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" Rath Yatra festival "

Dear Devotees,
Hare Krishna. Jai Jagannath.

Please accept our humble obeisances.All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This year our Rath Yatra festival is on May 21st,2011.

we would like to invite devotees and well wishers of ISKCON to come to New Orleans and attend the festival. Madhua prabhu's "FESTIVAL OF INDIA" WILL BE HERE.

This year's featured artists,H.G SURDAS Prabhu from LA, TK's NamRock has confirmed their attendance with their live performance. World renowned Indian Sing

Every day but Sunday our Hawaii-based Skype-sanga broadcasts inspiring classes given by senior Vaisnavas/Vaisnavis from America and abroad. Regular presenters include HH Hanumat Preshak Swami, HG Urmila Mata, HG Dhanesvara Prabhu, HG Pushkara Prabhu, HG Narataka Gopal Mata, and many more.

As well we hold Skype conference calls with many devotees participating. Skype-sanga is just one way the Golden Avatar is increasing the Ocean of Transcendental Bliss and carrying Lord Krishna's glories to every

You must have that firm conviction that Krishna is the controller of everything and whatever Krishna does, he does it for your benefit.

-By H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami

Zulu-speaking children onstage. It made an impact on the largely Indian audience, who cheered and smiled.

Swarupa Damodara Dasa, the Durban temple president, later said about the event:

Introduction

Vedic literatures confirm that there are 8,400,000 varieties of life. Each form is unique in itself. And the living entity transmigrates into different forms based on the stringent laws of material nature as a reaction to one’s actions. But to revolve in the cycle of transmigration in a series of these vast varieties of lives is an imprisoned life for the condemned conditioned souls. The human form of life is a chance to get out of this imprisoned life, and as such the only occupati

(Said to be composed by Lord Chaitanya)

1)
kadacit kalindi-tata-vipina-sangitaka-ravo
mudabhiri-nari-vadana-kamalasvada-madhupah
rama-sambhu-brahmamara-pati-ganesarcita-pado
jagannathah svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me

With songs and sweet music, strolling gaily through groves, by the Kalindi.
A bee seeking nectar from the lotus-like faces of the gopis.
Praising him are Shiva, Brahma, Indra, Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi.
Jagannatha Swami, Lord of all beings, be visible to me.

2)
bhuje savye venum sirasi s

In Bhagavad-gītā (4.11) it is said, ye yathā māḿ prapadyante tāḿs tathaiva bhajāmy aham: the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme judge who rewards or punishes different persons according to their surrender unto His lotus feet. Therefore it can actually be seen that although karmīs and bhaktas may work in the same place, at the same time, with the same energy and with the same ambition, they achieve different results. The karmīs transmigra

In human society there are various activities performed for the protection of one's wealth and life by one's words, one's mind and one's actions, but they are all performed for one's personal or extended sense gratification with reference to the body. All these activities are baffled because of being separate from devotional service. But when the same activities are performed for the satisfaction of the Lord, the beneficial results are distributed

Practical devotion is the secret to understanding the Sastras. My Guru Maharaja used to say that for one who is not engaged in devotional service, reading all the books is simply like licking the outside of the honey jar. One who thinks the books are the thing is content in this way. But we should learn the secret to open the jar and taste the honey. In this way, if we can simply understand one book, or one sloka, the perfection is there. 

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

I think many of the devotees will agree with me that they were ignorant of Yamuna's absence in Vrindavan. Whenever we visit Sri Vrindavan Dham we make sure to go for Vrindavan Parikrama. And as we pass through the stretch overlooking Yamuna we just walk on thinking about the bad condition she is in. But never thought of the solution for the problem.

One fine day I got a SMS that a rally is being organised by Bhaktivedanta Hospital Youth Forum at Girgaum Chowpatty and I thought of checking it out