Srila Prabhupada's Appearance Day ( Vyasa Puja - 2010 )

Posted by Lakshman Poddar on September 3, 2010 at 10:09am

Srila Prabhupad's Appearance Day is a very special day for all ISKCON devotees as they joyfully glorify their eternal saviour Srila Prabhupada on His appearance day.Srila Prabhupada was sent by the Lord to fulfill Caitanya Mahaprabhu's prediction-

Prtvithe ache yata nagaradi grama,

sarvatra pracara haibe more nama

In every town and village of the world, My name will be heard.Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakura wrote in his Sajjona-tosani, "Soon there will be a time when the chanting of Krishna's name will

Happy Janmastami

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 2, 2010 at 10:00am

Happy Janmastami

Devaki Nandan

Keshav Dev Temple at Mathura (Krishna Janma Bhoomi Temple
(See the Muslim Idgah on the left side of the temple)

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Gokul

Yasoda Nandan

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14 Lakh Devotees Expected To Converge In 48 Hours For A Glimpse Of The World’s Largest Janmashtami Celebrations

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 1, 2010 at 6:00pm

ISKCON set for a WORLD STOPPER
14 Lakh Devotees Expected To Converge In 48 Hours For A Glimpse Of The World’s Largest Janmashtami Celebrations

Fourteen lakh cups made of dry leaves, or dronas as they are called, are stacked in the store room of the ISKCON temple in Juhu, waiting to receive the delectable ‘halwa prasad’ that is bubbling in huge cauldrons in the kitchen. One of the largest gatherings in the world on Janmashtami will unfold at this signature Krishna temple where up to 14 lakh d

HARE KRISHNA

Posted by reeta tuteja on September 1, 2010 at 12:00pm

HARE KRISHNA

H.......................HIS DIVINE GRACE SRILA PRABHUPADA

A.......................ALWAYS CHANT MAHAMANTRA

R.......................REAL LOVE & DEVOTION WITH KRISHNA

E.......................ENGAGED WITH DEVOTION SERVICE

K.......................KNOWLEDGE OF BHAKTI BY PURE DEVOTEES(GOD SISTERS AND GOD BROTHERS)

R.......................REALIZATION BY PRACTICE

I.........................INTELLIGENCE FIXED ON KRISHNA

S........................SHIKSHA GURU IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR BACK TO GODHEAD

H......

Yamaraj's Greatest Concern

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 1, 2010 at 11:02am

Yamaraj is the demigod who records all of our pious and evil deeds. The servants of Yamaraj approached him and complained about something they were very concerned about. Here is the conversation between Yamaraj and his Yamaduta servants.

Yamaduta 1: How are you Prabhuji?

Yamaraj: I am doing well. But you look a little tense.

Yamaduta 1: Yeah Prabhu. We are little held with few matters.

Yamaraj: Oh. Let me know your issues.

Yamaduta 1: I am worried about this hell.

Yamaraj: Why? What ha

A Young Celebration

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 1, 2010 at 10:38am

You could well bump into them at any of the Capital’s many pubs. But you won’t. Instead, you’ll find them earnestly preparing for the festival of Janmashtami tomorrow. These are the five guys we met at the Iskcon temple in East of Kailash. All are in their 20s and all dedicated to God’s mission.

“I really used to be into rock music… obsessed with heavy metal bands such as Metallica and Opeth,” says Natvara Krishna Das (that’s the name he, like his friends, has adopted at the temple), 22, an

POEM TO THE FALSE EGO

Posted by Krishna Deva das on September 1, 2010 at 3:21am

But I ask.. who are you?

Could you be the Devil?

You don’t go by that name anymore.. you have several

I think I know you.. you’re so illusive

I’d ask other religions about you, but their answers are always inconclusive

You want me to guess who are huh?

Answer me!

I know how you do it… You create individual fantasies

The devil? You don’t deserve that title!

You get me to want to become my own idol

Guess what?

