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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.
 
Under th

A couple of days after the Tomsk court dismissed the case against ISKCON in relation to Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Bhakti Vijnana Swami, GBC for ISKCON Russia was personally invited by the Russian Ambassador to India, Alexander M. Kadakin on occasion of unveiling a bust of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, at Nehru Science Center. Mr. Kadakin recited a verse from Bhagavad-gita and explained how it glorified pioneers like Gagarin.

It shall be recalled that the court case in Tomsk sparked internat

108 names and titles of Lord Krishna, along with the meanings in English, from the Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition (as on Wikipedia):

1.Achala / Achal – Still Lord
2.Achyuta / Achyut – Infallible Lord
3.Adbhutah – Wonderful God
4.Adidev / Adideva / Adi deva – Lord Of The Lords
5.Aditya – Son Of Aditi
6.Ajanma – One Who Is Limitless And Endless
7.Ajaya / Ajeya / Ajay / Ajaya – Conqueror Of Life And Death
8.Akshara / Akshar – Indestructible Lord
9.Amrit / Amrut / Amrita / Amruta – Heavenly nectar or el