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 Maharaja Kulasekhara king, a great devotee, is praying to Krsna, "Krsna, this is the opportune time. Now I am healthy. I am quite in good health so let me die immediately, thinking of You, because my whole purpose is to think of You, of Your pastimes, at the time of death. So generally, at the time of death, kapha-vata-pittaih, the whole system becomes disarranged. There are coughing, there are headache, there is some pain, this is general system. Sometimes they are so intolerable that the man

 A devotee always accepts his distress as minimized by Gods Mercy; although he would have to suffer many more times the suffering. Any one who accepts this philosophy of Gods Mercy in suffering conditions, and still makes progress in Krishna Consciousness, it is said that he is sure to go back to Home, Back to Godhead. 

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

  


Sri Sri Krishna Balaram


 

Sri Sri Krishna Balaram Temple,
Vrindvan, India

Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar Lalita Visakha

from Santi Vardana Prabhu, ISKCON Malaysia

When I was studying in Vrndavana VIHE in 2001, everyday I used to pray to Lord on how to make spiritual progress quickly. I wanted lots of mercy because I knew I am very fallen and in need of great mercy. I prayed every day for many days to each Deity--Nitai Gauranga, Krsna Balaram, and Radha Shyamasu

 

Panna kala Narasimha 

Mangal Giri

 

spoken at Panna kala Narasimha Kshetra, Mangal Giri, by His Holiness Radhanath Swami

This Deity was established by Yudhistir Maharaj. It was during the twelve years that he was banished to the forest. He lost his kingdom, he lost all of his power, wealth and influence, he had to live in the forest, but because of that wonderful experience that he had, meeting these difficult challenges that he built so many beautiful temples. This is one of them. It was explain

 

Sri Sri Radha Madhava

The History of ISKCON Mayapur Deities
from mayapur.com

Every day we take darshan of our beloved Deities, Sri Sri Radha Madhava. They kindly bestow Their mercy upon us and enable us to serve Them. How did these beautiful Radha Madhava Deities come to Sri Mayapur Dham?

Once when Srila Prabhupada was in Sri Vrindavan Dham, Mr. Palmir, a life-patron member of ISKCON, donated three sets of Radha Krishna Deities. Srila Prabhupada sent one set of Deities went to Berkeley, one to Bost

At first it was experimentation with long, slow zooms and dissolves, using digital photos of Lord Nrsimhadev from visits to Mayapur. The Lord seemed to get closer and closer until it was almost frightening, and the closeups tranformed into various views of His beautiful face, covered with sandalwood paste.

I completed synchronizing the medium paced first musical section--Nrsimha prayers sung by Krsna Prema Prabhu. It concluded at the point where the singing breaks and there is a long instrumenta

Japa is an important part of devotional life. If your japa is not up to standard, this is serious. You must reform. That is, out of your regret may come success. Prabhupada used to say, ‘Failure is the pillar of success.’ Assess yourself, and try to improve your chanting of Hare Krishna.

Read more about Srila Vrindavana Dasa Thakura on - www.gaudiyahistory.com