Hare Krishna.
One hears so much about renunciation in our movement and many times as grihasthas (householders) we become confused as to what is actual renunciation for us and how can we practically apply it in our daily life. I searched on this topic and found some gems which I am sharing below.
We should be aware that as long as we remain attached to material enjoyment we will not be able to remain properly fixed in the process of bhakti yoga. As householders our goal should be progressive re
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of ISKCON, the glorious event of “Jagannath Rath Yatra Festival�€ took place on Saturday, 23rd of April 2016 as a Humble Offering to Srila Prabhupada by ISKCON Coimbatore.
This Jagannath Rath Yatra Festival was blessed by HH. Jayapataka Swami Maharaj and took place under the leadership HH.BhaktiVinod Swami Maharaj, Zonal Secretary, Western Tamil Nadu & Kerala & Temple president of Coimbatore ISKCON.
The Ratha Yatra took place in a famous Hill Sta
If a good advice is given to 'murkha' (the foolish person), he is not pacified on the contrary he becomes angry. Wherever it is coming from one should take good advice. Gold, wherever it is, may be in the dustbin you grab it.
Probably you all have experience of… as you go out preaching and you come across lot of times these demoniac natured persons and they end up becoming angry. They say, “Go! Get a job”. Hare Krishnas are chanting on the streets of wherever. They are not even directly preaching
Hare Krishna Devotees,
Kirtan in TALLINN (Estonia) Kirtan Mela on 22 April 2016
Hare Krishna Devotees,
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Excerpt from a Lecture by HH Lokanath Swami
So one time I approached him to take sannyas. I was two and a half year in the movement (Laughter), joined in '72 and approached Srila Prabhupada in '74 for sannyas.
Prabhupada said, 'wait' (Laughter). Then I was waiting. Srila Prabhupada then during one visit of Mumbai, he asked Sridhar, ' You take sannyas you go to Vrndavana, I am coming there very soon.'
So when the news reached me, I ran to Prabhupada, 'Me too, me too!' What I have done wrong? Me too,
Padayaatra Newsletter 2016_EDITORIAL
Here we are, at the beginning of 2016, the year of ISKCON’s Golden Jubilee, which brings me back to the beginning of 1996, Srila Prabhupada’s centennial year.
At that time the Padayatra Ministry had pledged to have padayatra in 100 countries, but in May 1996, even after holding a global Padayatra Week, we still hadn’t reached our goal.
We had made so much noise about padayatra in one hundred countries, and we sincerely didn’t want to fall short. I believed that
Excerpt from a lecture
Srila Prabhupada remembered his doctor friend from Prayag or Allahabad called Dr. Ghosh. Prabhupada wanted him to come and treat him. So someone had to go.
I was asked to go to Allahabad and it was a big rush and it was an emergency. So I went, well, he was not in Allahabad, he was in Darjeeling, where his granddaughter was studying. So I had to go to Darjeeling, it is in Assam on top of the mountain.
In Allahabad I remember, I first went to Dr. Ghosh’s home and found out h
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Many people who look at Vedic philosophy in current times, understand it as Advaita, which is an interpretation of Vedanta, that claims that the ultimately reality is a singular, unified existence called Brahman, from which the world is produced, and the world is maya or illusion. The Brahman is equated with consciousness, although how consciousness comes under illusion is a contentious issue since the time of saṅkaracarya who first propounded Advaita but did not provide a clear explanation of
Prabhupada Ghat To Accommodate Millions Of Pilgrims In Pandharpur Dhama.
An offering to Srila Prabhupada for ISKCON Jubilee.
ISKCON Pandharpur, under the leadership of Lokanath Swami, took the initiative of constructing a ghat on the eastern bank of the Chandrabhaga, right down the temple property.
Srila Prabhupada Ghat is situated on the Eastern bank of river Chandrabhaga. The ghat under development is 270 mtrs long & 90 mtrs wide. The different salient features of the Ghat are as follows Chan
April 15th marks the appearance day of Lord Ramacandra and the 41st anniversary of the installation of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Krishna Balaram and Radha Shyamasundara by Srila Prabhupada.
Observations begin the day before, Thurday the 14th, with a special sobha yatra, a procession of the three sets of Utsava Murtis (small deities) carried on palanquins by devotees accompanied by kirtan. They will visit all the different temple departments, Srila Prabhupadas house, Samadhi and Gurukula and finishin
Devotees of Krishna respect the Earth as the energy of God and as one of our mothers. By the will of God she provides the materials our bodies are made of, as well as food and shelter to maintain them. The clothes we wear, the buildings we inhabit, and the computers we use to read this article are all manufactured from her elements.
The sacred Vedas describe our interdependent relationship. If we live in harmony with our mother, take only as much as we need for our subsistence, and use whateve
During my initial encounter with Krishna consciousness, I was puzzled, and then troubled, by the absence of any consideration of “rights”—human rights, civil rights—in the social teachings of Shrila Prabhupada, who took great pains to elucidate an ideal “Vedic society.” It seemed to me that rights ought to be a central concern of this or any other social ideal.
Moreover, the social order he extolled as exemplary—indeed as divinely ordained—was unapologetically hierarchical. All the more need fo
In which place are you serving? Since when?
Radhadesh, Belgium. I joined the temple full time in April 1992.
Since when are you serving the Deities and how did you get attracted to that seva?
I received second initiation in October 1994 and since then started doing Deity Worship in Radhadesh. I started dressing the Gaura Nitai Deities which are now in Amsterdam and at that time They were hosted in Radhadesh because there were no devotees in Amsterdam who could take care of Them. That was in
Mandali offers Wish Tree Dress to the wish tree in Vrindavan.
Over 100,000 wishes gathered on Mandali Mendrilla’s sculpture dress “Mandala of Desires”, were offered to a genuine Wish Tree in Vrindavan, UP, India, on March 6th 2016.
An intimate gathering of enthusiasts met under the tree at Kaliya Ghat in Vrindavan, and offered over 100 000 desires gathered on the interactive sculpture dress called “Mandala of Desires” (Blue Lotus Wish Tree) that was on display at the China Art Museum in
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Bhakti Yoga has been healing addiction for 50 years almost, and the world is
not aware of the things we do, especially related to overcoming this
terrible disease of addiction.
Of course Bhakti Yoga does many more wonderful things than just heal
addiction, however for the hundreds of millions of people affected by
addicion - what we have is very very valuable.
We like to start a publicity and education campaign to share this knowledge
and practice, and invite people
I have a white bodied best friend who once told me the white man is the most hated being on earth. I was shocked to hear this. I did not like it and replied how can you say something like that? But then he explained by pointing out the historical bad things done by white males in different parts of the world, to people of darker skin and I could understand why he would say this. However once I read in a philosophy text book that all generalisations are false, . We have seen this to be true in th
