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When we come to know a pleasant secret, we feel amazed. Naturally there- fore, we feel immensely amazed when we come to know life’s great secret. That se- cret is disarmingly simple: what we were looking for was always with us; we never found it because we searched in the wrong places.

The Bhagavad-gita (02.29) indicates that when we come to know about the soul, we look upon it as amazing. We recognize that much of what we were seek- ing at the level of the body was always our own at the level of

Prabhupāda: Now if somebody argue that, “Here is… a devotee is also dying. A devotee is also dying. How can I say that it is deathlessness?” No, he does not know. Devotee is not dying. There is very good example. Just like a cat: he catches the rat and he catches his cub also. But these two kinds of catching is different. When the cat catches a rat, that rat means his “chi-chi-chi” means dying, actually dying. And the cub, he is feeling very comfortable: “meow, meow, meow.” Because the same cat,

Every year the Prabhupada Marathon is a time for giving around ISKCON communities worldwide. For the second year running, Prabhupada Marathon is being celebrated globally as the “Live to Give” campaign. The global goal is to distribute at least 2.2 million Bhagavad Gitas and spread the message of the Gita far and wide. Several centers around the world have already pledged to meet a goal for this global campaign, which started after Bhadra Purnima, and will end on January 7th.

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Jaya Govinda, Deepak, and I did some serious walking on 1st and 2nd Ave. near the Science Centre, just to see if the park sites and nearby streets could be a possible new area for next year’s Chariot Fest. Wewill make proposals to the City Council. The situation is that the former route, along English bay at Sunset and Third Beach, will no longer be available for our parade and, hence, a new pathway has to be chalked out.

It was also a nice walk along Stanley Park. I was really taken by the cran

Jai SriKrishna Jai SriHari Jai SriRama 

WHAT DO I NEED?

WHAT DID I LEARN?🌈🌈

The vast blue expanse above,

The green velvety carpet below.

Teaches me to be joyful.🌏

The birds and the beasts

So genuine and caring.

Teach me to give,

No expectations.🐿🐘🐦

The mountains and the valley's

Sing to me sweetly.

Oh! What a melody!🦋🦋

The rivers and the oceans,

Have their own symphony.

So caring and nurturing!🎵🎶

To be blissful does one

Need wad of notes?

Oh!Oh! I don't think so.🐢🐢

To declutter is my way

To hoard, I want to

• Jai Sriman SriNarayanaya.

“The mind’s activities are thinking, feeling and willing, by which the mind accepts materially favorable things and rejects the unfavorable. This is the consciousness of people in general. But when one’s mind does not accept and reject but simply becomes fixed on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then one’s mind becomes as good as Vṛndāvana. Wherever Kṛṣṇa is, there also are Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, the gopīs, the cowherd boys and all the other inhabitants of Vṛndāvana. Thus as soon as one fixes Kṛṣṇa in his m

By Vishnu Dasa

He’s loved by the young ones. Benevolently, he works hard to please the kids at this time of year; operating in the North Pole in great preparation for the snow season. His beard, if big and white, like his snowy surroundings. The red outfit stands out. He’s chubby, jolly, and upbeat. He’s kind to all and keeps, as companions, a slew of reindeer that render him a great service. Without them he couldn’t get around. Affectionately he’s known as Santa Claus.

Historically, Santa was morphed out of S

By Sri Nandanandana dasa (Stephen Knapp)

Sometimes people say that they want to see God, or that God is not perceivable. And this is confirmed in the Vedic scripture, but with additional points of instruction on how we can perceive the Supreme Being. The Svetasvatara Upanishad (4.20) explains “His form of beauty is imperceptible to mundane senses. No one can see Him with material eyes. Only those who realize, through deep pure-hearted meditation, this Supreme Personality, who resides in ev

By Goloka Devi Dasi

Having been appointed just a matter of weeks ago, one of the first meetings the new Ambassador for Ireland, Mr. Akhilesh Mishra, wanted to arrange was with ISKCON!

A very nice, knowledgeable and humble man we spent about 40 minutes discussing Sanskrit (which he has studied and his father was a professor of), Vedic culture and the achievements of Srila Prabhupada.

Before leaving we presented him with the complete edition of the Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta. Somehow that seem

By

H.H. Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami

(On December 9th, 2021 (Odan Shasti), disciples and servants of H.H. Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami will be celebrating his 84th vyasa all over the world. On this occasion we are pleased to share below excerpts from his lecture’s question/answer session.

The excerpts from chapter ‘Prayers’ are adapted from the book “Sripada in Switzerland – Lectures, conversations and instructions of His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami in Switzerland published by BI,

By HG Atma Tattva dasa (ACBSP)

It was the beginning of 1977. Prabhupada was in Bombay temple. He was very sick. He had stopped all food intake – he was taking 1/4 a cup of orange juice per day. His body had only bones left – there was no flesh. And yet, he was insisting that he wanted to go to London. The doctors had given up responsibility. But as always, he was adamant.
At this time, one Pancaratrika Pandit from Bangalore named Sampat Kumar Bhattacarya came to know about Srila Prabhupada’

Perplexed by Krsna’s urging Arjuna to fight,
some students of the Gita accuse Krsna of being immoral.

Bhagavad-gita is famous as a harbinger of peace and good fortune. Mohandas K. Gandhi wrote, “The Gita has always been my source of comfort. Whenever I was unable to perceive a silver lining on the horizon, I opened the Gita and found a verse that gave me new hope.”

Yet even Gandhi, a great advocate of ahimsa, or nonviolence, found some of the Gita’s verses puzzling and disagreeable. Lord Krsna e

According to “The Lost Art of Dying,” an article in the Sunday Telegraph of London, people nowadays are trying to avoid the thought of death. One proof of this is that the dying are no longer cared for at home. Whereas a century ago only five percent of the British population died in a hospital, today more than seventy percent do. And the more people seek to keep death at arm’s length, the more perfunctory its rituals have become. Supposedly, there is very little weeping, and seventy-five percen

Devotee: Prabhupāda, when I’m serving you sometimes I feel very nice, but then when I think of how bad and imperfect this service is, I feel terrible. Which is right to feel?

Prabhupāda: (laughs) You feel terrible?

Devotee: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Why? When you feel terrible?

Devotee: When I see all the blunders I make, all the mistakes.

Prabhupāda: Sometimes… This is nice. To accept the blunders… Even there is no blunder. This is the symptom of sincere service. Just like a father is very beloved to hi