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ISKCON is ramping up for its mega 50th anniversary celebrations, with events to be held all over the world throughout the year 2016. These will commemorate the day Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada officially registered the society in New York on July 11th, 1966.

But ISKCON will warm up for that by celebrating another 50th in 2015. They’ll commemorate both Prabhupada’s leaving Kolkata on the steamship Jaladuta on August 13th, 1965, and his arriving in Boston, USA on September 17th.

ISKCON India’

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How ISKCON started!

Hare Krishna.

9th August, 2015. Gurgaon.

Yesterday, 8th August, was the day when ISKCON was incorporated ISKCON. I copying an article from Back To Godhead Magazine. Kindly read the same and get a sense of what Srila Prabhupada was about to do and from what humble begining, as a general of Mahaprabhu. We should all come together to nurture this Kalpataru, the ‘wishfulfilling tree’ , called ISKCON and broadcast the teachings of Mahaprabhu in every single town and village of the world.

A brief histor

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Ireland Tour in Belfast (Album with photos) The final week of the Ireland tour was spent at Belfast Temple, advertising as usual through postering, flyering and Harinam and on the Sunday we had the privilege to cook the Sunday feast for the devotees. After a very blissful week, the festival day was a fantastic finale to the tour. The hall was full and the final Kirtan had everybody up on their feet. A huge thank you to all the devotees at Belfast temple and to everybody involved. Jai Radha Madhava! Jai Srila Prabhupada! See them here: https://goo.gl/eMLATO

Ireland Tour in Belfast (Album with photos)


The final week of the Ireland tour was spent at Belfast Temple, advertising as usual through postering, flyering and Harinam and on the Sunday we had the privilege to cook the Sunday feast for the devotees. After a very blissful week, the festival day was a fantastic finale to the tour. The hall was full and the final Kirtan had everybody up on their feet. A huge thank you to all the devotees at Belfast temple and to everybody involved. Jai Radha M

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By Hari-sauri dasa

Dear Hari Sauri Prabhu

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Recently I was involved in a conversation with several devotees regarding vaisnava clothes. Some of them were proponing the idea that sari and dhoti are actually not vaisnava clothes that devotees in spiritual world wear, giving as evidence pictures made by Sharma. Others were saying that Srila Prabhupada didn’t insist on vaisnava clothes but his western disciples wanted to be like him

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बंगाल के कुलीना ग्राम से पुरी आये भक्तों में से एक ने गत वर्ष किये प्रश्न को दोहराया :
वास्तव में वैष्णव कौन है और उसके लक्षण क्या होते हैं ?

श्री चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने कहा, “उत्तम श्रेणी का वैष्णव वो है जिसकी मात्र उपस्थिति ही अन्य लोगों को हरिनाम उच्चारण करने के लिए प्रेरित कर दे ।” – चै. च. मध्य १६.७४

अपनी उपस्थिति के माध्यम से प्रचार करने वाले वैष्णवों को अपनी वेशभूषा को लेकर सदैव यह स्मरण रहना चाहिए :

१. हमें वैष्णव वेशभूषा को धारण करने करने में कोई समझौता नहीं करना चाहिए। हम श्रील प्रभुपाद के प्र

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The Pillar of Success


People often complain that they have repeatedly tried to do a particular task, attempted it multiple times but have failed miserably. However, we must understand that success is going from failure to failure to failure, without loosing ones enthusiasm. We really never fail until we give up trying; trying, with determination and with enthusiasm.

  
 

Vision, real vision is to see the invisible. To feel the intangible and to achieve the impossible. Actually challenges or failures can be steppin
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2515020895?profile=originalLecture on Remembering with fondness Saurabhi Dasa Srila Prabhupadas Architect by HH Sivarama Swami on 30 July 2015 at Budapest

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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The Most Dangerous Word

2515020867?profile=originalLecture on The Most Dangerous Word by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 26 Sep 2014 at Singapore

(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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Holy Name Retreat

2515020871?profile=originalLecture on Holy Name Retreat by HG Devaki Mataji on 26 Jun 2015 at Ukraine (Russian)

(Mother Devaki has served in various capacities for over 20 years and has in later years engaged in creating festivals and various meetings for devotees to listen about and glorify Krsna. She started pioneer preaching in former Soviet Union.)

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Pujari for Villa Vrindavana

Villa Vrindavana Pujari Departiments looking for devotees with Brahaman Iniciation and with a genuine sincere desidere to offer personal service to Sri Sri Radha Vrajasundara, Sri Jagannatha, Sri Baladeva , Srimati Subhadra, Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai.
There is a need for 6 hours service divided in two shifts.
We can guarantee you accommodation in ashram, prasadam and covering the costs of some of the personal needs.
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Gita tree to get a new lease of life.

Gita tree to get a new lease of life. CHANDIGARH: The legendary banyan tree at Jyotisar near Kurukshetra, under which Lord Krishna is believed to have delivered the message of Bhagavad Gita, is all set to get a new lease of life by August 21. Following orders from the National Green Tribunal, the Kurukshetra Development Board (KDB) has submitted that it would implement all measures suggested by the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, to save the tree from possible harm. Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/SfnKZk

Gita tree to get a new lease of life.
CHANDIGARH: The legendary banyan tree at Jyotisar near Kurukshetra, under which Lord Krishna is believed to have delivered the message of Bhagavad Gita, is all set to get a new lease of life by August 21. Following orders from the National Green Tribunal, the Kurukshetra Development Board (KDB) has submitted that it would implement all measures suggested by the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, to save the tree from possible harm.
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Harinama Sankirtana in ISKCON Auckland, New Zealand (Album with photos) Srila Prabhupada: May the glorification of the transcendental name, form, qualities and paraphernalia of the Supreme Personality of Godhead protect us from the influence of bad planets, meteors, envious human beings, serpents, scorpions, and animals, like tigers and wolves. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.8.27) See them here: https://goo.gl/yREyOp

Harinama Sankirtana in ISKCON Auckland, New Zealand (Album with photos)


Srila Prabhupada: May the glorification of the transcendental name, form, qualities and paraphernalia of the Supreme Personality of Godhead protect us from the influence of bad planets, meteors, envious human beings, serpents, scorpions, and animals, like tigers and wolves. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.8.27)
See them here: https://goo.gl/yREyOp

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