If you are a budding lawyer, seasoned attorney, solicitor, barrister, or paralegal we invite you to join our community of devotee attorneys.
The ISKCON Law Department has over 100 devotee attorneys around the world. We hold a sangha every fortnight (two weeks) to introduce international legal talents which will inspire and enthuse you. These devotees are serving their respective temples whilst pursuing and continuing their careers. We also hold annual international conferences.
If you would li
A POWERFUL NARASIMHA PUJA to invoke blessings of the Divine Protector
Join us on April 3, 2022 for 3 Pujas:
Puja 1: Ahobhilam (India) 6:30pm IST
Puja 2: Simhachalam (Germany) 8pm CET
Puja 3: New Vrindaban (USA) 8pm EDT
Pray for Ukraine and the world invoke auspiciousness receive blessings
Hosts:
@sacinandanaswamiofficial and @thegodofyoga
Esteemed Guests:
@radhanathswami @krishnadasmusic @eddiestern @krishnakshetraswami_official @madhavanaidoo @govindagirl_acyutagopi @cambridgeuniversity
With t
Not much time to walk today. Driving north consumed a bit of time. Destination, the Caruso Banquet Hall in Sudbury. Our little troupe consisting of Mahadeva, Annapurna, Vallabha Hari, Gabriel, Alec and myself were keen to hit a trail at gorgeous French River. The sky’s spitting rain along with mud and melting snow made it all somewhat restrictive. However, our day, and in particular the night, was fruitful.
The hall was venue to a Festival of India, which was filled up in no time. Advanced tick
I will share a story about the fructification of sankirtan. We never know what will happen. Even distributing a small book can turn into something amazing.
Two Maori boys, cousins, showed up at the Bhakti Lounge shaved-up with sikhas and tilak. Where did they come from? Who were they? None of us knew.
We found out that they had received “Chant and Be Happy” from a sister who had bought it at the New World mall in Papakura. They read the book and felt convinced that they have to give up “animal
The world is searching for a perfect book, a book that contains all you need to know. May be the key to this search lies in the pages of the Mahabharata . Vyasadeva boldly states the glory of this great text: What you will find here you may find elsewhere, but what you don’t find here, you will never find anywhere.” Mahabharata is called an itihasa, or history. Indeed, being the history of a great country like India, it teaches us life lessons – what one should and shouldn’t emulate.
When amb
Recently while speaking to my eight-year-old cousin, I asked her what prayers they recite in their morning assembly. She sang many prayers, one of which was a Christian nursery rhyme that I found interesting. It said:
God’s Love is so wonderful,
So high you can’t get over it,
So deep you can’t get under it,
So wide you can’t get around it,
Oh! Wonderful love!
This song mentions three characteristics of God’s love. Let us discuss each of them separately.
“So high you can’t get over it”: Our exis
When delivered by His pure representative, Krishna’s message attracts and transforms people young and old.
Touched by Srila Prabhupada Books
Haribol Nani!“ I greet my grand mother as I enter her home.
Unable to get up to receive me, she stretches out her arms, ready to welcome me into her warm embrace. Although her face is wrinkled with time and herbody is diseased with old age, her radiant smile and loving mood reveal her inner beauty. My eighty-five-year-old grandfather, lying on a bed nearb
Without a transcendental objective, being truthful may seem difficult in front of the alluring temptations of ordinary life.
Initiation Ceremony
Every politician in India, upon assuming office, takes an oath to faithfully execute the responsibilities of his office, will do his best to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law and will devote himself to the service and well-being of the people. “I swear in the name of God,” reads the oath. Yet, once they come to power, they rarel
We are deeply saddened to see the suffering faced by people who are victims of the escalating conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. The Ukrainian people are in need of our sincere prayers. While we are staying warm and comfortable in our homes with our families, in Ukraine it is getting harder and harder for people to get hot food, shelter, medications, and in some places, even drinking water. Can we help? Yes! What we can do as a community is to gather and chant together, pray for peace
Krisztina Danka is an award-winning film maker and she sent me a message today, on behalf of “Karuna Productions,” that a short film (eleven minutes) was released, hoping I’d like it. It’s called “Play, Pray, Walk, Laugh,” subtitle “The Journey of Bhaktimarga Swami.”
