Re: Good Eating Habits in Ayurveda

bhagavad gita hidden treasure by Swami B.R. Sridhar Maharaj   chapter 17

7 According to the three modes of material nature, there are also three preferences of food. In the same way, there are three kinds of sacrifice, three kinds of austerity, and three kinds of charity. Now hear of all these.
8 Edible or offerable foods which increase longevity, zeal, strength, health, happiness and satisfaction, and which are succulent, milky, wholesome, and attractive these are dear to persons of the nature of goodness.
9 Edibles dear to persons of passionate nature are too bitter (nimba, etc.), too sour, too salty, too hot, too pungent (chili pepper, etc,) too dry (dry-roasted chick-peas, etc.), and too heating (mustard seed, etc.). Such foods cause unhappiness, distress, and disease.
10 Such food is dear to the ignorant: food which is cold, due to being cooked more than three hours before; food which is tasteless, exudes a bad odor, or was cooked the day before; the remnants of others (with the exception of remnants left by one's guru); and impure foodstuffs (such as meat, wine, and onions).

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Re: Siddhis and the Power to Perform Mystical Deeds

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    Surely these siddhis are not eternal and only the foolish would be captivated by eye exercise in watching these mystic. We were told before we came to krsna consciousness we been through all these mystic perfections othere life times. So now we are in higher consciousness of Nitai Gauranga don't wast our time.

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Re: Are deities that are made of resin bona fide

Carbonized chicken feather fibers, for example, can store hydrogen at least as well as carbon nanotubes or metal hydrides, or even better. The difference between carbonized chicken feathers and the other two is that making a 20 gallon carbon nanotube tank would cost $5.5 million, making it from metal hydrides would cost $30,000, and from chicken feathers only $200. Which one would you choose?

Richard P. Wool, Ph.D., professor of chemical engineering and director of the Affordable Composites from

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vaisnavas are beyond sattvic.

to make resin objects you need fiber

Renewable Resources program at the University of Delaware in Newark, estimates that it would take a 75-gallon tank to go 300 miles in a car using carbonized chicken feather fibers to store hydrogen. He says his team is working to improve that range.

�The problem with hydrogen as a gas or liquid is its density is too low,� Wool says. �Using currently available technology, if you had a 20-gallon tank and filled it with hydrogen at typical room temperature and pressure, you could drive about a mile. When we started we didn�t know how well carbonized chicken feathers would work for hydrogen storage, but we certainly suspected we could do a lot better than that.�

It�s a known fact that hydrogen is hard to store, and storing it at high pressures require low temperatures. Carbonized chicken feathers might just do that. In addition to this, chicken feathers are abundant: imagine the huge quantities that are thrown away each year from chicken farms - it�s one of the outputs of an immense industry that could be put to use in the favor of clean air. Plus, they could be used in making storm-proof rooftops, lightweight car parts, or ecological computer circuit boards. How about that?

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Re: Siddhis and the Power to Perform Mystical Deeds

Dear prabhu,

         Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! My humble pranams!

         If it is absolutely necessary to use siddhis, then and only then do devotees actually use them. Devotees have all mystic perfections far greater than any mystic yogis, they just never use them. Devotees are very simple and humble by nature and they never fall to the lure of heroic achievements. Atleast that is my experience from reading and other  association. The only one place where they do use them is when the Lord wants them to do it and not otherwise.

         My thanks to you for raising another point. Also after being repeatedly kicked by maya, I have come to the conclusion that whenever I give a little room to some material desire by saying that it won't affect my devotion, unfortunately that is exactly where I fell in headfirst. I have had many bitter lessons in the process seeing it in myself and others too. I am still just trying to get back after one such extremely painful beating session and this time to me whenever I justify some materialistic desires by saying that my bhakti won't get affected by a little bit of this, it's like opening the door to maya and saying, "Oh please come in very happily and plunder me to pieces."

          Now-a-days so many facilities have been created that have eliminated the need for many of those siddhis. For eg. the aeroplanes. In any case, the real siddhi for the jiva soul is only to become a servant of the servants. That is the only siddhi for fallen souls like me. The rest of those siddhis simply come in the way of making us realise that we are daasanudaasas of the Lord.

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Re: Prayer to Nityananda

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
Beautifull poem! Thank you so much for writing and  sharing it!
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Your servant, Ishana Thakura das

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Listening and reading

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
All glories to SwamiGaurangapada!
All glories to Srilla Prabhupada!
All glories to Nitaai and Gaura Naam!

