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Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: March 10th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead

Verse: 4:12:34

Speaker: HG Jagajivan Prabhu

tatra tatra prasamsadbhih

pathi vaimanikaih suraih

avakiryamano dadrse

kusumaih kramaso grahan

TRANSLATION: While Dhruva Maharaja was passing through space, he gradually saw all the planets of the solar system, and on the path he saw all thedemigods in their airplanes showering flowers upon him like rain.

PURPORT: There is a Vedic version, yasmin vijnate

If God exists - Why so much pain and suffering?

A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said, "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that," asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would th

*GBC AGM--Oath of Allegiance

Every year during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC), GBC members reaffirm their Oath of Allegiance. This year GBC members gathered in Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Sridham Mayapur for the event, and Bhaktimarga Swami led the recitation of the Oath. The following is the Oath of Allegiance and photos of the occasion.

1.To accept His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as the Founder-Acarya and Supreme Authority of I

GBC Meeting Report—February 26th-27th

By Sraddhadevi Dasi

ISKCON’s 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Governing Body Commission (GBC) continued February 26th and 27th with GBC members separating intocommittees to discussion specific topics. Some of the committees were Guru Services, GBC-BBT Relations, Parallel Lines of Authority, and the Sannyasa Committee. Regional Governing Bodies, such as the Latin Governing Body and the North American GBCs also convened to discuss issues particular to th

VAISNAVA DOGS

Radhe !

I have just returned today from Sri Nabadwipa Dham Parikrama and i want to share this unique experience with you.

We decided to visit Ek-Chakra village (the birth place of Nityananda Prabhu, who is none other than Sri Balarama in Krsna's pasttimes).

We started doing sankirtan there in the praise of Lord Nityananda and Gauranga:

Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai He !
Nitai Gauranga Jai Nitai Gauranga !
Gaura Gaura Gaura, Gaura Hari !
and within few minutes, we were surround

HUM PREM NAGAR KI BANJARAN 

JAP, TAP AUR SADHAN KYA JAANE!

HUM KRISHNA KE NAAM KI DIWANI

VRAT ,NEM KE BHANDHAN KYA JAANE!!

YE PREM KI BAATEIN HAI UDHO

KOI KYA SAMHJE AUR KYA JAANE!!

HUM BRIJ KI BHOLI GAWARNIYA 

BRAHAMGYAN KI ULJHAN KYA JAANE!!

My humble prayers to my Lord Naraimhadeva: -

O’ Nåsiàhadeva! Your form is very terrible with Your long and sharp teeth. You are very fearful to see with strong large nails and garlanded by flames. Destroy, destroy my obstacles! Kick out, kick out my fear! Scatter, scatter my enemies! Destroy, destroy my karma! Flash, flash! Kill, kill! Cut, cut! Ever fulfill, ever fulfill all my desires to serve You. Safeguard, safeguard me and all around me.

Although I was very wealthy, I am blind and without d

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE !

      HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE !!

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Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: March 9th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead

Verse: 4:12:33

Speaker: HH Prabodhanand Sarasvati Swami

iti vyavasitam tasya

vyavasaya surottamau

darsayam asatur devim

puro yanena gacchatim

TRANSLATION: The great associates of Vaikunthaloka, Nanda and Sunanda, could understand the mind of Dhruva Maharaja, and thus they showed him that his mother, Suniti, was going forward in another plane.

PURPORT: This incident proves that the siksa- or diksa-gur

Hare Krsna Prabhus,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

On the second day of the 2011 book distribution seminars in Mayapur,

Sadbhuja Prabhu, the president of the Leipzig (Germany) temple, spoke. He said that a scholar in Germany did a survey of religious movements around the world and found that every decade hundreds of movements begin and stop. One of the main prerequisites for a movement to last, he found, is that it has to inspire its members to do voluntary serv

Hare Krsna dear Prabhuji:

Please accept our humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thanks a lot for your kind concern.

By Krsna's mercy all well.It was a nasty quake. Lasted few minutes.Though Tokyo is not as bad as Sendai/Miyagi.Miyagi/Sendai near the epicenter devastated.Tokyo shocks were about 6.

I just came to ground floor and was about to ride bicycle. I started waving like drunkard. Could not understand what is happening. Ran away from the building in the open area. Wife and younge