By Navina Syama Dasa
The intellectual community fails to even consider the validity of evidence of reincarnation.
I recently read one of the latest books by Ian Stevenson, entitled European Cases of the Reincarnation Type. Dr. Stevenson is a research professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and he has been doing research on the subject of reincarnation for more than thirty years. Over this period, he has accumulated several hu
Tallahassee Ratha Yatra 2015 article and photos
By Nartaka Devi Dasi
*Lord of the Universe at the Tallahassee Springtime Grande Parade 2015*
At the 2015 Tallahassee (Florida) Springtime Grande Parade Lord Jagannatha was most definitely a crowd pleaser. And what a crowd there was, over 70,000 people attended the event on Saturday, March 28th. There were dozens of floats, marching bands, and other typical parade style entertainment groups but the beautifully decorated Chariot that carried Lord Jagann
TEXT 6
etany api tu karmani
sangam tyaktva phalani ca
kartavyaniti me partha
niscitam matam uttamam
SYNONYMS
etani--all this; api--certainly; tu--must; karmani--activities;sangam--association; tyaktva--renouncing; phalani--results; ca--also;kartavyani--as duty; iti--thus; me--My; partha--O son of Prtha;niscitam--definite; matam--opinion; uttamam--the best.
TRANSLATION
All these activities should be performed without any expectation of result. They should be performed as a matter of duty, O son of Prt
Lecture on Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita by HH Rama Govinda Swami on 17 March 2015 at ISKCON Juhu
(His Holiness Rama Govinda Swami is a disciple of His Holiness Lokanath Swami. His Holiness is from Tirupati, South India and is very astute in Vedic literature and speaks many languages. He is talented at reciting Ramayana in expert detail.)
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Sunday Feast Lecture by HG Amal Bhakta Prabhu on 15 Mar 2015 at Los Angeles
(In 1976, wanting to deepen his realization of the Divine, Amal Bhakta Prabhu moved to West Los Angeles to study at the ISKCON temple various aspects of Bhakti yoga (the yoga of love and devotion to God) under the famous spiritual master A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)
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Lecture on Our goal is Krishna Prema by Bhakti Raghava Swami
(His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Swami has been serving with great dedication for many decades. During the early days of Mayapur development, he lost one leg due to an attack with bomb in Mayapur.)
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Lecture on HH Jayapataka Swami - ISKCON's Comeback Emperor by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(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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The Brahmachari And The Chaste Wife
BY MADHAVANANDA DAS ( Bhubaneswar, Orissa )
The following story, adapted from the thirteenth chapter of the Nrsimha Purana, illustrates the negative effects of pride and the power of a chaste lady.
SPECIAL POWER
There was once a righteous brahmana named Kasyapa. He had mastered all of the scriptures and was expert in explaining them. Disinclined to performing another’s duty, he was daily absorbed in the worship of Lord Narasimha and was always engaged in p
ISKCON Temples To Be On India’s Tourist
Minister of Tourism Dr. Mahesh Sharma receives the "Darshana" book from Gopal Krishna Goswami
On Wednesday, 1st April 2015, Minister of State of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation Dr. Mahesh Sharma (who is also a MP from Gautam Budh Nagar, Nodia, UP, from BJP) visited the Noida ISKCON temple. The objective of the meeting was to seek the minister’s help in linking ISKCON’s spiritual tourism to India’s tou
Pili Pokhara Pastime
By Sivarama Swami
From Nava Vraja Mahima, Vol 2
One day the great sage Durvasa Muni visited King Vrsabhanu’s house, where the sage was nicely cared for by Sri Radha. In return for her pure service, the sage blessed Radha that whatever She cooked would taste like nectar and whoever ate it immune to disease and danger. Mother Yasoda hearing this, naturally desired that her son benefit from the special potency of Radha’s cooking. And so it came to pass that even as an unmarri
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
