Dearest Srila Prabhupada
Please accept our most humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to your divine grace. All glories to your sincere followers, who are leading us forth, showing the way to please you and make you smile!
For your pleasure Srila Prabhupada, the Toronto chapter of your Sankirtan Army, had a glorious year 2015. We organized many sankirtan festivals, participated in several multicultural festivals in and around the city, knocked on thousands of doors, placed books i
Where did we begin our karma and when and why?
Answer by Radhanath Swami: I will answer briefly because this is the very long explanation but i.e. certain point in our existence as part and parcel of Lord Krsna. We have given free choice to either serve Krsna and love Krsna or to exploit what is the property of Krsna. When you made that choice you have given entrance into the material creation. And in the very beginning at the don of our existence in material creation we began to perform activi
By Jahnu Das
Hare Krishnas don’t have to believe in God. We know who God is, what He looks like, what He wants, why and how He created the world and who and what the soul is. This info is available in the Bhagavad Gita. Bhagavad Gita is the only book in the world in which someone claiming to be God, describes in detail about Himself, the soul and Nature and how they inter-relate.
Also, we don’t have to believe in Evolution or Darwin’s theory, as there is no empirical evidence to support that th
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 14 March 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, Lecture)
We encounter so much envy in the world. Envy is a major driving force which we really cannot ignore. We see different aspects of envy. There is the normal envy – the jealousy of a neighbour who wants what you have. But we also see a different kind of envy, like the example of a wolf and a lamb. It is not that the wolf wants anything that the lamb has. It is not like that! He is not envious of the possessions of the lamb at all, h
When I first got introduced to Bhagavad Gita, I found some of the most amazing thought provoking ideas ever told. Immediately, I got attached to the beauty, poetic nature and above all the Supremacy of Krishna over all the be. I was taken aback by Krishna's Supreme position so much so I immediately gave up the idea of an independent life. It was amazing, it was powerful, a feeling I carry to this day.
God declaring He is God! Is there any other book where God declares Himself as God? So far I
The nice thing about being ill, if their is such a thing is that it forces you to stop.
Shivering and coughing its hard to chant and even basic care of the deities takes an eternity the material body demonstrates its limitations and reminds me that in many ways in this form time is limited; Srila Prabhupada words “Don’t waste time Chant Hare Krishna rings true”
However illness also gives the opportunity to catch up on things and although the ability to concentrate on reading is impaired one c
A poem in honor of ISKCON’s Golden Jubilee.
Samapriya Devi Dasi (ACBSP): There is a section written from the point of view of one who resides in New Ramanreti.
ISKCON’S GOLDEN JUBILEE
Srila Prabhupada built a house
the whole world could live in,
welcoming melechas and yavanas
whose lives were degraded and covered in sin.
The vision of the pure devotee
is boundless and broad,
he sees within the hearts of men
the undivided Lord.
Unleashing the value of each human birth
foretold in a divine pred
New York City Daily Harinam Ashram Wants You! Going on 4 years, the NYC Harinam ashram has performed the Yuga Dharma in NYC, and some of its regular 365 days a year 6 hours per day Sankirtan members are taking much needed pilgrimage to the holy dham to recharge. From March 5th to April 15th there is a critical need for kirtan leaders and or book distributors so the Harinam can continue on with full strength! If you or a devotee you know would like to perform the Yuga Dharma in the city where Pr
Ruchika Srivastava: “In the journey of life, allurements breeze in
Choice is given to us, we refrain or entertain
Pursuit of happiness in the wrong terrain,
Make results uncertain, for a person lamebrain.
On the boat of desires with mind as captain
We go with the flow, caught in illusion’s enchain.
Ups and downs on the way, send us the warning
Of dangers underlain
We feel the stress and strains
Of material nature uncertain.
Then one day finally comes the storm,
Our feelings of attachment twiste
Hare Krsna to all devotees, PAMHO, AGTSP.
I am getting regularly these interesting 'Science Religion' dialogue messages after publication of Why Biology is Beyond Physical Sciences? in Advances in Life Sciences journal by Dr.B.N.Shanta and Dr.B.V.Muni. It has aroused interest in eminent scientists worldwide to discuss about Consciousness,Evolution and Origin of Life once again.
This important service by Srila Prabhupada’s Scientific Sankirtan party must be very pleasing to Srila Prabhupada.I wa
The New Gokula Dairy has been operating for about 30 years and there are around 70 cows, bullocks and a bull.
The pasture is rich this year after a good rainfall season and Radha Gokulananda have plenty of milk and milk products, including wonderful yoghurt.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2015, Vrindavan, India, Video Interview)
Divorce happen because husbands and wives fight like cats and dogs. This happens because Krsna is not in the center. When Krsna is in the center and both husband and wife try to serve and please Krsna then there is no need for divorce. Divorce happens when one becomes self-centered and when one begins to think of one’s own enjoyment, ‘This partner of mine is not supplying my enjoyment! I want somebody else!’ But when hu
Srila Prabhupada: The materialist thinks that persons engaged in Krishna consciousness are crazy fellows wasting time by chanting Hare Krishna, but actually he does not know that he himself is in the darkest region of craziness because of accepting his body as permanent. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 3.28.10 Purport)
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/7M15Y3
Our Vancouver temple would like to put different photos of ISKCON temples from around the world in our lobby to help show the magnitute of ISKCON internationally. It is to help promote ISKCON's 50th anniversary celebration.
PLEASE! If any temples out there in PAMHO Land have good quality digital pictures of their temple building and presiding deities it would be very much appreciated if you could share them with us.
Please email copies to me at jaygogkg@gmail.com I also use dropbox if the pi
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!
This issue brings to light the teachings of Lord Kapila Muni, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Glories of Devotional service, which is the basis of bhakti yoga, is explained by Lord Kapila to His mother, Devahuti. Along with that, a fresh translation for Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur's song from the book Saranagati has been included. We pray this issue brings some p
Dear devotees and well-wishers,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
With great happiness, we are happy to announce the Inauguration Festival of historical temple of Lord Nityananda Prabhu at Ekachakra Dham on 14th Feb. 2016 - a humble offering at the lotus feet of HDG AC Bhakivedanta Swami Prabhupada, on the golden jubilee year of ISKCON.
Though temple construction started way back in 2010, there was a struggle to complete the project due to lack of sufficien
“Pray for my brother” was the plea of a teary-eyed Nanda Gopaul Kishundyal, as devotees of the Hare Krishna Movement flocked to the outside of the Georgetown Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit yesterday morning.
Inside the facility, nursing a gunshot wound to his abdomen, lay 21-year-old devotee Chaitanya Kishundyal. Unresponsive to treatment from medical professionals, the man was wheeled into the Accident and Emergency Unit, after which he was treated and transferred to the Intensive Care
Process of Dying
At the moment of death the following things take place. If the person is impious and quite sinful, the messengers of Yamaraja, called the Yamadutas, fierce, horrible looking persons with twisted features, copper red flaming hairs that stand on end, black in complexion and frightening to behold, appear at the deathbed of the person in question and drag him forcibly from his body with ropes and chains. This scene so frightens the person that he literally dies of fright. They then
