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ISKCON Congregation Development Ministry

Dear devotees:

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

We would like to congratulate all the winners who received an award for their exceptional contribution to the development ISKCON's congregations around the world.

The awards were offered by ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry and it's ministers H.H. Jayapataka Swami and Kaunteya Prabhu. The ceremony of recognition was held on Sri Mayapur Dham on Febru

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Since the next day I would return to Johannesburg from Dar es Salaa, which is on the east coast of Africa, I decided to take a walk along the beach. I told the taxi driver where I wanted to go, and he said he knew where it was and would take me there. But after he dropped me off and I had walked for some time, I realized I was far from where I had intended to be. But it was hot and I wasn't prepared to find another taxi. So I just kept walking. Soon I approached the ferryboat terminal, where h

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Be Cool, Draw Energy From Spiritual Devotion

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Have you seen how peacefully a child sleeps in the lap of his parent, even in a noisy, crowded local train? The hustle-bustle disturbs everyone, but not the child, due to his implicit faith in the protection of his parent. 
All of us strive diligently to overcome our many fears: financial, familial, social, academic and physical. However, the necessary security mea-sures like insurances, helmets, buzzer alarms and health check-ups fail to free us from a disconcerting sense of insecurity within us
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GOD ANSWERS KNEE-MAIL

Nowadays almost everyone is accessible on email. What about God? He is available on a very special type of email, which is as old as the human race and which requires no internet. Its knee-mail – mailing prayers from our heart to God while standing on our knees. Almost all the great wisdom traditions of the world urge us to physically express humility while praying. In addition to the kneeling down common in Semitic religions, the Vedic culture recommends prostrating the entire body in panchanga

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Early in his spiritual life HH Bhaktitirtha Maharaj learned an important lesson. When he first started joined the Hare Krishna movement he noticed that the devotees, although preaching a philosophy of absolute equality between all living entities based on every individual as an eternal spirit soul, were discriminating against him on the basis of racial prejudice.

He was surprised and disturbed to find such a low level of consciousness amongst with in a spiritual society. When he had the opportuni

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Do …barbers exist?

  

  God Does Exist!

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said, “I don’t believe that God exists.” Why do you say that,” asked the customer.

“Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?

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Why some People hate Sri Krishna ?.

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krishna-Bhakti is the life-air of this world Without it,  the world will not survive. Modern religions like Christianity and Islam ask it's followers to keep away from Human-godsTo them,  Krishna is a mere human and not GodHowever, they fail to answer the reason behind the visible Krishna-miracles happening all over the world . Gita-logic  is also inaccessible to these Scholars .

Although,  Krishna appeared in a h

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----- We are not the Owners -----

 

 

 

 

We are not the Owners


HERE ENDS YOUR

SpiritualQuest

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Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.
Today I had received a message from a devotee about how verse 4.11.13 from Srimad Bhagavatam taught her how to welcome people. Our heartfelt thanks to that mathaji for sharing that message. Indeed this verse is one of the favourite verse of our spiritual master HDG Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj
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Overview of  Canto 1 of Srimad Bhagvatam and Glories of Maharaj Yudhisthira

S.B 1.13.16

Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupad, Srila Prabhupad ki jai……………………

Translation : Having won his kingdom and observed the birth of one grandson competent to continue the noble tradition of his family, Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira reigned peacefully and enjoyed uncommon opulence in cooperation with his younger brothers, who were all expert administrators to the common people.

I repeat the translation (Translation

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Sri Sri Sikshashtakam Prayers

Sri Sri Sikshashtakam Prayers

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Eight Instructions by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed His disciples to write books on the science of Krishna, a task which His followers have continued to carry out down to the present day.

The elaborations and expositions on the philosophy taught by Lord Caitanya are, in fact, the most voluminous, exacting, and consistent, due to the system of disciplic succession. Although Lord Caitanya was widely renowned as a scholar in His youth,

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Thought Of The Day

So therefore this affection is the very hard knot for being bound up in this material world, this affection. Therefore the Vedic civilization is that the affection is to be cut off compulsory at a certain age, not that the affection should continue. If the affection continues, then there is no chance of my becoming free from this material world. There is no chance. Therefore vanaprastha. Because the wife's..., affection with the wife, is very, very strong. So vanaprastha means the husband and wi

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There are just 21 days before the Bhaktivedanta College Easter Japa and Kirtan Retreat 2012 with Sacinandana Swami.

