We always start a new year at Kanhas with an increased focus on mantra meditation. This year we did some innovative crafts to get the children more excited about chanting the holy names. We especially love decorating bead bags. Once decorated the bead bag becomes a personalised item that the child is eager to use. These exciting crafts will get children chanting happily in no time!
Tie Dye bead bag decoration:
Material needed: White bead bag, rubber bands, sketch pens/texters/markers – any wil
Lecture on Yogi gets what other paths offer and gets more too by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on 2016
(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 08, text 28)
(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 Panchatattva is most merciful by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at Cape Town on 06 Dec 2015
(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 Lord Siva teaches Pracetas in Rudra gitam on how we should offer ourselves to supreme Lord by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 03 Jan 2015
(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)
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Lecture onFive Subject Matters of Bhagavad Gita by HG Nirantara Prabhu on 13 Dec 2015
(Nicholas D'Angelo was born on May 20, 1950 and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He went to Catholic school for 13 years, but did not even finish one semester of college at St. Johns University in New York City. Instead, the dormant lusty desires in his heart manifested and he became a "hippy" in 1968.
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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.Srimad Bhagavatam 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
The first of 5 Rathayatras to be held in the Pune area for ISKCON's 50th this year
Can you imagine one city holding 500 Harinamas or distributing 500,000 of Srila Prabhupada’s books in one year?
That’s exactly what ISKCON of Pune in Maharashtra, India is doing as they ambitiously set out to 50th-ize the year 2016. And much, much more besides: the plan is to set higher-than-usual goals for all of Pune’s outreach efforts in multiples of five or fifty.
GBCs Radhanath Swami and Gopal Krishna Go
Lecture on Vaishnav means No Envy by HH Radhanath Swami on 31 Jan 2016 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(Srimad Bhagavatm Canto 10, Chapter 74, Text 36)
(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)
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Lecture on Men Women and the Blame Game by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 09 Jan 2016 at Salem (Telugu Translation)
(HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON’s founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. )
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TOVP’s Gardens masterplan.
Sadbhuja Das: Please have a look at the marvelous TOVP masterplan by clicking on this link-http://masterplan.tovp.org/
This will give you an idea of how we are trying to create the most magnificent gardens in the whole of India, for the pleasure of The Lord.
Source: http://m.dandavats.com/?p=18731
No; he was driven by lust for Sita, not love for Shurapankha.
After Shurapanakha’s nose was cut and her brothers Khara and Dushaan were killed singlehandedly by Rama, Shurapanakha went temporarily mad with fury and frustration, and wandered about crazily in the forest before thinking of going to Ravana. Meanwhile, the only survivor from the army at Janasthana, a warrior named Akampana, fled to Lanka and informed Ravana about the destruction of his army. The incensed Ravana wanted to immediately
I have no love at all. I selfishly go to Vrindavan, just thinking of how much benefit I can get. Thinking of whatever little bit of mercy and dust I can get, so that I can be delivered from all this suffering in the material world. It is selfish motivation. I have no love for Vrindavan. What can I say!? Love is a big word – it is beyond a conditioned soul like myself.
I have no love for Srila Prabhupada because my heart
Lecture on Knowledge that gives the greatest power is the greatest knowledge 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 06, Chapter 04, Text 34 by Sarvabhauma Prabhu in 2012
(Sarvabhauma Prabhu was born on 6th Feb 1952, in a Puskarana Vaishnava Brahmin family, having a Radha Krishna temple for eight generations in Mithi, which is part of Rajasthan in Sindh province of Pakistan.)
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Lecture on Chaitanya Charitamrita Madhya Lila Chaper - 01, Text - 47 by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at Cape Town on 20 Dec 2015
(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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Close encounters of the B.B. King kind.
Jiva Nath: The year was 1977 and i was distributing books in O'Hare airport. One day while between concourses I noticed B.B. King walking towards me with a few other companions . There was nobody else around but us and I was determined to get him to stop and take a book. I approached him acting like I didn’t recognize him as a celebrity. His group paused and gave me a chance to approach him. I told him I had the Bhagavad Gita , a book renowned for its ins
By Ithamar Theodor
In this paper Ithamar Theodor proposes a model based on Bhagavad-gita and aimed at developing a philosophical basis for social development in ISKCON. Referring to previous studies of ISKCON, he argues that devotees’ self-understanding is often not consistent with the values and principles of Vaisnava culture. In this paper he points out that a moral-religious foundation is the default position for a sustainable spiritual life for the individual and the community.
It is someti
Some spiritual practitioners think that now they have achieved some reasonable control of the physical sex urge, they are well nigh up there in the wispy clouds of victorious abstinence, deserving of respect and honour. Wrong! Congratulations on becoming a decent human being. Welcome to the world of subtle selfishness.
By Kesava Krsna Dasa
Srila Prabhupada states: ‘Illicit sex is the most prominent sin due to lusty desire.’ (SB 5.14.22 purport) This is because it is sometimes called ‘ adi-rasa
