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08 May 2014 - Appearance Day of Srimati Sita Devi

Sita Devi, a manifestation of the goddess of fortune, Laksmi Devi, is the eternal consort of Lord Ramacandra.
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08 May 2014 - Disappearance Day of Sri Madhu Pandita

Madhu Pandita, a disciple of Sri Gadadhara Pandita, established the temple of Gopinatha in Vrndavana, India.
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08 May 2014 - Appearance Day of Srimati Jahnava Devi

Jahnava Mata was the wife of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. Especially after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, she became a leading figure in the sankirtana movement.
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Lecture on Two Types of Knowledge by Devamrita Swami at Los Angeles on 04 May 2014

(His Holiness Devamrita Swami entered this life on October 16, 1950 in New York City, as the firstborn in a family dominated by a very devout and education-motivated Christian mother.)

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Lecture on Krishna Favour his Devotees by HH Niranjana Swami on 02 May 2014 at Gomel

(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)

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Srimad Bhagavatam Class (05.15.05-07) by HG Rajendranandana Prabhu on 02 May 2014 at ISKCON Mayapur

(His Grace Rajendranandana Prabhu is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada. One of Srila Prabhupada's first gurukula teachers (Dallas and Vrndaban Gurukulas). He occasionally blesses us with comprehensive, easy to understand and realized classes.))

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Lecture on Enriching Family Values in this Modern age of Cultural Degradation by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 21 April 2014 at Glenfield

(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank. Inspired by the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder acharya of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)

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Q. How can I find more time for chanting? I like it, but I’m usually too busy.

A. We’re all busy, but eventually we have to die. And then what? By the law of karma, anyone who is not God-realized will have to stay in the cycle of rebirth and death. So our real business should be to become God-realized and get out of the karmic cycle. And chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra is the surest way to do that.

Q. If I want to take up chanting, do I need a teacher?

A. Not to start. But if you want your chanting to give you lasting results, then you’ll take instruction from a bona fide spiritual master. As the Vedic literatures point out, “Unless one receives instruction from a bona fide spiritual master in the authorized disciplic succession, then his mantra will have no effect.”

Q. If I chant Hare Krsna, will I be able to levitate?

A. Even if you could overcome the law of gravity, you’d still be under the law of karma. You’d still have to undergo old age, disease, death, and rebirth. But if you want to overcome the law of karma and, when you pass on, levitate all the way to the spiritual world, then chant the mahamantra.

Q. Why not keep the Hare Krsna mantra secret, like other mantras?

A. If something can actually do some good for others, then who but a rascal would keep it secret and sell it for a fee? The flare Krsna maha-mantracan deliver everyone from the karmic cycle of rebirth and death. So Sri Krsna Caitanya, the incarnation of God for this age, ordered His followers to spread the maha-mantra “to every town and village.”

Q. If you chant a mantra in public, won’t it lose its power?

A.A mantra can never lose its power. (Here we’re not talking about the nonsense syllables that phony gurus are marketing nowadays. These“mantras” never had any power to begin with.) At any rate; a mantra is a combination of sacred sounds—names of God and His energies. So just as God is inexhaustible, a mantra is inexhaustible. Unlimited numbers of people can chant it unlimitedly, and it will always have its power. And the Hare Krsnamantra is known as the maha-mantra. Maha means “great,” or “the most powerful.”

Q. I don’t see that everybody has to chant Hare Krsna. Don’t all paths lead to the same place?

A.If you take a flight to Paris and your friend takes a flight to London, you’ll go to Paris and he’ll end up in London. It’s not that you’ll both arrive in Paris. Now, the Vedic literatures explain that life’s highest destination is to revive our relationship with Lord Krsna in the spiritual world, and that the path is the chanting of the Lord’s names. So if you’re doing something else, you’ll end up in a different place.

Q. God is everywhere. So why chant Hare Krsna? I’m already “back to Godhead,” right here and now.

A. That may be, but there’s a difference. For instance, the state government is running both the university system and the prison system. So it’s all the same, in a way, but where would you rather be—UCLA or San Quentin?

Similarly, God controls both the spiritual and material worlds. But the material world is a place where people who’ve forgotten Him go through all kinds of trouble—until, finally, they come to their senses and revive the relationship. And the best way to do that, is to chant God’s names. Then, as you say, you’ll be “already back to Godhead, right here and now,” and when you pass away you’ll live with Krsna eternally in the spiritual world.

ITV(ISKCON Television) has released a wonderful collection of DVDs of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (ISKCON Founder Acharya).

This service has been done by His Grace Nrsinghananda Prabhu ACBSP.

There are 14 video DVDs having a recording of more than 50 hours. This collection has been subtitled in 20 languages and has a Russian voiceover as well. Languages available include Hindi, Russian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Spanish, Swedish, Czech Estonian, Croation, Malay, Lithuanian, Finiish, German ,Turkish, Indonesian, Bulgarian, Thai, Polish, Hungarian, Danish, etc.

