By Mina Sharma
Devotees from across the UK came together today in Leicester for the first ever ISKCON UK National Convention, organised as part of the celebrations for ISKCON’s 50th anniversary.
Taking place in ISKCON Leicester’s magnificent Grade II listed building in the city centre, hundreds of devotees took part in a day of collaboration and learning, and celebrated the successes and new developments taking place in the UK today. This was the first time in the history of ISKCON UK tha
By Ravindra Svarupa dasa
We conditioned souls are originally Krishna conscious living entities, but owing to a desire to be independent of God and to be the Supreme ourselves, we have fallen from our original position and become covered by maya (illusion), who provides us with false identities of gross and subtle matter. By the grace of Krishna and His pure devotees we fallen souls can regain our original Krishna consciousness and in so doing go back to Godhead.
This simple dramatic narrative t
By Satyaraja Dasa
The kindness of strangers played a pivotal role in ISKCON’s pre-history.
Last year I had the good fortune to meet Gopal and Sally Agarwal, an elderly couple who played a significant role in ISKCON’s origins. They are forever etched in the devotees’ collective memory as two of the Western world’s earliest recipients of Srila Prabhupada’s mercy. It was the Agarwals who hosted him in the fall of 1965, before ISKCON was even nominally born, giving him shelter, hospitality, friend
Hare Krishna, John Herbison embarks on a year long pilgrimage around New Zealand.
By John Bisset
When John Herbison said goodbye to his wife before setting off on a walk, he didn’t say “I’ll see you later”, it was “I’ll be back in about a year”.
The devout Hare Krishna of 30 years has set out on a pilgrimage to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hare Krishna Society’s arrival in the western world.
He left Christchurch 10 days ago with a stroppy horse named Samson and a restored 100-year-old w
By Ranchor dasa
This paper was the ISKCON keynote address at an Inter-faith conference hosted by our communications group in the UK and devotees in Bhaktivedanta Manor. Twenty Christians and twenty ISKCON members took part in the exchange, which was described by Rev. Michael Barnes SJ as, “one of those rare occasions when head and heart seemed somehow to be united…. I was left wondering why it is that Catholics and Vaishnava Hindus get on so well together.” Ranchor’s paper was very well receiv
By Kesava Krsna dasa
Do we come to Krsna Consciousness to advance? If so, does that advancement have to be recognized by others, to earn a generous pat on the back? And perhaps to hear something like “You are so advanced prabhu” to which we either feigningly or embarrassingly recoil in protest, or return the compliment with “I am very fallen and unqualified”. While these crèches are well meaning, until we come to the real advanced stage beyond the three modes of material nature, our perception
Lecture on Food for the Soul by HG Charu Prabhu
(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples. He served on the BBT library party in 1976, received Bhakti Shastra in 1979, and was Life Membership Director in Los Angeles for 10 years in the 1980's.)
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Lecture on Independent Desires by HH Niranjana Swami on 13 Aug 2015 at Dnipropetrovsk
(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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Lecture on Beware of Spritiual Crisis by HH Radhanath Swami on 22 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 67, Text 04 )
(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)
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Lecture on Surrender to Krishna and Don't Oppose Him by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 19 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Chowpatty
(HH Bhakti Charu Swami was born in Bengal in 1945, he met with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada at the end of 1976.From their very first meeting, Srila Prabhupada gave His Holiness the assignment of translating his books into Bengali and made him his Secretary for Indian Affairs.)
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--आत्मनिवेदन--
भजन-भक्तिविनोद ठाकुर
मानस, देह, गेह जो किछु मोर ।
अर्पिलु तुया पदे नंदकिशोर ॥
सम्पदे-विपदे, जीवने-मरणे ।
दाय मम गेला, तुया ओ-पद वरणे ॥
मारबि-राखबि, जो इच्छा तोहार ।
नित्यदास प्रति, तुया अधिकार ॥
जन्माओबी मोय यदि इच्छा तोर ।
भक्त-गृहे जनि जन्म हउ मोर ॥
कीट जन्म हउ यथा तुया दास ।
बहिर्मुख ब्रह्म-जन्मे नाही आस ॥
भुक्ति-मुक्ति-स्पृहा-विहीन ये भक्त ।
लभइते ताँ'क संग अनुरक्त ॥
जनक, जननी, दयित, तनय ।
प्रभु गुरु, पति तुँहु सर्वमय ॥
भक्तिविनोद कहे सुन कान ।
राधानाथ !
Lecture on Mercy Even for the Animals and Insects by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 16 Jul 2015
(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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Lecture on Amrita Vani-How is it Possible to Actually Serve Krsna by HH Niranjana Swami on 05 Aug 2015 at Odessa
(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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Lecture on Keval Sannyas se siddhi nahi by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 09 July 2015 at Damodaradesh
(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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A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA – Just like we are meeting in this meeting face-to-face, similarly, you can also meet the Supreme Personality of Godhead face-to-face, but you have to be qualified for that purpose. If you want to understand Krishna in His impersonal Brahman feature, there is risk also. I will explain that. The Brahman feature is impersonal.
Just like… Try to understand that there is sun, the sun globe, and within the sun globe, there is the sun deity, and outside the sun glo
Art of keeping mind allof from all distractions by Chanting by HH Lokanath Swami on 18 Aug 2015 at Nagpur
(Lokanath Swami born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.Intrigued, maharaj attended the whole Hare Krsna Festival and heard from Srila Prabhupada.)
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