By Jaya Govinda Das
After five months of intense traveling throughout North America to solicit support for the Mayapur Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), the dedicated team of Jananivas Das, Sunanda Das, and Braja Vilas Das arrived last week on the Canadian West Coast, the final leg of their journey.
While in Vancouver, they also drove four hours to visit the interior community of Saranagati Village. In addition to their desire to visit the community, they also made the long journey to pre
During the prestigious World Food India 2024 event, held in New Delhi on September 19-22, 2024, Haribol Foods made a significant impact with its strong presence and innovative offerings. The event, known for attracting global leaders in the food industry and thousands of attendees, provided an ideal platform for the company to showcase its commitment to ethically sourced and traceable food products. Haribol’s participation included displaying its wide-ranging products, which feature cruelty-fre
I am still reflecting on the laughter and tears that come out of our viewers at Saturday’s performance of “The Jagannath Story”. It appears that some version of joy and melancholy shapes our world. I was saddened to hear upon my return from West Virginia, the place of the performance, that one of our young boys, 7, passed away in our Montreal community. That’s young and innocent. And while there in W V I witnessed a happy-go-lucky Annasuya, our sound cue girl, being so cheerful. That made me ch
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After years searching and struggling, she finally found the right place to develop the natural connection she felt with God.
It was the third day in the hospital. The IV was still in my right arm. As I gazed through the window, a few leaves, colored yellow and red by the season, fell from a nearby tree. It was a beautiful fall day in Montreal, I was twenty, and I was trapped in here. How did it come to this?
I was raised in a middle-class, French Canadian, Catholic family
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A look at Lord Caitanya’s “Eight Instructions” and their relevance to japa, the individual practice of chanting Hare Krishna.
A friend once told me this analogy about spiritual life: a flock of geese share strength by flying in a V formation, but if one goose goes down, the others can’t help. Similarly, though seekers of enlightenment help each other, success ultimately depends on personal effortand the kindness of the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna.
Krishna’s kindness appears i
हरे कृष्ण!
भक्ति वृक्ष लीडरशिप ट्रेनिंग {लेवल-1}
कृष्ण भावनामृत संदेश को प्रचार करने एवम एक योग्य प्रचारक बनने के लिए एक सुव्यवस्थित प्रशिक्षण
तारीख: 26,27 अक्टूबर 2024
भाषा: हिंदी
स्थान : श्रीधाम वृन्दावन इस्कॉन मन्दिर
समय : उपरोक्त पोस्टर में देखे
प्रशिक्षक : नित्यानंद आश्रय दास {ISKCON बहादुरगढ़ मंदिर अध्यक्ष, भक्ति वृक्ष कोच और ट्रेनर, इंटरनेशनल अवार्ड विजेता और कम्युनिटी डेवलपर}
नीचे दिए गए लिंक पर क्लिक करके पंजीकरण करें और अपने समुदाय में दूसरों को भी कोर्स करने के लिए प्रेरित करें⬇️⬇️
It’s still early morning, the sun is starting to rise over the horizon, and it’s reddish—it reminds me of Srimati Radharani’s tilak upon Her beautiful broad forehead. And the glowing of the sun, the rays that it casts everywhere, paint the village nearby and the field in front of me a golden color.
There are flowers everywhere, and those flowers are growing in tall grass, knee-high grass, which sways to one side and then another. It’s like the way the Brijbasi’s sway under the winds of their pr
भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक
अध्याय आठ भगवत्प्राप्ति
यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम् ।
तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः ॥ 6 ॥
यम् यम्– जिस;वा अपि– किसी भी;स्मरन्– स्मरण करते हुए;भावम्– स्वभाव को;त्यजति– परित्याग करता है;अन्ते– अन्त में;कलेवरम्– शरीर को;तम् तम्– वैसा ही;एव– निश्चय ही;एति– प्राप्त करता है;कौन्तेय– हे कुन्तीपुत्र;सदा– सदैव;तत्– उस;भाव– भाव;भावितः– स्मरण करता हुआ।
भावार्थ : हे कुन्तीपुत्र! शरीर त्यागते समय मनुष्य जिस-जिस भाव का स्मरण करता है, वह उस उस भाव को निश्
Srila Prabhupada returns to the city of his birth, accompanied by his “dancing white elephants.”
By Rajasekhara Dasa Brahmachari
The people of Calcutta happily welcome Srila Prabhupada’s “dancing white elephants.”
Excerpted from Calcutta — City of Divine Grace: An Historical Memoir of the Period 1510 to 1977, by Rajasekhara Dasa Brahmachari. Copyright: © 2023 Vedanta Vision Publications.
