On January 12, 2020, Shyamasundar das was a guest on The Beatles Channel of Sirius XM for one of their Fab Forum interviews.
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By Janatari Devi Dasi
An international committee advisory committee advocated that processed and red meat as high priorities for assessmentby the IARC Monographs Programme. The endorsement was suggested due to epidemiological studies alluding to the possible risks of cancers associated with the ingestion of both red and processed meats.
According to the Global Burden of Disease Project, an independent academic research organization, approximately 34,000 cancer deaths worldwide can be attribute
Maya: The World as Virtual Reality By Sadaputa Dasa (Dr. Richard L. Thompson)
In the world of modern science, consciousness is reduced to a fading epiphenomenon, leftover after the brain has been physically explained.
It seems to arise when matter is suitably organized, but scientists and philosophers have been unable to explain why complex organization should produce anything beyond complex physical behavior. Yet consciousness won’t go away. This groundbreaking book shows how conscious beings
Overwhelmingly, Srila Prabhupada preached that vegetarian or non-vegetarian was not the issue.* He nearly always took the opportunity to preach Krishna bhakti no matter what food a person chose to eat. At the same time, he indicated that eating foods in the mode of goodness helps one become wiser.
The effect of developing the mode of goodness in the material world is that one becomes wiser than those otherwise conditioned.
Read more: https://iskconnews.org/movies-for-devotees-the-game-change
I learned about a couple that survived a 4-month walk from Mexico to Canada along the Continental Divide. In 2017, I crossed the Divide in Colorado and it was at that location that a journalist caught up with me and said, “You’re on the highest point at this watershed. If you pee here, half of the fluid will go to the Atlantic and the other will flow to the Pacific.”
In any event, the American couple trekking this heroic trail exercised true social distancing with their backpacking. Their names
Learning to appreciate the devotees is a Vaisnava etiquette that helps us in our quest for purification, especially the appreciation of senior devotees.
I have always been slow to understand this but as time passed I began to develop a certain admiration for those devotees who came before me. This is due largely to the fact that I have become a senior devotee.
I can’t say that I always act like a senior devotee so I guess I am senior by default, simply because of time only. But the arrogance an
Official Health Update on HH Jayapataka Maharaja, 16th January Kolkata – 2pm
Dear God-family, disciples, and well-wishers of H.H. Jayapataka Swami Maharaja,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
After some delays at the airport due to procedural and security reasons the aircraft carrying Guru Maharaja has taken off a few minutes ago. Only Dr. Hari Guru Gaura das who has experience with handling GM previously and now over the last few days is onboard.
The aircra
Global Communications Conference – January 22nd Sat. 7-10 am EST
Program Summary:
This is a phenomenal and highly requested conference entitled “Reconciling Different Perspectives on Srila Prabhupada’s Statements” by Radhika Ramana das (Ph.D.)
Registration:
Register for this event here: https://forms.gle/7nNgDh2odgWZ52wF6
A 1500-year-old image of Krishna is being restored in the Cleveland Museum of Art. PBS has released the recent story about the deity of Krishna from Cambodia that made its way to Cleveland in the ‘70s when work began to put broken pieces together. Basically, His head and torso are in pretty good shape. In fact, it is this handsome image that portrays His lifting of the Govardhana Hill. Twenty-first century technology is being applied and giving Krishna a look and stance that He deserves. Credit
Disciples of Srila Prabhupada from the USA and Canada started preaching in France in the late sixties and a lot of people joined the Hare Krishna movement. On a brief visit to Paris in 1971 Srila Prabhupada gave a lecture at the Olympia Theater. The Deities of Sri Sri Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra had already been carved by a French devotee, Dayamrgya dasa. Srila Prabhupada considered Paris a very important city for preaching and he visited again several times. It was in 1973 that he instal
By Madhava Smullen
In response to the success of its summertime Sunday Brunches at Prabhupada’s Palace Rose Garden, ISKCON New Vrindaban is set to offer a series of winter retreats that will give newcomers as well as devotees a chance to refresh and recharge in a spiritual setting. The four-night mini-retreats will run every week from Thursday through Sunday, starting on January 5th until the end of March.
These will be preceded by the West Virginia farm community’s annual Christmas retreat, fro
Temples around the world have recently been hit hard by the new wave of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus – as has the rest of the world. Many devotees have been infected, including many ISKCON gurus such as Indradyumna Swami, as well as Hrdaya Caitanya, a member of the GBC and co-director of ISKCON Mayapur. In many temples, almost all devotees are quarantined and standards of deity worship have been lowered. In Villa Vrindavana in Italy, a single pujari has to handle all the seva at presen
As many are aware, Kazakhstan is currently in turmoil and regional army troops have been sent to quell the social unrest in the region.
Russian devotees that we spoke to relayed to us that they have not heard from the Kazakstan devotees in approximately two days because cellular service and internet are currently turned off there. They are concerned for their safety, but it has been explained to us that Sri Vrindavan Dham Farm, although located in Almaty, is in a rural region far enough away fr
Compiled by Srila Prabhupada, the following is a statement on the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness:
- By sincerely cultivating a bona fide spiritual science, we can be free from anxiety and come to a state of pure, unending, blissful consciousness in this lifetime.
- We are not our bodies, but eternal spirit souls, parts and parcels of God (Krishna). As such, we are brothers, and Krishna is ultimately our common father.
- Krishna is the eternal, all-knowing, omnipresent, all powerful, and all
Submitted by Jaganmohini devi dasi
Following are the excerpts from S.B 4.7.33 lecture given by HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami at Zurich during Sept. 2001. They are adapted from the book ‘ Sripada in Switzerland’ published by Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata.
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This is a very instructive chapter of Srimad Bhagavatam – the study of the activities of King Daksha.
The whole event that took place during the sacrifice is extremely instructive here for all of us. The primary lesson here is the prin
Dear follower of Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Kindly submit your homage to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa-puja book by April 7.
In addition, if you’re a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyasa-puja book open to all his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is April 15.
The standards for submitting an offering to the Vyasa-puja book published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Tr
By Kumari Kunti Sherreitt
The North American Leadership Conference will be held on the 14th, 15th 16th of January.
During this online event, we will gather again as GBC, Temple Presidents, Senior Devotees, and Next Generation Leaders – all members of Srila Prabhupada’s Family, to collaborate and co-create the future of ISKCON in North America.
REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.gle/ZdQ57vvAmidsqbpz8
January 14-16th, 2022
Friday 7-8PM ET Networking Event: “Looking towards the Future”
Saturday 10:0
By Kamala Radha Devi Dasi
Ornamented with pearls of wisdom, Bhakti Shakti serves as a guiding light to claim your spiritual identity, experience the joyous state of your pure spiritual self, and progress toward deeper intimacy with the Divine.
Read more: https://iskconnews.org/bhakti-shakti-new-book-by-pranada-comtois/
One of my friends is an activist type. I guess we all may have one or two, or more, of those as our friends. Currently that means anti-mask/anti-vax. I consider such persons to be entitled to their opinion. A strong consideration, however, is that we are sharing space and we must be prudent in our dealings with each other in a highly toxic environment; both subtly and physically. Viruses are real and deadly.
In general, the atmosphere these days is so intense, regardless of which side of the fen
