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Liberation Through Chanting

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuapada
Lecture given in Vrindavan, India, November 14, 1976

Chanting Hare Krishna can deliver us from material entanglement at once, provided the chanting is pure.

mano-vacho-drik-karanehitasya
sakshat-kritam me paribarhanam hi
vina puman yena maha-vimohat
kritanta-pashan na vimoktum ishet

[Lord Rshabhadeva said:] “The true activity of the sense organs—mind, sight, words, and all the knowledge-gathering and working senses—is to engage fully in

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By Nandini Radha devi dasi

HH Radhanath Swami was invited to a special home program on June 30, 2015 in Camarillo, California. This city houses California State University, Channel Islands, one of the 23 campuses in the CSU system, the biggest public university structure in California, where Nandini Radha devi dasi (aka Dr. Nitika Parmar), a disciple of Radhanath Swami works as a Biology professor.

In January of 2014 and 2015, Dr. Parmar took a group of 14 students from the university for a tr

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You cannot follow nicely unless you hear nicely, and you cannot lead nicely unless you have learned to follow nicely.

Yamuna: From the very beginning of our programs in Bombay, Srila Prabhupada became known as one “who is startling India with kirtan.” Our kirtans were full of so much excitement—they were so thrilling—that we were like one throbbing heartbeat, the heartbeat of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission of Krishna Consciousness.

It is difficult to describe how much potency we felt in the

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.2

TEXT 2
sanjaya uvaca
drstva tu pandavanikam
vyudham duryodhanas tada
acaryam upasangamya
raja vacanam abravit
SYNONYMS
sañjayaḥ—Sañjaya; uvāca—said; dṛṣṭvā—after seeing; tu—but; pāṇḍava-anīkam—the soldiers of the Pāṇḍavas; vyūḍham—arranged in military phalanx;duryodhanaḥ—King Duryodhana; tadā—at that time; ācāryam—the teacher;upasaṅgamya—approaching nearby; rājā—the king; vacanam—words; abravīt—spoke.
TRANSLATION
Sañjaya said: O King, after looking over the army gathered by the sons of Pāṇḍu, King Duryod
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How to Identify the Real Guru

A recent international survey revealed that more than twenty million U.S. citizens today, are practicing some form of yoga, meditation, or other “self-renewal” process. To meet this great demand, many “gurus” have appeared on the scene, each teaching his version of spiritual truth. Some have attracted large followings, and every disciple undoubtedly feels that his guru is the best.

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The Genuine Guru


According to the Vedic scriptures, the primary criterion of a genuine guru can be fathomed by the quality of the words the teacher speaks. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Sri Krishna, the original spiritual master, tells his disciple Arjuna, “The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth".

 
Therefore we understand that, a genuine guru must have realized the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, and he must be able to impart this truth to his disciple, thu
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.1

TEXT 1
dhrtarastra uvaca
dharma-ksetre kuru-ksetre
samaveta yuyutsavah
mamakah pandavas caiva
kim akurvata sanjaya
SYNONYMS
dhṛtarāṣṭraḥ—King Dhṛtarāṣṭra; uvāca—said; dharma-kṣetre—in the place of pilgrimage; kuru-kṣetre—in the place named Kurukṣetra; samavetāḥ—assembled; yuyatsavaḥ—desiring to fight; māmakāḥ—my party (sons);pāṇḍavāḥ—the sons of Pāṇḍu; ca—and; eva-certainly; kim—what; akurvata—did they do; sañjaya—O Sañjaya.
TRANSLATION
Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: O Sañjaya, after assembling in the place of pilgri
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Hare Krishna.

27th July, 2015. Gurgaon.

I regularly hear parents complaining that their children don’t listen to them or they do not have basic etiquette while talking to parents or siblings, everything is about their own self.

Some examples

During a recent house program a Mataji marveled at the 8 year son of a devotee couple, how effortlessly he sat through the whole  1.5 hours program and completed his homework without any protest. Mataji recollected that before coming to this program she yelled a

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2515018788?profile=originalLecture on Devotees are never interested in sense Enjoyments by HG Jagadhananda Caitanya Prabhu (Tamil)

(Bhagavad Gita Chapter - 05, Text - 22 )

(HG Jagadhananda Caitanya Prabhu was born on 12th January 1979 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, He is Automobile Engineer was working with MRF Tyers until 2002. He is introduced to Krishna Consciousness in 2002 He is very much attracted to Krishna Consciousness so he decided to Join Coimbatore ISKCON )

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Pundarikvidyanidhi

2515018741?profile=originalLecture on Pundarikvidyanidhi by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at ISKOCN Melbourne on 15 Jun 2015

(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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Interrupted Love Intensifies Relation

2515018749?profile=originalLecture on Interrupted Love Intensifies Relation by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 15 July 2015 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)

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Bhagavat Gita-Vigyan ka Raja

2515018756?profile=originalLecture on Bhagavat Gita-Vigyan ka Raja by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 13 April 2015 

(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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Ashadhi Ekadashi & Vyasa Puja Festival 2015

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Sunday , 26th July 2015 – Dashami

04 .30 AM Morning Program
8.00 – 1.00 PM Initiations & Lecture by H.H. Lokanath Swami Maharaja
09.15 – 10.00 AM Breakfast Prasadam
02.00 – 03.00 PM Lunch Prasadam
05.00 – 07.00 PM Boat festival of Sri Sri Radha Pandharinath
07.00 – 08.00 PM Sandhya Arati
08.00 – 09.30 PM Cultural Events
09.00 – 10.00 PM Dinner Prasadam

Monday, 27th July 2015 – Vyasapuja Festival (Ekadasi)

04 .30 –05 .15AM Mangala Arati
05 .15 -

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The Temple of the Vedic Planetarium is named as such because within its main dome it will house a 3-dimensional, moving model of the universe according to the Vedic scriptures. This explanation describes the planetary systems and all the universal contents to be in the shape of an incredible chandelier.

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Dear devotees and friends!

We are happy to announce that Sri Brihad Bhagavatamrita, Part 2, Volume 2,
is now available as an ebook.

The whole Bhagavatamrita set is thus complete, with Volume 1 and Volume 2
updated to the latest versions of EPUB, Kindle and iBooks files.

In Part Two of Sri Brhad-Bhagavatamrta, the book's hero, Gopa-kumara, an
illiterate, naive cowherd living near Govardhana Hill in Vrindavan, is
inspired by a mysterious bhakta to start on a spiritual quest. His journey
takes h

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By Basu Ghosh Das

 

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The annual Jagannath Rathayatra festival, help on aashaadh shukla dvitiya, famous here in Gujarat as “aashaadh sud bij”, Saturday July 18, 2015, organized by ISKCON Baroda was once again highly successful.

 

The Jagannath Rathayatra festival was seen by approximately four lakhs (400,000) local residents.   Many devotees commented that the size of the crowds right from the Railway Station were noticably more than in past years!

 

Before the Rathayatra procession began in the

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Self Realisation


The attractive, dynamic qualities of the soul tend to remain static in the material world because of the soul's marriage with inert matter. As a result, the thrill of material relationships diminishes quickly. We grow bored seeing the same faces day in and day out. But God or Lord Krishna is never boring, for His transcendental qualities are ever fresh and ever expanding.

 

No one is more appreciative or reciprocative than Lord Krishna, as shown in His dealings with His friends. Once, a poor
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