In this improved edition, the film and sound have been digitally re-mastered, enhanced and re- edited to produce the highest quality images.New footage has been discovered and included.

The result is an experience of Srila Prabhupada as you have never seen him before on video;up close and personal. Through the via medium of his virtual person, this is as close an experience as possible of being in the presence of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Just before giving Srila Prabhupada his evening massage, I began to feel a little weak. I went into Prabhupada's room and His Divine Grace took rest. I climbed up by his side on the bed and began to gently massage his legs. Inexplicably, my temperature suddenly began to soar, and within two or three minutes I became so feeble and incapacitated that I could not continue. I had to ask Srila Prabhupada if I could stop and bring in Aksaya prabhu, who was sitting outside the door on guard duty, to finish.

Srila Prabhupada agreed and I brought him in. Since Aksaya had never massaged Srila Prabhupada before, I stayed by his side to instruct him how to do it. Aksaya was willing, but as soon as he clasped Prabhupada's lotus feet and began pressing his soles, Prabhupada exclaimed to me, "Oh, his hands are wet."

I asked Aksaya and he agreed that it was so. He was nervous and his palms were sweaty. So that was it. I had to send him back out to resume his guard duty -- an opportunity lost for him, a dilemma for me, and an inconvenience for Srila Prabhupada. I couldn't think what to do. It was nearly 11 o'clock and there were no other devotees around. Then Prabhupada told me, "Why not bring Gaurasundara? He also used to massage me before." Gaurasundara was Prabhupada's personal servant in 1967. He was asleep, and I wasn't sure how he would react, since he hasn't been intimately connected with ISKCON for many years. But as soon as I woke him up, he readily agreed, and within a minute or two he was back in his old position at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet. Sick as I was, I went back in with him, not because I thought he might need some help or instruction, but because I didn't want to miss the nectar of his reunion with Prabhupada.

As Gaurasundara rendered the massage, Prabhupada happily reminisced about the early days when Gaurasundara and his wife, Govinda dasi, used to serve him as his servant and secretary. Govinda dasi was cooking and transcribing his tapes, Gaurasundara was giving him his massages, and they were both painting and drawing for his books. Prabhupada happily and appreciatively remembered the drawings that were used in the Teachings of Lord Caitanya. They both began to laugh as he recalled how Govinda dasi had also wanted to massage him and how she had cried when he refused because he was a sannyasi.

Prabhupada never forgets someone who has rendered service to him, and he is always eager to re-engage them, no matter what they may have done since. Gaura-sundara himself seems a polite, quietly-spoken fellow, clean shaven with short hair, and he appears to me a little brighter in his countenance than when we saw him in Hawaii in May. This is no doubt due to his regularly chanting sixteen rounds again; devotional service restores the brightness to the spirit soul.

It was a blissful twenty-minute exchange, and then Prabhupada sent us back to our room to retire for the night while he resumed his most important work of the day -- his translation and commentating on Srimad-Bhagavatam.

October 10th, 1976 I couldn't sleep during the night due to a fever, and today I am feeling very weak. But it is coming and going; I am sometimes good and sometimes bad.

- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 5" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu

Lecture on The Special Benefits that come with Aksaya Tritiya by Sivarama Swami

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada.)

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Lecture on Jahnu Saptami by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu

(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)

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Lecture on Life Balance by His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami at ISKCON Melbourne on 04 May 2014

(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami has preached the message of Bhagavad gita very widely, especially to the student community. He served as temple president in Mumbai, Belgaum and Vrindavan- which is the spiritual hub of world wide ISKCON temples.)

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Lecture on Vibhinna Sastra mein Vibhinna Devatao ki Upasana ki Sansuti Kyon by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 15 Mar 2014 at Vallabh Vidyanagar

(His Holiness 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 Freewill and Karma by HH Romapada Swami at Potomac

(Romapada Swami‘s first encounter with Krishna consciousness came in Buffalo, in the shape of a lecture at the State University of New York in 1969. The lecturer was His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The following year, Romapada Swami joined the movement in Boston and was initiated in 1971.)

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Lecture on Imperfect Senses Imperfect Knowledge by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at Durban on 19 April 2014

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.)

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Lecture on Chaitanya Charitamrita (Madhya Lila 08.183-187) by Dravida Prabhu

(Dravida Prabhu is a vaishnava scholar, musician and poet. He has edited Back to Godhead magazine and other books published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for over 25 years.)

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Lecture on Narada Muni's Early Meditation by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 07 Feb 2014

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )

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Srimad Bhagavatam Class by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu

(His Divine Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari appeared in this world in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on 7 November 1947, the tenth day (Dasami) of the most holy month of Kartik according to the Vaisnava calendar.)

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