Returning to the spiritual world
(Lectures by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 July 2013, Serbian Summer Camp, Fruska Gouranga, Seminar Part 2)
When a living being leaves the spiritual world, it is not that you were in the pastimes with Krsna then you went to the material world. Let’s say you were cowherd boy and suddenly there is one cowherd boy less! Then one day, you are back to Godhead and suddenly, there is again another cowherd boy running, “Somebody came
THE FOLLOWING LECTURE GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI IN ISKCON RADHADESH BELGIUM, 2004, IS THE SEVENTH OUT OF NINE IN A SERIES ON THE HISTORY OF VAISHNAVA HERITAGE.
Transcription : His Grace Krishnarchana Dasa
Editing : Hemavati Radhika Dasi
Audio-reference : click here
Spiritual life begins with submission to the laws given by the Lord, which is known as religion. Religion means the laws given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We see that initially one abides by the laws of the
By Sankirtana Das
The cover of the recent Time is intriguing – The Answers Issue – with dozens of little cubes, each asking questions about some of today’s most important concerns, and looking like some information terminal. I thought that this would surely be a breakthrough in journalism. I thought that maybe I could find some answers to our troubled existence and why so many of us feel burdened all the time, or about breakthroughs in curing the common cold and societal ills, especially the pe
Conversation Between
Krsna-ksetra Dasa (now Swami)
and Mr Vineet Narain (Vineet Narain is Editor of Kalchakra, a video magazine for investigative news.)
New Delhi, 1993
KK: So, Mr Narain, perhaps you could first explain something about how you came in contact with the Krsna Consciousness movement?
VN: Well, on different occasions, devotees of ISKCON sort of accidentally met me with a gap of a few years each time. And this was so limi
By Madhava Smullen
On Monday June 29th, New Vrindaban children waited excitedly while an inaugural puja was offered to open their brand new fully-equipped playground next to the Palace Lodge, before running into it to play with blissful abandon.
The playground is an endeavor by ISKCON New Vrindaban to serve and accommodate both the children who live in the village and the thousands who visit for festivals throughout
By Madhavananda das
The following verse is composed in the style known as citra-kavya, which literally means, “picture-poem”. In this gender of Sanskrit poetry, which goes back at least 2,000 years, the verses are designed to be read in the form of a picture. When the reader lays out the syllables or sometimes words, in the shape of the given picture, hidden meanings are found. Those who have some expertise in Sanskrit may find some surprises in the below cont
NBS#16 Sri Gundicha Marjana
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!
By Dr Kim Knott
An examination of scholarly work by non-devotees on the Hare Krsna Movement reveals a tendency to engage in sociological and historical analysis rather than a discussion of the philosophy and theology of Krsna Consciousness (for example, Brooks, Bromley and Shinn, Shinn, Rochford, Knott). One explanation for this might be that devotees themselves, particularly the founder, Bhaktivedanta Swam
By Bhakti Caru Swami
In distributing love of Godhead, Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates did not consider who was a fit candidate and who was not, nor where such distribution should or should not take place. They made no conditions. CC. Adi-lila 7.23
1. In essence, duality means that we forget that we are part and parcel of Krsna. We want to enjoy separately from Him, we want to play the controller. This controlling tendency culminates in sex desire.
2. Man/woman concept is synonymous with
By Romapada Das
ISKCON Baroda has formed a 50th Anniversary Committee made up of congregation leaders and temple devotees to steer the planning and execution of the 50th Anniversary celebrations locally.
Speaking after a meeting of the Committee on 21st June, Chairman, Pushta Krishna Das said, “The 50thAnniversary is an important milestone to celebrate our achievements. As the leaders of the temple are busy organising regular preaching programmes, the congregation devotees have stepped forward
I'd shown the Bhagavatam to a colleague during one of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur's anniversaries in 2014.
She appreciated it very much, and after looking at the volumes, she said she'd get back to me. But somehow I never asked her again.
Recently, we were discussing one of our company's clients, CERN, a European organization where the www (world wide web) was invented. CERN does research to find out how the universe was created and how creation began. They have the world's largest, most powerful
By Ratna bhusana dasa
Isan prabhu has just written the amazing history of the development of the Balaram Mrdanga and I would like to add to that, having been a part in the project for over 35 years.
In March of 1977 my brother, Manu priya dasa, was helping to build the first Ratha yatra carts in Los Angeles, working under Lalitanatha dasa who was taking direction from Jayananda prabhu. Manu wrote to me and said “you are a carpenter why don’t you come help us build these carts”. He included
After four months of fund raising for TOVP in America, HG Jananivasa prabhu returned home to Mayapur with the padukas of Lord Nityananda on 12th July. Hundreds of jubilant devotees flocked at Temple’s main gate for receiving them.
It was truly a grand reception with multifarious items like garlands, rangolis, flowers and many ghee lamp plates accompanied by kirtana. First all the assembled devotees visited Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi. At the Samadhi gate, they received a second welcome with flow
Kumbh Mela 2015 Nasik
By Basu Ghosh Das
Gudur is a town in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh, located around 140 kilometers North of one of India’s largest cities, Chennai, on National Highway 5. It is well known for large natural deposits of the mineral “mica” in and around the town.
The town is also important due to the Railway station, a very large junction station connecting Chennai to Vijayawada, and from there to North, West, and Eastern India.
Nellore district is also famous for the local varieties of ri
TOVP Daily Tour Diary Days 107-108: The Grand Finale – Seattle, Washington
Saturday and Sunday, July 4th and 5th, were the last two days of the North American TOVP Tour, 2015. They were, in fact, record days for our fundraising and visits to devotees homes. During these two days Jananivas prabhu alone visited over 25 devotees’ homes, going from one to the other with the Padukas and Sitari, bringing the blessings of Sri Mayapur Dhama.
Wherever he went, devotees felt as if Mayapur had come with h
Srila Prabhupada said:
"this same question was discussed by Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu.[21] One of
His devotees, Väsudeva Datta, said, "Please take all the living entities of
this entire universe and release them from material bondage. But Caitanya
Mahäprabhu replied:
"Suppose I were to take this entire universe and all the living entities
with it. This is only one of innumerable universes. It is just like a
mustard seed in a huge bag of mustard seeds.
Does anybody the exact scriptural refeerence to that
Five thousand years before, the theological science of Bhagavad-gita was spoken by Sri Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead to his disciple Sri Arjuna. It stands supreme in its doctrines as the principles of religion were enunciated by God Himself.
There are five main themes illustrated in the Bhagavad-gita. They are:
Let us have a
