Jaya Gaurasundara dasa: The Temple of the Holy Name is situated in Prabhupada Village, a rural community in the foothills of central North Carolina. From its inception in 1992, when Madhuha prabhu purchased the 350 acre tract of land and subdivided it, Prabhupada Village very quickly became the home of many sincere, senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada. There were enthusiastic morning programs, Sunday feasts and festivals, a day school, a nice cow and oxen program, some agriculture, and a good
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON movement, the Temple of the Holy Name in Prabhupada Village in Sandy Ridge, NC invites you to the installation of Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, which will take place on the most auspicious day of the year – Akshaya Tritiya – on Sunday, May 8, 2016. The festivities begin with a 6-hour kirtan on Saturday, May 7. Please see the schedule below.
So who is Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? “Sri-krsna-caitanya radha-krsna nahe anya
Keisha Castle-Hughes and her Hollywood team gets the mercy!
Drumila Dasa: It was either earlier today, or yesterday, when I was driving alone in my van and an old movie from 2002 popped into my mind. It was one of the most spiritual and uplifting movies that I ever saw, without it containing Krishna Conscious subject matter. A young 13-year-old ‘Keisha Castle-Hugheshttp://www.keishacastlehughes.com/ 'was it’s star, and was later nominated for an Academy award in the 'Best Actress’ category. T
The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple is participating in the first official "Toronto Interfaith Sustainability Bus Tour" on Sunday, May 15, 2016. The event is being organized by TakingITGlobal, Toronto Hub, Explore150, and Faith & the Common Good. The tour kicks off with a visit to the Hare Krishna Temple. There is still space on the tour. For more information, click here. Details from the official event page are as follows:
WHEN
Sunday, May 15th, 11:00am - 6:00pm
WHERE
A chartered, priv
WHEN
Sunday, May 15th, 11:00am - 6:00pm
WHERE
A chartered, priv
From Back to Godhead
By Gauranga Dasa
We all worship someone all of us but the question is…
One of the principles of worship is at traction. When you are reverentially attracted to someone, you have the desire to establish a relationship with that person, and when the relationship is established then you want to perform some worship. Therefore the most important principle is attraction. So the question is what makes a person attractive?
In a spiritual discourse if we announce beforehand that
One great secret in life is understanding the enormous role that our desires play. Our desires are the key driving principle that push us onward, more often than not to somewhere we don’t actually desire to be. Uncontrolled desire forces us to want things that we don’t actually need. Learning how to handle the fire of material desire gives us greater control over our life and can bring about the brightest future.
Source: https://soundcloud.com/devamrita-swami/the-great-secret-how-to-handle
In our pursuit of happiness are we chasing the wrong thing? It takes a very self controlled person, amidst a huge herd of people running. The self-controlled person can stop, pause and think and even go in the opposite way. Ask yourself do you have the…
Nityam Bhagavata-sevaya is a Fortnightly E-magazine for serving Srimad Bhagavatam.
If you ever desire to cross over this ocean of material existence and achieve the lotus feet of Supreme Lord Sri Hari then please take shelter of Srimad Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures.SrimadBhagavatam is declared to be the essence of all Vedanta philosophy. One who has felt satisfaction from its nectarean mellows will never be attracted to any other literature. Srila Vyasadev
Celebrate ISKCON 50th Anniversary With Padayatra
Divine Intervention.
Sutapa Das: On recent travels around the country I met a lady who expressed frustration in her attempts to find God. She told me her story: two years of spiritual travels, countless nights of prayer, careful scriptural exploration and persistent introspection, but still no sign! “Will I ever find Him?” she asked. “I’m beginning to question whether He even exists.” What to speak of the ‘searchers,’ even the faithful often doubt that their Supreme friend is actually alive an
Jiva Goswami states in his Bhakti Sandarbha that Vrindavan is a state of consciousness. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta once said that there is an intimate correlation between nama (the holy name) anddhama (the holy land). He said that it is only within the dhama that the nama fully manifests. Of course, where there is nama, dhama becomes manifest, but dhama means ‘the state of consciousness of Vrindavan’.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “My mind is like Vrindavan.” He said that for most people, the mind a
Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that He is covered by His internal potency and He purposefully covers Himself. He says He knows all beings past, present and future but Him no one knows. These are significant statements because as devotees we can be complacent sometimes especially those who are in the movement for long years. Familiarity breeds contempt! So our familiarity with Krishna, His Holy Names and pastimes can lead us to a familiar area of territory thus making us complacent towards Kr
Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam2.3.23.
