Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I know that a Teacher is different from a Guru, but never knew that they are different in so many ways.
I know "All Gurus are Teachers; but all teachers are not Gurus".
If you get not only a Guru but also a "Satguru", you are the most blessed one.

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

Letters of  His Divine Grace A. C. Bhativedanta Swami Prabhupada

Madam Sumati Morarji Baisaheba,

Please accept my greetings. I am very glad to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated the 9th instant and have noted the contents. Since I have landed in U.S.A.,I have improved in my health and I am very glad to see that in America practically everything is available

In this way the living entity is passing through different dresses. And the best dress is this human form because in this dress you can understand what is God, what you are, what is your relation with God, and then you can act and go back to home, back to Godhead. Therefore if this dress, in this dress... I am living being; you are living being. So we are in this human form of dress. We have got developed consciousness. If we miss the opportunity to understand God, then again we are put into the

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Food is nourishment for this physical body. Emotionally, for people to be strong, they need to feel appreciated and encouraged. Spiritually, we also have to be strong. The food that give us strength spiritually to maintain that sincere and devoted disposition while we are trying to do the needful in this world is our sadhana (daily spiritual practice). Hearing talks, reading from spiritual books, chanting God’s holy name

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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Vrajanatha: How many types of baddha-jivas are there?

Babaji: There are five kinds, namely, those whose consciousness is completely covered (acchadita-cetana); those whose consciousness is shrunken or contracted (sankucita-cetana); those whose consciousness is budding slightly (mukulita-cetana); those with developed consciousness (vikasita-cetana); and those with

Dear Devotees,

Since publishing the commemorative magazine "Bhaktivedanta Manor: 40 Years of Devotion" it has been brought to our attention that some readers felt our portrayal of the Manor’s history was lacking in sufficient details. Some names of important devotees were not mentioned and some historical episodes not included.

Unfortunately, things like this do sometimes happen when you’re trying to tell a story that spans four decades – but you only have 20 pages to do it. Something – or some

Radhastami Festival (An Appearace day of Srimati Radharani) was celebrated in temple today.Chhapan Bhoga was offered to Srimati Radharani. The festival started with very melodious kirtan recited by temple devotees. During recitation of kirtan there was panchamrit Abhishek of Their Lordship by the temple devotees. Devotees were on fasting till noon and some kept Nirjla (not even water) fasting.

On this auspicious occasion HG Akrur Das from ISKCON,Vancouver,Canada said that Srimati Radharani i

Dear devotees,
Hare Krsna!

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 

We are happy to announce that HH Jayapataka Swami, HH Bhakti Purusottam Swami, and their graces Jananivas and Pankajangri prabhus have confirmed their participation in ISKCON Mayapur's first ever Kartik Navadwip Mandal parikram.

Jayapataka Maharaj and Jananivas prabhu both expressed how it was actually the desire of Bhaktivinod Thakur that devotees perform the Navadwip Mandal parikram during the

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sarva-bhuta-stham atmanam
sarva-bhutani catmani
iksate yoga-yuktatma
sarvatra sama-darsanah

SYNONYMS

sarva-bhuta-stham--situated in all beings; atmanam--the Supersoul; sarva--all; bhutani--entities; ca--also; atmani--in the self; iksate--does see; yoga-yukta-atma--one who is dovetailed in Krsna consciousness; sarvatra--everywhere; sama-darsanah--seeing equally.

TRANSLATION

A true yogi observes Me in all beings, and also sees every being in Me. Indeed, the self-realized man sees Me everywher

If you understand Krsna, then you become more than a brahmana. Try to understand Krsna, and then your life is successful. And Krsna is being distributed by Lord Krsna. Not only He's giving Krsna, He's giving krsna-prema, krsna-prema-pradaya te krsnaya krsna-caitanya-namne gaura-tvise namah [Cc. Madhya 19.53]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so kind, merciful, He's not only giving Krsna, He's giving krsna-prema, which is very, very rare.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Lecture on Pastimes of Krishna by HG Kundal Krishna Prabhu on 13 Sept 2013 at ISKCON Mira Road

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Lecture on Lacking Nothing Revisited by HG Charu 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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Lecture on Disppearance Day of Haridas Thakura by HH Subhag Swami on 18 Sept 2013 at ISKCON Vrindavan

(His Holiness Subhag Swami (Milan Kumar Talukdar) was born on 21st December, 1940 in the aristocratic Talukdar family of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He completed his intermediate studies from the Scottish Churches’ College, Kolkata and obtained his Bachelors’ Degree in Chemistry with highest degrees from Maharaja Munundra Chandra College.)

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Lecture on Disppearance Day of Haridas Thakura by HH Gopal Krishna Goswami on 08 Sept 2013 at ISKCON Mira Road

(After visiting the ISKCON temple in Montreal, Canada in September of 1967, Gopal Krishna Goswami yearned to meet a Vaishnava guru and got the opportunity to meet Srila Prabhupada there in 1968.)

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Antibacterial Nature of Ganges Water

In 1896, E. Hanbury Hankin (a British physician) after testing the water of Ganga wrote in a paper published in the French journalAnnales de IInstitut Pasteur ,
The bacterium Vibrio Cholerae which causes the deadly Cholera disease, when put into the waters of Ganga died within three hours! The same bacteria continued to thrive in distilled water even after 48 hours!
He also suggested that the water of this river and its tributary Yamuna were responsible fo

TEXT 28

yunjann evam sadatmanam
yogi vigata-kalmasah
sukhena brahma-samsparsam
atyantam sukham asnute

SYNONYMS

yunjan--thus being engaged in yoga practice; evam--thus; sada--always; atmanam--self; yogi--one who is in touch with the Supreme Self; vigata--is freed from; kalmasah--all material contamination; sukhena--in transcendental happiness; brahma-samsparsam--being in constant touch with the Supreme; atyantam--highest; sukham--happiness; asnute--attains.

TRANSLATION

Steady in the Self, being free

Uptown Charlotte has long served as an open-air church for Christian street preachers, waving their Bibles and preaching the Gospel to busy passersby.

In what may be a testament to the city’s increasingly diverse religious landscape, add a chanting family of Hare Krishnas to the mix.

Most days, you’ll find Devaprastha Dasa and Jennifer Rawson at Trade and Tryon streets, playing drums and hand cymbals, and chanting nonstop praises to Krishna, or God. Their children, Anuradha, 12, and Govinda, 1