Lecture on How to be a good Grhastha by HH Bir Krishna Goswami on 13 Aug 2014 at Sydney

(Bir Krishna Goswami spent his childhood in Long Island, New York. As an academically gifted student at North Western University, he began reading Srila Prabhupada’s books. Impressed by Srila Prabhupada's scholarship and saintliness Bir Krishna Swami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971.)

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Lecture on Hitting Life's Curve Balls by HG Charu Prabhu

(Caru Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples. He served on the BBT library party in 1976, received Bhakti Shastra in 1979, and was Life Membership Director in Los Angeles for 10 years in the 1980's.)

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Lecture on Never Lose heart by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on Oct 2014

(His Grace Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02 Chapter 05 Text 04 Follow the orders of your Guru dont Speculate by HH Indradyumna Swami on 14 March 1979 at New Mayapur

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition.)

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Lecture on Sri Gopastami by HG Jananivas Prabhu  on 31 Oct 2014 at ISKCON Mayapur

(HG Jananivas prabhu, the head pujari of Mayapur and the most senior and respected pujari in ISKCON. On order of Srila Prabhupada, he shifted to Mayapur and took up the seva of being a pujari. He and his brother, His Grace Pankajanghri Prabhu have been serving in Mayapur for many decades. Soft spoken but deep with realisations.)

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Mayapur Chandra and his wife Campakalata were born and raised as devotees of Krishna, though they spent most of their lives in America. Both children of Srila Prabhupada disciples, they maintained their faith in devotion to Radha and Krishna, and in 2005 fulfilled their heart’s desire to come and live with their family in the holy dham. They made their home in Anyor, the site of Krishna’s original Govardhan Puja and Annakut festival.

Desiring to combine their residence in the holy land with some service to the devotees, they began by taking visiting pilgrims on parikrama and showing them the significant sites around Govardhan, as well as hosting their guru, Bir Krishna Das Goswami on his frequent visits and feeding the many abandoned cows in the street.

In April of last year, during the month of Purushottam, while doing their daily Govardhan parikrama, the couple stopped at Radha Kund to rest and chant japa. At that moment, says Mayapur Chandra, “We felt a great pain on seeing how so many people, even though they come to Govardhan and Radha Kund to become purified, then go and dump trash everywhere. The crowds of devotees that come from all over India to do parikrama are amazing and wonderful, but the amount of physical trash that they leave behind is also amazing. It seemed like no one cared. This broke our hearts every time we walked outside.”

At that point, as the two were wondering how they could do something to make a difference, he says, “I prayed to Srimati Radharani to be an instrument in helping to keep her special place and Govardhan clean.”

“And then,” says Campakalata, “the idea came to us that we could find sponsors to help pay for cleaning different spots, something like America’s ‘Adopt a Highway’ program.”

It was at that moment that Mayapur Chandra made contact with one of the local babajis who was working with the people from his ashram to clean the platform surrounding Radha Kund. They began looking for sponsors and through him engaged widows who were willing to work rather than beg on the streets, and others to do the cleaning work.

They not only clear away the piles of litter and refuse that accumulate on the parikrama path around the sacred kunds, but also remove the scum from the many flower and ghee lamp offerings that gathers in corners and along edges of Radha Kund, Shyam Kund and Lalita Kunda.

Now, after a year, with a reliable manager named Abhay Charan who commutes daily from Vrindavan, the couple, whose project is named Padma, are pleased to see that they are making progress with more and more sponsors coming forward to help with the cleaning of various areas in Radha Kund. Using some innovative ideas for cleaning the scum from the water surface using home made leaf rakes, they are leaving Lalita Kunda, Manasa Pavana Ghat, Jihva Mandir and the surrounding alleyways spotlessly clean every day.

Encouraged by their progress, the couple has now set its sights on the entire Parikrama Marg around Govardhan. “Our desire is that someday we can have a huge cleaning force for all of Govardhan. But for now we will be happy if at least some areas around Govardhan and Radha Kund are kept as clean as possible, considering the constant inflow of trash.”

On the 19th of October, the youngsters of Patna, capital of Bihar state, participated in the greatest youth festival ever conducted by ISKCON there. A total of 1800 students took part in this festival called, ‘Maha Umang - the festival of joy and inspiration’, which was held in Krishna Memorial Auditorium. Most of the students were from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), National Institute of Technology (NIT), and Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), R P Sharma Institute of Technology (RPSIT), Patna Science College(PSC), Patna University, and several coaching institutes.

The festival was greatl y anticipated, as students in Patna have lesser opportunities to attend youth events, compared to youth of metro cities of India.

The event was aimed at providing Krishna-conscious philosophy to youngsters as an alternative solution to practical problems faced by contemporary society. Along with this, they were introduced to universally appealing Krishna-conscious aspects like chanting through a Mantra Rock Show, and prasadam.

Professors from IIT and NIT were also present as guests of honor, Sundar Gopal Das, Director of ‘Iskcon Youth Forum-Delhi’ was the chief guest. He holds a bachelors degree in ‘Civil Engineering’ from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri and masters degree in ‘Construction Technology and Management’ from IIT Delhi. After having worked with Larsen and Toubro at Bangalore International Airport for three years, he quit his job to join ISKCON's preaching mission. He delivered a talk titled 'Burning the Ravana within', which was most appreciated by students. It highlighted the inability of modern mechanistic education in curbing vices like lust, anger and greed from hearts of youngsters, which was the reason for rising corruption and degrading moral values in society. The only way to undo this, he said, was to introduce Vedic principles as highlighted by Srimad Bhagvatam and Bhagvad Gita. 

