The Hot Topic: Poetry Contest Winners
Prior to the Gaura Purnima festival, the Bhakti Writers Community hosted the Golden Moon Poetry contest, with a gift card to Amazon.com as the prize. Twelve writers submitted their poems, and each writer glorified a unique facet of Lord Chaitanya’s personality.
The winner is Samapriya Prabhu, who wrote the poem “Hot Topic.” One judge described her poem as, “Original, fresh, fun! Makes the reader smile.” Second place goes to “In the Land of Lord Nityanan
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Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
VIHE is heartily inviting all the serious students to our transformational Bhakti-sastri course. Bhakti-sastri course is a systematic study of Srila Prabhupada's books. Srila Prabhupada wanted all of us to deeply study his books, so that we could be better preachers, teachers and, very importantly, achieve a clear understanding and application of the beautiful science of devotional service. Sri Vrindavan Dham
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Congratulations devotees,
because of your prayers, we won the Bhagvad Gita case again in Tomsk, Russia.
NDTVMoscow:
India's diplomatic efforts to resolve a controversy relating to Russian state prosecutors' bid to get a Russian interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita banned and branded extremist literature will be put to test again with a high court in the Siberian city of Tomsk set to deliver its final verdict on Tuesday.
Anxiety and frustration has gripped Hindus in Russia as they feel there was
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The Deities Who visited Their devotee's home
There is a devotee named Adya, a Prabhupada disciple--very nice devotee. In Laguna Beach we have beautiful Panca Tattva Deities. He was thinking, "If only the Panca Tattva would come to my house, I could worship them so nicely." But
Dear Devotees,
ISKCON Food Relief Foundation, Annamrita serving Midday Meal to over 12 lac Children everyday across India.
We have participated in One minute Video Award Competition, So our Video is listed in the following link.
The Video is now available for audience to vote. It is open for voting till March 12th 2012 only.
There are many videos of other NGOs here.You will find our video, with an image of H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaj sitting down, serving food to the children.
The image below shows
Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
A green village project named "Fourth Wave" is envisaged near Mysore city, Karnataka, South India encompassing some of the elements of varnashrama concept including land & cows to live a simple life.
Any Brahmana initiated or Harinama initiated devotee linked to Srila Prabhupad through a disciplic succession is eligible to participate. Criteria is that the devotee family should be willing to re-locate to the village at a certain point in time, spend
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Track-00_prastavna_n_prak-kathan.mp3"Did you know that the Bhagavad-gita is the most widely read book in history?" I asked a gentleman, a senior at the University of Houston. We had just met late in the afternoon, after most people had left for home. I prayed that my behavior with this person would please Sri Guru, remembering that the opportunity to preach is a real gift.
"But I have a copy already, so not today, thank you," he replied.
"Wait, sir," I insisted, "I have two other books with me." After showing him "The Science of Sel
"When Good Fortune Arises, Life and Teachings of Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami" from Gopal Jiu Publications is now available for online purchase using paypal. To read about the book or to order copies, copy the below link and paste it into your web browser:
On a Sunday we were in Juinagar distributing books near a pandal put up on the occasion of a major spiritual discourse by some well-known organization. The distribution went nicely, so around 3o'clock in the afternoon, as the program concluded, we were getting ready to leave. Just then two girls about twelve and fifteen years old happened to pass by our stall. I thought they might be interested, so I asked them, "Please look over this 'Krsna' book. See the color pictures? This is the best storyb
Hare Krishna dear devotees,
The Gita Champions League contest results are declared. You can see your score in the following link.
Hari Hari Bol
Your servant
Meena
The teaching of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati on raganuga-bhakti is, that ajata ruci (without taste) raganuga sadhakas (practitioners) should adopt the methods of raganuga sadhana that they are qualified to adopt in proportion to their development of sacred greed (lobhamayi sraddha), while following the angas (limbs) of vaidhi bhakti (regulated devotional service).
This follows Sri Jiva Goswami's Bhakti-sandarbha 311
ajata-tadrsa-rucina tu sad-visesa adaramatradrta
raganugapi vaidhi-samvalitaivanus he
Hare Krishna,
Here is the process to add Vaisnava Calendar Events in Google Calendar & sync with Mobile calendar:
1) Read the process to subscribe to calendars in Google Calendar at: http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37100
2) Add one of the below calendar URL
Mayapur: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/7l6vk5t3odbtdus5a1pp6nb8k4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
Mumbai: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ptpcn6djilhhhsepcp6m1rrf00%40group.calendar.google.com
(based on a webinar class on Prabodhananda Sarasvati’s fifteenth century classic, Vrndavana Mahimamrta)
“In this verse, Prabhodananda Sarasvati says that for a male sadhaka, the embodiment of maya or illusion is woman. In fact, there are many verses in this book about the perils of woman, which we compare to icebergs on the ocean of devotion for a male sadhaka. But why is this rasika-vaisnava, Prabhodananda Sarasvati, discussing this, since this book is about amrta or the nectar of Vrndavana?
"Jan Gan Man" is national anthem of India written by Ravindranath Tagore.
Many people dont know that it have 5 paragraphs (Because all are not sung)
It was written in Bengali but most of the words are Sanskrit.
Linguist tried to understand why Tagore wrote it for King George V?
They were trying to find with what intention did Tagore compose this song?
And they arrived at the conclusion that it was not written for King nor it refers to 'Bharat Mata' or mother earth it was specifically written for Lord
