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In the final installment of Srila Satsvarupa Gosvami’s study of the spiritual needs and concerns of an ISKCON preacher, he addresses the most fundamental aspect of every devotee’s life—sadhana.I once asked Srila Prabhupada how a devotee could preach the ideals of Krishna consciousness if he had not yet perfected himself. ‘If someone asks me if he can go back to Godhead in one life, I would say yes, but if he asked me if I were going back to Godhead I don’t know if I could definitely say yes.’ Pr

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 "G u r u     m u k h     p a d m a     v a k y a"

Common people blindly follow the blind ……………….Nectarean Mellows

Srila Prabhupada explains the principle behind the various forms and incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - It is compassion, it is love, it is mercy. I was just day before yesterday listening to a tape of Srila Prabhupada giving lecture and he was discussing Lord Buddha. He was actually praising so enthusiastically the mercy of Lord Buddha. People were misusing the Vedi

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Four New ISKCON Sannyasis Bring Total to Eighty-Four in 2011Four dedicated devotees took the vow of sannyasa—renounced, traveling celibate monks—in 2010, bringing the number of ISKCON sannyasis up to eighty-four.Devamrita Dasa, Makhanlal Dasa, and Siddharta Dasa, all based in India, became Bhakti Rasamrita Swami, Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami and Sidharta Swami, while Nitai Chaitanya Goswami, based in Russia, became Nitai Chaitanya Goswami.They follow Yadunandana Dasa, principal of Bhaktivedanta
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Two day ISKCON Rath Yatra in Belgaum

2-day Iskcon Rath Yatra from today - TNN, Jan 28, 2011, 09.21pm IST

BELGAUM: International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) will organize 13th annual Lord Jagannath Ratha Yatra Mahotsava-2011 here on January 29 and 30. About 1.25 lakh people from across the country are expected to attend the yatra. 


Briefing reporters on the event here on Thursday, Iskcon's Belgaum unit president Bhakti Rasamrita Swami said the procession will begin from Bogarves at 2 pm on Saturday and pass through C

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I think many of you dont know about the recent news about Mc Donalds and Iskcon Mauritius fight. Mac Donald is planning to open a branch at Phoenix, Mauritius at some meters only from the Iskcon building (International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
The Mac Donald has already done everything like building, the permits, the legal notices. however ISKCON recently discovered about this and now they are protesting againest it for many reasons like,
1. Mac Donald menus includes beef.
2. The Ma
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Gopala-tapani Upanisad: Verses Nine to Twelve

ru-01-227x300.jpgVerses nine through twelve of Swami B. V. Tripurari’s Gopala-tapani Upanisad.

9. tad iha sloka bhavanti
sat-pundarika-nayanam meghabham vaidyutambaram |
dvi-bhujam jnana-mudradhyam vana-malinam isvaram ||

The following verses are a meditation on Krishna’s form that are meant to accompany the eighteen-syllable mantra: Lord Krishna’s eyes are like perfect lotus petals, his bodily color is that of a monsoon cloud, and his garments are the color of lightning. He has two arms, and his hands are held in t

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Meditation and the Self Within

every-being-has-soul.jpgCan meditation solve our everyday problems? Is there life after death? Can drugs help us achieve self-realization? During a visit to South Africa in 1976, Srila Prabhupada answered these and other questions for interviewer Bill Faill of the Durban Natal Mercury.

 

Srila Prabhupada: Krishna is a name for God that means “all-attractive.” Unless one is all-attractive he cannot be God. So Krishna consciousness means God consciousness. All of us are small particles of God, equal in quality with Him. Ou

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SAT-TILA EKADASI

Sat-tila Ekadasi

Sri Daalbhya Rishi said to Palastya Muni, "When the spirit soul comes in
contact with the material energy, he immediately begins to perform sinful
activities, such as stealing, killing, and illicit sex. He may even perform
many other terrible deeds, such as killing a brahmin. Oh purest of
personalities, please tell me how these unfortunate souls may escape the
punishment of being sent to hellish regions of creation. Kindly inform me
how, by giving even a little in charity, one may be

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WHY NO ONION & GARLIC

Many of our readers are habituated to eating and onions and garlic and do not understand why devotees of Lord Krishna strictly avoid eating them. I have been asked this question so many times that I decided to devote an article to it.

Our reason for not taking onions and garlic is very simple. It is not at all complicated. According to the instructions very clearly given in the Bhagavad-gita, devotees of Lord Krishna are meant to eat only the remnants of food offered with love and devotion to Lor

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Coming to the transcendental platform

My dear boys and girls, I thank you very much for attending this meeting. We are spreading this Krishna consciousness movement because there is a great need of this consciousness throughout the world. And the process is very easy -- that is the advantage. First of all, we must try to understand what the transcendental platform is. As far as our present condition is concerned, we are on various platforms. So we have to first of all stand on the transcendental

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SHRI KRISHNA LIFE TIMELINE ON THIS EARTH

Birth appearance at midnight of Shravana k8 to Devakee (July 19/20, year 3228 BC)
-taken by Vasudeva from Mathuraa to Nanda and Yasodaa in Gokula

Untill 3 years

-lived in Gokula
-killed Pootanaa, Shakataasura, Trinavarta demons

3 – 6 years

-moved to Vrindaavana
-killed Bakaasura, Aghaasura, Dhenukaasura (Balaraama killed Pralambaasura)
-moved to Nandagraama

7-10 years

-Brahmaa steals and returns cowherd boys
-Govardhana-poojaa
-played raasa-leelaa with the gopees
-taken to Mathuraa for wrestling match

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Mc Donalds vs ISKCON Mauritius

Mc Donalds vs ISKCON Mauritius: The battle is on

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I think many of you dont know about the recent news about Mc Donalds and Iskcon Mauritius fight. Mac Donald is planning to open a branch at Phoenix, Mauritius at some meters only from the Iskcon building (International Society for Krishna Consciousness).
The Mac Donald has already done everything like building, the permits, the legal notices. however ISKCON recently discovered about this and now they are protesting againest it for many reasons like,
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Much of print and electronic media has been devoted to delineate the positive as well as negative effects of modern civilization and the scientific revolution of the previous century. We have endless discussions and debates in our living rooms, schools, colleges, corporate circles, social bodies and the like, about the radical change that is taking place around us. Proponents of scientific progress and super-industrialization claim that the average man’s standard of living has improved dramatica

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Conscious Understanding

Conscious Understanding

Undoubtedly the soul is present in the heart of the living entity, and it is the source of all the energies for maintaining the body. The energy of the soul is spread all over the body, and this is known as consciousness. Since this consciousness spreads the energy of the soul all over the body, one can feel pains and pleasures in any part of the body. The soul is individual, and he is transmigrating from one body to another, just as a person transmigrates from babyhood to
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Question to Radhanath Swami: How do you know there is God?

Radhanath Swami: How do you know there is no God? Can anyone actually prove that there is no God? There are so many theories, but what really is the evidence? Was anyone there to actually eye-witness the Big Bang with a video camera? It is just a concept born in peoples’ minds which seems to make sense due to certain phenomenon that they are witnessing today. But the obvious question is, is it more logical that everything comes from nothi

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