Michael Scherer: On Mother’s Day, I spoke with the president of the Hare Krishna temple in the Washington, DC area. Ananda Vrindavaneshwari Devi Dasi is widely respected and has done a lot to develop the local Hare Krishna community. We talked about her early years in Ireland, her travels, and her current work.
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By Madhava Smullen
On April 25th, twenty officials and staff from the Israeli Embassy, including a representative from its Community Relations office, visited ISKCON of Washington D.C.
“Part of their community relations involves interacting with and learning about different religious communities,” says Amrita Hari of ISKCON Communications, which is based in D.C.
“When they wanted to visit a Hindu temple, they approached the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), an advocacy group that has had a goo
The Jagrata Chatra Samaj is a Spiritual Academy for Formation and Education (SAFE), an outreach program specifically aimed for students from schools and colleges in West Bengal, India. Their goal is to improve the quality of students within society at large in order to promote the long-term wellbeing of Srila Prabhupada’s movement and its members.
A team of eleven devotees goes to different schools and colleges in Nadia, Barddhaman, Murshidabad and Midnapore Districts of West Bengal and holds
By Mukunda Bhakti Das
10th May was the day of joy for the Hindu prisoners at Chittagong’s prison-house. With the help of the Chittagong jail administration and the support of ISKCON Chittagong divisional committee in Bangladesh, devotees of ISKCON Nandankanan Sri Sri Radha Madhav temple & Sri Sri Gour Nitai Ashram organized a wonderful event in Chittagong central jail for the Hindu prisoners.
ISKCON Nandankanan distributed copies of the Bhagavat-gita and prasadam among 300 prisoners as well as
By BB Govinda Swami
I think it is one thing to join the Krishna consciousness movement, it is one thing to just sort of float on whatever is happening within the Krishna consciousness movement and it’s another thing to actually take control of the situation and have the determination to advance in Krishna consciousness.
As we mentioned before it appears that some people come to Krishna consciousness and they just float in whatever is going on and then there is some type of awakening process a
Comment:
The process of surrender is meant to be dynamic and continuous. To accept favourable things and reject the unfavourable things, however is not an easy process. Even if we know that ultimately Krsna protects us, it is still not easy to surrender in the moment.
Kadamba Kanana Swami:
Let me read that again and start commenting; “The process of surrender is meant to be dynamic and continuous.”
Well, sometimes it appears that the process of surrender is not so dynamic. Sometimes it seems tha
By Padmapani das
When I first joined the temple in the early ’70s, our main service was to go out and distribute BTG’s—or Back to Godhead magazines—in the streets of downtown Vancouver and Victoria. The devotees wore thin cotton dhotis and saris (even in cold weather), and carried sticks of incense in hand. Sometimes we traveled east to places like Calgary, Alberta in mid-winter. To stay warm we had to run from person to person in mall parking lots offering people sticks of incense in minus 30
This may be useful to you or your Recommended Vows for Purusottama Month
Please note that these are the recommended vratas described in Padma Purana Purusottama Mahatyam. We are sure Prabhupada will help you honor this month nicely.
Rise Brahma-muhurta DAILY (bm means one hour before sunrise till one hour; if sunrise at 6am then bm starts 4:30 goes to about 5 a.m.) Means taking rest EARLY
*Purusottama masa(adhik mas) is starting from 16th May 2018 and it will end on 13th June 2018*.
*In Karthik masa* Any spiritual activity done will give thousands times benefit than doing same activity on normal day to him/her.
*In Purusottama masa* Any spiritual activity done will give thousands times benefit than doing same activity on 1 day of Kartik masa to him/her. So you calculate how much Spiritual benefit anyone can get in this month.
To know more about Purusottama masa click on this lin
This year Purushottama Masa falls in the period 18 August to 15 September 2012
Activities for the most auspicious Purushottama Month
1. Establish the Deity/photo of Sri Sri Radha Krishna in your home and worship Them with love and devotion.
2. Offer daily puja by chanting the mahamantra; Chant as many rounds of Hare Krsna Mantra as possible: hare krishna hare Krishna krishna krishna hare hare / hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
3. Study
I. Introduction
Purusottama month, or adhika masa (extra month) is also called mala masa (dirty month) by the performers of karma-kanda because they cannot get any material fruitive results from their worship during this month. Our acaryas say it is called mala masa because devotional activities performed in this month destroy the dirt and contamination caused by sins. It is called adhika (extra) masa because Sri Krsna has placed all His potencies, mercy, blessings in this month, and also because
The Glories of Purushottama Month (from the Padma Purana)
Once upon a time, thousands of sages came together in the holy place called Naimisaranya to perform sacrifice. To their very good fortune the great sage Suta Goswami, who had been traveling to different pilgrimage sites, arrived there along with his disciples. The sages present were very enlivened to see him. They all stood up immediately to pay their respects to the great sage, offered him a very nice Vyasasana, and requested him with fol
Performing Bhakti to the Supreme Lord Purushottama
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(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
Last week, our beloved Gurudeva H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj, was in Singapore and it was a totally blissful week for all of us. We thank Maharaja profoundly for taking the pain to come to Singapore at this age and enlightening us. I also thank H G Kalacakra prabhuji who was with us for a couple of days and whose presence ga
Once upon a time, thousands of sages came together in the holy place called Naimisaranya to perform sacrifice. To their very good fortune the great sage Suta Goswami, who had been traveling to different pilgrimage sites, arrived there along with his disciples. The sages present were very enlivened to see him. They all stood up immediately to pay their respects to the great sage, offered him a very nice Vyasasana, and requested him with folded hands to sit down on it.
T
…Once upon a time, thousands of sages came together in the holy place called Naimisaranya to perform sacrifice. To their very good fortune the great sage Suta Goswami, who had been traveling to different pilgrimage sites, arrived there along with his disciples. The sages present were very enlivened to see him. They all stood up immediately to pay their respects to the great sage, offered him a very nice Vyasasana, and requested him with folded hands to sit down on it.
The sages of Naimisaranya sa
By BB Govinda Swami
One should feel oneself meek and humble and also has to tolerate. Tolerance without any limits. Krishna will do this to us because that’s the standard. He’ll do it to us. It’s not that He dislikes us for a moment. But He will test our tolerance until the end of our ability to tolerate anything. We think: “After this point I’m gonna go crazy”. And Krishna says “Ok” and will push us a few kilometres beyond that point, to make us see that we have to tolerate everything without
By Madhava Smullen
The Jaguar’s Story, a brand new children’s book by Kosa Ely (Kosarupa Dasi) about the plight of Jaguars in the Amazon rainforest, was released on April 21st at the Earth Day Festival in Orlando, Florida.
The book, which inspires care for Mother Earth, had its own booth at the festival’s Kids’ Zone, with large posters of its stunning artwork attracting passersby. Kids begged for the book, while parents and grandparents were excited to meet the author and get autographed copie
By Abhay Charan Nimai Dasa
“If you want to experience the real nectar, then go on padayatra.”
One day I met Akhila Dhara Prabhu, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada, who told me boldly, “If you want to experience the real nectar, then go on Padayatra”. So I decided to go, thinking, “If I am not going for ever, then at least I should go for a week.” So, on March 13th I joined the Padayatra India party, then in Bangalore, Karnataka. First I saw the magnificent oxen of the Kankrej breed, and I
