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Our Ultimate Duty

2514976948?profile=originalLecture on Our Ultimate Duty by HH Niranjana Swami on 21 May 2014 at Kiev

(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)

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2514976994?profile=originalLecture on How to bind unlimited Krishna in our heart by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 25 Nov 2013  

(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)

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2514977109?profile=originalLecture on Where Krishna says in BG that we are his Servants by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 03 Mar 2007 at Ujjain

(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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2514976933?profile=originalLecture on We should not demand any respect for ourself by HG Madhavananda Prabhu

(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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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 11.15

TEXT 15

arjuna uvaca
pasyami devams tava deva dehe
sarvams tatha bhuta-visesa-sanghan
brahmanam isam kamalasana-stham
rsims ca sarvan uragams ca divyan

 

SYNONYMS

arjunah uvaca--Arjuna said; pasyami--I see; devan--all the demigods; tava--Your; deva--O Lord; dehe--in the body; sarvan--all; tatha--also; bhuta--living entities; visesa-sanghan--specifically assembled; brahmanam--Lord Brahma; isam--Lord Siva; kamala-asana-stham--sitting on the lotus flower; rsin--great sages; ca--also; sarvan--all; uraga

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When Suffering is Mercy

2514977013?profile=originalLecture on When Suffering is Mercy by HG Madhavananda Prabhu on 20 June 2011 at Kornas Gard

(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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2514976964?profile=originalLecture on Modern Civilization is failing by Giriraj Swami on 26 June 2014 at Santa Barbara

(Giriraj Swami has also taught at the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education and continues to lecture and to give presentations at japa retreats and workshops around the world.)

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Spiritual Medicine Material Disease

2514977007?profile=originalLecture on Spiritual Medicine Material Disease by His Grace Nirantara Prabhu on 29 June 2014

(His Grace Nirantara Prabhu got his 2nd birth. From 1973 until 1980 he served the mission as a brahmacari in the capacity of book distribution, either directly or as a back-up helper. From 1980 until the present, he has tried to serve the will of Srila Prabhupada by preaching through lectures and music concerts. )

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2514976972?profile=originalLecture on Having entered into world of inert matter the jiva becomes bewildered and lonely by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 19 Dec 2013 

(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)

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Chanting

2514976963?profile=originalLecture on Chanting by HH Niranjana Swami on 28 Jan 2014 at Germany

(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)

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2514977095?profile=originalLecture on Life and Work of Bhakti Vinoda Thakur by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami

(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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2514977008?profile=originalLecture on How to avoid fault finding and respect others by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 22 Aug 2013 at 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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Complex and Simple Reality

2514977110?profile=originalLecture on Complex and Simple Reality by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 26 May 2014 at Los Angeles

(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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Jagannath Rathayatra

By Basu Ghosh Das

Pictures posted on the internet: http://tinyurl.com/p527h3n

On Sunday, June 29, 2014, corresponding to aashaadh shukla dvitiya, ISKCON Baroda organized a massive Jagannath Rathayatra procession and festival through the streets of Baroda City.

Before the Rathayatra procession began in the afternoon, prominent political and social leaders of the city visited the Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar Mandir at ISKCON Baroda in the morning for darshan of the Deities at 8:00 am.

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Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada & Srila Gopal Krishna Maharaj.

भगवद्-भक्त के 28 गुण :

श्री कृष्ण ने श्री उद्धव को बद्ध तथा मुक्त जीवों के लक्षण बताते समय भगवद्-भक्त (सन्त पुरुष) के इन 28 गुणों का वर्णन किया (SB.11.11.29-32):

1.   वह अन्यों के कष्ट को सहन न करने वाला होता है |

2.   वह कभी दूसरों को हानि नहीं पहुंचाता |

3.   दूसरों के आक्रामक होने पर भी वह सहिष्णु होता है |

4.   सारे जीवों को क्षमा करने वाला होता है |

5.   उसकी शक्ति तथा जीवन की सार्थकता

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 11.14

TEXT 14

tatah sa vismayavisto
hrsta-roma dhananjayah
pranamya sirasa devam
krtanjalir abhasata

 

SYNONYMS

tatah--thereafter; sah--he; vismaya-avistah--being overwhelmed with wonder; hrsta-roma--with his bodily hairs standing on end due to his great ecstasy; dhananjayah--Arjuna; pranamya--offering obeisances; sirasa--with the head; devam--to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; krta-anjalih--with folded hands; abhasata--began to say.

 

TRANSLATION

Then, bewildered and astonished, his hair standing on end

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 11.13

TEXT 13

tatraika-stham jagat krtsnam
pravibhaktam anekadha
apasyad deva-devasya
sarire pandavas tada

 

SYNONYMS

tatra--there; eka-stham--one place; jagat--universe; krtsnam--completely; pravibhaktam--divided in; anekadha--many kinds; apasyat--could see; deva-devasya--of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sarire--in the universal form; pandavah--Arjuna; tada--at that time.

 

TRANSLATION

At that time Arjuna could see in the universal form of the Lord the unlimited expansions of the universe situated in

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In the Fall of 2011 I was privileged to visit a place which I found after walking the ground to be a sort of heaven on earth.  I fell in love with this piece of land set back in the hill of West Virginia.  I also fell in love with the people who lived there, the devotee of Krishna.  One person in particular, after being introduced to her, became a mother to me and took me under her wing.  She loved me even though I am a stubborn quirky sort.  This is her grace Malati Devi Dasi.  She gave me less

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The pioneer of 24 Hours Kirtan

H.G. Aindra Prabhu received harinama-diksa on Nityananda Trayodasi in 1974 from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Washington D.C. For many years, he was serving as a pujari at the temple and was regularly going out on harinama-sankirtana and book distribution in that area.


After several visits to Sri Vrindavan-dhama, he then got the inspiration within his heart to re-inaugurate the 24 hour-kirtana which had originally been established by Srila Prabhupada i

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