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The Ultimate World View of a Loving Devotee

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Mahanidhi Swami (lecture excerpt in Kartika at Radha-kunda)

We have titled this story from Caitanya-caritamrta - ‘The Dog Gets A Siddha Deha.’ It’s about how Sivananda Sena, Lord Gauranga’s eternal associate, personally cared for and loved a stray dog traveling with him on a yatra to Jagannatha Puri.

Today, unfortunately, most people don’t even care for the guy next door. They think “you live or die, let me live.” It’s a sad state of affairs but it’s a fa

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On the auspicious day of Guru (Vyasa) Purnima (July 3rd) the Bhaktivedanta Archives Releases Original Audio of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for 1977 along with a VedaBase® 2012.1 update.

In our continued commitment to make all the recorded material of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada available, the Bhaktivedanta Archives is presenting the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase® 2012.1 update and original audio for 1977 (387 files, 237 hours).

The new Bhaktivedanta VedaB

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A nice challenge

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This is very nice challenge. Suppose if somebody, if you say that "We are Kṛṣṇa conscious persons." So one may challenge you, "First of all, explain what do you know about Kṛṣṇa?" That is quite natural. If you do not know about Kṛṣṇa, you have no right to say that "I belong to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement." You have not right to say. So your position is like that, simply if you have a tilaka and a kaṇṭhi, that does not mean that you belong to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Any cheater can

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jpegNewsletter Issue 4 - June 2012


 


Photo of happy children after their lunch


 


    Annamrita will now feed the children of Kolkata  
ISKCON Food Relief Foundation now has a presence in Kolkata, West Bengal. The West Bengal Government handed over a 14,000 sq. ft. land in Kolkata to ‘Annamrita’, IFRF’s mid-day meal programme in a grand ceremony on 27th April 2012. This land, along with a built up kitchen of 9000 sq. ft, is part of an agreement between the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Annamrita which details that Annamrita will provid

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Rukmini Haran

Venue: Amravati, Nov 2003

Srimad Bhagvatam chapters 52 and 53 and in the middle of
chapter 52 there is pastime kidnapping of Rukmini. Rajo vaca King Pariksit was
very inquisitive to know, Sukhdev Goswami has made brief mention of “vaidarbhim
bhismaka-sutam” (S.B 10.52.16)
Rukmini is daughter of King Bhismaka and as soon as topic of her
marriage came King Pariksit became inquires to know please tell me more! “rucirananam” Rukmini very sweet faced “rucirananam”. “krsnasyamita-tejasah bhagvan srorum icc

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Association Everywhere......

Hare Krishna … Association Everywhere !!!

With the mercy of my Guru Maharaj and his loving divine grace Srila Prabhupad, I got an opportunity to get an association of ISKCON devotees in north England. 

I arrived in the Leeds city in the month of August’2011, prior to this there was continuous association of devotees from our Chowpatty temple in. I was used to attend our weekly programme in Hanuman Temple, Vrindavan society, Thane. The program was being conducted by HG Dayalchandra Prabhu and his f

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Jayananda Prabhu

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Mankind known holy person, belonging, both to the west and to the eastern religious traditions. However, the holy Jayananda - one of a kind. He was born in the West and was the first servant of God, received the status of a saint in the Eastern spiritual continuity, namely, in the ancient tradition of bhakti, or devotion to Lord Krishna.

Without exception, all the saints as a magical philosopher's stone graces affect people's hearts, even when they leave this world. Jayananda Das (Jim Short) one

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Wonderful pastime of Narasimha Deva

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada


Now allow me to tell a true story that happened some 10 years ago inSouth-Africa. The father and the daughter who experienced this event toldthis story to my friend, a sannyasi and devotee of Lord Nrisimhadev.This stories was also found in the newspapers, and several witnesses of thistruck-accident after this incident became devotees of Lord Nrisimhadev.This happened to a simple Vaishnav family that lives there. They had

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The Hot Topic: Poetry Contest Winners

The Hot Topic: Poetry Contest Winners

Prior to the Gaura Purnima festival, the Bhakti Writers Community hosted the Golden Moon Poetry contest, with a gift card to Amazon.com as the prize. Twelve writers submitted their poems, and each writer glorified a unique facet of Lord Chaitanya’s personality.
    The winner is Samapriya Prabhu, who wrote the poem “Hot Topic.”  One judge described her poem as, “Original, fresh, fun!  Makes the reader smile.” Second place goes to “In the Land of Lord Nityanan

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Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

VIHE is heartily inviting all the serious students to our transformational Bhakti-sastri course. Bhakti-sastri course is a systematic study of Srila Prabhupada's books. Srila Prabhupada wanted all of us to deeply study his books, so that we could be better preachers, teachers and, very importantly, achieve a clear understanding and application of the beautiful science of devotional service. Sri Vrindavan Dham

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2514863392?profile=originalCongratulations devotees,
because of your prayers, we won the Bhagvad Gita case again in Tomsk, Russia.
NDTVMoscow:


India's diplomatic efforts to resolve a controversy relating to Russian state prosecutors' bid to get a Russian interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita banned and branded extremist literature will be put to test again with a high court in the Siberian city of Tomsk set to deliver its final verdict on Tuesday.

Anxiety and frustration has gripped Hindus in Russia as they feel there was

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Deity Pastimes in the ISKCON era

Deity pastimes in the ISKCON era remind us that Gauranga's pastimes are going on today. Two amazing accounts (from narasimhalila.com "World Deity Pastimes") of Deities interacting with ISKCON devotees are presented below.
 
 
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The Deities Who visited Their devotee's home


There is a devotee named Adya, a Prabhupada disciple--very nice devotee. In Laguna Beach we have beautiful Panca Tattva Deities. He was thinking, "If only the Panca Tattva would come to my house, I could worship them so nicely." But

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Dear Devotees,
ISKCON Food Relief Foundation, Annamrita serving Midday Meal to over 12 lac Children everyday across India.
We have participated in One minute Video Award Competition, So our Video is listed in the following link.
 
The Video is now available for audience to vote. It is open for voting till March 12th 2012 only.
There are many videos of other NGOs here.You will find our video, with an image of H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaj sitting down, serving food to the children.
The image below shows
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Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

A green village project named "Fourth Wave" is envisaged near Mysore city, Karnataka, South India encompassing some of the elements of varnashrama concept including land & cows to live a simple life.

Any Brahmana initiated or Harinama initiated devotee linked to Srila Prabhupad through a disciplic succession is eligible to participate. Criteria is that the devotee family should be willing to re-locate to the village at a certain point in time, spend

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