Sannyasa Waiting List By HH Prahladananda Swami

As on 1 March, 2015, the following are the candidates for sannyasa along with their respective waiting periods:
Adi Purusa Das (GGS) (Bhubaneswar) 1 year
Adwaitacharya Das (GGS) (Bhubaneswar) 2 years
Agnideva Das (ACBSP) (Caribbean) 2 years with conditions
Akincana Das (BSDS) (Odisha) 2 years
Amala Bhakta Das (ACBSP) (Los Angeles) this year with conditions
Ambarish Das (GKG) (Russian Federation) 1 year
Ananda Caitanya Das (BCAIS) (Baltics/Russia/

A Very Exclusive video of Sannyasa Initiation of His Holiness Bhakti Prema Swami Maharaj (H G Ganganarayan Prabhu) on 5th March 2015 Gaur Purnima Day at ISKCON Ujjain. HH Bhakti Prema Swami Maharaj is a Disciple of HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj. 

His Grace Ganga Narayan Prabhu received initiation in the family of JagatGuru Srila Prabhupada from His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj . He came in Krishna Consciousness in 1994 .Since 1994 , when he was 27 ,he is serving in the mission of His Divin

1) O my dear Lord Gauranga! Please show Your mercy to this lowly and destitute soul. O Lord! There is no one more fallen than myself in all the three worlds.

2) Holding grass between my teeth, O Lord Gaura, I am calling out to You now! Please be compassionate upon me and come to reside within the temple of my heart.

3) If You do not give Your mercy, seeing how fallen I am, then why are You known as Patita Pavana -- the merciful Savior of the fallen?

4) I am plunged amidst the violent hurricane-st

So we would like to welcome everyone to our class this morning. We have chosen something from the Caitanya Caritamrta and also we will be reading something from the Sri Caitanya Bhagavata, since today is a very auspicious day. We are very fortunate as Vaisnavas to have many festivals.

So three things that we will dwell on in the next 45 minutes. First of course is Santipura because today is Santipura festival. Many devotees have left by bus a little while ago. We will all together by the chari

TEXT 15

anudvega-karam vakyam 
satyam priya-hitam ca yat 
svadhyayabhyasanam caiva 
van-mayam tapa ucyate

SYNONYMS

anudvega--not agitating; karam--producing; vakyam--words;satyam--truthful; priya--dear; hitam--beneficial; ca--also; yat--which;svadhyaya--Vedic study; abhyasanam--practice; ca--also; eva--certainly; van-mayam--of the voice; tapah--austerity; ucyate--is said to be.

TRANSLATION

Austerity of speech consists in speaking truthfully and beneficially and in avoiding speech that offends. One shoul

Have we ever given any exam or even heard of it where the examinee is given the question and its answer beforehand lest he should not fail. Not just he is given the answer to the complex questions but even the solution is made so simple that the examinee does not have to undergo any mental or physical stress. Not just he is saved from the pain but even the process of preparation is made joyful. And to further compound the comfort of the student the examiner personally comes to teach him and even

Calf slaughter banned in Maharashtra

Calf slaughter is finally banned in Maharashtra — a move that took almost two decades to materialize and was initiated during the previous Sena-BJP government.

The Maharashtra State Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill (1995) which came into existence during the previous Sena-BJP government — pending for approval for last 19 years (possibly one of the longest pending Bills) — has finally secured the assent of President Pranab Mukherjee.

A letter submitted t

TEXT 14

deva-dvija-guru-prajna- 
pujanam saucam arjavam 
brahmacaryam ahimsa ca 
sariram tapa ucyate

SYNONYMS

deva--the Supreme Lord; dvija--the brahmana; guru--the spiritual master; prajna--worshipable personalities; pujanam--worship;saucam--cleanliness; arjavam--simplicity; brahmacaryam--celibacy;ahimsa--nonviolence; ca--also; sariram--pertaining to the body;tapah--austerity; ucyate--is said to be.

