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Om Sri Surabhi Campaign

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Om Sri Surabhi Campaign - the urgent need to give total and absolute care, protection and maintenance to our Mother Cow who supplies all of humanity’s necessities of life.
Hare Krishna
 
Dear friends
The Om Surabhi campaign was innaugarated on the 1st Jan 2015 and will continue until 22nd Nov 2027. The aim of this campaign is to increase the awareness and importance of goraksha/cow protection, goseva/service to cows and gopuja/worship of the cows. 
 
This campaign was innaugarated by the ISKCON D
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Children Programs

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Hare Krsna 

Dear Devotee,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The ISKCON Congregation Development Ministry is currently researching successful methods for running children programs in our ISKCON centres. We humbly request you to provide us with some valuable information to determine the most important aspects of these programs so that we can assist other yatras in establishing such programs for our little ones :)

Please take time to answer these few questions i
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We belong in the Holy Dhama

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We belong in the Holy Dhama

I always tell devotees that we should understand that Vrindavan or Mayapur is our home! This is where we live and now at one point, when we go from here to some foreign country, then we are like tourists – we are only visitors there whether it is New Zealand, Spain, Denmark or UK and so on.

Wherever we maybe, in all of these places, we should know that we are tourists. We live in Vrindavan or Mayapur, we live in the dhama. It does not matter if you are only one day

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Increased youth interest in Gita

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Today on sankirtana, on three occasions, students came to my table and looked at the Bhagavad-Gita and flatly interrupted me while I was trying to show it to someone else, saying, "I want this. How much is it?" This has happened before, but three times in one day is a charm. The kids I talk to nowadays are concerned about global warming and terrorism. They do not have the same assurance of the somewhat predictable world that we grew up in. College hatha-yoga classes are offered, always with a s

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Gita Jayanti at ISKCON Scarborough‏

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Hare Krishna! 

Please accept our humble obeisances! 
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 
All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga! 

On Monday- December 21st 2015 two auspicious events took place: 
- Advent of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita(Gita Jayanti) 
- Moksada Ekadasi 

ISKCON Scarborough devotees chanted the English and Tamil translations of the 700 verses in two groups on this glorious day. 

A sumptuous Ekadasi feast was served after the event. 

A group of ISKCON Scarborough devotees th

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What to Take with Us

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We have arrived at the end of the year and are being moved unceremoniously into the next. We have no choice in the matter – we are pushed forward by time – away from the past and into the future. For some, they can’t wait until the year is over. For others it’s been the best year of their life.

Entering a new year is always a good time to reset – to clean the closet of our heart and mind and decide how we want to live the next year differently. For so many, instead of living life, life lives

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Gita Jayanti

2515050647?profile=originalLecture on Gita Jayanti by HG Vishwarup Prabhu on 03 Nov 2015 at Manchester (Hindi)

(HG Vishwarup Prabhu delivered professional and spiritual discourses to medical professionals in UK and USA in 2007-2008.)

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Disobedience-The sign of envy

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Lecture on Disobedience-The sign of envy  by Bhakti Vinoda Swami on 26 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Coimbatore

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Right Shelter Right Desires

2515050822?profile=originalLecture on Right Shelter Right Desires by HG Urmila Mataji on 07 Dec 2015 at Hawaii

(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto-03, Chapter-08, Text-05)

(HG Urmila Mataji has mainly served ISKCON since 1973 till the present time as book distributor, assistant secretary for the BBT, pujari, temple cook, actress, writer, traveling preacher, editor of BTG since 1990, primary and secondary teacher for 27 years, school principle for 18 years, member of Sastric Advisory Council to the GBC. )

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Sailing to Jambudwipa

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By Mayesvara dasa

The Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur, West Bengal, India (presently well under construction as of December 2015), is an attempt to depict the map of the Universe according to the ancient Vedic literature, primarily the Fifth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam as translated and presented by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Canto 1, chapter 5, verse 11 of Srimad-Bhagavatam predicts that this literature will bring about a revolution in the impious lives of this world’s m

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ISKCON Aligarh- Bhoomi Pujan – 2015

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By Mohan Sunder Das

With a pure desire in their heart to spread Lord Sri Chaitanya’s message to one and all, Aligarh devotees worked day in and day out on the land donated by Dr. Maheshwar Pratap Varshney.

Dr. Varshney, an ardent follower of the Bhagwad Gita, donated 4 acres of land to ISKCON because he had firm faith on ISKCON for spreading Lord Sri Hari’s ‘Gita’, Bhagwad Gita.

The devotees worked very hard and finally saw the very eventful day of ‘Ground Breaking Ceremony’ on 13th November’20

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Rath Yatra in Indonesia

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First Ratha Yatra in Tanggamus, Lampung, Indonesia

By Hari Narayana Das

Kota Agung is a small town located in Tanggamus, Lampung. Being the capital, it is also the most important city in Lampung. Situated at the foot of Mount Tanggamus and nearby the Gulf Coast Semaka it stands as a beautiful location for tourists. At present there are no devotees living in Tanggamus. Those who do live in Lampung, live in the ‘Gita Nagari Baru’ farm community established by HH Bhakti Raghava Swami, a five hour

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Gift a van

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Dear Devotees and Friends, Have a happy Gita-jayanti day! 

We would like to offer you an opportunity to get special blessings from Lord Krishna on this auspicious day. Since 1987. we have been spreading the words of Lord Krishna (Bhagavad-gita) to the public in Germany and Austria. In order to enable us to be more effective, please consider the following appeal. After many years, book distribution from ISKCON Simhachalam temple (Germany, simhacalam.de) is on the rise and we aim by the end of 20

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King Prthu’s Appearance and Coronation

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King Prthu
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: Canto 4: “The Creation of the Fourth Order”
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
 
Canto Four, Chapter 15
 
King Pṛthu’s Appearance and Coronation
 
TEXT 1
 
maitreya uvāca
atha tasya punar viprair
aputrasya mahīpateḥ
bāhubhyāṁ mathyamānābhyāṁ
mithunaṁ samapadyata
 
maitreyaḥ uvāca—Maitreya continued to speak; atha—thus;tasya—his; punaḥ—again; vipraiḥ—by the brāhmaṇas; aputrasya—without a son; mahīpateḥ—of the King;bāhubhyām—from the arms; mathy
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Favorite Prayer

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The other day a devotee asked me what is my favorite prayer from our Vaisnava scriptures. I replied with the following verse by Narada Muni, who was requesting a benediction from Lord Krsna. In service to my spiritual master, I would like to follow in his footsteps.

“O swan gliding in the lakes of the Vraja-vasis’ love, I wish that I may wander everywhere always chanting and drinking the nectar of Your names. Those most sweet names arise from the ocean of Gokula and spread the glories of Your i

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Sri Shukhadev Goswami Stuti Day 02

2515050882?profile=originalLecture on Sri Shukhadev Goswami Stuti Day 02 by Sarvabhauma Prabhu 13 Oct 2015 at ISKCON Vrindavan

(Sarvabhauma Prabhu was born on 6th Feb 1952, in a Puskarana Vaishnava Brahmin family, having a Radha Krishna temple for eight generations in Mithi, which is part of Rajasthan in Sindh province of Pakistan.)

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Joy and wanting more

2515050650?profile=originalLecture on  Joy and wanting more by HG Urmila Mataji on 16 Nov 2015 at Hawaii

(Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best) joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 1996, Urmila and her husband, Pratyatosa, entered the renounced order of vanaprastha.)

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Internal Conquest

2515051036?profile=originalLecture on Internal Conquest by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 13 Dec 2015

(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank.)

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