Im very much suffering in my life now... I prayed to lord krishna for a long time... I am his devote... But now i feel like my life is getting problematic and very unfair... He doesnt helping me more, no signs ... I lost the connection between krishna... Is that wrong... Im i wrong?... Pls help
Namaste. I'm an 18 year old from the US and i really want to get close to my culture and hinduism. I see all my chrisitan friends reading the bible and loving their religion, but i unfortunately dont have such a relationship with hindu gods. All my life i've been told to serve prasad to god and ask for what we need and that seems transactional.
My grandpa got me a bhagavad gita but it had a lot of sanskrit shlokas and little english translations which made it difficult for me to understand and was frustrating.
Can anyone please suggest me a bhagavad gita version that is in english and explains the wise words of lord krishna?
Arya Samaj argues that, according to the four Vedas, the Supreme God is formless (nirākāra) and does not have a physical/material body. I’d like to understand how ISKCON devotees reconcile this claim with the Vaishnava understanding of Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Are there specific passages from the four Vedas themselves that ISKCON uses to establish that the Supreme Being has a personal form? If so, could you please provide the original Sanskrit/mantra and its context?
I’m asking this genuinely to understand the difference between the Arya Samaj and ISKCON interpretations, rather than to start an argument...
Hey I suffer from not being able to avoid onion and garlic in my mess. I want to but I have no other option. I cannot cook myself. any solution?
Who is Sadasiva? Shiva ? Shankar ? Shambhu and Rudra ?
Hey guys, I have been really wanting to chating naam for a while, but i don't know where to start or how to, any advice from people who know about this
I am asking to spread awareness.
In my experience, I observed Chanting is a way to understand how our dhyaan shifts from our own thoughts to present moment. When we do naam Jaap, we are forcing intentional thoughts over fear induced thoughts. We suppress our emotions like anxiety, stress, fear or insecurity by repeating some name or mantra… We get conscious when we do Chanting. When I noticed how my mind shifts its attention from fear/stress inducing thoughts to Naam jaap and then I realized its true essence.
Naam Jaap is lens which helps us to notice the shift of dhyaan from our own unconscious thoughts to conscious thoughts.
When one starts noticing the shift of dhyaan, one can shift its attention consciously without any technique. When one consciously move their dhyaan to present moment then one can find solutions of their problems/find joy/ experience existence/ experience bliss/ experience how it feels to be alive.
So Naam jaap can help one to notice what dhyaan is, and dhyaan gives wisdom to live life.
So I remember always being fascinated and quite frankly, confused, by the relationship Krishna Bhagwan had with Radha. So even today, when we go to Vrindavan, Mathura or even Barsana, the people there always greet you with a “Radhe Radhe” - not “Jai Shree Krishna” even though these cities are all significant places in Krishna Bhagwan’s life. I think they greet people with “Radhe Radhe” is because they all know the importance of Radha in Krishna’s life. There is no Krishna without Radha, and vice versa.
Krishna Bhagwan never married Radha - I’d like to believe that she started off in his life as a best friend and eventually, when Krishna left Vrindavan at 11 years old, she was his eternal divine consort but Krishna Bhagwan never married her. Now, Krishna Bhagwan is said to have had 16,108 wives but 16,100 of his wives were women who he rescued from captivity. Out of the 8 remaining wives, his main wife was Rukmini.
Now there are many different interpretations about what Radha meant to Krishna and about what Rukmini meant to Krishna - but I’d like to believe that they’re both incarnations of Goddess Lakshmi who is the wife of Vishnu Bhagwan (Krishna Bhagwan is an incarnation of Vishnu Bhagwan by the way).
Radha and Rukmini loved Krishna Bhagwan unconditionally - and I feel like that’s how we as his disciples should be as well - loving, not fearing, God.
I’m creating an animated Śrīmad Bhāgavatam series — starting with the aftermath of the Kurukṣetra war watch its first episode here: https://youtu.be/m6X2BiqtOrE
Hey everyone 🙏
I’ve been working on a long-term project called Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, an animated series inspired directly by the teachings and narration of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.
The goal is to tell these stories cinematically while staying faithful to the original text and its purports — rather than creating a modernized or heavily rewritten version of the story.
The series begins in the aftermath of the Kurukṣetra war, when Aśvatthāmā commits a terrible act against the Pāṇḍavas. Arjuna captures him and is faced with a difficult question:
What should justice look like when compassion, duty, gratitude and dharma all seem to point in different directions?
That becomes the beginning of the journey.
We've now reached Episode 4, covering the beginning of Queen Kuntī's prayers, but I wanted to share the first episode for anyone who might be interested in experiencing the story from the beginning.
This is an independent project, and I'm still learning a lot as I build it. I'd genuinely love feedback — especially from people familiar with the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam or Mahābhārata.
What do you think of the visual style and storytelling? And are there particular episodes or moments from the Bhāgavatam you'd love to see adapted?
🙏 Hare Kṛṣṇa
It is a myth that only Name Chanting (Naam Jaap) will work in Kalyug. The true reason behind this is simply that in Kalyug, a human's ability to think and understand will become very short.
In Kalyug, humans will become very short-sighted and less patient, which is why Name Chanting was suggested as the only practical technique. Because people are short-sighted, they do not take ownership of their lives and blame others for their problems.
That is why Name Chanting becomes a good technique instead of taking ownership, a person surrenders everything to something higher. And from this surrender, a feeling of devotion (Bhakti) can wake up inside a seeker.
In Kalyug, there is a lack of love. So, Name Chanting is also necessary to bring devotion into a person and to maintain love and compassion in society. But such awareness in Kalyug is rare and an exception.
Therefore, the true purpose of Name Chanting is not just depending on it, but changing that dependency into surrender, and transforming that surrender into true devotion.