A materialistic person is captivated by so many objects of sense gratification. That is his prison house. The state laws, if you are criminal, they put him into the jail. But natures law is such that you dont require... Your senses will keep you intact in jail. You dont require to be handcuffed. The senses are so strong that it will keep you in this material world.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.40).

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

This May and June, the Palace of Gold and the Palace Rose Garden will be featured on CNN Headline News. The five-minute interview with Damodar dasa, Vice President of Guest Services in New Vrindaban Community, will air approximately 50 times in over 875,000 homes in the Pittsburgh, Laurel Highlands and Ohio Valley regions. The interview was conducted by Comcast Newsmakers, whose guests include federal and state legislators, local elected officials and nonprofit organizations. Comcast Newsmakers

Excerpted from a discussion on Brahma-vimohana-lila by Swami B.V. Tripurari

“Prabhupada turned to me a third time and said, 'Did you see it?' This time I replied, 'Yes I saw it.' And I thought, 'I'm seeing you, and this is Vrindavana. Wherever you are, that is Vrindavana. Wherever you look, that is Vrindavana. You have the kind of vision that can harmonize all things.”

Seeing the cows and elderly cowherds rush to greet their calves and sons, Balarama was concerned that the very essence of Vrindava

Brahma said, "My dear Lord, You are the only worshipful Supreme Lord, Personality of Godhead; therefore I am offering my humble obeisances and prayers just to please You. Your bodily features are of the color of clouds filled with water. You are glittering with a silver electric aura emanating from Your yellow garments.

"Let me offer my respectful repeated obeisances unto the son of Maharaja Nanda who is standing before me with conchshell, earrings and peacock feather on His head. His face is bea

please help ,my fried ask me what is astitva mean,but even idon't know ,but i said i will le tyou know later ,so please help,thank you very much,

servant of servant

Sri Vraja-vilasa-stava

Prayers Glorifying the Lord’s Pastimes in Vraja

1

The highwaymen lust, greed and anger have captured me and bound me with the ropes of the desire for fame. I pray that the heroic devotees of Lord Krishna, the enemy of the Agha demon, may defeat my captors and cut the ropes that bind me.

2

I am scorched by the blazing forest fire of old age, deeply bitten by the poisonous snake of blindness, pierced by the sharp arrows of forced dependence on others,

Our sankirtana - tainted with "BLOOD OF SLAUGHTER!"

I remember, in my first few days in ISKCON, I had asked someone about how mrdangas were made and where were they made.  Clearly, I was not satisfied  with the answer and always thought, one fine day, I will get into the  details. Surely enough, I now know, our performance of sankirtan all over  the world is tainted with the blood of slaughter!

DIGESTING THE FACT:

Navadwip to Mayapur via boat crossing Ganga is a beautiful short trip.  My  recen

South African harinamas in April

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Into the Townships (April 15)

Tomorrow we will be taking a group of devotees to do harinama and prasadam  distribution in nearby Zululand.

Shanty Town Kirtan (April 18)

Yesterday we distributed prasadam and had harinama through one of South  Africa's worst ghettos. Rife with crime and steeped in poverty, the  atmosphere in the dilapidated shanty town was miserable. But as we wove our  way through the tiny streets an

This article was featured on Deccan Chronicle, a major newspaper in Southern India on May 24

Recently, I discovered that saying a simple prayer, reading a few shlokas from The Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Srila Prabhupada, lighting diyas at the altar with some agarbattis and chanting my favourite Hare Krishna maha mantra or attending Sunday mass at the Church have had a deeply calming and soothing effect on me.

At first, I did this purely

I'm sitting here in the Riga, Latvia airport on 1 November 2006 waiting for a flight to Amsterdam, as I deeply consider what should be the topic for this week's lesson. What immediately comes to mind is the topic that surfaced during the Srimad Bhagavatam lecture I gave this morning at our Riga temple. What was that topic? Restoring the Krishna conscious world order. 

Many people would find this topic preposterous because it assumes that previously there was a Krishna conscious world order on thi

The bondage is gunamayi maya, being wrapped up by the qualitative modes of nature. That is bondage. But if one is engaged in devotional service, he is not under this bondage because he knows things as they are.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.40)

-By. H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

"Incarnation for the Modern Age"


Sri Chaitanya is the Kali-yuga avatara, and He descended for the purpose of establishing the yuga dharma, which in this age is the chanting of Lord Krishna's names. He appeared in the guise of a devotee to perfectly show how the process of devotion should be followed and applied. It is something like a teacher drawing on the black board "A B C". We should not think the teacher is himself learning the alphabets, but he is doing it to show us how to write properly.
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