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Iskcon Alachua. Community Unity: New Community Social Services Network Recently we introduced to the community our plan of creating a co-op of devotees which are dedicated to helping those in need. This umbrella organization is committed to assisting those in need in getting the help they require, be it from a group, a resource or an individual. This plan is becoming a reality, rapidly coming together forming an even better vision than we had hoped for. There have been many new exciting developm

Hare Krishna.

29th October, 2015. Gurgaon

Please accept my good wishes for a very devotional Kartik month.

I had two small realisations around preaching recently and an important lesson, I am sharing the same.

As the month of  Kartik approached this year, the enthusiasm within my own self was not so high. I did not know the reasons. Last Monday, 26th October,  I had to give a class at a home program. At the office I thought that as Kartik is starting from the next so it may be a good idea to share a

By Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

October 9, 2015

ISKCON is officially observing Srila Prabhupada’s coming to America and forming his society at 26 Second Avenue, in the year 2016. But 50th anniversary events have already occurred in 2015 and two major festivals have been celebrated. The observance of the day Prabhupada left India on board the Jaladuta on August 13, 1965 was celebrated in grand fashion in an indoor stadium in Calcutta on August 13, 2015. On September 17, 1965, after a thirty-five day

By Vamsuli Dasa

The 10%

BBT India organized a two-day conference on book distribution on 21st and 22nd October, 2015 at ISKCON Govardhan Eco Village, Wada. This was a pioneering attempt to help book distributors in West Indian Divisional Council (WIDC) become more organized and inspired for the upcoming Marathon. The event was inaugurated by HG Gauranga Prabhu (WIDC Chairman and ISKCON GBC Member) and HG Vaisesika Prabhu (ACBSP) with the blessings of HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaja, HH Jaya

When we look at materially successful people around us, whom many of us worship as role models, we get inspired, we dream of following in their footsteps and aspire to lead lives in the same frame. In a bid to fulfill such materially elevated aspirations, we try to imitate them, we often plan out every detail of how our daily activities should be executed. However, unfortunately, inspite of all efforts invested in designing a foolproof plan of action, when the time of execution arrives, we are h

Several hours north of our ISKCON temple in Mayapura is Murshidabad where the ancestral home of Ganga Narayana Chakravarti is found. Ganga Narayana Chakravarti was one of the chief disciples of Srila Narottam das Thakur. Both Narottam and Ganga Narayana's sacred samadhi's are there, as well as the famous pure gold Gauranga deity that Narottam das Thakur installed during the famous Keturi festival some 450 years ago.

Our party of 200 devotees delivered two beautiful paintings of Srila Narottam

Read more about Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura on www.gaudiyahistory.com 
Bhajans by Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura www.vaishnavsongs.com

Lecture on Lord Krishna in Vrindavan at ISKOCN Melbourne on 05 Oct 2015
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02, Chapter 03, Text 14)

(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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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There was once a wicked man of the lower classes. He abandoned all holy rites and gave himself to sin. He had a young wife but also kept a prostitute in his house. The wife, wishing only to please him, served them both. She washed their feet and ate only the remnants of their food. Although the prostitute tried to prevent her she continued to serve that woman in every way, along with her husband. When they lay together in bed the wife would lie nearby on the bare ground. In this way for a long t

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By Madhava Smullen

Since it was introduced in 2012, ISKCON New Vrindaban’s Festival of Colors has dramatically improved public perception of the West Virginia farm community, mended lost relationships with locals and built new ones.

The spiritual rejuvination festival is advertised with thousands of flyers and posters in local shops, restaurants, and universities, billboards in the local towns of Moundsville and Wheeling, social media, and coverage from virtually every local newspaper, TV chann

Please read carefully. By trying to follow even can make us dear to Krishna.

Continuous feelings of gratitude and thanks within our heart is an essential ingredient for the heart to cultivate bhakti or devotional service. The more we are conscious of our gifts, and feel grateful, the more the seed of bhakti has a favorable environment to blossom into the mature fruit of love of God. This feeling of thanks when uninterrupted by mundane dualities of life grows deeper within us softening and preparing the heart for love of God. Therefore, in the beginning stages, as a matte

It starts with a brief explanation of Cc Adi.1.5, rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya vikṛti – explaining that Rādhā and Krishna are two facets of a singular reality, not just two people who happened to fall in love. Then Vraja addresses the following wonderful questions:

Is it ok to want a relationship with Krishna that isn’t centered on Rādhārānī and madhurya rasa / gopi bhava?

Mantras are words.

Words are very powerful things, because words contain meaning.

Meaning is to consciousness what the calorie is to digestion.
Meaning is the thing that consciousness digests and subsists on.

“You are what you eat.” As this applies physically to food, it applies psychologically to words. The words you speak and hear create your psyche.

Mantras, therefore, are very powerful things. They are very special words, conveying very special meaning – and therefore possess the power to re