I wrote back to her team saying I really liked it. Frankly, I forgot about the interview she conducted in February 2020, just around the time Covid was starting to make inroads.
The film is informative (“touching,” said a person wh
Welcome to Global Puja for Ukraine, a virtual prayer event, connecting participants from devotional and yogic communities around the world.
A global event to raise awareness; collectively pray for peace in Ukraine and the world; and support aid initiatives.
At the heart of the event lie three powerful, traditional pujas to Sri Narasimha, the deity of divine protection.
When: April 3, 2022
Where: LIVE at youtube.com…. (here we will insert the youtube link)
The event will span 3 distinct parts, c
One Prabhupada saying that often lingers in my ears is “It is better to chase the rhinoceros. If you fail, no one can say you have failed – everyone knows you cannot capture a rhinoceros, But if you succeed, they will say he has done the impossible.”
During last year’s lockdown, my wife and I were pondering how to reach out to the community in Longmont, Colorado, with Prabhupada books. We happened to see little house-shaped structures full of books on the front lawns of houses in our neighborho
In the attached photo is Olga from Ukraine. I was ending my 4-mile japa/ cardio walk at Haile Plantation, Florida. I approached her and asked her whether she likes to read. She was so happy to get Srila Prabhupada’s books.
She said, “I was just sitting here, asking God what I should do.” I told her that nothing happens by chance and God, Krishna, answered her prayer.
Always carry books as you never know who Krishna will send!
Source: https://www.iskconbookdistribution.com/just-sitting-and-aski
By Jayabhadra devi dasi
A one-day padayatra is a nice way of sensitizing villagers to ISKCON and the most-powerful holy name. As a Tuberculosis Officer in Maharashtra, I am continually sensitizing people to the disease, how to avoid it and control it, but we are all suffering from the disease of bhava-roga, repeatedly taking birth, and we need to bring this to people’s attention.
On February 19, 2022, the day of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaja jayanti, I accompanied several devotees to a one-day pa
Exactly twenty years ago, with a group of three people, I came to the ancient Russian city of Suzdal to distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books. It was a bold decision to go to a place where almost every second resident is a nun or a priest, and almost every corner has a church or a temple.
On the first day, inspired by the morning program, I was walking around this exotic little town for about nine hours and offering books everywhere I could, but was unsuccessful. All the residents refused as if t
By Gaurangi dasi
Warsaw has been busy as always. Every day we have had groups of adults and children, approximately 60 daily transiting or staying in our temple or at the temporary rented house. Devotees who are only transiting through Poland are being supported by Ksenya and her husband, a lovely Ukrainian couple who live in Warsaw. They help them with further connections, checking the best routes, getting tickets as even though the travel is free, you still need to get a free ticket personally
Madhava Mohini, Gita Govinda, and I were in Waipukarau for one day of the mid-year marathon, and we had permission to set up a book table in front of New World.
About mid-way through the day, I called over a mature Maori lady (named Liz) with the line, “You look peaceful. Have you tried meditation?”
She didn’t answer the question, but she came straight to our table. She seemed captivated by the books and pictures on display and flicked through the books one by one. She fully focused on looking
Abdul Hasan Abdul Nisar, a native of Akot in Maharashtra’s Akola, has became the first person to ace ISKCON Ayodhya’s 18-day Bhagvad Gita online course by answering all 50 questions correctly.
The 27-year-old said, “All religions offer different paths to reach the same goal of oneness with an Almighty. I want to imbibe the best from the teaching of Lord Krishna which he gave to Arjuna on battlefield"
Nisar’s feat offers hope in the current environment of religious animosity.
The course titled Bh
More and more devotees are fleeing Ukraine every day and taking shelter in safer neighboring countries, like Hungary. All the devotees have their own stories and experience – these two young ladies were ready to share theirs with the community of devotees all around the world. Listen to how Nikunja-devi Devi Dasi and Ekantarani Devi Dasi left Kyiv and how Krishna helped them find shelter.
Reporter: Gandharvika Prema Dasi, ISKCON Communications Hungary
Source: https://iskconnews.org/interview-w
“Life exists not because of a functioning body, but despite being in an inherently dead body.”
Life after death is a popular philosophical topic with varying opinions about its possibility. The Bhagavad-gita is clear about it – life is eternal, unimpeded by death.
“As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another bo
