Audience at the Joy of Devotion's London premiere
Feedback is now flooding in from audiences around the world who have watched the first comprehensive documentary film made about ISKCON in 30 years – “The Joy of Devotion,” released on December 10th for Gita Jayanti.
In the 86-minute feature, the people of the Hare Krishna Movement share how Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON and devotion to Lord Krishna changed their lives, and how in turn they’re trying to make a difference in the world.
Viewing it h
Chaitanya Charan Das: Question – When Ajamila chanted the names of Lord Hari with the wrong conception (i.e. with the conception of his son), then why did Vishnudutas appear over there?
Answer– Acharyas have explained that initially Ajamila chanted the names of Narayana with the thoughts of his son in his mind but as he called out his son, ‘Narayana’, the Lord’s name invoked the true knowledge in his mind. At that time when he saw Yamadutas coming towards him, he immediately realized, based on
Today, Sri Prahlad prabhu gave the Sunday morning Srimad Bhagavatam talk from Canto 9, Chapter 19 (King Yayati achieves Liberation), verse 20.
In this verse, King Yayati is explaining to his wife the futility of pursuing material happiness. As a part of the royal family, they had ample resources to enjoy for a long time. Having taken youth from his son, the King was able to enjoy the vigour of his body as much as he wanted. However, as time passed, he gradually realised that it was a shallow lif
In the 1960s and 70s, young people all over America experimented with various drugs – LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, Marijuana, and others – hoping to taste something sublime.
Many of the popular songs of that era reflect the culture’s fascination with drugs and the possibilities they seemed to present. For instance, in 1967, the band, Jefferson Airplane, released the song, White Rabbit , and songwriter, Jimi Hendrix, sang, Purple Haze . These thematic songs, and many others of the time, inspired t
Mahatma das: Chanting means to enter Krishna’s world and put your world on hold.
It’s so ironic sometimes, when we’re chanting instead of being absorbed in Krishna or krishna leela or something about Krishna we are absorbed about what am I going to do later today, the problems I have to solve, the appointments I have to meet etc. So we’re actually absorbed in our world rather than Krishna’s world and to me that’s quite ironic because we are chanting Krishna’s Holy Names. In the more advanced st
On one occasion, when Srila Prabhupada, and Goursundar and I, arrived in San Francisco, there was a new painting of Narada Muni hanging on the temple wall. I was impressed. It was one of Jadurani’s latest works. Jadurani’s technique had improved immeasurably, and her proportions were also much better. Her colors were more subtle, so the painting showed great technical improvement over her past works. Looking at it from a purely technical point of view, as a trained artist, it was indeed much be
From Back to Godhead
Though Prabhupada was present for only the first eleven years of ISKCON’s fifty-year history, he continues to guide and inspire his followers to expand what he began.
“It’s an astonishing story. If someone told you a story like this, you wouldn’t believe it. Here’s this person, he’s seventy years old, he’s going to a country where he’s never been before, he doesn’t know anybody there, he has no money, has no contacts. He has none of the things, you would say, that make for
Bhale Bharath, a non-religious socio-cultural mission based in Bangalore, recently conferred the Bhale Bharath Award of Excellence to Bhaktivedanta Research Centre on 15th March 2017 at Seshadripuram College, Bangalore.
BRC was honored for its outstanding contribution in the preservation and dissemination of ancient Indian Cosmology, Vedic Wisdom and Vaishnavism. Sriman Gangadas Prabhu received the award behalf of BRC.
During the interactive session, Sriman Gangadas Prabhu explained the mission
You cannot just love like that. At first, love is in practice. We can say, love-under-construction just as in work-in-progress. So called love-at-first-sight does not go so deep. Love at first sight may be the initial attraction but how deep does it go?
Love for Krsna develops by finding out more and more about Krsna: who he is, what he does, what he says, what he likes… and then, if we begin to act in such a way that is pleasing to Krsna, then gradually everything becomes favourable.
