The sastras proclaim three avenues of relation and purification for the jiva; guru seva, gau(cow) seva and dhama seva. Of course the yuga-dharma, the harinama, is the foundation activity for all, supporting the other three that have unique characteristics and varying spiritual potencies.

The guru seva is the first prescription given in the Vedas and every devotional work is obviously done as a credit to guru, and sometimes sadly in this field there is possibility of offense. Gau seva, cow pro

Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In celebration of Gaura Purnima, ISKCON Leicester, UK, is launching a £2 million fundraising campaign for the renovation of its new centre.

In September 2010, our temple was destroyed in a gas explosion. We were touched by the warmth, prayers and best wishes sent to us by devotees from all over the world. While our devotee community continued programs, festivals and celebrations in different venues around th

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

“To perform devotional service means to follow in the footsteps of Rādhārānī, and devotees in Vrindāvana put themselves under the care of Rādhārānī in order to achieve perfection in their devotional service. In other words, devotional service is not an activity of the material world; it is directly under the control of Rādhārānī. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is confirmed

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Shiva is dahi (yoghurt) and Krishna is milk. When you take pure milk and mix it with a little sour thing, it becomes dahi(yoghurt). Similarly, Krishna is pure spirit, and when this pure spirit is mixed up withmaya, then that is Shiva. Lord Shiva ismaya-adhipati. It was once inquired by Yudhisthira Maharaja that Lord Shiva, although he appears to be like a beggar, w

TEXT 23

yadi hy aham na varteyam
jatu karmany atandritah
mama vartmanuvartante
manusyah partha sarvasah

SYNONYMS

yadi--if; hi--certainly; aham--I; na--do not; varteyam--thus engage; jatu--ever; karmani--in the performance of prescribed duties; atandritah--with great care; mama--My; vartma--path; anuvartante--would follow; manusyah--all men; partha--O son of Prtha; sarvasah--in all respects.

TRANSLATION

For, if I did not engage in work, O Partha, certainly all men would follow My path.

PURPORT

In ord

As soon as. As soon as one tries to become independent without serving Krsna, that means he is in maya. He's in maya. Immediately maya is there. Just like as soon as you become a criminal, a thief, immediately you are under the jurisdiction of the police, immediately, without the... You may hide yourself for time being, but immediately you have become criminal. Similarly, as soon as one is not Krsna conscious, he's immediately a criminal, punishable. Therefore Krsna said, na mam duskrtino mudhah

“G u r u    m u k h a     p a d m a    v a k y a"

Appreciate the spiritual value of blessings.......................Nectarean Mellows

Maha Prasad is very precious. It’s very sacred. Our tendency is just to see Maha Prasad as just food, Mahaprasad as a garland. Someone gives you even a little plastic jewel from the Deity as mahaprasad that is more precious than all the diamonds of the world that are not offered. Somebody asked Prabhupada, "What about putting kind of simple inexpensive jewellery on

Today is the appearance day of His Grace Aindra Prabhu who was one of the foremost disciples of Srila Prabhupada.

He was born on 12th march 1953 in chicago and came into the ISKCON  movement in 1973 accidently, after getting attracted to the holy names of the lord that he had heard during a street harinaam sankirtan program.

In 1974, on the auspicious occasion of Sri Nityananda Trayodashi he got formal initiation from his divine grace, and soon became temple pujari in washington.

He used to distrib

Dear Srila Prabhupada disciple,

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

On behalf of the Tributes team, I invite you to please submit your offering for this year's vyasa-puja celebration. Thank you for those who's offerings we have already received. Please spread the word amongst your godbrothers and godsisters to contribute to this amazing compilation of offerings, realizations and glorification of His Divine Grace.

The deadline for submitting an offering is 15

Something Worth Hearing by Navina Nirada Dasa

Navina Nirada Dasa
HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness by giving them books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. I start with an experience of my own.
While distributing books recently I met a young man very interested in Krsna consciousness. As we were speaking, he put in hearing aids to understand me.

He told me that when he was a child his parents quarreled so much he wanted to lose his hearing,

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

God is complete and His arrangement is also very complete. Everyone gets his necessities of life completely. In the Vedas it is said that we are all living entities and God is the chief living entity. The difference is that the one God supplies the necessities of all other living entities (eko yo bahūnām vidadhāti kāmān). In the Christian world also, they believe th

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divene Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Devotee Community at Bhaktivedanta Manor, London

Everyone who has accepted a material body must maintain the necessities of the body by acting or earning some livelihood. A devotee should only work for such income as is absolutely necessary. He should be satisfied always with such income and should not endeavor to earn more and more simply to accumulate the unnec

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

At present, we are concerned primarily with two things: one, ourselves; and the other, the place where we live. In other words, we are concerned with two objects: namely, everything that is related to our gross and subtle bodies; and the world at large, with all its paraphernalia. But there are others above us, the transcendentalists, who are concerned not only with their body and mind and the world at large, but also wi

Hare Krishna The ISKCON temple at Vrindavan celebrated the boat festival on 4/4/2012. The inner courtyard of the temple was filled with water and created a water pool. The pool was covered with variety of flowers art fully decorated. The floral decorations were wonderful, even mystics wouldn’t have doubted the soft bottom below the flowerbed. A child jumped in to play with the flowers, but was rescued from the water. Crowd gathered even hours before to grab a seat in front to witness the festi

“G u r u    m u k h a     p a d m a    v a k y a"

The service attitude.......................Nectarean Mellows

We think that I am the center of all existence, all the universe is revolving around me. What makes me happy is good, what doesn’t make me happy is bad. It’s that mentality that keeps us within material existence. So the consciousness of the vaishnava is the opposite. Not to be selfish, but to be selfless. How can I please the Lord? How could I be the servant of the servant of the servant

Eager to Read About Krsna

Letters to the Moscow branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Every year, through the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust some 200,000 people buy a book of Vedic literature in Russian. And every day the Trust's office in Moscow receives letters of appreciation from people whose spiritual yearnings have long been repressed. Here we present a sample of those letters.

THE BOOKS PUBLISHED by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust changed my attitude towards life completely. Lord Krsna is really pre

Srila Prabhupada: This morning I was seeing one advertisement, telephone company. They are advertising, "If you have any problem, do not hesitate to call us."

Therefore I was advising our secretary that "Why don't you ask the telephone company, ‘I have got this problem: janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi. I have got the problem of birth, death old age and disease. Can you help me?" Then they should be informed, that "If you have no information for solving this problem, then please send all men who are i

The World Vedic Festival got underway in Dibrugarh on Thursday with the participation of more than 150 foreigners from as many as 30 countries. The three-day festival has been organized by the Dibrugarh centre of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

"Devotees from 30 countries, including England, USA, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Malaysia and Nigeria have come to participate in the festival. They will take part in the Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra and other cu