(This article was written in 1956 by Sri Navinacandra Cakravarti, a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. There are many stories of Ekadasi in the Puranas, but most explain the material benefits and blessings one gets from observing Ekadasi. This article, based on the conversation between Srila Vyasadeva and Jaimini Rishi, gives the real spiritual reason for following the vow of Ekadasi as emphasized by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Sri Caitanya-caritamrita and later by
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Jet airways is not a “budget” carrier. Having run a successful travel business for almost two decades, we come across clients asking – “Is it safe to fly with them?” This is a type of question that comes up when someone is inclined to choose to fly with a “cheap” airlines. Almost always, our answer to such questions has been – “Nothing is safe in this world”! We also tell them how in the past many reputed airlines flights have crashed killing all passengers or having sudden technical glitches s
This is one of my favorite songs in the Vaisnava Songbook. This morning it became my meditation.
Vṛndāvana
by Narottama das Thakura
Vrndavan is a transcendental beautiful place. It is the spiritual sky, where everything is made of touchstone, which fulfills all desires. All the temples there are bedcked with costly jewels, In that far distant place is the River Yamuna, which is full of lotus flowers, In the midst of that throng of lotus flowers there is a golden boat, appearing like another big
As we were driving through West Bengal, I spotted a newly built house, with two words painted in large black letters across the entry portico – God Gift (written as spelled :). I imagined how every day the family would get this message as they arrived home and could not help but smile.
It also reminded me of a quote posted at one of the seminars at the ISKCON Leadership Sanga last week – Interrupt anxiety with gratitude. Anxiety is a given in most of our lives. It seeps in all over the place, i
This Sacred Sound retreat provides the opportunity to step out of the complexity of modern life and immerse oneself in the transcendental and uplifting world of Kirtan.
Set in the beautiful surrounds of Mount Warning, Sacred Sound offers hours of maha-mantra Kirtan with some of the best Kirtan artists in the world, inspirational sadhu sanga, sumptuous meals and a restorative time for sadhana.
When:
Easter Long Weekend
Friday 25th – Monday 28th March 2016
Where:
New Govardhana Farm – 525 Tyalgum
Recently, the office wing of the temple building and the apartment building II went through roof transformations. Yoder Amish Roofing Company began replacing the temple’s office wing roofing on Monday, February 29th, 2016 and replaced the apartment building II roofing on Tuesday, March 1st, 2016.
The crew of about 8-10 men stripped old shingles, laid new plywood, added top quality synthetic underlayment and finished with a layer of lifetime duration shingles onto the temple roof.
The new offic
Reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 chapter 19 ‘The Appearance of Sukadeva Goswami’, Text 12
sukhopavistesv atha tesu bhuyah krta-pranamah sva-cikirsitam yat vijñapayam asa vivikta-ceta upasthito ’gre ’bhigrhita-panih
Translation: “After all the rsis and others had seated themselves comfortably, the King, humbly standing before them with folded hands, told them of his decision to fast until death.”
Hare Krishna! It is an honour and privilege to have the opportunity to speak somethin
Kindly find the below link for Beed lectures in Jan 2016.
Link:- http://lokanathswamiiskcon.info/class-at-beed/
Thank You
Class at Beed Lok Servant SB Class [ 1:37:21 ] Play NowDownload (2) Evening Class [ 55:33 ] Play NowDownload (3) His Holiness…
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Mahaprabhu is on the bank of the Godavari River, where Ramananda Raya often bathed. Seeing Ramananda, Mahaprabhu was eager to embrace him but somehow He restrained Himself.
Seeing a Sannyasi on east coast Ramananda Raya approached there, Mahaprabhu said, “Are you Ramananda Raya?” He replied, “I m Shudra ! They called me Ramananda Raya.” This is Humility. He didn’t say..'Yes I’m Ramananda Raya! The Governor!!' ….not talking like that.
-HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj
(Shravan Utsav @Iskcon Mayapur, 3 Marc
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tasmin kute ’hite naste krtta-mule vanas-patau vitapa iva susyanti visnu-prana divaukasah (SB 7.1.9)
Translation: “When the root of a tree is cut and the tree falls down, its branches and twigs automatically dry up. Similarly, when I have killed this diplomatic Visnu, the demigods, for whom Lord Visnu is the life and soul, will lose the source of their life and wither away.”
tavad yata bhuvam yuyam brahma-ksatra-samedhitam sudayadhvam tapo-yajña- svadhyaya-vrata-daninah (SB 7.1.10)
Trans
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Category: Kirtans Mahamantra Mayapur 1 GBC Kirtan Mela Mayapur – 2nd March 2016 play…
Glories of Bhagvan Krishna in Vedic and Vaishnav literatures
By Veerendra Ekbote
Vedas are called Apaurusheya knowledge which means they are not created by humans who have imperfect senses, have cheating propensity and are subjected to deception and illusion. Vedas are having a divine origin and were revealed to the Aryan sages by the Supreme Lord himself in deep meditation and were preserved
I’m back at home base – the holy town of Vrindavana. Here we periodically return to reassess, refine and refresh. This spiritual hub, almost inconspicuously, helps one shed the illusory layers of lamentation and hankering, reminding us of the real business in life. In 1958, while residing as a lone, penniless mendicant in this remote town, Srila Prabhupada wrote a beautiful poem. “In this mood,” he said, “I am getting many realisations.”
Krishna has shown me the naked form of material nature,
By: Madhava Smullen for 9 Days 8 Nights on March 2, 2016
In our latest photo-journalism piece blogger Manoj, an Indian living in Australia, shares a highlight of his recent trip to ISKCON’s headquarters in holy Mayapur, India. There, he caught a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the hard-working temple cooks prepare food for thousands of devotees.
Here devotee women chop vegetables, their bright saris blending with blood-red tomatoes, yellow melons, and green leaves to create a vividly colorful
Devotees in Moscow are focusing on staying connected to Srila Prabhupada and his vision as they celebrate ISKCON’s 50th and look toward the next 50 years.
They began their 2016 as they mean to go on, with the second annual “Our Prabhupada” festival. The first, in December 2014, saw Suresvara Das speaking about Srila Prabhupada as ISKCON’s Founder-Acharya.
At this year’s festival from January 15th to 20th at the ISKCON Moscow temple, hundreds of devotees learned about Srila Prabhupada as a perso
Around fifteen ISKCON devotees brought the sound of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and the taste of sanctified vegetarian food to a huge anti-nuclear march in London on February 27th.
It was Britain’s biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation. Thousands of campaigners gathered from all over the world to protest the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons program, estimated to cost £41 billion. The money, they said, should be spent on education and the National Health Service instead.
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I Think the main ideas of Bhakti Rasamrita Sindu (without technicalities) are:
1) What is love?
2) How can you “practice” love?
3) How do you practice love?
4) What are the inspirations to practice love?
5) How is love experienced?
1) What is love?
Love is an expression of affection.
Affection is the desire to make someone happy and prosperous.
Pure love is when that expression has no ulterior motive and is given top priority.
Topmost pure love is when that pure love finds the topmost belove
Every year at the time of the Mayapur Gaura Purnima festival, the GBCs from all over the world come to meet.
There are many proposals of various kinds put to the GBC body and discussions go
