The ISKCON Leadership (ILS) seminars in Sridhama Mayapur during ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary celebrations and the Gaur Purnima Festival are underway and a dynamic partnership with the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP) Fundraising Team is helping to facilitate this year’s seminars.
These seminars are organized every two years under the direction of Gopal Bhatta Das to educate, train and inspire ISKCON devotees in different areas of management, outreach, devotee care and much more. They are att
Gunagrahi das Goswami Health Update - Official.
Written by Mahahari das and Gandharvika devi dasi
Dear Devotees, family and well wishers,
Please accept our obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and His Holiness Gunagrahi das Goswami.
My Husband and I both spoke to His Holiness Gunagrahi Maharaja today.
After undergoing his second MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging) it was discovered that the cancer has gotten worse. It has not spread to new areas of the body, but has gained strength in exist
The Heart of a Vaisnava.
A wonderful lecture by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami about the Vaisnavas who voluntarily, out of their causeless mercy come down to this miserable place, this material world.
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We have commenced the stainless steel structure for the West Wing kalash.
What you’re seeing in the photo and video is the first segment for the small dome. There will be three more layers on top of that. This gives an indication of the immense size of the kalashes. Soon work will commence on the main dome kalash.
Source: http://tovp.org/news/construction/beginning-of-west-wing-kalash-installation-first-segment/
1st March 2016, Mayapur, India
By Romapada Das
At the pre-launch of ISKCON Connection on the 7th day of the ILS, Praharana Devi Dasi explained that the new initiative will help connect every devotee to our worldwide community. ISKCON Connection, which will be formally launched on Gaura Purnima day this year, is a 50th anniversary initiative.
“Any ISKCON devotee can register on the website, and will be able to connect to other ISKCON devotees, become familiar with GBC activities, be nurtured in
Everything Srila Prabhupada did, he did for our benefit, for the benefit of the living entities and especially for his disciples.
Ambarish: I found a palatial estate that was the Fisher Mansion and later became the Bhaktivedanta Cultural Center. We went there to look at it, and Srila Prabhupada immediately liked it. He mentioned, “Who would not like such a building?”
Govardhan said, “Well, Ambarish doesn’t like it.” It was dirty, and there were dogs in it, and the neighborhood was really bad.
On Monday, 15th February 2016, HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja addressed approximately 600 students and congregational members at Sagar Institute of Research & Technology collage, Bhopal (India). HH Bhakti Prema Swami Maharaj also accompanied Maharaj in this program.
Maharaja was enthusiastically greeted by the audience and after Maharaja arrived, a drama named “Live from Ahobilam” was performed. Thereafter, Guru Maharaja started the program with a very wonderful prayer. Maharaja began the class
By Praghosa Das
The ILS seminars in Sridhama Mayapur during ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary celebrations and the Gaur Purnima Festival are underway and a dynamic partnership with the TOVP Fundraising Team is helping to facilitate this year’s seminars.
These seminars are organized every two years under the direction of Gopal Bhatta prabhu to educate, train and inspire ISKCON devotees in different areas of management, outreach, devotee care and much more. They are attended by hundreds of GBC’s, sannyas
THE AROMA OF CUMIN, TURMERIC, FENNEL AND CLOVES grows stronger as we walk through the crowded parking lot towards the ISKCON of Houston in Oak Forest, its towering temple domes glowing overhead like beacons in the night. Sounds of chatter, chanting, bells and drums join the fragrance drifting from the entrance of the temple’s multicultural center.
Inside, a line has formed for the Sunday Love Feast, which begins promptly at 7:30 p.m. The completely vegetarian, South Asian–style meal is always o
Hare Krsna,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Guru, and Gauranga!
SadhusangaOnline.com is presenting a continuous Srimad-Bhagavatam Online Study Series during 2016 wherein we scrutinize a segment of one Canto per month. In February we studied the catuh-sloki verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam, and in March we’ll learn how Lord Brahma practically applied what he learned while performing his devotional service. despite various obstacles and diversions inherent in
So I am begging for the blessings of all my teachers and all of you assembled here. We shall listen, study a verse from the Fourth Canto, 30th Chapter, called the Activities of the Pracetas, this is verse 35, one of my favourite verses. Please repeat.
yatredyante katha mrstas trsnayah prasamo yatah nirvairam yatra bhutesu nodvego yatra kascana
Translation: “Whenever pure topics of the transcendental world are discussed, the members of the audience forget all kinds of material hankerings, at l
This had to happen. “It’s a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone,” Telegraph quoted Frank Beunk, a geologist involved in the investigation. And you can rest assured, more of this biggest lie on Earth by NASA regarding its claimed moon landing will get fully exposed as the technology advances and people become more mindful of it.
What is more significant is, there was a person who laughed at the TV showing Moon landing back in 1970s. He said the NASA report was fake and that the world was be
Photos by Sridama das
29th February 2016, Mayapur, India
By Romapada Das
After screening a short film about Mayapur on the sixth day of ILS, Brjavilasa Das spoke to the ILS delegates on behalf of the Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), stressing the importance of Mayapur in the eyes of Srila Prabhupada. He mentioned that Prabhupada had wanted to establish Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as the yugavatarafor this age from the precincts of this temple.
“In 1969, Srila Prabhupada gave his first ever
Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 85, Text 04 by HG Akuti Mataji on 10 Feb 2016 at ISKCON Alachua
(HG Akuti Mataji is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and the spearhead behind the new Krishna Lunch program at Santa Fe Community College. )
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Lecture on Krishna is hungry for the reciprocation of affection 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 08, Chapter 03, Text 14 by Bhakti Ashraya Vaishnava Swami at Punjabi Bagh on 02 Feb 2016
(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada.)
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Lecture on More Thoughts on Varnasrama Dharma and Education by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 03 Feb 2016 at Nandagrama
(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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Over the past few month’s I have been pondering what for me is the real meaning of mentor, and of those who have been the finest examples of mentor; this given that it is the latest buzz word being bounded around.
In many ways the first devotee’s that I had contact with were the perfect mentors, although they didn’t use such a crude word. The first devotee who stopped me in the streets became my first role model in devotional service, backed up by some amazing devotees who took on that respons
Service Opportunity
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Bhaktivedanta Manor, Iskcon Goshalla is currently seeking a Full time farm assistant.
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Duties will include but are not limited to:
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Drishti - ISKCON Pune’s Mega Youth Fest!
The ISKCON Pune temple (www.iskconpune.in) has been conducting youth-development activities on a large scale since 1996 & have reached out to 2 lakh+ students. Thus with an aim to celebrate the golden jubilee, we are organizing a youth festival ‘Drishti’ (www.facebook.com/dyfest). We are inviting more than 1.5 lakh students for this absolutely free program to be held on 20th March 2016, Sunday at Bharti Vidyapeeth College ground, Katraj Pune. We are expe
