EKADASI or Ekadashi - Eleventh day of the Hindu Lunar Month. In every fortnight, there comes an Ekadashi. Jyeshta Shukla Ekadashi, which is called Nirjala or Bhimsaini Ekadashi is more auspicious and fruitful for good health, longevity, social comfort and salvation. Nirjala = Nir + Jala means Fasting without Water. Lord Vishnu is worshipped on this day. A metal utensil or Earthen pot filled with water covered by a white cloth and fruits are donated to a vedic scholar. Nirjala Ekadasi Story: Once

!! Radhey radhey !!EK BHAKT MAYI

Ek baar jagnnath puri mandir me jagnnath ji ke darshano ke liye badi bheed thi,mandir me pair rakhne ki jagah bhi na thi,

Ki tabhi chaitanya mahaprabhu ne mandir me pravesh kiya, mandir me bahkto ki bhed dekh ke wo mandir ke garud stambh ke sath khade ho gaye, jab kapat khule tab etni bhed hone ki wajah se darshan thik se nahi ho pa rahe the ki tabhi ek virdh aurat joki mahaprabhu ke thik peeche khadi thi wo mahaprabhu ke kandhe pe pair rakhte huye unke upar chad g

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written of the principle of energy. The three modes of material nature is material energy called 'Maha-Maya and is responsible fore the material activities like creation and destruction. As long as the living entity is engrossed in sense gratification; till then he comes under this influence of illusory energy. He is able to escape from this abominable material energy only on reali

The Blue Mountain Children's wonderland at the Durban Festival of Chariots this Easter weekend

Dear Devotees ,

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

Please check out this really wonderful project we are undertaking at the Durban (South Africa) Festival of Chariots this Easter weekend. Please shower your blessings upon us so that we might please Lord Jagannatha, Srila Prabhupada, and all the assembled children!

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A person was advised by a holy man to gift a vegetable a day and told that he would attain great merit by doing so.
The poor man strictly followed the advice. After death, he was reborn in a royal family and grew up to become a king. He was able to recall what he had done in his past birth. So, he continued to gift a vegetable a day.
Surprisingly, after death, he was reborn as a beggar. The man was unable to comprehend t

So there are different classes of men, crow society and swan society. The swan society is different from the crow society. How you can make equal? The people are making, try to make classless society. It is not possible to make classless society because every living entity is being controlled by a different quality. So the qualitative distinction must be there. You cannot make them classless. It is all imagination. The crow class, the swan class, the pigeon class, the dog class, even in the anim

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Barbarika (Belarsen) and his dialog with Krishna

The legend begins with the Mahābhārata. Barbarika was a grandson of Bhima, Second of the Pandava brothers. He was the son of Ghatotkacha (who in turn was son of Bhima) and Kamkantkata Ma Morwi . Even in his childhood, Barbarika was a very brave warrior. He learnt the art of warfare from his mother. God Shiva, pleased with him, gave him the three infallible arrows (Teen Baan

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krishna Consciousness !

Once a devotee asked Srila Prabhupada that what is required for me to become Krishna Conscious?

Radhey Radhey...

O'er the neue Jahr weekend maid, me and mom landed in Vrindavan. I'd been wanting to go there a while, and it was strange that in all these years in Delhi, I never had. The first sight, isn't pretty. There are animals all around like the cows and pigs you see in India, blocking traffic, jumping from one open drain to another, feeding on food from open garbage dumps- which are visible in every galli and kucha. And that's not pretty, you could call me snobbish, but seriously.

We b

hough the issue of freedom has long since revolved around government’s restriction of it, the real yearning for liberty comes from within the spirit soul, who cannot even act out its natural propensity when residing within a large body and having a giant field to run on. Only through the proper outlets is the natural love found within the heart allowed to be set free, to run in every which direction without exhaustion. For a soul constantly in touch with the divine consciousness, a liberated ind

Prabhupada: ...He was traveling in South India. He saw one brahmana reading Bhagavad-gita. And persons who knew him, that "That man was illiterate," it was not possible for him to read Bhagavad-gita... But still, he was trying to read it, and crying also. So while others were criticizing, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to him, "Brahmana, what you are reading?" So he could understand that "This person, He's not come here to criticize me. He's serious." So he talked seriously, "Sir, I am reading Bhagav

Bhakti Caru Swami learns Sanskrit

Once I [Bhakti Caru Swami] expressed a desire to learn Sanskrit to Srila Prabhupada. But Srila Prabhupada discouraged me asking, "Why you want to learn Sanskrit?" I gave him various reasons but Srila Prabhupada said, "No, there is no need to learn Sanskrit." But then he finally said, "You read my books and you will learn Sanskrit." But then he elaborated, "What is the point in learning Sanskrit? There are so many Sanskrit scholars but what are they doing? They ar

Posted: 26 May 2012 09:41 PM PDT

“Do you think you’ll have peace just because there’s no war?” Prabhupada asked at one lecture. “How can you ever have peace as long as there’s birth, old age, disease, and death?” From “Vrindaban Days” by Hayagriva Prabhu

Poverty means poverty of knowledge

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:56 PM PDT

Poverty means poverty of knowledge. Prime minister Canakya Pandit used to live in a thatched house or cottage but he was the dictator of India in the days of Emperor Candra Gupta. Mahatma Gandhi your political Guru voluntarily accepted the ways of the so called poor Indians and still he was the dictator of India’s destiny. But was he actually poverty sticken on account of his plain living with the primitive charkha? He was always

The Kali begins with this animal killing. That is Kali-yuga. Meat-eating. Therefore, to avoid the influence of Kali we have to give up this habit. The four things are Kali's disciple, friends. We have already discussed this. So one friend is this meat-eating problem, the butchers, Kali's friends. And the liquor distiller, he's also Kali's friend. And the gamblers or the gambling house maintainer. And prostitute house maintainer. These are friends of Kali. Now you will find all over the world the

Bhanu Swami was born in Canada and holds a BA in Oriental fine arts history from the University of British Colombia. He joined the Hare Krishna movement in India in 1970. Initiated in 1971 by Srila Prabhupada, he took sannyasa vows in 1984. Bhanu Swami was personally instructed in the art of Deity worship by Srila Prabhupada, and within ISKCON he has become an authority on the topic.

Bhanu Swami has been a GBC member since 2003. His zonal assignments cover South India, and he is co-GBC for Japan.

Srila prabhupada tells story of Origin of onion and garlic

From Transcendental Diary by Hari-sauri Prabhu

December 22 1976 - Poona

The Malhotras are the owners of Weikfield Products food company, which was established twenty years ago. They have a very large modern house, Malhotra Bhavan, situated on several acres of well kept land at 116 Koregaon Park, which, unusual for India, even has a moderately sized swimming pool. At the house Srila Prabhupada was introduced to the wives of all three brother