The more we are entering into the relationship with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the more we will be able to actually have self confidence. Because, maybe our biggest struggle in spiritual life is not that we don’t believe in Krsna consciousness- we do- but our biggest problem is that we don’t believe in ourselves. Krsna consciousness- ‘yes, I believe it’s true, but can I really follow it?’ That’s the doubt that is sort of much stronger than any other one- our lack of faith in our own ability to fol

GBC Meeting Report #6

samaḥ śatrau ca mitre ca

tathā mānāpamānayoḥ

śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu

samaḥ sańga-vivarjitaḥ

tulya-nindā-stutir maunī

santuṣṭo yena kenacit

aniketaḥ sthira-matir

bhaktimān me priyo naraḥ - (B.G. 12.18-19)

TRANSLATION

One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association, always silent and satisfied with anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed i

I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths. – S.B.1.8.25

PURPORT

Generally the distressed, the needy, the intelligent and the inquisitive, who have performed some pious activities, worship or begin to worship the Lord. Others, who are thriving on misdeeds only, regardless of status, cannot approach the Supreme due to being misled by the illusory energy. Therefore,

An Appearance day of Sri Sri Caitanya Maha-Prabhu (Gaura Purnima) festival was celebrated by Iskcon, Ludhiana.A large number of people enthusiastically participated in the festival. Deities Sri Sri Jagannatha, Baldeva and Subhadra and Sri Sri Gaur Nitai was looking very beautiful in Their colorful dresses. There was Aarti of their Lordship and Panchamrit abhishek of Sri Gaur Nitai. This time the venue of the festival was a little far from temple and was very wide to accommodate twenty thousand p

Ujjain update 1^st March 2010

The celebrations for Gaur Purnima went of perfectly right from mangal arati when we had our temple room nearly full with many students, congregational members and people in the neighborhood attending.

Darshan arati was at 8.30 am and everyone was enchanted to see the deities in their new dress with befitting garlands and jewelery.

The whole day devotees engaged themselves in their assigned services like cutting vegetables, cooking for the deities and devotees while some

Concerning God, Modern Man, and Religion

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Adler (1902-2001) wrote extensively on religion.

Can a truly contemporary person not be an atheist? A fuller articulation of the question would go like this. Must a truly contemporary person, one who is fully acquainted with all the genuine advances in science and philosophy, who has lived under the conditions of contemporary life with its holocaust, its nuclear weapons, its moral corruption -- must not such a perso

International Pilgrims Visit Holy Places of Sri Chaitanya’s Life

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Gauranga Prem Swami leading Namahatta Parikrama.

On Wednesday, thousands of devotees returned to ISKCON’s headquarters in Mayapur to celebrate Gaura Purnima, the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, after spending a week walking a pilgrimage through holy spots relating to his life.

Temples around the world will celebrate Gaura Purnima on Sunday February 28th, honoring the fifteenth century saint who is worship

Meeting of Saints in ISKCON Vrindavana

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Rajendraji Maharaja, head of the Ramananda Sampradaya, participated despite being involved in a traffic accident the previous day.

Taking advantage of the Vrindavan Kumbha Mela currently underway, Krishna Balaram Mandir organized a Sadhu Sammelan on the topic of the 500th anniversary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Sannyas. As leaders of various groups arrived, they garlanded a deity of Srila Prabhupada placed at one end of the courtyard