Date: 06th May, 2021.
To our dearest, beloved Jananivasa Prabhu,
We offer our obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.
Our hearts overflow with bittersweet love as we witness your painful separation from your beloved brother and lifelong companion, Pankajanghri Prabhu. It is often impossible to express in words such deeply felt loving affection; even harder to add the pain of vipralambha to that love; it can surely be said that n
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A Message from Ambarisa and Braja Vilasa Prabhus
To All Devotees Around the World,
With heavy hearts we observed the peaceful passing of His Grace Pankajanghri prabhu yesterday. As one of the most critical personalities in the development of the Pujari floor of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, his absence is now deeply felt. Over the years (even decades), we have come to rely on his seniority, purity, and quality of devotion to Krishna as an example to us all.
Still, it is in the mood of se
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Hare Krishna
Please accept our humble obeisances
Srila Prabhupad ki Jai!!
Hope this finds you in best of your Krishna conscious spirits.
ISKCON,Mayapur is organising a 24 hours Digital Memorial Meet for our very beloved Sripad Pankajanghri prabhu. We invite you to participate in this meet by sharing with us your pre recorded video , glorifying Sripad Pankajanghri prabhu. kindly keep the duration of the video up to 3 minutes only .🙏🏼
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Even though covid is spreading so rapidly with the possibility of death lingering very close to us still, the desire to enjoy this world is still strong. Isn't it surprising? Probably not because Maya after all is very strong and clever. She keeps the hope to enjoy this world even in the face of the greatest dangers alive and burning in our hearts and thus keeps us stuck here birth after birth.
As Adi Shankaracharya prays in his famous Bhaja Govindam song -
"Angam Galitam Palitam Mundam
Dasana
When rain comes, as it does now as I write, it sets a mood for meditation. I was thinking about Mayapura in India as those raindrops hit the window panes of my room.
Mayapura has been bursting with energy, with so many pilgrims coming daily, families moving there to take up residence and a new temple arising. We get reports that while international travel has been slow, fueled by the virus restrictions, attendance from all over India has been good, especially during Holi/Gaura Purnima time in Fe
अध्याय चौदह - ब्रह्मा द्वारा कृष्ण की स्तुति (10.14)
1 ब्रह्मा ने कहा: हे प्रभु, आप ही एकमात्र पूज्य भगवान हैं अतएव आपको प्रसन्न करने के लिए मैं आपको सादर नमस्कार करता हूँ और आपकी स्तुति करता हूँ। हे ग्वालनरेश पुत्र, आपका दिव्य शरीर नवीन बादलों के समान गहरा नीला है; आपके वस्त्र बिजली के समान देदीप्यमान हैं और आपके मुखमण्डल का सौन्दर्य गुञ्जा के बने कुण्डलों से तथा सिर पर लगे मोरपंख से बढ़ जाता है। अनेक वन-फूलों तथा पत्तियों की माला पहने तथा चराने की छड़ी (लकुटी), शृंग और वंशी से सज्जित आप अपने हाथ
PANKAJANGHRI
He was a fellow perceptibly mellow
He arrived with his brother to follow
At the beck and call of Mahaprabhu
In a land of mist and morning dew
From there on, it was all over
Worldliness gone/personal makeover
A dedication to good deed and thought
Attention to all His Divine Grace brought
He learned, he grew, and did so glow
Teaching others what he did know
On the subject of worship and wisdom
In an atmosphere of devotional rhythm
Like the Ganges with her endless liquidity
His service was on
Dear devotees and friends of ISKCON Mayapur,
The loss of Pankajanghri Prabhu has saddened the hearts of devotees worldwide. Jananivasa and Pankajanghri Prabhus are the two of the brightest gems in ISKCON. Srila Prabhupada has said, “Vrindavan is my home, Mayapur is my place of worship, and Bombay is my office.” Jananivasa and Pankajanghri Prabhus, being the embodiment of Srila Prabhupada’s worship, are rightly known as the heart of Mayapur. Their unalloyed and uninterrupted service and dedicati
A Message from Ambarisa and Braja Vilasa Prabhus
To All Devotees Around the World,
With heavy hearts we observed the peaceful passing of His Grace Pankajanghri prabhu yesterday. As one of the most critical personalities in the development of the Pujari floor of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, his absence is now deeply felt. Over the years (even decades), we have come to rely on his seniority, purity, and quality of devotion to Krishna as an exa
Whenever devotees in ISKCON go through any problems, they at once remember Narasimhadev. Remembering Narasimhadev invariably means remembering Ugra Narasimha of Mayapur. And when you think of Ugra Narasimha of Mayapur, how can you not think of the two glorious twin brothers, Jannanivas Prabhu and Pankajanghari Prabhu who are always standing at the side of Narasimhadev ready to offer prayers of protection to Him on behalf of the devotees?
