In Germany Srila Prabhupada was speaking with professor Durkheim. In that discussion they were speaking about the soul being eternal and separate from the body. Prabhupada said, “The body actually does not die because it is never alive. Never was there a moment when it was alive. It is the soul that is alive and that makes the body move and animates it. But otherwise it is not alive.”
Of course, as conditioned souls, all this philosophy is something we can only remember and remind ourselves abo
By Chaitanya Charan das
Question: Doesn’t renunciation indicate an absence of the will to keep fighting amidst frustration?
Short Answer: Not necessarily. Renunciation can also be a sign of realization; it can indicate the presence of the insight that there is more to life than fighting futilely for perishable material pleasures.
Detailed Answer:
Firstly, we need to recognize that the material eye and the spiritual eye don’t see alike, as the Bhagavad-gita (2.69) confirms.
For material
By ISKCON Mayapur
In 2019, kirtan is readily available anywhere in the world. Kirtan is daily performed in temples and on the streets across the globe. Every year, more kirtan events are held, some drawing hundreds of thousands. Kirtan recordings and albums are available online at any time. Even so-called mainstream culture in the Western world is embracing kirtan as a form of meditation in the music and yoga scene.
Kirtan is now available for all. But it wasn’t always like this. Before the 15
From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir Date: February 3, 2019
Speaker: HH Bhakti Caru Swami
Subject: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.15 16-24
TEXT 16
śrī-rājovāca
kiṁ tad aṁho bhagavato
rājanyair ajitātmabhiḥ
kṛtaṁ yena kulaṁ naṣṭaṁ
kṣatriyāṇām abhīkṣṇaśaḥ
TRANSLATION
King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: What was the offense that the kṣatriyas who could not control their senses committed before Lord Paraśurāma, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for which the Lord annihilated the
Mayapur 06.03.2019
Speaker: HG Brijabasi Das
Srimad Bhagavatam 9.15.26
havirdhanim rser darpan
naran hartum acodayat
te ca mahismatim ninyuh
sa-vatsam krandatim balat
Translation
“Being puffed up by material power, Kartaviryarjuna encouraged his men to steal Jamadagni’s kamadhenu. Thus the men forcibly took away the crying kamadhenu, along with her calf, to Mahismati, Kartaviryarjuna’s capital.”
Invocatory prayers.
HG Vrij Vasi Das speaks:
My name is Brajbasi das. I am from Ukraine and I happ
While recognizing cow protection as an important branch of our Krishna Conscious society, training and working with the oxen remains to many an ideal yet to be achieved. The upcoming Ox Training Seminar to be held in New Vraja Dhama, Hungary between April 17thand 24th, will shed more light on this important, yet less practiced side of cow protection.
The seminar will teach participants the method of voice command, the gentlest and most loving way to train oxen. This meth
On February 26th and 27th, ISKCON Ministry of Education organized a international symposium in Sridham Mayapur where the leaders of many educational institutions gathered to present and discuss their work and strategize further development. The ministry presented their new web platform, which was created with the intention to connect all the educators working in ISKCON and make the information about the different courses taught available to a wider audience. Teachers were
Last day of Kirtan Mela… Now, it is the time for Navadvip Manda Parikrama!
Shravan, Kirtan and now Pada Sevanam…. walking in the dust of Navadvipa dhama, following the footsteps of Sri Nityananda Prabhu who took Jiva Goswami on first Navadvip Mandal Parikrama, in the association of devotees. Devotees walked to Yogapith- the birthplace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and took vow to perform the Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama.
HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami remarked in ToVP session that Where in the whole w
Today is a special day loaded with events!
Disappearance day of HH Tamal Krishna Goswami
Special session on ToVP
Kirtan Mela Day 3
Evening : First show of drama of HH Bhakti Marg Swami & group
Disappearance day of Srila Jagannath dasa Babaji & Rasikananda
Today’s Breakfast Prasada Sponsor: HG Nitai Charan Das
Lunch Prasada sponsored by Devotees of China , in memory of HH Tamal Krishna Goswami
Brahmacaries Breakfast : In memory of Sri Shashikant Tapidas Mehta
ToVP Special Session: Speake
Today is Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja’s disappearance day. He comes in the Gaudiya Vaishnava disciplic succession after Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana. He was a renounced ascetic, fully engaged in chanting the holy names of Krishna and meditating on His pastimes. For some time, he made his residence at Surya-kunda in Vraja-dhama, near the temple of Suryadeva, where Srimati Radharani used to come and worship the sun-god—or, I should say, where She u
Today is the second day of Gaura Purnima festival. More and more devotees have started arriving at Mayapur.
Today is also the second day of Kirtan Mela and also of The Sanga of GBCs, Gurus and Sanyasis (SGGS). 100 of the most senior devotees have gathered and are discussing different preaching activities in ISKCON. For pictures of Sanga, visit here: https://t.co/Dulw0jY1l1
Srimad Bhagavatam Class : 6 March 2019
Speaker: HG Vrij Vasi das
Verse: SBG:9.15.26
havirdhānīm ṛṣer darpān
narān h
By Yugala Kishor Gour dasa
On the 10th of March it will be exactly 60 years ago, 10th of March 1959, that the MS Jaladuta was launched at its shipbuilding yard in Lubeck Germany. It is this vessel that brought Srila Prabhupada from Calcutta, via Boston, to New York on a journey that started on the 13th August 1965, in what became an astonishing journey and also the beginning of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. This launch was organised by the Lubecker-Flenderwerke AG yard
By Khonika Gope-Kumar
How should a devotee treat his wife? How should he address her? How should he pacify her when she is angry? How should he guide her if she makes some mistakes? Can we get some clues about these topics from Srimad Bhagvatam?
One might wonder whether these are mundane topics and even worth being discussed among the devotees. Srila Prabhupada, nevertheless, stressed a lot on having a harmonious relationship between husband and wife. “A wife should always remain satisfied with
From Back to Godhead
By Nikunja Vilasini Devi Dasi
Is life meaningless until we give it meaning?
A young woman from South Africa, where I live, is a candidate for the Mars One project, the brainchild of a Netherlands-based group hoping to set up a colony on Mars by 2025. She anticipates years of vigorous training, many grueling hours of intense research, an eight-month-long journey in a confined spacecraft, and difficult living conditions on a strange planet. She is excited to be
Back in October, 2018 we announced the launch of the TOVP Victory Flag Campaign wherein devotees can sponsor the raising of the daily TOVP Victory Flags onto the temple domes. The response has been very good and the TOVP management has now decided to start a monthly Flag Festival to continue into perpetuity as long as the temple stands.
On February 2nd the first Flag Festival was officially launched during the grand inauguration ceremony of the 2019 Gaura Purnima Festival, with sixty flags bein
The characteristics of Krishna are understood to be a storehouse of transcendental love. Although that storehouse of love certainly came with Krishna when He was present, it was sealed. But when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came with His associates of the Panca-tattva, they broke the seal and plundered the storehouse to taste transcendental love of Krishna. The more they tasted it, the more their thirst for it grew.
Sri Panca-tattva themselves danced again and again and thus made it easier to dri
By Sacinandana Swami
Our greatest problem is that we have turned away from Krishna. This one action has turned into our existential dilemma. We are lost servants. But strangely we think, at least unconsciously, that it is Krishna who has abandoned us. Only when we become eager to meet Krishna again, and serve Him with body, mind and heart – as eager as a drowning man is eager to breathe again – can we attain our spiritual success. Real love, however, will only flow when we move out of the cente
