"Anger, when built up, becomes hate. And hate burdens our heart."
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Suppose a person is carrying a huge boulder on their back. When asked why they are carrying it, they reply, “I want to throw it on my enemy’s head.” If their enemy lives far away and carrying that boulder that far is likely to break their own back, then they will end up hurting themselves far more than their enemy.
We wouldn’t us
“At Panihati, Raghunatha dasa went to everyone there. He bowed down to them. He took dust from their feet with genuine feelings of humility and gratitude and reverence. And he offered prayers to everyone. Seeing that this came from his heart, Lord Nityananda said that because you have served the devotees — his service was so humble — because you have served them so nicely and pleased them so much in their hearts, Lord Chaitanya Himself came to this festival. And soon you will attain freed
Sometimes small things can make such a big difference. When it does not happen, that can also make a difference. I was about fourteen years old, I was on a bus and there was one empty seat next to mine. Then this Hare Krsna came onto the bus and I thought, “Oh no…” knowing that the only empty seat in the bus was next to me. I thought, “Oh God! Oh no! I hope it is not going to happen!” I almost crawled into the wall of the bus! Sure enough, he sat next to me.
I looked at him thinking, “Oh my God
Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi. “Pandava” refers to the Pandavas, the sons of Emperor Pandu. One son of Pandu was Bhima, a most powerful warrior and a most voracious eater. He was not one who welcomed fasting and admitted to not being able to follow Ekadasi.
However, he was told that if he observed complete fasting on one particular Ekadasi day annually, he would get all the spiritual benefits of having followed every Ekadasi fast of the year.
He and his brothers thus all agreed to fast on that day. “
“At Panihati, Raghunatha dasa went to everyone there. He bowed down to them. He took dust from their feet with genuine feelings of humility and gratitude and reverence. And he offered prayers to everyone. Seeing that this came from his heart, Lord Nityananda said that because you have served the devotees — his service was so humble — because you have served them so nicely and pleased them so much in their hearts, Lord Chaitanya Himself came to this festival. And soon you will attain freedom fro
Siddhanta Prabhu’s Story
Siddhanta dasa: My first contact with the Hare Krishna movement came in the summer of 1969 when I saw its members chanting on the streets of Hollywood. My initial reaction to the shaven heads, saffron-colored robes, and seemingly strange activity was one of bewilderment and, to some degree, comic relief.
It was not until a year later that I was able to appreciate the sound philosophy which stems from one of the world’s oldest religious traditions, as explained in their
Exciting news!! Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami who started it all has won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at Illuminate Film Festival, the top prize of the festival!
Lead Juror Michael Kiehnert said that they awarded it to the film which the jury felt had the potential “to reach their widest possible audience and have the greatest impact.”
Illuminate is the largest Conscious Film Festival in the world and Hare Krishna! The film was one of 10 films competing for this
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
— Dale Carnegie
However fast world may progress towards automation and robotics, every individual will still require an another human to love him because machines can not fulfil the most basic urge of the heart, that is ‘to love and to be loved’. Relationships are the most important but simultaneously difficult to cultivate if not cared properly. Just like the plants have to be supplied w
If His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada tried to enter the US from India today, chances are the spiritual master would be detained. But in 1964, the septuagenarian Vaishnava Swami was welcomed to the West with open arms and proceeded to detonate a transcendental love bomb on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that transformed the phenomenal world forever. This is the story told in the Hare Krishna! film documentary.
Prabhupada infiltrated the counterculture with the science and art of
On this auspicious day of Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi, one Chakra for the small domes and all of the remaining pieces for the 2 small Kalashes have fully arrived.
You can see in this video how they will look and their size for the small domes.
The Chakras are made of solid stainless steel coated with pure gold. This gold will remain for many years and the chakras won’t need to be recoated for the next 100 years!
