By Urmila Devi Dasi
Our life depends on air, and when we recognize it as one of the energies of Krsna, it can remind us of Him.
Sweat gathers on my lower back, and my clothes stick to my skin. Then the leaves of nearby trees shiver to announce the coming relief of a breeze. I consider how the air I’m perceiving outside me also moves within me, and I think of how air carries smells, fills our lungs, nourishes our cells, flies our kites and airplanes, and presses with strong but unperceived forc
Lecture on Taking Responsibility by Devakinandan Prabhu on 26 Dec 2015 at ISKCON Kanpur
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto-09, Chapter-19, Text-01,02
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Srila Prabhupada in the Radha-Damodara Bus (Album with photos)
Vakresvara Pandit das: Prabhus, I have never ever ever experienced fear, anxiety, suffering like that!
I was told that the ride on the Radha Damodar bus was Prabhupada’s long-cherished dream. And because the vehicle that we had just repaired was in such first-class shape, we were informed that our bus would be used to take Srila Prabhupada and that I would be the driver and Mahamuni would be the servant and Sunanda would be the coo
Attentive Japa Brings Quality and Happiness in Our Life.
Candramauli Swami: When we try to chant our japa seriously, with attention, day after day, after day, after day, we will get the taste and begin to lose our desires for material happiness. Fast! It is all in the chanting.
But we don’t have a time for japa. We think we have to do it, and then we can “start our day”. Japa is just a “necessary botheration”. The “real thing” is to “do” things, because then we will get some “results”. “I don’
By Urmila Devi Dasi
Can we make our children turn out the way we want?
Srila Prabhupada once said, “If you place a child in good association, he will act properly, and if you place him in bad association, he will act improperly. A child has no independence in that sense.… According to Vedic civilization, as soon as a child is four or five years old, he is sent to a gurukula, where he is disciplined.”
Anyone who has worked with children knows they are vulnerable to their environment. Yet childre
By Anuradha dasi
What could be better than reading the story of a seeker who gives up everything to travel the world in search of God? Hearing that person tell the story himself. After three years in the making, Mandala Media has finally released the special collector’s edition of the audiobook for The Journey Home, in which Radhanath Swami reads the entire book.
When you listen to this audiobook you feel as if you are in his private room hearing him recount every detail of his often perilous a
They say there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe they can make things happen and those who believe things happen to them. Basically it boils down to saying that one group of people are convinced of their control over the outcome of their lives and careers, and pushes ahead while the second group kind of waits for the right opportunity.
According to a blog post published on inc.com, university of Florida psychologist Tim Judge and his colleagues have shown that those who f
Chanting is sacred communication!
(Transcribed by Madhumati Priyasaki Devi Dasi)
Mahatma Prabhu: Chanting is very important, if you strive to upgrade your chanting it will make such a huge difference in your Krishna Consciousness.
QUOTE: “Japa is not a ritual. It is not a mechanical, mindless, robotic process. It is an offering of the heart, a pleading for mercy, a begging to be accepted by the Lord. It is a crying of the soul to be engaged eternally in the Lord’s service. The emotions these m
Hearing and chanting Krishna’s names brings perfection.
Vaisesika Das: I can’t stop thinking about the big kirtans we had at ISV (our temple in San Jose, Ca) on Lord Rama’s appearance day. My mind keeps going back to those kirtans, wanting to relive them.
On that day, the devotees danced and sang together for hours in wild abandon: laughing, jumping, spinning, dancing, smiling and shouting with happiness.
I watched when a couple of devotees who arrived late walked into the big hall while the ki
Chanting the Hare Krishna maha – mantra isn’t a mundane activity but is in fact a means by which we can experience exponential spiritual pleasure.
Chanting connects us to Krishna provided we chant with utmost sincerity and seriousness. One of the most important requirements of chanting is that we should pronounce each syllable of the maha – mantra clearly and loud enough so that we can hear what we chant.
