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The day after Prabhupäda arrived a press conference was held, with all the major newspapers and television stations represented. Sitting under the glare of TV lights in the large Berkeley temple room, Prabhupäda was faced with the question, "What will happen to the movement when you die?" His answer came back immediately: "I will never die." All the guests and devotees cheered and Prabhupäda continued, “I live in my books.”

Understanding Dhruvaloka - By His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 
Dhruvaloka, or the polestar, is the abode of Lord Vishnu within this material world. Upon it there is an ocean of milk, and within that ocean there is an island known as Shvetadvipa. It is clearly indicated that this planet is situated above the seven planetary systems of the r.s.is , and because this planet is Vishnuloka, it is worshiped by all other planetary systems. Although the polestar existed before its o

Ganga Dusshera is a famous festival celebrated on the occasion of her merciful descent to earth.  A grand Ganga Puja was offered at Prabhupad ghat, highlight being the spectacular Ganga Arthi with big, bright lamps.  Srimati Ganga Devi, seated on her carrier crocodile, decorated in a new Sari and many flower garlands, accepted the puja and offerings.  Many senior vaisnavas spoke on the glories of Ganga Devi and the pastime of her appearance in the earthly planet. Lotuses and ghee lamps were dis

Pravin Wakle Prabhu and his team of young Youth Forum devotees at ISKCON Chowpatty very enthusiastically distribute books after work. Pravin works at a software firm in Lower Parel. After work he and his devotee friends put up stalls at either D-mart or at some spiritual event happening around the Thane / New Mumbai area.
Here’s one of the heart-warming experiences he told us about.
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On a Sunday we were in Juinagar distributing books near a pandal put up on the occasion of a major spiritual

May 29th, in Florence (Italy), on the occasion of the European premiere of the documentary movie “SEED The Untold Story”, some Italian devotees farmers from ISKCON SVC met Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya, eminent Indian scholar, degree in quantum physics, world-renowned environmental activist, as well as winner of the prestigious Right Livelihood Award (alternative Nobel prize).
The reason for the meeting was to invite her to the 9th European Farm Conference that will be held on September 20

Prabhupada didn’t appreciate criticism unless we had a positive correction. Otherwise it’s better to shut up.
Trivikram Swami: I heard from Prabhupada’s secretary, Upendra, that the devotees in Japan had been thrown out of the country and that our Society was in jeopardy there.
This disturbed me, as I had spent three years in Japan. I felt that the devotees there, headed by Gurukripa and Yasodanandana, were in a passionate mood to collect money.
They didn’t care about registering the Society an

The unseen merciful hand of Lord Krsna helps a determined young science student become one of Srila Prabhupada’s first Indian disciples.

I was born in Aravade, a small village in the Indian state of Maharashtra that differs little from more than seven hundred thousand others in India. After I graduated from high school, my family sent me to Bombay to study chemistry in college. But my college career was not to be.

In the year 1971, in late March, something happened to prevent me from following

Vijaya das: This festival attracts 60,000 people every year. It lasts six days, and people mostly just camp out the whole time, as we did. Ajita Prabhu (the president of New Govardhana) and his team of seventeen devotees were there to feed prasadam to the masses. They distributed thousands of plates of prasadam, and the people loved it.
Ajita arranged for a book booth right next to Govinda’s, our prasadam tent. I distributed from a table in this booth. The people were really receptive. The firs

Dear devotees everywhere: This evening we begin a 2 1/2 month summer festival tour. Myself and a team of 300 devotees will hold a festival every day of the week, except Mondays, from now until the beginning of September. It means over 50 festival programs, including the great Woodstock festival in early July where just under a million people are expected. We are beginning here in Moldova and moving to the Baltic Sea Coast in Poland next week. This is a herculean task and we beg your blessings,

The lowly leper who used to utter loudly Lord Narayan’s Name Super

Since a long time ago I longed to  write about two characters who were just beggars from material point of view. One of them was a leper and the other was a roller. By roller I mean a person who, wearing  a mere loin cloth and carrying a vessel on his right hand, used to roll up the entire stretch of Baroda Street  Chennai where my family resided during my school days ,on Saturdays calling loudly the name of Tirupathi Balaji. I us

Hare krsna dear friends!  Oh ya ya wish you a very Happy Mother’s day too :D

Hare krsna dear friends!

We all wonder about the phenomenon called love. There is no greater power in this world than the power of love. but often we misunderstand and fail to distinguish beween love and lust. few days back i was hearing some discourses by HG Balgovinda prabhu and i got to know 2 prominent symptoms of love

Before i tell you about these two most prominent symptoms, let me quickly take you through all the 9 symptoms of love as explained by Prahlad maharaj :

1. Hearing: Shravanam

whene

once a lady asks her husband, “ Mein aapke sapneme ati hu kya??? ” :p

Hare krsna dear friends. I am so excited today. You must be thinking what a joke!  Inspiration from 2 drunkards???? Are you insane! No no I am sane baba. But I do get so much of hope from the lives of these two drunkards.  ☺

About 5 centuries ago in west Bengal there lived two brothers, jagai and madhai. They were super well known for all their social welfare activities. I mean immoral activities. :p like robbery, murder, gambling, illicit affairs etc

Not only the people of nawadwip were afraid an

We all like music, songs..but there are very super serious species who will say they don’t like songs. But it’s a lie you know everyone is affected by songs..and the music of various instrument has halchal in their hearts :D

One may like a song so much so that he listens it every day, every day for a month, two months three months. chalo say for a year but not more than that..

but you know one song, a mantra is sung decades after decades, centuries after centuries in various melodies bringing chan

You must be aware of one famous idiom, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will

never hurt me. Is it real always??? I wish it could be. But in life most of our happiness and

distress is controlled by what people speak about us. isn’t it.

I remember, I was a school going kid, very sensitive one of my very good friend made fun of me

by calling ye moti, moti means a fat girl And I started crying. Hahaha.

It may be oral or written words it has a very powerful effect and sometimes one may forge