HH Bhakti Vrajendranandana Maharaja was born in Malaysia. He came to the UK to study where he joined ISKCON in 1971 in Birmingham. He was around 33 years old at the time of joining. Subhag, now swami, was his inspiration at that time and remained so throughout his life. It was there in Birmingham that I first saw him. We were both visiting the small temple at the same time and on the first occasion were the only present except Subhag swami.
He then moved to Bury Place temple in early 1972 and
Just before I came to present this class, I met Gurukripa Prabhu who said, “I am going to listen in on the radio,” to sort of put some pressure on me which I appreciated. When Srila Prabhupada wanted to build this Krsna-Balarama temple then Gurukripa Prabhu said, “Do not worry Prabhupada, I will get you the money.” In those days, it was not so easy to raise funds because there was no fame to the Hare Krsna Movement. There weren’t lots of people in India who knew about this Movement, who accep
Question: Kindly inform me on what basis we identify Krishna/Bhagavan Vigraha, which is sat chit ananda, with deity/archa which is made up of matter. I want to know the Gaudiya logic and appropriate scriptural backing.
Romapada Swami: The Personality of Godhead is the source of all energies, both material and spiritual. Because He is full of inconceivable potencies, God can convert His different potencies according to His own will, much as an expert electrician can employ the same electric ene
Mahatma das: It’s common for devotees to feel unqualified or unworthy to serve guru and Krsna. This is helpful when it is a natural symptom of spiritual advancement. But it is detrimental when, out of an unhealthy psychology, we either feel unworthy of receiving Krsna’s grace, or feel unworthy of being loved by Krsna. Spiritual unworthiness and material unworthiness are not the same. One is a by-product of a high level of Krsna consciousness and the other is a symptom of an unhealthy mental or
I eagerly gathered my utensils and ingredients to prepare my favourite Mangal* sweet—burfi. I couldn’t wait to offer this decadent, creamy, condensed milk fudge to the Lord on Diwali and Govardhan Puja. I boiled four litres of milk in a sturdy thick-bottomed pot and began to stir. “How hard could it be?” I thought. “After all, it’s just a matter of continuously stirring the milk and sugar until it’s reduced to a brown sticky mass.” But I was in for a surprise. One hour passed, and the milk redu
So we are trying our bit, almost single-handed, although the important literatures are there, Vedic literatures, four Vedas, Vedanta suttra, eighteen Puranas, hundred and eight Upanisads, then Ramayana, Mahabharata, so many, full of knowledge, transcendental knowledge. They can be distributed all over the world. But there was no organized attempt. We are just begun from 1966, this movement, Hare Krishna movement, or Krishna consciousness movement, distributing this literature. Through literatur
In 2014 Prahlada, now Panca Tattva dasa, started designing an exhibit to replace the Gita exhibit Festival of India has been using for many years. Of course nothing was wrong with the original exhibit that was being used, it is just after 12 or 15 years the exhibit needed to be replaced. Lord Krishna's words and Srila Prabhupada's purports are Guaranteed Perfect for Everyone for the next 10,000 years. Unlike Srila Prabhupada's transcendental purports, and Lord Krishna's sublime and eternal word
Dear Devotees
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
It is with a sad heart to inform the family of devotees that we have lost the association of a great general in our sankirtan army. At 3.40 am on the 30th January HH Bhaktivrajendranandana Maharaja left his body and returned to the spiritual realm. Lying in his bed in the Kuala Lumpur temple surrounded by devotees chanting the holy names His Holiness breathed his last. Although maybe not so known to the greater I
Dear Prabhuji/ Mataji,
PAMHO, AGTSP
Hare Krishna! New year greetings and the blessings of Sri Sri Radha-Madhava,Sri Sri Panchatattva and Sri Narsimhadeva to you and your family.
We are very happy to inform you that the holy place of Ganga Sagar is ready to host the upcoming Makar Sankranti & Ganga Sagar Mela (12-16 of January 2017) in Sagar Island at Lord Kapil Muni's (incarnation of Lord Vishunu)ashram at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and mother Ganges.
