By Gauranga Das
ISKCON Govardhan Eco Village (GEV,www.ecovillage.org.in) a 100 acre sustainable farming community and retreat center, based near Mumbai, India has won the Green Apple Environment Award in Gold category in the international campaign to find the greenest companies, councils and communities.
ISKCON GEV’s participation was amongst 500 other nominations in the Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice, and were presented with their trophy and certificate at a glittering pr
Indian politicians and media persons are going crazy after the so-called “intolerance” issue, which is in fact a non-issue. Only once in a while we find political leaders speak out their minds when it comes to cow killing. I believe there are more chief ministers and party leaders who understand that cow slaughter is slaughtering India’s civilization, but they are unable to open their mouths for multiple reasons including want of personal integrity or conviction for the cause and fear of losing
Sri Bhisma Pancaka (first day)
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Bhishma Panchaka
This kind of 5 day fast is also prescribed for the last 5 days of Kartika
(Damodara) Month and it is known as "Bhisma Pancaka". During that vrata
puja offerings to the Lord are also prescribed. I am listing them below.
There are also mantras that go with these offerings. However, I didn't
find any specific mention about this for Purusottama month. In the Padma
Purana it
DP Shyam Gopal Das films sankirtan leader Prabhupada Das in Moscow
Joy of Devotion, a new documentary currently in production and set to be released in 2016 -- ISKCON’s 50th anniversary year – will show the seeds Srila Prabhupada planted 50 years ago thriving around the world.
“We are a very diverse movement,” says director Krishna-lila Dasi (Krisztina Danka). “And we’ll show that in the film, as well as the many different ways our devot
Sadaputa Digital Channel Facebook Page Launched
By Sunanda das
November 15th celebrated the one year anniversary of the Sadaputa Digital Channel on Youtube featuring over 100 lectures and videos about Vedic perspectives on modern science by Sadaputa Dasa, Dr. Richard L. Thompson, one of Srila Prabhupadas original founding members of the Bhaktivedanta Institute. He is responsible for much of the design of the planetarium in the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP) in Mayapur and for other exh
In my last post, I talked about how there are different types of devotees and we should be aware not all of them are of the same qualitative nature. Similarly, when we do outreach or as in ISKCON called preaching, there are different types of audiences.
Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita (7.3) that among the millions of people, very few will know Him as He is. Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu made it more liberal by distributing this message to one and all. Srila Prabhupada following Mahaprabhu's foot
Read more about Bhisma Panchaka on www.harekrishnacalendar.com
Bhisma Pancaka
Read more about Utthana Ekadasi on www.harekrishnacalendar.com
View recipes for Ekadasi on www.totalveg.com
Read Biography of Srila Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji Maharaja on www.gaudiyahistory.com
Bhajan by Srila Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji Maharaja on www.vaishnavsongs.com
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
This is going to be the last detailed health update on Mukunda Goswami in this
forum.
Thanks to all your prayers and good wishes, Mukunda Goswami is making a slow
but steady recovery from his two surgeries.
On November 6, Mukunda Maharaja was transferred from Gold Coast University
hospital to the rehabilitation facility of Murwillumbah hospital, which is a
15-minute drive from New Govardhan farm community and his residence
PAMHO AGTSP
We have just received sad news from Vrindavan - His Holiness Gaur Krishna Das Goswami has left his body (17 th November 2015).
Born on 22nd January 1964 in Bihar India, His Holiness had recently got sanyasa initiation on the auspicious occasion of Aprara Ekadasi i.e. 14th May 2015 at Haridwar on the banks of holy river Ganga from His Holiness Radha Govinda Swami Maharaj.
His Holiness was known for giving beautiful Hindi Discourses on Srimad Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Bhagav
वह भगवान जिनका रूप सत, चित और आनंद से परिपूर्ण है, जिनके मकरो के आकार के कुंडल इधर उधर हिल रहे है, जो गोकुल नामक अपने धाम में नित्य शोभायमान है, जो (दूध और दही से भरी मटकी फोड़ देने के बाद) मैय्या यशोदा की डर से ओखल से कूदकर अत्यंत तेजीसे दौड़ रहे है और जिन्हें यशोदा मैय्या ने उनसे भी तेज दौड़कर पीछे से पकड़ लिया है ऐसे श्री भगवान को मै नमन करता हू ।।1।।
(अपने माता के हाथ में छड़ी देखकर) वो रो रहे है और अपने कमल जैसे कोमल हाथो से दोनों नेत्रों को मसल रहे है, उनकी आँखे भय से भरी हुयी है और उनके
Kartik (Damodar)...The Holiest Month...
Kartik (Damodar) is the best, the purest of purifiers, and most glorious of all months. Kartik month is particularly dear to Lord Sri Krishna. This month is full of bhakta vatsalya. Any vrata, even the smallest, will yield huge results. The effect of performing a Kartik Vrata lasts for one hundred lifetimes, Kartik or the festival of offering lamps to Lord Krishna, glorifies Lord Krishna’s pastime of being bound with ropes by Mother Yashoda.
Everybody sho
By Parividha Das
Prananatha das edited the different video recordings that were made during my performance of five of my songs in Kolkata in August 2015 at the 50th anniversary of Prabhupada’s leaving for the US.
Dmitry Randar and Matty “Bhima” Dread edited the video backgrounds that you can see on the screen of 15 x 60 feet. Achintya Rupa das made this video compilation of the five videos.
I requested Lokanatha and Bhakti Charu maharaja, who were present during the performance.
to write a revi
Devotees conduct kirtan in a Christian church, New York (1 min video)
In late September, a few friends and I were asked to organise and participate in an interfaith prayer session in New York City. Members from The Bhakti Center led kirtan for an hour. It was a beautiful evening.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/L7bYie
Source...http://dandavats.tumblr.com/post/132592408776/devotees-conduct-kirtan-in-a-christian-church-new
By Nila Kamala das
In continuation with Vraj Parikrama, HH Subhag Swami Maharaj took a group of devotees to Raval, Chinta Haran and Brahmanda Ghat. Buses left straight after mangala arti, all devotees were requested to attend the arti in order to invoke an auspicious start to the yatra.
For more pictures please see:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110438247584390173216/November52015
In order to seek the blessings of Srimati Radharani we firstly visited Raval Dham. After taking darshan and praying
A video currently making the rounds on social media shows well-known U.S. kirtan chanters Gaura Vani and Ananta Govinda dancing out of a conference room into the hallway at the Korea Yoga Conference in South Korea.
They’re followed by two lines of smiling Koreans, who are holding their arms up in the air, swaying with the Swami step, and sweetly chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.
“Korean people are very hardworking, very modern, and tend to be very stressed out,” says Gaura Vani, who toured
Torchlight Publishing is happy to announce the release today of a new e-book of the condensed version of the great epic, The Mahabharata by the world renown author Krishna Dharma. Mahabharata: The condensed version of the world’s greatest epic, is now available on Amazon.com. As part of the release promotions, the book is free for 3 days from November 6 - 8 inclusive.
Krishna Dharma says, “I have simply tried to make the work easily accessible. I have remained faithful to the original, often pre
George Harrison, Shyamasundar Das (on Harrison's right) and other devotees chant together in London.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad changed the world. When he came to America from India in 1965, few Westerners knew the deep spiritual truths behind ancient Vedic culture and civilization. Within a decade most humans on the planet had heard the Hare Krishna mantra. Shyamasundar Das (Sam Speer
