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Bhumi  Puja at ISKCON Kondaveedu

By Basu Ghosh Das

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Kondavvedu is a historical place, where Rajas (Kings) of the then Reddy
dynasty built a fort on a hill, located in the Guntur district of Andhra
Pradesh, in South India.

The ruins of the old Kondaveedu fort on top of that hill, is located near a
small village some 25 kilometers West of Guntur city.

More information on the

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatan Canto 07, Chapter 15, Text 45 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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Lecture on Retiring in Bhakti by Vishwarup Prabhu on 07 Oct 2015

(Introduced to the movement of ISKCON in 1983 during medical college days. Started chanting 16 rounds in 1984. Acquired MBBS degree in 1985. Received first initiation in 1986 and Brahmin initiation in 1987.)

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Lecture on Trusting God Timetable by HG Charu Prabhu

(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples. He served on the BBT library party in 1976, received Bhakti Shastra in 1979, and was Life Membership Director in Los Angeles for 10 years in the 1980's.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 01, Text 09 by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu on 30 Seep 2015 at Australia

(Since that time he has been regularly traveling and lecturing extensively all over the world for reviving the dormant Krishna consciousness in the hearts of all living beings.)

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By Nila Kamala das (Bhakta Nikhil)

During the month of Kartik, many devotees assemble from various parts of the world to Vrindavan in order to recharge their spiritual battery. Parikrama allows an opportunity for devotees to nourish their bhakti through the medium of visiting various places of pastimes of the Lord, hearing of those pastimes from senior devotees and serving the vaisnavas. With this in mind, HH Subhag Swami Maharaj organised a series of programs in different places across Vraj

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By NityaTripta Devi Dasi

Sri Govind Gau Gram Prachar Yatra BEGINS

Inauguration Report

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhakti Vedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada’s (Founder-Acarya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness) first step on the soil of Boston in 1966 proved to be more revolutionary than the much-dramatised first step of man on Moon. He inundated almost the complete world in the nama rasa of the Supreme Lord. Even in the land of su

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

By Parasuram das

On the 21th October 2015 we set off from Bhaktivedanta Manor with two vehicles loaded with Prasad and provisions such as sleeping bags, tents, clothes etc. We were heading to a place called the ” Jungle “, just outside of, Calais in France, where there were 6,000 refugees struggling to survive in the worst conditions imagable.

After a short ferry crossing we arrived at the refugee camp. It was raining, mud everywhere, people were wandering around aimlessly, desperation on their

By Chaitanya Charan das

For the world, America is the land of Hollywood, Disneyland, Wall Street and the arena for fulfilling “the American dream.” For Americans, it’s the “Land for the free and the home for the brave.” However, for me, like many Indians, it had been for years the land of higher studies. Some twenty years ago, I had desired, as do many Indians, to go to the US for higher studies. And I had been well on course to going there, having done well in GRE (Graduate Record Examination),

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 

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