Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Russian devotees  all have  big, big hearts, the most humble souls. I never met a Russian devotee I didnt love. Here is their altar exhibiting  this simple love  and devotion. I wish I can be there. Let my next birth be with the devotees in Ukraine and Russia.(photo by Venudhari dasa)

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Krsna is everywhere

Little children acting out Krsna's pastimes

Lord Krsna with the gopis

The gopis discuss Krsna's pastimes

lord krsna lifts Goverdhan hill to protect His devotees

Maha Vishnu lying in the Causal Ocean

Balaramaji is so beautiful

Children enacting Krsna's pastimes

Krsna enjoying His pastimes with the gopis

The beautiful Deities of Radha and Lord Krsna

Krsna covered with blue colored sandalwood paste at Alachua temple

Srimate Radharaniji

The highest perfection of love of God.

Little cows adoring Shaligram shila

The Skanda Purana warns that no one should buy or sell shalagrama-shilas. One who puts a price on a shalagrama-shilas, sells a shalagrama-shila, gives his opinion on its value, or examines one with a view to estimate its sale value, all such people will live in hell until the time of universal destruction. ( Hari-bhakti-vilas)

Top emmisary of bhakti yoga in the current age, our beloves gurudev.

Beautiful Govinda playing His transcendental flute

Beautiful Govinda playing His transcendental flute

Jaya Sri Krsna

Lord Krsna always protects a surrendered soul

Blue-eyed Krsna

Here is the description of Krishna's lotus eyes by Lilasuka (Srila Bilvamangala Thakur) in his famous Krsna-Karnamritam:

lilayitabhyam rasa-sitalabhyam
nilarunabhyam nayanambujabhyam
alokayedadbhuta-vibhramabhyam
kale kada karunikah kisorah (verse 45)

When will the merciful adolescent Krishna look at me with His two eyes - sportive, cool with succulence, blue at the pupils and reddish at the corners, moving with a strange flutter?

Krsna giving pleasure to the gopis

Krsna sporting in the lake with innocent young gopis

Naughty Brothers breaking the pots of butter and yogurt to feed the monkeys

Mother Yashoda chasing naughty Gopal

The goal of bhakti yoga

Krsna in the forrest with the beautiful gopis