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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur said that in Krsna consciousness, one must be prepared to change his life and not just a little, not just partial but rather that this Krsna consciousness is a total revolution. So, it means that we have to be prepared to change completely and there is nothing in us that cannot be changed. We cannot say, “This is the way I am.” No, that argument doesn't stand because this is simply the way that we are now conditioned. Because we don’t know the way we are as

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2514950902?profile=originalLecture on Disappearance Day of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur by Giriraj Swami on 21 Dec 2013 at ISKCON Vrindavan

(Giriraj Swami has also taught at the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education and continues to lecture and to give presentations at japa retreats and workshops around the world.)

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The Stringent Laws of the Almighty

2514950578?profile=originalLecture on The Stringent Laws of the Almighty by Nirantara Prabhu on 05 Jan 2014 at New Dwarka

(In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious "Global Excellence Award" for congregational preaching services from ISKCON.)

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2514950918?profile=originalLecture on How to tell if your Child is a liberated Soul by Sivarama Swami on 21 Jan 2014 at ISKCON New Vraja Dham

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada.)

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2514950909?profile=originalLecture on Chanting is for Devotional Service and Nothing Else by HH Niranjana Swami on 26 Dec 2013 at Boston

(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 8.24

TEXT 24

agnir jyotir ahah suklah
san-masa uttarayanam
tatra prayata gacchanti
brahma brahma-vido janah

 

SYNONYMS

agnih--fire; jyotih--light; ahah--day; suklah--white; sat-masah--six months; uttara-ayanam--when the sun passes on the northern side; tatra--there; prayatah--one who goes; gacchanti--passes away; brahma--to the Absolute; brahma-vidah--one who knows the Absolute; janah--person.

 

TRANSLATION

Those who know the Supreme Brahman pass away from the world during the influence of the fiery god, in

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Vrinda Kunda Festival Parikrama Schedule

Srimati Vrinda Devi


Next month will be 11 years since the opening of our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate, we will do special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The program will culminate with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads. Programs will be going on from 14-27 Feb.


The Vrindavan Festival after Gaura Purnima is usually quite hot so better to come to Vrindavan before! One year, a devotee told me that he never knew th

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By Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya's infinite mercy, here all the books and material distributed from the Alachua, Florida IPM office in 2013:

Prabhupada’s Books total: 2,717
Magazines (10 to 50 pages): 864
Small: 816
Medium: 242
Big: 311
Maha-Big: 484

Books by other devotee authors: 332
BTGs: 758
Audio tapes: 104
CDs: 343
DVDs: 24
Japa Mala Sets: 97
Neck Beads: 25

GRAND TOTAL of all Books and BTGs in 2013: 3,807 !!!

In 2014, we would like to make more DVDs and CDs available to the inmates. They need to be

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Depending on Krsna's Mercy

 

Article by Inmate Bhakta Joseph P.

     Galesburg, Illinois

 

        The time I spend chanting the Maha-mantra in the quiet early mornings is one of my most favorite times of the day. It is that special time spent in direct association with our dear Lord Sri Krsna. But there are days when I don’t feel anything special, that even in this most auspicious transcendental activity, I feel alone, and oh, so far from my dear Lord. When this happens, it is easy to wonder if I am actually receiving His me

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Why did Lord Rama kill Vali from behind a tree?

Hare Krishna.December 2012, GurgaonAfter the Sunday Bhagavatam class was over one Prabhuji asked two teaser questions from the devotees; one of the question was why did Lord Rama killed Vali from behind a tree in His pastime in Ramayana.I knew this particular pastime but this question had never crossed my mind before. I searched for an answer and got it from HG Chaitanaya Charan Prabhuji's website (www.thespiritualscientist.com/audio/Vali.mp3) . I am sharing the answer in brief below based on th
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Sansar Yatra ki Sikhsya

2514950546?profile=originalLecture on Sansar Yatra ki Sikhsya by Sarvabhauma Prabhu on 29 Jan 2012 at Surat

(Sarvabhauma Prabhu was born on 6th Feb 1952, in a Puskarana Vaishnava Brahmin family, having a Radha Krishna temple for eight generations in Mithi, which is part of Rajasthan in Sindh province of Pakistan.)

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Krishna Katha Ruci by Serving Great Souls

2514950431?profile=originalLecture on Krishna Katha Ruci by Serving Great Souls at Home by HH Romapada Swami on 24 Dec 2013 at Chicago

(Romapada Swami‘s first encounter with Krishna consciousness came in Buffalo, in the shape of a lecture at the State University of New York in 1969. The lecturer was His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)

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Śrīla Prabhupāda vāṇī

Srila Prabhupada on the Bowery

Śrīla Prabhupāda vāṇī
Submitted by Vidura dasa

“When I was alone in your New York, I was thinking, who will listen to me in this horrible, sinful place? All right, I shall sta

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Vani Seva

Srila Prabhupada with cartals

Vani Seva
by Ananda devi dasi
May 12 2009, UK

In Srimad Bhagavatam 4.28.47 we read: “The disciple and spiritual master are never separated because

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I Gradually Deprive Him of His Wealth”

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Srila Prabhupada Vani..

2514950702?profile=originalI AM YOUR MASTER !!!

Srila Prabhupada Vani...

"All Indians should seriously take up the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and should perfect their lives, by adopting the process of devotional service. After perfecting their lives, they should broadcast this message all over the world for the welfare of all human beings. A vaishnava is especially interested in para upakara, doing good to others. pralhada maharaja was also interested in this. He did not want to be delivered alone; rather, he wante

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Universal Form Explained

2514950385?profile=originalLecture on Universal Form Explained by Nirantara Prabhu on 14 Dec 2013 at Dadlani

(In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious "Global Excellence Award" for congregational preaching services from ISKCON.)

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Chaitanya Charitamrita (Madhya Lila)

2514950344?profile=originalChaitanya Charitamrita (Madhya Lila) by HG Sesa Prabhu at ISKCON Alachua on 25 Jan 2014
Chaitanya Charitamrita (Madhya Lila 08-138)

(Sesa Dasa was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party. Sesa Dasa has a portfolio of two ministries: Minister of Educational Development and Minister of Justice, under which ISKCON Resolve works.)

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The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama

This chapter five is chiefly devoted to describing the essential nature and glories of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Lord Sri Krsna is the absolute Personality of Godhead, and his first expansion in a form for pastimes is Sri Balarama.

Beyond the limitation of this material world is the spiritual sky, paravyoma, which has many spiritual planets, the supreme of which is called Krsnaloka. Krsnaloka, the abode of Krsna, has three divisions, which are known as Dwarka, Mathura and Gokula. In that abode the P

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Glories of Srimati Radharani

Srimati-Radharani

The special lecture series by His Holiness Bhakti Purushottam Swami Maharaj on “Glories of Srimati Radharani”, Who enlightened the thousands of devotees on various pastimes of Srimati Radharani …

Who is Srimati Radharani?

Sri Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is stated in the Svetasvatara Upanishad (6.8) “The Supreme Lord has multipotencies, which act so perfectly that all consciousness, strength and activity are being directed solely by His will”. The material world, where we are

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