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By Sadbhuja Das

The marble cladding of the interior walls of the TOVP temple room continues and is starting to take shape.

You can see how beautiful it looks in the video, with the white marble and red border. We will also be adding ceramic gold tile inlays in certain areas which will commence soon.

Currently, about 80% of the work is completed on the first whole circle phase of work. We are also now beginning to clad the pillars. Keep your eyes and ears open for more news soon.

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Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Three months ago I was asking myself how can I chant continuously without break, without feeling sleepy and with more focus and enthusiasm.

I was also asking how did the famous namacharya Haridas Thakur chanted 22 hours per day without stopping, and will only take food after?

Then I began to listen closely to the famous recorded  chanting of Srila Prabhupada, the with His Divine Grace saying "SEAT PROPERLY ".  At first I thought t

I went to my first ever kirtan last night. Called Sacred Sound Sessions held at Govinda's, Brisbane Australia.

Such wonderful and welcoming people.

I learnt to do the Maha Mantra and it was a wonderful experience. I felt like I could chant all night :)

What a great movement. I am looking forward to attending more Sacred Sound Sessions whenever I am able and learn more about awakening the Krishna Conscious within me.

Hare Krishna!

REJOICE , REJOICE AGAIN HAVE FOUND MY VITHOBA MAULI

              (mauli in marathi means most caring mother)

Years have been searching my Sriman Narayana, my dearest Vithobha mauli

Nay, countless birth has this quest begun, but could not find my Vithu mauli,

My ignorance made me do austere penance for him, still could not find my Vithu mauli.

Felt Karma yoga, gyana yoga and most severe fasting could get me near my Vithu mauli,

Did not succeed here also, he is there in all these, but could n

(Srila Prabhupada’s 11-story Hare Krishna Center, 340 West 55th Street, New York, 1976)

(The same building in its pesent state.)

Submitted by Padmapani das ACBSP

“Yes, from the very beginning I went to New York because I thought that Krishna Consciousness is the most important idea in the world, so let me go to that place, New York, which is the most important city in the world, and if I am able to do anything for Krishna and my Spiritual Master, even I am at the fag-end of my life, at least l

I used to think, before I came to Krsna consciousness, that now I would join a movement of very like-minded people and that I would feel very intimate friendship. Then, I was shocked to see that that person who I kind of detested for his views, he also had joined! 

I thought, “How is this possible? Not this guy! How is it possible that he became a devotee!?” Well, because of the universal nature of Krsna consciousness, people of all kinds, from all walks of life, even from opposing world views,

By Howard Wheeler (Hayagriva dasa)

When I first met my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, I felt that there was never a time when I did not know him. I never tire of telling of my first meeting with him on the streets of Lower East Side New York.

At the time, I was hurrying from my Mott Street apartment, which had become a refuge for psychedeliacs, to a much quieter apartment on Fifth Street where I hoped to get some peace. I was walking down Houston Street

By Madhava Smullen

A common observation by both the secular media and internal critics about ISKCON today is that while it is providing a home away from home for many Indian nationals, it is reaching less young Americans, as Srila Prabhupada desired.

New introductory magazine “Spirit Soul” is one of several efforts to connect with this audience by speaking to them in their language and offering ways that bhakti-yoga can improve their day-to-day lives.

The magazine, full of practical how-to-guid

By Srila Prabhupada’s mercy, I successfully completed my vratas (vows) for the sacred, extra month of Purusottama. I chanted extra rounds and read and recited the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad-gita (Purusottama-yoga) every day—and I finished the first draft of my book about Srila Prabhupada and Juhu (I’ll Build You a Temple). And, remembering how Dr. Patel brought Prabhupada a palmful of sea water on the last day of the month, for his auspicious bath, I also took some sea water on my head.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 February 2016, Bhaktivedanta Manor, London, UK, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.2.21)

After the Govardhana pastime, Krsna went to Govardhana Hill to inspect the damage done by Indra’s thunderbolts. During the seven days that Krsna held Govardhana Hill on his little finger like an umbrella, Indra, out of being disturbed, battered Govardhana Hill with thunderbolts. These thunderbolts were very serious and could smash mountains. So Krsna was concerned about Govardhana. But when Krsn

I came into contact with Iskcon and Srila Prabhupada's books in 1986. I did not join the movement. But I used to visit the temple in Chennai almost every day for several years. I took initiation from Jayapataka Swami Maharaj. When I retired I went to Vrindavan to settle down to spend the evening of my life in 2014. I had a younger brother named Satyanarayan. He was a passive devotee of Krishna. He was not initiated, and he was not chanting. He liked Vrindavan especially Krishna Balaram Temple wh

This morning while chanting japa before my deity of Srila Prabhupada, I was struck by how merciful he had been to accept me as his disciple, appreciating that, despite all my failings, he will never let me go but would do whatever it takes to deliver me. As he said of his guru maharaja, “My spiritual master was no ordinary spiritual master - he saved me.” Thinking of Srila Prabhupada’s compassionate, selfless commitment, my hard heart melted.

Hare Krishna.

Your grateful servant,
Giriraj Swami

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