Jayapataka Swami Official Health Update 26/02/16 (8:50 Mayapur time)
Jayapataka Swami is now out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the specialist hospital in Delhi. He was transferred to a private room within the same hospital and is responding quite well to the treatment. The doctors are reporting his progress as promising.
Jayapataka Swami has been receiving get-well-soon video messages and he is happy to receive good reports about the developments in Mayapur with the gathering of over ISKC
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By Nimai Pandit dasa
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
20th Anniversary of his departure
A brief life history
Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami appeared in this world on the 2nd of September 1929 in the village of Jagannatha-puri, in the Indian state of Orissa (Odisha). Both the paternal and maternal sides of his family had been very strict Vaisnavas for many, many centuries.
His father, Isvara Manik, was from a long line of Gaudiya Vaisnavas and his mother, Pata Devi, was from the famous village of Or
The ISKCON Leadership Sanga is in full swing in Mayapur!
BB Govinda Swami: We have had 2 full days of ISKCON Leadership Sanga since I last posted.
The meeting opens daily at 10 AM with a plenary session with keynote addresses presented by an variety of the wonderful servants of ISKCON.
Then the delegates break out into a vast array of seminars.
More than 1,000 ISKCON leaders have come from around the globe to associate, hear seminars, share their experiences, and come “up to date” with ISKCON’s
HH Kadamba Kanana Swami’s health update: After a successful 2nd operation on Wednesday afternoon Maharaja was recovering on Thursday and Friday morning. Kadamba Kanana Swami is currently recovering from the operation at the Durban temple. If his health permits, he will give SB class Saturday at 11 am SAST which will be streamed live in Mayapur.tv.
Source: http://m.dandavats.com/?p=19303
Tiny ‘alien’ caught on CCTV cameras as it floats around in mid-air then strolls down street – Mirror Online
A bizarre creature filmed ‘hovering’ in the street has caught the eye of conspiracy theorists – who believe it could be an alien. The odd object was reportedly filmed by CCTV cameras in Diyarbakir, Turkey, before the video was shared thousands of times online.
The grainy footage shows the weird creature, only thought to be about a foot tall, moving slowly around the street. At one stage,
Day 3 of ILS: ISKCON 50 is our big chance for a global impact
25th February 2016, Mayapur, India
By Romapada Das
The third day of the ILS started with a presentation on ISKCON’s 50th anniversary by Anuttama Das, GBC Minister for Communications and Pancharatna Das, Executive Member of the International Fiftieth Anniversary Committee.
They spoke about the importance of the 50th as an opportunity for glorifying Prabhupada, educating the public, celebrating achievements, appreciating devotees an
Dear Friends,
We are going out to Calais next week, we will cook for over a thousand people, plus bring lots of fruits,cake,clothes,and a big trailer of fire wood(for people’s cooking and staying warm). 6,000 people are living in damp tents and these mornings as so frosty, as always we need help. Also need help with our on going 1,000 meals daily.
Yours Para (Director of Food for All)
Parasuram and Jennie Matthias would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all the people
I lived in Highland Mills from the age of five months to four years old, almost five. I have found that my early memories are not always accurate when it comes to time frames, sometimes it happens that I thought an event took place at one point in time but later I realized it had to have taken place at another. But we moved to Newburgh just before I was five and moved from there just after I turned eig
Excerpt form lecture by HH Lokanath Swami
"The first ever Ratha Yatra in the Western world"
The first ever Ratha Yatra in the Western world took place. That was in San Francisco in 1966. There were 10,000 Americans attending that Ratha Yatra in the Golden Gate park, famous park. When I heard those numbers, I was thinking maybe they are just talking, maybe little, someone just making numbers. But very recently, I saw the footage of Yadubara Prabhu, a Prabhupada disciple. He has made almost a movie,
By HariKirtan Das
There are around six lakhs or more villages in India stretching north, east, west and south. Though certain features like muddy roads, thorny bushes, open drains, narrow roads, etc. are common features in all villages but distinctly the culture, topography, food, lifestyle, occupations, etc. still vary distinctly from place to place all over India.
After preaching in the States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh since the last few months, preaching in Khargone District villages o
It was July 1972. For one of the first events in his Hare Krishna Festivals UK program, organizer Tribhuvanath Das – then in his early twenties – had Srila Prabhupada himself as the VIP guest.
Speaking to 500 people packed into Glasgow’s Woodside Hall in Scotland, Prabhupada delivered an incisive non-sectarian lecture. All bonafide religions, he said, teach us how to love and serve God, no matter what name they call Him by.