Then we b
Question: Our BG discussion group has been rambling for lack of our ability to grapple with the meaning of ‘ego’. All of us generally agree that spirituality is about surrendering the ego or getting rid of 'I-consciousness’. But understanding it conceptually itself seems a challenge. We discussed 'I am not the body, I am the soul’, and 'I am the eternal servant of the lord’ aspects. We also cited the example of sage Valmiki - he must have lost consciousness of body altogether. We would apprecia
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Question: It is said that God is present everywhere. But I don’t perceive his presence anywhere. Can you explain?
Radhanath Swami: To connect to the Divine presence of God within ourselves and within everything that exists cannot be done with our senses, no matter what microscopes or telescopes we use, no matter how many degrees we have or how many books we memorize. Our sciences may be very helpful in dealing with the temporary problems of this material world, but to actually connect to the Di
ISKCON Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada says, “Bhagavad Gita is the essence of Vedic knowledge and one of the most important Upanisads in the Vedic literature whose purpose is to deliver mankind from the nescience of material existence and is devoid of any religion.” (25 March, 2017) Saturday festival in ISKCON Temple, Budanilkantha, Kathmandu with social activist, CNN-hero and the founder of Maiti Nepal, Anuradha Koirala and Actress Rekha Thapa. Actres
Bhakta Dasa: Our team just completed our display at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show.
First time entry and they expect about 200,000 people to visit over the next 5 days.
We presented Radha and Krishna in the forest of Vrindavan.
The title of our entry is “ SPIRITUAL VISION”.
THANKS to all that helped with this preaching adventure.
Remember a posting about Srimad Bhagavatam set distribution in Sri Lanka at schools? (Read it below)
Well, today I saw how they do it. Amazing. I’m in Sri Lanka for a week. The day after I arrived I was taken to a meeting of government officers, where the devotees were going to distribute sets.
Six of us went into the meeting room, and about ten people at the front stood waiting to enthusiastically put garlands on us. A very respectful, good way to start.
About a hundred people were in the room
Who were we in our past life? Ever thought about that. Maybe we were already devotees in our last life and blew it up so we have come back again; it’s possible. On the other hand, it might also have been that we were a worm and some vaisnava spat and it landed on our head and by that we attained human birth now and our devotional service has begun. It could also have been that we were a rat in our last life and somehow or other ate some prasadam and that is why we still have a rat like mentalit
The appearance day of Lord Ramacandra falls on Wednesday, 5th April this year.
So Ramayana, Valmiki Ramayana, not other Ramayana, the so-called Ramayana... Authority, Valmiki Ramayana. If you read Valmiki Ramayana, that is also as good as reading Bhagavad-gita.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 7.1 -- October 9, 1975, Durban
I have a great desire to translate the Valmiki Ramayana because that is authorized. Tulsi das' Charit manas is already translated into English by some clergyman, but I do
Along with their parents children guided by Magini Mataji, Yuliya Mataji and other devotees with great enthusiasm celebrated Gauranga Mahaprabhu's appearance day.
Hare Krishna!
On March 12, we celebrated first Gaura Purnima festival at Rasamrita Kunj.
Main concept of Rasamrita Kunj project is to create a place where devotees could feel Mayapur Dham being manifested to as much as possible extend. To achieve that a lot of factors were considered. Though no matter how good development could be without kirtan and katha in association with sincere and exalted devotees of Gauranga Mahaprabhu it will not be possible to feel and appreciate the nature and mercy of S
From the Govinda Bhasya commentary on Vedanta by Acharya Srila Baldeva Vidyabhushana:
Some may quote several passages of the scriptures to identify the Supreme Brahman as someone else than Lord Visnu, or to prove that the creation can have a cause different than Him. Here are some examples:
[From Adhikarana 8 of 4th pada of 1st chapter of Govinda Bhasya:]
The Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad explains:
kṣaraṁ pradhānam amṛtākṣaraḥ haraḥ
“Material nature is in constant flux and the Supreme, Lord Hara is eternal
