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1. Personal Preaching:

1. Dealings:

1. Understanding – First of all it is very important to understand a person properly, before one starts actually preaching about Krishna Consciousness philosophy to newcomer.

2. Opening the talk – One must open the talk on the right footing. This requires little practice & sensitivity. One can begin with some basic questions like

where do they stay?

Whether they are having their own business/service?

In case of students: What are they studying?

How did

A few years ago, I was involved for a while with the Mayapur Master Plan and one of the plans was to create a special exhibition using hologram technology. It was interesting because they showed us a film that was made of a 3D presence on stage of Michael Jackson after he had passed on. Michael came on stage, he did his shuffle and then he sat down on a big throne. Some girls were offering him trays; I think he had seen pictures of Krsna and the gopis because it looked exactly like that. Mich

The Gita is a book about change. It’s protagonist, Arjuna, is changing his mind about leading the fight. He is having a ‘reality’ check as he faces his opponents, many of whom he knows. He is also facing the consequences of this war – no matter how important or needed, there will be much loss and disruption.

As Arjuna moves through his crisis, asking questions and seeking guidance, we learn so many things about change – both change that happens to us and change we can make happen. It’s a book

Back when I was a new aspiring devotee, and was hearing and learning the stories from the Srimad-Bhagavatam for the very first time, the story of King Indra cursed to take birth as a hog, was without a doubt one of my favorites. I first read it in the Raja-Vidya, then heard it repeated so many times in Srimad-Bhagavatam class’s, and it became more relishable with each hearing.

…At one time, Indra, the king of heaven, committed an offense at the feet of his spiritual master, and his spiritual

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Looks can be deceiving, and often far from the full story. It is said that one who laughs too much, even at small and insignificant things, may well be harboring dissatisfaction and sorrow

The mythical Saraswati forms the Hindu holy triumvirate along with the Ganga and Yamuna, and the hypothetical confluence of these three rivers in Allahabad is the source of humanity’s biggest gathering every 12 years during the Kumbh Mela.

I would like to share an interesting thing that happened with Brahmankar
Prabhu and me. A few years back, an employee of Refinery named Laxman, who
was also a pujari in a Shani/Ayyappa temple in one of the interior slum
areas of Vashinaka, invited us to do book distribution during one of the
biggest festivals in December organized by his temple.

Many people were expected, so we were very hopeful. We took books in all
languages and with great difficulty reached the temple area, located on a
hi

27th Sep is the World Tourism Day. On this occasion, Association of Tourism Service Providers of Bengal in association with India Tourism ( Govt. of India), Kolkata & Consumer Affairs, Ministry of West Bengal, Rotary Club of Kolkata, East zone, organized a tour for 50 Senior citizens to ISKCON Mayapur and Tarapith. After an inauguration festival in Kolkata, trip started at 11 am and arrived at Mayapur at 3 pm. They were greeted with warm Vaisnava welcome by Mayapur Tourism. Mayapur Tourism or

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the International Society for Krishna

Consciousness (ISKCON) in New York by our dear Srila Prabhupada. As a special offering to His

Divine Grace, the ISKCON Perth Temple with the help of the congregational devotees had planned

to hold one program every day on the Holy Name during the 18 day span of the celebration.

1. Opening Special Kirtana

Thursday 28th July represents the actual day of ISKCON’s 50 years - the astrological day whe

Krishna-kripa Prabhu wrote that at the Baltic Summer Festival in August,
in Lithuania, Bhakti Caitanya Swami shared this memory:


In the 1970s I was distributing books in Birmingham, and by 4 p.m. I had
not distributed one book.

I decided to pray to Srila Prabhupada, “I am trying to distribute your books
for your pleasure without concern for myself. Please help me.”

Then using the same lines I had used all day, I sold one book and then
another. I decided that Krishna must be pleased with

Dear Devotees,
        Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila
Prabhupada.
        Attached is the Samadhi Newsletter. I hope someone can print it out
to post it on your temple noticeboard.  Srila Prabhupada is sitting in
Samadhi in Vrndavan in the most beautiful Mandir --out of this world.  Most
of us think, "Oh, it's finally built, and that's the end of it". But, as
everything else in this world, it still has to be maintained, and it costs
money. Sometimes I'm able to do so