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    Posted: 4 years 5 weeks ago
    Author: Bhakti-lata Dasi
    iskconprisonministry.org After years of dreaming of a better, more modern IPM website for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada, today it finally manifested. I felt like crying out of joy! Kṛṣṇa helped me make this desire a reality by inspiring Svarbhanu prabhu to embrace this project as his service. I am so very grateful to him. For the very first time, all of the inmates’ artwork is beautifully displayed and easily accessible to all of you....
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  • Karnamrita's picture
    Posted: 4 years 6 weeks ago
    Author: Karnamrita Das
    (this blog is recorded on the full page: quick time player needed) [Reposted from 10-11-2011]One of the recommendations for advancing in devotional service is the observance of Kartika Vrata (special devotional practices) especially in Vrindavana, India, or at some holy place, but anywhere that we worship Krishna during the Vedic month of Kartika, or Damodara, which corresponds to October-November. It began yesterday on the full moon and continues to the following full moon. As the next...
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  • Karnamrita's picture
    Posted: 4 years 13 weeks ago
    Author: Karnamrita Das
    (this blog is recorded on the full blog page: quick time player is needed; works best with Firefox or Explorer; if you are using Google Chrome it will automatically play, so if you don't want to listen, mute your speakers.) [originally posted on 1-08-15] Sometimes we experience great surprise and intense sadness at the unexpected departure from the bhakti path of a devotee we may have been inspired by or respected. Or even if the devotee struggled to follow the basic devotional practices and...
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  • Karnamrita's picture
    Posted: 4 years 14 weeks ago
    Author: Karnamrita Das
    [Originally published, 3-28-16 at the beginning of my cancer healing journey] HOW CAN WE USE OUR SORROW, PAIN OR GREAT LIFE REVERSES TO INVOKE GOD'S GRACE THAT IS HIDDEN BEHIND IT: To be human is to experience pain, betrayal, disappointment, and various kinds of suffering. We may ask, "Why me?" To which I would reply, "Why not you?" We all have our litany lists of wrongs done to us or to those we love. What do we do with this list? One natural tendency is that we would rather avoid pain than...
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    Posted: 4 years 17 weeks ago
    Author: Karnamrita Das
    [reposted from Jan 28, 2017] There is no perfect time or place, so if we wait, we will never accomplish, or sing the song which vibrates our heart meant to nourish every cell in our body. To breathe out, one only has to breathe in, but we can’t hold our breath forever; so begin today while you are still breathing because there are no tomorrows or could-bes. Only a string of nows, do-days giving potential at least one step of progress on the miles ahead though even a step back can help us go...
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