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Gaura Purnima 2023 Schedule

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The festival of Gaura Purnima is upon us once more, and whether you are physically present or not, we gladly invite you to join us in celebrating! Take advantage of the chance this year to serve Sri Pancha Tattva on Gaura Purnima and receive Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s unending blessings!

Please watch out for the Seva Sponsorship Forms On www.mayapur.com page!

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Cool/Warm by Bhaktimarga Swami

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It gets fairly interesting when the boiler breaks down and you sit in a frigid space. I’m talking about our temple hall in Burnaby, where I’m staying. In sacred places like Vrindavan, India, you just don’t have central heating, therefore a pilgrim will naturally feel a chill. As pilgrims do at these times of year, they wrap themselves in coats, scarves, mits, and chauddars (shawls). It’s the norm to bundle up in the winter.

What compensates for the chill in the air is chanting and reciting the 

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Serving and Honoring Prasad

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I like this idea very much. Our chanting is the medicine and our prasadam is the diet for curing material disease.
 
SP letter to Dayananda (October 17, 1968) 
How to Honor Prasad 
When a devotee distributes prasada, remnants of food offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in order to maintain our spirit of devotional service we must accept this prasada as the Lord's grace received through the pure devotees. Nectar of Instruction (Text 4 Purport) 

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Stop—where are you running?
Everything you seek lies inside:

Soul, God, happiness, and joy.
You might miss it all
If you keep searching outside.

(Found on the walls of a medieval monastery)

Please consider that the most essential things in life are invisible. Breath, life force, love, soul, and God; all can’t be seen with our present eyes nor touched with our hands. Nevertheless, they are what matters most. Without them, all the things we surround ourselves with are like a big meal without sal

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FIFA and The Gita by Bhakti Vinoda Swami

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A Ball for All . . . . No Game.

I know, I know, of the cup that cheers but doesn’t inebriate;
But the world cup sure gives no cheer for some close affiliate
For those that know and see, and get conditioned to the game
Its misery and sorrow I heard, and what to speak of shame?
For the World Cup that may chee, is sure not writ on their fate!

Oh! come on, it’s all in the game, said one, a wager won;
While another, who knew naught – a village idiot, told his son:
“My God ! why all the kicks and fig

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In Vraja there was a dancer named Candrahasa who was very expert in the tasting of rasa. In Chaitanya-lila, he became Jagadisa Pandit who also took great pleasure in dancing for the Lord.
(Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 143)

Jagadisa Pandit is considered to be simultaneously both Nityananda-shakha and Chaitanya-shakha, a branch both of Chaitanya as well as Nityananda in the desire tree of devotion. He was born in the town of Gauhati (Pragjyotishpur) in modern Assam.

His father’s name was Kamalaksha B

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In Vraja there was a dancer named Candrahasa who was very expert in the tasting of rasa. In Chaitanya-lila, he became Jagadisa Pandit who also took great pleasure in dancing for the Lord.
(Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 143)

Jagadisa Pandit is considered to be simultaneously both Nityananda-shakha and Chaitanya-shakha, a branch both of Chaitanya as well as Nityananda in the desire tree of devotion. He was born in the town of Gauhati (Pragjyotishpur) in modern Assam.

His father’s name was Kamalaksha B

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During this year’s book marathon in Durban, I met many people who had a change of heart. Not heart transplantations but a transformation of consciousness.

A Christian lady whom I spoke with was going through difficulties. I told her about the Fifth Canto and what happens after one is involved in the four sinful activities. I gave her details, such as how eating meat puts you on a hellish planet, where in a pot of boiling oil, you are boiled alive.

She became interested and took a Bhagavatam set

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Enroute to Vancouver, and I’m waiting at the Toronto Airport, Gate 34 for Air Canada Flight 111. A Middle-Eastern fellow came to sit across from where I was sitting. The first thing he did after settling down, was whip out a set of beads for his meditation. He began a soft utterance while fingering on his beads. Our eyes met. We nodded. Then I revealed my beads as I was also meditating on my japa beads.

“Is he a devotee?” I queried in my mind.

His phone rang, and he answered. It’s not Hindi. He

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By Shyamagopika Devi Dasi

On the 22nd of December 2022, the Sri Narasimha Saligrama Sila, worshipped by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur, was officially installed on the Narasimhadeva’s altar in ISKCON Mayapur.

10923661269?profile=RESIZE_584xIn 2018, per the direction of Jayapataka Swami, to restore and establish worship in various Sripats in Gaura Mandala, a team of devotees traveled throughout West Bengal and Orissa, with the guidance of Namahatta director, Sri Gauranga Prem Swami.

