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Dreaming of Krsna by Kadamba Kanana Swami

Question: When Krsna appears in a devotee’s dream, does it have any spiritual significance?

magataganm_20161113104156a3d0d1.jpg?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1&width=500Yes, of course, it does. It is mercy. However, when Krsna appears in our dream, it may not be Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, giving us a full darshan in the dream. It may just the drawing that we saw in a cartoon and that drawing is now sort-of moving in our dream. I just spoiled your dreams, right! I am really sorry to spoil your dreams. Then again, say that Krsna is revealing himself and th

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Mayapur Meeting

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The GBC body meets every year at Sri Mayapur Dhama to discuss proposals and strategies for the upcoming year.

Part of the meeting is dedicated to working in strategic planning groups that cover topics such as outreach preaching, devotee care, ISKCON constitution, Prabhupada’s position and so on.

Each morning the groups come together to discuss the previous day’s work.

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Source:http://www.ramaiswami.com/mayapur-meeting-2/

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Ragini Dasi, Srila Prabhupada’s disciple from France leaving this world soon.
Update. Mondakini Dasi: Protected and comforted by the nest of your loving prayers, appreciations and blessings from all over the world, she left her body on the Appearance Day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur around 2:30 am French time, with the sound of Srila Prabhupada's voice. Our godsister Ilavati, who is near her, says it is very meaningful. Srila Prabhupada mission to his spiritual master was very muc

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Srila Prabhupada: In 1936, just on the 13th, December, I wrote him one letter. Not 13th. I think by the beginning of December, 1936, I wrote one letter to Guru Maharaja. I knew he was little kind upon me, so I wrote that “Guru Maharaja, you have got many disciples. I am also one of them. But they are doing direct service to you. Some of them are brahmacaris, some of them sannyasis, but I am a householder. I cannot…” Of course, I was giving sometimes some monetary help, but I could not give any

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was one of ten children born to Bhaktivinoda Thakura, a great Vaisnava teacher in the disciple-line from Lord Caitanya Himself. While living in a house named Narayana Chata, just near the temple of Lord Jagannatha in Puri, Bhaktivinoda Thakura was engaged as a prominent Deputy Magistrate and also served as the superintendent of the temple of Lord Jagannatha. Yet in spite of these responsibilities, he served the cause of Krishna with prodigious energy. While work

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Aindra Prabhuu’s Vyasa-puja Offering

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Audio Link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O6tCYl9iFg

 

Transcription:

 

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

There is a saying, Srila Prabhupada even used it. There is a saying that a preacher is least appreciated in his own hometown. And I guess that’s just normal. So we shouldn’t get too upset if that thing happens to us.

Anyhow, I see most the devotees seem to be rather new devotees, so I don’t know, you know, how much you gonna be able to put this

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Srimad Bhagavatam -7.10.4

TEXT 4

nānyathā te ’khila-guro

ghaṭeta karuṇātmanaḥ

yas ta āśiṣa āśāste

na sa bhṛtyaḥ sa vai vaṇik

Translation:

Otherwise, O my Lord, O supreme instructor of the entire world, You are so kind to Your devotee that

You could not induce him to do something unbeneficial for him. On the other hand, one who desires

some material benefit in exchange for devotional service cannot be Your pure devotee. Indeed, he is

no better than a merchant who wants profit in exchange for serv

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Tamala Krsna Goswami: If someone wants to understand what Srila Prabhupad was like, he should read about Krsna’s intimate devotees and associates in transcendental books like Nectar of Devotion and Krsna. Actually, Srila Prabhupad manifested all the qualities of the eternal associates of Krsna. His humor was completely sublime, his compassion was sublime and transcendental. Courage, competitiveness–all the qualities we read about in Krsna and Nectar of Devotion were manifested in Srila Prabhupa

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Watch the video for this lecture here:

http://mayapur.tv/wowzaplayer/

From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir

Date: February 10, 2017

Speaker: HG Malati Devi Dasi

Subject: Srimad Bhagavatam 7.10.3

TEXT

bhṛtya-lakṣaṇa- jijñāsur

bhaktaṁ kāmeṣv acodayat

bhavān saṁsāra-bījeṣu

hṛdaya-granthiṣu prabho

TRANSLATION

O my worshipable Lord, because the seed of lusty desires, which is the root cause of material existence, is within the

core of everyone’s heart, You have sent me to this material world to exhibit

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Please find below photos from Lord Nityananda Prabhu's
Appearance Day at Bhaktivedanta Manor.


