ISKCON SCOTLAND @ KARUNA BHAVAN are currently looking for volunteers to reside and be trained as brahmacaris (celibate monks). We will provide good brahmacari training, association and a variety of service opportunities. We will also provide accommodation, Prasad and any necessary items such as toiletries, clothing and reasonable travel expenses.
We do not offer financial remuneration or stipend.
All interested applicants should contact Raghunatha Bhatta Das
By Email: gouranga108@googlemail.c
Govinda’s Philadelphia is looking for devotees with a passion for prasadam distribution. Available positions include server and line cook. Server duties include register, light food prep, stocking goods, and maintaining cleanliness. Line cook should have experience working in a kitchen or with an industrial grill in a fast paced environment. Full or part time. Please send inquiries to Haryasva dasa at 1-267-242-4805 or govindasvegetarian@gmail.com. Hare Krishna.
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Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are pleased to announce that the book “Free to Preach”, by Prema Padmini dd, is now available for purchase for only $2.00.
It is a touching, inspiring and personal account of a grihastha couple spreading Krishna consciousness in a Muslim country in the Middle East. Described are detailed accounts of their challenges and obstacles as well as their successes in spreading Krsna Consciousness and taking Cait
This year 5600 people from 30 countries participated in the annual pilgrimage to Vrindavan, India lead by Radhanath Swami. It was held from November 7th to 17th.
Every morning participants went out in groups to visit holy spots of Vrindavan where Sri Krishna had enacted his pastimes 5000 years ago. And every evening they converged at the festival site where Radhanath Swami spoke on the pastimes of Sri Krishna andSri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This year being the 500th anniversary of Sri Chaitanya’s
This e-book explains the Bhagavad-Gita teachings as taught by SrilaPrabhupada and other Vedic saints with 181 Q&A. Very practical and simple to understand book.
January 10 to March 31, 2016
Learn :
• Sanskrit Pronunciation and Meter.
• Sandhi (Euphony).
• to get a clearer understanding of the structure of Sanskrit verses by rearranging them in prose order ( i.e. doing their anvaya ).
• some frequently used terms in Sanskrit commentaries.
• the most common senses in which the different cases of a noun are used.
• the most important indeclinables (avyayas), pronouns and compounds.
• some commonly used suffixes.
• basic usage of verbs in all the tenses.
Bhakti Caitanya Swami: This is the Deity of Lord Gauranga which Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura chanted in front of when he took his great 9 year vow to chant a billion names of the Lord. He chanted 300,000 names a day, about 170 rounds a day, for those 9 years, sitting in front of this Deity. The Deity is now in the Rudradvipa Gaudiya Matha. We were there this morning, and had His darsana!
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Three amazing sales, by Vijaya Prabhu: “At the wonderful Vyasa-puja celebration for His Grace Vaisesika Prabhu, many of his disciples gave him gifts. Sankirtana Dasa, Kumari Lila Dasi, and Iwere thinking about what we could offer him on his birthday.
It was late by the time we left, and we were intoxicated by the feast of delicious prasada. We wanted to offer him something substantial, so we set out door-to-door. (We were later joined by Haladhara Rupa Dasa.) We were driving in the neighborhoo
Srila Prabhupada said that five plus five is ten, two plus two is four, and everything plus Krsna is Vrindavan. So this formula is very brilliant and very simple and if we can just apply this formula by adding Krsna, everything will change. That is all that needs to be done – just add Krsna in any situation.
The holy name is one way to add Krsna but prasadam is another way. Some lectures on your phone and some pictures on the wall are also ways to add Krsna. There are many varieties of things
In ISKCON, we have many varieties of devotees from entry level to advanced. While all of them look similar externally, they are not internally. The mood and prayer of a devotee is very difficult to judge by one's external outfit or behavior. To a certain extent, one can judge based on one's words and actions, however, even that can be deceptive. Therefore, we have to be careful as to who is elevated and who is not. To really understand who is elevated requires understanding of lives of great va
TOVP UK TourLord Nityananda's Padukas and Lord Nrsingadev Sitari in all its glory in Leicester! Many devotees make an…
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TOVP UK TourVisit to Avanti School in Leicester
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ISCON UK Tour – ISKCON London HG Jai Nitai Das and the ISKCON London team welcomed the Padukas , Sitari and…
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Bhakti is about detail, little things. Big things are wonderful, but even more wonderful are the little things within the big things. And if you don’t have a big thing, equally wonderful is the little things.
The culture of bhakti is something very deep. In the Bhaktivedanta Hospital the big things are the machines and the surgeries going on. But when someone comes around and offers charnamrta or Jagannath’s chariot comes around, its the small detail that changes people’s heart. Devotees kindne
The human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has constituted a 13-member expert committee exclusively on Sanskrit in its attempt to revive interest in the ancient language.
Headed by N Gopalaswami, the former chief election commissioner (CEC) and now Chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth in Tirupati, the committee has been asked to recommend measures to integrate the study of the ancient language with other disciplines such as ph
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Burglers broke a hole in the roof to get in, then they went through the whole building, smashing up anything of value on their way, and stealing cash and valuables, which were used in the worship there.
Govindas is home to a vegetarian cafe, and is the local Temple for the Hare Krishnas. They are well known and liked in the area, being in this location for the last 15 years. I personally have very fond memories of my time there 15 years ago. The community of devotees is a wonderful, selfless co
One More Time Around! (9 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: There are devotees of the Lord who circumambulate Govardhana hill two, or even three times, a day. Busy with visiting other holy places in Vrajamandala our group of 350 devotees only managed to do parikrama around Giriraja twice during our stay in Vrindavan. But what a wonderful parikrama the second one was! At the southern tip of Govardhana Hill we performed abhiseka for Giriraja at an ancient temple of Lord Nrsimhadeva. Devotees enjoyed
ISKCON Communications Minister Anuttama Dasa
ISKCON's Minister of Communications, Anuttama Dasa, spoke in October at the World Parliament of Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah, on a Panel entitled "Understanding and Mitigating the Dangers of Manipulation, Undue Influence and Abuse within Religious and Spiritual Communities."
Anuttama was joined by Dr. Michael Langone, the Executive Director of the International Cultic Studies Association. Both discussed potential prob
Dharmakala Cooking Biscuits in RVC Temple devotee kitchen – 1984.
By Madhava Smullen
Dharmakala Dasi’s destiny seemed set from the start – she grew up with the smell of fresh baked bread and cookies lingering throughout her home.
“My parents had eight kids, so we didn’t really go out to eat – my mother just cooked constantly to feed us all,” she says. “So being around it all the time, I started cooking myself when I was a little kid. I baked my first brownies at the age of seven.”
But with all
