My Lotus Feet

7 hours ago by hps in Special Category B

asa[e] my lotus feet


🐵🐒🐒 🐾 People keep, agtSP, offering [Oh Fer Ing🎏 ] their obeisances to our 'lotus feet'?!! we look down and we don't seem to have lotus feet.

💮 💮


/// the skin is pretty good for 77-years of age.

nails need a little trim.

but lotus, no. . ?? . ? 😕


hmmm.


lettuce feet?


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(espanyol = pies de loto), but this is a problem because then pies de manzana 🍕🍎 is mistaken by tourist reading the restaurant menu in Lima for apple pie. HMMMM. (pies de lobo? pies de loco?).


yet, considering the controversy of The Origin of the Jiva, I guess we all might have lotus feet.


of course, some of us may have lotus hooves, or lotus trotters, but in our 'svarupa deha' we should have 'lotus feet', no?


so i guess the people who are bowing to our lotus feet are uttama adhikari who can see our siddha deha!

wow! respects to you all!


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ALSO, 🚣 🚣 ... by His Divine Grace

we do have the lotus feet of Guru and Govinda,

so people can also be offering their respects to the lotus feet of Krsna and

🚢Kaptain, Srila Prabhupada.


Thank you.


We understand what people might be saying a little more clearly.

Any comments???

Eg. Touching devotees feet. 🐾 .. . . 🐾 .. 🐾. . . . . .

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Maha-mantra/Education

1 day, 5 hours ago by hps in Special Category B

asa[e] hari kirtan



🐵 Chant Hare Krsna, Hare Rama,

as you pass through all circumstances,

you will never have to pass through them ever-again.

ever!


the Maha-mantra will extract the eternal essence, cit, from every thing,

song, movie,

person,

task.

and make it a part of your service immediate or distant.

HK//HR HK//HR


Hari Kirtan is the greatest wealth.

Hari Kirtan will take us all to be with Nimai in Nadiya in our our eternal forms.


AGTSP

Who is Asuri Brahmana

1 week, 2 days ago by hps in Special Category B

ASA[e] Bhaktivedanta Library; asuri brahmana


[3/21/2025 8:52 PM] Harilila Das: Hare krsna Maharaj

My humble obeisances. In 

SB1.3.10, it is mentioned that kapil muni gave an exposition of the creative elements and metaphysics to asuri brahmana. 

Who is this Brahmana? Is there any pastimes regarding this? 🙏🙏🙏

[3/22/2025 3:17 AM] HP Swami - Prof HHR: I having same question. 

🐘


AgtSP.

[3/22/2025 3:25 AM] HP Swami - Prof HHR: Visvanatha Cakravarthi just says, "Asuri is the name of a Brahmana".

[3/24/2025 7:30 AM] Harilila Das: My Pranams Prabhu. The Puranic encyclopaedia says — Asuri was an ancient Maharsi. He was the acarya of Kapila Sankhyadarsana and the guru of the maharsi Panchashikha. Once Asuri had a full vision of God. He gave many precepts on spiritual matters to other Maharsis.

[3/24/2025 7:32 AM] Harilila Das: The 👆is partial answer to the questions I received from Hari Parshad prabhuji.

Ayurveda Food Groups

1 month, 1 week ago by hps in Special Category A, Special Category B

asa[e] Ayurveda; Food Groups


Ānantesvara Dāsa (Vaidya Ananda Yadav): Hare Krishna Maharaj, Dandavat Pranam. 

During night metabolism is low, yogurt by nature is heavy becomes difficult for body to digest it. It increases the Khapa in body and does effect brain.  Friut combined with yogurt becomes very heavy to digest. Ayurveda considers yoghurt or curd to be one of the heaviest foods. It takes longer to digest. Whereas fruits require very little time In Your system (one hour or more) to be digested.


Modern science says: Yogurt contains plenty of bacteria which will act on the sugar present in fruits. This results in toxins, cold, allergies. You can avoid this problem by using unflavored yogurt at room temperature and mix in honey (which contains live bacteria Lactobacillus Kunkeei that is compatible with yoghurt), cinnamon or raisins (dried fruit) instead of fresh fruit.


If you want to feel light and energized after eating, then Ayurveda offers wisdom about which foods play well with others.

👉Certain combinations will promote optimum digestion and nutrient absorption. 

👉Others, are indigestible, leading to gas and bloating, and ultimately becoming toxins in the system. 


☘️Fruit breaks down quickly and should be consumed alone on an empty stomach. 

☘️Starches require an alkaline environment

☘️proteins require an acidic environment.

The enzymes required for each will neutralize or cancel each other out, leading to neither being digested well.


Fruit: eat on its own, 1 hour before other foods or 2 hours after a meal. When we combine fruits with other foods, the fructose is not burned as energy but stored as fat.  