Prabhupada’s power and clarity had the entire audience rising to their
25th February 2016, Mayapur, India
By Romapada Das
On the second day of the ISKCON Leadership Sanga, Praghosa Das, the GBC Chairman presented several quotes of how Srila Prabhupada’s appearance was predicted in many scriptures and spiritual masters. Titled, ‘The greatest story ever told’, his presentation pointed out the five steps Srila Prabhupada had taken to make his institution more effective:
Founding ISKCON
Accepting the honorific title ‘Prabhupada’
Establishing his role as the ‘Fou
Invitation for Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2016.
Dear Gaura bhaktas,
With great pleasure we invite all of you to participate in Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2016.
ISKCON’s Golden Jubilee year promises to be very special for the pleasure of our Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He wanted all of us to follow in the footsteps of the previous acharyas, and make Mayapur, Sri Navadvipa Dhama very famous around the world.
Last year, Parikrama was an ecstatic e
You might have heard it or already seen messages on various Facebook groups or even on Dandavats. Kadamba Kanana Swami was diagnosed with rectal cancer and is currently treated for this in Durban, South Africa. The latest update (Health Update #4) was just published.
“Wednesday 25th of Feb there was a second operation. The results came in today (thursday) and the conclusion was that the surrounding tissues is tumor free. The doctors are advising oral chemotherapy. Maharaja is feeling nauseated
First Meaning: –
Srila Jiva Gosvami reveals the meaning of each of the sixteen Names in the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra in his Mahaa-mantrartha Dipika as follows: –
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
(1-Hare)
Krishna steals the minds of everyone, yet Radha steals even His mind by Her divine expertise. Thus She is known as Haraa.
(2-Krishna)
He forcibly attracts Sri Radha with the sweet sound of His flute, therefore that Lord of all enchantin
TEXT 16
evam pravartitam cakram
nanuvartayatiha yah
aghayur indriyaramo
mogham partha sa jivati
nanuvartayatiha yah
aghayur indriyaramo
mogham partha sa jivati
SYNONYMS
evam—thus prescribed; pravartitam—established by the Vedas; cakram—cycle; na—does not; anuvartayati—adopt; iha—in this life; yaḥ—one who;aghāyuḥ—life full of sins; indriya-ārāmaḥ—satisfied in sense gratification;mogham—useless; pārtha—O son of Pṛthā (Arjuna); saḥ—one who does so;jīvati—lives.
TRANSLATION
My dear Arjuna, a man who does not follow this prescribed Vedic system of sacrifice certainly lea
My first meeting with my guru HDG Gour Govinda Maharaja
Life went on. I forgot all about Krishna. I am an ordinary conditioned soul. In the Summer of 1969 we moved even further Upstate in New York to a village named Whitehall. Before moving we went to a house nearby and a girl had the album Hair which had the chanting of Hare Krishna on it. I listened to it and she told me it was somehow about God. I wanted to listen more but we never went back to their ho
Krishna is the real husband.
Ruchika Srivastava: I have written this poem based on Srimad Bhagavatam slokas 5.18.19-21, where Laxmi Devi says that Krishna is the real husband of all living entities.
“Seeking a husband for protection,
Of children, wealth and life’s duration.
Seekers of such a benediction.
Dwell in the kingdom of illusion.
Says LaxmiDevi with compassion
And guides us to this illumination.
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Dependent on karmic reactions
Based on past fruitive actions
Who himself needs supreme pr
Hari Hari!!
Bhaktin Jamuna: All must chant this whether in a dhoti or sari.
You may worship Govardha as Giriraj or Giridhari.
But whenever you hear these names approach the sound vibration quick be in a hurry.
There is danger at every step but just proceed don’t worry.
Because ito Harih parato Harih !
Plus Sri Nimai instructs us kirtaniyah sada Harih !
—
This maha mantra is like music to the ears.
O jivas! lets opt for relishing it in these 10 000 years.
To the heart it brings joy and to the ey
Dear Gaura Bhaktas
With great pleasure we invite all of you to participate in Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2016.
ISKCON’s Golden Jubilee year promises to be very special for the pleasure of our Founder Acharya His Divine
Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He wanted all of us to follow in the footsteps of the previous
acharyas, and make Mayapur, Sri Navadvipa Dhama very famous around the world.
Last year, Parikrama was an ecstatic experience for so many devotees from many differe
