By James Cooper
If while journeying throughout India, a Greek guy was to knock on everyones door and ask them to explain the above picture, every Hindu and his mother would say the same thing. Imagine their surprise to be told this was actually a Greek God named Harpocrates.
It seems that this was originally taken by the Greeks as a symbol of the Egyptian child God Horus ( Hari ) and the Greeks, being the Greeks, turned it into something else. A Hindu will point out to this inquisitive e
This is the 2,600 year old Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon (Myanmar capital) which is believed to hold eight hairs of Buddha.
By Parijata Dasi
Teak wood is a naturally grown wood from Myanmar (previously Burma). This wood is known for its superb stability, good strength, easy workability, resistance to bugs – and most of all, its outstanding resistance to decay. It basically will last forever.
Burmese teak wood is exported all over the world for its quality.
Sadbhuja Prabhu personally travelled to M
By Madhava Smullen
This year’s Janmastami festival at New Vrindaban, West Virginia on September 5th is expected to be packed with inspiring spiritual activities and sweet exchanges between residents and guests alike.
“Under the steady leadership of our community president Jaya Krishna Prabhu, the quality of the festival has been improving every year,” says one of the festival’s organizers Gaura Nataraj Das.
Around three thousand people, including ISKCON devotees from around the country, membe
By Parijata Dasi
This past week Vilasini, Head Architect for the TOVP, and Parvata Muni visited the fabrication plant of McCoy Industries. A full size mock-up of a section of the Kalash was to be shown.
This mock-up is made from polished stainless steel coated with titanium nitride, and from this we will determine which fabrication methods will be used. This coating is a ceramic gold like substance that is very resistant to weathering.
A skeletal structure behind the sheeting holds ever
By Gauranga das
The first Mega kirtan festival at Jagannatha Puri ‘Chant for Change’ attracted more than 10,000 people on the idyllic and historic sea beach at Jagannatha Puri.Held very near Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhus beachside statue at Swargadwar,the festival had the crowds chanting ,dancing and drowning in the nectar of Harinam Sankirtana.It was held on July 17 th, a day before the first Navakalebar Rath Yatra festival to offer a prayer to Their Lordships to bestow Their mercy to fill every
Lecture on Nurses Meeting-Vyasa Purnima by HG Vishwarup Prabhu on 31 July 2015 at Manchester
(HG Vishwarup Prabhu delivered professional and spiritual discourses to medical professionals in UK and USA in 2007-2008.)
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Lecture on Grihastha Ashram Part 01 by HG Prema Manjari Mataji on 28 May 2015 at Singapore
(HG Prema Manjari mataji joined ISKCON in 1992 during her MBBS days and received her first initiation from HH Radhanath Swami maharaj in 1996. She has set an example for others to follow by wonderfully balancing between her hectic professional life as a radiologist and spiritual life.)
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Lecture On Importance of Brahmanical Initiation by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 19 July 2014 at Bhaktivedanta Manor
(HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank. He was initiated by the spiritual name His Grace Devamrita Dasa.)
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Hare Krishna!
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Links and timings (Russian time) For live streaming are given below
St. Petersburg:
3rd Aug - 5:30 pm
4th Aug - 7 pm
5th Aug - 5:30 pm
6th to 11th August - in Moscow
7th Aug - live streaming on Echo radio. At 7 pm
9th August- Sunday feast at 2 pm
10th Aug - Initiations Ceremony at 11 am
11th Aug - 8 am Srimad Bhagavatam and 5:40 pm departure from Moscow.
Lecture on Harmony with the Supreme is the sure sign of enlightenment by HH Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body)
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Lecture on Initiation Lecture and Initiation Ceremony by HH Niranjana Swami on 24 July 2015 at Palanga
(His Holiness Niranjana Swami was born on December 10, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In 1972, his spiritual search took a turning point when he saw a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, on the counter of a bookshop in Washington, DC.)
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Lecture Grihastha Ashram Part 01 by HG Prema Manjari Mataji on 01 Aug 2015 at Detroit
(HG Prema Manjari mataji joined ISKCON in 1992 during her MBBS days and received her first initiation from HH Radhanath Swami maharaj in 1996. She has set an example for others to follow by wonderfully balancing between her hectic professional life as a radiologist and spiritual life.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 07, Chapter 03, Text 29 by HH Radha Govinda Swami on 03 AUg 2015 at ISKCON Vrindavan
(HH Radha Govinda Swami, a direct disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness), lives in Vrindavan, India. He lives in Vrindavan, and travels to present Srimad Bhagavat Saptha in many countries including India.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 07, Chapter 03, Text 29 by HH Radha Govinda Swami on 03 AUg 2015 at ISKCON Vrindavan
(HH Radha Govinda Swami, a direct disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness), lives in Vrindavan, India. He lives in Vrindavan, and travels to present Srimad Bhagavat Saptha in many countries including India.)
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Flood has been on everyone’s mind for awhile now, as we experienced record amount of rain throughout July. But most of us thought it’s too early, previous times it was at the end of September back in 2007 and 2000.
It is a grand Mayapur ‘tradition’ that every 7-8 years Ganga Devi is coming to visit Sri Sri Radha Madhava and Ashta Sakhis, Sri Panca-Tattva and Sri Prahlad Nrsimhadev. So it’s official, Ganga Devi is in the temple room now getting a divine darshan.
She also visited TOVP constructi
