Chavara International Center for Indian and Interreligious Studies (CICIIS) Sacramento organized a unique event on December 18, 2010, 6:30PM-9:00PM at  St. Mary’s Parish, M Street Sacramento.  Pastor and Director James Narithookil invited representatives of major religions to speak on the occasion of Interreligious Christmas Celebration 2010.  The programme commenced with carol singing by the students of St, Mary's School, Sacramento.
Dr. Metwalli Amer, Founder of SALAM Islamic Center delivered h

H.H. Indradyumna Swami Maharaj : Past, Present and Future

Srila Prabhupada: “Yes. There is the Brighu Samhitaa astrological calculation. You can know your past life, present life and future life. That is the system, Brighu Samhitaa.”

Incident

Before leaving Vrindavan for the West, I told Sri Prahlada das that I wanted to take darsan of the famous Deity of Sri Nathji, in Rajasthan. The Deity was discovered on Govardhan Hill by a great devotee, Madhavendra Puri, more than 500 years ago, before the ad

"O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like theappearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."

Sometimes a saintly person is misunderstood by gṛhasthas, especially when he instructs their young sons to accept Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Generally a gṛhastha thinks that unless one enters gṛhastha life he cannot properly enter the renounced order. If a young man immediately adopts the path of the renounced order in accordance with the instructions of Nārada or a member of his disciplic succession, his parents become very angry. This same phenomenon is occ

Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's standard for Ekadasi:
He used sesame seeds, mustard seeds, and peanuts - see Yamuna's Table Cookbook.
Vanila is a POD not a bean.

NOTES:
check the label of the white choc to see that there are no grains, cocoa, E 410, E 412, 410, 412 etc
check hing to make sure it is free from wheat and rice flour - get the pure resin hing and grate it to fine powder.

PIZZA POTATOES
Serves: 4
Some steamed brocc

Please do not be carried away by the mis given mind to conclude that the present life is all in all. You are eternal, and the present form of human life is a chance of realizing your eternal life. Do not spoil your life simply by serving the mis given mind and the uncontrolled senses. Please do not become your own enemy by your own self 
- Srila Prabhpada

Krishna Playing
Poet: surdas

Hari (Krishna) is singing something in his courtyard (aangan). He is dancing with His little-little feet and enticing His own mind.

Sometimes, He lifts His hands and calls the cows, by names Kajari and Dhauri, and then returns back to His home calling His father as Baba Nand.

He takes a bit of butter in His small hand and puts in His small mouth. Sometimes, He assumes the reflection in pillar to be another child and tries to offer Him a bit of butter.

Jasomati, the mother

NEWS:

The leadership training camp called ISKCON LEADS for the North zone was held at the capital - New Delhi, at the ISKCON temple (Greater Kailash) recently.

Around 40 devotees who went through a packed program for 4 days came out as strong advocates of "Simple living and High thinking" convinced of the right alternative Srila Prabhupada gave to the looming problems of the world.

The four days of interacitve sessions, videos, group discussions, presentations by participants and enthusiasm of the

Dear Friends,

Here in Warsaw, when the sankirtan devotees returned to the temple last evening, one of them told me that while crossing the street, he had gotten hit by a car going a couple of miles an hour. Didn't hurt him, but broke his book trolley. The driver was freaked out, crying and apologising profusely. The devotee assured her he wouldn't call the police, but insisted she take a cookbook and a Bhagavad-gita. She did, plus she paid for his broken trolley. He also made her promise to read

Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara) - Jogiya-sthala

Mahadeva Sankara worships Krsna here, and therefore this place is also known as Mahadeva's sitting-place (baithaka). Once, Mahadeva Sankara, desiring to have Krsna's darsana, was wandering throughout Vraja like a madman, but his repeated attempts bore no success. Sometimes, Krsna would be sleeping when he arrived and sometimes He would be sucking the breast of His mother. Also, Mother Yasoda did not want to show her baby Krsna to this st