Now I’m plotting on your demise

Only by true surrender will I remember

Until then I will always be a

New study from the University of Leicester agrees that higher income does not bring happiness

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on August 31, 2010 at 11:30pm

Is grass greener on other side?

Migration does not bring happiness: UK study

LONDON: For migrants to the UK from India and elsewhere, the grass might not be greener on the other side, a new study from the University of Leicester has found.

Economic migrants travelling to different shores for greater income could be set for disappointment - because the pursuit of wealth does not equate with happiness. The study, carried out by sociologist David Bartram, is titled "Economic Migration and Happi

RASIKANANDA PRABHU’S VISIT TO GOVARDHAN

Posted by _ghanshyam das on August 31, 2010 at 9:43pm

RASIKANANDA PRABHU’S VISIT TO GOVARDHAN

Sri Gopijanavallabha Das

Rasikananda Prabhu appeared in this world in Utkala (Orissa) in the year 1590 as the son of Sri Acyuta and his wife Bhavani. The devo-tees in the line of Shyamananda Prabhu con-sider Rasikananda to be an incarnation of Aniruddha, the expansion of Lord Vishnu. The following story adapted from the Bengali book Rasika-magala by Sri Gopijanavallabha Das, a prominent disciple of Srila Rasikananda Prabhu, describe the events that led up to

A HUMBLE APPEAL TO THE MASTER OF RADHA

Posted by Neelam S Ahir on August 31, 2010 at 9:30pm

A HUMBLE APPEAL TO THE MASTER OF RADHA

By the medieval poet Gaurasundar Das

Gaurasundar Das was a Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnava poet who lived in the early part of the 18th century. He compiled the famous songbook named Kīrtanānanda, which consists of 651 songs composed by 60 different poets. Gaurasundar Das wrote a similar song to the one below, in which every line also begins with the words, “rādhā-nātha”

(śrī-rāga)

rādhā-nātha dekhite lāgiche bhaya tanu-bala hrāsa āra buddhi-nāśa kakhana ki jāni haya

The Seven Highly Effective Purposes Of ISKCON

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 31, 2010 at 6:26pm

On July 11, 1966, Srila Prabhupada incorporated a new religious movement called ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

The seven Purposes of ISKCON:

a) To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all peoples in the techniques of spiritual life in order to check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and peace in the world.

b) To propagate a consciousness of Krishna, as it is revealed in the Bhagavad Gita and the Srim

Kali Yuga, The Problems and the Solution

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 31, 2010 at 6:22pm

The age of Kali is the most condemned age due to its quarrelsome features. Kali-yuga is so saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest misunderstanding. Those who are engaged in the pure devotional service of the Lord, who are without any desire for self-aggrandizement and who are freed from the effects of fruitive actions and dry philosophical speculations are capable of getting out. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The leaders of the people ar

FRIENDS FROM ANOTHER WORLD

Posted by _ghanshyam das on August 31, 2010 at 11:30am

FRIENDS FROM ANOTHER WORLD -

by Srila Bhaktissidhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada

The servitors of Godhead will always look to our interest. In this material world, our friends sometimes like us and sometimes they turn against us. But in sādhu-saga there is an oppor-tunity of hearing about our original home from the lips of persons who are quite familiar with the same. If we neglect the opportunity we shall repent in the long run. Their words will lift us and change our mentality. All sorts of puz

ISKCON Devotee Bids for Brussels to Host Parliament of World Religions

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on August 31, 2010 at 8:42am

The next meeting of one of the biggest interfaith gatherings in the world, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, could be hosted in Brussels, Belgium in 2014—and an ISKCON devotee is front and center in the bidding process.

ISKCON’s European Communications Director Mahaprabhu Dasa goes back 117 years to explain how it came to this.

“The Parliament of the World’s Religions was first held in Chicago in 1893 as part of a large fair called the World Columbian Exposition,” he says. “An histori

Remembrances of Lives Past - Article from The New York Times

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on August 31, 2010 at 8:13am

In one of his past lives, Dr. Paul DeBell believes, he was a caveman. The gray-haired Cornell-trained psychiatrist has a gentle, serious manner, and his appearance, together with the generic shrink décor of his office — leather couch, granite-topped coffee table — makes this pronouncement seem particularly jarring.