☘️Melons cannot be mixed with any other fruit or food. 

☘️Bananas are best alone and become toxic when mixed with milk or yogurt. 

☘️Keep acid fruits together and sweet with sweet. 

☘️Low sugar fruits like berries are easiest to combine and can be added to yogurt. But.. it’s best to eat ur fruit alone or leave it alone.


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“He who uses takra daily does not suffer from diseases, and diseases cured by takra do not recur; just as amrita (divine nector) is for the gods, takra is to humans.” Bhavaprakasha Chpt 6.7

[2/20, 5:35 PM] Ānantesvara Dāsa (Vaidya Ananda Yadav): 👆Buttermilk is best for you

[2/20, 5:43 PM] Ānantesvara Dāsa (Vaidya Ananda Yadav): 1 part yogurt mixed with 4 parts of water.


How to make Takra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UuHTBrL20


Relacions with Other Religions

2 months, 1 week ago by piyari_mohan_das in Special Category B

Hare Krishna Gurudeva 

PAMHO - AGTSP


I have a question:


How should our relationship be with practitioners of other religions such as Christians, Jews, etc?


If they invite us to their ceremonies, how should our behavior be?


Thank you very much 

Your servant 

Piyari Mohan das 


HpS/ASA -- HK/HR.... thank you for your letter. these are very nice questions. we had, have, these questions.

First, i would say that in the conclusion, i never met a better christian than srila prabhupada. remember listening to his voice coming over the loudspeaker in the kitchen as we cooked the 6.45am offering for radha gokulanands.

he said, 'lord jesus christ, prophet muhammad, they did such good preaching work'.

by that time i had associated with srila prabhupada a great deal by very intensely studying his KRSNA book. i had seen the standard that he required from his disciples, managers.

i had a pretty good basis in direct investigation of christ through my church, churches, personal experiences.

I knew that srila prabhupada was not concerned with trying to get cheap followers, that he spoke his mind about different religions even if it was not popular.


so, our attitude towards christ and christians and islam is respectful to the point of life and death and beyond.


bh v. th says that if we are i the place of worship of some other faith, church, at the time of worship, we should think, 'the same God that I worship is being worshipped here, now. by seeing the adoration of these devotees of my Lord, i can learn things to improve my worship, yet because i do not belong to this tradition formally, i may not be participating in all of the details of this ritual'.


i think that Vatican II has basically the same perspective, so that the pope and cardinals and others my visit a hare krsna temple. they may sing and clap, but not dance. 🙂


maybe someone comes to ISKCON and participates, but does not take Harinama Diksa, 1st Initiation, and then feels that ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, will always be in His heart, and in the heart of Krist, but this person should return to or formally become baptised in another tradition, islam, jehovah's witnesses, LDS...


maybe they have come to realize srila prabhupada as a vartmana pradarshika guru. guru who shows the way. always venerable. expect jesus to enhance their relationship with ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada, but become and remain matriculated in their Jesus Christ university and get their PhD.


O.K.?


After 1st or 2nd or 3rd [sannyasa] initiation, is it o.k. to leave and take diksa, be baptised in another line?

i don't know. lord caitanya took initiation from isvara puri, a vaisnava, but then took sannyasa from kesava bharati.


i think that the answer to this question would need to be taken directly from srila prabhupada. we might only be able to guide a student, our student, in the process of talking about it directly with srila prabhupada.


9.54PM

good night!!


see you in Mangala arati.


if anyone else asks this question i will tell them to ask you and you can show them this essay etc.

ASA - Bhaktivedanta Library

2 months, 3 weeks ago by hps in Special Category B

ASA [E], bv library, tlc


"And out of all songs, what song do you think is the best?" Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked. Ramananda replied that any song which describes the pastimes of Radha and Krsna is the best song. The conditioned soul is captivated by sex. All literary works of fiction -- dramas, novels and so on -- describe love between men and women. Since people are so attracted to this kind of literature, Krsna appeared in this material world and displayed His transcendental loving affairs with the gopis. There is an immense literature dealing with the loving exchanges between the gopis and Krsna, and anyone who takes shelter of this literature, or of the stories about Radha and Krsna, can enjoy actual happiness. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.33.36) it is said that the Lord displayed His pastimes in Vrndavana in order to reveal His actual life. Any intelligent person who tries to understand the pastimes of Radha and Krsna is most fortunate. The songs that tell of those pastimes are the greatest songs in the world.

TLC 32: Conclusion


ASA reading includes TLC. . . daily.

This is the Conclusion.

What is an ASA bibliography of this great literature of Hare Krsna, Gurvastakam 4 pastimes?


From CC, KRSNA book, SB, Vrndavan Dhama Mahimamrta [?]?