TRANSLATION

The austerity of the body consists in this: worship of the Supreme Lord, the brahmanas, the

So this is the process. The basic principle is the soul. The soul is acting through intelligence, and the intelligence is acting through mind, and the mind is expressed through the senses. This is the position. So as my mind is absorbed in something, some subject matter, my bodily symptoms also will work, or the senses will work according to that mind. Therefore for spiritual advancement also, you have to train your mind. Sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayor vacamsi vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane. If you

HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj's Meeting with the Hon’ble President of India

On February 28th, 2015 we met the Hon’ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. We were scheduled to meet him at 6.30 pm. We reached Rashtrapati Bhavan at 6.15 p.m. His Holiness Radhanath Swami, Gauranga Prabhu and Radharaman Prabhu accompanied me for the meeting. As we arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan the Hon’ble Presidents officers gave us warm reception. Then sharp at 6.30 pm we entere

ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission confirmed the Sannyasa applications for two senior disciples of HH Bhakti Charu Swam Maharaj: HG Ganganarayan Prabhu and HG Lilasuka Prabhu. This is the culmination of so many years of patiently waiting and their dedicated service to Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON and their Spiritual Master. The news was met with great jubilation here at Sridham Mayapur. Please shower them with your best wishes and prayers. 

Maharaj has fixed the dates when he wishes to conduct the

TEXT 13

vidhi-hinam asrstannam 
mantra-hinam adaksinam 
sraddha-virahitam yajnam 
tamasam paricaksate

SYNONYMS

vidhi-hinam--without scriptural direction; asrsta-annam--without distribution of prasadam; mantra-hinam--with no chanting of the Vedic hymns; adaksinam--with no remunerations to the priests;sraddha--faith; virahitam--without; yajnam--sacrifice; tamasam--in the mode of ignorance; paricaksate--is to be considered.

TRANSLATION

And that sacrifice performed in defiance of scriptural injunctions, in

You are under the clutches of maya. you have no independence. Neither anyone has got any independence to save you. That is not possible. The same example as I gave sometimes, that you learn how to drive aeroplane. So you go high in the sky. But if you are in danger, no other aeroplane can help you. You are finished. Therefore you must be a very careful pilot to take care of yourself. Similarly, in this material world everyone individually has to take care of himself. How he can be saved from the

Hare Krishna
3rd March, 2015. Gurgaon

This is the second last blog in the series of last few blogs on Vaishanava etiquette and Vaishanava Apradha. We will read about three categories of devotees and what Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has to say on Vaishnava Apradha.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes in `Vaisnava Ninda’ (Sajjan Toshani, 1893) that If we neglect to show respect to the ordinary jivas, special honour to the religious jiva, and proper respect to brahmana-jivas and vaisnava-praya-jivas, th

This article was written by Phalini devi dasi.

Early in the morning on Saturday, September 13, 2014, my husband Haripada dasa and I picked up a couple of friends--Sarva-drik Prabhu and his wife Sudevi dasi--and headed north.  We arrived at the Medium Security Facility of the Petersburg Prison in Virginia around 11:15 a.m.  We were checked through security, our hands were stamped, and we were escorted through several heavy, metal doors until we found ourselves in the prison chapel. 

     The chape

yad yan niruktam vacasa nirupitam  
dhiyaksabhir va manasota yasya
ma bhut svarupam guna-rupam hi tat tat  
sa vai gunapaya-visarga-laksanah

Translation: 
Anything expressed by material vibrations, anything ascertained by material intelligence and anything experienced by the material senses or concocted within the material mind is but an effect of the modes of material nature and therefore has nothing to do with the real nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord is beyond

TEXT 12

abhisandhaya tu phalam 
dambhartham api caiva yat 
ijyate bharata-srestha 
tam yajnam viddhi rajasam

SYNONYMS

abhisandhaya--desiring; tu--but; phalam--the result; dambha--pride; artham--for the sake of; api--also; ca--and; eva--certainly; yat--that which; ijyate--worship; bharata-srestha--O chief of the Bharatas;tam--that; yajnam--sacrifice; viddhi--know; rajasam--in the mode of passion.

TRANSLATION

But that sacrifice performed for some material end or benefit or preformed ostentatiously, out of

You can become immediately out of the scope of maya if you always remain surrendered to Krsna. Maya will not touch you. Just like if you remain always in the sunshine, there is no question of night. Nowadays it is very easy. If you simply drive your plane on the western side, you'll never get night. You just round about. Yes. Just like it is materially possible. You drive your plane simply on the western side. Start your plane in the morning and go to the western side and don't stop it. You go o

TEXTS 27–28
manisino ’ntar-hrdi sannivesitam
sva-saktibhir navabhis ca trivrdbhih
vahnim yatha daruni pañcadasyam
manisaya niskarsanti gudham

TRANSLATION
Just as great learned brāhmaṇas who are expert in performing ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices can extract the fire dormant within wooden fuel by chanting the fifteen Sāmidhenī mantras, thus proving the efficacy of the