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Dina%20Sarana%20A.jpg At this year’s meetings of the Governing Body Commission—ISKCON’s ultimate managing authority—in Mayapur, India, German Srila Prabhupada disciple Dina Sharana Dasi became only the second-ever woman to accept the position of full-voting GBC member.

Her path there starts a decade ago: One day, while washing pots in her kitchen, she had what she callseingebungin German—a kind of inspirational vision in her mind—where Srila Prabhupada told her something that would change her life.

Dina Sharana is car

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Message from Radhikapati Prabhu, Please forward the same to all your contacts...

 

We would like to invite you to our biggest events on 26th March, 2011 where over 1,00,000 people will congregate for the Festival of Chariots at Shivaji Park, Dadar (west), Mumbai organized by young professionals of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). These professionals take three to four weeks off every year from work to organize this festival. ISKCON is proud of its young force which is happ

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Can You Request Prayer for Japan?

Question: Can You Request Prayer for Japan?


Respected Gurudeva,

I hope you must be aware of the misery, in Japan. I am praying to the Lord that the nuclear reactor should not burst. Can you kindly request all the devotees to pray for the people of Japan?

S. Kumar
 


Answer: Why Only Japan?


I share your feelings of compassion for the horrible suffering of the people of Japan. There is one horror story after another. In the city of Minamisoma with a population of 70,000 practically every building was was

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Fear of death

To the Supreme Lord Radha Krishna

I am new to Krishna Consciousness am pray to you to make me fearless of death .

I have a fear of death I would not lie on this point.

It is only by your mercy and protection and shelter that I can easily overcome this fear of death.

When I wake up every morning to chant the holy names of the Lord I feel good .

As soon as I dont think of you I get fear of losing you as my friend,guide and master.

I am very alone in this material world as I have not yet seen your real f

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soul Collage


SOUL COLLAGE 

I am the one in need of balance i am the one who is taking a step forward in the unknown yet i have the faith that i have loving support 

I am the one who is afraid to look back as i have to look forward. 

I am the one who has made this decision to walk on the edge. It is razor sharp and can even cut 

I am the one who knows that i may fall but yet has faith that i will get the loving support of the hands of god 

I am the one who feels protected by the hands of god. I am the one who is h

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Tulasi Devi Cures Devotee’s Cancer

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Today, at 69 years old, Chaitanya Prema Dasa is a robust, healthy devotee, visiting the Potomac, Maryland ISKCON temple every Sunday and working at the Pentagon, where he has served for twenty-five years in the Department of the Defense Inspector General. He keeps a small altar with Srila Prabhupada and a large, beautiful picture of Lord Krishna in his office, so that his boss and co-workers see the Lord every time they have meetings there.
Seeing him, you would never guess that back in 1997, a

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Hare Krishna,

PAMHO, AGTSP,

I downloaded these books from internet. These are .jar files which most of the multimedia phone support. They have options like Bookmarks, Search, Jump to and many other facilities. Right now I have Bhagvad-Gita, Srimad Bhagvatam upto 10th canto & Krsna Book.

 

 

 

Bhagavad_Gita_As_It_Is_MIDP1.jar 

Bhagavad_Gita_As_It_Is_NokiaS40.jar

Gita_Mobile_MIDP1.jar

Bhagavatam_Mobile_Canto_1_MIDP1_01.jar

Bhagavatam_Mobile_Canto_2_MIDP1.jar

Bhagavatam_Mobile_Canto_3_MIDP1.jar

Bhagavatam_Mo

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A tribute to Srimad Bhagavad Gita

The relevance of Srimad Bhagavad Gita in today’s age


The question of relevance for such topics comes into picture whenever certain systems of knowledge and certain practices are perceived to be outdated due to dynamically changing social structures and a widespread discomfort for anything labeled as religious, dogmatic or sectarian. The focus for this article is to try and brush aside these biases and objectively study the relevance of this very old but thoroughly timely system of knowledge in th

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  1. Do the one thing that you aren’t doing now, but if you did do it well and regularly, would have the greatest impact in your life.
  2. The 80/20 rule. 80% of the most important things to do in life are on the top 20% of your prioritized list. Therefore, put “First things First.”
  3. Life has “speed bumps”—slow down, deal with the inevitable problems, and go on
  4. Who said life was suppose to be “fair”?
  5. Ask yourself: “Is this going to be important to me one year from now?
  6. Remember, in 80 years from now, practica
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GOVINDA's Restaurant Opening Invite

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Hare Krishna dear all:
Please accept our humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

It is with great pleasure, we would like to welcome you to the much
awaited GOVINDA's Restaurant which will be opening at Funabori (Edogawa-ku,
Tokyo) on 24-January-2011 (Monday) at 10:00 AM.

