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New Goloka Dham, featuring Their Lordships Sri-Sri Radha-Golokananda
Nestled in the wooded splendor of the third coolest small town in America
(http://www.cnn.com/ ;2015/03/06/travel/feat-budget-travel-america-coolest-small-towns-2015/)
, New Goloka Dham isfar from your usual ISKCON temple. It is a hidden gem that provides multifaceted options foreach and every community member’s spiritual and material growth. Wonder how both needs can poss
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Spiritual Retreat @ Gita Nagari 2015 with Radhanath Swami (Album with photos)
See them here: https://goo.gl/2j4xHo
Pupils try tasty alternative to white bread
A healthy alternative to “nasty” cheap white bread is on the menu for hundreds of Northland schoolkids thanks to a $10,000 donation all the way from Singapore. Food for Life founder Buddhi Wilcox had been wanting to make chapati - a thin pancake of unleavened wholemeal bread - for the students for years. Founded in 2012, the organisation provides free, nutritious vegetarian meals weekly to more than 1000 Whangarei schoolchildren. Unfortunately making
Pictures of Bhakti Charu Swami's program at Chickballapur on the evening of July 28, 2015.
Entire Photo album click here http://tinyurl.com/npy2gbj
By Nityananda Chandra Das
The North American Temple Presidents and GBC, in conjunction with The Sanga Initiative (TSI: The Iskcon youth organization of North America)
Humbly invite you and your loved ones to:
ISKCON 50 FESTIVAL
AT THE HARE KRSNA TEMPLE, HOUSTON TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 11, 12 AND 13
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in America, fulfilling his Guru Maharaja’s instruction and the 50th anniversary next year of the incorporation of the International Societ
By James Cooper
If while journeying throughout India, a Greek guy was to knock on everyones door and ask them to explain the above picture, every Hindu and his mother would say the same thing. Imagine their surprise to be told this was actually a Greek God named Harpocrates.
It seems that this was originally taken by the Greeks as a symbol of the Egyptian child God Horus ( Hari ) and the Greeks, being the Greeks, turned it into something else. A Hindu will point out to this inquisitive e
This is the 2,600 year old Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon (Myanmar capital) which is believed to hold eight hairs of Buddha.
By Parijata Dasi
Teak wood is a naturally grown wood from Myanmar (previously Burma). This wood is known for its superb stability, good strength, easy workability, resistance to bugs – and most of all, its outstanding resistance to decay. It basically will last forever.
Burmese teak wood is exported all over the world for its quality.
Sadbhuja Prabhu personally travelled to M
By Madhava Smullen
This year’s Janmastami festival at New Vrindaban, West Virginia on September 5th is expected to be packed with inspiring spiritual activities and sweet exchanges between residents and guests alike.
“Under the steady leadership of our community president Jaya Krishna Prabhu, the quality of the festival has been improving every year,” says one of the festival’s organizers Gaura Nataraj Das.
Around three thousand people, including ISKCON devotees from around the country, membe
By Parijata Dasi
This past week Vilasini, Head Architect for the TOVP, and Parvata Muni visited the fabrication plant of McCoy Industries. A full size mock-up of a section of the Kalash was to be shown.
This mock-up is made from polished stainless steel coated with titanium nitride, and from this we will determine which fabrication methods will be used. This coating is a ceramic gold like substance that is very resistant to weathering.
A skeletal structure behind the sheeting holds ever
By Gauranga das
The first Mega kirtan festival at Jagannatha Puri ‘Chant for Change’ attracted more than 10,000 people on the idyllic and historic sea beach at Jagannatha Puri.Held very near Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhus beachside statue at Swargadwar,the festival had the crowds chanting ,dancing and drowning in the nectar of Harinam Sankirtana.It was held on July 17 th, a day before the first Navakalebar Rath Yatra festival to offer a prayer to Their Lordships to bestow Their mercy to fill every
Lecture on Nurses Meeting-Vyasa Purnima by HG Vishwarup Prabhu on 31 July 2015 at Manchester
(HG Vishwarup Prabhu delivered professional and spiritual discourses to medical professionals in UK and USA in 2007-2008.)
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Lecture on Grihastha Ashram Part 01 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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As fire is kindled from wood by another fire, the divine consciousness of man can similarly be kindled by another divine grace. His Divine Grace the spiritual master can kindle the spiritual fire from the woodlike living entity by imparting proper spiritual messages injected through the receptive ear.
Although wood includes fire in the sense that it has the potential to burn, a piece of wood will ever remain dull wood, no matter how dry or inflammable it might be, unless it contacts fire. S
Lecture On Importance of Brahmanical Initiation by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 19 July 2014 at Bhaktivedanta Manor
(HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank. He was initiated by the spiritual name His Grace Devamrita Dasa.)
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TEXT 9
anye ca bahavah sura
mad-arthe tyakta-jivitah
nana-sastra-praharanah
sarve yuddha-visaradah
mad-arthe tyakta-jivitah
nana-sastra-praharanah
sarve yuddha-visaradah
SYNONYMS
anye—many others; ca—also; bahavaḥ—in great numbers; śūrāḥ-heroes; mad-arthe-for my sake; tyakta-jīvitāḥ—prepared to risk life; nānā—many; śastra-weapons; praharaṇāḥ—equipped with; sarve—all of them; yuddha—battle; viśāradāḥ—experienced in military science.
TRANSLATION
There are many other heroes who are prepared to lay down their lives for my sake. All of them are well equipped with different kin
Due to the fact that, we are, by nature social beings, if we don’t find satisfaction in our spiritual relationships, we will certainly look for friendship elsewhere.
If we associate with persons with little interest in spiritual life, our own devotional endeavour will dim.
When Lord Caitanya was asked to define what a devotee is, He replied, “A devotee is one who avoids the association of nondevotees.”
Hare Krishna!
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Links and timings (Russian time) For live streaming are given below
St. Petersburg:
3rd Aug - 5:30 pm
4th Aug - 7 pm
5th Aug - 5:30 pm
6th to 11th August - in Moscow
7th Aug - live streaming on Echo radio. At 7 pm
9th August- Sunday feast at 2 pm
10th Aug - Initiations Ceremony at 11 am
11th Aug - 8 am Srimad Bhagavatam and 5:40 pm departure from Moscow.
TEXT 8
bhavan bhismas ca karnas ca
krpas ca samitim-jayah
asvatthama vikarnas ca
saumadattis tathaiva ca
krpas ca samitim-jayah
asvatthama vikarnas ca
saumadattis tathaiva ca
SYNONYMS
bhavān—yourself; bhīṣmaḥ—Grandfather Bhīṣma; ca—also; karṇaḥ—Karṇa; ca—and; kṛpaḥ—Kṛpa; ca—and; samitiñjayaḥ—always victorious in battle; aśvatthāmā—Aśvatthāmā; vikarṇaḥ—Vikarṇa; ca—as well as;saumadattiḥ—the son of Somadatta; tathā—and as; eva—certainly; ca—and.
TRANSLATION
There are personalities like yourself, Bhīṣma, Karṇa, Kṛpa, Aśvatthāmā, Vikarṇa and the son of Somadatta called Bhuriś
Lecture on Harmony with the Supreme is the sure sign of enlightenment by HH Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body)
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Lecture on Initiation Lecture and Initiation Ceremony by HH Niranjana Swami on 24 July 2015 at Palanga
(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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