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O ! Giriraj Govardhan,

O ! Giriraj, the best of the devotee,

O ! Giriraj, the incarnation of Krishna,

O ! Beautiful Giriraj,

Even with these material eyes I can admire your beauty

You are full of beautiful flowers, waterfalls, caves, deers, trees and what not.

O ! Giriraj, I offer my humble obesiances to You.

O ! Giriraj, please accept these incense sticks,

please accept this ghee lamp,

in this lamp's light I can see your more wonderful aspects.

O ! Giriraj, Please accept these flowers,

O ! Giriraj, Please

In a mother's womb were two babies. One asked the other:

"Do you believe in life after delivery?" The other replies, "why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.

"Nonsense," says the other. "There is no life after delivery. What would that life be?"

"I don't know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths."

The other says "This is absurd! Walking is impossi

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Devotees in Kolkata, India headed by GBC Radhanath Swami, have purchased Srila Prabhupada’s birthplace and plan to develop it as a beautiful memorial to the ISKCON founder Acharya. Fifteen years ago, devotees acquired a house and land in the Tollygunge suburb of Kolkata that had belonged to Prabhupada’s maternal grandfather. But the exact site where Prabhupada was born on September 1st, 1896 remained elusive until now.

“One hundred yards away from his maternal grandfather’s house is a small

The Supreme Lord Himself established the Varnashram system so as to maintain a balance in the human society and enable us to cultivate higher consciousness, irrespective of which social and/or spiritual order we find ourselves. Amongst the four ashrams most of us would readily agree that the Grihastha Ashram (house holder) has a lot of responsibilities attached and thus taking up this ashram must be a well-planned, organized and spiritually guided action. The Grihastha Ashram is meant to support

How to conquer this all-devouring sinful enemy - Lust? There is a method ... and it is a sure 100% method; and the Supreme Lord showed us this method in a wonderful way. He sent to this world, lust personified Ravana. Ravana was the most striking emblem of lust in the history of all creation.

Sita Devi is the wife of Rama. Sita is none other than an expansion of Lakshmi Devi, the goddess of fortune.

All the fortune of the world is the energy of Sita. What is fortune? Fortune does not simply mea

Urgency of Krishna Consciousness by HG Sesa Prabhu at ISKCON Gainesville on 01 July 2011

(Sesa Dasa was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party. Sesa Dasa has a portfolio of two ministries: Minister of Educational Development and Minister of Justice, under which ISKCON Resolve works.)

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Bhakti Shashtri Course by His Grace Bhurijana Prabhu

(H.G.Bhurijana Prabhu first meet Srila Prabhupada at 26 Second Ave, and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1968. After preaching in Japan for about a year, in 1970 he opened ISKCON's first Hong Kong center.)

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Seminar on How to make Advancement in Krsna Consciousness by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

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Hindi  Lecture on Address to Brahmacharies by His Holiness Prabodhananda Sarasvati Swami at ISKCON Vrindavan on 11th April 2013

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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

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

Book 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

About the Author - Yogesvara Dasa

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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

             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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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

  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