By Shastra-krit das
Friday evening 7 pm, Santa Monica Promenade
Harinam was going on full-swing and I was approaching people with books who were standing near the chanting.
I approached this friendly-looking man in his late 30’s. I put the Gita in his hand and told him that I’m showing books on mediation to all the nice people on the Promenade this evening.
He was polite and calm and with a smile asked if the book I’m trying to give him is in my lang
Dear Devotees
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
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Lecture on Secret of Success and Failure for Individuals and Communities by HH Giriraj Swami on 30 May 2015 at Gita Nagari
(Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton in the home of a respected Chicago lawyer. He met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)
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In Vrindavan in 2014 we inaugurated the Gratitude Coin program to help fund the TOVP project. Our first presentation was at Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day festival during Kartik. At that time Jayasri mataji and Pratapana prabhu from Sydney, Australia pledged two Platinum coins, a total of $500,000, in the service of the TOVP construction. With so many other services and responsibilities they have taken up in their local temp
With the announcement by the GBC Chairman, Praghosa das, of 2015 as the Year of the TOVP, and the coming of ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary in 2016, along with the overwhelming success of the current North American TOVP Tour, a new and effective fundraising plan has been devised to collect the required funds for its completion.
This is the Pledge Program whereby you can make a pledge from one of 9 different donor
Lecture on Nine Devotions by Bhakti Marg Swami on 09 June 2015 at ISKCON Alachua
(Bhakti Marga Swami served ISKCON as Bhakta Leader, Sankirtan Leader, Director of devotional plays, and from 1985-1995 he was the temple president in Toronto, where he took his vows of sannyasa in 1984.)
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Karma and Bhaktiyoga, understanding cycle of birth and death and achieving Spiritual world
Humans are the most intelligent species created by God who are given the intelligence to enquire about their temporary existence in the material world and why are they suffering the fourfold miseries of birth, death, old age and disease and also the threefold miseries caused by the modes of material nature. This enquiry made by our ancestors and forefathers to get rid of repeated cycle of birth
Here are some tips given by Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaj and Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur on how to chant the holy names of God without offense.
1) Nectar of Devotion – Chapter 13
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended that everyone chant the Hare Krishna mantra just to cleanse the dust from the heart. If the dus
Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Herman Hesse, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldous Huxley, Sri Aurobindo, Jawaharlal Nehru have expressed their attraction to Bhagavad Gita.
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Parividha dasa: For your pleasure I have uploaded all my Krishna Lila musicals, dramas and comedies, as well as all the songs of my Soul Time CDs on bandcamp, where you can listen to them for free.
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The following is a lecture given by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, on September 14th, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The class begins with a reading from the Srimad-Bhagavatam, 8th Canto, Chapter 8, Verse 22 and 23.
Translation by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada:
“Someone may have longevity but not have auspiciousness or good behavior. Someone may have both auspiciousness and good behavior, but the duration of his life is not fixed. Although such demigods as Lord
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We live in an unfortunate time because we’re being misdirected from the pursuit of ultimate freedom, the true purpose of life.
[Lecture given in Vrindavana, India, November 6, 1972]
mumukshavo ghora-rupan
hitva bhuta-patin atha
narayana-kalah shanta
bhajanti hy anasuyavah
“Those who are serious about liberation are certainly nonenvious, and they respect all. Yet they reject the horrible and ghastly forms o
Blessings for another ISKCON sannyasi
By Bhakti Prabhava Swami
On the 14 June 2015, His Holiness Kavicandra Maharaja offered sannyasa to Carudesn Prabhu. His sannyasa name is His Holiness Bhakti Carudesna Swami.
In 1987, Bhakti Carudesna Swami was a college student when he met a Sankirtan devotee who sold him Srila Prabhupada’s *Science of Self-realization*. That same year, a few months later, he joined the temple and became highly inspired to support Srila Prabhupada’s mission and preach in
Even water, which has a natural tendency to flow downwards, is drawn up to the sky by the sun's rays. In the same way, God's grace lifts up the mind which has got a tendency to run after sense objects.
