"One who passes the Catumasya season without observing religious vows,austerities and chanting of japa, such a fool although living should be consideredto be a dead man." (Bhavisya Purana)"

In the month of Sravana (July , August) one should refrain from eating spinach.In th e month of Bhadra (August, September) of yogurt ,in Asvina (September, October) milk .In Karttika (October, November) meat and urad dahl." (Skanda Purana)
Visnu Rahasya (Lord Brahma to Narada Muni): "If one accepts all theseVai

हे  गुरुदेव  जय  हो  तिहारी 

हम  पर  रहे  कृपा  तिहारी 

भटक  रहे  थे  हमे  रास्ता  दिखाया 

प्रभ  मिलने  का  रास्ता  दिखाया 

चरणों  में  आपके  है  दुनिया  हमारी 

हे  गुरुदेव  जय  हो  तिहारी 

पतितपावन  हे  दीन बंधू 

करुना  निधान हो  युगपुरुष  आप 

सबसे  अलग  है  महिमा  तिहारी 

हे  गुरुदेव  जय  हो  तिहारी 

चरणों  में  हमको  जगह  देदो  गुरुवार 

हमे  अपनी  किरपा  का  पातर बना  लो 

झोली  फैलाये  बेठे  है  हम   तो 

डारो हमपे  भी  इक  नज़र  करुनामई

हे  गुरुदेव  जय  हो  तिहारी 

श्रधा  के  फूल  भक्ति  का  भोग 

जलाये  ह्रद

Merciful Appearance of Lord Nrsimhadev in Our Life

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Please accept our humble pranams! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev !!

Srila Prabhupada explains that, sleep is only to recover from the fatigue due to working hard. The devotees are meant to work very hard. Devotees must never be lazy. All the great acharyas condemn laziness. When we are lazy, we are just opening the doors for Maya to rush into our mind and take complete control.  Therefore we must be very active, we must be very busy in hearing the glories of the Lord, in chanting the glories of the Lord and in rendering service by executing the instructions of t

When Radhanath Swami and his friends asked the border guard the way to Istanbul, the guard pointed to a lonely country road. It stretched out into the darkness of the hilly, fertile country of Eastern Thrace. As they walked, Radhanath Swami saw for the first time the minaret of a stone mosque. The mosque’s dome and spires fascinated him and he was thrilled to see a place of God. There was no traffic on the road and Istanbul was still 150 miles away. What now? As they stood wondering how they wou

One last evening in Kandahar, while in a dim crowded tea stall, Radhanath Swami squatted on the floor with the locals. Suddenly everyone’s attention focused on a blind boy who stumbled in carrying a rustic wooden instrument with a single string nailed across it. He was perhaps sixteen years old, and like the others, wore soiled rags that loosely covered his emaciated body.

Radhanath Swami’s heart quaked—nothing covered his blinded, disfigured eyes. Despite his extreme poverty, he smiled radiantly

22nd annual Siliguri Ratha Yatra - 2011

Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obesiences. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On Sunday, July 3, 2011,ISKCON Siliguri observed the twenty second annual Rathayatra Festival.

Mahaprabhu's mood at Ratha-yatra

At the beginning of the Ratha-yatra Festival, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers a prayer to Jagannatha-deva, not to His form as Lord Jagannatha or Vasudeva-Krsna, but to His form as Vrajendra-nandana Sri Krsna:

jayati jana-nivaso devaki-janma-vado
yadu-vara-parisat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam
sthira-cara-vrjina-ghnah su-smita-sri-mukhena
vraja-pura-vanitanam vardhayan kama-devam
Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.90.48)

["Sri Krsna is He who is known as jana-nivasa, the ultimate reso

GUNDICA MANDIRA MARJANA

[Dear Readers,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
July 1, 2011 is the commemoration of Gundica Mandira Marjana, the cleaning of the Gundica Temple. Please accept this lecture excerpted from Srila Narayana’s Maharaja’s book, The Origin of Ratha-yatra. 
Your aspiring servants,
The hari-katha team]

We should know that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second. He is the same God for the Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and a

Ghee Lamps in a Bag and the Lord in My Hands

Volume 11, Chapter 14
Feb 27, 2011

HH Indradyumna Swami Maharaj

In India I am always on the lookout for interesting puja items, so the other day in Jaipur, I visited the antique shop of Mr. Sharma, an old friend. As I walked in he greeted me and we sat down to talk.

“Do you have anything interesting for me?” I asked.

“Yes,” he said. “I’ve kept aside a few small items you can use for puja.”

“Great!” I said.

As Mr. Sharma looked through the desk drawers for t

If shravanam is so important for a devotee and it is a primary requirement how about people who are deaf? How can such people benefit in their spiritual process? In what language do they communicate for spiritual upliftment? Do we have any program in place for such souls in Iskcon?

Signs Unto Krishna

 

When Dayal Gauranga Dasa first began visiting ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Manor near London, England, in 1980, he found that it was difficult for him to participate in temple activities and to connect wit