By Satyaraja Dasa
The kindness of strangers played a pivotal role in ISKCON’s pre-history.
Last year I had the good fortune to meet Gopal and Sally Agarwal, an elderly couple who played a significant role in ISKCON’s origins. They are forever etched in the devotees’ collective memory as two of the Western world’s earliest recipients of Srila Prabhupada’s mercy. It was the Agarwals who hosted him in the fall of 1965, before ISKCON was even nominally born, giving him shelter, hospitality, friend
Lecture on Different Levels of Consciousness by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at ISKOCN Cape Town
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.)
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Food For Life’s Wroclaw Project (Album with photos)
Peace, Love & Prasadam…23.10.2015
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By Deva Madhava Das
They wear special cloth, prepare foods only eaten on these rare days, and congregate in mass around a few exceptional people that are taking part in a ceremony lasting over 3 hours. All the while they chant two and three word phrases together in cadence, which creates and encourages a collectively desired experience.
I remember 4 years ago, when we first began regular harinama’s at the football games. A rag/tag group of us led by me, a 2 year old bhakta at the time, were ch
Dear Maharajs/Prabhus/Matajis,
Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feets. All Glories to Srila
Prabhupada.
With great delight we wish to inform you that we are holding our 13th Sri Jagannath Rathyatra festival on 28th Nov 2015 here in this holy city of Amritsar. We cordially invite you to come and join us in this pleasant festival of chariots. The rathyatra will start at 1:00pm on 28th Nov from Bijlipehalwan mandir Lawrence road and after moving through different part
By Keith Walker 26/10 16:53 CET | updated 020:57 mn ago
Processed meats cause cancer, says WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) says processed meat is “carcinogenic to humans” putting sausages in the same category as asbestos and cigarettes. Researchers from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, released an evaluation of more than 800 studies from several continents about meat and cancer. The IARC report declared red meat such as beef, lamb and
It is said that the love of the Gopis, the cowherd damsels of Vrindavan, for Krishna is the topmost love. It is without a tinge of selfishness and material motivation. The Gopis are the embodiment of the highest expression of the soul’s love for God, because pleasing God is their exclusive aspiration of life. Sharad Purnima is celebrated on the full moon night of Sarad-ritu (October). This is the night when Lord Krishna performed the Rasa dance. This dance represents th
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 October 2009, Durban, South Africa, Lecture)
We cannot be on automatic pilot; we must capture Krsna by making a special sacrifice! Then, when we have captured Krsna, we see that one cannot keep Krsna also. Mother Yasoda captured Krsna and Krsna was not only bound by Mother Yasoda’s ropes but Krsna was bound by Mother Yasoda’s love.
When Krsna was eleven years old, then Akrura came and Akrura took Krsna away from Vrndavana. From that day on, the residents lived in separ
October 24. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Srila Prabhupada: So far as I have studied, the American people are very much eager to learn about the Indian way of spiritual realization, and there are so many so-called yoga ashrams in America. Unfortunately, they are not very much adored by the government, and it is learned that such yoga ashrams have exploited the innocent people, as has been the case in India also. The only hope is that they are spiritually inclined, and immediate
Question:
How is it possible to control the mind?
by Laxmimoni dasi
It is certainly worthwhile knowing how to control the mind. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita that the mind can be controlled by constant "practice and detachment."(—Bhagavad-gita, 6.35). He says that wherever and whenever the mind wanders, due to its flickering and unsteady nature, we must bring it back under the control of the Self (—Bhagavad-gita, 6.26).
The mind is like a child; a child is attracted to everything. It wants
Bhakti Caru Swami - Panihati Festival Class - 2008-06-15 Orlando
Bhakti Caru Swami - Panihati - 2011-07-03 California
Bhakti Vikas Swami - Panihati Festival-The Essence of festivals - 2011-06-05 Atlanta
Giriraj Swami - Panihati - 2008-06-15 Laguna
Giriraj Swami - Panihati - 2009-06-07 Santa Barbara
Giriraj Swami Panihati Dahi Cida Festival - 2010-06-20 Carpinteria
Giriraj Swami - Panihati - 2011-07-03 California
Kadamba Kanaan Swami - Panihati Festival - 2011-06-13 Bhaktivedanta Manor
ISKCON Connect - ISKCON Desire Tree has launched its first Android mobile app in google playstore.
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Schedule for 13th August, 2015 @ Netaji Indoor Stadium
Morning Session (9 am to 1 pm )
8.00am to 8.40am : Recorded kirtans and Video playing while devotees are filling
8.40am to 9.00am : Pre Program kirtan
9.00am : Welcome Address by HG Atul Krishna Das / HG Ananga Mohan Das
9.05am to 9.30am : Kirtans by Mayapur Chandras
9.30am to 10.00 am : Lecture by HH Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj
10.00 am to 10.40 am : Srila Prabhupad
Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Maryam Asif Siddiqui, winner of Bhagavad Gita Champion League Conducted by ISKCON
Gita Champions League(GCL) is a Bhagvad Gita contest organized by ISKCON Chowpatty since last 4 years.
This year 2015, the winner of the contest was Ms. Maryam Asif Siddiqui, aged 12 from Mira Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
The President of India, Shri Narendra Modi meeting with Ms. Maryam Asif Siddiqui, winner of the GCL Competition 2015 organized by ISKCON Chowpatty along with h
HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj's Meeting with the Hon’ble President of India
On February 28th, 2015 we met the Hon’ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. We were scheduled to meet him at 6.30 pm. We reached Rashtrapati Bhavan at 6.15 p.m. His Holiness Radhanath Swami, Gauranga Prabhu and Radharaman Prabhu accompanied me for the meeting. As we arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan the Hon’ble Presidents officers gave us warm reception. Then sharp at 6.30 pm we entere
His Grace Jnanagamya Prabhu (John Partin) has left this world from Sri Dhama Mayapur this morning, February 17th 2015 at 9 am. Very devoted Prabhupada Man! Please join us in prayers for him.
Jnanagamya Prabhu had joined Srila Prabhupada’s Hare Krishna movement in 1972. He had served in numerous ways, from leading sankirtan parties, maintaining and designing temples, producing graphics, exhibits, supervising construction, teaching to cooking chapatti. He was engaged in the production of a film ab
Lecture on Should Disciples give Diksa to devotees by HH Sivarama Swami on 11 Jan 2015 at UK
(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)
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what is the vaisnava way of celebrating new year?
Srila prabhupada told , For us everyday is new year because krishna is everfresh & evernew & we are celebrating him , but these materialist people need to drink this poison to forget all the frustrations, misgivings of past year , we dont need to celebrate by being intoxicated as that is pleasure in mode of ignorance, we can celebrate by being intoxicated in holyname.
Morever this is not new year according to vedic tradition, as per vedic calendar
Srila Prabhupada’s own words: My Guru Maharaja (Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) when I was twenty-five years old he ordered me long, long ago, to go to the foreign countries and preach Lord Chaitanya’s message. Somehow or other I could not assimilate his order until I was seventy years old. But it was better late than never. So also I was trying how to make a successful tour for preaching Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s message. So by the grace of my Guru Maharaja and by all your blessings, I we
My dear devotees,
Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Most resolutions take the form of “do’s”–things I resolve to do–and “don’ts”–things I resolve to not do. And Vedic wisdom tells us that all do’s and don’ts should support one main do–always remember Krishna (God)–and one main don’t–never forget Him.
Now, practically, what can we do to always remember Krishna and never forget Him? The item most favorable for remembering Him is chanting and hearing: chanting and hearing
