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Shyamasundara (1967 ACBSP): “After many years of writing, “Chasing Rhinos With The Swami” is finally complete. This two-volume memoir describes in exciting, intimate detail the many years I [Shyamasundar das] spent at the side of our amazing Srila Prabhupad–in San Francisco, London, and as Prabhupad’s personal secretary, in India, Russia, and all over the globe. It is an adventure book, fast-moving, filled with the philosophy, fun, spontaneity and magic that distinguished Prabhupad’s special jo

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By Mathura Lilesvari Devi Dasi

The Karthik month is a very busy month for most Malaysian devotees. While getting the family together daily to offer ghee lamps to our sweet Lord Krishna, devotees in Malaysia has, over the years, introduced various preaching methods to extend the opportunity of offering ghee lamps to the general masses.

Like every year, the month-long festival was launched in Sri Jagannath Mandir Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 25 October 2015. Under the leadership of Sri Jagannath Mandi

You can’t get a taste of something you don’t come into contact with. So first you have to find someone with some significant quantity of divine love. Then you have to try to see things the way that person does, feel things, understand things the way that person does – even if its only for a few moments, like in a kīrtan while that person is singing and you can feel at one with their expression. If you do this you will get an initial taste for Krishna’s bhakti, and that will enable you to “pract

We are pleased to present the latest (Nov) issue of The Astrological Newsletter. In this issue  you will find - The Left and Right Eyes of God and Secrets of Combinational Astrology

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ere is a very prevalent notion that we will attain self-realization / enlightenment / liberation / Vaikunṭha / Vraja Prema (call it what suits you best) by the mercy of Krishna / Rādhā / Guru / Vaiṣṇava alone. “It’s all up to the mercy of the Lord.”

This is wrong.

If our enlightenment is up to Krishna, then why are we not enlightened? It would have to be that he wants us to suffer? He can enlighten us whenever he likes, but he doesn’t – so what would that say about him? He prefers us to be ignor

Rcently I gave a brief class for the residents of an ISKCON center, during their daily morning spiritual programme. The topic of my class was the nine stages of development in Bhakti-Yoga and how to make sure and steady progress towards the goal: Krishna Prema. When I received feedback about this class, I came to realize the significance of “generation gaps” between people who enter ISKCON at different eras.

As I see it, ISKCON has a few key eras:

1. The Newborn Era – Prabhupāda is directly access

Our movement is growing and it is not only growing in numbers but it is also growing in complexity! In the earlier days of Srila Prabhupada establishing the preaching mission, this movement was more simple. The membership was more homogenous – people of a similar age group and all engaged in the same activity.

Now, there is much more diversity! Diversity in different members of this movement and also diversity in different kinds programs so we need a very broad movement! We need a movement which

Lecture on Appearance of Radha Kunda by HH Varsana Swami

(Varsana Swami was born in 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey. From his childhood he was strongly drawn to the workings of the natural world. He became a vegetarian of his own accord at the age of seven and was determined to lead a life of compassion.)

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Lecture on Respecting Radha Kunda by HH Giriraj Swami at ISKOCN Dallas on 24 April 2013
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 36 Text 16)

(In 1972 Giriraj Swami was appointed by Prabhupada to be president of ISKCON Bombay and trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.)

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Uttar Pradesh's holy town of Vrindavan, where it is said Lord Krishna spent his childhood in ancient times, is faced with a major problem of disposing off its solid waste material.

Local activists today say the municipal body had failed to address the problem of disposing solid waste, despite the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) directives.

On September 29, the NGT gave the municipal body two weeks to evolve a process and mechanism to collect and scientifically dispose of solid waste.

It was dire

From Vedic literature we find that our universe, compared to other universes, is relatively small. The Brahmä in charge of this universe has only four heads, whereas Brahmäs managing larger universes have proportionately more heads. 

“Kåñëa said, ‘Your particular universe extends four billion miles; therefore it is the smallest of all the universes. Consequently you have only four heads.” (Caitanya-caritämåta Madhya 21.84)

Çrémad Bhägavatam (3.11.40) confirms this distance of four billion miles.

By Caitanya Caran Das

Damodara lila special

One of the important legends associated with Diwali is Damodara lila, a pastime in which mother Yashoda tried to tie Krishna with a rope. The rope turned out to be two fingers short. So she tied more rope, but, no matter how many ropes she tied together, the combined rope remained two fingers short.

This pastime signifies that no matter how much we try, we will always fall short in our attempts to understand God with our intelligence. Modern science i