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Dear follower of Śrīla Prabhupāda!,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!

This year, as always, we request you to submit your homage to Śrīla Prabhupāda for his Vyāsa-pūjā book by April 15.

In addition, if you’re a direct disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyāsa-pūjā book open to all of his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is also April 15.

In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of ISKCON’s foundi

By Hari Narayana Das

Batam is the largest city in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia, across the Strait of Singapore, the third-largest city in Sumatra region and the eighth largest city in Indonesia. Located 20 km off Singapore‘s south coast, it is an industrial boomtown, an emerging transport hub and part of a free trade zone the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle.

His Grace Samudrasena das (leader of ISKCON Batam) under the guidance of His Holiness Subhag Swami Maharaj organ

By HH Kavicandra Swami

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what it means to give fifty percent. For most householders their income does not allow them to live and to give 50% to the temple.

The following from a purport by Srila Prabhupada might help to clear the air. I have inserted a few comments using [ ] to indentify them. The stress is on preaching, not what our our financial condition is. By finding some way to preach bhakti will be the most pleasing to guru and KRSNA. One need not

Question: From my understanding of your class on the nine stages of BHAKTI, it could take a number of years before one got any experiential taste of the practice.

Answer: No.

It’s true that it usually takes years (or lifetimes) to come to the stage ofruci (characterized by a taste for the beauty and joy of sādhana-bhakti), but nonetheless one gets small fragments and crumbs of ruci even from the very outset, the very beginning of being involved with Krishna-bhakti.

In fact, śraddhā itself (the

Lecture on Rising Above Goodness by Charu Prabhu in 2016

(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples.)

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Lecture on Pastimes of Lord Jagannath by Bhakti Vinoda Swami on 03 Jan 2016

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Lecture on Spiritual Determination by HG Tamohara Dasa on 03 Jan 2016 at ISKCON Alachua
(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 02, Text 41)

(His Grace Tamohara Dasa has been involved in ISKCON leadership for many years. In addition to services of temple president, BBT manager and director of two gurukulas, he served as the director of the ISKCON Child Protection Office,He has been a GBC member since 2006 and currently serves on the executive committee of the international GBC.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 16, Text 21 by HG Narayani Mataji at ISKCON Melbourne

(Her Grace Narayani Devi Dasi joined ISKCON in Boston in 1970. She has done many services for Srila Prabhupada including Deity worship in Calcutta temple, traveling book distribution in Western India for the Bombay temple, and teaching Bhakti Sastri, Bhakti Vaibhava and Bhaktivedanta courses in the VIHE in Vrndavana. )

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My trip to India brought a few surprises. It’s been some years since I was last there and things are changing fast. The cities are still the same bustling mess of teeming madness, much like anywhere else I suppose, but it’s in the outlying rural areas that I was most shocked. In my many visits to India I’ve always headed straight for a small village called Vrindavan, the most sacred place for Hindus where Krishna appeared some 5000 years ago. Last time there I remember taking pleasant rickshaw

The first question often asked about the Bhagavad-gita is why was it spoken on a battlefield? Despite a common view that religion is a major cause of war, the general view is that the two should remain separate. Religion or spirituality should result in peace not conflict. If one’s spiritual practises bring about the bloodthirsty desire to eliminate the followers of some other faith then they must be suspect. That would surely seem to make sense.
Nevertheless the Gita did arise from a war, the

Harinama inTel Aviv, Israel (5 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: If one somehow or other chants the Hare Krishna mantra, he will immediately be purified, just as one who takes a potent medicine will feel its effects, regardless of whether he takes it knowingly or unknowingly. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.2.19 Purport)
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By Krishna-kripa Das

This morning as I was reading the pastimes of Krishna and the cowheard boys from the Srimad Bhagavatam 10th Canto, I was reminded of the above picture from the Krsna Book. In my copy of the Krsna Book, this picture took up two full pages. I have spent the last hour trying to put this picture together so I could use it in a post. By downsizing and inserting it in the left and right margins, I was able to get in on the page, although it is not yet together. Maybe someone can put the two together

Today everyone is in the quest for happiness. Looking for it, hankering for it, yearning for it. But the irony is that people are looking for it in the wrong places. We do not know what will make us happy and how to achieve that state.

A little child wants to walk, but first the child has to learn to crawl. Do you remember when you were learning to crawl? It was very difficult. When you had finally learned to crawl you saw everyone around you walking, and you wanted to be like them!

So you tried t