By Hari Narayana Das
Sunday night, Cilegon was hot. The moon is not round yet, dimly lighted lights on both sides of the road stretching approximately 250 meters full of people on both sides. Young-old, male-female. All liked getting out of the corners of the City. At 07.00 PM the music thrashed. All participants gathered behind the stage except the Lord Jagannath, Lord Baladeva, and Subadra Devi sat on the chariot beside the honored guest stage.
Cilegon Night festival, that was the theme of th
“Simple Living — High Thinking” is a Strategic Partnership project involving youth workers and youth from 5 partner organisations from Sweden, Belgium, Hungary, Slovenia, and Czech. All the organisations are active in youth work, connected with areas of self-sustainability, healthy lifestyles, and youth employment. The partners expressed their mutual interest in creating a network based on strong partnerships aimed to connect more and exchange the good practices in relevant areas of their work.
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Question: What is the highest act we may perform to attract the mercy of Radharani?
To serve Lord Nityananda. Radharani is so exhalted and pure that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati instructed that only those who are liberated and in the madhurya-rasa can go to Srimati Radharani, while everyone else must go to Lord Nityananda. You can think of it as two counter windows at the ‘Mercy Office’. On Radharani’s counter, there is a sign that reads ‘Liberated souls only!‘ And then you have Lord Nityana
By Kadamba Kanana Swami
We live in a society that is based on passion and ignorance. This is all we know; nothing else. We have become conditioned by this society and continue to remain frustrated and unfulfilled by it. Even when we come into contact with spiritual life, we become convinced by transcendental knowledge to a degree and prepare to take up the process, however, still we find it very difficult to fully enter into the culture of Srimad Bhagavatam. If for instance, we come together wi
For the first time, by the presence of all prominent ISKCON Leaders of Bangladesh, “Servant Leaders Applied Training and Education (SLATE)” camp are successfully completed this week. The whole camp was conducted by H.G. Radheshyam Das, Youth revolutioner, and president of ISKCON Pune, India. All the youth leaders of Bangladesh, especially general secretory of ISKCON Bangladesh, H.G.Charuchandra Das Brahmacari, joint secretory of ISKCON Bangladesh, H.G.Jagatguru Gouranga Das Brahmacari, ISKCON C
By Bhakta Mohana Rangan
Sri Chaitanya caritamritam Tamil book release
05th May 2018, Saturday
Dear maharajas/Prabhujis/mathajis,
All Glories to Sri Guru And Gauranga!!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
All Glories to Sri Chaitanya caritamritam!!
“While I was at the school in Medinipur [in 1868] I decided that I would obtain and read books on Vaisnava dharma. At the Medinipur school there was a jati vaisnava pandit. I learned from speaking with him that Chaitanya Prabhu preached the vaisnava-dh
By Darpa-ha Krishna Das
Miracles are not uncommon in the pastimes and seva of the Lord, and certainly the TOVP Euro Tour is a current example of how the Lord reciprocates with His devotees, blesses them and simultaneously fulfills His own purposes, in this case the building of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium and manifestation of His own prophecy of the adbhuta mandir.
From April 10th – 27th, history was created as Jananivas and Braja Vilas prabhus, led by Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord
By Kesava Krsna Dasa
For some reason the subject of womanhood and the roles they play within our midst has raised strong feelings, usually centred on celibacy and the potential for victimisation. This shows that women are not really the problem – our inordinate fixation on matters ‘celibate’ is the problem.
On one hand, a section of us wants a ‘purity’ of spiritual existence based on strict traditional chastity roles for our women – though various interpretations of them differ, and on the othe
By Karnamrita Das
Who are we really—
beyond who we settle for
without thinking too deeply
as most just blindly accept
as normal, conventional identities
that we’ve learned from others
and from our educational system
so it must be true, right?
Is it really a fact that
we’re our past sad or happy history?
What about our genes, race, ethnicity,
our skin color, occupation,
economic status, religious
institution, sect, or sanga,
state or region, political party,
conservative or liberal bend,
or our
By Karnamrita Das
While the experience that prompted this free verse poem wasn’t planned, it was welcome, and seen as an occasion for reflection. Association with saints is desirable for developing good qualities, and yet being with our peers or people in general can also foster our personal and spiritual growth, because in their company who we are as a person is revealed and we may discover part of the spiritual work we have left to do. Anyone can be our teacher if we have the humility to be op
My Dear Vaishnava’s,
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
With the increase in the number of our congregational members and being inspired by our beloved His Grace Gargamuni prabhu and under the blessings of His Holiness Bir Krishna Das Goswami, we have started a Vaishnava Care Team (VCT) here in ISKCON Suva, Fiji Islands so that our devotees and members can be taken care off when they are in desperate needs.
Now that many of our devotees are getting old, becoming
Kirtan means that we have to listen. Just like in chanting japa, in kirtan there is also inattentive chanting. Inattentive chanting means that we sing something else than what the leader is singing and that is what you are doing. Of course, it is very beautiful what you are singing but it is something else. So let us try again. There are some varieties in the tune, it is not just staying the same all the time which means that you have to really listen each time and not go on automatic pilot. Th
By Chaitanya Charan Das
Sometimes when we commit mistakes, we may become embarrassed, irritated or enraged with ourselves. If we become excessively disturbed, that often becomes a second mistake. By fretting or seething, we waste the time and energy that could have been used for rectification. Certainly we need to learn from our mistakes, but learning requires calmness, which is lost when we let ourselves over-react.
To calm ourselves, we can contemplate how Krishna is always in control and ho
By Ananda Vrindavaneswari Devi Dasi
We often speak about the importance of carefully hearing the maha-mantra while we chant our japa (meditation with beads). We don’t often speak about being as careful when we sing the maha-mantra together in kirtan.
Perhaps it’s because it’s easier to tune in the mind when there are instruments, and a variety of tunes and rhythms, and lots of voices in the chorus. Music is so powerful. But one can also easily tune out. Hearing sacred sound with intention allow
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
This is to inform you of some important changes in the management of the Bhaktivedanta Research Centre (BRC) in Kolkata.
As you know the BRC has for the last nine years been collecting and preserving important historical documents of our Gaudiya Vaisnava lineage as per the instructions of Srila Prabhupada. We have a current catalogue of over 20,000 works.
For example:
· We recently acquired from the
By Mukunda Bhakti Das
Devotees of ISKCON Nandankanan make the prisoners dance in ecstasy.
10th May was the day of immense joy of the Hindu Prisoners of Chittagong prison-house. With the help of 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 organised a wonderful event inside Chittagong central jail for the hindu prisoners. ISKCON Nandankanan distribute
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Compassionate Mahatma Vidura could not stand to see the Pandavas distressed at any time. Therefore he did not disclose this unpalatable and unbearable incident because calamities come of their own accord. [SB 1.13.13]
PURPORT by Srila Prabhupada
According to Niti-sastra (civic laws) one should not speak an unpalatable truth to cause distress to others. Distress comes upon us in its own way by the laws of nature, so one should not aggravate it by propaganda. For a compassionate sou
It is well known that chanting the holy name in good company is easier than doing so alone. This holds true both for japa and kirtan. When we chant in a group of devotees, we co-create a devotional energy and atmosphere that we get to enter into together. It is therefore said that sankirtana (kirtana performed with others) can create such extraordinary delight in the chanter that he or she will find it easy to remain focused on the holy name and experience divine taste in chanting.
But alas, ch
