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By Hari-sauri dasa

Dear Hari Sauri Prabhu

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Recently I was involved in a conversation with several devotees regarding vaisnava clothes. Some of them were proponing the idea that sari and dhoti are actually not vaisnava clothes that devotees in spiritual world wear, giving as evidence pictures made by Sharma. Others were saying that Srila Prabhupada didn’t insist on vaisnava clothes but his western disciples wanted to be like him

बंगाल के कुलीना ग्राम से पुरी आये भक्तों में से एक ने गत वर्ष किये प्रश्न को दोहराया :
वास्तव में वैष्णव कौन है और उसके लक्षण क्या होते हैं ?

श्री चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने कहा, “उत्तम श्रेणी का वैष्णव वो है जिसकी मात्र उपस्थिति ही अन्य लोगों को हरिनाम उच्चारण करने के लिए प्रेरित कर दे ।” – चै. च. मध्य १६.७४

अपनी उपस्थिति के माध्यम से प्रचार करने वाले वैष्णवों को अपनी वेशभूषा को लेकर सदैव यह स्मरण रहना चाहिए :

१. हमें वैष्णव वेशभूषा को धारण करने करने में कोई समझौता नहीं करना चाहिए। हम श्रील प्रभुपाद के प्र

Lecture on Remembering with fondness Saurabhi Dasa Srila Prabhupadas Architect by HH Sivarama Swami on 30 July 2015 at Budapest

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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Lecture on The Most Dangerous Word by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 26 Sep 2014 at Singapore

(HH 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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Lecture on Holy Name Retreat by HG Devaki Mataji on 26 Jun 2015 at Ukraine (Russian)

(Mother Devaki has served in various capacities for over 20 years and has in later years engaged in creating festivals and various meetings for devotees to listen about and glorify Krsna. She started pioneer preaching in former Soviet Union.)

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By Pradyumna dasa

Tributes is a collection of offerings from the direct disciplines of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The book is now in its seventh year and is produced by a small group of devotees. This year it was funded by one devotee from Africa, who wishes to remain anonymous.

To celebrate ISKCON’s 50th anniversary next year, we would like to reach as many disciples of Srila Prabhupada as possible and special edition of Tributes. I would like to encourage all devot

By Caitanya Vihara das

Anticipation and nervous excitement filled the atmosphere. It was the first day in the dissection room for the three hundred new medical students in my year. Entering the foyer area, we slipped into our white coats and prepared our surgical kits. The doors to the interior theatre swung open, and we were hit by an overwhelming smell of formaldehyde, the chief embalming agent. Inside lay fifty veiled cadavers, evenly spaced around a large white hall. Many of us, having not

By Hari Narayana Das

2nd Ratha yatra festival at Bantul, Indonesia.

A cultural carnival was held at Bantul city, Jogyakarta, Indonesia, on July 25 this year commemorating its 284 anniversary. Traditional cultural performances starting from dances exhibiting attractive costumes and social life were performed in the carnival. Groups of traditional artists from 17 districts in Bantul participated and presented their performances in front of the crowd at the parade starting from Trirenggo field t