Get a Front Row Seat for Live Vrindavan Kartik Nectar! Vrindavan.tv’s broadcast schedule for 2015 is it’s biggest yet! This year we bring you live coverage of Indradyumna Maharaja’s Kartik parikrama that includes visits to Jaipur and Kurukshetra. On November 10thwe will be live streaming the samadhi installation of H. G. Brahmananda Prabhu from the Samadhi garden at the Goshala. In attendance will be H.H. Radhanath Maharaja and H.H. Gopal Krishna Maharaja amongst other dignitaries. On Novembe
On September 24th, 2015, Radhanath Swami was invited to a special service at the United Nations Church Center in New York City. This event was to mark the involvement of faith leaders in helping to realise the goals of the United Nations and World Bank over the next 15 years.
The new set of 15 year goals for the UN are known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A total of 18 goals, they aim to address global issues ranging from gender equality, eduction, and climate change. Separatel
By Chaitanya Charan das
“Stones and sticks will break my bones, but words will never harm me.” This saying urges us to become thick-skinned and not let people’s harsh words hurt us. It is an expression of a conscious intention, a rallying call to steel oneself against painful words, whose power to injure is conveyed in another aphorism: “Words hurt more than swords.”
The Sinister Shapeshifter
The dynamics underlying these two paradoxical sayings can be understood from a pastime in the Ramayana.
3rd – 5th day of Sri Govind Gau Gram Prachar Yatra
Vrndavanlila Dd (Dr. Vrinda Baxi)
Srila Prabhupada: Just see how quickly there will be response. Therefore I was insisting, “Go village to village, town to town.” Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s prediction: prthivite ache yata nagaradi…
Mahamsa: Grama, yes.
Srila Prabhupada: So it will never be foiled. Let us now begin village to village.
(Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk – Bombay, 21Nov’75)
In the spirit of serving their beloved guru and his guru His
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Hare Krishna.
1st November, 2015. Vrindavan
I had a small realisation last weekend when I went to Sri Vrindavan Dhama to attend the Govardhan Parikrama yatra of HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj.
We, the whole family, reached Vrindavan on Friday evening. Surprisingly there wasn’t too much traffic on the roads so we reached fast, may be because it was a Friday or may be because it was `Karva Chauth’ (married women fast without even water for the long life of their husband, a popular festival in Nort
Prayer is a divine and sacred medium through which our soul connects with God - our Creator, our Eternal Father. It is the most potent embodiment of our bond, our association, our connection, our expression, our dialogue, our relationship with God.
People often ask why should we pray if God already knows everything. He already knows our feelings, our desires, then why should we say anything? Why should we do anything or worship Him? The answer to this is because the key to life is all about recip
This self, the Vedic sages tell us, is joyful by its very nature. It need not seek joy outside itself, because it is practically made of joy, and not joy that comes and goes like vapor but joy that endures, the way sunlight stays forever with the sun.
One who realizes this self, who identifies with the “self within himself,” at once becomes joyful, the Bhagavad-gītā says. And so such a person has nothing to desire and nothing over which to lament. He is equal in all circumstances, and so he de
"What if a woman is married to a man who is not a devotee?” The author—who qualified her answer by stating that it assumed “the husband is a normal man and not a homicidal maniac”—then went on to state that “all women have just one duty or dharma in this world—to serve her husband.” This she referred to as “stri-dharma.”
Sundari Radhika says in her article that any husband, whether he is “qualified” or not, is a direct representative of Krishna and the wife should serve him no matter what. She ev
Desires - Just continue service to Krishna with all sincerity. What really matters is no other desire, but to please Krishna. With that attitude serve Krishna and then Krishna will not only be pleased but will be indebted and He will think - "this devotee has done so much for me, how I will be able to repay his debt." Krishna becomes indebted when we render service without personal motivation. We cannot hide our intentions from Krishna. What is required is anyabhilasita sunyam - free from any o
Our nursery is now three years old.
Over 2,000 different items were planted on this plot of land three years ago. All these trees and plants will be used in the gardens surrounding the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.
Source...http://tovp.org/news/art-architecture-design/nursery-update-november-2015/
By Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
October 9, 2015
ISKCON is officially observing Srila Prabhupada’s coming to America and forming his society at 26 Second Avenue, in the year 2016. But 50th anniversary events have already occurred in 2015 and two major festivals have been celebrated. The observance of the day Prabhupada left India on board the Jaladuta on August 13, 1965 was celebrated in grand fashion in an indoor stadium in Calcutta on August 13, 2015. On September 17, 1965, after a thirty-five day
Get a Front Row Seat for Live Vrindavan Kartik Nectar! Vrindavan.tv’s broadcast schedule for 2015 is it’s biggest yet! This year we bring you live coverage of Indradyumna Maharaja’s Kartik parikrama that includes visits to Jaipur and Kurukshetra. On November 10thwe will be live streaming the samadhi installation of H. G. Brahmananda Prabhu from the Samadhi garden at the Goshala. In attendance will be H.H. Radhanath Maharaja and H.H. Gopal Krishna Maharaja amongst other dignitaries. On November
Lecture on Worship Krishna for your Material Desires by HH Bir Krishna Goswami on 23 July 2015 at New Goloka
(Bir Krishna Goswami spent his childhood in Long Island, New York. As an academically gifted student at North Western University, he began reading Srila Prabhupada’s books. Impressed by Srila Prabhupada's scholarship and saintliness Bir Krishna Swami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971.)
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Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!
After many years of writing, "Chasing Rhinos With The Swami" is finally complete. This two-volume memoir describes in exciting, intimate detail the many years I spent at the side of our amazing Srila Prabhupad--in San Francisco, London, and as Prabhupad's personal secretary, in India, Russia, and all over the globe. It is an adventure book, fast-moving, filled with the philosophy, fun, spontaneity and magic that d
Here is a nice web page to give to new and growing devotees of Sri Krishna.
It can be helpful to new devotees and congregational members
as a reference for the basic needs of a devotee in Iskcon.
Lecture on Srila Prabhupada Appearance by HH Radhanath Swami on 16 Sep 2015 at Los Angeles
(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)
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What is spiritual strength?
Question to Radhanath Swami: In spiritual circles they often talk of ‘bala’ or spiritual strength. What exactly is this spiritual strength?
Radhanath Swami Answers: What is spiritual strength? Spiritual strength is essentially the awakening of our soul. The soul is part and parcel of Krishna, who is all-powerful. Spiritual strength is the sincere ability to overcome the illusions and the distractions of maya. Spiritual strength protects us from engaging in sinful act
