By Ambika devi dasi
Bhaktivedanta Gurukula (http://www.krishnaschool.org/) has welcomed students at the beginning of the new school year. Gurukulas are very important in our society because while the students are being trained in academic knowledge, they are also being guided to remember the cause of all causes, Lord Krishna. This early guidance will remain with them throughout their lives and will assist them to see the Lord’s presence in everything.
In the sixth chapter of Bhagavad gita, Kr
The innovative sankirtan outreach project Fortunate People is inviting devotees to post videos of themselves and newcomers chanting the Hare Krishna mantra to its website fortunate-people.com, with an aim to gather 50,000 chants for ISKCON’s 50th anniversary.
Fortunate People is a UK-based project that allows distributors of Prabhupada’s books to keep in touch with people they’ve met on the street.
“We ask them to “Like” the Fortunate People Facebook page on their smartphones on the spot,” says
"Chanting the names of Krishna, the Supreme Lord, is the best and most effect means in this period."
We are all children of the same God but unfortunately we decided in the past to sever our bond with him and so we came in this mortal material world. We thought we can enjoy better independently here without him. But our fantasies were mistaken and here our suffering does not seem to end.
And so all the sacred books ask us to salvage our life by ge
An Ox? What’s That?
Hare Krishna Devi Dasi: We can learn a lot about history and the people writing it by keeping tuned to what is not being said. Applying this principle, we can see why Westerners have such trouble understanding the significance of cow protection—especially protection of the bull or ox. Because of what is routinely suppressed or overlooked in history books, it’s hard for people to understand when Prabhupada says,
“According to smriti [scriptural] regulation, the cow is the mo
For Roger Siegel, the last half-century has been the proverbial long, strange trip. It started in New York, where, as an idealistic college dropout in the early 1960s, he tutored Harlem schoolchildren. It included civil rights marches in Alabama and peyote hikes in the Nevada hills.
It took a major turn in San Francisco in 1967, when Mr. Siegel became Gurudas, a disciple in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or Iskcon, a.k.a. the Hare Krishnas.
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Dear Devotees, Well wishers
Please accept my most humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
It is with very sad and heavy heart, that I convey the news that HG Vraja Bhakti Vilas Prabhu (53 Years), senior disciple of HH Lokanath Maharaja and one of the most profound Vaishnava Purohit of ISKCON has left his body on Tuesday 8th March at 7:40 am in Vraja Mandal Dham at Kosi Kalan. He left the world with all auspiciousness around him – Srila Prabhu
This is the month of Lord Caitanya’s appearance in this world. He is Krishna himself in the guise of his own devotee. Blessing the land of India in the 16th Century, Lord Caitanya was a powerful force in the blossoming of the Krishna Bhakti movement during that time.
His only written work was eight prayers called the Siksastakam. These prayers are celebrated as containing the essential guide to uncovering our love for Krishna. Each verse could have its own book, so filled they are with deep and
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 May 2015, Melbourne, Australia, Lecture: Mindfulness and Meditation)
Love will follow when we are attracted; when we admire; when we see amazing qualities; when we see a wonderful nature; when we see mercy, kindness and compassion; when we see strength; when we see beauty… Love will follow. Love will follow naturally. Love cannot be pushed, “You have to love!” You have to love your country. Well I don’t, I am sorry, I like it but I don’t love it. In Sydney there is thi
“Bhava” in Sanskrit means “ecstasy; the stage of bhakti just prior to pure love for God”. Today, the Lower Elementary class had the great fortune of having an art lesson from Krishna Bhava Devi, a very talented artist and devoted disciple of Srila Prabhupada. She is also the dear grandmother of Vara, our Kindergarten student, and a long-time resident of New Vrindaban.
Mother Krishna Bhava taught the young students a step-by-step method for creating a beautifully colored lotus flower. What a nic
There are two approaches to sādhana. One is motivated by an intellectual conception, the other is motivated by an emotional conception. Intellect and emotion are involved in both approaches, but the intellectual approach has intellect as the prime motive and emotion as the supporting instrument, while the emotional approach has emotion as the prime motive and intellect as the supporting instrument.
