Cause for Celebration
by Krishnas Mercy on 07/04/2009 3:13AM
“Prepare very nice foodstuffs of all descriptions from the grains and ghee collected for the yajna...After giving nice grasses to the cows, the sacrifice known as Govardhana Puja may immediately begin. This sacrifice will very much satisfy Me.” (Lord Krishna speaking to Nanda Maharaja, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Ch 24) Read More...
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Fidelity
by Krishnas Mercy on 10/04/2009 2:10AM
 "Those women that although having always tended by their husbands, do not regard them during the times of adversity are in this world reckoned as unchaste." (Kausalya speaking to Sita Devi, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, Sec 39)
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God is a Person
by Krishnas Mercy on 05/29/2010 2:27AM
 “O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.7)
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Religion and Politics
by Krishnas Mercy on 10/24/2009 2:35AM
 “...According to the doctrine of communism, the state should be the proprietor of everything. But the Krishna consciousness movement, expanding this same idea, accepts God as the proprietor of everything.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi 8.20 Purport)
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The Sweetest Thing
by Krishnas Mercy on 01/09/2010 3:07AM
 “O Brahmana, do you sit comfortably on this mat. Do you take this water to wash your feet. Do you enjoy these well-cooked eatables growing in the forest, intended for you.” (Sita Devi speaking to Ravana in the guise of an ascetic, Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand Sec 46)
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The Invisible Man
by Krishnas Mercy on 05/03/2010 2:07AM
 “I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My eternal creative potency [yoga-maya]; and so the deluded world knows Me not, who am unborn and infallible.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.25)
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Pleasing the Guru
by Krishnas Mercy on 11/10/2009 2:55AM
 "On the ascetic (Bharadvaja) turning away, Rama spoke to Lakshmana, 'We had surely acquired religious merit, since the ascetic has shown compassion to us.’" (Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, Sec 55)
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