This morning I was reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter 7, entitled “The Son of Drona Punished”. This chapter has always intrigued me, because although the Srimad Bhagavatam was compiled by Srila Vyasedeva five thousand years ago, there is mention of the ultimate weapon, the brahmāstra [nuclear weapon] being used. We think that Atomic energy or Nuclear energy is some modern technological advancement, but actually this knowledge has been around since the time that Srimad Bhag
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On the 11th of April our party traveled to Paksi-tirtha also known as Tirukalukundram. The town is located 15 kilometers southeast of Chingleput and 17 kilometers west of Mahabalipuram. The town is known for its Hindu temple called the Sri Vedagiriswarar and it is also popularly known as Kazhugu koli (Eagle temple). The temple is dedicated to Lord Siva and sits high atop the Veda-giri hills. A long expanse of steps leads up to the temple, the presiding deities of which are a Siva-lingam and Par
“Jananivasa told me about a conversation he had had in the temple with a middle-aged Bengali guest who had asked him, “Are Radha-Madhava made of brass or gold?”
“Well, what are you made of?” Jananivasa replied.
After a pause, the gentleman answered, “Flesh and blood.”
Jananivasa told him, “As long as you think you’re made of flesh and blood, then you’ll think the Deity is made of one metal or another. But if you can understand that you’re not the body, that you’re spirit soul, and also that the
“Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.”
-Radhanath Swami, The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami
Yoga- In Hinduism, a set of mental and physical exercises aimed at producing spiritual enlightenment. This is a basic definition I found on google. To me, Yoga is something completely different. Yoga aids an individual in obtaining inner freedom to embrace one's truest self. Your highest self, detaching ones
In an effort to compete with Sabjimata Mata's and Kurma Prabhu's delicious prasadam blogs, I hereby submit our twelve month sandwich.
There are five main cooks who are always involved. The first one is Gaurachandra; on His right side stands Nitaichand, and on His left side stands Gadadhara. Cooking nearby is Advaita, and Srinivas is holding the spatula. Sweet Mrdanga sauce is mixed in with spicy kartals - all accompanied with side orders of conch and bells. All the demigods headed by Lord Bra
I believe in the power of prasad.
My dad has been telling me for the past several years, "Prasadam, prasadam!! You must serve prasadam always; if someone eats prasadam their lives will change forever."
He's not exaggerating.
My father and mother would frequent the Hare Krishna temple while they were finishing up their degrees at University of California, Berkeley. The food was cheap and tasty, and - little did they know - it was spiked. With love, of course. Little did they know that food th
Alachua, Florida is already home to the largest group of ISKCON members in North America, with some 500 congregational families. Now devotees are planning an intentional devotional community there for couples or singles aged 55 and over.
Prabhupada disciple Kirtiraja Das, who served as a GBC and regional secretary in the former Soviet Union before moving to Alachua with his family in 1991, is developing the project as its managing director. He has worked as a realtor for the past twenty years,
So you read carefully Bhagavad-gītā. Everything is there. Every word, every line is so, I mean to say, instructive. It is simply... That is the basic principle of spiritual knowledge. Now we have presented. Every one of you should very carefully read. Every one of you must have one book and read it carefully and appear in the examination next Janmāṣṭamī. You'll get designation, (laughs) Bhakti-śāstrī - Lecture on BG 2.26 -- Los Angeles, December 6, 1968
Srimad Bhagavatam is the essence of all Vedic Literatures. Patient and submissive studying of Srimad Bhagavatam helps one to become free from the polluted aim of life and reestablish our lost connection with the Supreme Lord. H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj narrates the mood of studying Srimad Bhagavatam from the life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Gadadhara Pandit
At Mayapur Institute, we offer Bhakti Vaibhava Course, where Srimad Bhagavatam is taught by our expert teachers.
Ekadashi - the eleventh lunar day (Tithi) of the Shukla (bright) or Krishna (dark) paksha (fortnight) of every lunar month in the Hindu calendar (Panchang) - has important place in spiritual culture of India.
