On this date in 1969, Srila Prabhupada initiated me--probably the best thing that has ever happened to me. He accepted me as his disciple and chanted on my beads in Los Angeles, while I was in Boston. And he sent me the following instructive letter:
My dear Giriraj,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 2, 1969, sent along with your beads. I have chanted on them, and your initiated name is Giriraj. Giriraj is the name of Goverdhan Hill, on which Kris
New Vrindaban is famous throughout ISKCON as being Srila Prabhupada’s first farm project, named after the holy dhama. Like other farm projects and temples, it was given the nomenclature “New” to link it to its origin. Srila Prabhupada even said there was no difference between the two, Vrindaban and New Vrindaban. The presiding Deities of Radha Vrindaban Chandra, Srinathji and Gaur Nitai are stunning. The larger than life Deities of Lord Nrsimha and Prahlad Maharaja are astounding. Lord Jagannat
Here are the main places where Padayatra India visited from January to June 5th. Some of these places have already been mentioned in previous articles. The reason they again appear here is because we later received many photos of these locations, some without captions, alas. Life on the road is very intense, as you can all imagine.
Ichapuram (January 9):on the border of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Raghupati Dasa
Hare Krishna.
2nd July, 2015. Gurgaon
I recently met an elderly mataji who excitedly shared how these days she is meditating on ‘om’ during her yoga sessions. When I asked her is it helping her, she replied that it is supposed to help her but nothing has happened yet.
Sometimes I also hear :
`beta, bhagawan to bahut duur hai, shanti mil jaye toh bahut hai’ (Son, God is very far, if I just get peace it is good enough for me!)
Few months ago I happen to meet mataji’s neighbour who, a little more openly
Lecture on Disappearance Day of Srivas Pandit Prabhu by Prabodhananda Sarasvati Maharaj on 12 Jun 2015 at Gita Nagari
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Lecture on Special Ratha Yatra by Kadamba Kanana Swami on 14 Jun 2015 at Bhaktivedanta Manor
Kadamba Kanana Swami joined ISKCON in 1978 in Amsterdam. Until 1984 he managed projects in Vrindavana. From 1985 through 1990 he coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. Then, for three years, he was the temple president in Vrindavana and later spent two years preaching in Europe. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.
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Lecture on The Yoga of the Supreme Person by Sachinanadana Swami on 21 Jun 2015
In 1990, she established an all female ISKCON temple which later was awarded a large road side bronze plaque by the State of Ohio Historical Society recognizing the center as the first Vaishnava/Hindu temple in the state, mentioning in detail its unique status in training women in Krishna consciousness.
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Lecture on Narada Bhakti Sutra by Loknath Maharaj on 26 Jun 2015 at Noida
Lokanath Swami born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.Intrigued, maharaj attended the whole Hare Krsna Festival and heard from Srila Prabhupada. Wanting to surrender his life to Lord Krishna, he joined Juhu under the
The Worship of Srimati Tulasi Devi
SB 7-5-23&24
(4) pada-sevanam. According to one’s taste and strength, hearing, chanting and remembrance may be followed by pada-sevanam. One obtains the perfection of remembering when one constantly thinks of the lotus feet of the Lord. Being intensely attached to thinking of the Lord’s lotus feet is called pada-sevanam. When one is particularly adherent to the process of pada-sevanam, this process gradually includes other processes, such as seeing the form of
The Worship of Srimati Tulasi Devi
Tulasi is auspicious in all respects. Simply by seeing, simply by touching, simply by remembering, simply by praying to, simply by bowing before, simply by hearing about or simply by sowing this tree, there is always auspiciousness. Anyone who comes in touch with the tulasi tree in the above-mentioned ways lives eternally in the Vaikuntha world.
Antya 3.100 Haridasa Thakura used to chant the holy name on his beads 300,000 times daily. Throughout the entire da
Today, as I went out for sankirtana, I was thinking of how I'd once asked Vaisesika Prabhu whether teaching people to say “Gauranga” is the same as teaching them the Hare Krishna mantra. He'd explained that Krishna's names are the same, but when we teach the maha-mantra we get extra credit. So I had an internal dialogue on why I don't teach everyone the entire mantra; why I'm selective about it. Besides the external reasons, I fear that people might think we are a religion or a cult and perhaps
VIHE Sanskrit Course Aug 2015
INTENSIVE SANSKRIT COURSE
For Preachers, Teachers & Translators
First Semester: Aug 20 – Nov 10, 2015
• The course covers 800 most essential sutras (grammatical rules) from Sri Hari-namamrita-vyakarana, Srila Jiva Gosvami’s complete Sanskrit grammar, and includes training in reading and understanding Sanskrit commentaries.
• By the end of the course students will be able to directly read and understand the Sanskrit commentaries on Srimad-Bhagavatam and several work
Hare Krishna Prabhuji,
ISKCON FACTS & FIGURES
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis.
Please accept my humble obeisances
For the purpose of celebrating ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary in 2016 we are compiling some approximate facts & figures about ISKCON.
We are collecting some quantitative data about ISKCON’s global achievements in terms of:
Temples (including farms & schools)
Devotees (including initiated, Nama Hatta, & visitors)
Books (amount distributed in all countries & languages)
Festivals (Inclu
By Devaki Devi Dasi
Recently I was invited to give the 15-hour course “Giving and Accepting Shelter” to the devotees in New Vraja Dham in Hungary – a wonderful community with around one hundred devotees living on the property itself, and another one hundred in the nearby village. Those who live on Sri Sri Radha Syamasundara’s property are aspiring to offer their entire life in Their service, without striving for personal economic development. They live
