The new ISKCON Ekachakra temple
ISKCON inaugurated a new temple at the birthplace of Lord Nityananda, Ekachakra Dham. The temple is built in traditional Bengali style, painted saffron – a lovely sight in the midst of a rural area. ISKCON GBC Jayapataka Swami remarked that this was a humble offering to Srila Prabhupada and Lord Nityananda for the occasion of the auspicious year of ISKCON 50.
The temple was inaugurated on 14-15th of Feburary, 2016. Over 10,000 devotees from all over the world
This year’s ISKCON Leadership Sanga coincided with the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada incorporating ISKCON in New York.
Over 1200 devotees travelled to Sridham Mayapur to attend 8 days of seminars, kirtan and transcendental association.
On the first day everyone was welcomed by the GBC Chairman, Praghosa das, and Gopal Bhatta das, chair of the GBC Strategic Planning Team outlined the schedule of activities for the week.
Source: http://www.ramaiswami.com/iskcon-leadership-sanga-3/
Dear Families, Hare Krsna.
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are pleased to announce that TKG Academy is now enrolling new students for the school year 2016-2017.
We encourage you to please register as soon as possible to secure your child’s/children’s place. A child will be considered for official enrollment only after the completed forms have been submitted and the enrollment fees have been paid.
The non-refundable registration fee is $150 per student.
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Sriman Mahaprabhu Dhyana.
From Srila Dhyanacandra Gosvami’s “Sri Gaura-govindarcana-smarana-paddhati”
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In his manasa-deha, the sadhaka will follow his guru, parama-guru, paratparaguru and paramesthi-guru to the temple of Sriman Mahaprabhu. By their order, he will awaken the Lord and offer Him scented water for washing His lotus face, etc., and do other seva as is appropriate. Then he will meditate upon the Lord as described in the Urddhvamnaya-samhita:
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Absorbed in prema, the golden Lord
Lecture on Forgive and Forget by Charu Prabhu in 2016
(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples.)
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Hare Krishna Kirtan 01 by HH Niranjana Swami on 01 Jan 2016 at Cambridge
(His Holiness Niranjana Swami was born on December 10, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In 1972, his spiritual search took a turning point when he saw a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, on the counter of a bookshop in Washington, DC.)
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Lecture on Blessing the Brahmana's by HH Giriraj Swami on 04 Feb 2016 at Gainesville
(Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton in the home of a respected Chicago lawyer. He met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)
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Bonds of Love “Loving Krishna will help you love your son”
From the time she was 4, Urmila (Dr. Edith Best) was looking for God. If somebody said, “What do you want to do?” she’d say, “I want to be spiritually perfect. I want to find God.” They’d say, “Don’t you want to get married, have kids, have a career?” She’d say, “I just want to find God.”
Urmila Devi Dasi: My first contact with Prabhupada was in ’67 when I was 12 years old. I would regularly listen to him chanting on the Happening a
ISKCON Pakistan: Printing Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is in Sindhi Language!
Srila Prabhupada: I don’t say, “Follow me.” I say “Follow Krishna.” Krishna says, “Surrender unto Me.” I say “Surrender unto Krishna.” Is there any difference? My position is simply repeating because Krishna says, “Anyone who preaches this confidential subject matter, he is dear to Me.” Allahabad, January 18, 1971
Source: http://m.dandavats.com/?p=19224
By Karuna Dharini Devi Dasi
Recent advances in genetic engineering (GE) seem to twist nature’s arm. Now scientists alter the genetic code within seeds or eggs to make “improved” plants and animals. Wealthy countries use special GE corn and soy to insure an enormous cash crop in the form of fodder for livestock and to make ingredients for processed fast food, such as the corn syrup in soft drinks.
So far scientists have mastered a few crops, but will they revolutionize the food industry with a
And sometimes the elephant is on top of you
I am fortunate that I have Krsna and the Vaisnavas, that makes it all okay.
I can go down memory lane
and remember when I was at Govardhana Hill, so many times.
I can remember the darsana of so many Deities, in so many temples in Vrindavan;
Radha Ramana, Radha Gokulananda and Vijay Govinda and Mahaprabhu’s Giriraja.
I can remember how I sat in the Yamuna
water up to the neck, chanting on my beads,
that were f
All glories to Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu! His mercy, flowing through His devotees, brought India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kolkata for the 100th anniversary of Gaudiya math, founded by His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada.
Congratulations to all the Gaudiya math devotees who have worked hard all these years, and by joining hands with ISKCON’s global preaching mission of spreading the divine message of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, have enlightened ma
14/02/2016 - 22/02/2016 Camp: New Delhi, 8 p.m. This past week has swept us all into a tornado of unexpected urgency, surprise and surrender. Beginning from the holy birthplace of our Adi-guru, Lord Nityananda, in Sri Ekachakra Dhama, Guru Maharaj performed the abhiseka and prana- pratistha of Sri Sri Radha Vrindavana-Mohana and Sri Sri Nityanandacandra Gaurangaraya on the auspicious day of Advaita Saptami. On the morning of the temple opening, Guru Maharaj woke up with a fever. We were all wor
It is said that the pastime of ‘Lifting Goverdhana Hill’ is the favorite of Sri Krishna because in this lila, all the different devotees from all the different rasas take part simultaneously. Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda Devi were there, as we’ll as the cowherd boys and the beautiful Vraja gopis. Krishna convinced His father and others that the worship of Goverdhana, the cows and the brahmanas was superior to worshiping Indra. He spoke saying it was not useful to worship the demigods because we wo
You might have heard of the name Dhruva – a common name for boys in India. Dhruva is a famous child saint in Indian legend who performed severe austerities to please Lord Narayana at the tender age of 5. Such was his devotion that within six months Lord Narayana personally visited him. The prayers that Dhruva offered to the Lord are immortalized in the Srimad Bhagvatam and studied by scholars and devotees till today. The Lord created a new star for Dhruva which is the brightest star in the sky
Where can I find original or edited Deity photos to print for my home altar?
Go to our new resource page (under the Publications menu): Deity Photos for Home Altars.
The new page includes a selection of edited darshanas uploaded to Flickr. These shots are suitable for home altars and can be downloaded in original-size JPEGs for printing.
Or explore Hare Krishna Melbourne’s Flickr account for the endless variety of all our Daily Darshanas in original size for download.
Source: http://www.harekri
By: for ISKCON News on Feb. 3, 2016
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 fiv
"Valuing people's talents."
It seems perfectly useless to deny and remove the Freudian envy, as it will go on working within the psychic structure and thus reinforced, it would do even worse.
On a practical level it can be purified and transformed by learning to value the talents of others, inspiring people to offer their talents in Krishna consciousness. This propensity will draw us nearer to the qualities of the eternal inhabitants of Vaikuntha so we'll become extremely beneficial to all the
