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Lecture on Address to Brahmacharies

2514903604?profile=originalHindi  Lecture on Address to Brahmacharies by His Holiness Prabodhananda Sarasvati Swami at ISKCON Vrindavan on 11th April 2013

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Grand Inauguration of ISKCON Pune NVCC

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On the Auspicious day of Nityananda Trayodasi - Sri Sri Gaur Nitai, Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chander, Sri Sri Jaganath Baladev, Subhadra Devi & Sri Balaji installation and grand inauguration of new Vedic cultural center (ISKCON Pune NVCC) took place in presence of His Highness President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee. More than 40000 devotees participated from all over the world & 2

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2 crore thirsty humans!

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Around 12000 villages of Maharashtra and about 4000 villages of Gujarat are reeling under severe drought which has affected the lives of more than 2 crore people. Is it a natural disaster or manmade disaster?

Our intense greed for self aggrandizement has resulted in massive exploitation of nature. Trees are rampantly cut to pave the way for industrialization, chemical fertilizers are being excessively used to increase the crop yield, industrial wastes are being dumped in the rivers, ground water

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2514901820?profile=originalBook Title: Gopal the Invincible (Classics from India for Children)
Book Description: Krishna, known as Gopal the cowherd boy, proves himself a worthy match for the nefarious creatures who come to disturb the life of his peaceful forest village.
Publisher: Bala Books
Author: Yogesvara Dasa, Jyotirmayi Devi, Sunita Devi

 

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Narrated by: Dr. Ranga Devi
Produced by: Madhav Prabhu (BVKS)
Studio: ISKCON desire tree - Gopal's studio

 
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About the Author - Yogesvara Dasa

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Gaura Purnima 2013

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Biography | Audio | Videos | Images | Wallpapers | Posters | ebooks | Coloring Book | Comics

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Planting the Seeds in Australian Prisons

The following article has been written by Radha Dasi, from Australia. She is very sincere and Krsna is thus giving her the intelligence and guidance about how to develop the prison ministry in Australia. Please support her any way you can!

Radha dasi

      By the mercy of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and my Guru Maharaja, I received the inspiration to serve the ISKCON Prison Ministry.

            On Vyasa-puja day, while chanting my japa, the inspiration came to me to serve in the prison minis

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             In May 2012, a Chaplain from El-Paso, Texas, Steven Cottingham, emailed me in the hope of getting some books for the inmates he served. He said,

            “My name is Steven. I serve in 5 jails, 3 federal prisons, and 2 state prisons and there are people asking for books in each of these institutions. What I do is place books in each institution’s Religious Services library, so it is cost-effective that way. Do you have books we could have?”

            Of course I was very happy to

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Download streaming quality audio of Mayapur Kirtan Mela 2013, which was held between 11th to 15th March 2013. Famous Kirtaniyas from all over the world participated in this Kirtan Mela.

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Congregational Award Ceremony!

Congregational Award Ceremony!

With great happiness we would like to share this with you. We had a very sweet program in the Samadhi Auditorium in Sridham Mayapur, where the devotees who have been serving the congregation in ISKCON were recognized for their selfless services offered.

The program started with some nice music and videos about the congregational ministry which stressed about the importance of having the different programs the congregation ministry developed. We also had His Holiness

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2514900694?profile=original  There are two main defects in this activity, whether they’re done regularly or even occasionally. The first is that this media always includes intoxication, graphic sex life, violence, and gambling. Therefore watching it means to break the regulative principles. What reason do we have that we would go out of our way to observe and watch these activities of Kali-yuga when already it’s difficult enough to stay away from it, when even walking down the street, going into a shop or going out on har

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President Pranab Mukherjee inaugrated the Vedic Cultural Centre of ISKCON on 24th February, 2013 which is considered to be the largest temple in the city spreads across two lakh square feet.


Mukherjee said ,"Swami Prabhupada galvanized the whole world in short spam of time and established over 600 temples across the world. Everyday it provides food to 10 million children daily in India". 


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ISKCON has grown in a short span of time as a movement of high velocity, he said, adding "the movement pro

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How many of us would not be tempted when someone offers us a Mercedes Benz car as a gift? We will be floored by the honour. However there is a small catch. The car contains a bomb which can explode any time. How many of us will be delighted to be the proud owner of such a car now? We would think that no sane men will ever think to own such a car. But is it so? We daily ride in a vehicle which has the same destination as that of the car with a bomb. And the vehicle is our ‘body’. Death can come a

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In Memory of Sripad Aindra Prabhu

(The following is an interview with Sripad Aindra dasa done last year for the forthcoming book Kirtan Meditations The Mood and Technique of Bhakti Kirtan compiled by Dhanurdhara Swami and Akincana Krishna dasa. Due to the unexpected loss of this great soul I decided to release his interview quite before the editing has been finished. I hope it gives some pleasure and solace to the congregation of the devotees feeling the loss of this great soul.)

AINDRA DASA

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MaharajMahavishnu Maharaj left his body at 3.25 pm afternoon on 25th January 2010 at the age of 91.

Maharaj was born in the outskirts of Mumbai in 1920 on the auspicious day of Dattatreya Purnima in the month of Marga Sirsha. He appeared in a family of Vaishnavas since 8 generations. Aged 84, he is the most elderly sannyasi in ISCKON today.

 

Highly educated, with M.A degrees in both English and Sanskrit, Maharaj is effectively multilingual in Marathi, Hindi, Gujerati (his native tongue), Urdu, Sans

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Question: What if we take care of our family members who are devotees? This is also spiritual activity.

BVPS: Yes, it could be, but not necessarily. Let’s say you are coming home and your kid is chanting Hare Krsna. So when you start telling him about your day, how did it go, what happened, what kind of problems you had, challenges, etc, so your kid just go on chanting? Because he is a devotee and that what the devotees do, they chant. So you are saying that if the kid reciprocates in this way, y
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Mine was a typical Arranged marriage... My parents found a well educated and well settled match for me, and for them the reason that I want to marry a devotee was not "practical enough" to say no to this marriage. After marriage I discovered that my husband loves eating non-veg food, drinks alcohol quite frequently, smokes occasionally and is agnostic spiritually. These were certainly not the qualities I had ever imagined my life partner would have. I felt quite helpless and didn't know what to

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Her Grace Yamuna devi dasi, premier disciple of Srila Prabhupada, known for her deeply spiritual qualities and connection with His Divine Grace, for her glorious offering of the Govindam prayers that we hear and chant daily, for her love of pure kirtan, for her ecstatic award winning cook books which were infused with spiritual anecdotes, for greatly inspiring and encouraging the younger generation of ISKCON devotees in their Krishna Consciousness. On Saphala Ekadasi day this year was her first

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How to Distribute Many Books

How to Distribute Many Books

Prabhupada Quotes
I always remember Prabhupada's words "think big". If I want to distribute many books, first I count how many books I want to distribute, how many points I want to win. For example, I make my plan to distribute 100 books a day. Then I take with me 100 books. The more you take, the more you distribute. Remember, books of Krishna do not like to lie in your bag, and psychologically you do not like your bag is heavy. Therefore you try to distribute them as soon as possibl

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Service begins by the tongue

Walking through Golden Gate Park one day, they heard a scratching coming from a garbage can. Prabhupada went over and looked in, then pulled back in repulsion. A big city rat had somehow become trapped in the garbage can and was scratching, trying to get out. Prabhupada shook his head and said, "He is doomed." He walked on. Prabhupada commented that later the garbagemen would come, see the rat, and kill him. Prabhupada was always after the philosophical and Krsna cons

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