Short Answer: It signifies the burning of the impurities of our heart and the subsequent realization of our spiritual glory.

Answer: Let’s first understand the significance of festivals themselves.

In traditional Vedic culture, festivals served a purpose that has been almost forgotten nowadays. They were primarily meant to bring humanity closer to divinity; they served as occasions for people to put aside their worldly preoccupations and focus on the Lord and His glorious deeds, as connected

Sunday Feast Lecture on Realisation by HG Sesa Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty on 28 Oct 2012

(Sesa Dasa was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party. Sesa Dasa has a portfolio of two ministries: Minister of Educational Development and Minister of Justice, under which ISKCON Resolve works.)

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Lecture on Complete Pure and Perfect Love by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 28 July 2013 at Russia

(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 Best Service to Krishna - Book Distribution by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam - Canto 08 Chapter 03 Text 04 by HG Amal Bhakta Prabhu on 12 Mar 2012 at Los Angeles

(Amal Bhakta was born in New York City and attended New York University. He moved to Santa Monica, California in 1954 and worked in motion pictures for three years.)

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Following is the letter by prabhupada to one of his disciple.

Letter to: Madhukara, Bombay, 4 January, 1973, 73-01-04, St. Louis

My dear Madhukara,

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 22, 1972, and I have noted the contents with care. For these questions arising between married husband and wife, you are requesting me to leave your wife and take the vanaprastha order of life, for these questions you

Lecture on Isopanishad Mantra - 01 - 02 by 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.)

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Srimad Bhagavatam Class (05.13.23) by Subhag Swami at ISKCON Mayapur on 13 Mar 2014

(His Holiness Subhag Swami (Milan Kumar Talukdar) was born on 21st December, 1940 in the aristocratic Talukdar family of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.)

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Lecture on Tapping our irreducible individuality in bhakti yoga 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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Hare Krishna.

By the mercy of Sri Guru and Gauranga I was able to visit Sri Mayapur Dhama and then to Jagannath Puri this week. I can write pages and pages about my experience there and am sure the same will be the case with most of us who travel to Dhama and come back with varied realisations and observations. I will try to summarise my experience in brief at both the Dhams in short.



Sri Mayapur Dhama

Planning

I had gone, for the first time, to Mayapur, almost the same time last year with

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sri-suka uvaca
ity evam uttara-matah sa vai brahmarsi-sutah
sindhu-pataya atma-satattvam viganayatah
paranubhavah parama-karunikatayopadisya
rahuganena sakarunam abhivandita-carana
apurnarnava iva nibhrta-karanormy-asayo
dharanim imam vicacara.

TRANSLATION: Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King, O son of mother Uttara, there were some waves of dissatisfaction in the mind of Jada Bharata due to his being insulted by King Rahugana, who made him carry his palanquin, but Jada Bharata neg

So we are reading from Canto Five, Chapter Thirteen entitled "Rahugana Converses with Jada Bharata,' Text number 22.

na hy adbhutam tvac-caranabja-renubhir
hatamhaso bhaktir adhoksaje 'mala
mauhurtikad yasya samagamac ca me
dustarka-mulo 'pahato 'vivekah

Translation: It is not at all wonderful that simply by being covered by the dust of your lotus feet, one immediately attains the platform of pure devotional service to Adhoksaja, which is not available even to great demigods like Brahma. By

BHAKTIVEDANTA!!
written by Bhakta Steven (Leonard Schwartz)
for SWEET SERENITY


The world was his stage

Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HG Sesa Prabhu at ISKCON Alachua on 11 Mar 2014
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10, Chapter 36, Text 31-37)

(Sesa Dasa was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party. Sesa Dasa has a portfolio of two ministries: Minister of Educational Development and Minister of Justice, under which ISKCON Resolve works.)

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