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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.20

TEXT 20
atha vyavasthitan drstva
dhartarastran kapi-dhvajah
pravrtte sastra-sampate
dhanur udyamya pandavah
hrsikesam tada vakyam
idam aha mahi-pate
SYNONYMS
atha—thereupon; vyavasthitān—situated; dṛṣṭvā—looking on;dhārtarāṣṭrān—the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; kapi-dhvajaḥ—one whose flag is marked with Hanumān; pravṛtte—while about to be engaged; śastra-sampāte—the arrows released; dhanuḥ—bow; udyamya—after taking up; pāṇḍavaḥ—the son of Pāṇḍu (Arjuna); hṛṣīkeśam—unto Lord Kṛṣṇa; tadā—at that time;vākyam—words
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The Role of a Guru


Sometimes a so-called guru seeks to help humanity by performing some social welfare mission, such as opening hospitals or uplifting the poor. Such a man is generally an atheist, devoid of any real spiritual knowledge.

 

Therefore a true spiritual master engages wholeheartedly in glorifying the Supreme Lord, fully convinced that this alone will bring the highest happiness, even within the material sphere.Sometimes a so-called guru seeks to help humanity by performing some social welfare missio
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.19

TEXT 19
sa ghoso dhartarastranam
hrdayani vyadarayat
nabhas ca prthivim caiva
tumulo 'bhyanunadayan
SYNONYMS
saḥ—that; ghoṣaḥ—vibration; dhārtarāṣṭrāṇām—of the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; hṛdayāni—hearts; vyadārayat—shattered; nabhaḥ—the sky; ca—also; pṛthivīm—the surface of the earth; ca—also; eva—certainly; tumulaḥ—uproarious; abhyanunādayan—by resounding.
TRANSLATION
The blowing of these different conchshells became uproarious, and thus, vibrating both in the sky and on the earth, it shattered the hearts of
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Come Dance With Us! (Album with photos)

Come Dance With Us! (Album with photos) Indradyumna Swami: Lord Caitanya’s samkirtan movement is so attractive that if presented nicely people cannot help but chant and dance with us. We are experiencing this daily along the Baltic Sea coast in Poland, where just like the spiritual world, every word is a song, every step is a dance and there is a festival every day. See them here: https://goo.gl/MNvuNP

Come Dance With Us! (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Lord Caitanya’s samkirtan movement is so attractive that if presented nicely people cannot help but chant and dance with us. We are experiencing this daily along the Baltic Sea coast in Poland, where just like the spiritual world, every word is a song, every step is a dance and there is a festival every day.
See them here: https://goo.gl/MNvuNP

 
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Rathayatra Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia (Album with photos) Srila Prabhupada: It is the spiritual master who delivers the disciple from the clutches of maya by initiating him into the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. In this way a sleeping human being can revive his consciousness by chanting Hare Krishna. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 9.61 Purport). See them here: https://goo.gl/lMp5iI

Rathayatra Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia (Album with photos)


Srila Prabhupada: It is the spiritual master who delivers the disciple from the clutches of maya by initiating him into the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. In this way a sleeping human being can revive his consciousness by chanting Hare Krishna. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 9.61 Purport).
See them here: https://goo.gl/lMp5iI

 
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Invitation to Farm Conference Novelle Mayapura FRANCE 16th, 17th, 18th Sept 2015

By Kalakantha das (Sri Mayapur – India)

The Conference is open to those who have an interest in or are actually practiced in rural development, agriculture, handicrafts, horticulture, protected dairying, ox draft and other similar topics and will propose the building of a network for the devotees interested in this field.

The community at Novelle Mayapura will be hosting the 2015 farm conference in September in thi

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Harinama in Moscow, Russia

Harinama in Moscow, Russia (Album with photos) Srila Prabhupada: When there is large-scale congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, we keep our temples open for everyone to join, and by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu this policy has given good results. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 17.35 Purport) See them here: https://goo.gl/kFXhjV

Harinama in Moscow, Russia (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: When there is large-scale congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, we keep our temples open for everyone to join, and by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu this policy has given good results. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 17.35 Purport)
See them here: https://goo.gl/kFXhjV

