By Madhava Smullen
To celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON New Vrindaban in West Virginia is set to hold the Prabhupada 125 Tournament from Friday September 24th to Sunday September 26th.
The tournament, which will take place at New Vrindaban a month after Prabhupada’s August 31st Appearance Day, will be open to all and will feature a series of exciting prizes for the winner and runners-up. Contestants should register here, and will have nearl
Ekadashi Seva Hare Krishna dear devotees!
Please accept our humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
ISKCON Mayapur TV – Hindi is organizing special Krishna Lila Katha in the forthcoming weekends to set the stage for the upcoming Janmashtami festival.
Schedule is as follows:
Aug 15: Radha Gopinath Prabhu (6pm)
Aug 21: Amogh Lila Prabhu (8pm)
Aug 28: Amarendra Prabhu (6pm)
Aug 29: Nitai Sevini Mataji (6pm)
We would request the devotees to spread the word and invite extensive participation to immers
The items of bhakti that I’m missing these days leave me in a mood of separation. Although healing, my replaced knee is still restricting my movements. Tomorrow I get the chance to feel a quaint notion of liberation by going down the stairs, with crutches, of course, for a trip to the Toronto West General for Physio. I did manage to make my way along the balcony, which opens up to the temple room. It was noon-time and I found myself sitting and leading a kirtan before the deities of Krishna.
Fr
अध्याय ग्यारह – बद्ध तथा मुक्त जीवों के लक्षण (11.11)
1 भगवान ने कहा: हे उद्धव, मेरे अधीन प्रकृति के गुणों के प्रभाव से जीव कभी बद्ध कहा जाता है, तो कभी मुक्त! किन्तु वस्तुतः आत्मा न तो कभी बद्ध होता है, न मुक्त चूँकि मैं प्रकृति के गुणों की कारणस्वरूप माया का परम स्वामी हूँ, इसलिए मुझे भी मुक्त या बद्ध नहीं माना जाना चाहिए।
2 जिस तरह स्वप्न मनुष्य की बुद्धि की सृष्टि है किन्तु वास्तविक नहीं होता, उसी तरह भौतिक शोक, मोह, सुख, दुख तथा माया के वशीभूत होकर भौतिक शरीर ग्रहण करना – ये सभी मेरी मोहिन
By Madhava Smullen
Following a global edition in April/May, the 18-hour Online Devotee Care Course, subtitled “Embedding Care in Krishna Conscious Communities,” will be offered specifically for devotees in North American timezones starting September 18th.
The ISKCON GBC Devotee Care Committee, an initiative of the GBC Strategic Planning Team, was officially mandated in 2017 and supported by GBC resolutions in 2017 and 2019. Pre-Covid, the Committee’s course on devotee care was offered in-person
Bhagavad-Gita 10.7 and 10.8 offer a strong message of realizing our true position in this world; I am small and everything else collectively (God) is big. The moment this thought awakens in us then we are big — MAHATMA. This understanding of my smallness, compared to the greatness of all else, compels me to act in humility and devotion.
There’s something very attractive about humility. It means you are willing to learn, be on an adventure and ultimately crush the ego.
I would like to say that i
अध्याय दस - सकाम कर्म की प्रकृति (11.10)
1 भगवान ने कहा: पूर्णतया मेरी शरण में आकर तथा मेरे द्वारा वर्णित भगवदभक्ति में अपने मन को सावधानी से एकाग्र करके मनुष्य को निष्काम भाव से रहना चाहिए तथा वर्णाश्रम प्रणाली का अभ्यास करना चाहिए।
2 शुद्ध आत्मा को यह देखना चाहिए कि चूँकि इन्द्रियतृप्ति के प्रति समर्पित होने से बद्ध आत्माओं ने इन्द्रियसुख की वस्तुओं को धोखे से सत्य मान लिया है, इसलिए उनके सारे प्रयत्न असफल होकर रहेंगे।
3 सोया हुआ व्यक्ति स्वप्न में इन्द्रियतृप्ति की अनेक वस्तुएँ देख सकता है, क
अध्याय नौ - पूर्ण वैराग्य (11.9)
1 साधु-ब्राह्मण ने कहा: भौतिक जगत में हर व्यक्ति कुछ वस्तुओं को अत्यन्त प्रिय मानता है और ऐसी वस्तुओं के प्रति लगाव के कारण अन्ततः वह दीन-हीन बन जाता है। जो व्यक्ति इसे समझता है, वह भौतिक सम्पत्ति के स्वामित्व तथा लगाव को त्याग देता है और इस तरह असीम आनन्द प्राप्त करता है।
2 एक बार बड़े बाजों की एक टोली ने कोई शिकार न पा सकने के कारण एक अन्य दुर्बल बाज पर आक्रमण कर दिया जो थोड़ा-सा मांस पकड़े हुए था। उस समय अपने जीवन को संकट में देखकर बाज ने मांस को छोड़ दिया। तब उसे
अध्याय आठ – पिंगला की कथा (11.8)
1 साधु-ब्राह्मण ने कहा: हे राजन, देहधारी जीव स्वर्ग या नरक में, स्वतः सुख तथा दुख का अनुभव करता है। इसलिए बुद्धिमान तथा विवेकवान व्यक्ति ऐसे भौतिक सुख को पाने के लिए कभी कोई प्रयास नहीं करता।
2 अजगर का अनुकरण करते हुए मनुष्य को भौतिक प्रयास का परित्याग कर देना चाहिए और अपने उदर-पोषण के लिए उस भोजन को स्वीकार करना चाहिए, जो अनायास मिल जाय, चाहे वह स्वादिष्ट हो या स्वादरहित, पर्याप्त हो या स्वल्प।
3 यदि कभी भोजन न भी मिले, तो सन्त पुरुष को चाहिए कि बिना प्रयास किये
For a person in the renounced phase of life it is good to move – as the saying goes: A rolling stone doesn’t gather any moss… After all, we are not meant to get too comfy, homey and cozy. It feels good to move on as soon as one gets too comfortable and settled. Then it may be time to pack up the suitcase and say farewell…
