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Govardhan Lila

It is stated in Chaitanya Charitamrita (a biographical account of the Life and Teachings of Lord Chaitanya written by Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) that a devotee who is engaged in the service of Krishna is free from all obligations. He has no other duty to perform. He need not perform any ritualistic functions enjoined in the Vedas; nor is he required to worship any demigods. Krishna wanted to firmly establish this principle during His presence in Vrindavana.

Govardhana Lila

When Krishna saw the residents o

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Shyamasundara (1967 ACBSP): “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 [Shyamasundar das] 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 distinguished Prabhupad’s special jo

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Shyamasundara (1967 ACBSP): “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 [Shyamasundar das] 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 distinguished Prabhupad’s special jo

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By Mathura Lilesvari Devi Dasi

The Karthik month is a very busy month for most Malaysian devotees. While getting the family together daily to offer ghee lamps to our sweet Lord Krishna, devotees in Malaysia has, over the years, introduced various preaching methods to extend the opportunity of offering ghee lamps to the general masses.

Like every year, the month-long festival was launched in Sri Jagannath Mandir Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 25 October 2015. Under the leadership of Sri Jagannath Mandi

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ISKCON UK – November newsletter

Planning permission granted for Haveli


Planning permission to build a new Haveli has been granted to Bhaktivedanta Manor, after a planning meeting took place at Herstmere Borough Council.
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ISKCON Newcastle lead harinam at the Great North Run

HG Prema Sankirtan Prabhu and devotees from ISKCON Newcastle led a fantastic harinama with the runners of the Great North Run marathon. Around 57,000 people took part in the

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 2.22

TEXT 22
vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya
navani grhnati naro 'parani
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany
anyani samyati navani dehi
SYNONYMS
vāsāṁsi—garments; jīrṇāni—old and worn out; yathā—as it is; vihāya—giving up; navāni—new garments; gṛhṇāti—does accept; naraḥ—a man;aparāṇi—other; tathā—in the same way; śarīrāṇi—bodies; vihāya—giving up;jīrṇāni—old and useless; anyāni—different; saṁyāti—verily accepts; navāni—new sets; dehī—the embodied.
TRANSLATION
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, simi
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How to Get an Initial Taste for Bhakti

You can’t get a taste of something you don’t come into contact with. So first you have to find someone with some significant quantity of divine love. Then you have to try to see things the way that person does, feel things, understand things the way that person does – even if its only for a few moments, like in a kīrtan while that person is singing and you can feel at one with their expression. If you do this you will get an initial taste for Krishna’s bhakti, and that will enable you to “pract

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ere is a very prevalent notion that we will attain self-realization / enlightenment / liberation / Vaikunṭha / Vraja Prema (call it what suits you best) by the mercy of Krishna / Rādhā / Guru / Vaiṣṇava alone. “It’s all up to the mercy of the Lord.”

This is wrong.

If our enlightenment is up to Krishna, then why are we not enlightened? It would have to be that he wants us to suffer? He can enlighten us whenever he likes, but he doesn’t – so what would that say about him? He prefers us to be ignor

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Rcently I gave a brief class for the residents of an ISKCON center, during their daily morning spiritual programme. The topic of my class was the nine stages of development in Bhakti-Yoga and how to make sure and steady progress towards the goal: Krishna Prema. When I received feedback about this class, I came to realize the significance of “generation gaps” between people who enter ISKCON at different eras.

As I see it, ISKCON has a few key eras:

  1. The Newborn Era – Prabhupāda is directly access
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Our movement is growing and it is not only growing in numbers but it is also growing in complexity! In the earlier days of Srila Prabhupada establishing the preaching mission, this movement was more simple. The membership was more homogenous – people of a similar age group and all engaged in the same activity.