Twenty more places are available.

Venue: Bhaktivedanta College; Radhadesh, Belgium
Dates: 6-12 April 2012
Registration: http://bhaktivedantacollege.com/index.php?p=news&id=370

Happy to see you soon!

With regards,
Dinadayal dasa,
Retreat Organizational Team

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Help needed with Life membership database

Hare Krishna,

 

I need a big help with microsoft access database. im designing a database for recording all Life members data

 

is there any database already built who someone can share?

 

that would be very helpful

 

haribol

 

hope to hear from you soon

 

haribol

 

vishal dasa

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ISKCON Congregation Development Ministry
Would like to welcome our new members.

 
Manjulali Manjari Sevini Devi Dasi
disciple of HH. Jayapataka Swami
Manjulali Manjari Sevini Devi Dasi
 
And Giriraj Gopal Das, disciple of HH. Indradyumna Swami
Giriraj Gopal Das
They are part of Mayapur youth, they joined ISKCON ministry right after Gaura Purnima.
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स्वर्ग में विचरण करते हुए
अचानक एक दुसरे के सामने आ गए
विचलित से कृष्ण ,प्रसन्नचित सी राधा
कृष्ण सकपकाए, राधा मुस्काई
इससे पहले कृष्ण कुछ कहते राधा बोल उठी
कैसे हो द्वारकाधीश ?
जो राधा उन्हें कान्हा कान्हा कह के बुलाती थी
उसके मुख से द्वारकाधीश का संबोधन
कृष्ण को भीतर तक घायल कर गया
फिर भी किसी तरह अपने आप को संभाल लिया
और बोले राधा से .........
मै तो तुम्हारे लिए आज भी कान्हा हूँ
तुम तो द्वारकाधीश मत कहो!
आओ बैठते है ....
कुछ मै अपनी कहता हूँ कुछ तुम अपनी कहो
सच कहूँ राधा जब जब भी तुम्हारी याद

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बेगाना

सारी उम्र उसे सजाया
तपती धूप
बारिस से बचाया
हंसाया ,रुलाया
जब भी रूठा
मन्नतों से मनाया
भगवान हे साक्षी
खुद से ज्यादा बहलाया
बिश्वास था मुझे
ये  मेरे साथ
हर पल रहा है
स्तब्ध हू देखकर.........
............वो चिता पर जल रहा है

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“Spiritual; Not Religious”

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada


Spirit is undying (eternal), internal and God’s fingerprint. Religion is temporary, external and man’s concoction. The Vedas teach “Sanatan Dharma” which eclipses religion and can restore the eternal soul to its pure original condition. 

The impersonalists have come up with yet another catchy formula to bolster up their own radically independent concepts of what “Spirituality” consists of. The latest euphemism for promo

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Stop complaining about your circumstances

Hare krsna

 Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada


It’s extremely rare to find a successful person who whines, complains, and frets about his circumstances. This is despite the fact that he may have overcome great obstacles to achieve his level of success. On the other hand, it’s extremely common for struggling individuals to continually blame their circumstances for their lack of joy and happiness. 

The real question is: what came first – the attitude or the success? T

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दुःखालयमं

चेहरे पर हंसी

दिल रोता है

बनावटी है दुनिया

मायाजाल में उलझे

पग पग में पीड़ा

फिर भी

मन यही खोताहै

यह कोई नयी बात नहीं

जनम जनम की कहानी है

हर बार कान पकड़ता हूँ

रोते रोते मरता हूँ

आता हूँ फिर से

दो रोटी की तलाश में

सारा जीवन ढोता हूँ

सत्य पहचाने बिन

कोल्हू का बैल बन जाता हूँ

और फिर से

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चेहरे पर हंसी

दिल रोता है

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