Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Speaking about Bhagavan Sri Krishna is difficult because He transcends thought and word. Krishna is that truth, unable to explain which, thoughts and words return defeated. He is pure knowledge, pure bliss, pure love and the embodiment of *Vedic Dharma* —yet He is beyond all this as well.
Sri Krishna lived on this earth 5,000 years ago, but His message and work have equal importance in the present and the future. The rea
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Today I shall speak to you about the glorification of the holy name of God. This was discussed between Maharaja Pariksit and Sukadeva Gosvami in connection with a brahmana who was very fallen and addicted to all kinds of sinful activities but was saved simply by chanting the holy name. This is found in the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam.
The universal planetary s
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speaks with Jon Nordheimer of The New York Times in a conversation recorded in
September 1972 at New Vrindaban, the Society's farm community near Wheeling, West Virginia.
Srila Prabhupada: When we speak of Krsna, we mean God. Everyone has some vague idea of God, hut no clear idea. Therefore God descends to show what He is. If we speculate on God, someone will think on
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
So just try to understand how much people were advanced in the previous ages. The Bhagavad-gītā talks took place between Krishna and Arjuna in the battlefield just on the verge of the battle’s beginning. So how much time could they spare? Utmost, half an hour – not more than that. So within half an hour, this Bhagavad-gītā was taught to Arjuna, and he could understand it, and then he agreed to fight (nasto mohah smrtir
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
On January 11, 1970, an article in the Los Angeles Times reported that faculty members at the University of California at Berkeley, including Dr. J. F. Staal, professor of philosophy and South Asian languages, had turned down a request to grant credit for an experimental course in Krishna consciousness to havebeen taught by Hans Kary, president of the Hare Krishna movement’s Berkeley center. In rejecting the proposed co
TEXT 22
ananyas cintayanto mam
ye janah paryupasate
tesam nityabhiyuktanam
yoga-ksemam vahamy aham
SYNONYMS
ananyah--no other; cintayantah--concentrating; mam--unto Me; ye--who; janah--persons; paryupasate--properly worship; tesam--their; nitya--always; abhiyuktanam--fixed in devotion; yoga-ksemam--requirements; vahami--carry; aham--I.
TRANSLATION
But those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form--to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.
PURPORT
One who
HG Krsnanandini devi dasi:
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
So we are reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 5 chapter 13 text 19.Rahugana converses with Jada Bharatha
atah kathancit sa vimukta apadah
punas ca sartham pravisaty arindama
adhvany amusminn ajaya nivesito
bhraman jano 'dyapi na veda kascana
TRANSLATION : O killer of enemies, Maharaja Rahugana, if the conditioned soul somehow or other gets out of his dangerous position, he
Sankirtan Leaders Conference Held In India - First Of Its Kind In 40 Years Of Iskcon’s History
- By Sri Rama Dasa
BBT India organized a seminar for two days on Jan 31st 2014 and Feb 1st 2014 on the topic of ‘Merits of Organized Book Distribution’ at ISKCON Tirupathi. This was a pioneering attempt to get book distributors in India more organized. It was conducted under the expert guidance of HG Vaisesika Dasa Adhikari.
Around 80 devotees participated in the seminar. The event was inaugurated
Today, March 9 2014, is the celebration of HH Bhaktitirtha Swami's Vyasa Pujua.
The video of the below class, which he gave here in Mayapur on February 20, 2004, was shown as the SB class today. This is the famous class wherein he prayed for "whatever is necessary to become a better devotee to happen soon", etc, which became a reality when he was diagnosed with cancer soon afterwards.
atah param yad avyaktam
avyudha-guna-brmhitam
adrstasruta-vastutvat
sa jivo yat punar-bhavah
TRANSLATION: B
Hare Krishna! On 16 March 2014, Sunday is the most auspicious day, “GAURA PURNIMA”, theAppearance Day of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (Fasting till moonrise)
LORD SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU
krsna-varnam tvishakrishnam
sangopangastra-parshadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi sumedhasah
“In the age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the name of Krishna. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Krish
The most advanced devotees in the Gaudiya Vaishnava teachings are the gopis, or simple village girls, of Vrindavan. Also, Jahnavi Devi, the wife of Nityananda Prabhu, took the role of an acharya, or teacher, after her husband left this world.
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam we see many great women devotees, such as Queen Kunti, Draupadi, Mother Yashoda, Devahuti, the wives of the yajnicbrahmanas, the naga-patnis or wives of Kaliya, and many more. Even Pingala, who was a prostitute, was able to attain s
Lecture on The Benefits of Smiling by HG Caru Prabhu
(Caru Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples.)
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Choose the Intelligence Determination and Happiness for attaining Auspiciousness 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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Lecture on Lord Shiva's Compssion makes him the Greatest Vaishnava by HH Giriraj Swami at ISKOCN Los Angeles on 02 March 2014
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 36 Text 16)
(In 1972 Giriraj Swami was appointed by Prabhupada to be president of ISKCON Bombay and trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.)
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Lecture on Success is to make One Pure Devotee by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 01 Jan 2014 at Salem
(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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Read more about Sri Madhavendra Puri on www.gaudiyahistory.com
Bhajans by Sri Madhavendra Puri on www.vaishnavsongs.com
Read more about Amalaki Vrata Ekadashi on www.harekrishnacalendar.com
Listen English Audio for Amalaki Vrata Ekadashi on www.iskcondesiretree.net
View recipes for Ekadasi on www.totalveg.com
English Amalaki Vrata Ekadashi Mahatmya without Music
English Narration: Bhakta Neeraj Kapoor
Recording, Editing, Music mixing : Madhava Das (BVKS) at Gopal's Studio (ISKCON Desire Tree)