You may already know what an amazing event ISKCON Leadership Sanga is, with over a thousand ISKCON leaders and potential leaders, like yourself, from around the world attending. Many will share their skills and knowledge through a wide variety of presentations, seminars, and workshops.
This spectacular event will run from February 4 – 11, 2018 at Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir, Sri Dhama Mayapur, India.
The overarching theme of the ILS 2018 will be “keep the wheels moving” an expre
By Kadamba Kanana Swami
If Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura would be with us today then he would be a BBT man because he was trained by this father, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, in publishing books. He published so many varieties of books and magazines. Book distribution is a natural thing…
Srila Prabhupada was carrying forward that mood of his spiritual master. Even in the war in 1944, Srila Prabhupada produced a ‘Back to Godhead’ magazine as part of his mission. This was very difficult t
By Bhaktimarga Swami
By Kadamba Kanana Swami
Printing books certainly is our family business. There is no doubt about that. Although the early days of ISKCON were centred around harinama and distribution of magazines on the street still Prabhupada printed books. Prabhupada had arranged books to be printed and there were basements filled with books and no one knew what to do with them.
So the books were being stored in the basement but one devotee in particular, Buddhimanta, once he took some of these books with him
By Purushottam Kumar
While being crucified, Jesus cried. But he did not cry for himself, instead he cried for those who were committing the gravest sin. Jesus was continuously praying to God to forgive those who were menacingly torturing and trying to kill him. Jesus, the son of God, had come to this world to spread the message of peace and love and to effect this change he was ready to sacrifice everything. This is the foremost quality of a holy man, for spreading God consciousness he is ready
By Vaisesika Das
The Prabhupada Marathon Is Mere Nostalgia, Right?
Wrong!
Nostalgia is nothing more than a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past. Sréla Prabhupada’s Marathon, the worldwide end-of-year push by ISKCON devotees to increase book distribution, is far from sentimental; rather, it motivates action now and increases the practical results. It is just as important today as it was in December of 1972 when the devotees in Los Angeles, California, started this now-traditiona
Dear Devotee,
Since Christmas is just a few days away, I thought it would be appropriate and enlightening to look at Prabhupada’s views on Christmas and Christ.
May you always think of Krsna,
Mahatma Das
Prabhupada didn’t see Christianity, or any bona fide religion, as different from Vaisnavism.
“This awakening of pure love of God is the ultimate perfection of all bona fide religious principles including Christian, Judaic, Mohammedan, Hindu, etc. Just as it is recorded that Lord Jesus Chris
The ISKCON annual book distribution marathon is currently underway at Mayapur in Nadia district, the spiritual headquarters of the institution.
All the centres of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) worldwide hold the marathon every year where religious books are distributed among the people.
The marathon is held throughout the month of December.
The objective of the ceremony is to realise the dream of the founder, Acharya of ISKCON A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhu
By Chaitanya Charan Das
The notion of miracles is often seen as antithetical to science. Miracles connote sudden, arbitrary and even disorderly events that go against the natural order of things – such as the parting of seas or the lifting of mountains or walking on water. Science involves a meticulous study of the natural order, a study that leads to adoration and even adulation of nature and its laws, which are sometimes enshrined as if supreme.
Miracles are frequently associated with God, w
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Srila Prabhupada’s spiritual master, is my grand spiritual master, but I feel that I never really knew him that well until I read his biography Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava by my godbrother Bhakti Vikasa Swami. Many of the quotes and references below come from that work, which has helped bring me closer to my spiritual grandfather.
We are all here by the mercy of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna Caitan
all glories and praises to Lord Krisna and all of His devotees !
This is a wonderful venue to collect inspiration and advice on how to lead a proper human life. I am experiencing a dilemma which I hope others can clarify for me spiritually.
I would like to know if it is considered to be a sin and/or offense for a woman to cut her hair under the following circumstances:
I have not cut it in a very long time (probably 5-8 years), so it was getting to be a nice length but has always been very thin a
By Ramai Swami
I was recently in Perth and attended the Sunday program where I led kirtana and gave class. As always, it’s always a pleasure visiting the devotees as well greeting new guests.
There were many nice questions and comments and afterwards I personally thanked devotees for generously donated to the ToVP project in Mayapur.
A few weeks before the fundraising team had visited the temple and were very happy with the result of their efforts.
The quality of humility and the quality of being able to develop love of God come together. It is not possible to develop love of God if there is no humility in our hearts. A person who is proud, how can he hear!? His ears are blocked because he is overwhelmed by his own ideas that he cannot even hear what everyone else says. But if one is humble, then one can think, ‘Yes, I need mercy.’
So a humble personality is eager to hear and being eager to hear from superior personalities also brings abo
ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY
Registration Number S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961
P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal 741313
MINUTES OF THE MIDTERM GENERAL MEETING
UJJAIN, MP, OCTOBER 9-17, 2017
Section 100: APPOINTMENTS
101. GBC Officers and Members
1. Hridayananda Das Goswami is elected as a GBC member with zonal responsibility for Brazil.
2. Acyutatma Das is elected as a GBC member with zonal responsibilities for Moscow and St.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura:
From a conversation with Mr. N. Bardaloi on October 8, 1928:
“Mahaprabhu revealed the welfare system of the Srimad-Bhagavatam: vedyam vastavam atra vastu sivadam tapa-trayonm lanam, ‘The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.2) The Srimad-Bhagavatam’s welfare process was discovered and refined by Sri Caitanyadeva, and it is alone auspicious, because it alo
We are gathered on the most auspicious occasion of the disappearance anniversary of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja Prabhupada, the spiritual master of our Srila Prabhupada. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was born in Jagannatha Puri as the son of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who was a magistrate and the superintendent of the Jagannatha temple in Puri. At that time, during the British rule, the position of magistrate was very important, and rare for an
By Indradyumna Swami
We participated in “Color Splash” a multi-cultural festival in Durban, South Africa. Various ethnic groups showed off the best of their music, dance and theater. It began with a parade along the beachfront with Zulu warriors, Scottish bagpipes, boy scouts, a marching band and of course our blissful harinama. At the festival site we were prominent with kirtan, prasadam distribution and a Holi festival; throwing colored dyes to the accompaniment of a blissful kirtan. My addr