 
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Vancouver Rathyatra 2015

Vancouver Rathyatra 2015 (Album with photos) Srila Prabhupada: The Hare Krishna mantra is specifically mentioned in many Upanisads, such as the Kali-santarana Upanishad, where it is said: “After searching through al the Vedic literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for this age than the chanting of Hare Krishna.” (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 3.40 Purport) See them here: https://goo.gl/0n4gak

Vancouver Rathyatra 2015 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Hare Krishna mantra is specifically mentioned in many Upanisads, such as the Kali-santarana Upanishad, where it is said: “After searching through al the Vedic literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for this age than the chanting of Hare Krishna.” (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 3.40 Purport)
See them here: https://goo.gl/0n4gak

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By Indradyumna Swami

DIARY OF A TRAVELING MONK – Volume 14, Chapter 5 – August 17, 2015

“Our Happy Summer Days”

After a month of harinams and festivals and a mammoth three-day Woodstock festival, our tour devotees were exhausted. When I mentioned during a meeting that we had seventeen more festivals to go, I saw many devotees catch their breath and roll their eyes upward. “It’s our duty,” I said. “We can’t give up, we can’t give in. We’ve inherited a tradition that goes back five hundred yea

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By Pusta Krishna das

Lord Chaitanya predicted that the glories of the Holy Names of the Mahamantra would take place in every town and village throughout the world. This energy was reflected in the person of Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur who wrote of the Bhagawat and sent a copy of this book to Canada around the time of our Srila Prabhupad’s appearance. The great carrier of that mercy was illuminated by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad. He gave the order to Abhay Charan De, later k

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Sadhus Fight Against Mayavada

2515022971?profile=originalLecture on Sadhus Fight Against Mayavada by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 05 July 2015 at Singapore

(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 01, Text, 08)

(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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Krishna Kirtan’s Continued Journey

By Bhakti-lata Dasi

For those of you who read the previous IPM NEWS, you will remember that inmate bhakta, Richard Chase—affectionately nicknamed “Krishna Kirtan”by Sarva-drik prabhu—was very well situated in a prison in Petersburg, Virginia where he had started what became a very successful and popular Hare Krishna program at the chapel library. Last year, however, he was transferred to a prison in Lisbon, Ohio where the chaplains were quite inimical toward Krishna Consciousness and who preve

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By Giriraj Swami

By Srila Prabhupada’s causeless mercy, Rose Forkash, who developed the Friends of Lord Krishna (FOLK) program with Srila Prabhupada’s direct encouragement and guidance, will receive initiation at my ashram in Carpinteria on Wednesday, August 19, between 10 a.m. and noon. She is four weeks away from her ninety-fifth birthday. Please bless her that she achieves complete success in Krishna consciousness in this very lifetime.

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Brahma Vimohan Lila

2515022970?profile=originalLecture on Brahma Vimohan Lila by HG Prema Manjari Mataji on 28 May 2015 at Singapore

(HG Prema Manjari mataji joined ISKCON in 1992 during her MBBS days and received her first initiation from HH Radhanath Swami maharaj in 1996. She has set an example for others to follow by wonderfully balancing between her hectic professional life as a radiologist and spiritual life.)

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Srila Prabhupada Katha

2515022499?profile=originalLecture on Srila Prabhupada Katha by HH Lokanath Swami on 09 Aug 2014 at ISKCON Noida

(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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Resources From Girls Home Science Camp

By the www.BhaktiWomen.org Team

 

Among the various areas that the Bhakti Women team serves women in, we are also very inspired to support mothers in empowering their daughters and to honor and value their role as women. We wish for them to excel and shine in their roles as home- makers, caretakers of the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of their families, in raising emotionally and spiritually sound children and in maintaining relationships within society. With this purpose in min

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UAE allocates land for Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu temple. The Indian government has lauded a decision by the United Arab Emirates to allocate land for the building of the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, currently on a two-day trip to the UAE, said on Sunday, that he was thankful to the UAE government, describing the move, “a great step”. Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/gmDSCb

UAE allocates land for Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu temple.
The Indian government has lauded a decision by the United Arab Emirates to allocate land for the building of the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi.
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, currently on a two-day trip to the UAE, said on Sunday, that he was thankful to the UAE government, describing the move, “a great step”. 
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