Now, there is much more diversity! Diversity in different members of this movement and also diversity in different kinds programs so we need a very broad movement! We need a movement which

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Appearance of Radha Kunda

2514994649?profile=originalLecture on Appearance of Radha Kunda by HH Varsana Swami

(Varsana Swami was born in 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey. From his childhood he was strongly drawn to the workings of the natural world. He became a vegetarian of his own accord at the age of seven and was determined to lead a life of compassion.)

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Respecting Radha Kunda

2514906215?profile=originalLecture on Respecting Radha Kunda by HH Giriraj Swami at ISKOCN Dallas on 24 April 2013
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 36 Text 16)

(In 1972 Giriraj Swami was appointed by Prabhupada to be president of ISKCON Bombay and trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.)

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Those were the days!

Those were the days! Kurma das: Monday, 17 July 1972 “Civil authorities in Melbourne followed Sydney’s lead by arresting the devotees, albeit it under slightly different circumstances. In Sydney, devotees would be spontaneously arrested for street chanting. In Melbourne, however, although the police disapproved of the chanting parties, devotees were mainly getting charged for selling Back to Godhead magazines on the street. The charging would result in court cases with fines being imposed against the devotees. The devotees, of course, would neither show up for the court case nor pay the fines. These cases would end with summonses, subsequent arrests and jail sentences. Having received news of Srila Prabhupada’s advice to Caru, the devotees in Melbourne were now clear on what they should do. On 28 September 1972, The Age accurately and sympathetically summed up the recent events in an article headed "Hare Krishna Song Goes on in Prison”: Upananda the monk, William Willis to the police, walked out of the St.Kilda Watchhouse at 6 p.m. yesterday, after two days behind bars, still chanting the jubilant Hare Krishna mantra. And at Pentridge Jail, two other Hare Krishnas who had been imprisoned for two days and facing three more days inside, are keeping up their “Hari Hari” prayer, fasting all the while. The three men were arrested by police who broke into the Burnett Street Temple in St.Kilda of the Hindu religious congregation, the Hare Krishnas, at 3a.m. on Tuesday. Lead by Detective Sergeant A. Miller, the police marched through the two storey building, shining torches in the faces of the sleeping men. The police carried warrants of arrest over the non-payment of City Council street fines imposed for taking donations for the Krishna magazines, alleged to be begging. There was believed to be several hundred unpaid fines, averaging three dollars each. The total of unpaid fines may be $1,800. The monks say they have no money to pay it, and in any case will not pay on the principle of “freedom of religion” At Pentridge, the monk, Gaura Gopal and Hare Krishna novice, Pat Deegan, gaoled two days with three to go, had taken no food up to last night. The Hare Krishna monks are strict vegetarians and the two prisoners say they were offered meals containing meat. The prisoners told Sanaka dasa, their 25-year-old Temple President who visited them in jail yesterday: “We shall persevere. Do not worry for us.” Deegan told his Temple President a Pentridge warder threatened to cut off his sikha, the pigtail of hair, but he dissuaded them. As the embattled monks sat in council over their evening meal last night, word was brought that a fourth had been arrested in Bourke Street City at 4.30 p.m. One monk reported “A City Council employee pointed ‘That’s him’, and a policeman dragged him away to the police car.” The monk is now held in the St. Kilda Watchhouse. Sanaka dasa, a calm young man born in Athens, whose parents are Melbourne citizens said, “We are ready to endure this persecution in order to win the freedom of religion that lies in the future for us.”

Those were the days!
Kurma das: Monday, 17 July 1972
“Civil authorities in Melbourne followed Sydney’s lead by arresting the devotees, albeit it under slightly different circumstances. In Sydney, devotees would be spontaneously arrested for street chanting. In Melbourne, however, although the police disapproved of the chanting parties, devotees were mainly getting charged for selling Back to Godhead magazines on the street. The charging would result in court cases with fines being imposed agai

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It’s Kartik - all month! A gift from Mayapur.tv! Download this wonderful high-quality picture of Sri Sri Radha Madhava for free - courtesy HG Saranga Thakur Prabhu Download it here: http://goo.gl/Bf87kY

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