Today I came across a wonderful site maintained by the The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. which contains a knowledge-base of books written by the founder of the ISKCON. The website is accessible at http://vedabase.net/en3
It makes quite inspiring reading and the way in which the site(s) have been setup makes it very easy and pleasurable to browse. For instance, individual chapters within Srimad Bhagavatam are available as single-page summaries with links to detailed verse-wise explanations.
I enjoyed reading chapter 9 and chapter 12 in Canto 6 which explain the story of vritrasura and his fight with Indra. I quote from one verse translation (6.12.14) I really liked:
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Since everything is dependent on the supreme will of the Personality of Godhead, one should be equipoised in fame and defamation, victory and defeat, life and death. In their effects, represented as happiness and distress, one should maintain oneself in equilibrium, without anxiety.
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Also enjoyed the little sidekick on verse 6.9.11 which I have read earlier in Deivathin Kural.
Finally, there is an entire translation of Śrī Īśopanishad at the same site :-)
I am impressed at the amount of information presented. At the same time, the website is very user-friendly. There are four versions of all the documents (I have linked freely between 2 of those in this post) and I quite like the clean way these are presented.
Kudos to the creators!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
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