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100 000 Copies of Bhagavad-gita in US Motels

Posted by Hitendra Patel on July 8, 2011 at 10:02am

On June 16-17, 2011, ISKCON devotees from the Motel Gita Project attended the annual convention of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in Las Vegas, Nevada, requesting the owners of hotels and motels to include a copy of “Bhagavad-gita As It Is” in their guest rooms, as is commonly done with Gideon’s Bibles. The Motel Gita project previously had booths at AAHOA’s annual national conventions last year in Chicago and in 2009 in Washington, D.C., as well as in smaller, regional conv

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Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:04am

Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness

Thank you so much for sacrificing so much of yourself in helping others revive their original consciousness and in so doing taking them out of their miseries. Maharaja, I wanted to ask how to enlighten others in the science of Krishna consciousness. I am trying to give Krishna consciousness to my eldest brother, but I think I am coming across as fanatical. It hurts to see him stuck and bewildered by this material world. I want to give him the tool by

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Please do not misrepresent us

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:03am

Please do not misrepresent us

During Prabhupada's stay in Auckland, it was his habit to regularly see anyone and everyone who came to his room. Practically any time of the day, whoever would come to his door, Prabhupada would gesture warmly and say, "Come on," indicating them to come in and sit down, no matter whom he was speaking to at the time. His mood was always peaceful and relaxed; it seemed like he had time for everyone. After the engagement at the art gallery, all the devotees again crowd

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Second coming

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:03am

Second coming

Prabhupada concluded that if one actually wanted to become an artist, he should try to understand, or try to be intimately associated with the greatest artist, Krsna. And for this purpose the International Society for Krsna Consciousness has been established, wherein the members are trained to see in everything the display of Krsna's artistic sense. "That is Krsna consciousness. In everything the devotee sees the artistic hand of Krsna."

Prabhupada encouraged the attentive crowd to a

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - I am like a lion when I am preaching

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:02am

I am like a lion when I am preaching

The remaining questions confirmed the audience's gross misconceptions of Vedic philosophy. One man suggested that as one became more advanced in spiritual life, the chanting would drop away as being less important. Prabhupada's answer drew laughs from the devotees: "No. No, chanting is eternal. After you become perfect, you will also chant more loudly."

An argumentative guest brought the program to a close. "I have one question. Swamiji, you accept Krsna as the

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - As he did not accept me, I did not accept him

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:02am

As he did not accept me, I did not accept him

Saturday, 15 April 1972

Srila Prabhupada received a letter from Jadurani dasi, his artist disciple in America, along with an enclosed sketch for the proposed cover of the upcoming unpublished volume of the Fourth Canto, Volume One of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The sketch showed Lord Visnu sitting on the back of his eagle carrier, Garuda. In his eight arms he held, in a clockwise direction, a conch, an arrow, a bow, a disc, a lotus, sword, shield and club.

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching at Auckland Town Hall

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:02am

Preaching at Auckland Town Hall

The Auckland Town Hall was an ornate, Victorian-style building standing beside the Square in the centre of the city. The smaller of its two halls, the concert chamber, had been booked as the venue for an evening lecture by Srila Prabhupada.

Aksayananda's stepfather, Hector (Robbie) Robertson, had volunteered to drive Prabhupada to the hall. Early in the evening, the same quaint old car that had picked up Srila Prabhupada at the airport that morning coughed and splut

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Stay in New Zealand

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:01am

Stay in New Zealand

155 Landscape Road, Mount Eden

A small, burgundy-coloured prefabricated house now served as New Zealand's first Hare Krsna Temple. Mount Eden was situated at the end of a lava flow from an old volcano. Auckland was cradled in a nest of 60 such volcanoes, and Landscape Road displayed an abundance of the characteristic large volcanic boulders of the area.

In front of the little bungalow was a small, wooden veranda, and a tiny garden. The backyard was slightly bigger, with a revolv

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 36

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:01am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 36
api sva-dorbhyam vijayacyutabhyam
dharmena dharmah paripati setum
duryodhano 'tapyata yat-sabhayam
samrajya-laksmya vijayanuvrttya

api -- as also; sva-dorbhyam -- own arms; vijaya -- Arjuna; acyuta-bhyam -- along with Sri Krsna; dharmena -- on religious principles; dharmah -- King Yudhisthira; paripati -- maintains; setum -- the respect of religion; duryodhanah -- Duryodhana; atapyata -- envied; yat -- whose; sabhayam -- royal assembly; samrajya -- imperi

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 35

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:00am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 35
apisvid anye ca nijatma-daivam
ananya-vrttya samanuvrata ye
hrdika-satyatmaja-carudesna-
gadadayah svasti caranti saumya

api -- as also; svit -- whether; anye -- others; ca -- and; nija-atma -- of one's own self; daivam -- Sri Krsna; ananya -- absolutely; vrttya -- faith; samanuvratah -- followers; ye -- all those who; hrdika -- Hrdika; satya-atmaja -- the son of Satyabhama; carudesna -- Carudesna; gada -- Gada; adayah -- and others; svasti -- all well; c

