Cure for Modern Jaundice

If a man is suffering from jaundice and you give him a piece of sugar candy, he will say that it is very bitter. But is sugar candy bitter? No, it is very sweet. And the medicine for jaundice is that sugar. Modern science prescribes this, and it is prescribed in the Vedic literature also. So if we take a great quantity of this sugar candy, then we will be relieved from jaundice. And when there is relief, then one says, "Oh, this is very sweet." So the modern jaundice of a godless civilization can be cured by this chanting of Hare Krishna. In the beginning it may appear bitter, but when one advances, then he will see how pleasing it is.

We are so full of miseries because we have identified ourselves with the material world. Therefore we are unhappy. Anxieties and fearfulness are due to our misidentifying with the material world. As soon as one understands his identity, his relationship with God, then immediately he becomes happy.

New Update

The holy land of Vraja covers an area of 1453 square miles and stretches from Agra in the south to Banchari in the north. According to shastras Vraja Mandala has an area of 84 kros or 42 miles in each direction with Mathura in the center.

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Festival Calendar 2010-2011

The festival calendar for the year 2010-2011 is now updated on

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Festival Calendar 2009 - 10

Dear Devotees,

The festival dates at Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar website are updated. Please go through them at

www.radhashyamsundar.com/af.htm

You can also obtain a full calendar for the year 2009-10 by sending an email to aishwarya@radhashyamsundar.com

Vasant Panchami 09

Two Contrasting Lives

If one is in good association he can develop the mode of goodness, and if in bad association he may develop the mode of darkness or ignorance. Nothing is stereotyped. One can change his habit by good or bad association, and one has to become intelligent enough to discriminate between good and bad. The best association is the service of the devotees of the Lord, and by that association one can become the highest qualified man by the grace of the Lord's pure devotees. As we have already seen in the life of Çréla Närada Muni, he became the topmost devotee of the Lord simply by the association of pure devotees of the Lord. By birth he was the son of a maidservant and had no knowledge of his father and no academic education, even of the lowest status. But simply by associating with the devotees and by eating the remnants of their foodstuff, he gradually developed the transcendental qualities of the devotees. By such association, his taste for chanting and hearing the transcendental glories of the Lord became prominent, and because the glories of the Lord are nondifferent from the Lord, he got direct association with the Lord by means of sound representation. Similarly, there is the life of Ajämila (Sixth Canto), who was the son of a brähmaëa and was educated and trained properly in the discharge of the duties of a brähmaëa, but who in spite of all this, because he contacted the bad association of a prostitute, was put into the path of the lowest quality of caëòäla, or the last position for a human being. Therefore the Bhägavatam always recommends the association of the mahat, or the great soul, for opening the gate of salvation. To associate with persons engaged in lording it over the material world means to enter into the darkest region of hell. One should try to raise himself by the association of the great soul. That is the way of the perfection of life.

(SB 2.10.41)

Tongue is the Priniciple Sense

Of all the senses, the tongue is considered to be the principal sense. So tongue, if the tongue is trained, or the tongue is spiritualized, then naturally all the senses become spiritualized. So jihvadau. So our training is the tongue training. Train it chanting Hare Krsna and let it taste Krsna prasadam. Then what will be? The all other senses... There are five senses for acquiring knowledge, five senses for acting. Everything will be controlled.
(Talk, Initiation Lecture, and Ten Offenses Lecture -- Los Angeles, December 1, 1968)