and accept here more importantly chant Hare Krishna without offenses the initiation.
Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 15.111

"ataeva yāńra mukhe eka kṛṣṇa-nāma
sei ta' vaiṣṇava, kariha tāńhāra sammāna"
SYNONYMS

ataeva — therefore; yāńra mukhe — in whose mouth; eka — one; kṛṣṇa-nāma — the holy name of Kṛṣṇa; sei ta' vaiṣṇava — he is a Vaiṣṇava; kariha — offer; tāńhāra — to him; sammāna — respect.
TRANSLATION

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then finally advised, "One who is chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is understood to be a Vaiṣṇava; therefore you should offer all respects to him."
PURPORT

In his Upadeśāmṛta (5), Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī states: kṛṣṇeti yasya giri taḿ manasādriyeta dīkṣāsti cet praṇatibhiś ca bhajantam īśam. An advanced devotee should respect a person who has been initiated by a bona fide spiritual master and who is situated on the transcendental platform, chanting the holy name with faith and obeisances and following the instructions of the spiritual master. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura comments that serving Vaiṣṇavas is most important for householders. Whether a Vaiṣṇava is properly initiated or not is not a subject for consideration. One may be initiated and yet contaminated by the Māyāvāda philosophy, but a person who chants the holy name of the Lord offenselessly will not be so contaminated. A properly initiated Vaiṣṇava may be imperfect, but one who chants the holy name of the Lord offenselessly is all-perfect. Although he may apparently be a neophyte, he still has to be considered a pure, unalloyed Vaiṣṇava. It is the duty of the householder to offer respects to such an unalloyed Vaiṣṇava. This is Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction.

Srila Prabhupada's Nectar 1

Srila Prabhupada's Nectar

Srila Prabhupada's Quote

Any one of us can be arrested by Maya at any moment
if we are not strongly attached to Krishna Consciousness.
So my request to you and all others is to follow the principles of Krishna Consciousness adherently
and there is no danger however strong the Maya may be.

- Letter to:  Umapati, Los Angeles, January 14, 1968

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"Jai Shree Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu Nityananda Sri Advaita Gadadhara Srivas Aadi Gour Bhakta Vrinda" once before beginning chanting Hare Krishna
And then chant 
"हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे || 
हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे ||" 
"Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare ||
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare ||"
 
108 times
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this is one mala....pls go on chanting as many mala as u want and be happy... 

Chant Hare Krishna
And your life will be sublime!

ALWAYS REMEMBER KRISHNA
NEVER FORGET KRISHNA
 
Śrīla Prabhupāda: If one simply approaches the holy name with reverence and allows the holy name to enter through his ears into his heart, and especially if he accepts the divine name as his very life and soul, he can enter the deepest, most profound, most sublime of all spiritual mysteries.

WE ARE SERVANTS

We are servants, Javier Figuerola
In the Bible it is said that he who does not live to serve, does for a living, in these words is the true essence of our lives. I agree that 1983 was a big change in my life, it was two in the morning and went to a nightclub and looked at the sky, all the stars were there were no clouds, and prayed to God to please save me this miserable life, I have an interest in knowing and loving God, to understand that we are not temporal matter but eternal spirit souls, understanding that awaits me after death, understanding that I suffer but I would not suffer, to understand where true happiness is in understanding which is the Kingdom of God or the spiritual world, the response was immediate, I heard an inner voice saying to me that it was time to wake up, that inner voice is called Paramatma, or the Holy Spirit, God at the heart of all living entities. From personal experience I say that there is no greater power in the universe to pray to God. In 1984 he joined the Hare Krishna movement and participated in volunteering at the Food for Life Vrindavan in India program, distributing prasadam, or food offered to God, traveled through 16 Latin countries and USA, God or Krishna circulated through my quarter of a million books of Srila Prabhupada, I will have talked to four million people face to face, that has helped me to see the suffering of the people and respect people, and collected a lot of money to provide food in Vrindavan in India, when I realized that the leaders of Hare Krishna had changed the instructions of Srila Prabhupada I left the movement, now my service to Srila Prabhupada is to share my experiences without wanting anything in return, this helps me a lot to be free of envy a publishing house has a spiritual book and I've already signed the contract for another book I tell all my personal experiences, and continue collecting donations to distribute food in India. When someone is interested in understanding the issues mentioned above, that person should pray to God with great earnestness and sincerity to send to a bona fide spiritual master to understand all these things, there then begins the good fortune for the soul. And what is a bona fide spiritual master ?, the answer is very simple, is the representative of God, Jesus Christ, Srila Prabhupada, Mohammed and others are representatives of God, and what are the representatives of God ?, to set prinicipios of religion, Jesus said I have come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, and Srila Prabhupada in the Srimad Bhagavatam, 4,8,54 says the guru comes and establishes religious principles, when the guru is going becomes clutter and bandits, thieves and crooks take advantage of the situation. It is said in the Holy Scriptures of India to find a bona fide guru in this age is harder to throw a lifeline to the ocean and a tortoise, and what a coincidence that when the turtle pokes his head gets into the lifeboat, and more difficult than it is to find a perfect and genuine disciple of a bona fide guru. There are people who present themselves as servants of humanity but have hidden desires, these people deceive themselves and others and never experience happiness in this life or the next. I am very happy in my personal life, I have the love and trust of many pious and simple-hearted people.
Usually people think that a guru is one who through a brainwashing exploits his disciples to bring you money and women to enjoy it, that make false and unauthorized gurus. A genuine guru is God's representative and servant of his disciples, Jesus said that I did not come to be served but to serve me, and Srila Prabhupada always said that a genuine and authorized guru is considered the servant of his disciples, he sees his disciples and their gurus, and he thinks it is God who has sent me to these people for me to train in the spiritual life. In Chapter 6 of Harinama- Chintamani says the relationship is genuine guru to disciple is eternal, as long as both keep their pure positions, however if the guru deviates, the disciple should reject it and vice versa, if the deviates guru disciple should reject if this is not carried out they are doomed. No one can go directly to God, God or Krishna tells Arjuna in the Adi Purana says that one who is My devotee is not My devotee, but who says that is the devotee of My devotee of My devotee of My devotee that is my devotee. And Shiva tells his wife Parvati that the highest worship is to worship God or Vishnu, but higher than that is worshiping His devotee. And Srila Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakura says in his Guruastaka to meet the representative of God, God is pleased, but if one does not meet the representative of God, no one knows what their destiny.
Thoughts to ponder
A true friend or friend is someone who helps you to go home, back to God, the spiritual world, without wanting anything in return.
My mother is the truth, my father is knowledge, my occupational duty is to serve God and humanity is my brother, kindness is my friend, tranquility is my wife, and forgiveness is my son. These six are my family members.
Srila Prabhupada always said that if you do not serve God have to serve your dog.
Chant the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.

