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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

                                                                        Hare Krishna    

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If you associate, infect tamasic, ignorance, then you go down and down, become animal. And if you associate with goodness, then you go higher planetary system, even up to God. And if you infect rajo-guna, passion, then you remain here. Everything is there. Simply we have to accept and do it nicely. Then our life is successful. That we are teaching.

By H.D.G.Srila Prabhupada

2013 was another successful year for Bhakti-vriksha around the world. The latest reports from the top places applying this program are the following:

* Former Soviet Union Countries: 550 groups (7150 devotees)

*Kolkata, India: 120 groups (1560 devotees)

*Bangalore, India: 100 groups (1200 devotees)

As you can see, when this program is applied correctly, the results are very powerful. Bhakti-vriksha groups divide and so the number of devotees automatically increases. 

In order to help you to start thi

A Summary of Srila Prabhupada’s (Founder Iskcon)Miraculous Accomplishments from 1965 to 1977
by Paratrikananda dasa;

In reading many of the profiles of Srila Prabhupada, I’m saddened that a number of his important projects, programs and achievements are never mentioned. In the following summary I’ve tried to compile a more comprehensive list of his credits. Although this list is also incomplete, I hope it presents a fuller picture of Srila Prabhupada’s greatness. 

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In 1965, at seventy years of ag

By H.G. Racitambara dasi

One evening, Ramesvara prabhu called us all into the temple room for an emergency istagosthi and told us that Srila Prabhupada was in Hawaii but he was very, very ill and he was coming to Los Angeles that night; but no one should go to the airport and greet him, we should be very quiet around the temple and no one should try to ask for darsanas or anything like that. Prabhupada was ill and he was coming to rest, we wouldn’t see him at all. At the end he asked for question

Suppose that we invest our hard earned money in a company’s share which promises to give a very high return at the end of the year. But we find that throughout the year the market value of the share keeps depreciating and at the end of the year we have lost all our money. Next year the same company again launches a new scheme and asks us to purchase its share. How many of us would ever think of buying the share from the same company again? Probably no one because the company would have lost its

By His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami

Congregational preaching means Krishna consciousness for the grihastha ashram. Because many people who are involved in family life cannot directly live in the temples, we need a program to offer Krishna consciousness to those people. Since householders are the majority of the population, congregational preaching is one of the first priorities of our movement. We should develop different ways to engage people in chanting the holy name, in reading Srila Prabhupa

Lecture on The Technique of Surrender by Prahladananada Swami 14 July 2011 Serbia

(Prahladananda Swami was born in 1949, in Buffallo, New York. He studied at the University of Buffalo, where he received a full scholarship. In January 1969 he joined ISKCON and received both initiations that year from Srila Prabhupada.)

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Lecture on Mind is very difficult to Control by HH Jayapataka Swami at Kuala Lumpur on 21 June 1981

(Jayapataka Swami was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. His scholastic achievements led to an offer of a full scholarship by Brown University after his completion of high school. As a new student at Brown, Jayapataka Swami heard a guest lecturer speak on the life of Buddha.)

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Lecture on The Importance of Devotee Association by HH Gunagrahi Das Goswami at Dallas on 07 Oct 2013

(His Holiness Gunagrahi Das Goswami joined ISKCON in 1969. He received initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1971. Since then he served as temple president in NY, Buffalo and San Diego, developed successful recruiting and training programs for new devotees.)

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Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 07 Text 20 by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami on 09 Sep 2013 at Melbourne

(Kadamba Kanana Swami joined ISKCON in 1978 in Amsterdam. Until 1984 he managed projects in Vrindavana. From 1985 through 1990 he coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur.)

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Seminar on Sadhu Sanga Festivals by HH Gopal Krishna Goswami on 23 Sep 2013

(In 1981 Gopal Krishna Goswami took sannyasa initiation and began to extend his travels to spread Krishna consciousness more widely in parts of the USA, Canada and eventually in parts of Africa. )

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This coming February marks the auspicious 11th Anniversary of Vrinda Kunda Temple opening! To celebrate we are organizing special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The culmination will be our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads. Parikramas will be going out from 14-27 Feb with the main festival day on Sunday 23 Feb. Even after that there will still be some parikramas.

Gaura Purnima will be next year on 16

Lecture on The Essence of Bhagavad Gita by HH Candramauli Swami

(Born in New Jersey, USA, in 1947, Candramauli Swami came in contact with the International Society for Krishna consciousness (ISKCON) in Denver, Cororado, at the age of twenty-four.)

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Lecture on Passing Time with Krishna's Pastimes by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 15 Dec 2012 at Durban

(Bhakti Caitanya Swami initially served in the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and also distributed Srila Prabhupada’s books from 1973 until 1980.Then Bhakti Caitanya Swami moved to South Africa, where, from 1980 to 1982. )

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Lecture on Spiritual Knowledge by Tamohara Prabhu on 24 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Alachua

(Tamohara Dasa has a doctorate in educational psychology and has been a faculty member and administrator in several graduate schools and universities, including dean of the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.

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