“In order to make our theoretical knowledge realized we should repeat the knowledge. It’s a very simple process in a way, but when you repeat something you get realization of what you are saying. One of Srila Prabhupada’s early disciples had read that the moon was created by the churning of the ocean of milk—which seemed fantastic. She asked Srila Prabhupada, ‘What does that mean?’ Srila Prabhupada said, ‘Just repeat. The moon was churn
I recently won a Storytelling World Resource Award for my dramatic storytelling CD Hanuman’s Quest. I'm also a recipient of a WV Artist Fellowship Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Grant, an Ohio River Border Initiative Grant, and a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Mahabharata: The Eternal Quest, my 'cinematic' rendition of the ancient epic.
For many years I used my background in theater to write, act and direct Krishna Consciousness dramas. Today, I offer dramatic storytelling pr
There are a number of things that bemuse me and makes me wonder either my own sanity of that of others; their seems to be either a disconnect or lack of joined up thinking; or the fact that if we did stop and ask questions it may lead to a need to rethink or reamend or worse abmit it may have flaws.
As I read an interesting article on the use of sadhna sheets the devotee gave a break down of responses and use whilst offering to take more devotees on; alls well and good.
Well until you break it
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
* AVOID BEING MISLED -- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speaks about the importance for devotees to know siddhanta.
* EVERYONE IS ELIGIBLE -- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada speaks about the universality of chanting the Lord’s names.
* KRISHNA CRUSHES THE DEVOTEE’S PRIDE -- Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja tells a story about a corpse, a jackal, and Krishna and Arjuna.
* PRAYERS TO SRI GADADHAR PANDIT -- A collection of various
* AVOID BEING MISLED -- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speaks about the importance for devotees to know siddhanta.
* EVERYONE IS ELIGIBLE -- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada speaks about the universality of chanting the Lord’s names.
* KRISHNA CRUSHES THE DEVOTEE’S PRIDE -- Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja tells a story about a corpse, a jackal, and Krishna and Arjuna.
* PRAYERS TO SRI GADADHAR PANDIT -- A collection of various
Dates: Monday 30th May to Friday 3rd June 2016
Invitation to participate by HG Dayal Mora dasa, ISKCON-London Brahmacari Ashram Leader
The inspiration behind the Padayatra
Padayatra is an excellent way to reach the public and show that the Hare Krishna’s really practice what they preach. As a mobile Temple, Padayatra simultaneously preaches Harinama Sankirtana, book distribution, prasadam distribution, deity worship, cow protection and the lifestyle of “simple living and high thinking” in har
The mind traps us materially and trips us spiritually.
Chaitanya Charan Das: We like our job one day and detest it the next day; we feel excited about our devotional activities sometimes and bored at other times.
Why does our mind oscillate like this?
Because it has learnt from experience that the charm of worldly objects doesn’t last for long.
This lesson can help us realize that no material object can ever offer us lasting satisfaction. However, the mind evades this realization by imaginin
We are exploring different pastimes of Lord Jagganath to coincide with rath yatra in Puri. This week we made little model carts for the Lord. These carts are quite simple to make for my preschoolers. The craft can easily be adapted to be made more complex for older kids.
Materials needed:
- Milk carton
- Jagganath Baladev Subhadra deity pictures
- Craft paper of different colours
- Scissors
- Glue
- Coloured pens/pencils/crayons for decorating
Cut the milk carton horizontally in half. You can then wra
Dealing with negativity does not need good aptitude but good attitude. To find negativity in an extremely positive situation requires you to just be human. But to find positivity in an extremely negative situation requires you to be an evolved human.
Such human evolution is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice! A problem dealt with positivity is spelled as opportunity. Hidden within calamitous problems are hidden opportunities. In the Mahabharata, when Arjuna visited the heavens, h