This mood is described in the purpport to the SB 11.3.26:
“Thus a pure devotee of the Lord is aniketatam, without a fixed residence, meaning that he accepts neither the gross n
By Mukundanghri Dasa
After Akrura was instructed by the evil king, Kamsa, to bring Krishna and Balaram from Vrindavan to Mathura, he boarded his chariot. Along the journey, Akrura struggled to fathom the good fortune that had befallen him. He was about to see the object of his meditation, the essence of his life – Krishna and Balaram. As his chariot rode along, inching closer and closer to Vrindavan, he thought of seeing the beautiful forms of Krishna and Balaram. He thought of Krishna’s face a
Hare Krishna dear devotees,
we would like to invite you to Online Home Deity Dressing Course which is organized by Mayapur Academy in collaboration with IDWM.
Everyone can learn different styles of dressing
– Gaura Nitai
– Radha Krishna
– Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadra @ home.
More details on attached poster
Your servants, Mayapur Academy team.
Source: https://www.mayapur.com/2021/deity-dressing-course-iskcon-mayapur-academy/
“What is a diamond? It’s just a piece of coal, but it undergoes an intense pressure and transforms into a diamond. So we shouldn’t be thinking that our business is to put someone into an intense pressure. “Oh, I will transform you into a diamond!” No, we shouldn’t think that way, because on the basis of what we deserve in this life enough pressure will be there. So rather we should be trying to give help and encouragement and love to the people who are in the process. The Vedic scriptures state
Deepening Bhakti course is suitable for all those who have been on the Bhakti path for some time and who would like to deepen their understanding of the philosophy and practices of Bhakti.
HH Sacinandana Swami presents the five traditional ways to establish our connection with Krishna by accessing a very special space within our heart: the sacred space. It is from this space that our practices of chanting, reading, worshipping, and so on become infused with l
The more we hear about Krishna, the more we become purified. We cannot understand Krishna because we are not purified. But if you hear the Krishna name, Hare Krishna—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare—if you chant and hear, you become purified. So why should we not take this simple method, as it is recommended in the shastra, harer nama harer nama harer namaiva kevalam [“In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than cha
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We use speech every day in our life. But seldom do we realize it’s power. It leaves a profound impact on others, our mind and consciousness.
Words create worlds. Since language affects reality, there is an irretrievable nature to the words which leave our lips.
Numerous scriptural injunctions are available on the Yama and Niyama of speech.
In the Nectar of Instruction, Srila Rupa Goswami’s first instruction to all practitioners of bhakti-yoga is — vāco vegam — one should con
अध्याय सात - भगवान कृष्ण द्वारा उद्धव को उपदेश (11.7)
1 भगवान ने कहा: हे महाभाग्यशाली उद्धव, तुमने इस पृथ्वी पर से यदुवंश को समेटने तथा वैकुण्ठ में अपने धाम लौटने की मेरी इच्छा को जान लिया है। ब्रह्मा, शिव तथा अन्य सारे लोकनायक, अब मुझसे प्रार्थना कर रहे हैं कि मैं अपने वैकुण्ठ धाम वापस चला जाऊँ।
2 ब्रह्माजी द्वारा प्रार्थना करने पर मैंने इस संसार में अपने स्वांश बलदेव सहित अवतार लिया था और देवताओं की ओर से अनेक कार्य सम्पन्न किये। अब यहाँ पर मैं अपना कार्य पूरा कर चुका हूँ।
3 अब ब्राह्मणों के श
March 13, 1972 : Vrindavan
After Prabhupada signed the deed for the Raman Reti land, future site of the Krishna-Balarama temple on March 12, then he immediately prepared to lay a cornerstone.
Kshirodaksayi Vishnu Maharaja : That night, until eleven, we discussed laying the cornerstone. Srila Prabhupada apparently did not sleep. Around one-thirty he woke me up and called me to his room. The electricity was off, and Prabhupada was using his flashlight. He asked if I had made all the arrangements f
By Madhava Smullen
Lives of Service is an ISKCON News interview series that recreates the feel of sitting down for a chat at the Sunday Feast with an old friend or a devotee you’d like to get to know. Told in their own words, it’s an insightful, inspiring, lighthearted, and at times humorous look at their stories and lives of service. Kalasamvara Das is one of the most joyful, ecstatic and dedicated devotees we’ve had the fortune to speak to. We hope you enjoy this chat with him!
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