Dear ISKCON Leaders and Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

It is with great enthusiasm that we present to you our latest Quarterly Journal.

This issue is special for two reasons. Firstly, it has been published during a very special Sankirtan season in ISKCON. A time when there is much focus on book distribution. However, there are innumerable methods to distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books during this time. Traditionally it started with taking advant

अध्याय पच्चीस - राजा पुरञ्जन के गुणों का वर्णन (4.25)

1 महर्षि मैत्रेय ने विदुर से आगे कहा: हे विदुर, शिवजी ने इस प्रकार से राजा बर्हिषत के पुत्रों को उपदेश दिया। राजकुमारों ने भी शिवजी की अगाध भक्ति के साथ श्रद्धापूर्वक पूजा की। अन्त में वे राजकुमारों की दृष्टि से ओझल हो गये।

2 सभी प्रचेतागण दस हजार वर्षों तक जल के भीतर खड़े रहकर शिवजी द्वारा दिये गये स्तोत्र का जप करते रहे।

3 जब राजकुमार जल के भीतर कठिन तपस्या कर रहे थे तो उनके पिता विभिन्न प्रकार के सकाम कर्म सम्पन्न करने में रत थे। उसी समय सम

We at the GBC-Strategic Planning Team have one motivation: To serve you.

We started this present service of communicating with the ISKCON world out of concern for how our devotees were dealing with the Coronavirus. We were convinced that the best approach to the virus was to “err on the side of caution” and encourage devotees to take precautions. In many places in Srila Prabhupada’s books there are descriptions of how rare and special devotees are. We didn’t want to see any of our devotees unnec

We felt so delighted to see many young children and teenagers were offering ghee lamps to the Lord. For many, they have achieved exalted piety by the unknowing performance of pure devotional service, without spiritual knowledge (ajñata-sukriti). We prayed that by associating with a devotee of Krishna, the seed of bhakti would sprout one day.

Devotee and congregation members reached out to different spots in Hong Kong (Kowloon area) and shared the blessings of offering ghee lamps in the month of

Auspiciousness is the most sought-after element of human society today given the fact that we are compelled to carry a large baggage of the pandemic. Though the beginning of the end is in sight now . What better way to repose our faith into Spirituality than dedicating our time, energy and emotions in chanting the names of The Lord, while saying good bye to the year which we all would perhaps like to erase from the book of our life.

Scriptures say problem may be material but solution is always s

अध्याय चौबीस – शिवजी द्वारा की गई स्तुति का गान (4.24)

1-10 मैत्रेय ऋषि ने आगे कहा: महाराज पृथु का सबसे बड़ा पुत्र विजिताश्व, जिसकी ख्याति अपने पिता की ही तरह थी, राजा बना और उसने अपने छोटे भाइयों को पृथ्वी की विभिन्न दिशाओं पर राज्य करने का अधिकार सौंप दिया, क्योंकि वह अपने भाइयों को अत्यधिक चाहता था। महाराज विजिताश्व ने संसार का पूर्वी भाग अपने भाई हर्यक्ष को, दक्षिणी भाग धूम्रकेश को, पश्चिमी भाग वृक को तथा उत्तरी भाग द्रविण को प्रदान किया। पूर्वकाल में महाराज विजिताश्व ने स्वर्ग के राजा इन्द्र

Brahmananda Puris’s sudden and unexpected departure from this world affected me very deeply and as I’m sure it has affected all of you as well who are participating in this broadcast. Brahmananda’s qualities were very broad, very deep. As a person, as an individual, as a leader or even as a supporter of projects that had meaning to him, he was in many ways unsurpassed.
For me I saw that his devotion to the Mayapur Project, by which he assisted in the purchase of enormous amounts of land there, a

ISKCON Mayapur presents New Year Shubharambha – Auspicious Beginning…

In order to invoke auspiciousness to begin the year 2021 & leaving behind a difficult year 2020 ISKCON Sri Dham Mayapur invites world wide devotees to take part in our  special  New Year’s Shubharambha program, which includes:

•    Special Narasimha Puja
•    Narasimha Homa
•    Feeding the cows
•    Vaishnava Seva
•    Ganga Puja
•    Kirtan