The students agreed that they had never attended such an event. They were very much amazed by the fact that ISKCON was presenting timeless wisdom, in way that youth can easily accept and adopt in lives.

Rambhadra Das, the director of  'IYF-Bihar & Jharkhand', said it was the most successful event ever conducted by them. He too like his Delhi counterpart holds an engineering degree in "Information Technology" from Chandigarh. Before dedicating himself fully to ISKCON, he had worked for as a software engineer with MNCs like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and IndiaBulls.

Krsna Kripa Das, president ISKCON Patna, said that spiritual and moral education had become highly indispensable for today’s youth, who are highly stressed and finding it challenging to upkeep  moral and ethical values in today’s cut throat competitive environment. He also greatly praised the enthusiastic efforts of IYF , by which they could conduct so professionally an event of this big a scale. 

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 11 Chapter 14 Text 17 What is Real Detachment by HH Bir Krishna Goswami on 30 Sep 2014 at Brisbane

(Born in October 1949, Bir Krishna Goswami spent his childhood in Long Island, New York. As an academically gifted student at North Western University, he began reading the Vedic literatures translated by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Impressed by Srila Prabhupada’s scholarship and saintliness.)

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Lecture on Perfect Philosophy Practice and Lifestyle by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 26 Sep 2014 at Damodaradesh

(HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON’s founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. )

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Lecture on Need for Growth by HH Vishwarup Prabhu on 07 Aug 2014 at PV Doshi

(He is a spiritual counsellor at Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Gopal's Garden High School & at ISKCON Chowpatty temple. He is a regular spiritual speaker on TV. He loves preaching & takes devotees on yatra regularly. Besides being a counsellor, he also serves ISKCON by playing the role of administrator trustee at the school and hospital.)

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Lecture on Attaining the Land of Faith by HH Sivarama Swami on 25 Oct 2014 at India

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 08 April 2009, Durban, South Africa, Lecture)

Whenever we discuss kanistha, madhyama and uttama, it starts to feel like we are beginning to measure vaisnavas with a measuring tape! As soon as you start measuring vaisnavas with a measuring tape, there is a great risk to minimize the vaisnavas because a vaisnava is so difficult to measure. No one fits into a box; everyone has done something extraordinary for Krsna! Therefore who fits into any box – kanistha, madhyama, uttama difficult! It gets too complicated; too much measurement!

Let us just rather appreciate the service vaisnavas have done and are doing, and let us just overlook the faults even if there is some tendency, we just look at the service and we glorify the vaisnavas.

Still on the other side, we do care because we are not naively accepting just anyone as pure devotee. To accept someone as a pure devotee, on the topmost platform, is a very serious matter and cannot be done on the basis of sentiment. Therefore it is good to understand these categories (of advancement of devotees) but we are not going to hand out T-shirts: kanistha, madhyama and uttama T-shirts! That will be a little too extreme rather we are appreciating all the vaisnavas for their exalted qualities. By counting the glories of the vaisnavas, we will see many exalted vaisnavasi

Seminar on The Story of Arjuna  by HH Sachinandana Swami on 21 Oct 2014

(Born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany, At a young age, he began searching for answers anywhere they could be found—from the esoteric teachings of the old world spiritual traditions to the modern theories of psychology and parapsychology.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 52 Text 12-17 by HH Bhakti Marg Swami on 28 Oct 2014 at ISKCON Alachua

(A disciple of Srila Prabhupada, Bhaktimarga Swami, 59, has been a member of ISKCON since 1973. He is an instructor of bhakti-yoga, mantra meditation, kirtan and interactive dance. He is widely known for his passion for the performing arts.)

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Lecture on Spiritual Advancement and Material Ambitiousness by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on Jun 2015

(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC)

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Lecture on The Glories of Govardhan Hill by HH Indradyumna Swami on 24 Oct 2014 at Vrindavan

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition.)

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Lecture on Bidding Farewell to Life's Problems  by HH Devamrita Swami on 11 Oct 2014 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(Devamrita Swami was born on October 16, 1950 in New York City. At the age of seventeen, he received a scholarship to Yale University and graduated in 1972. Upon graduation Devamrita Swami began to study the literary works of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)

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Lecture on The Dramatically humble entry of the hero  by Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on Oct 2014

(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC (Governing Body Commissioner).)

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Lecture on Where does Srila Prabhupada call us part of a Siksa Sampradaya  by HH Sivarama Swami on 26 Oct 2014 at India

(Sivarama Swami is also well known for his deep knowledge of vaishnava literature, and has written several books about Krishna consciousness himself. In June 2003, Sivarama Swami announced his intention to resign as UK & Ireland GBC representative as from Gaura Purnima 2004. At present he is responsible for the rural farm community of devotees in Hungary called New Vraja Dhama.)

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Lecture on Dipavali-Lord Rama"s Return to Ayodhya  by HH Giriraj Swami on 23 Oct 2014 at Houston

(Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton in the home of a respected Chicago lawyer. He met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)

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