On Saturday, May 2nd, we celebrated Nrsimha Caturdasi at the Los Angeles New Dwaraka Temple. The TOVP presentation began in the evening and gradually the temple began to fill up with devotees. A water abhisheka and puspa abhisheka of the Padukas and Sitari took place during the arati.
Svavas prabhu then introduced the TOVP Team which included Giriraja Swami and Ambarisa prabhu who came especially for the weekend presentations. Radha Jivan gave some opening notes and then turned the mike over t
On Monday and Tuesday, May 4th and 5th, the TOVP along with the Padukas and Sitari visited the homes of a few families for darshan and prasadam. These included the home of Suresh Krishna das and Sundari Gopika devi dasi and were accompanied by Amani Gaura Hari das and Shastra Krt das.
On Wednesday, May 6th, we departed from Los Angeles for Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, stopping briefly for prasadam at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Agarwal.
Las Vegas is a community of devotees that is growing and in the process of renovating a building into a new temple. We arrived late in the afternoon, had evening prasadam and then went out on Harinama Samkirtana on the famous Las Vegas strip, known for its gambling casinos and wild entertainment.
On Thursday, May 7th, we paid a visit to the home of Doyal Nitai das and Priya Kumari devi dasi for lunch prasadam. Then in the evening we made our way to the Krishna Lounge with the Padukas and Sitari to give darshan to the devotee community. Around 40 devotees and guests attended the program for kirtan, a simple TOVP presentation and prasadam.
Before departing from Las Vegas on the morning of Friday, May 8th we brought Lord Nityananda’s Padukas to the new temple site to bless the project with His causeless mercy for the success of the preaching there. Afterwards, we departed for the Laguna Beach Temple, stopping overnight at the home of Dr. Nanda in Apple Valley for prasadam and a program of kirtan and Krishna katha.
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 9th we arrived in Laguna Beach, California where the Pancha Tattva have resided for over a quarter of a century. With little time available, we quickly got ready for our TOVP presentation as devotees started arriving during the Gaura arati.
The Temple President, Tukarama prabhu, introduced the TOVP Team, and Radha Jivana prabhu began the program talking about the TOVP and then gave the microphone over to Jananivas prabhu who elaborated on the glories of Mayapur
By Krishna Kumara dasa
Even after 6 years of more-or-less full-time book distribution, I still feel anxiety when I approach strangers on the street. You’d think that such inhibition would dissipate after some time. But, somehow or other (and probably due to my fruitive mentality), it’s still there. Of course, as the day rolls on, I generally become more comfortable, but I always seem to have to start from scratch the next morning. It can be very debilitating!
My first day out on book distribut
By Jayadvaita Swami
The illustration on this page depicts an allegory, the Story of King Puranjana, which was told ages ago by the great sage Narada to explain some of the perplexities of life in this material world.
The Seige on the Kingdom of Puranjana
King Puranjana, the ruler of the country known as Pancala, lived in an opulent city, full of gardens, parks, and palaces of dazzling beauty, There King Puranjana reigned for one hundred years in great comfort, surrounded by his servants, famil
Excerpts from a Travelling Preacher Dairy – Volume 5 – A Lesson from an Old Cleaning Man
Since the christmas marathon has started…
Indradyumna Swami: Then I visited the public restroom near the festival grounds, and I complimented the old cleaning woman. “This is the cleanest public toilet I have ever seen in Poland,” I said. “Thank you very much.”
She was struck. “I’ve been working here 10 years,” she said, “and you’re the first person to ever thank me. But I’m not surprised. You’re good pe
By Mathuresha Dasa
A look at what the Srimad-Bhagavatam has to say about time, a concept that has challenged philosophers for centuries.
Time is a little difficult to define. Philosophers and theologians have tried for at least twenty-five centuries. Albert Einstein remarked, in the midst of slightly more esoteric statements regarding physics, that time was what his wristwatch measured. St. Augustine said that he knew what time was as long as no one asked him to explain it. And sounding a note
केवल भक्ति से भगवान को यथारूप में जाना जा सकता है । कोई भी भक्त, भगवान से ५ रसों में सम्बन्ध स्थापित कर सकता है।
इनमें से किसी एक में स्थित हो कर भक्त भगवान की सेवा करता है|
शान्त रस (तटस्थ अवस्था) का अर्थ है- भगवान कृष्ण के चरणकमलों में पूरी तरह अनुरुक्ति | जब भक्त शान्त रस को प्राप्त होता है, तो वह न तो स्वर्ग जाने की इच्छा करता है न मोक्ष की
Lecture on Krishna is the Essence that makes all taste accessible through water by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on May 2015
(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC)
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Lecture on Haribol bolke svagat karne ki apramanic parampara evam narakiya jivan se bachao by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 12 Feb 2015 at Talashri Farm
(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 Position of Srila Prabhupada in ISKCON by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 27 Feb 2015 at ISKCON Pune
(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)
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Lecture on How to Convert the Knowledge from Head to Heart by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 07 Feb 2015 at ISKCON Pune
(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank. Inspired by the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder acharya of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)
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TEXT 35
yaya svapnam bhayam sokam
visadam madam eva ca
na vimuncati durmedha
dhrtih sa partha tamasi
SYNONYMS
yaya--by which; svapnam--dream; bhayam--fearfulness; sokam--lamentation; visadam--moroseness; madam--illusion; eva--certainly;ca--also; na--never; vimuncati--is liberated; durmedha--unintelligent;dhrtih--determination; sa--that; partha--O son of Prtha; tamasi--in the mode of ignorance.
TRANSLATION
And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness, an
Lecture on Saffron Ceremony Address by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami at ISKCON Pune on 09 Feb 2015
(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank.)
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