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May the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His incarnation as Dhanvantari relieve me from undesirable eatables and protect me from physical illness.

May Lord Rsabhadeva, who conquered His inner and outer senses, protect me from fear produced by the duality of heat and cold.

May Yajna protect me from defamation and harm from the populace, and

May Lord Balarama as Sesa protect me from envious serpents.

Next month will be 9 years since we opened our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate we will do special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The program will culminate with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads. Programs will be going on from 4-19 Feb with the main parikrama days between 8 and 19.

All the festival dates are early this year when the weather is best and the Vrindavan Festival after Gaura Purnima is

The 2012 North American Governing Body and Temple President meetings opened on January 13, in Dallas, Texas, with more than sixty leaders from across the US and Canada in attendance.

The meeting was inaugurated with a kirtan, devotional songs, led by fifteen primary school children from the Dallas day school, the TKG Academy, under the direction of its principal Jayanti dasi.

During the first morning session, twenty disciples of Srila Prabhupada shared the stage to relate some of their personal me

Nama-Sankirtana by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura
Translated by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

(1)

hari haraya namah krsna yadavaya namah

yadavaya madhavaya keshavaya namah

(2)

gopala govinda rama sri-madhusudana

giridhari gopinatha madana-mohana

(3)

sri-caitanya-nityananda sri-adwaita-sita

hari guru vaisnaba bhagavata gita

(4)

sri-rupa sanatana bhatta-raghunath

sri-jiva gopala-bhatta dasa-raghunath

(5)

ei chay gosai kori carana vandan

jaha hoite bighna-nas abhista-puran

(6)

ei chay

Listening and chanting of Sri Hayagriva Ashtottara Satanama stotram bestows knowledge,peace and bliss. Lord Hayagriva, in Hinduism, is considered a minor incarnation of Vishnu; an avatar associated with wisdom and knowledge.
 
At the request of Brahma, Hayagriva rescued the Vedas stolen by two demons from the bottom of the primeval ocean. Depicted in human form, he has a head of a horse and eight hands. His attributes are the book (Veda), horse’s mane, and rosary plus the attributes of Vishnu.

Market vendors and passengers at the Suva bus station took advantage of free lunches yesterday provided by the Hare Krishna movement.
 
The members of the Hare Krishna faith distributed 1000 serves of food to passers-by.
 
There were no restrictions on the number of serves they could take so some were seen with more than one takeaway pack of vegetarian curry and rice. Hare Krishna devotee Manoj Kumar said the distribution of food marked their last day on a pilgrimage.
 
"Devotees went on a pilgrimage

With a new year rolling in, many may be wondering what will happen with the damaged economy, the upcoming U.S. elections, and people’s likeliness to transcend all this and turn to spirituality. Then again, the world might end on December 21st, if we’re to believe some interpretations of the Mayan Calendar.
 
We asked three prominent Vedic Astrologers to shed some light on all this: Hamsa-Avatar Dasa, who runs the Vedic Cultural Fellowship organization in Ocala, Florida; Nalini-Kanta Dasa, author

On December 24th Radhanath Swami presided over the official opening of the Govardhan Eco-village and Farm Community (GEV) spread over a scenic landscape of 60 acres near the Sahyadri mountain range, a two hour drive from the city of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. The inauguration ceremony was marked with the presence of Mr. Nana Saheb Patil, the Ex-secretary of the Agricultural Ministry for the Government of Maharashtra, and 150 senior members of the Radha Gopinath temple congregation.
 
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