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The third annual Govindadvipa Mellows – a kirtan festival usually held on the island also known as Inis Rath in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland – will be held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The event is co-hosted online on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/914108069123040/ by Govindadvipa Mellows and Kirtan Dublin, and will run from 7:00am to 7:30pm Irish time on Saturday October 17th. 

As with previous editions of the Mellows, the virtual event will be dedicated

 An Italian devotee couple has created and installed a permanent “sound path” at the Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA) in Villa Vrindavana, near the city of Florence, home of the Italian renaissance. The installation was created by Madhava and Margherita at their Grotta Sonora, or “The Sounding Cave.”

Consisting of unique handmade gongs and other instruments, called “sound sculptures,” the sound path makes tours of MOSA an auditory as well as a visual experience. Different sounds in each room create d

A lot of people think that in chanting 16 rounds, it is all about sincerity. And they come to me and ask, “I am lacking. What can I do to get more serious about chanting 16 rounds?” In other words, how to become more sincere? But it is not about sincerity, it is about organisation. Organise your life! Become regulated! Do not let the mind and the senses just drag you according to their dictations. The ‘manoratha’, the chariot of the mind, is taking us here and there and everywhere. Whatever we s

अध्याय बारह – सम्राट परीक्षित का जन्म (1.12)

1 शौनक मुनि ने कहा: महाराज परीक्षित की माता उत्तरा का गर्भ अश्वत्थामा द्वारा छोड़े गये अत्यन्त भयंकर तथा अजेय ब्रह्मास्त्र द्वारा विनष्ट कर दिया गया, लेकिन परमेश्वर ने महाराज परीक्षित को बचा लिया।

2 अत्यन्त बुद्धिमान तथा महान भक्त महाराज परीक्षित उस गर्भ से कैसे उत्पन्न हुए? उनकी मृत्यु किस तरह हुई? और मृत्यु के बाद उन्होंने कौनसी गति प्राप्त की?

3 हम सभी अत्यन्त आदरपूर्वक उनके (महाराज परीक्षित के) विषय में सुनना चाहते हैं, जिन्हें श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी

On June 30, 1966 the very First Newspaper Interview was conducted at Srila Praphupada’s temporary residence and meeting Hall in the ‘Bowery’ near ‘Chinatown’ NYC [see photo]. [This was after He led kirtan at Washington Sq. Park, just near NY University.] It was here that His Divine Grace lived, typed, prepared Prasadam, and Preached to a small congregation before setting up Iskcon. On June 12, 1966, Srila Prabhupada prepared 12 prasadam preparations for 16 people in that’Loft’ [see diary photo].

Two young guys scurried along as I came around the corner. There was no doubt that I frightened them. The maple tree came in most handy as they tucked away behind the trunk at a best attempt to conceal themselves. Well, I could spot one, at least a tail. I poked my head as I moved in closer for our little game. I went to the left, they went to the right. I moved to the right and they went to the left. I pulled out my phone for a camera shot. One by one they pounced onto the bark and ascended to

अध्याय ग्यारह – भगवान श्रीकृष्ण का द्वारका में प्रवेश(1.11)

1 सूत गोस्वामी ने कहा: आनर्तों के देश के नाम से विख्यात अपनी अत्यन्त समृद्ध राजनगरी (द्वारका) के निकट पहुँच कर, भगवान ने अपना आगमन उद्घोषित करने तथा निवासियों की निराशा को शान्त करने के लिए अपना शुभ शंख बजाया।

2 श्वेत तथा मोटे पेंदेवाला शंख, भगवान के हाथों द्वारा पकड़ा जाकर तथा उनके द्वारा बजाया जाकर, ऐसा लग रहा था मानों उनके दिव्य होठों का स्पर्श करके लाल हो गया हो। ऐसा प्रतीत हो रहा था मानों कोई श्वेत हंस लाल रंग के कमलदण्डों के बीच खेल

By Madhava Smullen

Facing the challenges of the pandemic, ISKCON devotees have created an ever-increasing host of online sanga opportunities, which continually reveal new treasures. 

One particularly sweet offering, which has been running since late April but may still be undiscovered by some, is Bhakti Virtual’s “One Day in the Life of a Vaishnava,” or “Un Día En La Vida De.”

The program is organized by Prema Rupini Madhavi Dasi from Buenos Aires, Argentina, along with her husband Prema Rupa Ma

Video: Click here

Each service is a preparation for a greater service in the future.

Source: https://www.kksblog.com/2020/10/every-service-matters/

I did not get much of a walk in today, just a wee number of indoor strides. My only outside touch of the elements was the stairway at the temple’s entrance. There our kirtan crew met with the night. The lamp-post lit up by its sensor and we, too, got lit with the kirtan. We were in a happy state. We could have chanted the night away.

