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March 5^th – 6^th

Saturday 12:00 noon – Sunday 12:00 noon

Hare Krishna (ISKCON) Berkeley Temple

2334 Stuart Street, Berkeley, California 94705

(Cross Street is Telegraph Ave., Stuart is 4 blocks north of Ashby)

Telephone:   510-649-8619

His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,  Founder-Acharya of ISKCON

Picture above copied from website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Dandvata Pranam Prabhu JI and Mata Ji

                                  I have a little doubt regarding to Devotional Song for your Spiritual Progress. Should we listen only Iskcon Vaishnav Song or can we listen also other krishna Bhakti song by other singer like. Pt. Jasraj. Bhimsen Joshi , Vinod Agrawal , Mridual Krishna Shashtri  Ji ,  and many more there are..

                                 My realization  that Iskcon'd Devotional Song is pure and pure spiri

Prabhupada said he would go to as many speaking engagements as Aniruddha could obtain. Aniruddha got engagements, but there were many difficulties. On two occasions, Prabhupada, Subala, and Aniruddha were on their way to an engagement at a college when their car broke down. Another time, a policeman arrested Subala for not having a driver's license, and Prabhupada, accompanied by his servant, had to walk back to his apartment. At an engagement at the U.C.L.A. Student Center, not a single studen

Dear devotees and well-wishers,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Tuesday’s devastating here in Christchurch has unfortunately destroyed the temple along with our deities Sri Sri Nitai-Gauracandra. The devotees are all safe although some have had significant damage to their houses.

The local devotees should refrain from coming to the temple as it is closed and deemed unsafe.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your kind thoughts,

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 24th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12.18

Speaker: HH Prabhavisnu Swami

bhaktim harau bhagavati pravahann ajasram

ananda-baspa-kalaya muhur ardyamanah

viklidyamana-hrdayah pulakacitango

natmanam asmarad asav iti mukta-lingah

TRANSLATION:Because of his transcendental bliss, incessant tears flowed from his eyes, his heart melted, and there was shivering and standing of thehairs all over his body. Thus transfo

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 20th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12.15

Speaker: HG Anuttama Prabhu

manyamana idam visvam

maya-racitam atmani

avidya-racita-svapna-

gandharva-nagaropamam

TRANSLATION: Srila Dhruva Maharaja realized that this cosmic manifestation bewilders living entities like a dream or phantasmagoria because it is acreation of the illusory, external energy of the Supreme Lord.

PURPORT: In the deep forest it sometimes app

SPIRITUAL REALIZATION    :    UMBRELLA APPROACH

It has been my personal experience, observation and also experience and observation of many in ISKCON that

1)   followers of one Guru Maharaj does NOT encourage / like / wish talking / praising / glorifying of another Guru Maharaj,

2)   followers of one Guru Maharaj argues that my Guru Maharaj is Great, My ISKCON Temple is Great, Our Preaching is Right, etc., etc.

3)   strangely, in some temples, they do NOT permit to sell the books written by othe

A guest should be treated with proper respect and honour

Date: June 16, 2007
Verse: Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.16.7
Speaker: HH Bhakti Charu Swami
Location: ISKCON New Vrindaban [www.newvrindaban.com]
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[note: transcription is not verbatim]

grhesu yesv atithayo narcitah salilair api yadi niryanti te nunam pheruraja-grhopamah

TRANSLATION: Homes from which guests go away without having been received even with an offering of a little water are like those holes in the field which are the homes of ja

Krishna Consciousness means NOT only SHAVING Beard, Mustache and hair on Head and be neat and clean by physical ambiance but also to SHAVE the internal & hidden hairs, beards & mustaches of Lust, Anger, Ego, Envy, Pride, Arrogance, Ignorance & illusion.

Therefore, in Krishna Consciousness, both Internal & External Shaving is required from time to time.

If one is simply neat and clean externally by neat shave, white dhoti kurta, tilak and kanti mala and possessing all demonish qualities, one cann

His Divine Grace Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja made his appearance as Braja-bandhu Manik in a vaishnava family on 2nd September 1929. He appeared in the village of Jagannathapura, not far from Jagannatha Puri Dhama, in Orissa, India, but as his mother was descended from the Giri family of the village Gadeigiri,  Braja-bandhu spent his childhood there. His grandfather was a paramahamsa whose only business was to chant Hare Krishna and cry before the lo

                               Career Councelling     

                                                                                             (by  HG Nitaichand pr)

                                                                                        Career options after school/college

Balance

Spiritual life                Materialistic life

                           Sadhna              Service

• Don’t think in spiritual life, “we have to neglect or le