“If one is trained to protect his semen by observing celibacy, naturally he is not attracted by the beauty of a woman. If one can remain a brahmacari, he saves himself so much trouble in material existence. Material existence means enjoying the pleasure of sexual intercourse (yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham [SB 7.9.45]). If one is educated about…

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We have a golden hill. Not everyone has a golden hill, but we have. One day, Krishna willing, we will become famous as the HARE KRISHNA GOLDEN HILL. At present we are known as Sahyadri Sri Krishna Balarama Ksetra or SSKBK. Our small varnasrama community is located at the foothills of the well-known Sahyadri Mountain…

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From Saturday April 20th to Sunday July 28st (14 weeks) Srila R.P. Bhakti Raghava Swami will be giving a course entitled “Dharma Sastri” at La Nouvelle Vraja Bhumi located at St-Rémi d’Amherst near Mont-Tremblant (Laurentian Mountains) in the Province of Quebec, Canada. The 3 hours sessions given each consecutive Saturday and Sunday will cover respectively…

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“The only hope now … to reestablish the pristine glory of the varnasrama system.” Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Caitanya-siksamrta 2.3) Blog 002– 13-11-13, Ekadasi, Gaura Paksa,
Damodara Masa, 527 Gaurabda Theme: Bhisma Pancaka Camp: Bangalore Om Sri Surabhyai Namah! Om Sri Gurave Namah! Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Today marks the first day of “Bhisma Pancaka” where one takes special…

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I was walking down Rideau Street in the city of Ottawa some time during the summer of 1973. Although I had still not found what I really wanted in life, I was somewhat relieved that I had been able to walk out of the expected social pressures of modern day society. I had already finished…

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SAHYADRI VARNASRAMA COLLEGE (SVC) – YEAR 2014 The Sahyadri Varnasrama College (SVC) was successfully completed at Sahyadri Sri Krishna Balarama Ksetra (SSKBK) in South India on January 31, 2014. This year, by the mercy of Sri Sri Krishna Balarama, we were fortunate to attract a good number of students as well as new Faculty members…

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We have been interacting with the people of Cambodia since the year 2007, especially here in the small town of Siem Reap which is located some 400 kilometers West of the Capital City of Phnom Penh where daily thousands of eager tourist converge to take darshan of the world famous Angkor Wat, the largest Vishnu…

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Traditional education is practically a thing of the past, something that most of us have never even seen, what to speak of experienced. We are generally ignorant of what it is. The modern academia speaks about it in negative connotations. Traditional education is presented as outdated, backward, irrelevant, and even prejudiced. In the most polite…

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When we become a devotee, it’s like declaring war on maya because maya is all pervading, so we are having to face this material world, this material energy, especially in the western countries where the direction is totally opposite to where we want to go. We want to have spiritual association, we want to be…

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