The intellectual approach is called śāstrik or vaidhik because intellect is born from śāstra (“śā
Since 2002 throughout the world every year we have been increasing book distribution. And this is mainly because of the leaders in our society, such are Gopala Krishna Maharaja, Jayapataka Maharaja. We have many leaders in our society, guru’s, sannyasi’s. But there are some guru’s and sannyasi’s that are really into book distribution. And they pass it on to their disciples.
I recently heard that 70% of the book distributors here in Mayapur are disciples of Jayapataka Swami. (Devotees: Haribol!)
So I will not speak much because we are late and we have to distribute awards. So I have very good experience in my life. As one month in new bhakta program, then HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja he took me on sankirtana. That time he personally was leading sankirtana book distribution. In 78 he was looking after book printing, we had a small press on the basement. That time he personally was distributing books with us and we were distributing one book 1 Re that time it was. We had two broken matad
Sankarsana Nitai said, he was questioning, whether I am happy that Mayapur came first. I say Yes! Nobody in the world can defeat Mayapur! (Devotees: Haribol!) Mayapur has the biggest sankirtana army and these devotees are working hard, and distributing books all year.
So we all know the importance of book distribution. Why did Prabhupada encourage book distribution? Because his spiritual master encouraged it. Why did Bhaktisiddhantaji encourage it? Because Thakura Bhaktivinoda encouraged it. Wh
Bhakti Purusottama Maharaja: Now we will hear from HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja. Actually he is the one who first started this book distribution here and he has been witnessing, the point he started book distribution and where it has reached now and I’ll tell you all this is happening because of his energy. Even if he is in hospital he is encouraging calling everyday the sankirtana buses during marathon period. And because of his dedication, he sacrificed for this book distribution, Srila Prabh
Kavicandra Swami: Devotees serve sanctified food (prasadam) to the thousands of guests at the annual Shantipur festival.
The Shantipur Festival is celebrated in the house of Advaita Acarya, one of the four main associates of Sri Chaitanya, the pioneer of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
The event is a very attractive to the devotees, as Vaishnava scriptures say that anyone who gives or receives prasadam (sacred food) during the festival is guaranteed love of God.
For donations: PayPal Kavicandra.swami@pamh
Forgotten in our souls, and we have to wake it up / remember it by sādhana?”
The question arises in connection to Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu’s definition ofsādhana-bhakti not as a means to create perfection, but to manifest something eternally perfect. The question is also related to Bhakti Rasāmṛta Sindhu’s explanation of why realized bhakti (Bhāva-Bhakti) is so rare.
Śrī Rūpa explains that Bhāva-bhakti (realized bhakti) is so rare for two reasons: (1) It cannot be created by any effort, (2) it ha
Lord Chaitanya (new, expanded, second edition)
Urmila Devi Dasi: Teacher/Parent Guide activities for children aged 4-18
Five-day Teacher/Parent Activity Guide for Lord Chaitanya festivals, with a concentration each day on one of the five most potent items of devotional service as related to that festival. This program is flexible and can be used in several ways.
To download the pdf document click here: https://goo.gl/8UIdxv
Srila Jagannatha Dasa Babaji – Disappearance day
gauravirbhava bhumes twam nirdesta sajjana priyah
vaisnava sarvabhauma sri jagannathaya te namah
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja, who is respected by the entire Vaisnava community and who discovered the place where Lord Caitanya appeared.”
Sri Jagannatha Dasa Babaji Maharaja was born was born around the year 1800 AD.
in the Mayamansingh district of West Bengal. Not much is known about his ealry life. Gau
By Madhava Smullen
In July 1966, after braving thirty-five days at sea on a cargo ship, two heart attacks, and months of struggles in New York’s Bowery with little money to his name, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Some of his main purposes for the Society included “to systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large,” and “to bring the members of the Society together with each other and nearer to Krishna.”
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