This excerpt, taken from Chapter Seven, retains the book’s style for Sanskrit and other considerations. The b
By Atma Tattva Das
In Alachua, Florida, a significant initiative called Seva Care (formerly Southcare), originally started by Sukhada Devi Dasi, Mulaka Devi Dasi, and Rasa Devi Dasi and now being carried forward by Tamohara Dasa and Madhuryalila Devi Dasi, is dedicated to providing practical and spiritual support through various programs to enhance the devotee community’s well-being.
Seva Care began with a desire to serve and uplift the large and growing devotee community in Alachua. The vision
By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi
During the auspicious month of Kartik, from October 17, 2024, to November 15, 2024, the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education (VIHE) is offering a special compilation of five courses titled ‘Kartika Vidya Sankalpa,’ which translates to “a vow of knowledge during the month of Kartika.”
This initiative is much more than just a series of courses. In the Mathura Mahatmya, Srila Rupa Goswami reveals that spending the month of Kartika in Vrindavan leads one to th
Gaura Hari, Nityananda, Amala Harinam, Sarthak and I took to the trail. What was supposed to be a 1 1/2 hour trek got doubled in time. It is understandable that these moments of people bonding are so essential. I have believed and exercised this principle for a long time - balancing a perceived monotony with leisure. If you pay attention to the details of a task it becomes so much more pleasurable. The level of coping rises.
Now, getting back to the ravine, two of us, Gaura and I are of a re
The desire to see God, to touch God, to talk to God is in itself probably the strongest argument for His existence; besides the logic and evidences from the scriptures, this direct experience is very significant indeed. Bringing Deity Worship from the insiders circle of elderly pujari-priests and making it part of the congregational development is probably the only way it may become part of the positive future for many places in ISKCON. While everyone hankers for direct experience of God in per
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How we value, acquire, use, and relate to money reflects our inner state of being.
Sri Sukadeva Goswami said, “Money does not stay in one place. It passes from one hand to another. Ultimately no one can enjoy money, and it remains the property of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.14.24) Money is God’s energy. He created it, He owns it, and He controls it: “Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord
ISKCON released the following statement to the media, “A video of some altercation at ISKCON Patna surfaced yesterday night. It is unfortunate and painful that some differences between different members of the community escalated into something that doesn’t represent the teachings and values of ISKCON, which are practiced by lakhs of its members across the world.
The affected members from yesterday have been offered support by ISKCON.
Being a responsible institution, all grievances are taken se
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Lecture given in San Francisco on September 11, 1968
Only one person can rightfully claim to be beyond all control.
jñanam te ’ham sa-vijñanam
idam vakshyamy asheshatah
yaj jñatva neha bhuyo ’nyaj
jñatavyam avashishyate
“I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you to know.” – Bhagavad-gita 7.2
Knowledge means to know how this universe is working
भगवद्गीता यथारूप 108 महत्त्वपूर्ण श्लोक
अध्याय आठ भगवत्प्राप्ति
अन्तकाले च मामेव स्मरन्मुक्त्वा कलेवरम्।
यः प्रयाति स मद्भावं याति नास्त्यत्र संशयः।। 5।।
अन्त-काले– मृत्यु के समय;च– भी;माम्– मुझको;एव– निश्चय ही;स्मरन्– स्मरण करते हुए;मुक्त्वा– त्याग कर;कलेवरम्– शरीर को;यः– जो;प्रयाति– जाता है;सः– वह;मत्-भावम्– मेरे स्वभाव को;याति– प्राप्त करता है;न– नहीं;अस्ति– है;अत्र– यहाँ;संशयः– सन्देह।
By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi
Syama Gauri Devi Dasi, originally from Hungary, shared some of her spiritual journey in a recent interview with ISKCON News. Her service over the years has taken her around Europe, including temples in Budapest, Scotland, and most recently to Folkestone, UK. She now lives there with her husband, Priya Kunda Das who hails from Liverpool, and together they run a small preaching center called Atma Lounge in the seaside town of Folkestone, in southern England.
Fro
Dear ISKCON Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are deeply saddened to share the difficult news regarding the health of His Holiness Giriraja Swami. Maharaja has been diagnosed with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD). This degenerative neurological disorder has been increasingly affecting him over the past three years, with more significant clinical symptoms emerging in the last year.
This cruel disease is characterized by the progre
This morning an hour and a half was set aside for an initiation of two devotees. From the U.K., now residing in New York, is Joseph, one of the actors from the night before. He’s a good performer, is intelligent, and shows lots of devotional qualities. His Sanskrit name is Jivan Mukta. Suneel is living here in New Vrindavana, is humble, and has a sweet disposition. His new name is Saranya.
A person from Nepal, Gambhira Gaur, received his second diksha, in the absence of Gopal Krishna Goswami who
