I meditate every day, and have done so for many years. Sometimes I sit, sometimes I walk. It’s a mantra meditation, so I am uttering words quietly.
Meditation always makes me feel better.
My best meditations are in the morning and that’s because the day has not yet kicked in, and my mind is still fairly quiet. Then I get into the rhythm of the chanting and hold my attention to the sound of Krishna’s name.
It can take up to a half hour of chanting before I feel my mind, my being, slip into a d
On the seventh day of the bright fortnight of the month of Magh, the great ocean of ecstasy swelled to its limits, being forcibly attracted by the moon of Advaita.
He appeared from the womb of Sri Nabhadevi as the moon appears in the autumn sky. His father, Sri Kuvera, Pandit floated in that ocean of joy.
The foremost of all the Vaisnavas who reside at Navadwip is Sri Advaita Acarya, whose virtuous presence has made all the worlds blessed. He is the most preeminent preceptor in all fields incl
It is said that the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda are more cooling than millions of moons and the shadow of those lotus feet can cool down the entire universe. So, this idea that the universe needs to be cooled down, we also find in the Srimad Bhagavatam when Prahlad Maharaj says in the fifth canto: svasty astu viśvasya khalaḥ prasīdatāṁ, (Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.9).
Prahlad Maharaj was praying t
Narottama Dasa Thakura, one of the acharyas in the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya writes in glorification of the Lord that one will get the soothing moonlight of millions of moons when one takes shelter of Lord Nityananda’s lotus feet. If one really wants to enter into the dancing party of Radha-Krishna, he must firmly catch hold of His lotus feet.
In the age of Kali-yuga, Lord Krishna advents in this material world as Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu along with Balarama appearing as Lord Nityananda. Lo
Yatra to Gollapalem Village.
Gollapalem is a small hamlet surrounded by green fields all around. People are mostly from Yadava community and there are around 60-70 houses in the village. Though the village is small, almost every house has cows and bulls. The main occupation is agriculture and salt production. January 14, 2016 being sankranthi festival, everyone was busy decorating their houses with festoons and big colorful rangolis in the courtyard. Everywhere there was pounding of rice in t
Today is Family Day and so the Hare Krishna Temple would like to wish you and your family all the best on this special day. We actually had to Google the official explanation for Family Day and got the following, "Family Day is observed in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan on the third Monday of February. In British Columbia, Family Day falls on the second Monday of February. This holiday celebrates the importance of families and family life to people and their commun
Hiring - Elementary School Teachers.
Goswami Academy, a spiritually-centered elementary school, located in Houston, Texas, is seeking applicants for teaching positions in both the early childhood and elementary level.
We are seeking qualified candidates who possess enthusiasm for working with children in a highly collaborative teaching environment. If you are a self-starter who wants to be part of a mission-driven school that provides an opportunity to grow personally and professionally, we enc
Sri Rupa Goswami advises us how to think of Krishna (Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu 1.2.294)
kṛṣṇaṁ smaran janaṁ cāsya preṣṭhaṁ nija-samīhitam
tat-tat-kathā-rataś cāsau kuryād vāsaṁ vraje sadā
Kṛṣṇaṁ smaran is the first injunction: “think of Krishna.” Next, janam cāsya: “In thinking of Krishna, also think of his people.”
It’s phrased this way because kṛṣṇa-smarana is ubiquitous to all bhakti-sādhana (viz. “smartavya-satatam-viṣṇoḥ…”) but the hallmark of rāgānugā-sādhana is that we don’t just think of
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2015, Vrindavan, India, Video Interview)
We chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra because it is said that by chanting these sixteen syllables all the influence of the Kali will be destroyed. Under the influence of Kali, we are becoming totally degraded. Illicit activities such as meat eating, gambling, intoxication and illicit sex are rampant in the world. Day-by-day, we become pulled down more and more, and degraded more and more and we sink deeper into the swamp of
Lecture on Panchatattva is most merciful by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at Cape Town on 05 Feb 2016 at Bhaktivedanta Manor
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 07, Chapter 07, Text 48 by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami
(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank.)
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One of the most amazing resources we have in our Hare Krishna movement is the Grihastha Vision Team (GVT) - an incredible group of senior devotees who dedicate themselves to helping our Hare Krishna communities become stronger by developing strength in families.
Being Family Day weekend, this seems like the most opportune time to "plug" the work of the GVT. The mission of the GVT is to support, strengthen, educate and enliven the individuals, couples and families who are or will be involved w
Jayapataka Swami's Health Update 15/02/16 (14:00 Mayapur time)
Jayapataka Swami is currently hospitalized in Durgapur, West Bengal after becoming unwell and requiring further medical support. At this moment we request devotees to pray intensively for his wellbeing.
Jayapataka Swami arrived in Ekachakra on the 13th of February to install the deities and inaugurate the new temple. This is a fabulous temple and is presided with gorgeous deities. Around 10,000 people attended. On the14th Feb mornin
The Canberra devotees were asked to participate in the capital’s multi-cultural festival that lasted three days and had hundreds of stalls set up in Civic Square.
On the first day there was a parade and the devotees were able to bring the Rathayatra cart from the Gold Coast and had the temple deities, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra devi ride majestically through the city streets
My name is Loka-guru Das from Bulgaria, a disciple of HH Prahladananda Swami. I’m writing concerning a health and preaching project we are developing with my elder brother Sudama Das and other devotees in Bulgaria and we would like to share it more among devotees.
In short, our father is a dietitian – health nutritionist, a disciple of a famous Bulgarian natural healer – Lidiya Kovacheva. He is into nutritional therapy and natural healing for more than 30 years and has helped thousands of peopl
Corporate or Family ISKCON?
It’s always nice to receive e-mails which are from devotees, especially when in work however recently one or two appear to have dark undertones; almost a play for why the reasons that attracted me to ISKCON are unrealistic and a thing of the past.
The opening statement gave me a feeling of impending doom, may be it’s time to leave ISKCON as this new improved corporate; boiling the milk ISKCON which appears to have little to do with my spiritual well-being or advancem
Welcome to my very personal website. Here you will find my poetry, unpublished writing, dramas I’ve been in, and lots of what is dear to my heart—quotes, essays, books, pictures. Dear visitor or friend, may you find something here that brings you joy! I update this site about once a month. What you find here is influenced by the fact that I’ve been a practitioner and teacher of bhakti yoga since 1973 as a disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. My service in the fields of education, c
Avoiding Yamaraja: Ajamila’s story. Ajamila’s story is given in the Bhagavata Purana (6th book, chapter 1) as an example to illustrate that even the most wicked person can attain salvation. Ajamila was a brahmana who was once sent by his father to the jungle to fetch leaves and twigs to make the sacrificial fire. Ajamila met there a beautiful sudra woman. Forgetting everything, the brahmana made her his wife and children were born to them. When that brahmana, who was the very embodiment of all
Lecture on See devotion not in ecstasy but in dedication by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 07, Chapter 01, Text 13 - 15 by HG Ekalavya Prabhu on 01 Feb 2016 at ISKCON Mayapur
(Ekalavya Das was born in New York City, USA in 1965, the same year that ISKCON Founder Acarya, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came to New York. His mother’s younger sister would regularly hear Srila Prabhupada’s Kirtans in Thomkins Square Park in 1966.)
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