Rukmini Priya Poddar’s book 100 Obscure Emotions, about the complicated variety of feelings in the human experience, and her new illustrated advice column series – currently blowing up social media – are deeply resonating with readers.
A second-generation devotee who grew up in the ISKCON community in Alachua, Florida, Rukmini received a B.A. in graphic design from the University of Florida, where she learned to work in digital mediums on logo design and marketing.
But in 2015, inspired by Inst
On January 29, Wikipedia made a tribute to ISKCON50 by featuring a prominent reference to the 50th anniversary of the Mantra-Rock Dance, complete
with an image of the famous promotional poster with Srila Prabhupada, under its On This Day. section on the Main Page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>
with links to Srila Prabhupada’s and the Mantra-Rock Dance’s full articles:
The feature will stay on the Main Page for 24 hours until midnight (UT
Chant for Love & Peace!
Fortunate people invites everybody to join this unique loving network and chant for change!
We want to see Love and Peace all over the world!
Please chant the great Maha-Mantra to bring auspiciousness to the globe!
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/Wfe236
Boxers meet in a ring and fight each other for a set number of “rounds.” Each round lasts three minutes and each fight (called a “bout”) features up to twelve rounds.
As a round begins, an official rings a bell and the fighters come out of their corners, touch gloves, and then begin boxing. Artfully dancing about, jabbing at one another with their gloves, each fighter seeks to gain an advantage.
Often in a bout, one of the fighters wins by a “knockout” when he catches his challenger off guard a
Q: Since Lord Krishna is the actual beneficiary of our results, why is Krishna known to be a renounced person?
Romapada Swami: Krishna is known as Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The word Bhagavan is defined in the Visnu Purana by Parasara Muni as one who is full in all six opulences— full strength, fame, wealth, knowledge, beauty, and renunciation.
In BG 9.9-10, Krsna mentions that the material manifestation is created and annihilated merely by His Supreme will. In the purport Sr
He Whom all the Vedic hymns glorify and Whom all the devas worship and obey, the Supreme Lord of all, Parameswara, chose to descend in His most merciful and generous incarnation as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534). His divine appearance in the land of Navadvip had been predicted and celebrated throughout the Vedas, specially the Vedic histories, the Puranas.
Seeing the fallen nature of mankind, whose spiritual blindness kept increasing due to this dark age of quarrel, He descended out of His
Albert Einstein had the insight to observe that two things were infinite: [1] Human stupidity and [2] The cosmos. But he wasn’t too sure about the second one.
What in the solar system does schooling have to do with exalted arcane ‘facts’ such as the big-bang and evolution? Nothing at all really, but everything to do with sanity and the theft of knowledge.
There was one sagely looking fellow, a Mr. Darwin, who when analyzing the complexities of an eye, saw the absurdity of his own evolution theo
The purpose of this paper is to both establish the importance of the seva of reading Srila Prabhupada’s books as well as understanding the essence of the message in Prabhupada’s books which is the performance of devotional service, regardless of one’s role or place in society.
Firstly I would like to present my own personal reading resume: I have read the Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta five times, the five-volume set of the unedited letters of Srila Prabhupada three times, the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
A weekend Bhakti Yoga Retreat will give local Puerto Rican students, yoga practioners and permaculture enthusiasts a taste of the simple living, high thinking lifestyle from March 17th to 19th.
The retreat will take place at the 15-acre Plenitud Eco Farm in the picturesque mountains of Las Marias, Puerto Rico. Established in 2010, Plenitud offers university students and other visitors courses, internships and demonstrations on sustainabiblity and permaculture.
The eco farm also happens to be ru
By Urmila Devi Dasi
A simple yet elegant way for each of us to yield to the loving desire of the Supreme Whole.
Surrender. Submission. Such words may conjure up images of war and aggression, where the weaker party regretfully yields to the stronger, possibly with thoughts of future victory or vengeance. With such images in mind, we may cringe when we read in the Bhagavad-gita that we must surrender to Krishna. And our qualms about surrender may increase when we see devotees exemplifying surren
ISKCON’s Hare Krishna Centre in New Zealand to reopen after 2011.
