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" vajendra hatim yap api ajanam , Govardhano me disatam abhistam", Govardhanastakam by Srila Vishvanatha Chakrvarthi Thakur.

Most of the astakams are composed by Srila Vishvanatha Chakrvarthi Thakur, like the Sri Guruvastakam.

The particular verse is explaining how thunderbolts were being showered on Sri Giriraj but because he was held by lotus finger of Sri Mukunda, he felt  nothing.

A parallel can be drawn how pure devotees are able to accept all turmoils for pleasure of the Lord bec

My dear Maharaj ji's and Prabhu ji's Please accept my most humble obeisances All glorie to Srila Prabhupada!

Please find enclosed a list of 125 countries. If you are from any of those listed countries (and have valid passport of that country) we are offering a absolutely free trip to Kolkata in August from 11th to 16th August 2015.

This trip will include complementary return ticket, accommodation, transfers, all prasad and a trip around the holy places of Kolkata.

Preference will be given on 1st

We are happy to invite devotees from around the world to perform the most auspicious Sri Ksetra Parikrama. This year the parikrama day falls on 30th November.On this day, devotees will circumambulate the entire Sri Ksetra dhama, a distance of around 21 Km. This parikrama has been performed since the time Vidyapati visited Sri Ksetra. ISKCON has been organizing this parikrama for the last ten years, on the specific day prescribed for parikrama as per the scriptures. Last year we had nine thousan

Dandavat pranams. Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

In a view of upcoming II European Yoga Congress which will be hosted by ISKCON Radhadesh, Belgium, in May 2016, initiative was started to set up an ISKCON European yoga teacher network. The final goal would be to create a simple and efficient ISKCON mantra yoga meditation system as an offering to ISKCON and wider yoga community for the 50th anniversary of ISKCON during II European Yoga Congress. We would also like to start yoga teacher trainings across

How to chant Japa (Mantra Meditation): 
Chant on one bead then move to the next, go forward and not backward. If you twirl the bead when you chant the tendency is that you might chant on more than one bead for one mantra.

Solutions: 
1) Hold on to the bead tightly (for dear life) like a drowning man in the ocean of birth and death holds on to the rope cast by the spiritual master in the boat of devotional service.

2) Get bigger beads ! If people question you why you're chanting on huge beads tel

Kurmarupa Prabhu Blessed by the Cows of Vraja an Astrological analysis

By Shyamasundara Dasa

I did not have the good fortune of knowing my god-brother Kurmarupa Prabhu but I have read with interest what others have written especially The Passing of Kurma-rupa dasa. It was reported that this mahatma had left his body on Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 8:45 hours during Padmini ekadasi, in Purushottama masa in Vrndavana. I didn’t have his horoscope but I thought – let me at least check what was happeni

San Francisco Airport Arrival Lila, 1974

By Padmapani das

Greeting Srila Prabhupada at the airport was never an ordinary occasion. Some of my fondest spiritual memories are of those wonderful times when devotees would gather together en masse to meet the world traveling paramahamsa. One such occasion was at the San Francisco International Airport in 1974 when Srila Prabhupada so kindly gave us a glimpse of his true transcendental nature. The sweet memory of those few moments of ecstacy remai

Photos for ISKCON 50th Anniversary Magazine

By Bhakti devi dasi

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Anuttama prabhu and Mukunda Goswami have asked me to contact devotees re photographs for the ISKCON 50th Anniversary Magazine.
This is an exciting publication which presents a lot of facets of ISKCON in one document, and will be edited for continued distribution use after the 50th is over.
The magazine is mainly pictorial, and we really need good qu

Free Trip to Kolkata in August 11th to 16th

By Radharaman Das

My dear Maharaj ji’s and Prabhu ji’s Please accept my most humble obeisances All glorie to Srila Prabhupada!

Please find enclosed a list of 125 countries. If you are from any of those listed countries (and have valid passport of that country) we are offering a absolutely free trip to Kolkata in August from 11th to 16th August 2015.

This trip will include complementary return ticket, accommodation, transfers, all prasad and a trip aro

13th Annual Lord Jagannatha’s Ratha Yatra At Rijeka, Croatia, Europe

By Dvaraka-Gamana Devi Dasi

“O KRISHNA! TEARS FILL MY EYES WHEN I HEAR YOUR NAMES BEING GLORIFIED BY PURE DEVOTEES.”

Croatia, officially known as the Republic of Croatia, is a sovereign state at the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean. Its capital city is Zagreb, which forms one of the country’s primary subdivisions, along with its twenty counties. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres (21

This is Alia and her son Alfie visiting Henderson NZ from Piha. She said she couldn't take a book because they had just had their house robbed yesterday of all their valuables.

They had already looked through the pictures with me so I didn't hesitate to say in a calm matter of fact way:

"Yesterday all your temporary material things were taken from you but now today you are being given eternal wealth"

She didn't say anything immediately in reply so we kept chatting about a few other things and th

Bhumi Puja at ISKCON Jagannath Puri

Dear Devotees,
Namaskaar. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Jaya Jagannath! On Friday, July 17, 2015, the bhumi puja - worship of the earth upon which construction is to be undertaken - will be held at the ISKCON Puri Project land at Jagannath Puri, in Orissa (Odhisha) State.

This is the date of the Gundicha marjan ceremony.

The ceremonial worship (bhumi puja) will begin in the early morning and continue till about noon.

All are invited to attend.

The ISKCON Puri land i

We arrived in Columbus, Ohio on the evening of Wednesday, June 24th, and stayed at the home of Prema Sindhu and Lila Valisini prabhus. The next day, Tuesday, June 25th, we moved to the home of temple president, Naveen Krishna and his wife Vraja Bhakti (named Radha Madhava House).

We visited the small Columbus temple and then made our way to a rented hall for the TOVP program. The hall filled with about 200 devotees and congregation members who enthusiastically performed a puspanjali ceremony f

The history of the Detroit Temple, Devasadan, is known to many, and within that history lies the seed of the fruition of Srila Prabhupada’s vision of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium. As the story goes, as told by Ambarisa prabhu at all of his TOVP presentations, he joined ISKCON in Detroit which is a center for car production in the U.S. His great-grandfather was Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company.

He was sitting with Srila Prabhupada in his room in the temple with several ot

On Sunday, June 21st, we were scheduled for two TOVP presentations. The first was at New Hastinapura Dhama in the U.S.A.’s capital, Washington, D.C.. This is also one of the original temples established by Srila Prabhupada and, in fact, the main Deities of Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan were the first Radha Krishna Deities in ISKCON. Alongside Their Lordships are Gaur Nitai and Sita, Rama, Lakshman and Hanuman.

The mid-day program in New Hastinapura began with an abhisheka of the Padukas and Sitari

On Friday, June 26th, we arrived in Detroit, Michigan at the home of Temple President Jagad Guru das and his wife Radha devi dasi, and were served the most wonderful varieties of International cuisine at lunch. A TOVP presentation had been arranged for that evening in Farmington Hills, a suburb of Detroit, at a large temple building recently purchased by the devotee community there. 200 devotees and congregation were expected.

We arrived to a packed temple with kirtan going on and quickly set u