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real freedom is to get liberation by mercy of lord krishna ! for mercy of lord krishna there are many ways but greatest ways in kaliyuga are reading/listening shrimad bhagwatam,hare krishna mahamantra japa ,hari-kirtana,sant-seva,lord's bhakt seva like shri mahadeva,shri hanuman..... by doing seva of this deities we get faster bhakti of shri krishna,also readling lila-katha from other puranas like brahma vaivarta ,vishnu purana,etc.

one who regularly reads shrimad bhagwatam,he gets liberation and

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Prabhupada departs for USA

Hare Krishna.

15th August, 2015. Gurgaon.

 Today is the last in the three series of  glorification of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental qualities and the events leading to his departure to USA.

Lineage: Srila Prabhupada was an authorised spiritual teacher in an unbroken succession that can be traced back to God Himself – and his appearance was predicted. Sages in this line have learned and taught the pure wisdom of God’s original instructions for millennia, and include Vyasa, the author of the sacr

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.13

TEXT 13
tatah sankhas ca bheryas ca
panavanaka-gomukhah
sahasaivabhyahanyanta
sa sabdas tumulo 'bhavat
SYNONYMS
tataḥ—thereafter; śaṅkhāḥ—conchshells; ca—also; bheryaḥ—bugles; ca—and; paṇava-ānaka—trumpets and drums; go-mukhāḥ—horns; sahasā—all of a sudden; eva—certainly; abhyahanyanta—being simultaneously sounded; saḥ—that; śabdaḥ—combined sound; tumulaḥ—tumultuous; abhavat—became.
TRANSLATION
After that, the conchshells, bugles, trumpets, drums and horns were all suddenly sounded, and the combined sou
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August 12, 2015by: Acarya DasaMydukur kids’d never been so happyOn August 3rd Padayatra India reached the town of Mydukur in the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. As we were doing nagar sankirtana and book distribution in the town, the principal of a local school became very much impressed. He asked us many questions about padayatra, how it started, who was our inspiration and so on. That was a great opportunity for us to glorify Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON and Lokanath Maharaja, our beloved Gurud
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By Subhang Balaram Das and Basu Ghosh DasPictures of the function can be seen the internet at the following links/URLs:http://tinyurl.com/oc47tsphttp://tinyurl.com/owvnl7nhttp://tinyurl.com/o2ymw4cVyasa-puja is an annual observance wherein devotees offer homage to their Spiritual Master.Vyasa-puja means the “worship of Vyasadev, who is the compiler of the vedic scriptures and thus the original spiritual master”.This ceremony traditionally takes place on the Spiritual Master's appearance day. Dis
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Prabhupada leaves for USA Part II

Hare Krishna

14th August, 2015. Gurgaon

( A murti of Srila Prabhupada at his birthplace in Tollygunge)

This the the second in the series of three part glorification of Srila Prabhupada’s qualities and the events leading to his departure to USA.

Teacher: Srila Prabhupada was not just a teacher, but also a teacher of teachers for the modern age. He translated more than 70 Vedic books into English and was honoured by many leading scholars. He taught and led by example, embodying the knowledge that he c

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As of August 13, 2015 – the 50 year Anniversary since departure of Jaladhuta on Kolkata dock,

ISKCON can report there are:

CENTRES
602 ISKCON Temples World wide
65 Farms / Eco Villages
54 Educational Institutes: Including primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary Colleges
110 Vegetarian Hare Krishna Restaurants worldwide

DEVOTEES

75,000 devotees in ISKCON have received initiation (taken clerical vows)
7 million worshippers attend an ISKCON centre annually
2000 home study / worship (Bhakti

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The Journey that Changed the World

It was on this day 50 years ago, Srila Prabhupada set out on a Fifty years ago, on August 13, 1965, a lone elderly monk and teacher, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami boarded the cargo ship Jaladuta in Calcutta for the one month sea voyage to New York City not seeking riches, but to teach and distribute the greatest wealth of India and the East—knowledge of God, or “Krishna Consciousness”.

