ISKCON Communications Conference 2016.
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of ISKCON we have a very interesting and rich Conference with many known speakers:
- Srila Prabhupada The Greatest Communicator by Anuttama prabhu
- How to discuss and resolve controversial and sensitive issues in ISKCON by Kaunteya prabhu
- ISKCON and Interfaith by Radhika Ramana prabhu
- Video Skills for High Impact Communications by Krishna Lila dasi
- Preaching, Undue Influence and Religious Freedom – Panel Disc
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How Did ISCOWP Start?
By Balabhadra dasa
In 1981, our family (myself, Chayadevi, son Baladeva and daughter Lakshmi) moved to the farm community called Gita Nagari in the state of Pennsylvania, USA.
Balabhadra, Baladeva and Lakshmi on the Gita Nagari Farm in 1981.
In the mid 80’s the farm started a program called “ADOPT-A-COW” which was to raise funds to help support the cows. By that time we had a herd of 157 cows and it was way to many cows for the land that we had to work with. We were th
TEXT 34
indriyasyendriyasyarthe
raga-dvesau vyavasthitau
tayor na vasam agacchet
tau hy asya paripanthinau
raga-dvesau vyavasthitau
tayor na vasam agacchet
tau hy asya paripanthinau
SYNONYMS
indriyasya—of the senses; indriyasya arthe—in the sense objects; rāga—attachment; dveṣau—also in detachment; vyavasthitau—put under regulations;tayoḥ—of them; na—never; vaśam—control; āgacchet—one should come; tau—those; hi—certainly are; asya—his; paripanthinau—stumbling blocks.
TRANSLATION
Attraction and repulsion for sense objects are felt by embodied beings, but one should not fall und
By Radha Mohan das
As part of ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, Bhaktivedanta Manor’s main drama group The Bhaktivedanta Players were invited to perform in ISKCON Mayapur for its huge international Gaura Purnima festival.
As part of the evening stage program, they performed different dramas over five consecutive nights. This included the premier of Jaya Prabhupada: Every Town and Village which covered Srila Prabhupada’s journey to America and his time in New York with Dr Misra, in the Bow
Los Angeles temple wins 3 awards!
Los Angeles temple (New Dwarka) recently received 3 major awards in India during the 2016 Mayapur Gaur Purnima Festival.
#1 book distribution award for best temple in North America 2015. #1 book distributor Award to Bhakta Jay Khush.
#1 Senior Disciple book distribution award to Bhrigupati Prabhu. A total combined effort of over 249,000 book points!
All for the pleasure of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada!
Source: http://m.dandavats.com/?p=20141
by Vikrama Govinda Dasa
To get the special mercy of Lord Caitanya ISKCON Kanya Kumari is organising a padayatra covering the 5 places He visited during His tour of South India . We seek your blessings and also request you to kindly join us and bring as many devotees as possible.
In the Kanyakumari District Lord Caitanya visited these five places, as mentioned in Caitanya Caritamrita ( 2.9.225 to 229) :
1. Kanyakumari – Bhagavathiamman temple
2. Suchindrum – Sthanumalayan temple.
3. Tovalai – S
One of my favourite quotes is from the business mentor Stephen Covey, who said that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. In other words, don’t lose your focus. To achieve that of course, I need to have a clear aim in life on which to focus. For many years I grappled with that, not being altogether clear what I was trying to achieve beyond survival and hopefully a bit of fun now and again. Finding myself struggling on both counts I eventually consulted the intelligent Mr Cove
“Drishti – Bharat Leads The World” | Mega Youth Festival | 20th March 2016 | ISKCON Pune
On the auspicious occasion of ISKCON’s Golden Jubilee, to fulfill the desire of Srila Prabhupada and GBC, we made our humble and best attempts. With little or no idea to start with, the planning and execution of the event was majorly done in past 3 months.
