As a spiritual guru of ISKCON, Lokanath Maharaj has been associated with Krishna Consciousness from 1972. That was the year when he got his first initiation from Srila Prabhupada and so began his voyage on this spiritual path to become a bonafide guru of ISKCON.
In this journey, he has created many landmarks. He started as an ISKCON minister for the Srila Prabhupada Centennial. His Holiness co-ordinated a global campaign and in the year 1996, the magnificent Centennial celebrations achieved unm
Born to English-speaking parents, this American took to Sanskrit when he was still in his teens; Indian culture and language is what attracted him to India.
He is an American who has spent 38 of his 56 years of life in Gujarat. Basu Ghosh Das, president of the ISKCON temple in Vadodara, is currently in Ahmedabad to participate in the All India Sanskrit Elocution Competition. Dressed in a white dhoti and upavastra, he speaks chaste Sanskrit as he walks on the SGVP International School campus, taki
Scholar and author Satyaraja Dasa
The new two-volume “Encyclopedia of Global Religion,” released this October by the academic publisher SAGE, features substantial and authoritative entries on ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, and Vaishnavism.
The coffee-table sized volumes, which run to 1,528 pages, provide a comprehensive overview of religious culture and society around the world, in both its historical and contemporary aspects.
Its editors, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof, are sociologists of re
The nine principal rsis, or sages, are:
Marici - wife Kala
Atri - wife Anasuya
Angira - wife Sraddha
Pulastya - wife Havirbhu
Pulaha - wife Gati
Kratu - wife Kriya
Bhrgu - wife Khyati
Vasistha - wife Arundhati
Atharva - wife Santi
All these rishis are most important, and Brahma desired that the nine daughters already born of Kardama Muni be handed over to them. Here two words are used very significantly-yatha-silam and yatha-ruci. The daughters should be handed over to the respective rsis, not blindly
When ones mind is attached to Krsna, one can fulfill the mission of life in one human birth. If one misses this opportunity, one does not know where he is going, how long he will remain in the cycle of birth and death, and when he will achieve the human form of life and the chance to return home, back to Godhead. The most intelligent person, therefore, uses every moment of his life to render loving service to the Lord.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 9.9.42, Purport).
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Now I am trying for printing arrangement and this book also can be nicely printed provided you take charge of distribution. I am very much anxious for sale of my books. It has to be organized; please think over this matter. If the books are not properly sold how can I print so many books?
[Letter to Kirtanananda, 27 April 1967]
Although I am practically on the path of death, still I cannot forget about my publications. I wish that if I live or die you should take very serious care for my publicat
In order to protect their land and their cows, on December 13th, 2011, Hungarian Krishna believers will hold a peaceful demonstration in front of the Parliament in Budapest.
The 270-hectare (approximately 650 acres) Krishna-valley farm is home to 300 monks and families, as well as 52 sacred cows and oxen. Due to new religious legislation passed in July, there is a good chance that after January 1st, 2012, the State will take over the land and the inhabitants will have to grab their belongings a
Tuesday, 25 June 1974
The early morning air was crisp as the Alitalia jet touched down on the airport tarmac. The sight of the plane sent the devotees crowded on the observation deck into a frenzy. They raced back to the International terminal and started chanting ecstatically to receive His Divine Grace. Since Prabhupada had chosen to visit only Melbourne this time, virtually every devotee in the entire Australasian zone had converged there. Madhudvisa, remembering the many bungled arrival recep
the beginning there was only Lord Brahma. The whole planetary system was to be populated. Therefore first of all Brahma, and then the seven rsis, then the Kumaras, then Rudras. In this way... Manus. Then Manu's son, his son, his son. In this way the whole universe is populated. It is not the rascal Darwin's theory that "There was no human being. It came out of a stone, the life." The first is the most intelligent person, Lord Brahma.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
HareKrishna
“O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for liberation, nor eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon. My only prayer is that Your childhood pastimes may constantly appear in my mind. O Lord, I do not even want to know Your feature of Paramatma. I simply wish that Your childhood pastimes may ever be enacted in my heart.”
Wonderful Krishna Without understanding the intricacies of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and with
HareKrishna
Jay srila Prabhupad Ki jay
