hare krishna

Hare Krishna!

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

Praise be Buddha

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

Praise be Allah

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

Praise be Christ heart and Buddha mind combined into a subatomic energy field of all one perfect pure energy of love and light that feeds and ends all desires into eternal contentment and bliss for all BEINGS, RIGHT NOW!

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

Love love love!

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

Praise be divine mother!

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

Praise be emptiness!

All we are saying is give peace a chance!

PRaise be the lord!

All we are saying is give peace a laugh!

WOw

Now




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beyond all


What?


who?


Nobody cares

If you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny

Love love love


Be free

Why?

Because we ARE!

BE HERE NOW

Why?

Because we are...


Hare Krishna!

Charlie Krishna!

Rama Rama

RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM


Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Now!

 

ditto to Ganja Prince

 

try to imagine a world, a spiritual planet, a heaven, or whatever, where there is one god, who manifests himself in the form of two lovers, two souls, simply so that they can look at each other with love. Isn't that a crazy idea? I don't know, it's the idea that popped into my head, after looking at the Krishna calender art that was on the left hand side of the page, one of the ads.

 

God, you are my hero for this moment, wow now!

 

you got it... now just imagine that God is you and me and all of us are the lovers

 

M.S. Subbulakshmi passes away, aged 88 ​

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CHENNAI, DEC. 11. We regret to announce the passing away of Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi, legendary Carnatic musician, in Chennai late on Saturday. She was 88.

The end came at 11.30 p.m. at St. Isabel's Hospital, where she had been receiving treatment for the past 10 days, family sources said. A team of doctors led by Dr. C.V. Krishnaswamy was providing treatment to her.

V. Murali, a relative, said Srimati M.S. Subbulakshmi, who had been suffering from viral infection, developed broncho-pneumonia recently. She was advised rest and was responding positively to treatment. Two days ago, she developed cardiac irregularities.

Born on September 16, 1916, in Madurai to Subramania Iyer and Shanmukhavadivu, Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, her brother Saktivel and sister Vadivambal grew up surrounded by classical music. Her grandmother Akkammal played the violin and her mother was a veena artist.

M.S., as she came to be known, was initiated to music young, learning her first lessons from her mother. She appeared on stage when she was just 13. By the time she moved to Chennai in 1936, she was already a popular Carnatic vocalist. It was then that she met T. Sadasivam, a senior executive in Ananda Vikatan, the Tamil weekly. They were married in 1940.

M.S. received a large number of awards during her illustrious career spanning more than 50 years. India's top civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, was conferred on her in 1998.

In 1968, M.S. became the first woman musician to be honoured with the Sangita Kalanidhi title by the Music Academy, Chennai. After a brief foray in films, she devoted her time to music.

The other honours conferred on M.S. include the Padma Bhushan (1954), Padma Vibhushan (1975), Kaalidas Sanman (1988) and the Ramon Magsaysay award (1974). She gave the inaugural concert at the India Festival, London in 1982, and has also performed in Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore and Malaysia. She introduced Carnatic music to the West at the Edinburgh Festival (1963) and at the United Nations (1966).

She was conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters by many universities, including the Sri Venkateswara University (1971), Delhi University (1973), Benaras Hindu University (1980) and the University of Madras (1987). The Desihothama (doctoral degree) was conferred on her by the Viswa-Bharati University, Shantiniketan. She donated the money made from recordings and concerts to many causes. With her husband to guide her, M.S. raised crores of rupees for charity through her concerts. The first charity concert was for the Kasturba Memorial Fund in 1944.

The institutions that benefited include the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, the Ramakrishna Math, the Nanak Foundation, the Subramanya Bharati memorial at Ettayapuram, the Hindu Temple in Flushing, New York, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, the Kamakshi temple in Kancheepuram, Sankara Nethralaya, the Cancer Institute and Voluntary Health Services and the Music Academy (all in Chennai).

Starting with `Seva Sadan" in the 1930s, M.S. had a brief stint in Tamil films. She also played the male role of Narada in "Savitri" (1941) to raise money for launching Kalki, her husband's nationalist Tamil weekly. Her title role of the Rajasthani saint-poetess Meera in the eponymous film (1945) gave her national prominence. 'This movie was re-made in Hindi in 1947.

