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2514989034?profile=originalLecture on To Seek Love in food is to relapse into Emotional babyhood by HG 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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2514988975?profile=originalLecture on What it means to meditate on Krishnas Lotus Feet by HH Sivarama Swami on 08 Nov 2014 at India

(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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Opulence Govardhana Hill

2514989113?profile=originalLecture on Opulence Govardhana Hill by HG Nirantara Prabhu on 01 Nov 2014

(Nicholas D'Angelo was born on May 20, 1950 and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He went to Catholic school for 13 years, but did not even finish one semester of college at St. Johns University in New York City. Instead, the dormant lusty desires in his heart manifested and he became a "hippy" in 1968.)

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Sahyadri Varnashrama College 2015

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The Sahyadri Varnasrama College (SVC) is now accepting applications for its one-month course to be given from January 1 to 31, 2015 on the campus of Sahyadri Sri Krishna Balarama Ksetra (SSKBK) located near the small town of Hebri in the district of Udupi, South Karnataka, India.

The Coordinator for the program this year is Sriman Raya Ramananda das, one of the resident devotees at SSKBK who has authored a number of books related to the varnasrama mission, one of them titled as “Overhaul and R

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Hare Krishna,

Acharya literally means one’s whose conduct is worth following. We all know how at the ripe age of 69 our beloved founder Acharya, single handedly founded and established one of the largest religious movements of contemporary history. And it is known globally for much more than just Sankirtan.

Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita clearly reveals how Srila Prabhupada, touched every aspect of his disciples’ life, from the right kind of food, to right kind of clothing, from right kind of educa

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GBC Proposals - AGM 2015

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Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Annual General Meeting of the ISKCON GBC Society will begin on February 6, 2015. Following the ISKCON GBC Society's Rules of Order, the GBC Secretariat requests proposals, duly sponsored by a GBC member, to be submitted by December 31, 2014. This will allow adequate time for the GBC Secretariat and Deputies to prepare the proposals for presentation at the meeting.

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So simply your eagerness is the perfection for serving Krsna. Increase that eagerness. And eagerness means if you love Krsna, that eagerness will increase with your increase of love: "How I shall serve Krsna?" Because you are voluntary servant, nobody is forcing. That means unless you love Krsna, how that eagerness will increase? So there are so many things to love Krsna. Beginning is this sravanam kirtanam. This sravanam, hearing, and chanting. Hearing, you are hearing Hare Krsna, you are heari

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 14.1

TEXT 1

sri-bhagavan uvaca
param bhuyah pravaksyami
jnananam jnanam uttamam
yaj jnatva munayah sarve
param siddhim ito gatah

 

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; param--transcendental; bhuyah--again; pravaksyami--I shall speak; jnananam--of all knowledge; jnanam--knowledge; uttamam--the supreme; yat--which; jnatva--knowing; munayah--the sages; sarve--all; param--transcendental; siddhim--perfection; itah--from this world; gatah--attained.

 

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord

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2514989068?profile=originalLecture on How does envy appear in the Pure Living Entitiy by HH Sivarama Swami on 03 Nov 2014 at India

(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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2514988976?profile=originalLecture on Krishna and the Spiritual World is Within Us by HG Urmila Mataji on 21 Sep 2014 at Munich

(Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best) joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 1996, Urmila and her husband, Pratyatosa, entered the renounced order of vanaprastha.)

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India's Pride and Shame

2514988983?profile=originalLecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03 Chapter 01 Text 20 India's Pride and Shame by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 07 Oct 2014 at Telangana

(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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Favourable Devotional Service

2514989010?profile=originalLecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02 Chapter 05 Text 31-32 Favourable Devotional Service by HH Indradyumna Swami on 29 Aug 1988 at Durban

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition.)

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 13.35

TEXT 35

ksetra-ksetrajnayor evam
antaram jnana-caksusa
bhuta-prakrti-moksam ca
ye vidur yanti te param

 

SYNONYMS

ksetra--body; ksetra-jnayoh--of the proprietor of the body; evam--that; antaram--difference; jnana-caksusa--by vision of knowledge; bhuta--living entity; prakrti--material nature; moksam--liberation; ca--also; ye--one who; viduh--knows; yanti--approaches; te--they; param--Supreme.

 

TRANSLATION

One who knowingly sees this difference between the body and the owner of the body and can underst

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So this instruction should be taken by all of us. The purificatory process is chanting Hare Krsna. And as soon as our heart is purified, we completely become convinced that "The Lord is Supreme. I am His eternal servant. I have forgotten this. Servant, my servitorship is there, but instead of serving the Lord, I am serving my senses. That's all. I have never become the master. I am not master of my sense; I am the servant of my senses. That is my position." So why not becoming the servant of the

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Answering the Call of Krishna's flute

2514988287?profile=originalLecture on Answering the Call of Krishna's flute by HH Sivarama Swami on 06 Nov 2014 at India

(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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2514988293?profile=originalLecture on Made to Stick How to teach so that people remember and apply by HG Urmila Mataji on 22 Oct 2014 at Budapest

(Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best) joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 1996, Urmila and her husband, Pratyatosa, entered the renounced order of vanaprastha.)

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2514988323?profile=originalLecture on Our first responsibility is to be Krishna Conscious by HH Indradyumna Swami on 18 Oct 1988 at Mauritius

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition.)

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How Dhama reciprocates with us !

Hare Krishna

24th October, 2014. Govardhan.

jaya jaya śrī-caitanya jaya nityānanda
jayādvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

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21st October : I was itching since morning to make a program to do Govardhan parikarma on Govardhan Puja day on 24th October but somehow the program was not get getting materialised. We, the whole family, came from Vrindavan 3 days back and they were reluctant to go again as its 10th class of my daughter and Priti, my wife, didn’t want more off from her coaching classes. Then

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Bali Maharaj

2514988673?profile=originalLecture on Bali Maharaj by HG Gaur Krishna Prabhu at ISKCON Mayapur

(H.G. Gaur Krishna Prabhu, who is 48 years old, has been aspiring to take sannyasa from HH Radha Govinda Swami and has been in the sannyasa waiting list for the past 3 years (as of 2012).)

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Report on the unique preaching in Hong Kong

Hong Kong, famously called as gateway to China, is an important city with a booming economy and massive influx of people. ISKCON in Hong Kong is a growing and dedicated community of devotees.

Please find below a link to watch a brief report by GBC Member Tirtharaj Prabhu on the unique preaching programs being carried out in Hong Kong to spread Krishna Consciousness.

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