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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

One has to be intelligent to understand real happiness; one who cannot, seeks happiness in this material world. A man did not know what sugarcane was and was told that it was very sweet to chew. "Oh, what does it look like?" he asked. "It looks just like a bamboo rod," someone said. So the foolish man began to chew all kinds of bamboo rods. How can he experience the sweetness? Similarly, we are trying to get happiness a

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Durashaya means which cannot be fulfilled. You can hope something but it will never be fulfilled. Persons who are trying to become happy by adjustment of this material energy, they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching God. Everyone is thinking, "I must first of all see my own interest." But first of all try to understand what is your interest. We do not know that and we are hoping against ho

Eleven Causes for Dejection

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

The 14th chapter of the first canto of Srimad Bhagavatam describes the circumstances concerning the disappearance of Lord Krishna from this earth after the Kuruksetra war. Some time after the war was over, Arjuna went to Dwaraka to see Lord Sri Krishna and other friends. In the mean time Maharaja Yudhisthira observes signs indicating the Lord's dis

Is there a Magic Pill for Happiness?

New York Ratha Yatra – June 14 2008

http://radhagovinda.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/new-york-ratha-yatra-june-14-2008/

Just like if there is some epidemic, disease, and if you take vaccine, it is supposed that you are free from the contamination. So this vaccine of chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra will keep you fit without any contamination of this age of Kali. And that is happening. All over the world people are chanting Hare Krsna maha-mantra. And practically we see, those who are chanting, they're becoming free from the contamination. If you follow the rules and regulations, very simple thing, and chant Hare K

Hare Krishna

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

In this material world we are looking for that perfect love relationship. We are looking for that person that we can fully give ourselves to, who will be able to perfectly and fully reciprocate our love. So many times we try to totally give ourselves to someone that we feel is such a person. But then we end up feeling disappointed and frustrated after we realize that they are not what really what we th

Construction of Prabhupada ghat at ISKCON Allahabad

Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our dandavats. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya.

We are very pleased to inform all the devotees that Prabhupada ghat is under construction here at ISKCON temple at Prayag on the banks of the Yamuna. The ghat is expected to be completed before Maha-Kumbha mela that is scheduled for January next year. The ghat is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.2.38 crores. The ghat will be 180 feet in

Construction of Prabhupada ghat at ISKCON Allahabad

Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our dandavats. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya.

We are very pleased to inform all the devotees that Prabhupada ghat is under construction here at ISKCON temple at Prayag on the banks of the Yamuna. The ghat is expected to be completed before Maha-Kumbha mela that is scheduled for January next year. The ghat is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.2.38 crores. The ghat will be 180 feet in

 London’s Ratha Yatra Echoes Olympic Spirit

When: Sunday 17th June 2012

Where: Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square

Time: Procession starts 12 noon from Hyde Park, South Carriage Drive

Arrives Trafalgar Square 2.30pm

Festival ends 5.30pm

*Highlight*

London’s 'Ratha-yatra’ Festival of Chariots returns to the streets of the British capital on Sunday 17th June 2012. The spirit of the Olympics–known for uniting nations will be echoed at this ancient festival.
Festival-goers representing every continent of t

Some information Rajani devi (mother of Srila Prabhupada)

Here is an excerpt from the Prabhupada Lilamrta about Srila Prabhupada's mother, Srimati Rajani Devi.

Abhay’s mother, Rajani, was thirty years old when he was born. Like her husband, she came from a long-established Gaudiya Vaisnava family. She was darker-skinned than her husband, and whereas his disposition was cool, hers tended to be fiery. Abhay saw his mother and father living together peacefully; no deep marital conflict or complicated

Offering with our Hearts

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

He started by saying,"First of all we have to accept the supreme authority of Krishna. Se

A love for Krishna that crosses Religious Lines

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There is no difference between Gaura and Krishna in tattva. Krishna is Gaura, and Gaura is Krishna. However,

Gaura is Krishna combined with mahabhava-svarupini Srimati Radharani. In vraja-lila there are two forms —

rasaraja Krishna and madanakhya-mahabhavamayi Srimati Radharani. But ingaura-lila, there is one form. Radha combined with Krishna — that is Gaura. Otherwise there is no difference between Gaura and Krishna. Thi

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Regardless of who you are or what you do, you are going to run into (and have to deal with) at least some amount of incompetence in your work life. Why not learn to take it in stride, and not let it bother you so much?

This acceptance of the way things really are will probably allow you to say (or think) something like, “Of course it’s going to be like this from time to time.” Rather than focusing on the most dramatic an

Don't Forsake the Vibrations

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

as god said in gita to arjuna;

Sarvasya chaham, hrudhi sannivishto,
Matha smrithir jnana mapohanam cha,
Vedaischa sarvaii, rahameva Vedhyo,
Vedanthakruth veda vidheva chaham.

                                                            

I live in everybody’s heart,
And from me one gets,
Memory, wisdom and forgetfulness,
And for all the Vedas, I am the one that is to be known,
For I created them and I am the one who knows th