Could ISKCON Portland Kick Off a Society-Wide Change of Sunday Feast Times?
Children participating in the kirtan at ISKCON Portland
In a move that could change ISKCON’s community development, social life and outreach if other centers follow suit, ISKCON of Portland, Oregon has shifted its Sunday Feast from its traditional late afternoon time and added a whole raft of activities to cater to families.
The Sunday Feast is, of course, ISKCON’s tr
Dear Devotees around the world,
Please accept our humble o
beisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
As you may know HH Jayapataka Maharaja’s health is not so good, indeed we have to unfortunately inform you that he is currently in a critical situation. He is in the ICU of the ILBS hospital in New Delhi.
Our simple request to all of you is to kindly pray to Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krishna for Maharaja’s well being.
It is by the prayers of the devotees that the most auspicious outcomes are ach
Our most beloved Director of TOVP Exhibits, HH Jayapataka Swami is critically ill. I can't ever imagine working without his amazing inspiration, clarity, guidance, and association in the most challenging service I've undertaken in my life. Please pray for this pure and sincere disciple of Srila Prabhubada's recovery so that we may be guided by his personal presence to see the opening of TOVP Exhibits.
This picture was taken during the recently concluded Content and Creative Development Conferenc
TEXT 41
brahmana-ksatriya-visam
sudranam ca parantapa
karmani pravibhaktani
svabhava-prabhavair gunaih
SYNONYMS
brahmana--the brahmanas; ksatriya--the ksatriyas; visam--thevaisyas; sudranam--the sudras; ca--and; parantapa--O subduer of the enemies; karmani--activities; pravibhaktani--are divided; svabhava--own nature; prabhavaih--born of; gunaih--by the modes of material nature.
TRANSLATION
Brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras are distinguished by their qualities of work, O chastiser of the enemy
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Dear Devotees, Friends and Supporters,In celebration of the glorious 50th Anniversary of ISKCON, we are holding the first ever UK National Convention. This will be a free one day event on Saturday the 22nd August 2015 and the main theme will be glorification of Srila Prabhupada. The venue will be Granby Street ISKCON Leicester.
We see this as a great opportunity to bring devotees together in a mood of unity, cooperation, trust and positive communication with each other. However we desperately n
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• MIDDLE EAST division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes Srila Prabhupada’s books and other BBT titles in fourteen languages of the Pacific Rim and Middle East for distribution in those regions of the world.
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The topic of this particular edition is youth and what the future holds for them. It features several interesting articles from both, seasoned and young devotees in our movement.
Being our objective, as the congregational ministry, to support the development of youth programs within our congregations, we hope that you find this newsletter encouraging to give your support to the new generations of ISKCON. We specifically would like to inspire the youth to take more and more responsibility to hel
TEXT 40
na tad asti prthivyam va
divi devesu va punah
sattvam prakrti-jair muktam
yad ebhih syat tribhir gunaih
SYNONYMS
na--not; tat--that; asti--there is; prthivyam--within the universe;va--or; divi--in the higher planetary system; devesu--amongst the demigods; va--or; punah--again; sattvam--existence; prakrti-jaih--under the influence of material nature; muktam--liberated; yat--that;ebhih--by this; syat--so becomes; tribhih--by three; gunaih--modes of material nature.
TRANSLATION
There is no being
I strongly recommend reading the below books. It will certainly increase your love for Radha/Krishna with every round of reading and which is essence of our scriptures. If you think you benefitted after reading these books, please shower your blessings on this fallen soul as well as add names of more such books to the list.
Book: Meera Charit
Author: Kuwari Ranawat
Language: Hindi
Price: 125 Rs
Publisher: Mrityunjaya Singh Sisodiya
Description: This book is a biography of Meerabai and the author herse
The San Diego temple is also known as New Govardhana Dhama and is presided over by the beautiful Sri Sri Radha Giridhari. Having arrived in San Diego the night before, Sunday, May 10th was a day of some rest and then preparation for the TOVP presentation at the Sunday program that evening.
During the Gaura arati devotees started to arrive, over 250 in number, eager for darshan of the Padukas and Sitari. Flowers petals were offered by everyone and the Sitari placed on their heads. The program c
On Monday, May 11th we caught up with office related work and visited two devotee families for prasadam. For breakfast we went to the home of Phanesvari devi dasi and her husband, and in the evening to the home of Bipin Chaturvedi and his family.
In the evening we paid a visit to the Shree Temple where the temple had arranged a kirtan program and Radha Jivana made a TOVP presentation, receiving a Silver Gratitude pledge along with other pledges. The temple provided prasadam after the program.
By Agi Holland on behalf of ISKCON Manchester
On Saturday the 23rd of May ISKCON Manchester, UK celebrated their Seventh Annual Rathayatra at the beautiful Cathedral Gardens located in the City Centre.
Devotees and well-wishers from all over the UK joined to receive the unlimited mercy from Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadra as they took to the streets of Manchester to give their darshan and enliven the lives of the inhabitants of Manchester.
The event was supported by His Holiness Jananand
On Tuesday, May 12th we departed from SanDiego and flew to Phoenix, Arizona. The temple there is presided over by Sri Sri Radha Madhava Hari, Gaur Nitai and Srinathji. We spent the rest of the day catching up with office related work.
On the morning of Wednesday, May 13th we visited the landsite of the newly proposed Lotus Temple in Phoenix with Lord Nityananda’s Padukas to give Their blessings. We returned to the temple and made preparations for the TOVP program later that evening. Devotees s
Lecture on Spiritual Communities by HH Krishna Kshetra Swami on 14 Dec 2014 at Slovenia
(HH Krishna Kshetra Swami - Travelling Teacher and Writer has been serving as a disciple of Srila Prabhupada since 1972, when he joined devotees in Germany. In addition to travels in western Europe.)
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Lecture on Proper Use of Time by HG Urmila Mataji on 14 March 2015 at Auckland
(HG Urmila Mataji has mainly served ISKCON since 1973 till the present time as book distributor, assistant secretary for the BBT, pujari, temple cook, actress, writer, traveling preacher, editor of BTG since 1990, primary and secondary teacher for 27 years, school principle for 18 years, member of Sastric Advisory Council to the GBC. )
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Lecture on The three transcendental weapons by HH Indradyumna Swami on 08 Sept 1994 at Rostov
(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition. Each year Indradyumna Swami circles the globe teaching the message of the Bhagavad Gita and introducing people to kirtan chanting of the Hare Krishna maha mant