Srila Prabhupada's Nectar

Srila Prabhupada's Nectar

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Srila Prabhupada's Quote

Devotee or Guest: I want to ask you how can we possibly know that one has attained Krsna consciousness.
Prabhupada: You have to think of Krsna. Hm? What did he say, question?
Hrdayananda: He wanted to know what are the symptoms of one who has become Krsna conscious.
Prabhupada: Symptoms? He’s chanting always Hare Krsna. Unless one is Krsna conscious, why he’ll take the trouble, twenty-four hours, “Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna”? This is the symptom. The symptom is further explained that as soon as you see one man and you remember Krsna, that means he’s Krsna conscious. So our men, wherever they go, people say, “Hare Krsna!” -- by seeing him only. Therefore the man is Krsna conscious. This is the proof. That is the statement of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, “If by seeing one person you remember Krsna, that person is Krsna conscious.”
(Bhagavad-gita 2.15 -- Mexico, February 15, 1975)

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"Change starts with you but it doesn't start until you do."

PEOPLE IN FIRST CLASS

People in first class, Javier Figuerola
Srila Prabhupada came to USA in 1965 when he was 69 years old, from 1965-1977 that disembodied wrote 80 books of 400 pages each, opened over a hundred temples of Hare Krishna, several rural communities traveled the world and gave 14 times around the world preaching Krishna consciousness, he began to thousands and thousands of people who went crazy for God singing each day the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama , Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare vowing to sing every day 27,648 names of God, and making a pure life by leaving meat, fish and eggs, gambling, snuff, tea, drugs , coffee and illicit sex, sex only to procreate and your lawful wife. The Hare Krishnas are known throughout the world as the people of the bright faces, the face is the mirror of the soul. In all the most prestigious universities in the world have their books to study the spiritual culture of India. Since 1965 until now their fans, followers and supporters have distributed more than 500 million books in 123 languages and dialects. Thanks to the books of Srila Prabhupada the concepts of reincarnation, karma, and who is that God and the Hare Krishna cuisine is famous worldwide. Srila Prabhupada in his books prophesied that when the thugs, thieves and opportunists out would take advantage of the situation. Srila Prabhupada said many times that he would never die but live forever in his books and follow his instructions who live with him. Unfortunately when Srila Prabhupada disciples assumptions was what changed everything, changed their books, and without the permission of Srila Prabhupada became gurus. The result of doing so many offenses to Srila Prabhupada's movement is now a horror movie. Many people like me and others had to leave us your movement to avoid being complicit in so many injustices and offenses are doing to Srila Prabhupada.
Once I saw a video of Nostradamus prophesied the coming of Srila Prabhupada said to come from the east a person who always go with a cane to found a universal religion, the religion of love for God. There is a prophecy that his books will be the law books for the next 10,000 years for all mankind. We are in Kali-yuga the age of ignorance and folly, 99 percent of people do not know or love God, in the past people had friends with people, now people can not relate to people and their friends are dogs and cats, now in Spain with regard to the Ebola have sacrificed a dog, and thousands and thousands of people have protested, but none of those thousands and thousands of people have complained about the millions and millions and millions of innocent animals killed in slaughterhouses every day, this is kali-yuga, no intelligence or kindness. Find today to a balanced person is as difficult to say a pure devotee of God. That right was when Srila Prabhupada always said that all people who are afraid of these infernal leaders who chant the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.
Srila Prabhuoada tried to create persons class, the qualities of those people are, "They are kind, tolerant, friendly to all, always respect them all and never want to be respected, they are true, pure heart, conquer hunger, thirst, lamentation, envy and old age, not deceive themselves or others, they are happy when they see others happy consciousness of God and suffer when they see others suffer and have the best friends God and His representatives. Do you know someone with these qualities? the problem is that the atmosphere is highly charged with ignorance and evil and people do not feel inspired or interest in the material out of this mess and go back home back to God.
Chant the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare and be happy.

