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"There are no hard and fast rules for chanting Hare Krishna. One can chant Hare Krishnaanywhere... It is not at all difficult. While walking, our students take their beads with them and chant. Where is the loss? But the gain is very great, for by chanting we associate with Krsna personally. Suppose we were to associate personally with the President. How proud we would feel. 'Oh, I am with the President.' So should we not feel very much proud if we were to associate with the supreme president, wh

Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain—enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,00

Bhakti Charu Swami says on Etiquette

Vaisnava etiquette is a combination of two words: Vaisnava and etiquette. Vaisnava everybody knows and etiquette means the activity and behaviour of a Vaisnava.

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Dear Friends and Well-wishers,

Below you will find a flyer with information about the three seminars that will be presented in Mayapur next month, February 2014, by a very experienced and professional team from the North American Grihastha Vision Team (three of them are Srila Prabhupada's disciples). 

Please take a look at the flyer.

Kindly share this information with whoever - in your temples - deal with marriage counseling and related matters. It might be well worth the trip to Mayapur for them t

By H.G Narottama Dasa

In Paris we have three Nama-hattas which have different characteristics. The biggest Nama-hatta in Paris is Bhakti-Loka (www.bhakti-loka.com) which receives from 25 to 30 devotees weekly. Our orientation in this Nama-hatta is the systematic studying of the Srimad-Bhagavatam and other Holy Scriptures. Our programs take place three times a week (Friday 7 pm, Saturday 7 am, Sunday 10 am). For the last 5 years, this Nama-hatta took form of a school (special attention is given to

Dear Devotees and Friends,

For those of you who like (to improve) chanting Hare Krishna on Japa, in the association of devotees,we offer you a great opportunity.

This year from 26/02 - 07/03 we have organized a Mantra Yoga Intensive, a 10-day retreat with 8 days of chanting 4 times 2 hours a day. We have rented a property in the east of Holland with comfortable accomodation. 10 sleeping rooms give place for 20 participants. Few seats are still available.

Delicious prasadam will be supplied. A

TEXT 18

avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah
prabhavanty ahar-agame
ratry-agame praliyante
tatraivavyakta-samjnake

SYNONYMS

avyaktat--from the unmanifest; vyaktayah--living entities; sarvah--all; prabhavanti--come into being; ahah-agame--at the beginning of the day; ratri-agame--at the fall of night; praliyante--are annihilated; tatra--there; eva--certainly; avyakta--the unmanifest; samjnake--called.

TRANSLATION

When Brahma's day is manifest, this multitude of living entities comes into being, and at the arri

What exactly is the mark of Srivatsa on Lord Visnu's or Krsna's chest? There are a number of passages in our books that seem to offer different explanations, and many devotees do wonder what this mark actually is.

The Gaudiya Vaisnava Abhidhana, an exhaustive Bengali Vaisnava encyclopedia, which was published in Navadvipa in the year 1956, lists five different meanings under the entry 'Sri-vatsa':

1. A lock of hair on the right side of Sri Visnu's chest. 2. The mark of Laksmi on the chest of Visnu

1. Atharvana Upanisad

Anyone who marks his body with the tilak which resembles the lotus feet of Lord hari becomes dear to the Paramatma. He becomes fortunate and attains liberation.

2. Maha Upanisad

One gets released of all the bondage of samsara when one marks his body with the tilak markings and knows Narayana who is known by karma, jnana and bhakti yogas. Ultimately, he attains Lord Visnu.

3. Agni Purana

A brahmana should not wear the three lined tilak across (tiryak pundra) even for as a joke or

From Sri Garga Samhita, Canto Six, Chapter Fifteen
Translation by Kusakratha Das

Text 15

Simply by hearing about Gopi-bhumi, which is so named because the gopis resided there, one become free from the bondage of karma.

Text 16

In Gopi-bhumi gopi-candana was manifested from the gopis' cosmetics. A person who marks his limbs with gopi-candana tilaka attains the result of bathing in the Ganga.

Text 17

A person who daily wears gopi-candana tilaka attains the pious result of daily bathing in all sacred riv

O Jaimini, anybody who smells the Tulasi leaf which has emanated from Lord Sri Visnu, whatever sins he has in his body are all destroyed. (Padma Purana, Kriya Yogasara 11.135)

If a sinful person leaving his body has a Tulasi leaf in his mouth, he goes to the abode of Lord Sri Visnu. I say this is truth. (Padma Purana, Brahma Khanda 22.7)

Anybody who has a Tulasi wood necklace around his neck, even if he is unclean or performs many bad activities, he is taken with full respect to the abode of Lord

Bhakti Charu Swami says on Love

Lord's presence everywhere can not invoke our love for him but when he is there in deity form then we can invoke our love and serve him.

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The hard way but that is our choice. So when it is describe in the Bhagavat purana how the Lord creates this material world. Krishna personally has nothing to do with material existence, Krishna is Rasabihari, He is simply enjoying loving relations with the Brijwasi’s. Narayan of Vaikuntha He also has nothing to do with this material existence, He is simply enjoying with the goddess of fortune and the entire servant of the Lord. It is described that Kr

ri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna, intro­duced a revolutionary spiritual movement based on India’s an­cient Vedic literature. He swept aside the stifling restrictions of the degenerated caste system and allowed people everywhere to transcend social barriers and achieve the highest platform of spiritual en­lightenment through the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra.

India’s Vedic scriptures had long predicted His birth in 1486 in Mayapur,

The Golden Avatar

Kali yug, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy is drowning in irreligion and atheistic lifestyles. And so in this age, Krishna was predicted to decent as the Golden Avatar (incarnation) - Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and establish the Yuga Dharma of Harinaam Sankirtan - Congregational devotional chanting (prescribed method of liberation according to the current age).  Today is Gaura-Purnima which marks the advent of Sri Chaitanya's descent to Earth, in the town of Mayapur, West Bengal -

History of Vrinda Kunda

Some five thousand years ago, after Krishna and His associates wound
up Their earthly pastimes, the Lord's great-grandson, Vajranabha
Maharaja, installed Deities of Krishna all over Vraja. Deities were
installed also at Vrinda Kunda. Later, unfortunately, They were
disfigured by Muslim invaders and for some time They disappeared from
human sight. Today, although They are no longer worshiped, They are
still giving darshan in a small kutir by the side of the main temple,
u

THE APPEARANCE OF TULASI DEVI Narada Muni asked Lord Narayana, "O Bhagavan! How did the pure, chaste Tulasi Devi become Your wife? Where was she born? Who was she in her previous birth? What family did she come from? And what austerities did she perform to get You as her husband--You, who are above the material energy, not subject to change, the Cosmic Self, the Supreme God, the Lord of all, omniscient, the cause of all, omnipresent, container and preserver of all. And how did Tulasi Devi, Your