Today is the appearance day of His Grace Aindra Prabhu who was one of the foremost disciples of Srila Prabhupada.

He was born on 12th march 1953 in chicago and came into the ISKCON  movement in 1973 accidently, after getting attracted to the holy names of the lord that he had heard during a street harinaam sankirtan program.

In 1974, on the auspicious occasion of Sri Nityananda Trayodashi he got formal initiation from his divine grace, and soon became temple pujari in washington.

He used to distrib

Dear Srila Prabhupada disciple,

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

On behalf of the Tributes team, I invite you to please submit your offering for this year's vyasa-puja celebration. Thank you for those who's offerings we have already received. Please spread the word amongst your godbrothers and godsisters to contribute to this amazing compilation of offerings, realizations and glorification of His Divine Grace.

The deadline for submitting an offering is 15

Something Worth Hearing by Navina Nirada Dasa

Navina Nirada Dasa
HERE ARE SOME experiences and realizations of devotees who give people Krsna consciousness by giving them books by Srila Prabhupada and his followers. I start with an experience of my own.
While distributing books recently I met a young man very interested in Krsna consciousness. As we were speaking, he put in hearing aids to understand me.

He told me that when he was a child his parents quarreled so much he wanted to lose his hearing,

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

God is complete and His arrangement is also very complete. Everyone gets his necessities of life completely. In the Vedas it is said that we are all living entities and God is the chief living entity. The difference is that the one God supplies the necessities of all other living entities (eko yo bahūnām vidadhāti kāmān). In the Christian world also, they believe th

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divene Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Devotee Community at Bhaktivedanta Manor, London

Everyone who has accepted a material body must maintain the necessities of the body by acting or earning some livelihood. A devotee should only work for such income as is absolutely necessary. He should be satisfied always with such income and should not endeavor to earn more and more simply to accumulate the unnec

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

At present, we are concerned primarily with two things: one, ourselves; and the other, the place where we live. In other words, we are concerned with two objects: namely, everything that is related to our gross and subtle bodies; and the world at large, with all its paraphernalia. But there are others above us, the transcendentalists, who are concerned not only with their body and mind and the world at large, but also wi

Hare Krishna The ISKCON temple at Vrindavan celebrated the boat festival on 4/4/2012. The inner courtyard of the temple was filled with water and created a water pool. The pool was covered with variety of flowers art fully decorated. The floral decorations were wonderful, even mystics wouldn’t have doubted the soft bottom below the flowerbed. A child jumped in to play with the flowers, but was rescued from the water. Crowd gathered even hours before to grab a seat in front to witness the festi

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

The service attitude.......................Nectarean Mellows

We think that I am the center of all existence, all the universe is revolving around me. What makes me happy is good, what doesn’t make me happy is bad. It’s that mentality that keeps us within material existence. So the consciousness of the vaishnava is the opposite. Not to be selfish, but to be selfless. How can I please the Lord? How could I be the servant of the servant of the servant

Eager to Read About Krsna

Letters to the Moscow branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Every year, through the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust some 200,000 people buy a book of Vedic literature in Russian. And every day the Trust's office in Moscow receives letters of appreciation from people whose spiritual yearnings have long been repressed. Here we present a sample of those letters.

THE BOOKS PUBLISHED by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust changed my attitude towards life completely. Lord Krsna is really pre

Srila Prabhupada: This morning I was seeing one advertisement, telephone company. They are advertising, "If you have any problem, do not hesitate to call us."

Therefore I was advising our secretary that "Why don't you ask the telephone company, ‘I have got this problem: janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi. I have got the problem of birth, death old age and disease. Can you help me?" Then they should be informed, that "If you have no information for solving this problem, then please send all men who are i

The World Vedic Festival got underway in Dibrugarh on Thursday with the participation of more than 150 foreigners from as many as 30 countries. The three-day festival has been organized by the Dibrugarh centre of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

"Devotees from 30 countries, including England, USA, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Malaysia and Nigeria have come to participate in the festival. They will take part in the Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra and other cu

The second International Bhakti-vriksha convention was held in Sri Dham Mayapur. It was a very inspiring program for all the congregation leaders and preachers and aspiring ones as well.

It ran for three days with the participation of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami , His Grace Kaunteya Prabhu, His Grace Vijay Venugopal Prabhu, Her Grace Premapadmini Mataji, His Grace Angira Muni Prabhu, His Grace Ashray Gauranga Prabhu and His Grace Chaitanya Avatari Prabhu.

Their very presence inspired everyone

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TEXT 22

na me parthasti kartavyam
trisu lokesu kincana
nanavaptam avaptavyam
varta eva ca karmani

SYNONYMS

na--not; me--Mine; partha--O son of Prtha; asti--there is; kartavyam--any prescribed duty; trisu--in the three; lokesu--planetary systems; kincana--anything; na--no; anavaptam--in want; avaptavyam--to be gained; varte--engaged; eva--certainly; ca--also; karmani--in one's prescribed duty.

TRANSLATION

O son of Prtha, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three planetary systems. Nor

Top Cop Refuses To Accept

Hare Krishna Movement

Hare Krishna ,

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada ,

This Gaur Purnima , the auspicious appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, I was scheduled to meet a top cop, who holds one of the top three designations in the hierarchy of Mumbai Police. It was a scheduled meeting and he had taken time out to meet me on a public holiday. After our discussion concluded, I thanked him for taking out time to meet me on a holiday and presented a copy of our popular new

You, you are very religious, performing the ritualistic ceremony very nicely, going to the Ganges and taking your bath, and dharmah svanusthitah pumsam. Very rightly you are executing your religious principle and coming at home, you are reading Bhagavad-gita, but you have no faith in Krsna. That is useless time, useless waste of time. The Bhagavata, (says) srama eva hi kevalam. So this, why this happens? Because these people do not approach the right person, guru. Adau gurv-asrayam.

By H.D.G. Sr

Close Encounters by Vanamali Dasa

From apprehension to confidence to bliss a devotee's
first day distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.

Being a devotee of Krsna and a follower of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada brings with it certain responsibilities: rising early, bathing regularly, maintaining regulative principles (including abstinence from meat-eating, illicit sex, intoxication, and gambling), and of course daily chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. But as well as these ba

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Lord Caitanya said, “My dear uncle, I have come to your home just to ask you some questions.”

“Yes,” the Kazi replied, “You are welcome. Just tell me what is in Your mind.”

The Lord said, “You drink cows’ milk; therefore the cow is your mother. And the bull produces grains for your maintenance; therefore he is your father. Since the bull and cow are your father and m

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

yadā na paśyaty ayathā gunehām

“Even though one may be very learned and wise, he is mad if he does not understand that the endeavor for sense gratification is a useless waste of time. Being forgetful of his own interest, he tries to be happy in the material world, centering

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Ahankāra-vimūdhātmā kartāham iti manyate [Bg. 3.27]. The rascal, he is bewildered, vimūdhātmā, on account of false egotism. Just like we are inviting everyone: Please come and learn Bhagavad-gitā. “Huh! Bhagavad-gitā, let us go the sea and swim and surf.” They are taking so much trouble. I have seen in Hawaii that for hours together, they are struggling with waves.