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 34

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:00am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 34
apisvid aste bhagavan sukham vo
yah satvatam kama-dugho 'niruddhah
yam amananti sma hi sabda-yonim
mano-mayam sattva-turiya-tattvam

api -- as also; svit -- whether; aste -- does He; bhagavan -- the Personality of Godhead; sukham -- all happiness; vah -- of you; yah -- one who; satvatam -- of the devotees; kama-dughah -- source of all desires; aniruddhah -- the plenary expansion Aniruddha; yam -- whom; amananti -- they accept; sma -- from yore; hi -- certa

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 33

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 8:59am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 33
kaccic chivam devaka-bhoja-putrya
visnu-prajaya iva deva-matuh
ya vai sva-garbhena dadhara devam
trayi yatha yajna-vitanam artham

kaccit -- whether; sivam -- everything well; devaka-bhoja-putryah -- of the daughter of King Devaka-bhoja; visnu-prajayah -- of she who gave birth to the Personality of Godhead; iva -- like that of; deva-matuh -- of the mother of the demigods (Aditi); ya -- one who; vai -- indeed; sva-garbhena -- by her own womb; dadhara -- con

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 32

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 8:58am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 32
kaccid budhah svasty anamiva aste
svaphalka-putro bhagavat-prapannah
yah krsna-padankita-marga-pamsusv
acestata prema-vibhinna-dhairyah

kaccit -- whether; budhah -- very learned; svasti -- well; anamivah -- faultless; aste -- does exist; svaphalka-putrah -- the son of Svaphalka, Akrura; bhagavat -- regarding the Personality of Godhead; prapannah -- surrendered; yah -- one who; krsna -- the Lord; pada-ankita -- marked with footprints; marga -- path; pamsus

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 31

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 8:58am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 31
ksemam sa kaccid yuyudhana aste
yah phalgunal labdha-dhanu-rahasyah
lebhe 'njasadhoksaja-sevayaiva
gatim tadiyam yatibhir durapam

ksemam -- all good; sah -- he; kaccit -- whether; yuyudhanah -- Satyaki; aste -- is there; yah -- one who; phalgunat -- from Arjuna; labdha -- has achieved; dhanuh-rahasyah -- one who understands the intricacies of military art; lebhe -- also achieved; anjasa -- easily; adhoksaja -- of the Transcendence; sevaya -- by service; e

Whether man or woman

Posted by Sriman John Martini Krishna Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 1:53am

Chanting Hare Krishna

Posted by Sriman John Martini Krishna Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 1:52am

insignificant happiness

Posted by sanjay agrawal on July 7, 2011 at 7:51pm

we get entrapped in the material world simply for some insignificant happiness as compared to its distress and suffering and in the same manner a rat gets encaged for a small amount of chapati inside it.....

All Of Us Have To Work Together....

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on July 7, 2011 at 1:50pm

If we want to expand this Krishna Consciousness movement, then all of us have to work together. This must be clearly understood. So I would like to request the disciples who are being initiated today to be very respectful and cooperate with the temple authorities, and by cooperating with the temple authorities and listening to them, on actually pleases the spiritual master also.

(His Holiness Gopal Krsna Goswami , Freedom by Surrender)

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Iskcon temple in two years - First state-of the-art structure in Bihar, Jharkhand being built at Rs 51 crore.

Posted by Hitendra Patel on July 7, 2011 at 11:00am

Foundation stone of the Iskcon temple in Patna.

Patna, June 27: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) temple, coming up at Budh Marg in Patna, will open to public in 2013. Earlier, the temple construction was supposed to get over by 2012 end but because of drainage problems, the deadline had to be extended, said Nagmani Kumar, the spokesperson of Iskcon temple management in Patna.“The contract for construction of the temple has been given to Simplex Construction Company

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Posted by sanjay agrawal on July 6, 2011 at 10:14pm

THE AIM OF LIFE IS,NOT TO GET A BMW(CAR),BUT TO GIVE BMW(BODY,MIND AND WORDS) FOR THE SERVICE OF THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD AND HIS DEVOTEES...

PLEASE ACCEPT MY HUMBLE OBEISANCES

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100 000 Copies of Bhagavad-gita in US Motels

Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Please do not misrepresent us

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Second coming

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - I am like a lion when I am preaching

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - As he did not accept me, I did not accept him

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching at Auckland Town Hall

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Stay in New Zealand

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 36

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 35

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 34

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 33

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 32

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 31

Whether man or woman

Chanting Hare Krishna

insignificant happiness

All Of Us Have To Work Together....

Iskcon temple in two years - First state-of the-art structure in Bihar, Jharkhand being built at Rs 51 crore.

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