Is listening of mp3 devotional files ( lectures and recorded books) consider same as reading? I am asking this because sometimes it is not possiable to find "free time' to simply sit and read for 45 or more minutes and on that way study vaisnava literature. I found very helpfull listening mp3 files while walking to job, or evan while cooking or doing some other duties. So if we sometimes may not find time to phisicaly sit and read books is listening of vaisnava books also consider same as reading?

Thank you so much,
Your servant, Ishana Thakura das

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna

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(GERMAN) 10. Srila Prabhupada über Nityananda Gauranga Naam (5)

3.Frage: Man k�nnte doch argumentieren: �Ok, ich bin einverstanden, dass das Gauranga-Mantra auf der selben Stufe ist, wie das Hare Krischna Mahamantra, aber weil Srila Prabhupada, zumindest �usserlich, selbst nie das Gauranga-Mantra gechantet hatte, bin ich nicht so am Gauranga-Mantraraja interessiert.�

Antwort von BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada:

Obwohl kaum ein Gottgeweihter je Srila Prabhupada gesehen hat, wie er �usserlich das Gauranga-Mantraraja gechantet hatte, chantet Srila Prabhupada jedoch in seiner spirituellen Form immerzu das Gauranga-Mantraraja in den ewigen spirituellen Orten von Navadvipa und Puri, um Gauranga zu verehren, genauso wie er immerzu in seiner ewigen spirituellen Form in Vrindavana das Hare Krischna Mahamantra chantet, um Sri Sri Radha Krischna zu verehren. Das ist genau das, was Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura gemeint hat, als er gesagt hatte, dass die Seelen zwei spirituelle K�rper haben, einen in Gaurangas Spielen und einen in Krischnas Spielen.

Im Jaiva Dharma wird erw�hnt, dass jedes bewusste Teilchen in Navadvipa immerzu die heiligen Namen von Nityananda und Gauranga chantet. Und im Prema Vivarta wird beschrieben, dass Srila Sukadeva Goswami im K�rper eines Papageis auch dann nicht aufgeh�rt hat, den heiligen Namen von Gauranga in Navadvipa zu chanten, als ihn Gauranga selbst darum gebeten hatte, stattdessen die heiligen Namen von Radha und Krischna zu chanten; und so Gauranga innerlich ausserordentlich erfreut hat.

Srila Shivananda Sena, welcher eine Inkarnation zweier Gopis von Sri Sri Radha Krischna im Madhurya Rasa (eheliche Liebe) ist, h�tte das Gauranga (Gaura Gopala) Mantraraja nie gechantet, w�re es nicht ein Madhurya Rasika Mantra auf der allerh�chsten Stufe. Er hat tats�chlich in seinem Herzen Sri Sri Radha Krischna und Gauranga verehrt, indem er fortw�hrend dieses h�chst verehrenswerte Ista Gauranga Mantraraja gechantet hat.

4. Frage: �Srila Prabhupada sagt, dass das Chanten vom Gauranga-Mantra auf der selben Stufe ist wie das Chanten vom Hare Krischna Mahamantra. Er macht nur eine theoretische philosophische Aussage, nichts weiter. Es gibt keinen Grund, diese Aussage so ernst zu nehmen, und mit dem Chanten des Gauranga-Mantras anzufangen.�

Antwort von BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada:

Srila Prabhupada stellt nicht nur theoretisch fest, dass das Chanten vom Gauranga-Mantra auf der selben Ebene ist wie das Chanten der heiligen Namen von Radha-Krischna, welche das Hare Krischna Mahamantra mit einschliessen. Einige m�gen denken, dass dieses Zitat nur f�r akademische Zwecke ist, und deshalb dem Gauranga-Mantraraja nicht ernsthaft Beachtung schenken. Dann werden sie verlieren.

Wenn Srila Prabhupada feststellt, dass das Chanten vom Gauranga-Mantraraja auf der selben Ebene ist wie das Chanten des Hare Krischna Mahamantras, ist es klar, dass er das Chanten vom Gauranga-Mantraraja nicht nur erlaubt, sonder es sogar empfiehlt.

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Prayer to Nityananda

Prayer to Nityananda

Curious, the mind took me away,
Away from Him-
The Paramatma
The Allatractive.

The mind became "my mind",
The body became "my body".
Not hearing His sweet voice,
Confused in the empty silence.

Diving deeper into the labyrinth called Maya,
With angles so sharp.
The body hurts.
I feel lost.

Every labyrinth has an end
Which leads to another place,
But I seem to forgot Him
and the rute to His Lotus feet.

So, please, Nityananda
Let me hear Your sweet Name
Let me remember that sweet sound
By chanting : Nityananda, Nityananda, Nityananda, Nityananda,
Gauranga, Gauranga, Gauranga, Gauranga, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare!

by Jagannatha dasi

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