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World Holy Name Week 2013 - Sept. 17 - Sept. 26

For the benefit of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.

Build His Temple With The Holy Name!

Here are some experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness through books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers.
Two Forms of the Lord

TEXT 33

sadrsam cestate svasyah
prakrter jnanavan api
prakrtim yanti bhutani
nigrahah kim karisyati

SYNONYMS

sadrsam--accordingly; cestate--tries; svasyah--in one's own nature; prakrteh--modes; jnana-van--learned; api--although; prakrtim--nature; yanti--undergo; bhutani--all living entities; nigrahah--suppression; kim--what; karisyati--can do.

TRANSLATION

Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows his nature. What can repression accomplish?

PURPORT

Unless one is s

So Durga-devi is keeping you captivated. When Krsna says, "Let him go," immediately released. Immediately you are released. And when Krsna says, "Keep him under your control," so you have to remain. So we are captivated now within this material world. We are announcing that "We are independent. Whatever we like, we can do." These are all foolishness. You are entangling yourself, simply entangling. A little mistake -- you'll have to suffer. Just like in our daily affairs you can eat so much. A li

Can any one of us very confidently say that we have never done anything wrong in our lives? We haven’t behaved in a shoddy or disrespectful way with others? The interesting aspect of our life is that we tend to forget something wrong which we do to others but always remember what others have done to us. We always vie for a person’s blood who misbehaved with us, spoke to us arrogantly or did not show any respect to us. The sight of that person agitates us, their success pains us. We always pray t

Hare Krishna -
 
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Krishna and to all of his pure devotees and aspiring devotees.
 
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Digambara: Some people say that society is advancing with the increase of knowledge in the world, and eventually it will be like heaven on earth.

Advaita: That is simply fantasy. It is quite extraordinary that people have faith in this, and it is even more bizarre that others have the audacity to propagate such a view without actually believing it themselves.

“G u r u    m u k h a     p a d m a    v a k y a"

In fact, the mind is our only enemy.......................Nectarean Mellows

Bhagavad-Gita tells us - for one who controls the mind, the minds is the best of friends. But for one who fails to do so, the mind is the greatest enemy. In fact, the mind is our only enemy. And the nature of the mind, although it is impelling, dictating to exterminate innocent people, the mind is inciting civilizations to create massive degree of nuclear bombs to even drop

Bhagavad-gita eCourse 2013 by BhaktiLife.org

Bhagavad-gita should be read daily. One principle reason for Lord Krsna's advent on earth was to deliver His personal instructions in the form this text.

Anyone studying Bhagavad-gita carefully will have a life-changing experience.even if they have read the book before. Bhagavad-gita is a living scripture, existing on the Absolute plane of existence. It never grows old because it is filled with axiomatic truths which ring true eternally.

We invit

Dear Devotees,
Pamho. AGTSP!

On behalf of ISKCON Vrindavan and Temple President Pancagauda das, we would like to inform you that, with the blessings of Srila Prabhupada, Sri Krishna Balarama, Sri Radha Shyamsunder and Sri Sri Gaur Nitai, ISKCON Vrindavan has established IVTV ( ISKCON Vrindavan Television) to broadcast worldwide via satellite television the glories of Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships. We inaugurated our IVTV control room last month and have now started broadcasting worldwi

Here's an article you can post on your conference, not from me, but as a contribution from Premanjana dasa, president of a center in Holland, who is traveling with Lokanath Swami in India.

This is a newspaper article that appeared in The Times of India from Saturday 1-January-2000 about Gita Jayanti Celebrations.

(Reporter: Parmarthi Raina)

GITA JAYANTI CELEBRATIONS

On December 19, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Noida celebrated Gita Jayanti, in commemora

Because we become diseased, we become subject to birth and death, we... This is all due to our sinful activities. Why are repeatedly...? We are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. This is our position, that we do not die even after the body's destruction. Then why should I be in this position, that repeatedly I have to die, I have to give up this body, again accept another body, again suffer? This is the problem, but mudha, duskrtina, they do not see to the real problem. That is the

Today 20th April 2013 ISKCON Vrindavan, Sri Sri Krishna Balarama Temple anniversary and Rama Navami festivals are enthusiastically celebrated. To get the blessings of Their Lordships, today’s Mangal Aratik was fully packed up and the very sweet melodious Vibhavari sesa and Hare Krishna Mahamantra kirtan accompanied by the sweet smiles of Their Lordships went deep into the hearts of everyone. Everyone was enthusiastic in Chanting, dancing and meditating on Lord Rama. Simultaneously everyone was

If one has got sincere desire to serve Krsna in any position, in any body, in any circumstance, he is jivan-mukta. That is paramahamsa. Jivan-mukta means although he's living in this body, he's paramahamsa. He has nothing to do with this body. He has everything to do with Krsna.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna ,

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada

All Glories To Chaitanya Charan Das,

The Bollywood movie Oh My God! fittingly exposed the arrogance and hypocrisy of godmen. It also made several important points about specific religious practices as well as the generic role of religion in society.
Oh My God! QA blog will respond to those points by answering all the popping questions daily like,

• Do we need middlemen to approach God?
• Does God help atheists and oppose godmen?
• Is religion made by

Navina Nirada Dasa
ONCE IN San Diego a devotee was distributing small books in a parking lot. As he approached one car he saw a young man sitting in the driver's seat. When the devotee knocked on the window, the man shouted, "Look, just leave me alone! Get outta here!"

The devotee went on his way, but then he thought, "This guy's pretty bad off. He needs a book." So the devotee returned and stuck a small book under the windshield wiper.

Later the young man showed up at the San Diego temple and told

Hare Krishna!

Please accept our humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

On this auspicious day of Sri Ram Navami, we are happy to inform you about the latest website released by

ISKCON desire tree. This new website is about Srimad Bhagavatam classes.

Srila Prabhupada emphasized about daily morning Srimad Bhagavatam class as a basic necessity for our spiritual life. Thus at all  ISKCON temples, there are Srimad Bhagavatam classes every morning.

This website has been developed in order

In this way we are wandering throughout the universe, because unless we become Krsna conscious, unless we have taken fully shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna, there is no stoppage of this repetition of birth and death, neither there is any peace or happiness. We must know this from all angles of vision and stick to Krsna consciousness very rigidly. Then we shall be happy. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja requests Lord Nrsimhadeva that "I have tried life after life to get peace and become happy and fr

Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 08 Chapter 06 Text 21 - 28 by HH Candramauli Swami on 10 April 2013 at Bhaktivedanta Manor

(In 1986, Candramauli Swami accepted the sannyasa order and began preaching in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. In the early 1990's he became involved with the ISKCON Prison Ministries in America, and began visiting inmates, holding programs, along with writing letters to inmates and sending in Srila Prabhupada's books. )

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ISKCON Mayapur Kirtan Mela 2013 held on 11 to 15 March 2013

(Ecstatic kirtan done by various Singers like HH Loknath Swami, HH Sachinandana Swami, HH Indradyumna Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Bhakti Bringa Govinda Swami, HH Niranjana Swami, HG Madhava Prabhu, HG Bada Hari Prabhu, HG Janhavi Mataji, HG Bhakti Lata Mataji, HG Rupa Manjiri Mataji and more...)

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