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Mayapur Jhulan Yatra festival

We invite you all to join us for this year’s Jhulan Yatra festival.for the pleasure Sri Sri Radha Madhava and Radha Govinda. This monsoon festival is most dear to Radha and Krsna.

Preparations are underway for this year’s Jhulan Yatra Festival. Due to flooding in Mayapur, we need your support more than ever this year, to make this festival happen. We are appealing to the devotees worldwide to assist us in raising the funds for this year’s festival as our regular channels of donations are immobil

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Prabhupada Loitering in the Street

2515020980?profile=originalLecture on Prabhupada Loitering in the Street 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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Art of Spiritual Association


There is an art of spiritual association which has been perfectly exhibited by holy saints in the line of disciplic succession. This process has also been very eloquently explained in our scriptures. 


At the onset, persons avowedly inimical to God should be avoided because they will destroy our faith and devotion.

  
If we meet someone less spiritually advanced than ourselves, we should be compassionate and try to inspire that person in developing devotion or Krishna consciousness. If we ass
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2515020889?profile=originalLecture on Disappearance Day of Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami by Krishnananda Prabhu 04 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(His Grace Krishnananda Prabhu is a disciple of H.H. Radhanath Swami, from Radha-Gopinath Mandir in Mumbai. He travels around India mostly, preaching the glories of the Lord.)

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Standing out from the Crowd

2515021023?profile=originalLecture on Standing out from the Crowd  by HG Charu Prabhu on Aug 2015 

(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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Vaishnava Sammelan-Anannya Bhakti 01

2515020842?profile=originalLecture on Vaishnava Sammelan-Anannya Bhakti 01 by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 29 Nov 2014

(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)

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श्री लोकनाथ गोस्वामी का जन्म अद्वैत आचार्य के शिष्य श्री पद्मनाभ भट्टाचार्य एवं सीता देवी के पुत्र के रूप में बांग्लादेश के जेस्सोर प्रान्त के तालखरी गाँव में हुआ था ।

गौरांग महाप्रभु के निकटतम भक्त शुद्ध भक्ति में लीन थें। उनमे से लोकनाथ गोस्वामी सभी गोस्वामियों में वरिष्ठ थे।

लोकनाथ गोस्वामी नाम और प्रसिद्धि के विरुद्ध थे इसलिए उन्होंने कृष्ण दास कविराज गोस्वामी को चैतन्य चरितामृत में अपना नाम डालने से मना किया था ।
वे पूरी तरह से वृन्दावन धाम से आसक्त थे । दिव्य राधा विनोदजी उनके ह्रदय में लीला

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.10

TEXT 10
aparyaptam tad asmakam
balam bhismabhiraksitam
paryaptam tv idam etesam
balam bhimabhiraksitam
SYNONYMS
aparyāptam—immeasurable; tat—that; asmākam—of ours; balam—strength; bhīṣma—by Grandfather Bhīṣma; abhirakṣitam—perfectly protected; paryāptam—limited; tu—but; idam—all these; eteṣām—of the Pāṇḍavas; balam—strength; bhīma—by Bhīma; abhirakṣitam—carefully protected.
TRANSLATION
Our strength is immeasurable, and we are perfectly protected by Grandfather Bhīṣma, whereas the strength of the Pāṇḍava
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End of June we conducted our second Holy Name Retreat in Odessa/Ukraine. Like last year we rented the same holiday camp in Illichovsk, a small town on the shore of the Black Sea. Around 70 devotees assembled here for four days to deepen their relationship with the holy name. Some had come from a long distance – as far as Simferopol in Crimea, which has now become part of Russia. The devotees had to accept the austerity of sitting for twelve hours on the bus, crossing the border to Ukraine at

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The Best Community You’ve Never Heard Of!
 
