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(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Dear Prabhujis and Mathajis

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev!

For all of us who are aspiring to be devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the constant challenge is how to constantly remember the Lord in the midst of all the chaos, calamities, commitments and comforts of the material world. I

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Hare Krishna ,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to shrila Prabhupada.

We all know and have experienced that regular reading of Shrila Prabhupada's books are certainly one of the best ways to learn and grow in our sadhana . I have tried to keep a diary to note down the books i am reading with entries of my realizations on that reading, and It has helped me a lot to plan my reading, and refer to it later also. Let us share here what are we reading, our realizations on that reading and

Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

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


Recently, I read a book "Salted Bread", which speaks about difficulties and struggles of Krishna's devotees in the early days of our movement in the former Soviet Union. "Salted Bread" is a great source of inspiration for all book distributors who are daily meeting different challenges. It is especially effective for preaching to our rascal, ever complaining mind, because we can understand tha

The following conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and several of his disciples took place in June 1974 in Paris.

Devotees: A man came to the temple a couple of days ago and argued that we really can’t say for sure that there’s life after death, so why worry about it? Better to build a more prosperous society. At least this we can understand, and it would be a meaningful accomplishment.

Sr

Fearlessness in

Material Existence

Part - 2

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,

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

We are continuing on the topic of becoming fearless in material existence based on verse 4.29.51 from Srimad Bhagavatam.

sa vai priyatamas caatmaa / yato na bhayam anv api
iti veda sa vai vidvaan / yo vidvaan sa gurur harih

"One who is engaged in devotional service has not the lea

Srila Prabhupada [hearing the bells and music from a passing ice cream truck]: What is that?

Disciple: An ice cream truck, Srila Prabhupada.

Srila Prabhupada: Oh, ice cream. [Laughter.] You are taking ice cream? Huh?

Disciple: No, Srila Prabhupada. Sometimes they make it with eggs or slaughterhouse by-products or who knows what. But anyway, the trucks go up and down the street.

Srila Prabhupada: Canvassing?

Disciple: Yes.

Srila Pr

Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, once you said, “The tractor—this is the cause of all the trouble. It took all the young men’s farm work. It forced them to go into the city and become entangled in sensuality.” You said people had to leave the country and the simple life of goodness and God consciousness. And so they went to the city and got caught up in the anxious life, the mode of passion.

Srila Prabhupada: Yes. In the city, peo

Lord Chaitanya is the Supreme Person, Krishna, appearing as His own worshiper. He is the combined form of Krishna and Krishna's most dear devotee, Srimati  Radharani . He came to experience the love She feels for Him, and to show by example how to fully surrender to Krishna.

He exhibited symptoms of love of God to the highest degree, and emphasized chanting the holy names of Krishna as the best means to attain love of God.

References:

• Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.13-14, purport—Lord Krishna Chaitanya is K

"It would certainly be a very laborious task to pick the fruits and distribute them alone, and still I suspect that some would receive them and others would not."

"Therefore I order every man within this universe to accept this Krsna consciousness movement and distribute it everywhere to everyone."

"I am the only gardener. If I do not distribute these fruits, what shall I do with them? How many fruits can I alone eat?"

"By the transendental desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, wate

"It would certainly be a very laborious task to pick the fruits and distribute them alone, and still I suspect that some would receive them and others would not."

"Therefore I order every man within this universe to accept this Krsna consciousness movement and distribute it everywhere to everyone."

"I am the only gardener. If I do not distribute these fruits, what shall I do with them? How many fruits can I alone eat?"

"By the transendental desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, wate

For 36 years, Abdul Rashid, a 58-year-old Muslim, has been making clothes adorned by the deities at the ISKCON temple; he is now designing pink outfits embellished with silver zari for the idols for Rang Panchami
 

In India, religion dominates people's lives to a great extent that at times, it dictates people's professions too. However, there are a few times when devotion is not constrained by religion. Abdul Rashid is such an example. The 58-year-old designer is the man behind the beautiful clo

Gaur Purnima 2012 celebrations at ISKCON Baroda
By Basu Ghosh Das

The 526 annual observance of the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was celebrated by thousands of pious members of the public at ISKCON Baroda on Thursday, March 8, 2012.

In the morning, Murlimohan Das, temple president of ISKCON Vijayawada, lectured on the life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Jaya Gaurasundar Prabhu, formerely temple president of ISKCON Baltimore and ISKCON Phoenix, both in the USA, also participated in t

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

A green village project named "Fourth Wave" is envisaged near Mysore city, Karnataka, South India encompassing some of the elements of varnashrama concept including land & cows to live a simple life.

Any Brahmana initiated or Harinama initiated devotee linked to Srila Prabhupad through a disciplic succession is eligible to participate. Criteria is that the devotee family should be willing to re-locate to the village at a certain point in time, spend

So Krsna comes to introduce the system by which one can get relief from this continuous, troublesome life. Therefore Krsna says: yada yada hi dharmasya glanir, glanir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. Just like you suffer when you create some disturbance in the law. Then you suffer. We haye got experience. If we violate the state laws, then you have to suffer. Similarly, religious, religion means God's laws. They do not know. "Religion means faith." Faith, you may have faith something. I may have faith somethi

Fearlessness in

Material Existence

Part -1

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,

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

Last week HG Kalacakra prabhuji was in Abudhabi for 3 days and he made us remember our Guru Maharaj by quoting so many of Maharaj's realisations and transcendental nectar which made us strongly feel the presence of our dear Guru Maharaj. Prabhuji referred to a wonderful purport an

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Question

Why should we offer worship to Bhagavan  by austerities like *Nama-japam* , *Pooja* , etc ? . Isn't it sufficient just to remember Him always ?.

Answer

Srimad Ramayanam's *Aranyakandam*  section, contains *Lakshmanopadesam* ( Advice to Lakshmana) . Sri Rama, Sita-devi and Lakshmana were living in the forest . One day, Lakshmana requested Sri Rama to advise about the universal principle.

Sri Rama first describes th

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