Almost six years after suffering extensive damage in the 2011 earthquake, ISKCON Christchurch will be holding a three-day grand opening ceremony of its newly constructed Hare Krishna Centre between March 3 and 5 this year.
The event will feature the official opening of the new temple, fire yajnas, kirtans, aartis, guru pujas, and an initiation ceremony by Indradyumna Swami. Installation of the deities including that of Sri Sri N
The temple is the home of Krsna! It is also the Holy Dhama and the spiritual world. The scriptures say that Krsna does not descend alone but he brings along the entire spiritual world. This is not so simple to see. Only the very saintly personalities can see this.
Saints are interesting people. Over the years, I have spent a lot of time reading about saintly persons and how they have happiness within that does not depend on external things – not dependent on the weather or profit or health. The
Russian Yoga Lecturer Escapes Penalty in Sign of Good Karma. Russia’s yoga lovers can sigh in relief today, following a judge’s decision in St. Petersburg to throw out the case against Dmitry Ugai, a man tied to a Krishna group charged with illegal missionary work for lecturing on the spiritual roots of yoga. “The case is closed due to the absence of any administrative offense,” the court ruled, according to the Interfax news agency. Ugai was detained during a spiritual festival in October afte
Facing the imminent separation of body and soul because of a terminal illness requires a response to one’s physical decline but also to one’s state of mind. Can we let go of all lingering material attachments? Can we fix our mind on Krishna? Are we ready?
Over the years and during the final stages of their lives, I was frequently in the company of two devotees — Hamsagati Krishna Dasa and Bhaktin Veerle — offering support, guidance, and friendship. For several months I saw them endure painful, i
Diary of a Traveling Preacher
Volume 7, Chapter 13
By Indradyumna Swami
During the final phase of our summer tour, more and more people were coming, as many as 6,000 on some days. The mayor of a beach town told us that just before summer his secretary had been inundated with calls asking whether our festival was coming. By the time we were due, there wasn’t a single room to rent in town.
“The hotels are all saying that people are here for your event,” said the mayor. “Even I myself had to open
2016 was a significant year for Indian Americans in politics. Five Indian Americans, a record number, were elected to U.S. Congress. To celebrate the milestone, fellow members of Congress, dignitaries and supporters, including ISKCON, gathered at the Indiaspora Gala on January 3rd in Washington, D.C.
The bipartisan event highlighted the increasing significance of the Indian-American community in the country’s political landscape. It also welcomed members of the new administration and allowed n
“Hare Krishna, Hare Rama” these were the words Seva Atula Das was greeted with as he walked passed through the local vegetable market in downtown Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. More than 15 years ago as Tribhuvanatha Das was spreading the holy name through the East African Festival, he reached out to Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania and Eastern Africa by population.
Relocation from Nairobi to Dar es salaam due to work purposes lead to the first devotee Hari Dev Das settling in Dar and sowi
All of the material existence, the universes, outer space, galaxies, stars, planetary systems, planets, continents, countries, cities, and everyone’s body, are all on fire. In worldly consciousness, our illusory task is to deny this fire at every turn, or recognizing the fire partially, to create structures to protect us from being burned, keeping that fire “over there,” overseas, or in another neighborhood, and not in our view. However, as much as our societies, elders, and parents are trying
In many years of chanting, not every day was an optimal one. I have chanted when I was tired, when I was ill and injured; I have chanted in cars, planes and boats. Once I also chanted on a horse racing track! The quality of my rounds has varied due to my own physical condition and the external circumstances and to the state of my consciousness. But the Holy Name has stayed as an integral part of my life, the Holy Name is like a friend – always there, soothing my mind, creating stability in the
Finding Help in the Bhagavad-gita.
Jayapataka Swami: The Bhagavad-gita now has readers all over the world. Krishna personally came down from the spiritual world & gave His teachings of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. In this material world there are many situations. People are in great stress & suffering. There is a forest fire of illusion & by this mercy given through the books they are free from that burning fire. People are suffering in so many ways and they don’t know which way to turn. Srila Prabh