Slideshow (please turn on sound):
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/nityananda_trayodasi_2017/slideshow

Gallery:
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/nityananda_trayodasi_2017


With best wishes,

   Hare Krishna,

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No matter how humble a person may feel of himself and no matter how much criticism is hurled at him, once he accepts the responsibility of being a guru, it becomes his sacred duty to not only give transcendental knowledge to disciples but also accept respect and worship from them, for by doing so he does not only glorify his guru and the entire guru parampara but also helps the disciples receive mercy of the Lord. 

Srila Bhakatisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, hailed as the Lion Guru by those who

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New Vrindaban is set to host the second annual ISKCON North America Farm Conference from October 13th to 15th this year.

The GBC Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture, which organized conferences on simple living in four continents last year, is behind the event. The conference, themed “Back to the Basics,” will be facilitated by ECO-Vrindaban and ISKCON New Vrindaban.

Organizers include ISKCON Minister for cow protection and agriculture Kalakantha Das, ECO-Vrindaban board chairperson Sri

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Kirtan Fest 2017 at ISKCON of Houston

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To kick off the World Holy Name Week, ISKCON of Houston, Texas, USA, has announced the launch of Kirtan Fest 2017 this upcoming Labor Day weekend (Sat-Mon Sept. 2nd - 4th) at ISKCON’s fabulous new state-of-the-art Houston, Texas temple. This inaugural festival will kick off what will be an exciting, on-going flagship event every year. This year, the festival encompasses the following auspicious Vaishnava holidays: 

Sat, September 2 - Vamana Dvadasi

Sun, September 3 – Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur’s

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Hindus as well as practically people of all other religions have great respect towards Bhagavad Gita. Not only religionists but even scientists like Albert Einstein, Henry David Thoreau, Albert Schweitzer and others would also derive great inspiration from it. Although it’s a book of inspiration hardly anyone of us are interested now a days in opening it to see what’s written in it. We just pay obeisances to Gita religiously from a distance.

Many of us do mistake thinking that Gita was only for

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Considering Srila Prabhupada’s Mercy

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By Swami B. A. Ashram

About 500 years ago, Lord Krishna personally appeared as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the place of the avatar for the age of Kali. Lord Chaitanya had two purposes for coming: to experience first-hand the bliss of serving Krishna and to spread pure love for Krishna, which is very rare. Writing about Lord Chaitanya’s plan for making His mercy widely available, Srila Krishna das Kaviraja Gosvami says, “sri-krishna-chaitanya-daya karaha vichara, vichara karile chitte pabe chama

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The one who startled India with kirtan

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You cannot follow nicely unless you hear nicely, and you cannot lead nicely unless you have learned to follow nicely.

Yamuna: From the very beginning of our programs in Bombay, Srila Prabhupada became known as one “who is startling India with kirtan.” Our kirtans were full of so much excitement—they were so thrilling—that we were like one throbbing heartbeat, the heartbeat of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission of Krishna Consciousness.

It is difficult to describe how much potency we felt in the

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The new Govinda’s restaurant at the ISKCON temple complex in Houston, Texas is set to receive a grand opening on March 11th, just before Gaura Purnima, with local TV channels, newspapers and radio stations to get a free meal and tour.

Govinda’s already had its “soft opening” back in July 2016, launching with no fanfare or advertising. But according to manager Shyamasundara Das it’s been a success from day one, often packing out the large 130-person capacity space, and drawing a 4.6 rating from

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Look Back to Look Forward

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One month into 2017; an appropriate time to review our resolutions. Realistic, achievable and still alive? Need some tweaking? If Plan A is falling apart don’t worry – there are another 25 letters in the alphabet! In fact, modern-day motivators reassuringly remind us that the most successful people in the world are those who wholeheartedly embrace and execute Plan B. Chop and change, experiment and innovate, somehow or other, find a strategy that works. Keep progressing forward, and avoid dying

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Get the train onto another track!

Everyone knows about the global ecological crisis. You would think that knowing this would cause human society to respond with vigor and with speed. But it hasn’t happened. Humans have responded with extraordinary inertia instead. We are stuck—caught in a mass consensual trance—a trance that keeps us blissfully ignorant of the reactions to our actions.

Bhakti-yogis respond to this situation with knowledge. They say that we need comprehensive knowledge of the relationship between consciousness an

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