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Dear devotees and well-wishers,

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

Tuesday’s devastating here in Christchurch has unfortunately destroyed the temple along with our deities Sri Sri Nitai-Gauracandra. The devotees are all safe although some have had significant damage to their houses.

The local devotees should refrain from coming to the temple as it is closed and deemed unsafe.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your kind thoughts,

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 24th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12.18

Speaker: HH Prabhavisnu Swami

bhaktim harau bhagavati pravahann ajasram

ananda-baspa-kalaya muhur ardyamanah

viklidyamana-hrdayah pulakacitango

natmanam asmarad asav iti mukta-lingah

TRANSLATION:Because of his transcendental bliss, incessant tears flowed from his eyes, his heart melted, and there was shivering and standing of thehairs all over his body. Thus transfo

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 20th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12.15

Speaker: HG Anuttama Prabhu

manyamana idam visvam

maya-racitam atmani

avidya-racita-svapna-

gandharva-nagaropamam

TRANSLATION: Srila Dhruva Maharaja realized that this cosmic manifestation bewilders living entities like a dream or phantasmagoria because it is acreation of the illusory, external energy of the Supreme Lord.

PURPORT: In the deep forest it sometimes app

SPIRITUAL REALIZATION    :    UMBRELLA APPROACH

It has been my personal experience, observation and also experience and observation of many in ISKCON that

1)   followers of one Guru Maharaj does NOT encourage / like / wish talking / praising / glorifying of another Guru Maharaj,

2)   followers of one Guru Maharaj argues that my Guru Maharaj is Great, My ISKCON Temple is Great, Our Preaching is Right, etc., etc.

3)   strangely, in some temples, they do NOT permit to sell the books written by othe

A guest should be treated with proper respect and honour

Date: June 16, 2007
Verse: Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.16.7
Speaker: HH Bhakti Charu Swami
Location: ISKCON New Vrindaban [www.newvrindaban.com]
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[note: transcription is not verbatim]

grhesu yesv atithayo narcitah salilair api yadi niryanti te nunam pheruraja-grhopamah

TRANSLATION: Homes from which guests go away without having been received even with an offering of a little water are like those holes in the field which are the homes of ja

Krishna Consciousness means NOT only SHAVING Beard, Mustache and hair on Head and be neat and clean by physical ambiance but also to SHAVE the internal & hidden hairs, beards & mustaches of Lust, Anger, Ego, Envy, Pride, Arrogance, Ignorance & illusion.

Therefore, in Krishna Consciousness, both Internal & External Shaving is required from time to time.

If one is simply neat and clean externally by neat shave, white dhoti kurta, tilak and kanti mala and possessing all demonish qualities, one cann

His Divine Grace Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja made his appearance as Braja-bandhu Manik in a vaishnava family on 2nd September 1929. He appeared in the village of Jagannathapura, not far from Jagannatha Puri Dhama, in Orissa, India, but as his mother was descended from the Giri family of the village Gadeigiri,  Braja-bandhu spent his childhood there. His grandfather was a paramahamsa whose only business was to chant Hare Krishna and cry before the lo

                               Career Councelling     

                                                                                             (by  HG Nitaichand pr)

                                                                                        Career options after school/college

Balance

Spiritual life                Materialistic life

                           Sadhna              Service

• Don’t think in spiritual life, “we have to neglect or le

The tears of separation between two Vaishnavas, when they are based on knowledge and truth, are one of the most elevated and of the most purifying of all spiritual experiences - Nectar Drops

Bin hari bhajan dukhad hai jeevan...

bin hari sumiran dolat hai man...

hari sumiran bhav paar lagaave..

hari sumiran hari se milvaave..

hari sumiran se paavan tan man..

bin hari bhajan dukhad hai jeevan...1..

hari sumiran hai param upaaye...

tar jaave jo hari hari gaaye...

das kamal bhaj hari ko har shan..

bin hari bhajan dukhad hai jeevan..2..

“Let there be all victory for the chanting of the Holy Name of Lord Hari, Lord Krishna, which can cleanse the mirror
of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon
which spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The
chanting of the Holy Name of Krishna expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to
everyone and enables one to taste full

1.  Simply by sincerely chanting the Holy name of the Lord, everything becomes perfect.

2. Make your chanting heart- deep, not just lip- deep.

3. Chanting the name of God is a form of service, and God reciprocates that service by purifying the heart from within.

4. Krishna is non different from His name, but the degree to which He manifests depends on our attitude.

5. Prayer is the earnest entreaty of the heart for purification. Such yearning is the essence of spiritual life and of chanting Hare K

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 21st, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12.16

Speaker: HH Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami

atma-stry-apatya-suhrdo balam rddha-kosamantah-puram parivihara-bhuvas ca ramyahbhu-mandalam jaladhi-mekhalam akalayyakalopasrstam iti sa prayayau visalam

TRANSLATION: Thus Dhruva Maharaja, at the end, left his kingdom, which extended all over the earth and was bounded by the great oceans. Heconsidered his body, his wives, his children,