This Chakra will be placed very shortly on the domes, once the Kalash will be completed
By Hari Narayana Das
Flowers parade to commemorate the 724th anniversary of Surabaya city was successfully attracted many visitors along the way of the parade even the sun shine brightly in the sky. It was the most eagerly awaited attraction. This event every year is always attended by thousands of people. The audience of this year parade was present-not just from Surabaya alone. Many residents outside the city of Surabaya such as Gresik, Sidoarjo and even Madura and Lamongan who always come on
Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana (Sri Govinda Dasa) appeared in the 1600’s near Remuna, Orissa. In his youth, he mastered Sanskrit grammar, poetry, and logic. After carefully studying the commentries of Sankara and Madhva he took initiation in the Tattva-vadi disciplic succession of Sripad Madhvacarya. Baladeva Vidyabhusana became a dig vijaya pandit (conqueror of all opponents) and began visiting the holy places. Wherever he went he defeated the local sages, scholars, and sannyasis.
In Jagannath
bhala haila,—viśvarūpa sannyasa karila
pitṛ-kula, matṛ-kula,—dui uddharila
“My dear mother and father,” the Lord said, “it is very good that Viśvarūpa has accepted the sannyasa order, for thus He has delivered both His father’s family and His mother’s family.”
It is sometimes said that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu disapproved of the acceptance of the sannyasa order in this Kali-yuga because in the śastra it is said:
aśvamedhaṁ gavalambhaṁ sannyasaṁ pala-paitṛkam
devareṇa sutotpattiṁ kalau paṣca viv
By the Executive Team, RISE
Auckland’s Sri Sri Radha Giridhari temple has a new sunRISE on its beautiful horizon! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
ISKCON Auckland NZ, is pioneering the establishment of a spiritual learning centre, named Rupanuga Institute of Spiritual Education (RISE). The opening of RISE was celebrated on the 21st May, 2017 during the Sunday feast at the temple with the blessings and guidance of HH Ramai Swami Maharaj & HH Devamrita Swami Maharaj. Temple President, HG Kalasa
For more photos: https://goo.gl/6VCEuK
By Hari Narayana Das
Flowers parade to commemorate the 724th anniversary of Surabaya city was successfully attracted many visitors along the way of the parade even the sun shine brightly in the sky. It was the most eagerly awaited attraction. This event every year is always attended by thousands of people. The audience of this year parade was present-not just from Surabaya alone. Many residents outside the city of Surabaya such as Gresik, Sidoarjo and even
The significance of rathayatra reached the far corners of the globe now and especially where ISKCON temples are located ever since Srila Prabhupada organised the first rathayatra in San Francisco in 1967 as briefed below. The rathayatra was scheduled on a Sunday the 9th July. On Saturday, 8th July, Jagannatha Deities were brought from Stinson Beach and draped in cloth. Although some rathayatra posters were the only official announcements, everyone in the Haight-Ashbury was talking about the fes
Question: How are we to see Krishna’s hand when sincere, dedicated devotees depart prematurely in tragic circumstances?
Short Answer: Krishna as death is kindly freeing those devotes from all that is material to enable them to focus undistracted on the spiritual.
Detailed Answer:
Death can seem cruel when it takes away a dear one. The Bhagavad-gita may seem to add to the bewilderment when it asserts (10.34) that the death which steals away everything is a manifestation of Krishna. Why would Kri
By ISKCON Wellington
The six loving exchanges between devotees articulated in the nectarean words of Srila Rupa Gosvami do not discriminate by gender or relationships. Neither do the etiquettes of Vaishnava association further elucidated by Srila Prabhupada in the Nectar of Instruction. Advancement in Krishna Consciousness depends upon the attitude of the follower; that indeed begins with our attitude towards those who are closest to us.
Nestled amongst native wilderness, trees and a short walk
For many years I have wondered why it is so difficult to find devotees who are inspired to not only correspond with inmates but to do so steadily as well. It’s been quite a bottleneck since there are far more inmates who write than there are volunteers to reply to them.
It seems that often the devotees who volunteer with IPM have an unrealistic, romantic view of what this service is and they get discouraged when reality turns out to be different. I am wondering if, in some way, this IPM NEWS it
The participants of “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Sacred Universe Level 1” were asking themselves this very question while attending this informative workshop co- sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute of Gainesville and the Krishna Institute in Alachua on May 20-21.
How we view the universe impacts our understanding of ourselves. Additionally, the more we push the boundaries of knowledge, the more knowledge expands before us. In the Vedic literature it is said, sa-tattvato ‘nyatha-buddhir
