By Hari Narayana Das
The Mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini or Risma has set Surabaya Vaganza who was a Culture and Flower Parade as an annual event to commemorate the age of 725 city’s anniversary. This festival was followed by communities and groups from every tribe and ethnicity. It was mentioned as many as 83 participants. Some 41 people rode the customized cars and others acted as the marching band personnel. The participants came from Nias, Minang, Lampung, Bali, Bogor, Papua, India, Sout
Dandawats, PAMHO, AGTSP and all of you
Haribol Dear Devotees.
I heard my Gurudeva say that Srila Prabhupad said "Krishna Consciousness mean all questions answered and all Problems solved. I have heard His Holiness Srila Jayapataka Swami say it was one of Srila A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad's last desire's, that ISKCON co-operates with all Gaudiya maths. So we are humbly requesting the welcomed association of devotees from other Vaisnava organisations to please bless us in this service y
Dear Editor,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I think your readers might find of interest the enclosed article from today’s The Guardian which explains how Allen Ginsberg taught Robert Kennedy how to chant Hare Krishna mantra. He received this mercy just months before being assassinated 50 years ago. Next week is the 50th anniversary so the media is focusing on RFK at this time.
Incidently, the article also mentions how Walter Reuther, (who is my wife, Lekhas
In this episode with Madri devi dasi we hear…
and have I divided the waters
that i may stand on the shores looking back at me
for what good is thy face without the reflection of the great stream
and as that river runs through the jar of the water bearer
and pours its life giving force upon Libras scales
in that harmony, the sun twinkles upon its pure nectar
judge not less ye be judged
for thine judgment shall consume thee
and when the life comes full circle
and 25000 pass
again i kiss the ground in my name
that thy name not be blotted out f
Veerendra Ekbote
Bhagvat Dharma as the name suggests is the eternal religion instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Bhagvan Krishna himself to mankind having in it the universal truths and teachings which transcend the philosophical differences and barriers of the existing world religions of the present world and anyone who practices Bhagvat Dharma irrespective of his religious and socio-economic status as per the instructions of the Supreme Lord becomes eligible to transcend th
The living entities falling down to the material world - best explanation of all.
The living entities fall down into this material world from Vaikuntha and NOT the Impersonal Brahman or the Body of Maha Vishnu.
Srila Prabhupada - ''Existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition. When fall takes place, it means fal
By Urmila Devi Dasi
Our life depends on air, and when we recognize it as one of the energies of Krsna, it can remind us of Him.
Sweat gathers on my lower back, and my clothes stick to my skin. Then the leaves of nearby trees shiver to announce the coming relief of a breeze. I consider how the air I’m perceiving outside me also moves within me, and I think of how air carries smells, fills our lungs, nourishes our cells, flies our kites and airplanes, and presses with strong but unperceived forc
Lecture on Taking Responsibility by Devakinandan Prabhu on 26 Dec 2015 at ISKCON Kanpur
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto-09, Chapter-19, Text-01,02
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Srila Prabhupada in the Radha-Damodara Bus (Album with photos)
Vakresvara Pandit das: Prabhus, I have never ever ever experienced fear, anxiety, suffering like that!
I was told that the ride on the Radha Damodar bus was Prabhupada’s long-cherished dream. And because the vehicle that we had just repaired was in such first-class shape, we were informed that our bus would be used to take Srila Prabhupada and that I would be the driver and Mahamuni would be the servant and Sunanda would be the coo
Attentive Japa Brings Quality and Happiness in Our Life.
Candramauli Swami: When we try to chant our japa seriously, with attention, day after day, after day, after day, we will get the taste and begin to lose our desires for material happiness. Fast! It is all in the chanting.
But we don’t have a time for japa. We think we have to do it, and then we can “start our day”. Japa is just a “necessary botheration”. The “real thing” is to “do” things, because then we will get some “results”. “I don’
By Urmila Devi Dasi
Can we make our children turn out the way we want?
Srila Prabhupada once said, “If you place a child in good association, he will act properly, and if you place him in bad association, he will act improperly. A child has no independence in that sense.… According to Vedic civilization, as soon as a child is four or five years old, he is sent to a gurukula, where he is disciplined.”
Anyone who has worked with children knows they are vulnerable to their environment. Yet childre
By Anuradha dasi
What could be better than reading the story of a seeker who gives up everything to travel the world in search of God? Hearing that person tell the story himself. After three years in the making, Mandala Media has finally released the special collector’s edition of the audiobook for The Journey Home, in which Radhanath Swami reads the entire book.
When you listen to this audiobook you feel as if you are in his private room hearing him recount every detail of his often perilous a
They say there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe they can make things happen and those who believe things happen to them. Basically it boils down to saying that one group of people are convinced of their control over the outcome of their lives and careers, and pushes ahead while the second group kind of waits for the right opportunity.
According to a blog post published on inc.com, university of Florida psychologist Tim Judge and his colleagues have shown that those who f
Chanting is sacred communication!
(Transcribed by Madhumati Priyasaki Devi Dasi)
Mahatma Prabhu: Chanting is very important, if you strive to upgrade your chanting it will make such a huge difference in your Krishna Consciousness.
QUOTE: “Japa is not a ritual. It is not a mechanical, mindless, robotic process. It is an offering of the heart, a pleading for mercy, a begging to be accepted by the Lord. It is a crying of the soul to be engaged eternally in the Lord’s service. The emotions these m
Hearing and chanting Krishna’s names brings perfection.
Vaisesika Das: I can’t stop thinking about the big kirtans we had at ISV (our temple in San Jose, Ca) on Lord Rama’s appearance day. My mind keeps going back to those kirtans, wanting to relive them.
On that day, the devotees danced and sang together for hours in wild abandon: laughing, jumping, spinning, dancing, smiling and shouting with happiness.
I watched when a couple of devotees who arrived late walked into the big hall while the ki
Chanting the Hare Krishna maha – mantra isn’t a mundane activity but is in fact a means by which we can experience exponential spiritual pleasure.
Chanting connects us to Krishna provided we chant with utmost sincerity and seriousness. One of the most important requirements of chanting is that we should pronounce each syllable of the maha – mantra clearly and loud enough so that we can hear what we chant.
But many a times we the spiritual seekers chant inattentively without bothering if we are
This is the second, highly anticipated, rewised, and extended edition of the Vaisnava Sukta Manjari, also known as the Mantra Book. It comes as a set of two books, silk covered, in a slipcase. This book is a collection of mantras from various Vedic texts and from our Vaisnava literature that are commonly used in rituals like pujas, yajnas and samskaras.
The Hare Krsna mantra is our central mantra. However, as sadhakas, other practices support our devotional progress in addition to chanting the
