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Date : March 11, 2011
Place: Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mumbai

Hare Krishna!

This is a very inspiring story of a simple young devotee boy from Mumbai, who is in the verge of leaving his body at Bhaktivedanta Hospital.

Anoop Banerjee, born in 1st June 1983, is from a Bengali Family. He has lived most of his life in Jogeshwari, a western suburb in Mumbai. His family (members) are  not ISKCON devotees or followers, but have a  favourable disposition.

From their very old memories way back in 1989-90, When A

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that "I don't want any material wealth," dhanam. Na janam. "I don

Meaning of the Mahamantra

First Meaning: -

Srila Jiva Gosvami reveals the meaning of each of the sixteen Names in the Hare Krishna Mahaamantra in his Mahaa-mantrartha Dipika as follows: -

hare Krishna hare Krishna Krishna Krishna hare hare
hare Raama hare Raama Raama Raama hare hare

(1-Hare)
Krishna steals the minds of everyone, yet Radha steals even His mind by Her divine expertise. Thus She is known as Haraa.

(2-Krishna)
He forcibly attracts Sri Radha with the sweet sound of His flute, therefore that

On the first day of the 2011 sankirtan seminars in Mayapur, Navina Nirada Prabhu related a nice story about a Russian sankirtan devotee. While distributing books he met another devotee distributing, so he asked him, "Which temple are you from?"The other devotee asked, "Temples? There are temples?"

It turned out that the young man had received a book from someone and had become very inspired by reading it. And when he read in the book how important it is that this knowledge be distributed to othe

As we all know, Prabhupada gave a lot of emphasis to book production and distribution. Before '75 most of our books were being imported, but then westarted our own book production around June of '75. So we had arranged...we had a member called Mr. Gupta, I believe, he had a very big bookstore in downtown at Floral(?) Fountain. So we had arranged a very big book display for Srila Prabhupada's books. We had Prabhupada's books in the shop in thewindow, we had a rack with Prabhupada's books, we had

KARWAR: Charlie Chaplin's grandson Mark Joplin (60) married Terra Tiffany at Karnataka's Gokarna according to Hindu rituals. Both are from the US.

Mark has been visiting India, especially Gokarna, for the last 40 years. Both are deeply interested in Hindu culture and art. In the last two decades, they have conducted seminars on Indian classical music, mythology, the Ramayana, Harikatha, Samkeertana and Sanathana lifestyle in the US. While Mark is a good tabla and mridangam player, Terra plays th

Hare Krishna!!!!!!!

Charan ye dekh kar hum saari duniya bul jaate hain.

Tumhe paane ki chahat main kudh ko bhul jatein hai.

charan ye dekh kar hum saari duniya bhul jaatein hai.

Teri aankhon main kanha hum sada hi dubna chahei

issi khatir abhi tak terna hamne nahi shikha

charan ye dekh kar hum saari duniya bhool jatein hain.

Tadap dil ki hadho ke par hadho se dur jaati hain

ki ab naa der kar ye jaan mere haatho phislati hai!!!!!!! 

Charan ye dekh kar hum saari duniya bhool jatein hai.

How It All Began...

by His Holiness Guru dasa Swami

(as told to Damodara dasa for BTG Magazine Volume 11, Number 0304, 1976)

I first learned of Srila Prabhupada's plan for a "heaven on earth" in Vrndavana, India in May of 1970. Vrndavana is the birthplace of Lord Krsna, which lies some ninety miles southeast of Delhi. I was in Delhi when Srila Prabhupada wrote me a letter explaining his plan. He asked me to investigate a report that the king of Bharatpur wanted to give us one of his many Vrndavana

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our most humble obeisances.  All glories to SrilaPrabhupada.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to our post Gaura Purnima festival 2011 in Sri Vrindavan Dham.  The festival includes parikramas to the pastime places of Krsna and the most loved boat festival ever.  A special yatra to Jaipur and Karoli, for the darshan of the main deities of our sampradaya, Sri Madan Mohan, Sri Gopinath and Sri Govinda Deva is also part of the schedule.

The parikramas will be le

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: March 5th, 2011
Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead
Verse: 4.12.28
Speaker: HH Bhaktivaibhava Swami

maitreya uvaca

nisamya vaikuntha-niyojya-mukhyayor

madhu-cyutam vacam urukrama-priyah

krtabhisekah krta-nitya-mangalo

munin pranamyasisam abhyavadayat

TRANSLATION: The great sage Maitreya continued: Maharaja Dhruva was very dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When he heard the sweet speeches of the Lord's chief associates in the Vaikuntha plane

On the first day of Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama, Russian Party started from Godrumdvipa to Svarup ganj. The international party also walked in the island of Godrumadvipa, visiting Narasimhapalli and halted for the day at Harihara Ksetra. The Hindi party started off from Madhyadvipa, visiting Hamsa vahan, Naimasaranya and proceeded for Maha Harinam at streets of Koladvipa. The Bengali Namahatta Party (biggest party with 2500 devotees) peformed their parikrama in Simantadvipa and camped for the da