In every Vedic festival, the Lor
Sutapa Das: We finished counting the scores yesterday evening. More to come in, but we have to stop somewhere. Nikhil prabhu and myself went to Srila Prabhupada’s darshan room to offer him the final results. In that transcendental tirtha, Mahaprabhu’s commander-in-cheif looked effulgent and absorbed, ever exuding the purity and potency which drives this movement forward. As Prabhupada glanced over each devotee’s name, I prayed for compassion, conviction and creativity. Aside from serving the pr
Q: This is my junior year in high school and like most kids in school, this has been my hardest year. The following question keeps coming back to me.
I work hard and I don’t get the results that I want. Do I beat myself up for it and get the results I want for the next time or do I just leave it up to fate? Or for example, do I plan that I want to do certain things so I get into the college of my desire or do I just leave it up to fate or Krishna’s mercy? Because I have noticed that when I don
Modern research proves that persons who engage in hobbies that involve the brain, like reading or puzzles, are less likely to fall into the grips of mental and physical disease. What to speak of the benefits we receive by reading Bhagavad Gita everyday?
‘If one reads Bhagavad-Gita very sincerely and with all seriousness,then by the grace of the Lord the reactions of his past misdeeds will not act upon him.’ (Lord Shiva to Parvatidevi, Gita-Mahatmya 2)
Age of Mass Distraction
But reading in th
Respectfully submitted by Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Goswami
This morning we received the news that His Holiness Bhakti Vrajendranandana Swami has left his body. We have lost yet another great soul from our society.
Over the years, I have had the opportunity to associate with Maharaja during my tours in Malaysia. At the Kuala Lampur temple, I would often take prasad together with him in the VIP room. In spite of his health problems, he would amazingly pack in large amount of very good quality pras
The Hare Krishnas are something of a cultural artifact. Tied to the peace and love flower children of the 1960s, the Krishnas seemed a cultural and spiritual outgrowth of hippies who, having experimented (or continuing to experiment) with drugs, sought some sort of enlightenment unavailable or unattainable via Western religion. In a pre-9/11 world, the Krishnas could be seen as the saffron-robed devotees selling flowers, stickers, and literature at airports (as parodied in the 1980 film Airplan
Time flies by when you are reading KKSBlog! And indeed, you have been visiting the site and reading many articles. Facebook offers “Your year in review”, other sites do their annual closing year posts and KKSBlog takes the time to share what you have been reading, commenting and reacting on in 2016. So sit back and enjoy this year’s summary…
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Elementary and some secondary school students at the Govardhan Academy in Saranagati, B.C., Canada have produced an inspirational and heartfelt puppet show film of how Srila Prabhupada founded ISKCON for ISKCON’s 50th anniversary.
The forty-minute film premiered at Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati’s disappearance day at the Saranagati temple on December 17th, and was very well received. It is now available to view for free on Youtube, and the children’s stunning dedication, hard work and love fo
From retired Chinese army officers to brilliant Cambridge University students, from tour operators to politicians to jolly kung-fu teachers, here’s just a few of the many fortunate souls across the UK who’ve recently received Srila Prabhupada’s books in Chinese (Japanese & Korean too)…
(In the photo: Joyful students visiting from Taiwan take the “Perfection of Yoga” and extra “Beyond Birth and Death” copies for friends.)
(Photos by Suan Mui) Find them here: https://goo.gl/Ez0Xf9
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There are few if any greater benedictions one can receive than devotional service, for devotees their service is their life and soul and they are eager to protect at all costs. Indeed the Bhagavad-gita essentially deals with no other subject, than the subject of bhakti-yoga;
“It is understood here that Bhagavad-gita is simply expounding the science of devotional service. Devotional service is the main and sole objective. Unintelligent commentators on the Bhagavad-gita try to divert the mind of
I will never forget the moment when I heard that George Harrison had passed away, shortly after Thanksgiving in 2001. My strong feelings of separation surprised me—and made me think how important and dear George must have been to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krishna. And I remembered my own little experience with George in Bombay.
In 1974, almost exactly forty years ago, George came to visit Srila Prabhupada at Hare Krishna Land, in Juhu. I took him around the construction site, and he expressed hi
