ISKCON Visakhapatnam's planned 67,000 square-foot temple
When Cyclone Hudhud raged through the province of Andhra Pradhesh on India’s East Coast on October 12th2014, it caused serious damage to ISKCON Visakhapatnam, leaving devotees feeling demoralized.
But like the proverbial phoenix from the flames, a grand, beautiful new temple is rising from the debris. Construction be
"Darwin speaks about the evolution of the species of life, but he has no real information about spiritual evolution. He knows nothing about the progress of the spirit soul from lower forms of life to higher forms. He claims that man has evolved from monkeys, but we can see that the monkey is not extinct. If the monkey is the immediate forefather of man, why is the monkey still existing?"
—His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By Mahaksa (das) KCS (SK)
Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada and his harinam-sankirtan mission!!
Few days back there was very interesting article by Dusyanta dasa about our prasadam diet. It was taken very properly and deeply to show us how a piece of food on our plates is connected to a spread branches of actions and reactions. And just by single choice what do we support? Huge hellish factories or Vaisnava communities.
And because in our society Veganism is sp
From Endless Love
By Ravindra Svarupa dasa
Selves are beings that experience, centers of consciousness, subjects. Matter does not experience; it is without subjectivity, it is completely an object. Selves live; matter is lifeless.
When the selves enter the alien, material energy, they acquire and animate bodies ma& out of lifeless matter. Driven by a desire to forget Krishna and their relation to Him, they identify themselves with bodies of matter- In this way the self becomes a d
By Indradumanya Swami
Thousands of people turned up for Durban’s 27th Ratha Yatra festival along the beachfront yesterday. The 5-hour parade captured the attention of both locals and tourists as 3 large chariots rumbled through the streets. The festival continues for 3 more days with attractions in an assortment of tents, large and small, not far from the beach. I was happy to be out and about once again, sharing with the world the wonder of Krsna consciousness though the eye of my camera.
See
50th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada boarding Jaladuta
On 13th August 2015 there will be a great festival in Kolkata, celebrating *Srila
Prabhupada boarding Jaladuta and leaving for preaching in western
countries.
This festival will be held at Netaji indoor stadium with capacity of 15 000
people and will be well attended by many newspapers, TV stations and
celebrities, which gives us big opportunity for preaching.
Devotees from Kolkata, who organize the event, are applying f
Muslim girl in Mumbai wins Bhagavat Gita contest which was held in Jan 2015
Mumbai: Marryam Siddiqui, a Muslim girl, has won first prize in an inter-school Bhagavad Gita competition which was held in Jan 2015 in Mumbai.
The 12-year-old Class VI student of Cosmopolitan High School won the 'Gita Champions League' contest for explaining the teachings of the scripture in the best possible manner. Around 3,000 students participated in the event, which was organised by International Society for Krish
By Sadbhuja Das
Padmanabha Balakrsna Acharya is the governor of Assam, Nagalnd and Tripura.
He has come to Mayapur during his visit to West Bengal.
Padmanabha Acharya has been very fortunate to be able to serve Prabhupada by welcoming Him in is his house for 40 days, during the opening of the Iskcon temple in Mumbai.
He is very please with the service put into the Temple of the Vedic planetarium and by seeing Prabhupada’s vision manifesting.
By Giriraj Swami
For Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja this year, I wish to tell you about his dear friend and staunch devotee Mr. P. L. Sethi. Much of what I shall narrate I experienced personally; the rest I heard from Mr. Sethi, except the description of his last days, which I heard from his family. May this story inspire you in Srila Prabhupada’s service—in Krsna consciousness.
When Srila Prabhupada first came to Bombay with his disciples from Ame
By Mahakarta Das
Sri Ramanavami festival was celebrated at Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple on the 28th of March 2015.
Chief Minister for Western Province of Sri Lanka Hon. Prasanna Ranatunga participated in this festival and received the blessings from Sri Sri Radha Rajagopal. His presence on that day made the event even more remarkable.
The Hon. Minister also visited and inspected the new Sri Sri Radh
A visit to Gokul Dhama, Belgaum
By Sri Chaitanya Chandra Das
I visited Belgaum recently for Ratha Yatra. Belgaum is a town situated on the border of Maharashtra and Karnataka. After Ratha Yatra I had the good fortune of visiting Gokul Dhama, a 415 acre farm community situated 30 KM from Belgaum conducted under HH Bhakti Rasamrita Maharaj. Late afternoon, after an hour ride we reached there by car. I was visiting the farm first time hence there was lot of anticipation. One of my friend Vraje
Narada - The Transcendental Spaceman by HH Indradyumna Swami on 09 Jan 1994 at ISKCON New Zealand
(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
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Lecture on Mundane Desire and Gopi Prema by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 15 Jan 2015 at ISKCON Salem
(His Holiness 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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Lecture on The more we become detached the more we master the body by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 09 Chapter 11 Text 18-19 by HG Kripamoya Prabhu on 13 Feb 2015 at Radhadesh
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This the 312 resolution from the Minutes Of The GBC Annual General Meeting at Sri Mayapur Dham
Whereas the desire of the international GBC is that a retirement village be created in Sridham Mayapur that would operate under the direction of the international GBC
Resolved:
That the Retirement Village/Elders’ Enclave is under the exclusive direction of the international GBC Body. There is no direction or control from any other ISKCON enti
FINAL REMINDER
Dear follower of Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Kindly submit your homage to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa-puja book by April 15.
In addition, if you're a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyasa-puja book open to all his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is also April 15.
The standards for submitting an offering to the traditional Vyasa-puja book (t
There are different varieties of yogis. So of all the yogis, the bhakti-yogi who is thinking of Krsna within the mind, he is the first-class yogi. So in our movement we are creating first-class yogis because they are chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. So this is directly to create first-class yogis.
By.H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Veganism, Vegetarianism and Prasadarianism
By Dusyanta dasa
In this article that is dealing with the differences between Veganism, Vegetarianism and Prasadarianism there is a necessity to provide quotes from scripture, from Sri Guroh and from Sadhu. As Vaisnava devotees of Lord Krishna we always use these three principles to authenticate our actions, our ways, and our decisions. Any quotes provided will only be from Srila Prabhupada’s books.
But firstly to fully understand what we are dealing w
