Lecture on Special Ratha Yatra by Kadamba Kanana Swami on 14 Jun 2015 at Bhaktivedanta Manor
Kadamba Kanana Swami joined ISKCON in 1978 in Amsterdam. Until 1984 he managed projects in Vrindavana. From 1985 through 1990 he coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. Then, for three years, he was the temple president in Vrindavana and later spent two years preaching in Europe. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.
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Lecture on The Yoga of the Supreme Person by Sachinanadana Swami on 21 Jun 2015
In 1990, she established an all female ISKCON temple which later was awarded a large road side bronze plaque by the State of Ohio Historical Society recognizing the center as the first Vaishnava/Hindu temple in the state, mentioning in detail its unique status in training women in Krishna consciousness.
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Lecture on Narada Bhakti Sutra by Loknath Maharaj on 26 Jun 2015 at Noida
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. Wanting to surrender his life to Lord Krishna, he joined Juhu under the
The Worship of Srimati Tulasi Devi
SB 7-5-23&24
(4) pada-sevanam. According to one’s taste and strength, hearing, chanting and remembrance may be followed by pada-sevanam. One obtains the perfection of remembering when one constantly thinks of the lotus feet of the Lord. Being intensely attached to thinking of the Lord’s lotus feet is called pada-sevanam. When one is particularly adherent to the process of pada-sevanam, this process gradually includes other processes, such as seeing the form of
The Worship of Srimati Tulasi Devi
Tulasi is auspicious in all respects. Simply by seeing, simply by touching, simply by remembering, simply by praying to, simply by bowing before, simply by hearing about or simply by sowing this tree, there is always auspiciousness. Anyone who comes in touch with the tulasi tree in the above-mentioned ways lives eternally in the Vaikuntha world.
Antya 3.100 Haridasa Thakura used to chant the holy name on his beads 300,000 times daily. Throughout the entire da
Today, as I went out for sankirtana, I was thinking of how I'd once asked Vaisesika Prabhu whether teaching people to say “Gauranga” is the same as teaching them the Hare Krishna mantra. He'd explained that Krishna's names are the same, but when we teach the maha-mantra we get extra credit. So I had an internal dialogue on why I don't teach everyone the entire mantra; why I'm selective about it. Besides the external reasons, I fear that people might think we are a religion or a cult and perhaps
VIHE Sanskrit Course Aug 2015
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First Semester: Aug 20 – Nov 10, 2015
• The course covers 800 most essential sutras (grammatical rules) from Sri Hari-namamrita-vyakarana, Srila Jiva Gosvami’s complete Sanskrit grammar, and includes training in reading and understanding Sanskrit commentaries.
• By the end of the course students will be able to directly read and understand the Sanskrit commentaries on Srimad-Bhagavatam and several work
Hare Krishna Prabhuji,
ISKCON FACTS & FIGURES
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis.
Please accept my humble obeisances
For the purpose of celebrating ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary in 2016 we are compiling some approximate facts & figures about ISKCON.
We are collecting some quantitative data about ISKCON’s global achievements in terms of:
Temples (including farms & schools)
Devotees (including initiated, Nama Hatta, & visitors)
Books (amount distributed in all countries & languages)
Festivals (Inclu
By Devaki Devi Dasi
Recently I was invited to give the 15-hour course “Giving and Accepting Shelter” to the devotees in New Vraja Dham in Hungary – a wonderful community with around one hundred devotees living on the property itself, and another one hundred in the nearby village. Those who live on Sri Sri Radha Syamasundara’s property are aspiring to offer their entire life in Their service, without striving for personal economic development. They live
By Ila Garg
Chicago: On June 28, 2015 Hare Krishna devotees celebrated the 41st annual Chariot Festival organised by ISKCON. This year in Chicago, the Chariot Festival saw the participation of 5000 people, with 400 new attendees joining in the celebration. Team NewsGram too joined in this vibrant festival to catch a glimpse. The parade began at 11:30 AM at Daley Plaza (50 West Washington Street, Chicago) and concluded at 12:30 PM.
By Devakinandan das
It is with great happiness that we announce the installation of Srila Prabhupada in his murti form in Singapore! This most wondrous event took place on the auspicious day of Padmini Ekadasi on Sunday 28 June 2015, during the most auspicious month of Purushottama!
The devotees in Singapore were infinitely blessed to have HH Subhag Maharaj, who took time off his hectic preaching schedule to grace the occa
LEGENDS
One of the most renowned and oldest temples in Kerala, the Sree Krishna Temple has an interesting legend behind its origin.
According to legends Lord Vishnu himself had worshipped the idol that we see now at Guruvayur, before donating it to Brahma. Prajapati Sutapa and his wife Prsni prayed to Brahma, and pleased at their devotion Brahma gave them this idol. Sutapa and his wife Prsni worshipped the idol with such devotion that Mahavishnu Himself appeared before them for granting a boon
The temple room with Deities of Nitai Gaurasundara, Jagannath Baladeva Subhadra, and Sri Sri Radha Madhava
Construction has begun on a grand new ISKCON temple in Baltimore, Maryland, which devotees hope will reach more local people and provide the facilities to better care for the existing congregation.
ISKCON devotees first established a temple in Baltimore in the early 1
From Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode's Jaiva Dharma chapter 7
Yadava Das: O saintly bābājī, householder devotees live under the shelter of thevarṇāśrama system. May a householder devotee leave the varṇāśrama system?
Ananta Das: Ah! The vaiṣṇava religion is very broad and generous. Another name for thevaiṣṇava religion is ‘jaiva-dharma’, the religion for all human beings. This means that every human being is qualified to join the vaiṣṇava religion. Even outcastes may emb
“Srila Prabhupad once called Brahmananda Prabhu ‘The Mountain of our mission.’” Acyutananda Prabhu
Though I was not in constant contact with Brahmananda Prabhu I always had great affection for him and Gargamuni Prabhu, the “love brothers” because of their unflinching faith in and pure unalloyed love for Srila Prabhupada. Brahmananda Prabhu was archetypal of what it meant to be a “Prabhupada man.” He would take a bullet for Srila Prabhupada and be
This Year, ISKCON Seshadripuram had celebrated it’s 15th Annual Ratha Yatra Festival on the 20th of June. As The Rural Naama Hatta programs have been expanding, over 500 devotees from Rural Karnataka had visited and a Few International Devotees From Australia, Malaysia and Bangladesh had also Joined in to Pull Jagannath back into their Hearts. We were fortunate to conduct this festival with HG Revati Raman Prabhu (ISKCON GBC, ISKCON Tirupati Temple President) and HG Radhesyam Prabhu (ISKCON Pun
