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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada incorporated the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1966 with seven explicit purposes. This list of purposes (below) was one of the official documents incorporating ISKCON as a charitable organization. At the time, the movement had few followers in the West and was operating out of a rented storefront in New York City. One of the pressing needs at the time was to facilitate donors who wanted to give tax-deductible donations to

The heart of Hinduism is God-Love, or devotional worship of the Divine Person. And such worship finds its greatest raditional expression in the devotional love relationship between Krishna, the Avatar or Divine Incarnation, and the gopis, the cowherd-maidens of the village of Brindaban. Krishna, the very embodiment of Bliss and Love on Earth, is said to have lived in ecstatic play with hundreds of gopis for a number of years. As their spiritual master and lover, he taught them the es

Living in Mayapur, what a gift!

 Regularly senior devotees visit Mayapur and are eager to share their knowledge and experiences. It is the hub for seminars focused on spiritual growth.

We were lucky to have H.G. Mahatma prabhu with us for a short while He is an experienced preacher and senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada who is extending his compassion the residents of Mayapur by presenting these seminars.

In sharing a few statements from my notes on these seminar topics I hope that some of you

The sweet, attractive transcendental form of Krsna is so

nice. Just try to understand it. Even a fractional understanding of Krsna's

beauty can merge all three worlds in the ocean of love. He attracts all the

living entities within the three worlds.

Ornaments caress that body, but the transcendental body of Krsna is so

beautiful that it beautifies the ornaments He wears. Therefore Krsna's body is

said to be the ornament of ornaments. Despite the wonderful beauty of Krsna,

there is His three-curved styl

The reciprocation of love between Radha and Krishna is the essence of spiritual love. Because Krishna is the origin of everything, He is the origin of love also. The attraction between boys and girls in the material world is a perverted reflection of the purely spiritual relationship between Radha and Krishna or Jivatman and Paramatman. One who thinks he can be happy through material sexual enjoyment cannot understand the relationship between Radha and Krishna; and, conversely, if one hears abou

yad yad vibhutimat sattvam

srimad urjitam eva va

tat tad evavagaccha tvam

mama tejo-'msa-sambhavam

TRANSLATION

Know that all beautiful, glorious, and mighty creations spring from but

a spark of My splendor.

PURPORTS

Any glorious or beautiful existence should be understood to be but a

fragmental manifestation of Krsna's opulence, whether it be in the

spiritual or material world. Anything extraordinarily opulent should be

considered to represent Krsna's opulence.-Srila Prabhupada's commentary.

Lord Kr

Hare Krishna!! 

Mantra-Yoga:
A Necessity for this  Age
By Stephen Knapp
This is the first chapter in his forth-coming book, "Prayers,  Mantras and Gayatris." A Collection for Insights, Protection, Spiritual  Growth, and Many Other Blessings. This should be published and available in  another few weeks.

Using mantras or prayers is a means of doing  a number of things, depending on our purpose. First of all, it is a method to  raise our consciousness and prepare ourselves for perceiving higher states of  being. It ca