Hare Krishna, John Herbison embarks on a year long pilgrimage around New Zealand.
By John Bisset
When John Herbison said goodbye to his wife before setting off on a walk, he didn’t say “I’ll see you later”, it was “I’ll be back in about a year”.
The devout Hare Krishna of 30 years has set out on a pilgrimage to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hare Krishna Society’s arrival in the western world.
He left Christchurch 10 days ago with a stroppy horse named Samson and a restored 100-year-old w
By Ranchor dasa
This paper was the ISKCON keynote address at an Inter-faith conference hosted by our communications group in the UK and devotees in Bhaktivedanta Manor. Twenty Christians and twenty ISKCON members took part in the exchange, which was described by Rev. Michael Barnes SJ as, “one of those rare occasions when head and heart seemed somehow to be united…. I was left wondering why it is that Catholics and Vaishnava Hindus get on so well together.” Ranchor’s paper was very well receiv
By Kesava Krsna dasa
Do we come to Krsna Consciousness to advance? If so, does that advancement have to be recognized by others, to earn a generous pat on the back? And perhaps to hear something like “You are so advanced prabhu” to which we either feigningly or embarrassingly recoil in protest, or return the compliment with “I am very fallen and unqualified”. While these crèches are well meaning, until we come to the real advanced stage beyond the three modes of material nature, our perception
Lecture on Food for the Soul 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 Independent Desires by HH Niranjana Swami on 13 Aug 2015 at Dnipropetrovsk
(His Holiness Niranjana Swami was born on December 10, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In 1972, his spiritual search took a turning point when he saw a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, on the counter of a bookshop in Washington, DC.)
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Lecture on Beware of Spritiual Crisis by HH Radhanath Swami on 22 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 67, Text 04 )
(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)
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Lecture on Surrender to Krishna and Don't Oppose Him by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 19 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(HH Bhakti Charu Swami was born in Bengal in 1945, he met with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada at the end of 1976.From their very first meeting, Srila Prabhupada gave His Holiness the assignment of translating his books into Bengali and made him his Secretary for Indian Affairs.)
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--आत्मनिवेदन--
भजन-भक्तिविनोद ठाकुर
मानस, देह, गेह जो किछु मोर ।
अर्पिलु तुया पदे नंदकिशोर ॥
सम्पदे-विपदे, जीवने-मरणे ।
दाय मम गेला, तुया ओ-पद वरणे ॥
मारबि-राखबि, जो इच्छा तोहार ।
नित्यदास प्रति, तुया अधिकार ॥
जन्माओबी मोय यदि इच्छा तोर ।
भक्त-गृहे जनि जन्म हउ मोर ॥
कीट जन्म हउ यथा तुया दास ।
बहिर्मुख ब्रह्म-जन्मे नाही आस ॥
भुक्ति-मुक्ति-स्पृहा-विहीन ये भक्त ।
लभइते ताँ'क संग अनुरक्त ॥
जनक, जननी, दयित, तनय ।
प्रभु गुरु, पति तुँहु सर्वमय ॥
भक्तिविनोद कहे सुन कान ।
राधानाथ !
Lecture on Mercy Even for the Animals and Insects by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 16 Jul 2015
(Madhavananda Das, joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications.)
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Lecture on Amrita Vani-How is it Possible to Actually Serve Krsna by HH Niranjana Swami on 05 Aug 2015 at Odessa
(His Holiness Niranjana Swami was born on December 10, 1952, in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. In 1972, his spiritual search took a turning point when he saw a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, on the counter of a bookshop in Washington, DC.)
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Lecture on Keval Sannyas se siddhi nahi by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 09 July 2015 at Damodaradesh
(HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON’s founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. )
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A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA – Just like we are meeting in this meeting face-to-face, similarly, you can also meet the Supreme Personality of Godhead face-to-face, but you have to be qualified for that purpose. If you want to understand Krishna in His impersonal Brahman feature, there is risk also. I will explain that. The Brahman feature is impersonal.
Just like… Try to understand that there is sun, the sun globe, and within the sun globe, there is the sun deity, and outside the sun glo
Art of keeping mind allof from all distractions by Chanting by HH Lokanath Swami on 18 Aug 2015 at Nagpur
(Lokanath Swami born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.Intrigued, maharaj attended the whole Hare Krsna Festival and heard from Srila Prabhupada.)
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As the main dome structure is almost complete, a lot of preparation has been going on to commence the next step, the Kalash.
We have seen the Kalash mock-up from McCoy industry made in titanium nitrite coated stainless steal, being fabricated in Mumbai. Our latest addition is a life size bracket that will support the Kalash. It’s made from GRC and measures 3/4 of an inch thick (1.9 cm) and 14 feet (4.5m) tall. This frame is being built in house, right here in Mayapur.
Next week we are planning t
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