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Is the fasting on Rama Navami till sunset or noon. I have read SP saying it should be observed till sunset.

How do we break the fast? Grains?

During the fasting period, can we have anything at all to eat and drink? There are some contradictory statements in this regard. Please clarify. Thank you. Hare Krishna!

One of the only ISKCON schools to remain standing in Europe today is struggling, but continues to push on with new ideas for growth, full of faith in its ideals.

“There is so much research on the positive effect of giving children a joyful spiritual foundation and experience in the first years of their education, and we really believe that,” says Guru Charana Padma Dasi, who runs the Bhaktivedanta Manor Primary School in England with colleague Moksha Lakshmi Dasi. “And that is why we keep going.”

Normally when I go out for a walk, I see too many things that I do not like to see.  What to do? This is material world and I am a fallen soul.  Today, I had to go to a shop to buy some lemons and cucumbers.  It takes at least 10 minutes to reach the shop on foot.  I thought I rather walk and chant few extra rounds while walking both ways. 

The worse part of Japa rounds while walking along the public roads is I get distracted by too many objects.  While my lips are uttering the Mahamantra, my mi

In the material world, if one engages in chanting a material name, he will feel tired after chanting a few times. However, one can chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra all day and night and never feel tired. As chanting is increased, it will come out new and fresh. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī said that if he could somehow get millions of ears and tongues, then he could relish spiritual bliss by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.

Question to Radhanath Swami: We read in Gita: Krishna says that when there is a decline in religion and an up-rise in irreligion, he descends. Look at the world today; so much of irreligion, so many problems. There is tsunami of irreligion and problems crashing against practically every living entity in the whole planet- there's an inundation. Where is God?

Radhanath Swami: Krishna has descended in this age in his name. And all the power of all the incarnations is within the name, because Krishna

Question to Radhanath Swami: How exactly does this chanting of God's holy names work?

Radhanath Swami: It begins by regular chanting, like treatment begins with regular intake of medicines. And then we try to go deeper into the holy name by living according to the qualities of a true devotee, i.e. to live our life with humility, with tolerance and forgiveness, offering honor and respect to others, while demanding no respect for ourselves. We should live by the principles of morality, we should li

Six orthodox philosophies of Vedic tradition:

 1. Sankhya –  Sankhya explains the evolution of natural elements from subtle to gross

2. Yoga - Patanjali’s yoga describes the eightfold method of meditation
 

3. Nyaya - Nyaya sets forth the techniques of logic
 

4. Vaisesika - Vaisesika considers the basic metaphysical categories of reality.
 

5. Mimamsa - Mimamsa establishes the standard tools of scriptural interpretation
 

6. Astavakra - tried to establish the impersonal effulgence (brahmajyoti) as the S

The best way is to hear yourself chanting the actual names, Hare Krsna mantra. This is the way to chant without losing attention. One’s mind should be fixed on the sound. As Prabhupada has written, the mouth should move. One should not slur Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. He should not fall asleep while chanting in his so-called bhajana. As Krsna advises Arjuna in practicing yoga, “Wherever the mind wanders due to its restless and flickering nature, you have to drag it back.” So this applies to our chan

Krishna has descended in this age in his name. And all the power of all the incarnations is within the name, because Krishna is non-different from his names. We simply have to chant with proper consciousness and reciprocate with his love that has descended in his name. When Krishna physically appeared five thousand years ago, very few people recognized him. So many people considered that he was just a powerful person. Similarly, when Krishna appears in his name—without association of Krishna’s l

ISKCON Utah Celebrates Holi In A Big Way

Read more:http://news.iskcon.org/node/3532#ixzz1J2gAlWuG

Every year the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA puts on the biggest Holi celebration in the Western Hemisphere. In 2011 the Spanish Fork Police department estimated that over 40,000 people attended in the first day alone of the two-day festival, starting on the 27th of March. Organizers carefully rationed their stash of approximately 120,000 bags of colored powder.

Attendees come from a