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Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to become more consistent with my daily chanting recently, but I keep struggling with concentration. Sometimes I start sincerely, but after a few minutes my mind drifts toward work, stress, or random thoughts, and I realize I’ve been chanting mechanically instead of attentively.I wanted to ask devotees here if you have any practical methods that genuinely helped you improve focus during japa. Do you change your environment, chant at a specific time, read before…
Read more…Hare Krishna Dear Devotees, please accept my humble obeisances and sincere apologies for all Aparadhas.I have just bought a cake from a pure vegan restaurant that is Halal so I thought it would be alcohol free. Typically, the restaurant also offers goods that are Halal always. But anyway, I still see Vanilla Extract on one of the Ingredients labels. As Vaishnavas, can we consume vanilla extract even if it has alcohol? I am asking as I have seen many recipes on IDT where it is listed. Sri…
Read more…My close relative is hearing strange suggestions from her mind. How to cure it? For example, she says: "I am hearing a voice that he is a CBI officer." Her date of birth is 20 April 1957.This started in 1989. She hears voices that tell her about the people in our life. She was detected with schizophrenia. She is sleeping normally. She is an ISKCON devotee and chants 16 rounds. She had varicose veins and her weight had reached 104 KgRecently she joined herbalife and lost 20 kgs in 6…
Read more…Hare Krishna to all the devotees All glories to srila Prabhupada Kamdev was born as pradhyumn, as son of rukmini devi and sri krishna. As srila Prabhupada tells in his krishna book, this pradyuman was jiva tattva and not vishnu tattva pradyuman.Demigods also came with lord in different forms as to assist him in his leelas. Still , I want to know why did kamdev came as the son of rukmini devi and sri krishna and was called pradyuman.
Read more…Hare Krishna All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!Dandavat Pranam to All Devotees!I have been seeing a lot of 3D modeled, or animated work, sometimes AI generated pieces of Media depicting Krishna and his pastimes.For example, The Little Krishna Series (which I loved, and still rewatch from time to time), or more recently, Mahavatar Narsimha, which was also a great film, so on.I work in the creative field too, and want to direct my work towards Krishna, by basing my work on his Pastimes, and those…
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Srivasa’s niece was only four years old. Her name was Narayani. She was just seating peacefully in the corner of the room. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu cried out “Narayani! Chant Krsnas name and cry in ecstatic love.” And little Narayani called out “Oh! Krsna, oh! Krsna, oh! Krsna…” and tears just irrupted from her eyes profusely, soaking her body, her limbs trembled and she felt to the ground just crying out “oh! Krsna.” But the devotees saw that they understood the power of…
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Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur was born four years after Mahaprabhu took sannyasa. His mother was Sri Narayani Devi. She was the niece of Srivasa Pandit.
Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur describes how his mother received the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu when she was just four years old. He told Narayani to chant the name of Krishna. She became mad with love of God and started crying, ‘O Krishna!’ she was filled with divine love.
Very often she would…