This historic journey introduced the Western world to the Bhakti tradition unlike ever witnessed in history b

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CD Review: Like a River to the Sea

Like a River to the Sea

Jahnavi Harrison and Musicians

Label: Mantralogy

Reviewed by: Sanjeevini Dutta

The debut album from kirtan artist Jahnavi Harrison – composer, arranger and principal voice of the collection, takes kirtan to a place ripe for genre crossing. Kirtan is Hindu devotional music which is based on the call and response singing of sacred names. Jahnavi herself grew up in the Hare Krishna community of Bhaktivedanta Manor in Hertfordshire, and as as she says, kirtan was ‘the sound

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१९६५ में “सिंधिया स्टीम नेविगेशन कंपनी” देश की सबसे पुरानी, बड़ी और जानी-मानी जलपोत कंपनियों में इस एक हुआ करती थी। मालवाहक पोत होने के कारण अधिकतर उनके जहाजों में दवाइयाँ, कपड़े, खाद्य पदार्थ इत्यादि बड़े बड़े बक्सों में भर कर कई देशो में भेजा जाता था।
उसी वर्ष के अगस्त महीने में एक मालवाहक-पोत, जिसका नाम "जलदूत" था, एक ऐसे सवारी को बैठा कर ले गया जो आने वाले दिनों में संसार भर में एक इतिहास रचने वाला था।
जलदूत नाम का वह पोत अपने नाम का पूरक है,: ऐसा पोत जो जलमार्ग से भगवन्नाम के प्रचार हेतु आध्या

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 1.12

TEXT 12
tasya sanjanayan harsam
kuru-vrddhah pitamahah
simha-nadam vinadyoccaih
sankham dadhmau pratapavan
SYNONYMS
tasya—his; sañjanayan—increasing; harṣam—cheerfulness; kuru-vṛddhaḥ—the grandsire of the Kuru dynasty (Bhīṣma); pitāmahaḥ—the grandfather;siṁha-nādam—roaring sound, like a lion; vinadya—vibrating; uccaiḥ—very loudly; śaṅkham—conchshell; dadhmau—blew; pratāpavān—the valiant.
TRANSLATION
Then Bhīṣma, the great valiant grandsire of the Kuru dynasty, the grandfather of the fighters, blew his c
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2515021674?profile=originalहमारे पडोसी देश पाकिस्तान के कराँची शहर में ९ अगस्त, २०१५ को एक “अपने आप में ख़ास” तरह का आयोजन हुआ । इस्कॉन पाकिस्तान द्वारा कराँची के स्वामिनारायण परिसर में पाकिस्तान की पहली रथयात्रा हुयी ।

यह इस्कॉन पाकिस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार हुआ और वहां के हिन्दू श्रद्धालुओं के आकर्षण का केंद्र बना । हम वहां के भक्तों को शत शत नमन करते हैं जो प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों में भी श्रील प्रभुपाद के आंदोलन को आगे बढ़ाते हुए हरिनाम का प्रचार कर रहे हैं । आइये जानते हैं की पाकिस्तान में हरे कृष्ण आंदोलन कैसे प्रारम

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Srila Prabhupada left for USA today

Hare Krishna.

13th August, 2015. Gurgaon

It was today, exactly 50 years ago, that Srila Prabhupada left for USA.

Srila Prabhupada, founder acharya of ISKCON, navigated 36 days through the tumultuous ocean on a cargo steamship, Jaladuta on 13th August 1965, to the western world with a mission to propagate Krishna Consciousness in the western world.

For next three days I will post parts from the 11th and 12th chapter of Prabhupada Lilamrita which describe the days leading to his departure for USA. I w

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True Spiritual Master


A true spiritual master must not only be able to distinguish spirit from matter; he must also be able to distinguish the minute, individual spirit (the soul) from the supreme spirit (the Supersoul, or God). Failure to make this important distinction disqualifies many of today’s so- called spiritual masters. In fact, blurring the difference between God and the living entity is the most common philosophical flaw among modern gurus. Their reasoning goes something like this: “The eternal spirit sou
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Live and Let Live


A life for a life is just punishment for a person who cruelly and shamelessly lives at the cost of another's life. Political morality is to punish a person by a death sentence in order to save a cruel person from going to hell. That a murderer is condemned to a death sentence by the state is good for the culprit because in his next life he will not have to suffer for his act of murder. Such a death sentence for the murderer is the lowest possible punishment offered to him, and it is said in the
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Ocean of Mercy


The Personality of Godhead, out of His causeless mercy, descends on the manifested world without being influenced by the material modes of nature. He is eternally beyond the material manifestations.

 

He descends out of His causeless mercy only to reclaim the fallen souls who are captivated by the illusory energy. They are attacked by the material energy, and they want to enjoy her under false pretexts, although in essence the living entity is unable to enjoy. One is eternally the servitor o
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Mercy Even for the Animals and Insects

2515021606?profile=originalLecture on Mercy Even for the Animals and Insects by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 24 Mar 2013

(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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