I was listening to a lecture of Srila Prabhupada and Prabhupada said, “Love is for Krsna.” We think we love so many things but all that love is not going to last. The only love that can last is love for Krsna; no other love can last no matter how deep it may be experienced now.
Just like between parents and children, such a deep love but then how long are the souls together. Bhagavatam looks at it from the bigger picture; from the bigger perspective of time and is pointing out to us that life-a
-An ancient secret revealed-
Would you care to know a long-forgotten secret, not even guessed at by the greatest thinkers of the modern era? It’s a simple truth that’s been continuously shrouded by the relentless, disquieting whirlwind of madness presently sweeping over the entire world. It’s this: there is no happier lifestyle than that of a celibate monk! Or, more broadly understood, accepting a simple life, beginning with a lifestyle of celibacy, for the purpose of increasing one’s love for
From Back to Godhead
By Urmila Devi Dasi
The goal was a nation of atheists. Over three generations—seventy years—the government had an explicit, determined policy to create such a nation. As in the other Soviet Republics, atheistic propaganda permeated education and social life in Armenia. Any slight practice of devotion to God, in any religion, whether public or private, often met with swift, brutal consequences.
One day in an Armenian mountain village, a typically atheistic engineer, a man we
Dark life in the locked cell of prison is really a hellish experience. Prisoners remain repentant on the misdeeds of their past lives and fully frustrated thinking on dark future. But Bhagavad Gita can bring a horizon of light and hope in their life as it describes that this material world is also a jail with continuous miseries headed by Birth-Death-Oldage-Disease and by worshipping and satisfying Lord Krishna, the President of whole creation, we can get a nice lifestyle free of sinful activit
By 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 moods invoke nourish our chanting. Krsna is moved by love, not by a parrot like
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 kirtan was roaring. The newcomers visibly turned bright, g
By Madhava Smullen
Due to significant health challenges, Hari Sauri Das has retired from active service as the Co-Director of the Bhaktivedanta Research Centre (BRC) in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Hari Sauri, well-known for his Transcendental Diary book series about his time as Srila Prabhupada’s personal servant, served with the BRC since its inception in June 2009.
From the beginning he was instrumental in its work collecting and preserving important historical documents of ISKCON’s Gaudiya Vaish
It is an arduous journey for a seed to grow into a plant and ultimately into a fruit yielding tree. Left alone in the wild, a seed may not grow as it falls on a rocky ground instead of soil. There may be too little water or too much, not enough sun light, temperature may be extremely hot or cold for it to sprout and grow into a plant. A nursery is essential to provide a controlled environment creating favorable conditions for seeds to grow roots and become plants. Further,
By Kadamba Kanana Swami
The material world that we live in has been created by the Supreme Lord and his agents. However creation of this world was not the desire of the Supreme Lord. He does not want this material world but actually we do. We, the living entities, wanted this material world because we wanted to be in a place away from Krsna where we could be the ‘Lord’ and the ultimate enjoyer. Krsna described our conditioned state of mind, how we falsely think that we are the enjoyer and the L
Every day during the auspicious Purusottama month, I read the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, “Purusottama-yoga”—“The Yoga of the Supreme Person,” in which the seventh verse is one of the most significant.
mamaivamso jiva-loke
jiva bhutah sanatanah
manah sasthanindriyani
prakrti-sthani karsati
“The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.”
I found Sril
On Sunday, May 20, 2018, a conference on Cow Culture was held at the India Community Center, Milpitas, California, which is located on the Northeastern side of the area that has become known as Silicon Valley. The conference was organized by the Om Sri Surabhi Campaign, which is running under guidance of HH Bhakti Raghava Swami.
Well known Indian social activist and member of the upper house of India’s Parliament (the Rajya Sabha) Dr. Subramanian Swamy Former Commerce, Law & Justice Minister E
Lecture on Dharma In Business Artha by His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami
(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami has preached the message of Bhagavad gita very widely, especially to the student community. He served as temple president in Mumbai, Belgaum and Vrindavan- which is the spiritual hub of world wide ISKCON temples.)
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Lecture on Inexpensive one way Fight to Goloka on 20 July 2014 at Bulgaria
(Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship.)
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Dear Maharajas and prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I am writing to invite you to participate in ISKCON’s “Spiritual Leadership: Being a Guru in ISKCON”, this upcoming February 22-25, 2015 in Mayapura.
The 4-day seminar covers many pertinent topics, including:
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