In that earlier incarnation, “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said Dr. DeBell, who has a private practice on the Upper East Side where he specializ

OBSTACLES ON THE PATH OF DEVOTION

Posted by _ghanshyam das on August 30, 2010 at 9:47pm

OBSTACLES ON THE PATH OF DEVOTION

Śrī Hari Bhakti-sudhodaya 10.46-50

After a minister of Hiranyakasipu preached toBhakta Prahlad to give up the worship of LordVishnu, Prahlad replied:

vtāni vighnai śreyāsi prabho sarvāi sarvadāśreyastamā kathā siddhyen nivirghnā hari-bhāvanā

O my master, there is no doubt that when-ever one does good, one meets obstacles. It isa fact that in order to perform any auspiciousact there will be many difficulties to overcome.So how can the most auspicious hari-bhajanbe pe

Attitude of a Vishnava

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 30, 2010 at 1:00pm

First we must understand what humbleness is because different people have different understanding of what constitutes humbleness. Someone may say, humbleness means someone speaks very sweetly and always bows down with folded hands. This is the external application of humbleness. But there is internal realization of humbleness. How do you exhibit that? Genuinely feel I am a fool and need improvement. So you take advice which is given for our spiritual benefit. If you want to have good Vaishnava r

Shiksha GURU

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on August 30, 2010 at 12:30pm

We should not take the word “Shiksha GURU” lightly. It seems that people have started thinking that whoever is instructing is a “shiksha GURU” . According to ISKCON’s regulations, Shiksha GURU is a very big responsibility. It is not that you give two classes & You become a shiksha GURU. Shiksha GURU is not cheap term. This position is granted only after a lot of procedures. Whoever is instructing you is not a Shiksha Guru even if help are posing as one. They are just monitors like you have a mon

Radha Rani Ki Jai...

Posted by Sandeep Sharma on August 30, 2010 at 10:49am

Whatever happened, it happened for good.
Whatever is happening, is happening for good.
Whatever that will happen, it will be for good.
What have you lost for which you cry?
What did you bring with you, which you have lost?
What did you produce, which has destroyed?
You did not bring anything when you were born.
Whatever you have, you have received from Him.
Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.
You came empty handed and

you will go the same way.

Whatever is yours today was somebody else’s y

Voodoo Priest Gets the Mercy

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on August 30, 2010 at 10:07am

In the evening, after a blissful day of book distribution in New Orleans's French Quarter, Raya Nitai Prabhu, Bhakta Steve and I were preparing to go on harinam. After we blew a conchshell to signify the beginning of harinam, a tall skinny man with a goatee, French beret, and long hair walked through a black gate from a dimly lit ally and approached us.

He asked, " Are you Hare Krishnas?"

We replied, "Yes."

He smiled and said, "That's wonderful! Tonight is the anniverssary of our head pr

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Srila Prabhupada's Appearance Day ( Vyasa Puja - 2010 )

Happy Janmastami

14 Lakh Devotees Expected To Converge In 48 Hours For A Glimpse Of The World’s Largest Janmashtami Celebrations

HARE KRISHNA

Yamaraj's Greatest Concern

A Young Celebration

POEM TO THE FALSE EGO

New study from the University of Leicester agrees that higher income does not bring happiness

Migration does not bring happiness: UK study

RASIKANANDA PRABHU’S VISIT TO GOVARDHAN

A HUMBLE APPEAL TO THE MASTER OF RADHA

The Seven Highly Effective Purposes Of ISKCON

Kali Yuga, The Problems and the Solution

FRIENDS FROM ANOTHER WORLD

ISKCON Devotee Bids for Brussels to Host Parliament of World Religions

Remembrances of Lives Past - Article from The New York Times

OBSTACLES ON THE PATH OF DEVOTION

Attitude of a Vishnava

Shiksha GURU

Radha Rani Ki Jai...

Voodoo Priest Gets the Mercy

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