Hare Krishna to all devotees.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
When I hear about Lord Krishna's pastimes, I feel Krishna is the supreme personality of godhead and so he can do anything..There is nothing as such he cannot do anything...But when I hear about Chaitanya mahaprabhu's pastimes
I feel ..ha..chaitanya mahaprabhu did that...so great is he...when he too is Lord krishna himself...
Why is this different feeling?
When discussing the topic of killing (meat eating) with Christians and Muslims. They ultimately justify killing animals for food by pointing to their scriptures. Thus the main reason why man kills for a living (meat eating) is religion. The Bible and Koran both state that animals are food. They both claim that their scripture is the word of God and thus there is absolutely nothing wrong in killing innocent animals.
This raises the question would God want man to eat m
GURGAON: The education department has outsourced a contract to provide mid-day meals to primary government schools all over Gurgaon. An MOU has been signed between the Directorate of Elementary Education and ISKCON to provide meals to more than 90,000 students across the city.A semi-automated kitchen will be set up to ensure that the food is cooked in a hygienic way and also to reduce the need for a large staff. The semi automated
kitchen would reduce our manpower needs but the people working in
Haribol Prabhus and Matajis
I am in a desperate situation here .
My Tulasi maharani's abode has been attacked by red ants and I have no clue what to do
Could experienced devotees here advice how can I save tulasi maharani from this attack ?
Your advice would be worth its weight in gold for me as I dont want any harm to come to Tulasi maharani
Thank you v much to all for help
Haribol
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Recently visited Akrura ghat at vrindavan dham. Pujari came up to me to tell me his explanation of pastime - akrura was a non devotee and therefore working with kamsa.
when he came to vrindavan , this place akrura ghat marks end of mathura and begining of vrindavan.Then he said this side (pointing to vrindavan) is for spiritualists and other side (pointing to mathura) is for materialistas. so here by touch of vrindavan akrura became pure devotee.In the same way saint chaitanya mahaprabhu came he
Every year the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA puts on the biggest Holi celebration in the Western Hemisphere. In 2011 the Spanish Fork Police department estimated that over 40,000 people attended in the first day alone of the two-day festival, starting on the 27th of March. Organizers carefully rationed their stash of approximately 120,000 bags of colored powder.
Attendees come from all over the country (and some from abroad), but the majority of attendees are students from Brigh
Last year ISKCON Secunderabad started a namahatta center in Kukatpally area which is a part of the city’s IT neighborhood. The center has grown by leaps and bounds. A grand Ratha-yatra in the area was held within two months of the center's opening.
The area is inhabited by a large number of DINK couples (double income no kids) but of course there are others who have kids.
When the center started the children programs, many parents approached the center and expressed their inability to attend due
The Moscow National Book Fair "Books of Russia 2011" took place on March 16-21 at the Russian Exhibition Center. For the third time in the last two years, Vaisnavas of Moscow Yatra participated in the event.
Srila Prabhupada encouraged his followers to "let there be systematic propaganda for popularizing reading of the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam", and that is why devotees could not miss a chance like this to present Prabhupada's books to the public.
This time the participation of Sri
The Bhakti Center of New York City is in East Village, within a three block radius of a funeral home, a nail salon, two housing projects, a cemetery, three gay bars, and a Jewish deli. Their ashram, or spiritual place of residence, is tucked away in a quiet five-story walk-up on First Avenue, above The Bhakti Cafe, a vegetarian and raw food luncheonette run by the center’s practitioners. It is almost 10 a.m. when Dave buzzes me into the building.
As I walk up the stairs, I pass a framed print of
An incredible 25,000 devotees attended the opening of a brand new temple in Ravet on the outskirts of Pune, India this March 21st through 22nd—including Gopal Krishna Goswami, Lokanath Swami, Radhanath Swami, Chandramauli Swami, Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, and many other senior devotees from ISKCON temples across Maharastra.
On the first day of the festival a fire ceremony was performed by Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, followed by an “Abhisekha” in which the local devotees bathed the Sri Sri Gaura Nita
A Krishna conscious person follows the following principles; Krishna consciousness, No Intoxication, No Meat eating, No elicit sex, No gambling, Accepting the law of karma and reincarnation:
1. Krishna (God) consciousness.
Do you follow a God with no name, unknown address, unknown description, and u
"Just as the sunshine is spread all over the universe, the energy of the lord is spread all over the creation, and everything is resting in that energy."
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura movingly describes the precariousness such person experiences:
"alas, how unfortunate i am. having ffallen into this insurmountable ocean of material existence, i am being thrown here and there by the violent waves of my wicked desires.... i cry miserably at my helpless condition.
but i do not see any hope of being saved. what should i do? how will i be delivered? i do not see any solution to my dilemma. oh Lord, take me to You. take me up to the shade of the cool dust o