Publicity
– Phase I:
o In a span of only a week (March 9-16), 135000 students got free passes in more than 70 colleges all over Pune.
o Principals and
Humility is our main topic of the day. I was thinking that humility also includes other qualities. For example, humility includes forgiveness because if you cannot forgive then there is no question of being humble. Forgiveness comes because we do not consider ourselves so important. When we are very important, then we cannot forgive, “How could you do this to me! YOU did this to ME! I will never forgive you for this!” There is a false concept of the self in lack of forgiveness. So, I see forgiv
In the course of his Skype call to devotees in Mumbai, during their Mitrotsava, Giriraj Swami read some verses from Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.15.25-27):
TEXT 25
rajas tamas ca sattvena
sattvam copasamena ca
etat sarvam gurau bhaktya
puruso hy anjasa jayet
Translation: One must conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by developing the mode of goodness, and then one must become detached from the mode of goodness by promoting oneself to the platform of suddha-sattva. All this can be automatically do
TEXT 33
sadrsam cestate svasyah
prakrter jnanavan api
prakrtim yanti bhutani
nigrahah kim karisyati
prakrter jnanavan api
prakrtim yanti bhutani
nigrahah kim karisyati
SYNONYMS
sadṛśam—accordingly; ceṣṭate—tries; svasyāḥ—in one's own nature;prakṛteḥ—modes; jñānavān—the learned; api—although; prakṛtim—nature;yānti—undergo; bhūtāni—all living entities; nigrahaḥ—suppression; kim—what; kariṣyati—can do.
TRANSLATION
Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows his nature. What can repression accomplish?
PURPORT
Unless one is situated on the tr
So we were happy that Srila Prabhupada was going to travel all over India with the buses. So we'll get to travel with him also. So could I travel? Different devotees were proposing. Giriraj from Mumbai was proposing, "Oh I will make life members where ever we go, there are rich people some businessmen, industrialists. I could make some life members, could I go Srila Prabhupada?" Srila Prabhupada would respond by, "Hmm" only. And Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Maharaj, everywhere there are some scientif
Srila Prabhupada stayed downtown and held public lectures series in Mumbai. This was the last public lectures series. Seven days in the evening was Krishna festivals. He spoke very strongly. Physically he was so unwell and we had to lift him and put him on the vyasasana, but once he had a microphone, he was roaring like a lion. His topic was “The modern civilization is a total failure; the only alternative is Krishna consciousness”, every night on this theme. A disciple would read a verse that w
We used to go all the time to pick up Srila Prabhupada or dropped him at the airport. Once Prabhupada was in the plane, we would go to the top of the terminal building and we would always keep saying, 'That aircraft Srila Parbhupada is sitting,now its going to the runway, now it is taking off, now its taken off.' And we would keep looking at the plane till it finally disappeared. And as we couldn't see the aircraft anymore, we would pay obeisance’s and then back to the temple. Kind of similar to
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Excerpt from a Lecture by HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj
That was in Mumbai, Srila Prabhupada had boarded the plane. But we realized, there was something that Srila Prabhupada had left behind. And we wanted to get that to Prabhupada. He was already sitting in his seat and they were going to start the engine. And then we made arrangements through the authorities that, this has to be delivered to Srila Prabhupada. I was sent, 'go, go, go', so all the securities and I had to run up the stairs. I had foun
"He chanted 500 years ago personally. All that chanting started in Mayapur, Navadvipa and He takes sannyasa, He travels all over India chanting and dancing and the way He has shaken up, shaken, shaken up the whole world, or universe and left the vibrations – Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna! So that is what is shaking us up, waking us up, those vibrations are still in the air! Of course He has not stopped chanting, still He is here, Gauranga is here! kona kona bhagyavan dekhi bare pare, those who are
Excerpt from a Lecture by HH Lokanath Swami
These books of Srila Prabhupada are sankirtan or we could also say Sankirtan that came from lotus mouth of Srila Prabhupada, his realizations. He poured his heart into those dictaphone machines all night long or starting from somewhere in middle of the night as we all slept. Prabhupada would get up and speak his realizations into the Dictaphone machine and then some disciple would transcribe and then some editing and layout and here is a heart of the pr
