By Romapada Das
ISKCON Baroda has formed a 50th Anniversary Committee made up of congregation leaders and temple devotees to steer the planning and execution of the 50th Anniversary celebrations locally.
Speaking after a meeting of the Committee on 21st June, Chairman, Pushta Krishna Das said, “The 50thAnniversary is an important milestone to celebrate our achievements. As the leaders of the temple are busy organising regular preaching programmes, the congregation devotees have stepped forward
I'd shown the Bhagavatam to a colleague during one of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur's anniversaries in 2014.
She appreciated it very much, and after looking at the volumes, she said she'd get back to me. But somehow I never asked her again.
Recently, we were discussing one of our company's clients, CERN, a European organization where the www (world wide web) was invented. CERN does research to find out how the universe was created and how creation began. They have the world's largest, most powerful
By Ratna bhusana dasa
Isan prabhu has just written the amazing history of the development of the Balaram Mrdanga and I would like to add to that, having been a part in the project for over 35 years.
In March of 1977 my brother, Manu priya dasa, was helping to build the first Ratha yatra carts in Los Angeles, working under Lalitanatha dasa who was taking direction from Jayananda prabhu. Manu wrote to me and said “you are a carpenter why don’t you come help us build these carts”. He included
After four months of fund raising for TOVP in America, HG Jananivasa prabhu returned home to Mayapur with the padukas of Lord Nityananda on 12th July. Hundreds of jubilant devotees flocked at Temple’s main gate for receiving them.
It was truly a grand reception with multifarious items like garlands, rangolis, flowers and many ghee lamp plates accompanied by kirtana. First all the assembled devotees visited Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi. At the Samadhi gate, they received a second welcome with flow
Kumbh Mela 2015 Nasik
By Basu Ghosh Das
Gudur is a town in the Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh, located around 140 kilometers North of one of India’s largest cities, Chennai, on National Highway 5. It is well known for large natural deposits of the mineral “mica” in and around the town.
The town is also important due to the Railway station, a very large junction station connecting Chennai to Vijayawada, and from there to North, West, and Eastern India.
Nellore district is also famous for the local varieties of ri
TOVP Daily Tour Diary Days 107-108: The Grand Finale – Seattle, Washington
Saturday and Sunday, July 4th and 5th, were the last two days of the North American TOVP Tour, 2015. They were, in fact, record days for our fundraising and visits to devotees homes. During these two days Jananivas prabhu alone visited over 25 devotees’ homes, going from one to the other with the Padukas and Sitari, bringing the blessings of Sri Mayapur Dhama.
Wherever he went, devotees felt as if Mayapur had come with h
Srila Prabhupada said:
"this same question was discussed by Lord Caitanya Mahäprabhu.[21] One of
His devotees, Väsudeva Datta, said, "Please take all the living entities of
this entire universe and release them from material bondage. But Caitanya
Mahäprabhu replied:
"Suppose I were to take this entire universe and all the living entities
with it. This is only one of innumerable universes. It is just like a
mustard seed in a huge bag of mustard seeds.
Does anybody the exact scriptural refeerence to that
Five thousand years before, the theological science of Bhagavad-gita was spoken by Sri Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead to his disciple Sri Arjuna. It stands supreme in its doctrines as the principles of religion were enunciated by God Himself.
There are five main themes illustrated in the Bhagavad-gita. They are:
Let us have a
Is being a celibate helps you achieving Krishna"s blessing vis a vis non celibate ?
Hare Krishna All !!
Initiating an effort to bring devotees together through whats appfor religious discussions,news and spreading Krishna Conciousness.
Interested devotess plz contact .
Your Servant,
Krishna
Hare Krishna!
" vajendra hatim yap api ajanam , Govardhano me disatam abhistam", Govardhanastakam by Srila Vishvanatha Chakrvarthi Thakur.
Most of the astakams are composed by Srila Vishvanatha Chakrvarthi Thakur, like the Sri Guruvastakam.
The particular verse is explaining how thunderbolts were being showered on Sri Giriraj but because he was held by lotus finger of Sri Mukunda, he felt nothing.
A parallel can be drawn how pure devotees are able to accept all turmoils for pleasure of the Lord bec
My dear Maharaj ji's and Prabhu ji's Please accept my most humble obeisances All glorie to Srila Prabhupada!
Please find enclosed a list of 125 countries. If you are from any of those listed countries (and have valid passport of that country) we are offering a absolutely free trip to Kolkata in August from 11th to 16th August 2015.
This trip will include complementary return ticket, accommodation, transfers, all prasad and a trip around the holy places of Kolkata.
Preference will be given on 1st
We are happy to invite devotees from around the world to perform the most auspicious Sri Ksetra Parikrama. This year the parikrama day falls on 30th November.On this day, devotees will circumambulate the entire Sri Ksetra dhama, a distance of around 21 Km. This parikrama has been performed since the time Vidyapati visited Sri Ksetra. ISKCON has been organizing this parikrama for the last ten years, on the specific day prescribed for parikrama as per the scriptures. Last year we had nine thousan
Dandavat pranams. Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
In a view of upcoming II European Yoga Congress which will be hosted by ISKCON Radhadesh, Belgium, in May 2016, initiative was started to set up an ISKCON European yoga teacher network. The final goal would be to create a simple and efficient ISKCON mantra yoga meditation system as an offering to ISKCON and wider yoga community for the 50th anniversary of ISKCON during II European Yoga Congress. We would also like to start yoga teacher trainings across
How to chant Japa (Mantra Meditation):
Chant on one bead then move to the next, go forward and not backward. If you twirl the bead when you chant the tendency is that you might chant on more than one bead for one mantra.
Solutions:
1) Hold on to the bead tightly (for dear life) like a drowning man in the ocean of birth and death holds on to the rope cast by the spiritual master in the boat of devotional service.
2) Get bigger beads ! If people question you why you're chanting on huge beads tel
By Shyamasundara Dasa
I did not have the good fortune of knowing my god-brother Kurmarupa Prabhu but I have read with interest what others have written especially The Passing of Kurma-rupa dasa. It was reported that this mahatma had left his body on Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 8:45 hours during Padmini ekadasi, in Purushottama masa in Vrndavana. I didn’t have his horoscope but I thought – let me at least check what was happeni
By Padmapani das
Greeting Srila Prabhupada at the airport was never an ordinary occasion. Some of my fondest spiritual memories are of those wonderful times when devotees would gather together en masse to meet the world traveling paramahamsa. One such occasion was at the San Francisco International Airport in 1974 when Srila Prabhupada so kindly gave us a glimpse of his true transcendental nature. The sweet memory of those few moments of ecstacy remai