But many a times we the spiritual seekers chant inattentively without bothering if we are
This is the second, highly anticipated, rewised, and extended edition of the Vaisnava Sukta Manjari, also known as the Mantra Book. It comes as a set of two books, silk covered, in a slipcase. This book is a collection of mantras from various Vedic texts and from our Vaisnava literature that are commonly used in rituals like pujas, yajnas and samskaras.
The Hare Krsna mantra is our central mantra. However, as sadhakas, other practices support our devotional progress in addition to chanting the
This book was written by Priti Vardhana dasa, a disciple of His Holiness Bhaktividya Purna Swami.
Priti Vardhana dasa has been serving in the Gurukula for the past 20 years. In preparation for writing this book, Priti Vardhana dasa studied the Srimad-Bhagavatam and writings of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvati Ṭhakura for 3 years. Through this in depth study and his 20 years of experience in raising children in Gurukula this book has manifested.
Defeating Vatsasura is a guidebook written to help caregi
By Samapriya devi dasi
As the United States of America was established by its founding fathers, Srila Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krnsa Consciousness and therefore he is its Founder-Acharya. His goal was to establish a society by which to bring people of the world to Krsna.
In the beginning days of America the pioneers had to depend upon their own determination, strength and faith, to establish themselves in “the new world”. They saw this land as a place of opportunity wher
By Suhrit Krishna Das
ARISE with R.I.S.E!!! (Rupanuga Institute of Spiritual Education)
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, Gaura Nitai, Sri Jagannath, Baldev and Shubhadra and Sri Sri Radha Giridhari.
On the auspicious evening of Narsimha Chaturdashi, many devotees in their best Vaishnava attire coming to the temple didn’t know what best was in store for them during the coming weekend. RISE was determined to conduct, with the help of Sri Sri RadhaGiridhari’s mercy, a divine opportunity for souls
From the moment we are born we are knowledge-seekers. We want to know where we can find food, shelter, love, and happiness. We want information to help us avoid pain, suffering, and loss. We spend our lives building on that knowledge, adding information gained by study and experience.
Perhaps in earlier times society was more inclined to seek knowledge of truth. Today it seems we are after happiness, more than truth or no matter what the truth. And of course, the search for the self is generall
Pure devotees of the Lord are only interested in satisfying the senses of the Supreme Lord, hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.2). They are not concerned with the material world because they appreciate that in the material world, everything is only temporary and therefore any relationship that we have with the material energy, will not endure and therefore it will be painful.
Whatever we have, we become attached to and then it will disintegrate in the course o
In one of the early Back to Godhead magazines, there was a cover with a butcher slaughtering an animal and Prabhupada asked, “Why did you put this? Why did you put this?”
The editor said, “Well, aren’t we against meat-eating?”
Prabhupada said, “We are not against anything. We are for Krsna!”
So our business is to be for Krsna, not just against this or against that. For Krsna, means to do what is pleasing to Krsna. In one lecture, Srila Prabhupada said, “Yes, Krsna said patraḿ puṣpaḿ phalaḿ toy
Gaur Gopal Das delivered a keynote speech at first ever BRICS Alliance Business Forum on 21st of May, 2018. The talk was attended by an audience of around 400 from over 37 nationalities.
The BRICS Alliance Business Forum is a focused initiative that primarily brings together Multinationals, Large, MSMEs, SMEs and Start-ups across economic sectors. It provides them a platform to extend their business and network across BRICS Countries and Partner countries through strategic partnerships and coll
The Srimad Bhagavatam gives us full descriptions of Krsna’s appearance, of Krsna’s character and of his activities. It is in this way, by absorption in the Bhagavatam that we get everything, everything to know who Krsna is. First, it describes how of all the incarnations, Krsna is the Supreme Lord, ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.28). Then finally in the tenth canto, it gets into detail. In this way, by reading, we can gradually understand and begin to a
ISKCON was officially recognized and registered in the Soviet Union on May 20, 1988, ending years of persecution of the Hare Krishna devotees by the Communist regime.
On May 17, 2018, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent his congratulatory message for the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of ISKCON in Russia, which is presented in full below:
"I am delighted to know that the Moscow Society for Krishna Consciousness is celebrating the 30th year of its registration in Russia.
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