Krsna Pusya abhiseka is a not very well known ceremony but wonderful nonetheless.
During the morning puja, or worship, the Deity or a salagrama is bathed in pure ghee. Srila Prabhupada once explained the festival this way: “Krishna was just a toy in the hands of the Gopis, so one day the Gopis decided that we shall decorate Him.
Pusyabhisheka means a ceremony to decorate the deity profusely with flowers, ornaments, cloths. After there should be lavish feasting and a procession through the stre
Question to Radhanath Swami: I wanted to know whether this world is real or is an illusion?
Radhanath Swami: The world is real but your conception of the world is an illusion. For example, if you mistake a snake to be a rope, that’s an illusion. You may pick it up and tie it around your throat, but when you get bitten by it, that’s not illusion, that’s real, because the snake is real. So the illusion was the misconception: you thinking that it was a rope. There is a rope and there is a snake but
Lecture on Srila Prabhupada-Our Founder Acharya by HG Suresvar Prabhu
(His Grace Suresvar Prabhu joined Srila Prabhupada's movement in 1970, serving as a preacher and book distributor across the U.S. He is currently teaching with MIHET in Sridham Mayapur. He is a contributor to Back to Godhead Magazine. )
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Lecture on Managing the tricks of mind by HG Prema Manjari Mataji on 14 Jan 2016 at Singapore
(HG Prema Manjari mataji joined ISKCON in 1992 during her MBBS days and received her first initiation from HH Radhanath Swami maharaj in 1996. She has set an example for others to follow by wonderfully balancing between her hectic professional life as a radiologist and spiritual life.)
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Lecture on Pushya Abhishek Festival Lecture - Significance Of Pushya Abhishek by HH Radhanath Swami on 29 Jan 2011 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(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 Disappearance day Jayadeva Goswami by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 15 Jan 2012
(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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Hare Krishna dear Jayapataka Swami,
Please accept our obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
It is a letter from the Russian team of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium construction project.
We are grateful to you for engaging us in fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s personal desire – construction of the magnificent Temple of the Golden Age! Please accept our efforts as an offering.
For 2015, we collected and transferred to a bank account in Mayapur over USD 160,
Dear devotees, Please accept the blessings of Sri Radha-Madhava, Sri Panca-tattva & Sri Narasimhadeva from Sri Mayapur dham.
On behalf of ISKCON Mayapur, I take pleasure in inviting you to take part in a very historic & grand Gaura Purnima festival 2016. This year is the Golden Jubilee year of ISKCON. Srila Prabhupada fifty years back in New York on 1966 founded ISKCON to fulfill his Guru's orders and the words of Mahaprabhu
- Prithvite ache yata nagaradi grama
sarvatra prachara haibe mora nama
Washington, D.C.—1966 was a significant year. Chairman Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” was published for the first time. Despite mass protests, the United States began to bomb Hanoi, North Vietnam’s capital. The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 made the first soft landing on the Moon. Actor Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. Indira Gandhi visited Washington. Walt Disney died. The Beatles performed their very last concert in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.
And, on New York City’s lower e
Answer by Romapada Swami: The purpose of marriage is to provide an opportunity for all the members in the family to properly support one another to peacefully practice and grow in their Krishna Consciousness. In Vedic scriptures, the institution of marriage is referred to as an “ashram” or a sacred place of purification. Marriage provides much opportunity for this as it involves rising above one’s own personal attachments/issues and serving the other members of the family with devotion and deta
by Jennifer Scheper Hughes, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Amanda Lucia, and S. Romi Mukherjee
Practicing religion in public
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California is experiencing a proliferation of public religious celebrations like never before. Processions spill onto city streets. Altars summoning the spirits of the dead are erected at busy i
Leaders from across the United States and Canada met at the ISKCON temple in Houston Texas for three days of annual meetings.
Many of the more than sixty temple presidents and GBCs attending this year’s ISKCON North American Leaders Meetings called the event “the best ever.”
This was largely owing to the upbeat mood brought about by ISKCON’s 50th anniversary, increasing book distribution successes, and the inspiring association at the meetings.
“It was very, very positive and full of proactive
Lecture on Radharani is the Head of Service Department by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 07 OCT 2018 at Oregon
(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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Lecture on Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur by HH Candramauli Swami on 29 Dec 2015 at Bhaktivedanta Manor
(In 1986, Candramauli Swami accepted the sannyasa order and began preaching in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. In the early 1990's he became involved with the ISKCON Prison Ministries in America, and began visiting inmates, holding programs, along with writing letters to inmates and sending in Srila Prabhupada's books. )
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Lecture on Krishna attracts those who are not attracted to anything 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 - 09, Chapter - 19, Text - 27 by HG Amal Bhakta Prabhu on 07 Jan 2016 at Los Angeles
(In 1976, wanting to deepen his realization of the Divine, Amal Bhakta Prabhu moved to West Los Angeles to study at the ISKCON temple various aspects of Bhakti yoga (the yoga of love and devotion to God) under the famous spiritual master A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)
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Dear Donors and Friends of the TOVP Project in Sridham Mayapur,
2015 has been another banner year for the TOVP both for construction under the leadership of Sadbhuja prabhu, and fundraising under the leadership of Radha Jivan and Braja Vilas prabhus. Some of the construction highlights are as follows:
Need for a mentor
The reason this news sounds interesting is, they have used the term “blueprint”. We know what a blueprint means. According to Wiki, a blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design, using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Oxford dictionary meaning of a blueprint is, a design plan or other technical drawing or something which acts as a plan, model, or template for others.
You may wonder what this has to do with the news.
New devotional CD by Stoka Krishna das from Italy “Calling of the soul”
Dear devotees, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am very happy to present this CD for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and all the Vaisnavas.
“Really beautiful, innovative in the Vaisnava soundscape and done very well, very devotional and professional. They are all new melodies, sweet, virtuous and relaxing, with soothing voices perfectly tuned and synchronized, the instruments are play