Her voice held the world in a spell. She has sung bhajans in 10 languages, each setting high standards in purity of diction and emotional content.

Many leaders and political giants of that period, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajaji, praised her abilities as a vocalist. 'M.S. was an ardent devotee of the Kanchi Paramacharya.

It was the Paramacharya who composed the benediction "Maitreem bhajata" which M.S. sang at the conclusion of her concerts at the U.N. and in Carnegie Hall.

The cremation will take place on Sunday.

Source: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip.../12/12/&prd=th&

 

Not such a crazy idea. And also, the idea is that this Divine love-affair is manifested here also - during Krishna's incarnation in Vrindavana Lila, and within the human heart. Radha-Krishna are there.

But also, Radha-Krishna are only one form where a form of God is shown with His consort. There are many others, with a slightly different significance.

In the Bhagavad Gita, the manifest universe is said to be nothing more than the interplay of Purusha (God, Pure Consciousness, Ishwara) and Prakriti (nature, Shakti, God's manifest will and conscious energy).

Jaya Radhe-Govinda!

 

I just started reading the Bhagavad Gita and there's so much wisdom in it! Makes me completely high .

 

Her voice is so beautiful!, I listen to her Vishnu Sahasranama and Bhaja Govindam everyday! You can never get tired of her voice. She is really blessed. A person like her I think will get moksha.

 

The life of M.S. was so beautifully lived. I am proud to say I have seen her live several times. Although she doesnt rate among my list of favourite classical singers, I truly admire her devotion and love and the simple and beautiful way she lived her life.

I love listening to her chanting. If you are from south India, the sound of M.S. Subbulakshmi singing the Venkatesa Suprabhatam is a part of your childhood. Every morning it plays on the radio, as the mothers bathe and do pooja and go about their household activities. What a beautiful way to wake up! She has done more to popularise the sahasranama and suprabhatam and various stotras than anyone can describe. The sound of many of these chants is inseparable from her name and voice.

Although she had worldwide fame and reknown, M.S. lived a simple life, staying in a small 2 bedroom apartment in Mylapore. She did her own cooking and cleaning and lived the same way any middle class south Indian family does. The millions of rupees she earned from her recordings went almost entirely to a variety of charities. She was the very embodiment of generosity and humility. Hers was a model life, right from start to finish.

 

Hi Lucy_in_the_Sky - Glad to hear you like the Gita

Hare Krishna!

 

Welcome to the world of truth, knowledge and love.

 

Lord McCauley, speech in British Parliament, February 2, 1835) noted below:

"I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation" (Lord McCauley, speech in British Parliament, February 2, 1835).

 

Hare Krishna!


Today. 22nd December, is Gita Jayanti - the day on which the Bhagavad Gita was spoken to Arjuna by Lord Krishna - at least according to tradition.

 

In India it was actually celebrated on the 21st, so I did that too. As it happens it is also birth anniversary of Swami Tapovan Maharaj, the guru of my Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. Tapovanji was a great soul, who gave up all his possessions to the Ganges, even his slippers and his spectacles! He the walked barefoot all over the Himalayas, writing and teaching. All he wore was a single thin robe of orange. My pranams at his Lotus Feet.

On the holy day of Gita Jayanti we must all chant the bhagavad geeta, if not all 18 chapters, at least the second chapter, which contains the core of the teaching expounded later on.

 

Hare Krishna !


Dear all,

Wish you a very happy and merry Christmas.

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna !


Dear all,

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year.

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna !


Dear all,

I am back for a while. It is so nice and inspiring to read the added posts after I left some 45 days back. My sincere thanks to CCPie, BBB, SGB, Bhaskar, God, Luci, SJ and all others.

It has become a thread of eternal joy. Please keep up the good job of spreading words of unconditional love.

With love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna !


Dear SleepingJiva,

Brother, if you love Krishna you love all. You cannot forsake anything or anybody. Please do come back. We all love you. I will be back after one month.

With love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna !

Dear Luci,

Welcome to the thread.
It is so nice to know that you are reading the Gita and you find it very good and interesting. Please continue the good job that you are doing for yourself and for all others. It is the mirror where you can see yourself and beautify yourself further for acceptance by the Lord.

With love,

Kumar.