By Hari Narayana das
raghunatha-dasa nityananda-pace gela
cioa-dadhi-mahotsava tahaìi karila
At this time, Raghunätha däsa approached Çre Nityananda Prabhu and, according to His order, prepared a feast and distributed prasadam composed of chipped rice and yogurt. CC. Madya Lila, Text 283
There is a special preparation of chipped rice is mixed with yogurt and sometimes with sandeça and mango. It is a very palatable food offered to the Deity and then distributed to the public. Raghunätha däsa Gos
My dear god brother H H Purna Candra Goswami went to his samadhi some time back and we heard many praises. HH Bhakti Vijnana Goswami was lamenting that Purna Candra Prabhu was not so well known world wide since he had much to offer.
He did leave us a very beautiful book that I think should be studied by anyone who is serious about spiritual advancement while serving, in any position, within ISKCON.
The book is titled, UNSPOKEN OBSTACLES ON THE PATH TO BHAKTI. The title says a lot.
Most of the d
By Sita Rama Lakshmana Das
On 20th June 2018, ISKCON Perth organized a corporate outreach program at an engineering company named Downer Edi Limited based locally. The program was well attended (25 people) including company’s senior leadership and management. It was led by the visiting guest speaker, mentor and life style coach His Grace Gokuleshvara Das from ISKCON Juhu, India.
Australians or colloquially known as Aussies, are known for their laid back, easy going and predisposed to be friendl
By Nitai Das
Cape Town, known as the beautiful ‘Mother City’ at the tip of South Africa, saw a weekend mesmerized with the holy names and laughter-filled devotee association which was graced by the presence of BB Govinda Swami and Akincana Krishna Das.
Bhakti Bash, a 4-day festival from 21-24 June, was launched by the year-old Vaishnava Sena youth group of ISKCON Cape Town. Joined by the Krsna Balaram Youth Group (KBYG) and devotees from around the country, the festival started off with a kir
On July 5 we celebrate the divine disappearance day of Sri Srimad Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja, who left our world on this date on the Vedic calendar in 2005.
Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto Four, Chapter Twenty-eight: “Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life,” discusses the disappearance of the spiritual master:
TEXT 48
uttisthottistha rajarse
imam udadhi-mekhalam
dasyubhyah ksatra-bandhubhyo
bibhyatim patum arhasi
TRANSLATION
O best of kings, please get up! Get up! Just see this world surroun
By Murali Mohan Dasa
During the auspicious month of Purushottama, on Sunday June 10th -ekadasi day- devotees from Ahmedabad conducted a padayatra from Ujala Circle near Sarkhej to Khodivar Matta temple. We started early morning at 6.00 am and walked till noon so that padayatris’ would be saved from the scorching heat.
As before we had our nicely decorated Deities of Nimai-Nitai Deities and Srila Prabhupada accompanying us on a palanquin carried on a devotee’s head. Around 120 devotees participa
By Kadamba Kanana Swami
From the very beginning, Nimai showed transcendental features as a child. For instance, he was showing the footprints of Vishnu on the bottom of his feet. There were also some amazing things that were happening in their family house. When Nimai was just a baby, his parents used to hear the footsteps of a child running around their house, yet Nimai was not even walking yet. So his father, Jagannatha-Mishra thought that it was the Saligram Sila that was running around the
By Radhapadma Devi Dasi
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, Gaura Nitai, Sri Jagannath, Baldev and Shubhadra and Sri Sri Radha Giridhari.
If one googles and finds what ‘spiritual retreat’ means it would rather be taken as a quiet place where meditation and self is given importance to. The self these days seem to be more important than anything else in this world, but there definitely is somebody who is the creator of this self – the most important and the connection with this Supreme is of utmost
By Satya Medha Gauranga dasa
50 years ago, an enthusiastic young man dedicated his life in the service of Srila Prabhupada to fulfil the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
On 30th of June 1968, 19-year-old Jay shaved up his head, dressed in dhoti and chadar, singing Hare Krishna with joy, was pulling the chariot of Lord Jagannatha on the streets of San Francisco, the chariot that he had been helping to build with His Grace Jayananda Prabhu.
No one had imagined that this 19-year-old Jay, late
By Prishni Shutton
On June 16, organized by the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies, Murali Gopal Das presented a lively seminar at New York City’s Bhakti Center titled “Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, based on Sadaputa’s book of the same name.
Murali Gopal holds a Ph.D. in physics from Ohio University, has served an internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, completed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University, and has taught Sanskrit at the University of Florida. As
By Bhaktimarga Swami
Lecture by HH Niranjana Swami
Gauranga Festival (Ukraine), June 8, 2016
The following is a partially-edited transcription of a lecture given on June 8, 2016 in Gauranga Festival (Ukraine) – First Time Seeing Srila Prabhupada
I oftentimes say, when devotees ask me to speak about Prabhupāda, that I can say my only qualification is that I happened to be on the planet at the same time that Prabhupāda was spreading the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement. I took part in his mission, but I didn’t really hav
Shastrakrit Das: It was a hot and quiet evening and we were just sitting there praying for some mercy. Out of nowhere, this really pious lady approaches the book table with her family. She points to Srimad Bhagavatam first canto and Krishna book asking, ‘how much?’
I said, “for Krishna book, you can give some donation, but the Bhagavatam is $200.”
She was surprised, ‘why this one book Bhagavatam costs so much?’
I told her, ‘Because it’s not just one book it’s an 18 volume set.’
She insisted
ISKCON Panihati celebrated Panihati festival week this year from 22nd – 26th June, 2018 for the first time. His Holiness Bhakti Prema Maharaj was the chief guest for the entire event.
On the day of Ganga-puja i.e. 22nd June we went on Ganga safari via a hired boat from Panihati to Bagh Bazaar Gaudiya Math. About 400 devotees participated in the wonderful kirtans, eye opening lectures by Maharaj and other senior devotees and sumptuous prasadam.
The second day 23rd June was food festival wherein
By Madhava Smullen
Care for Cows Vrindavana held a special event to celebrate Kurma Rupa Dasa’s life and service on June 28th, the third anniversary of his passing.
The founder and director of Care for Cows expired due to cancer in 2015 at the age of 67. But the organization he started continues to support and care for destitute and abandoned cows in Lord Krishna’s holy land of Vrindavana, India.
The commemorative event in Kurma Rupa’s honor took place at the Care for Cows Goshala on the Foo
By Madhava Smullen
ISKCON Fiji held its first ever Kirtan Mela in the island nation’s capital, Suva, from June 8thto 10th, to a rapturous reception.
The event was organized by Braja Govinda Das, a Sydney-based disciple of Tamal Krishna Goswami, who wanted to give Fijian devotees the kind of international kirtan experience they hadn’t had before.
About sixty international devotees – mainly from Australia and New Zealand – attended, along with several hundred from Fiji.
The festivities kicked o
