My mind is so filled with memories of Mother Arca-vigraha that it is difficult to isolate what inspired me about her. But I think she embodied the two most important devotional principles—chanting the holy names and serving the Vaishnavas—and she performed these activities with great determination and enthusiasm.

I miss her as a friend. She was older than I, and more experienced, and I learned a lot from her training, instructions, and association. I often share thoughts and experiences with he

By HH Bhakti Brhat Bhagavata Swami

Today marks the most auspicious anniversary appearance of Srila Srivasa Pandit or also known as Srila Srivasa Thakura and it also coincides with the anniversary disappearance of one of our Commanders in Srila Prabhupada’s army – Srila Prabhupada is our General – HH Sridhara Swami.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Adi Lili chapter 7, entitled, Lord Caitanya in Five features, text 15

ei tina tattva, — ‘sarvaradhya’ kari mani caturtha ye bhakta-tattva, — ‘aradhaka’ jani [

We welcome you to the most auspicious observance of Sri Nityananda-trayodasi, the appearance day of Lord Nityananda Balarama. We shall read from Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, the authorized biography of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates, Adi-lila, Chapter 5: “The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama.”

TEXT 1

vande ’nantadbhutaisvaryam
sri-nityanandam isvaram
yasyecchaya tat-svarupam
ajnenapi nirupyate

TRANSLATION

Let me offer my obeisances to Lord Sri Nityananda, the Supreme Personality

By Chaitanya Charan das

My tour to the West in 2017 was the longest till date, lasting for three months and extending across forty cities in five countries: USA, Canada, Trinidad, Panama and UK. During the tour, by Krishna’s mercy, I gave around 132 classes and answered around 1000 questions. Here I share some of the highlights of the tour.

Programs for Western audiences:

Minding the Intel Mind

Perhaps the most significant program during my Western trip was a seminar at Intel, in Phoenix, Ari

From Back to Godhead

After the disappearance of Jayananda Das on May 1, 1977, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada instructed devotees all over the world to commemorate the event every year as they would any great Vaishnava’s disappearance day.

Therefore we respectfully submit these pages to all devotees and friends of ISKCON as a means to remember and understand more about Jayananda’s devotional service. Of course, we will see how he joined ISKCON and how he left this mortal world. More importan

ARTICLE SOURCE: JAYA NITAI GAURANGA

OVERVIEW:

• The false claims of Impersonalists and others
• Krishna in the Primary Vedas
• Rama in the Primary Vedas

The False Claims of Impersonalists and others

The Impersonalists to support their Mayavada Vedanta, speculates that Krishna is not mentioned in the primary Vedas anywhere. However, such speculations of them are faulty just like their all theories, because Lord Krishna and Rama are mentioned in the Primary Vedas. However it has become a habit by impersonalis

From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir

Date: February 15, 2017

Speaker:HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami

Subject: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.22.5

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur's Appearance Day

TEXT

tava sandarśanād eva

cchinnā me sarva-saṁśayāḥ

yat svayaṁ bhagavān prītyā

dharmam āha rirakṣiṣoḥ

TRANSLATION

Now I have resolved all my doubts simply by meeting you, for Your Lordship has very kindly and clearly explained the duty of a king who desires to protect his subjects.

PURPORT

Manu described herew

A paper by the Sastric Advisory Council (SAC)

Members participating in the authorship of this paper: Drutakarma Dasa, Gopiparanadhana Dasa, Purnacandra Goswami, and Urmila Devi Dasi

“The rules and regulation are that nobody should accept blindly any guru, and nobody should blindly accept any disciple. They must behave, one another, at least for one year so that the prospective disciple can also understand, ‘Whether I can accept this person as my guru.’ And the prospective guru also can understa

So reading today from the Srimad Bhagavatam Canto Five Chapter Thirteen entitled “Rahugana converses with Jada Bharata'

tair vañcito hamsa-kulam samavisann
arocayan silam upaiti vanaran
taj-jati-rasena sunirvrtendriyah
parasparodviksana-vismrtavadhih
(SB 5.13.17)

Translation: “Being cheated by them, the living entity in the forest of the material world tries to give up the association of these so-called yogis, swamis and incarnations and come to the association of real devotees, but due to m

                                                    Gau Seva  Part 1

 In the evening from around 5:30 to 6pm is the Godhuli period when the cows return to the goshala from the forest. Before coming to His residence at Nandagrama, standing under a kadamba tree, Kṛṣṇa calls all his cows to that place. He also informs all His cowherd boyfriends, “Now we are going home to our residence. Mother Yasoda and all our mothers are waiting for us in Nandagaon, and there at Yasoda-kunda, Yasoda and Nanda B

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In the following conversation, Srila Sridhar Maharaj compares theistic beliefs with some Christian students from America.

Christian: Can you explain the Vaisnava viewpoint of Christianity?

Sridhar Maharaj: Christianity is incomplete Vaisnavism — not full-fledged, but the basis of devotional theism. We find the principle of “Die to live” there to a certain extent, at least physically. The Christians say that the ideal shown by Jesus is self-sacrifice. In our consideration, however, that is not full

The heart of Hinduism is God-Love, or devotional worship of the Divine Person. And such worship finds its greatest raditional expression in the devotional love relationship between Krishna, the Avatar or Divine Incarnation, and the gopis, the cowherd-maidens of the village of Brindaban. Krishna, the very embodiment of Bliss and Love on Earth, is said to have lived in ecstatic play with hundreds of gopis for a number of years. As their spiritual master and lover, he taught them the es

SRI SRI RADHIKA ASTOTTARA SATA NAMA STOTRAM

by Srila
Raghunatha Dasa Goswami

aviksatmesvari kascid vrndavana-mahesvarim
tat padamboja-maka gati dasyati katara
patita tat-saras tire ruda tyartha-ravakulam
tac chri-vaktreksanavaptyai namanyetani sanjagau


Some maidservant, unable to find her mistress, has
fallen on the bank of Radhakunda, crying in great
anxiety, being very eager to take exclusive
shelter of
Her lotus feet, glorifying Her by singing the
following names of Her:


radha gandharvika gosthayuva-

Settlement of

All Our Material Accounts

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami

We in Abudhabi were really fortunate to have the personal association of our beloved Guru Maharaja for three days last week. Maharaja encouraged all the devotees in the performance of devotional service and he gave very serious instructions to be remembered and practiced in our lives. We shall try our best to transcribe the lectures for t

His Divine Grace

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

By Stephen Knapp

In the Brahma-vaivarta Purana, in a conversation with Ganga Devi, Lord Krishna describes that after 5,000 years of Kali-yuga have passed, His mantra upasaka, the great sage and worshiper of Krishna's holy names, will appear and spread the chanting of Krishna's names (in the form of the Hare Krishna mantra) not only in India but throughout the world. Lord Krishna explains that by the chanting of His holy names the world will beco