Sacinandana swami broken names of flowers
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The Gayatri Book
The Gayatri book is a comprehensive manual and a source of inspiration on the mystery of the gayatri-mantras, their meaning and practice. A book not only for brahmana initiated practitioners, but for aspiring candidates as well as for inquisitive nectar seekers.
This edition includes a new section of study questions that help you test and deepen your understanding of each chapter. Also, the text has been completely re-layouted and is printed in two colors making it easy to read. A definite must in every spiritual bookshelf!
Krishna-Kshetra Swami on the Gayatri book:
“If Vaishnava culture is to take root and carry on indefinitely, surely practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of their adopted tradition. The Gayatri Book aims to fullfill this need. Those who know Sacinandana Swami personally will recognize the imprint of his expertise and concern as a teacher. The Gayatri Book is both a practical manual and a carefully woven explication, thoughtfully
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For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to her master’s house.
The perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream: “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.”
Why?” asked the bearer. “What are you ashamed of?”
“I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your mistress’s house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don’t get full value from your efforts,” the pot said.
The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked po
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Free Write Journal #94
Free Writes
Lecturing
I am obsessing over the lecture inom have to give on Zoom on June 6th. Since inom rarely lecture, it takes me a lot of time to prepare one. For this one I’m going to tell Prabhupada stories. The first one will be of his attempt to acquire nation and build a temple in Vrndavana. First he had to find some available nation. He heard of a pious Hindu couple, Mr. and Mrs. S., who had a plot of land and wanted to give it to a worthy cause in charity. Prabhupada went to them and asked that they give it to his Society for building a temple. Mrs. S. folded two pieces of paper. On one she wrote “Yes,” and on the other, “No.” She folded them up and put them at the feet of her Radharani Deity. In the morning she unfolded one piece of paper. It stated, “Yes,” and she took this as an indication from Radharani that she should give the property to Prabhupada. Only a few devotees were living on the nation, and money was slow coming in. Guru dasa was the temple p