Even though, the world is now bereft of the association
I walked to a different park bench, plopped myself down and began chanting with the aid of my beads when a neighbor walked by and stopped. He has seen me around. Hugh Smiley is his name.
“So, you’re chanting? I chant sometimes. I learned it from the Park Avenue bowling alley in Montreal. It became a Krishna Centre.”
“Nice to meet you, Hugh!” I said this to the nice guy who became a Baha’i teacher living in South America for seven years on that mission. Hugh never forgot the pranam mantra to our
The devotees wanted to worship a Deity of the Lord in his fiercest form, but at first no sculptor was willing to carve Him.
ON MARCH 24, 1984, at 12:20 A.M., thirty-five men armed with weapons and bombs attacked Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir, ISKCON’s center in Mayapur, West Bengal. When the dacoits tried to steal the deities of Srila Prabhupada and Srimati Radharani, the devotees fearlessly challenged the attackers. How could the devotees see Srila Prabhupada and Srimati Radharani carried awa
अध्याय तेरह - ब्रह्मा द्वारा बालकों तथा बछड़ों की चोरी (10.13)
1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: हे भक्त शिरोमणि, परम भाग्यशाली परीक्षित, तुमने बहुत सुन्दर प्रश्न किया है क्योंकि भगवान की लीलाओं को निरन्तर सुनने पर भी तुम उनके कार्यों को नित्य नूतन रूप में अनुभव कर रहे हो।
2 जीवन-सार को स्वीकार करने वाले परम हंस भक्त अपने अन्तःकरण से कृष्ण के प्रति अनुरक्त होते हैं और कृष्ण ही उनके जीवन के लक्ष्य रहते हैं। प्रतिक्षण कृष्ण की ही चर्चा करना उनका स्वभाव होता है, मानो ये कथाएँ नित्य नूतन हों। वे इन कथाओ
Srila Prabhupada properly shows us here how to recognise God's help and guidance.
Sadly many do not understand how to properly pray and then positively deal with illness and sickness in the best way.
For example, some believe nothing else can heal your material body except only the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra, without doing anything else to also try to help yourself with (see second story below), which is simply NOT true explained here -
In early February 1973 in Sydney Australia, Srila Pra
22 Service to Krsna is Reality
Service to Krsna is Reality
An interview with Pankajanghri Prabhu
Could you please tell us how you joined ISKCON?
In 1967 Jananivasa and I came to India together, searching for truth . We travelled all around India for 3 years, and I had 2 gurus before meeting the devotees, although they were Mäyävädé gurus. [Pankajanghri Prabhu chuckles] Jananivasa had a couple of paper Bhagavad-gétäs, however they were not Pra
The author of Shri Chaitanya Bhagwat, Shrila Vrindavan Das Thakur, who was a dear devotee of Shri Chaitnaya Mahaprabhu and the disciple of Shrila Nityananda Prabhu, blessed and sanctified the dashami tithi in the month of Vaishakh by choosing to leave this earthly planet on this particular day. Shrila Vrindavan das thakur had taken birth from the womb of Shrimati Narayani devi, the niece of Shrivas pandit and the recipient of Shri Chaitanya Mahraprabhu’s unlimited mercy. Shrimati Narayani devi
Lord Narasimhadeva Appears in Mayapur
In ISKCON Sri Mayapur itself is an act of ‘Maya’ of the Supreme Lord. The story of how Lord Narasimhadeva came to Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir is really flabbergasting to know. The story below is reproduced ‘as such’ from the Mayapur journal based on experiences of HG Atma Tattva Prabhu (ACBSP)
On the 24th of March 1984, at 12.20 a.m., thirty-five dacoits armed with weapons and bombs attacked Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir. They harassed the devotees and t
The sun captivated everyone. Motorists rolled down their windows to take in the good air as they moved along slowly; as is usual on a Friday afternoon. I had my window down also. I could hear pedestrians and music blaring from the autos.
One guy did it deliberately — had his music pumped up and loud — as he coasted along near our temple. It was “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by George Harrison and the boys, the Beatles. I was actually having my lunch at the time and I had an additional tantalize
अध्याय बारह - अघासुर का वध (10.12)
1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: हे राजन, एक दिन कृष्ण ने जंगल में विहार करते हुए कलेवा करना चाहा। उन्होंने बड़े सुबह उठकर सींग का बिगुल बजाया तथा उसकी मधुर आवाज से ग्वालबालों तथा बछड़ों को जगाया। फिर कृष्ण तथा सारे बालक अपने अपने बछड़ों के समूहों को आगे करके व्रजभूमि से जंगल की ओर बढ़े।
2 उस समय लाखों ग्वालबाल व्रजभूमि में अपने -अपने घरों से बाहर आ गये और अपने साथ के लाखों बछड़ों की टोलियों को अपने आगे करके कृष्ण से आ मिले। ये बालक अतीव सुन्दर थे। उनके पास कलेवा की प