New Goloka Dham, featuring Their Lordships Sri-Sri Radha-Golokananda
 Nestled in the wooded splendor of the third coolest small town in America
(http://www.cnn.com/ ;2015/03/06/travel/feat-budget-travel-america-coolest-small-towns-2015/)
, New Goloka Dham isfar from your usual ISKCON temple. It is a hidden gem that provides multifaceted options foreach and every community member’s spiritual and material growth. Wonder how both needs can poss
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Pupils try tasty alternative to white bread A healthy alternative to “nasty” cheap white bread is on the menu for hundreds of Northland schoolkids thanks to a $10,000 donation all the way from Singapore. Food for Life founder Buddhi Wilcox had been wanting to make chapati - a thin pancake of unleavened wholemeal bread - for the students for years. Founded in 2012, the organisation provides free, nutritious vegetarian meals weekly to more than 1000 Whangarei schoolchildren. Unfortunately making chapati is quite time consuming, with it likely taking a volunteer five or six hours to make the number required. “The whole idea for me was at the schools a lot of the kids are just used to having cheap nasty white bread,” Mr Wilcox said. “This (chapati) is a staple diet in India and it’s part of a good balanced meal.” Normally the commercial chapati making machines were very large, though Mr Wilcox managed to find a small one less than 2m long online from the United States. Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/KmGFGz

Pupils try tasty alternative to white bread
A healthy alternative to “nasty” cheap white bread is on the menu for hundreds of Northland schoolkids thanks to a $10,000 donation all the way from Singapore. Food for Life founder Buddhi Wilcox had been wanting to make chapati - a thin pancake of unleavened wholemeal bread - for the students for years. Founded in 2012, the organisation provides free, nutritious vegetarian meals weekly to more than 1000 Whangarei schoolchildren. Unfortunately making

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ISKCON 50 Festival in Houston

By Nityananda Chandra Das

The North American Temple Presidents and GBC, in conjunction with The Sanga Initiative (TSI: The Iskcon youth organization of North America)

Humbly invite you and your loved ones to:



ISKCON 50 FESTIVAL

AT THE HARE KRSNA TEMPLE, HOUSTON TEXAS

SEPTEMBER 11, 12 AND 13

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in America, fulfilling his Guru Maharaja’s instruction and the 50th anniversary next year of the incorporation of the International Societ

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India in Greece or Truth in mythology

By James Cooper

 

If while journeying throughout India, a Greek guy was to knock on everyones door and ask them to explain the above picture, every Hindu and his mother would say the same thing. Imagine their surprise to be told this was actually a Greek God named Harpocrates.

 

 

It seems that this was originally taken by the Greeks as a symbol of the Egyptian child God Horus ( Hari ) and the Greeks, being the Greeks, turned it into something else. A Hindu will point out to this inquisitive e

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This is the 2,600 year old Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon (Myanmar capital) which is believed to hold eight hairs of Buddha.

By Parijata Dasi

Teak wood is a naturally grown wood from Myanmar (previously Burma). This wood is known for its superb stability, good strength, easy workability, resistance to bugs – and most of all, its outstanding resistance to decay. It basically will last forever.

Burmese teak wood is exported all over the world for its quality.

Sadbhuja Prabhu personally travelled to M

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By Madhava Smullen

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This year’s Janmastami festival at New Vrindaban, West Virginia on September 5th is expected to be packed with inspiring spiritual activities and sweet exchanges between residents and guests alike.

“Under the steady leadership of our community president Jaya Krishna Prabhu, the quality of the festival has been improving every year,” says one of the festival’s organizers Gaura Nataraj Das.

Around three thousand people, including ISKCON devotees from around the country, membe

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TOVP: Kalash Mock-up View

By Parijata Dasi

This past week Vilasini, Head Architect for the TOVP, and Parvata Muni visited the fabrication plant of McCoy Industries. A full size mock-up of a section of the Kalash was to be shown.

This mock-up is made from polished stainless steel coated with titanium nitride, and from this we will determine which fabrication methods will be used. This coating is a ceramic gold like substance that is very resistant to weathering.

A skeletal structure behind the sheeting holds ever

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