Dear Devotees,
Hare KrishnaPlease accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad.For my upcoming book about Srila Prabhupada in Bombay, we conducted a personal interview with Srinathji Prabhu. In the interview with Srinathji Prabhu, he described his very first encounter with the Hare Krishna devotees.As an offering to HG Srinathji Prabhu, I would like to share his excerpt from the upcoming book.Your servant,
Lokanath Swami

EXTRACT FROM UPCOMING BOOK
It was around March 71, that Sri

Damodarananda Das: BMI-Bhaktivriksha organised and celebrated the First grand Ram Vijayotsava in Bloomington IL on Saturday Oct 15 with burning of 15 feet effigies of Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghnatha. About 500 people attended a fair like celebration. Festival of India put up many displays. The other highlight was first ever Ram Leela enactment of SundarKanda. The children really enjoyed the performance of an energetic Hanuman and others. There has been a very positive feed back fr

Somendranatha Das: The summary of Srimad Bhagawatam (Hierarchy of Universe in the 51st year of Brahma). One of the subject matter of Shrimad Bhagwatam is (Hierarchy of Universe). Starting from first canto to tenth Canto, the file contains hierarchy and roots of all generations during the 51st year of Brahma (upto 28th Chaturyug of seventh (Vaivaswat) Manu).
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Today morning on 18th Oct. HG Vrajendranandan Prabhu met and presented Gita to Smt. Menka Sanjay Gandhi Minister of Women & Child Development of India.

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For a sannyasi to associate with mundane persons is like willingly drinking poison! And not only for a sannyasibut for a devotee too. One should not associate with women who are addicted to lusty desires nor should one associate with men who are addicted to such women. This is not recommended for one who is serious about going back to Godhead because it is said that sex life is the chain, maithunya argara, it is the chain that binds us in the prison of material existence. 

But you may ask, “Isn

On the morning of 18 Oct, Sriman Vrajavasi Prabhu, a Srila Prabhupada disciple from Mexico, left this world. He was in a coma for a week, with his loving family caring for him as best they could.

He was one of the first, and biggest, sankirtan devotees of Mexico. At one point in the mid and late 70s, he would distribute as much as 500-700 big books a day.

After marriage, he was the temple president for Mexico City for some time. Then he moved to a smaller town, Celaya Mexico, where he set up a

Following are excerpts from some scriptures (Puranas) describing the glories of lamp offering:

The sins accumulated in millions of kalpas vanish in an instant when a dipa is offered during Kartika. O great brahmana, listen to this dipa’s virtues, which are dear to Keshava. By offering a dipa in this month a person will not take birth on earth again.

This dipa-dana bestows all the benefits available at Kurukshetra during solar eclipses and at Narmada during lunar eclipses, multiplied by the mill

Since its construction, Srila Prabhupada’s Palace has been the heart and soul of the New Vrindaban community in West Virginia. A sacred Smriti Samadhi, it is the greatest memorial to ISKCON’s Founder-Acharya in the Western World.

What’s more, it was beloved by Prabhupada himself, who wanted to retire to it to translate his books, and repeatedly asked when it would be completed.

“When my palace will be ready I shall go there and stay

On October 16th the United Nations and the world celebrates World Food Day. In their communications the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) emphasizes: “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” And they urge everyone: “Let's adapt agriculture to climate change to build the Zero Hunger Generation.”

According to Vladimir Rakhmanin, the European regional director of FAO, “while we have enough food to feed the entire human population, there are still millions out there starving

First day of the GBC meetings in Mumbai. Wonderful gathering of amazing sadhus. Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

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Dr. N.D.Desai (Srinathji Prabhu) 

Industrialist with a Mission 

(22.05.1940 - 17.10.2016)

A successful Bombay engineer seeks to inspire purity in his daily world of business and finance

Every evening at 6:00 Narendra Desai leaves his office in downtown Bombay. His chauffeur drives him home through Streets crowded with cars, trucks, ox-carts, rickshas, eight million people, and an occasional elephant. They pull up at a seven-story building overlooking parks, swimming pools, and the Arabian Sea.

Dear Devotees,

On behalf of Jananivas, Ambarisa, Svaha and Braja Vilas prabhus and the entire TOVP Team, it is with great sorrow and bereavement that we have learned of the passing of one of the TOVP’s first heroes, His Grace Sri Nathji prabhu (Dr. N.D. Desai) yesterday, October 17th. We are in shock at his sudden departure at the age of 76 due to heart failure during a visit to Bhutan. It is truly a dark day of loss for the TOVP and for his family. We offer our condolences to his wife, two sons and daughter d

A Talk by Giriraj Swami October 17, 2005 Sri Sri Radha-Radhanatha Temple Durban, South Africa

We welcome you to this most auspicious place, the temple of Sri Sri Radha-Radhanatha, on the most auspicious occasion of the beginning of Kartika, in the most auspicious association of Lord Krsna’s devotees. Kartika is also known as the month of Damodara (dama means “ropes,” and udara means “abdomen”), or Krsna who allowed Himself to be bound about the waist by the ropes of His devotee’s love.

Srila Ru

Russian Padayatra Report by Narada dasa

We started 13 May 2016 from Samara
Finished 9 September (Radhashtami) in Ershov village
69 devotees participated (39 men and 30 women)

Lasted for 120 days

76 harinam-sankirtan on the streets

3080 Srila Prabhupad books distributed
342 audio disks with kirtans and lectures
350 «Golden Age» magazines

29 cities

16000 km the total distance covered

Total income $10,453
+ donations by devotees 304 339,23 Rub
+ donations on sankirtana 267 253,60 Rub
+ selling th

Yashomatinandana das: Sometimes Prabhupada was very tolerant of his devotees.
After he read some letters from New York about Bali Mardan and his wife, Prabhupada said,
“The whole problem is sex life. Yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham. Tuccham means insignificant. One may think that sex is the greatest platform of happiness, but actually that happiness is insignificant. In fact, sex life is a source of distress. We have so many problems because of sex life.”
Although the situation in th

Srila Prabhupada: Instead of actively taking part in politics, saintly persons should engage in the chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. By the grace of Lord Caitanya, by simply chanting this Hare Krishna maha-mantra, the general populace can derive all benefits without political implications. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.14.12 Purport)
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The Vaishnava observance of Damodara Utsav seva during Kartika (Damodar mase)

[Srimad Bhagavatam 10:9:1-2 txt] : Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: One day when Mother Yasoda saw that all the maidservants were engaged in other household affairs, she personally began to churn the yogurt. While churning, she remembered the childish activities of Krsna, and in her own way, she composed songs and enjoyed singing to herself about all those activities.

PURPORT
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

According to Vedic astronomy, the day begins at sunrise, so I can pretend it’s still yesterday, the first day of Kartika. It’s late at night and I may not be at my most coherent, but it’s also the time when the mind is most free, the unconscious sprinkling its droplets of intuition, dreams, poems, visions, and hopes like a fine autumn mist on one’s awareness. Yes, I’m sure I sound deranged, but bear with me for a moment or two more. Then I’ll go to sleep, to dream in earnest.

It’s Kartika, damn