The North European BBT recently published Devamrita Swami's
Searching for Vedic India
It is an ebook. If you haven't read this book and have an interest in Vedic archeology, history, cosmology, and consciousness studies, you'll love this book. It's thorough, convincing, and well-written.
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The Durban Festival of Chariots Culturally Many Spiritually One Celebrating Social Harmony Easter Weekend
North Beach, Durban
SOUTH AFRICA
It’s an unforgettable line-up of free entertainment over the Easter long weekend featuring Freshlyground, Hinds Brothers Band, Kirtanuity Tour with Madhava, KZN Philharmonic Orchestra with BB Govinda Swami, Drum Cafe and The Kwa-Mashu Gospel Choir, Drum Cafe and many more.
This years Durban Festival of Chariots, to be held at North Beach over the upcoming Ea
One devotee's account of how he was inspired to donate to the TOVP
I came in touch with Krishna Consciousness in 2004 when I joined the Government Polytechnic College in Coimbatore. An ISKCON temple was near my college. I very much got inspiration from the lectures of HH Bhakti Vinode Swami Maharaj, who was at that time HG Sarveswara Prabhu, temple president of ISKCON, Coimbatore. I am always in debt to Maharaj and the Coimbatore devotees.
Around May 2010, I joined some college friends on a tou
Puñöa Kåñëa: Question number two?
Çréla Prabhupäda: Yes.
Puñöa Kåñëa: "The traditional charge against Hinduism is that it is fatalistic, that it inhibits progress by making people slaves to the belief in the inevitability of what is to happen. How far is this charge true?"
Çréla Prabhupäda: The charge is false. Those who have made that charge do not know what "Hinduism" is. First of all, the Vedic scriptures make no mention of such a thing as "Hinduism." but they do mention sanätana-dharma, the ete
Puñöa Kåñëa: Çréla Prabhupäda, this questionnaire was sent to you by Bhavan's Journal, a cultural and religious magazine in Bombay. They are questioning various religious and spiritual leaders, trying to get the answers to some of the important questions that are perplexing people today. So there's a list of questions, and the first is this: "Is the influence of religion over the masses on the wane?"
Çréla Prabhupäda: Yes. This is predicted in Çrémad-Bhägavatam [12.2.1]:
tataç cänu-dinaà dharmaù
sa
Around 12000 villages of Maharashtra and about 4000 villages of Gujarat are reeling under severe drought which has affected the lives of more than 2 crore people. Is it a natural disaster or manmade disaster?
Our intense greed for self aggrandizement has resulted in massive exploitation of nature. Trees are rampantly cut to pave the way for industrialization, chemical fertilizers are being excessively used to increase the crop yield, industrial wastes are being dumped in the rivers, ground water
“G u r u m u k h a p a d m a v a k y a"
One of the greatest stumbling blocks in Krishna Consciousness.......................Nectarean Mellows
A person that has very little, whatever little he or she could get, is seen as a great favor and one appreciates. But the problem is that when you have so much of everything then the tendency is not to take seriously all of these blessings of the lord. We take them to be something ordinary; we take them cheaply, for granted. This is one of the grea
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada's First Talks in America (New York, December 29, 1966)
Generally, a person with a philosophical mind is inquisitive to know what is the origin of all creations. At night he looks into the sky and naturally wonders what are the stars, how they are situated, who lives there, and so on. All these inquiries are quite natural for a human being, because he
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Mother Nature and the Glance of the Supreme
Where do nature's gifts come from? Not from factories or power plants.
Fifty centuries ago, the people of India enjoyed boundless natural prosperity. Queen Kunti was always mindful of the gifts and their source.
ime jana-padah svrddhah
supakvausadhi-virudhah
vanadri-nady-udanvanto
hy edhante tava viksitaih
Queen Kunti said: "All t
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Vedic literature describes the various levels of enjoyment.
Life's goal is to find the highest level.
Devotee [Reads from The Nectar of Devotion]: "There are three kinds of happiness: material, spiritual, and devotional. Devotional service and the happiness due to its execution are not possible as long as one is materially affected. The desire for material enjoyment a
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Respected Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Hare Krsna!
Vrindavan Institute for Highter Education team is happy to invite you to our 2013-2014 semesters. This year we are offering Bhakti-shastri in English as well as Hindi starting July 9, 2013. The two courses will run in parallel and will conclude on November 2. Our Bhakti-shastri course includes the study of Shrimad Bhagavad-gita, the Nectar of Devotion, the Nectar of Instruction, Shri Ishopanishad
Make revolution with the Back to Godhead Ramesvara explained that the rent was eighteen hundred dollars a month, a good price for that area. He told Prabhupada that a speaker system played Prabhupada's lectures in the warehouse throughout the day. Prabhupada remarked, "Accha," and chuckled with pleasure. They then entered the second warehouse, which stored Back to Godhead magazines. Prabhupada asked about the arrangement for fire, and the devotees told him they had fire insurance and fire alarms
ISKCON Crawley will be hosting the grand opening of the Bhakti Yoga Centre on Saturday 23rd March, 2013. It’s been a long time coming for the community of devotees situated in a small town, in the South East of England.
Crawley’s first ever event was held in 1999, with help from the ever enthusiastic youth group, Pandava Sena. These youth events would take place every other week, and ensured a healthy turn out at the time. Even though the first event took place during this time, every now and t
On this most auspicious day of the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, we are pleased to announce the release of a new CD of compiled lectures of our Guru Maharaja, His Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari Prabhu, titled “Grihastha Life”.
The CD puts light on various aspects of grihastha asrama and enlightens the hearer on how he can utilize his household life to achieve the highest result out of it. As usual, Srila Gurudeva’s lectures are ultra-potent and relishing. They address a wide vari
So desire cannot be stopped. Desireless, it is not possible, because we are living entity; we must have desires. But this kind of desires we are proposing: "My Lord, give me a facility for fulfilling these desires." So that means you get a particular type, and these desires are generated on account of our different association -- sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. So if we associate with sattva-guna, then we get a body like the demigods.
BY H.D.G.Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Supreme Enchanter of the Soul
Cupid's arrows can no longer pierce our hearts when we become attracted to Krsna.
In this material world everyone is attracted by sex. This is a fact. As the Srimad-Bhagavatam says, yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham: "The happiness the so-called happiness of household life begins from maithuna, or sexual intercourse."
Generally, a
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
The nature of the self is to be joyful.
Why do our attempts to secure happiness often result in misery?
sri-prahrada uvaca
matir na krsne paratah svato va
mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-vratanam
adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram
punah punas carvita-carvananam
"Prahlada Maharaja said: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Fifty centuries ago, a far-seeing sage wrote a book of Vedic
wisdom that speaks directly to our troubled times.
anarthopasamam saksad
bhakti-yogam adhoksaje
lokasyajanato vidvams
cakre satvata-samhitam
"The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service to Lord Krsna. But the