Fasting
In Hinduism it is considered a spiritually beneficial day and is usually observed by a partial fast. Beans and grains are not eaten during Ekadashi, as on this day these two foods are believed to be contaminated by sin. Only fruits, vegetables and milk products are eaten during E
By Hunter Wells
It all looked a bit incongruous really. Given name John, John Herbison – spiritual name Yasoda Dulal – is standing in the middle of small-town New Zealand, the mist is swirling and he’s beating his drum and chanting mantras.
“…hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, hare hare.”
Shaven head except for that trademark tuft, draped in a traditional dhoti or robe, dripping with beads and the very materialism he’s busy renouncing is rumbling by at 100km/h. Trucks, cars and people obsessed with “matt
By Braja Vilas das
Dear Devotees and TOVP Donors,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Greetings from Sridham Mayapur and blessings from Sri Sri Radha-Madhava, Sri Panchatattva and Lord Nrsimhadeva.
This Monday, May 9, is Akshaya Tritiya, one of the most important days in the Vedic calendar. Akshaya Tritiya is the appearance day of Lord Parasurama, and it is also the day that the Ganges descended to the earth. Most devotees know it as the beginning of Candana-ya
“It is better to go deep in Krishna consciousness than to go broad to go here and there looking for different philosophies and processes. I think of an incident with a devotee of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu named Mukunda. In His Maha-prakasa Lila, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu called His devotees one by one and gave them sublime mercy, but he refused to call Mukunda. When Srivasa Pandita asked, ‘Why aren’t you calling Mukunda?’ Mahaprabhu replied, ‘When Mukunda is with us, he speaks like one of us, but when he
“It is better to go deep in Krishna consciousness than to go broad to go here and there looking for different philosophies and processes. I think of an incident with a devotee of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu named Mukunda. In His Maha-prakasa Lila, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu called His devotees one by one and gave them sublime mercy, but he refused to call Mukunda. When Srivasa Pandita asked, ‘Why aren’t you calling Mukunda?’ Mahaprabhu replied, ‘When Mukunda is with us, he speaks like one of us, but when he
Kirtan London presented kirtan at the ‘Amazing Grace’ multi-faith concert at Union Chapel in Islington, London, England today. It was a beautiful evening and hundreds of voices joined in chanting the Hare Krishna mantra with us.
Srila Prabhupada: The secret of surrendering to Krishna is that such surrendered devotee sees that everything is part of Krishna’s plan. Whatever is meant to be I am doing. Let me do it with my full attention to every detail. Let me become absorbed in such service, neve
Women of ISKCON: Past, Present and Future
(By HG Simheswara Prabhu)
A cultural exchange on vegetarian cooking and eating lifestyle was held at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Kanhaiya temple in Prai, Penang. (Monday, 2nd May 2016)
About 60 Chinese and 20 Indian members joined to exchange their vegetarian lifestyle and knowledge.
Mr. SK Wong the President of the Malaysia Youth Vegetarian Society was amongst the many who attended.
Miss Terese Chen from Taiwan who organizes the annual vegetarian cooking competition among world chefs was very i
“What is the business of our Krishna conscious students? They are busy in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, in distributing knowledge in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore they are doing the best welfare work in the world. Other welfare work will be finished as soon as this body is finished. But these welfare activities will not be finished
By ISKCON Coimbatore
“I want to see my disciples all over the world introduce two items , opening Radha Krishna temples and Rath Yatra festivals” (Srila Prabhupada , Founder Acharya of ISKCON, in His letter to Bakta Das,11 October 1973).
Indeed with the only intention of fulfiling Srila Prabhupad’s this desire, devotees of ISKCON Coimbatore have been earnestly endeavouring to dedicate two achivements at His Lotus feet in this 50th Golden Jubilee year of ISKCON.
The first one is the grand celebr
How many of us are fortunate to have not just good friends, but close friends with whom we can phone at any time, and for no particular reason, than to simply share a Krishna conscious realization?
How many of us are blessed to be able to shed all institutional and scholarly roles, simply to sit down in an informal setting once in a while, and discuss none other than Krishna katha?
Does it ever occur to us sometimes, particularly if we are second initiated, that the services we try to render fo