SRILA SARANGA THAKURA KI JAYA

Srila Saranga Thakura - Disappearance

ENTRANCE TO SRI SARANGA THAKURA’S “MADANA-GOPALA TEMPLE”

Sri Saranga Murari Thakura used to reside at Modadrumadwipa Mam-gachi, where his Deities of Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath are still present. There is also a Bakul tree there which is perhaps existing since the time of Saranga Thakura. There is a local legend concerning this tree. One day when Mahaprabhu came there, he noticed that the Bakul tree in the courtyard of Saranga's temple was dying. So he asked Saran-ga, "This Bakul tree is dying, so what are you going to do?"

Saranga Thakura replied, "Besides Your mercy Prabhu, I don't see any hope for this tree." Then Mahaprabhu embraced that tree, which has remained healthy to this day and is now quite large.

Saranga Thakura had resolved that he would not accept any disciples but Mahaprabhu nevertheless repeatedly requested him to do so. Finally he relented and agreed by saying, "Tomorrow morning the first person I see I will initiate with the divine mantra."

The next day, in the early morning, he went to take his bath in the Ganges. By chance a dead body came and touched his feet as he entered the water. Picking up this body he said, "Who are you? Get up." From behind Mahaprabhu who was witnessing everything called out, "Saranga! Say the mantra in his ear!" Then when Saranga said the mantra into the ear of that dead child, the body became consious. He said, "My name is Murari. I am your servant. Please bestow your mercy upon me."

On the day when this boy was to be invested with the sacred thread he was by chance bitten by a snake and died. As he was only a boy, the custom was not to burn the body but rather to place it on a raft of banana trees and float it down the Ganga. When his parents received the news that their child was alive, they came there to take him home. However Murari declined to accompany them to his former home. He told them, "I will remain in the service of he who has given me life again, for I am indebted to him."

Vrindavana dasa Thakura has described this Sri Saranga Murari Thakura as follows: "There was an external consiousness present in Caitanya dasa's transcendental body. He would enter into the forest just to chase tigers. Sometimes he would jump on the back of a tiger, who by his influence remained inert. At other time he would put a phython on his lap and play with great delight. It was by the mercy of Avadhuta Mahasaya (Nityananda Prabhu) that he was able to play in this way with tigers and snakes. Sri Nityananda Raya is very affectionate to his servants, and thus by a simple wink of his eye they are able to enjoy mellows which are not even accessible to Lord Brahma.

"Sri Saranga Murari Thakura was constantly in forgetfulness of himself, absorbed as he was in the bliss of speaking his inner thoughts. Sometimes he would remain in the within the water for 2 or 3 days without suffering any bodily inconveniences. He appeared to be almost insen-tient and therefore his activities were imperceivable. Such was the fierce intensity of his immeasurable prowess. How much can I describe of the interminable transformations of his devotional sentiments?" [Chaitanya Bhagavat Antya-lila. 5:426-434] The descendants of his family are still residing at Sargram in Barddhaman district.

According to Gaur-Ganoddesa-Dipika (text 172.) Saranga Thakura was previously Nandi Mukhi, in Braja lila.

vraje nandimukhi yasit

sadya saranga-thakkurah

prahlado manyate kaishchin

mat-pitraa na sa manyate

"The Vraja-brahmani Nandimukhi-devi appeared as Saranga Takura. Some people think that Saranga Thakura was the incarnation of Prahlada Maharaj. My father (Shivananda Sena - the father of Kavi-karnapura) did not agree with them."

His appearence is on the 14th day of the dark fortnight of the month of Asar. His disappearance is on the 13th day of dark fortnight af the month Agrahayon (Mrigarirsa - November-December).

SRI SRI RADHA-GOPINATHA (small Deities on the right) were worshiped by Sri Saranga Thakura.

SRI SRI RADHA MADANA-GOPALA (large Deities in center) beloved Deities of Vasudeva Datta.

SRI SRI GAURA-GADADHARA (Deities on the left), these are the Deities of Puri Gosvami

The temple of Saranga Thakura and his worshipable Deities, Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath are still being worshipped at Mamgachi (Jaharnagar), just North of the present town of Navadwip. The worshipable Deities of Vasudeva Datta Thakur, Sri Sri Radha-Madan Gopal are also residing there. One can go there by rikshaw or tram from Navadwip town. By train one should go north towards Katwa and get down at the 2nd stop, Bhandar tikuri there one can easily ask and find the temple.

Maharaj who is worshipping and taking care of SRI SRI MADANA-GOPALA since more than 60 years. He is over 100 years old.

Gaudiya Vaishnava Viraha Bhajan (Song Sung in Separation Of Vaishnava)

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