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The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri
Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati
Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes
in the topmost planet of the spiritual world,
Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to
rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger
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Our Mission: To help everyone awaken
their original Krishna consciousness, which is
eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Such a global awakening will, in one stroke,
solve all the problems of the world society
bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and
prosperity for all. May that day, which the
world so desperately needs, come very soon. We
request you to participate in this mission by
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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual
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Relishing the Beautiful Bhagavatam
uploaded from Melbourne, Australia |
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There's
no literature like the Srimad Bhagavatam anywhere in the
vast universe. It's 18,000 verses are an unlimited ocean
of honey oozing out of its pages to fill the ears of the
conditioned souls with the profound enlightening
teachings of how to gain the intimate personal
association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord
Sri Krishna in His transcendental pastimes in the
Spiritual Sky. The icing on the cake is the
Bhagavatam's 10th Canto which describes in detail
Krishna's transcendental pastimes in Vrindavan. Srila
Prabhupada instituted the Srimad Bhagavatam class as a
regular daily function in the ISKCON temples all over
the world. It was the first canto of the Srimad
Bhagavatam that he brought with him when he first came
to America in 1965. For those who follow Srila
Prabhupada's instruction to study the Bhagavatam daily
every morning is a fresh, exciting experience of going
deeper and deeper into the sublime ocean of the Srimad
Bhagavatam.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Srimad
Bhagavatam Lecture
Melbourne, Australia 29 December 2011
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Question: I Can't Stop Chanting the Name of Allah |
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Please accept my humble
obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I thank you so much for sending me the Ultimate Self
Realization Course. I am very grateful to you. I am a
Sufi Muslim. In my beginning I was lazy in chanting
alone or in weekly kirtan. (Sufism is similar to bhakti
yoga in that we also chant the name of God.) For
many, many years I was fighting in martial arts. Once an
opponent kicked me on my right jaw. I was literally
knocked out and was in a coma. After that I understood
that I had gotten a near death experience. Making a long
story short, I encountered angels or luminous beings,
and their chief of higher rank said to one of the
angels, "Tell him to go back on earth because his time
for death has not come yet, and tell him to chant a lot
the name of God." So the angel told me to go back
in earthly life and advised me very earnestly to chant a
lot the name of God. The angels seemed to know my life
very well. So being a Sufi Muslim my main mantra is
"Allah." After that I used to do with discipline mantra
japa for hours until my knees are severely hurting. I
still have pain in my knees now. Our way is to say
loudly from the chest, "Allah Allah Allah." It is in
Arabic language the greatest name of God Almighty.
I chant this name of God loudly when driving, walking,
or even watching the news on the TV. As my spiritual
master is no longer here on earth I will ask this
question of you:
My mantra is running itself without any effort. For
example, in many cases or even in board meetings at work
my tongue is chanting the name of Allah loudly. And when
my colleagues look at me in a strange way I feel
ashamed. So I bite my tongue, but my mind is chanting it
instead. It seems I am here and not here. What does this
mean? And does the chanting reach the atma?
Sincerely yours,
Ali
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Answer: You Are Fortunate
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That you have such a taste
for chanting the holy name of God means that you are a
very, very fortunate being. You are feeling your
presence in the material world and at the same time
realizing that you are actually from a different world,
the spiritual world . This is very nice.
Chanting the Holy Name of God brings you back to your
original spiritual nature as the atma, an eternal
spirit-soul. And this chanting connects you in loving
relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Allah or Krishna, who is seated within your heart.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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