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Hare Krishna.

9th November, 2015. Gurgaon

This is the second of lecture of HG Jananivas Prabhu gave on the importance of Guru and initiation. I wrote the first part two weeks back. This particular verse, SB 6.16.28, is from a chapter which continues the story of ‘Citraketu’

Let’s again read the verse which Jananivas Prabhuji explained

O King Parīkṣit, after only one week of repeatedly practicing the mantra received from the spiritual master, Citraketu achieved the rule of the planet of the Vidyādhar

Hare Krishna.

9th November, 2015. Gurgaon

This is the second of lecture of HG Jananivas Prabhu gave on the importance of Guru and initiation. I wrote the first part two weeks back. This particular verse, SB 6.16.28, is from a chapter which continues the story of ‘Citraketu’

Let’s again read the verse which Jananivas Prabhuji explained

O King Parīkṣit, after only one week of repeatedly practicing the mantra received from the spiritual master, Citraketu achieved the rule of the planet of the Vidyādhar

Answers by HH Romapada Swami

How to give up doer mentality?

Q: How should we understand that ultimately we are not the doer of our activity? How to keep this understanding always and work, because many times when we work we often get carried away thinking that actually I’m the doer (and it appears to be so)?

Answer: With some introspection, guided by spiritual intelligence from Bhagavad-Gita, we can recognize that we are not the ultimate doer.

“In Bg 18.14, Krishna explains that there are five

By Madhava Smullen

It’s not something you see every day.

A group of young girls and boys are huddled in the middle of the temple hall, some shocked and some cheering. They’re looking unbelievingly at the particularly effulgent boy at their center as he lifts an impossibly heavy burden.

The young boys and girls might be made of cardboard, but their emotion and the divine pastime they’re portraying shines through as if it’s really there. The hill Lord Krishna’s lifting, fashioned out of cloth by

New Vraja Mandala is located in Brihuega, dist. Guadalara, central Spain at a distance of about 85km. from the Madrid airport. The property consists of ancient aristocratic buildings and about 300 hectares of land. It has been acquired by ISKCON in 1979 and houses the temple of Sri Sri Radha Govinda Chandra. It is a spiritual community dedicated to the teachings of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a nice place to visit for a break. Generally the sun shines and there are nice walks in

Bhrigupati Dasa & Bhakta Jay Khush distribute Chinese books @ UCLA. More information at www.bbtfeme.com

The FAR EAST • MIDDLE EAST division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes Srila Prabhupada’s books and other BBT titles in fourteen languages of the Pacific Rim and Middle East for distribution in those regions of the world.

As a new Western preaching initiative, BBT FEME is also developing titles specifically for distribution in the Western world to foreign language speakers living

Vrindavana: Tonight Vrajavadus Kirtan Group Did Amazing Damodarastam and Kirtan. (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: My heart is always burning in the fire of material existence, and I have made no provisions for getting out of it. The only remedy is hari-nama-sankirtana, the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, which is imported from the spiritual world, Goloka-Vrndavana. How unfortunate I am that I have no attraction for this. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.1.22 Purport)

Source: Jagannath Das

By Madhava Smullen

“It was devastating,” says Advaita Das, bowing his head. 

Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day is coming up on November 15th in New Vrindaban. And Advaita, who has been a resident since the early 1970s, is reliving the day in 1977 when he and the other devotees at Prabhupada’s first farm community heard the news of his passing.

“We had had a couple of false alarms, and we thought it was all going to be okay. We weren’t going to

n Kapila’s discussion with his mother, he explains that the primary inspiration for bhakti comes from realizing one’s true self as a luminous consciousness, and realizing that, like all luminous things, the true self extends from a light-source, a Super-self – “paramātmā.”

Recently I was sharing this with a fairly large audience, and someone asked me for a practical suggestion on how to realize our true self as pure consciousness.

Kapila himself answers the same question by suggesting that we t

By Basu Ghosh Das

ISKCON is about to begin a grand construction project at holy Jagannath Puri, on 18 acres of land at Sipasirubuli, located near the Sea Beach on the Southwest side of the town.

Project Director and Temple President Vanamali Prabhu wishes to invite all ISKCON devotees to attend the function, that will take place on the morning of Sunday, November 29, 2015, starting at 7:00 AM, corresponding to Margashira Krishna Chaturti.

Sriman Krishna Chaitanya Das of the Bhaktivedanta Aca

A talk by Giriraj Swami on October 24, 2011, in Vrindavan.

In Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami says that the pastimes of Lord Caitanya are like a lake with many beautiful lotus flowers, which are love for Krsna- Radha and Krsna. As our acaryas tell us, the Caitanya-caritamrta is perhaps the most important of all the books of the followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and on this date thirty-seven years ago, Srila Prabhupada completed his translation of the. I will begin

"But here is a tongue given by God. You can utilize it for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Don’t miss this opportunity. That chewing facility, tasting facility, you’ll get even in cat’s life, dog’s life. But this chanting facility you’ll not get. This is in this life, human form of life. So don't misuse it. Chant Hare Krishna regularly and be happy."

Initiation Lecture,
December 26, 1969 - Boston

Source: http://www.japagroup.com/2015/10/dont-miss-this-opportunity.html

Seeing an unprecedented number of unscrupulous people going all out to exploit women’s privacy, a few months back we posted a cautionary article in order to assist ladies safeguard their privacy. There are increasing number of reports exposing how, even so-called reputed companies and institutions have failed to protect women’s privacy.

Hidden wireless cameras have become an obnoxious fun-tool for nefarious people, and an earning tool for the porn industry. They install such cameras in women’s c

Have you ever found yourself listening to the evening news, thinking that the godly are disappearing and the faithful have vanished from the earth? I know I have. For me, the worst of all is when people I trust go bad. I don’t expect much from those who traffic in violence and crime. I don’t even look to celebrities and athletes to be exemplars of morality. But when trusted leaders are found to have done terrible things, especially when those leaders are pastors or priests, I sometimes feel desp

O Krsna! Thakura Bhaktivinoda has warned us that inattention is the main door into the house of aparadhas. O Krsna! Please let me taste some pleasure in Your names, so I can focus my full attention on chanting. May Your holy names become deeply impressed in my mind.

From Art Of Chanting Hare Krsna
by Mahanidhi Swami

Source: http://www.japagroup.com/2015/10/let-me-taste-some-pleasure.html