 
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Christmas Love Feast – Thousands of families rely on help in the present times of crisis.

Food for Life Hungary, the humanitarian aid arm of ISKCON Hungary has organised food distribution events all over the country on a daily basis for the last thirty years. Although the present difficult economic situation affects the content of aid parcels and the number of portions is also affected, the devotees do not give up and will organise the Grand Christmas Love Feast this festive season as well.

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Shall We Dance? by Bhaktimarga Swami

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I fail to understand why some folks just don’t dance when the drums are beating. I know it can be early for some at 4:30 am when we, the temple residents, attend the chanting session for what we call mangal-arati. This translates as the “auspicious service.” This “service” entails a ritual of viewing plus a chanting session to accompaniment of musical instruments. The drum is a major feature, and how someone playing or listening to good beats does not dance, simply puzzles me.

Personally, I lik

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मुबारक हो मुबारक हो नया साल आया
सबके जीवन में एक नई उमंग लाया
12 बजते ही हमने फोन उठाया
और धना धन फॉरवर्ड का बटन दबाया

लो जी आ गया नया साल
अचानक से आया ख्याल
क्या ये नया साल कुछ नया लाएगा?

या नया साल पिछले साल जैसे ही दोहराएगा?

ऐसे समझें: पिंजरे में बंद एक तोता है
जो बेचारा भूख से बहुत रोता है
क्योंकि मैं व्यस्त हूँ पिंजरे को रंगने
तोता बेचारा लगता है भूख से तड़पने

वैसे ही मैं, एक आत्मा या तोता हूँ शरीर या पिंजरे में रहता हूँ
शरीर या पिंजरे का ध्यान न रखें, मैं ऐसा नहीं कहता हूँ
लेकिन मुझे
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Lousy New Year’s Resolutions No More!

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The New Year is traditionally the time for resolutions. The turn of the calendar brings both the opportunity to reflect on the last 12 months and the chance to begin planning for the next dozen. As you think about yours, GBC Strategic Planning Team (SPT) brings to you live interview with Sri Radha Govinda Dasi to help you keep up with the resolutions, better decision making, leading through crisis and grow tall in Krishna Consciousness.

About Sri Radha Govinda Dasi

Sri Radha Govinda Dasi was bo

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Date: December 13, 2022
To: North American Leaders and Congregation
From: Niranjana Swami

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I visited Ukraine twice this year, in August and October. My first visit was for Janmastami and Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja. Since I was the first to visit Ukraine since the first days of the outbreak and since it was the first large gathering since Nityananda Trayodasi, it was quite an emotional occasion for all.

On the first day of my

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The Demoniac Way of Life

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This is the continuation of a conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples in New Vrindaban, West Virginia, on June 26, 1976.

Srila Prabhupada: So those who are devoted to the Lord believe they'll become happy by seeing others becoming happy.

[To Disciple:] Read the next verse.

Disciple [reading from Bhagavad-gita 16.11-12]: "The demoniac believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of

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How to serve Krishna through skills

Hare Krishna!!

Right now i am a student studying management. I am a little confused about how i should serve Lord Krishna . In Gita, Lord said that everyone should do their varnashram dharma and one should put all their talents in the service of the lord. I believe that i have some talent in the finance and business field, so how should i devote my skills to serve Lord Krishna. Should I just leave the college and surrender myself completely in his service? I am very confused, please help me.

Hare

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This GBC resolution has yet to be reviewed by the SABHA. However, the GBC felt this resolution is of such importance that at least the administrative processes outlined below should begin as soon as possible, and can be modified pending the review of the SABHA.

On December 28, 2022, in response to recent revelations of abuse connected to the ISKCON Mayapur school, during its weekly online meeting, the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) resolved to establish a formal inquiry to “identify the

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Tatastha-sakti refers only to those jiva-souls who are already in a fallen condition, meaning those who are "conditioned" in the material creation, and who further fall to the dormant (inactive) impersonal Brahmajyoti.

In other words, tatastha-sakti does not describe those jiva-souls in their original "none-fallen" position in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.

Tatastha-sakti is a name describing the none Krsna conscious condition of the fallen jiva-souls.

Srila Prabhupada - "So this temporary materi

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By Aseem Krishna Das

Associating with a pure representative of the Supreme Lord along with hundreds of other sincere devotees in a holy place is very rare and precious. Such divine moments spent with other devotees engaged in the service of the Lord leaves an indelible imprint on the mind and gives us the strength to face this turbulent material world. As we keep on remembering those happy moments spent in the association of devotees, we develop a longing for that association and thus secure a

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