This is the first phase & an important milestone of the New Temple
Project and also a precursor to the New Temple Opening.

GOVINDA's Restaurant will serve sumptuous & authentic North & South
Indian cuisine with inter
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We Are Not Professional Musicians - 6

"With regard to your question about Bengali style kirtana and
mrdanga playing, one or two styles is best. To introduce more styles is not
good. It will become an encumbrance. If we introduce so much emphasis on
style of kirtana, then simply imitation will go on.

Devotional emotion is the main thing. If we give stress to
instrument and style then attention will be diverted to the style. That will
be spiritual loss."

[letter to Satsvarupa Goswami, 30 June 1976]
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We Are Not Professional Musicians - 3

"So if you have talent for musical achievement, that is nice; but if
you nourish some idea of becoming famous by playing some music, that will be
a source of frustration — the end.

So it is better if you play your music for Krishna by having very
ecstatic kirtanas in your center in Vancouver, and in this way, as I have
introduced it, all of the devotees and also the general public as well will
be able to join together cooperatively in the glorification of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, not that we
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We Are Not Professional Musicians - 5

"I understand also, there was a Kirtana performance given by Sri
Purna. You have rightly remarked whether they are devotees. You are right.
These people are professional singers.

Krishna Kirtana is not for earning a livelihood. Krishna Kirtana is
not meant for entertaining the public for demonstration of arts. It is
dynamic service to the Lord.

We do not therefore mind so much about the artistic presentation of
Krishna Kirtana but we want to see how much a devotee is satisfying the
Supreme Will."

[SP let
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We Are Not Professional Musicians - 1

This quote from Srila Prabhupada & the quotes in the following
e-mails were compiled by H.H. Indradyumna Swami in his harinama sankirtana
handbook entitled "Harinama Eva Kevalam".

He called this chapter “We Are Not Professional Musicians”. It
emphasises the importance of the propper mood of devotion & service while
out on harinama, and not the concentration on the musical performance.

The book was never published though. :(

“We Are Not Professional Musicians”
Srila Prabhupada cautioned his disciples aga
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The Carpentar's Tools


Brother Hammer served as the chairman. The other members of the tool belt informed him that he must leave, because he was too noisy. But brother Hammer said, "If I have to leave this carpenter's shop, then
brother Gimlet must go too. He's insignificant and makes a very small
impression." (A gimlet is a small tool with a sc...rew point, grooved shank, and a cross handle for boring holes).

Little brother Gimlet arose and said, "All right, but brother
Screwdriver must go also. You have to turn him ar
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Faith... (Poem)

Truly, Faith is the life-giving tree of Bliss,

It stems from the root of devotion,

It is nourished by the determination of the devotee,

It flowers by the Grace of the Guru,

It fructifies with the Blessings of the Lord,

And then it reaches out to the hearts of others,

To seed, and take root, once again…

Thank you Devotees for the seeds you have sown,

For Faith is the offspring of Faith, in oneself and in others… :)

 

-eternalmuser

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Happy New Year to all the vaisanavas

Recorded Speech to
Members of ISKCON London

Los Angeles, December 23, 1968
Prabhupāda:
ajñāna-timirāndhasya
jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur-unmilitaṁ yena
tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual master, who has opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge in my material existence of darkness. Ladies and Gentlemen, please accept my greetings in the happy new year of 1969, and blessings of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for your kindly participating in this ha
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I am a soldier in the US Army and thought you all might get a laugh at what happened the other day.
We had to do a 6 mile run for fitness. Its custon to sing during these runs to build soldier cohesion.
So they asked me to sing. I agreed so we were running down the street , when the idea popped in my head to get them to chant. Now this wasn't 6 or 7 people, its was a total of 600 soldiers.
And they were into it, for 3 miles they chanted the Maha Mantra as loud as they could and were really into it.
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Dear Vaishnavas,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada! Guru-parampara ki jaya!


Starting in January of 2011, Bhaktivedanta College will offer for the first
time a complete one-year VTE Bhakti Sastri course online at
www.bhakti-sastri.com

Study Prabhupada's books online, guided by experienced teachers, in a
virtual community of sincere devotees. The first module starts on January
17, 2011.


Four things you can expect:

--sadhu-sanga, a community of devotees encouraged to contr

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