Sunday, October 3, is the anniversary of the day on which Hladini devi dasi was brutally gunned down by an extra-judicial firing squad in war-torn Liberia in western Africa. The death squad arrived at the Hare Krishna temple in the capital city of Monrovia in the early morning hours, and ordered the devotees to come out. Seven devotees, five men and two women, exited the temple and filed into the waiting jeep. They were driven a short distance to the Sturton Bridge, where the devotees were forc
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Many kinds of Surrender
Since there are many kinds of surrender, there are many degrees of completeness because some types of surrender are more total than others. By and large they all entail abandonment of certain designations: of birth and parentage, of career and material possessions, of mind, of the body and its senses, of doctrines and concepts. Abandonment of delusion followed by submission to the Divine, to the Will of the Father, is the process of surrender. Such a surrender, when it is
"In the modern world, trademarks are very common. And they are protected. The trademark for marketing the holy name is the causeless mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Gauranga. In this Age of Kali, it is not possible to achieve the pure holy name without chanting the names of the Pancha-Tattva prior to chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.
Whoever wants to market the holy name must be a sincere follower of the Lord and distribute the name under Gauranga's brand name, or proce
HG GANGA NARAYAN PRABHUJI’S FIRST VISIT TO GUNA
11th July 2009
Guna
It was evening 5 pm and all sincere souls were eagerly awaiting the arrival of bus party from Ujjain. All gathered at centre, our Uncle’s house and started arranging each and every thing of the centre. Full place was cleaned, mats were arranged, altar was cleaned & decorated, Vyasasana was put, andall wore the traditional Bengali dhoti and gauriya tilak. Each second seemed tobe as large as a day. Suddenly we have received informati