I did, however, accomplish a number of things; responding to emails, counseling people, reading “The Chaitanya Charitamrta,” as well as publication and proofreading

H.H. Nitai Chaitanya Swami Maharaja left his body in the hospital on 14th of Oct.
While he was fighting COVID-19, his blood pressure drastically increased, which resulted in pulmonary edema.
His Holiness Nitai Chaitanya Goswami Maharaj, is one of the first sannyasis of Russia and one of senior most devotees from the times of USSR. It was in 1970 that while listening to the underground western radio station he was fortunate to hear the sounds of Hare Krishna Maha-mantra broadcasted and a few yea

अध्याय दस – द्वारका के लिए भगवान कृष्ण का प्रस्थान(1.10)

1 शौनक मुनि ने पूछा: जो महाराज युधिष्ठिर की वैध पैतृक सम्पत्ति को छीनना चाहते थे, उन शत्रुओं का वध करने के बाद महानतम धर्मात्मा युधिष्ठिर ने अपने भाइयों की सहायता से अपनी प्रजा पर किस प्रकार शासन चलाया? निश्चित ही वे अपने साम्राज्य का उपभोग मुक्त होकर अनियंत्रित चेतना से नहीं कर सके।

2 सूत गोस्वामी ने कहा: विश्व के पालनकर्ता भगवान श्रीकृष्ण महाराज युधिष्ठिर को उनके साम्राज्य में पुनः प्रस्थापित करके एवं क्रोध की दावाग्नि से विनष्ट हुए कुर

From the ISKCON GBC – Minutes Of The Annual General Meeting – February 2017

313: Global Duties & Responsibilities of the Governing Body Commission

[ISKCON Law]

Whereas the GBC wishes to formalize the understanding of its global services to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness;

Whereas it is important that duties and responsibilities be clarified at all levels of the Society;

Whereas the GBC wishes to produce a legacy document for the instruction and training of future GBC members

By Bhakta Thomas 

The Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork is world-famous for its huge festivals drawing tens of thousands of visitors to the Utah attraction, but COVID-19 changed everything.  “Our Festival of Colors (Holi) has been going on for 25 years,” said Caru Das, co-founder of the two ISKCON temples in Utah, “Just two weeks before the March event, the governor banned any gatherings larger than ten people.”  All but one of our other festivals in California and Nevada were also canceled.

It is our goal to always be one in thought with Krsna. One of the symptoms of surrendering in devotional service is to have no other interest other than the interest in Krsna. Of course, it is not that our thoughts are always aligned with Krsna, what to speak of our actions, however our meditation remains to cultivate pure devotional service so that we can be one in thought with Krsna. We have the following words – anukulyasya sankalpah, accepting whatever is favourable to devotional service; pr

atho maha-bhaga bhavan amogha-drk
suci-sravah satya-rato dhrta-vratah
urukra masyakhila-bandha-muktaye
samadhinanusmara tad-vicestitam

“O Vyasadeva, your vision is completely perfect. Your good fame is spotless. You are firm in vow and situated in truthfulness. And thus you can think of the pastimes of the Lord in trance for the liberation of the people in general from all material bondage.” (SB 1.5.13)

Each and every word of Srimad-Bhagavatam is full of volumes of explanation—each and every wor

David, who lives with us in the ashram, drove us north to the very base of the Bruce Peninsula, which divides the Georgian Bay from Lake Huron. It is quite the waterway, an amazing expanse of H2O, minus ocean salt, with clean air. I would call it a place of opulence.

Clavering is a small hamlet. To reach there, David and I got adventurously lost, however, this displacement brought us through some of the prettiest scenery. Then, once we gained our bearings, we coasted by the shores along Collingw

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अध्याय नौ – भगवान कृष्ण की उपस्थिति में भीष्मदेव का देह-त्याग(1.9)

1 सूत गोस्वामी ने कहा: कुरुक्षेत्र के युद्धस्थल में इतने सारे लोगों का वध करने के कारण घबराये हुए महाराज युधिष्ठिर उस स्थल पर गये जहाँ नर-संहार हुआ था। वहाँ पर भीष्मदेव मरणासन्न होकर शरशय्या पर लेटे थे।

2 उस समय उनके सारे भाई स्वर्णाभूषणों से सजे हुए उच्च कोटि के घोड़ों द्वारा खींचे जानेवाले सुन्दर रथों पर उनके पीछे-पीछे चल रहे थे। उनके साथ व्यासदेव तथा धौम्य जैसे ऋषि (पाण्डवों के विद्वान पुरोहित) तथा अन्य लोग थे।

3 हे ब्रह्मर्षि,