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International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON, followers protest outside the Russian consulate in Kolkata, India, on Monday.
New Delhi - Angry Indian lawmakers forced parliament to close on Monday and protesters gathered outside a Russian consulate over a Siberian trial calling for one of Hinduism's most holy books to be put on a list of banned literature that includes Hitler's Mein Kampf.
The case
Devotees in Tomsk, Siberia, are currently in court fighting an attempt by the Russian government’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to prove that Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is is an extremist literature that should be banned.
It all began in May 2010, when an officer of the Tomsk FSB division approached Sergey S. Avanesov, the dean of the philosophy department at Tomsk University, and asked him for his “expert assessment” of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Interestingly, Avanesov also teache
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Text PAMHO:22678040 (62 lines)
From: Acyuta Priya (das) RNS (Regional Secretary - Ukraine)
Date: 15-Dec-11 15:17 (17:17 +0200)
To: GBC Discussions [21858]
Reference: Text PAMHO:22677406 by Bhakti Vijnana Goswami (GBC) (Moscow - R)
Subject: Bhagavad-gita court case
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Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,
please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I want to add something to Maharaja
EXPECT MISERIES AND CALAMITIES
(based on talks of H.H.Radhanath swami )
Just like we expect monsoon and are not surprised by the coming and going of seasons , similarly we should expect miseries,challenges, tempations to come our way & be prepared , just as we are prepared by carrying our umbrella in monsoon , simlarly we should take the shelter of lotus feet of krishna , it is such a umbrella which will not only protect you from misery but shower you with nectar .
If you think that i am very intel
Hare Krishna
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
It is an important message. Please read and send it to whomever you know.
Please give your full support to this very important cause, and try to
involve as many devotees as you can. Srila Prabhupada would have mobilized
the entire movement to stop this atrocity.
Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada,
Bhakti Charu Swami
HARE KRISHNA
Hungarian Govt is going to ban ISKCON in Hungary. if they get 50,000
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Physicist hunt for Higgs Boson
To prove that universe was created with smashing of proton
They say smashing and bang happened for no reason
And matter turned into mass and spirit without reason
Life cannot spring out of matter
Even a child knows this better
Can inanimate particles collide and make life?
How silly to spends billions behind this obstinate rife
Just accept with humility that the creator has a purpose for creating one and all
How can the universe run systematically without control?
He is the
Criticize cheaters and swindlers, not struggling devotees
And that too with care and a sympathetic heart
Don’t shout on his face, “you are a hypocrite”
Speak pure principles in a general gatherin
Don’t focus too much on his external deficiencies
Appreciate his good past and sincere intentions and deeds
If you come down on him with force to prove him bad
You will break his heart, discourage him to become mad or sad
Don’t make a fault, to counteract another fault
Then what makes us differen
Book Distribution
Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita 4.7
yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion - at that time I descend Myself.”
The religious principle for all living beings is to always remember Krishna and never forget Krishna. It is explained in the Chaitanya Charitamrta 22.113
smartavyah satatam visnur
visma
Rasanath Das, an ex-investment banker turned Hindu Monk, was spending recent Sunday afternoons leading Occupy Wall Street protesters in meditation until police cleared their camp at New York's Zuccotti Park this week.
The 32-year-old monk isn't sure now where his next session will be. He'll keep following the protesters to lead meditation, though, convinced they will only roll back the inequality around them if they find equanimity deep inside.
"Anger won't solve anything," he told Reuters. "We h
Hare Krsna
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The world continues to mourn the death of Apple founder and visionary Steve Jobs, who passed away on Wednesday, October 5, hailing him as an innovator who forever changed the landscape of our lives. In offering our condolences, Hare Krishna devotees might be especially interested to reflect on some interesting connections between this remarkable man and our own faith tradition. Here are three:
First, as a young man Jobs regularly attended the Sunday Feast at an ISKCON temple. He famously recollec
Offering by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami - Audio
Offering by HH Sivarama Swami - Audio