You can all participate in this auspicious beginning by donating only Rs.2000 by whi

I really prefer to get my vitamin D by catching some sun when I go for my daily stepping. But what if the full day is ridden by clouds like it often is these days? By the time my calls and Zooms are completed it’s dark. The daylight is over. Although it is normally an intense time during Christmas, with the current virus lockdown all is a “silent night." Even the natural world appeared still. Not a raccoon’s scratchy claws against a tree’s bark would be heard. To fill the ether within earshot I

By Vaisesika Dasa

We humans have very short lives. Measured by geological time, our lifespans are not even a nanosecond. Nonetheless, the bhakti scriptures say that this brief period is enough for anyone to attain spiritual perfection. What’s more, they reprove as irresponsible and miserly those who do not utilize their lives to attain such perfection. Having so much at stake with so little time may seem daunting!
To inspire us Sukadeva Goswami tells us in Srimad-Bhagavatam the story of Maharaj

अपने जीवन की अन्तिम अवस्था में तपस्या हेतु वन में गए हुए राजा पृथु ने भगवान के चरणकमलों का ध्यान करते हुए अपने भौतिक शरीर को त्याग दिया। साथ आयी हुई रानी अर्चि भी अपने पतिदेव के चरणों का ध्यान करते हुए अग्नि में जलकर सती हो गयीं। देवताओं ने उनकी प्रशंसा में पुष्पवृष्टि की।   श्रीमद भागवतम 4.23.18-26 श्रील प्रभुपाद

अध्याय तेईस – महाराज पृथु का भगवदधाम गमन (4.23)

1-3 अपने जीवन की अन्तिम अवस्था में, जब महाराज पृथु ने देखा कि मैं वृद्ध हो चला हूँ तो उस महापुरुष ने, जो संसार का राजा था, अपने द्वारा सं

It’s been another one of those weeks wherein caring for our severely autistic/mentally daughter has very nearly eclipsed all other activities. Again. Same as every minute of every day. For years on end. In order that we might truly learn and grow deeper with sincere affection from the difficult experience which the Supreme Lord has sent as mercy to reform us from all selfish considerations. Or complaint (tat te nukumpam…) about the severe circumstance we must necessarily endure. As each endless

By Madhava Smullen

Volunteers have established several Vaishnavas CARE teams each in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and El Salvador, as well as Spain, after attending the “Art of Caring for Vaishnavas” Zoom webinar by Vaishnavas CARE co-founder Sangita Dasi in November.

Devotees from other countries such as Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Uruguay also attended the webinar and are expected to form their own teams.

Meanwhile Sangita has been

Saturn and Jupiter were to come very close together from the earth’s viewpoint. They were to appear as a bright star. I decided to execute my walk through Ramsden Park, doing a back-and-forth pacing where there is less interference by high-rise buildings. Unfortunately hazy clouds actually blocked the view. My anticipation for this darshan (sighting) became deflated. Being equipoised was my only refuge.

Now, have any of you ever listened to “The Planets" by music composer Holtz. If you have not,

अध्याय बाईस – चारों कुमारों से पृथु महाराज की भेंट (4.22)

1 महामुनि मैत्रेय ने कहा: जिस समय सारे नागरिक परम शक्तिमान महाराज पृथु की इस प्रकार स्तुति कर रहे थे उसी समय वहाँ पर सूर्य के समान तेजस्वी चारों कुमार आये।

2 समस्त योगशक्तियों के स्वामी चारों कुमारों के देदीप्यमान तेज को देखकर राजा तथा उनके पार्षदों ने उन्हें आकाश से उतरते ही पहचान लिया।

3 चारों कुमारों को देखकर पृथु महाराज उनके स्वागत के लिए आतुर हो उठे। अतः अपने पार्षदों सहित वे तुरन्त इस तरह तेजी से उठकर खड़े हो गये मानो कोई बद्धजीव प्

The New Year is traditionally the time for resolutions. The turn of the calendar brings both the opportunity to reflect on the last 12 months and the chance to begin planning for the next dozen. As you think about yours, GBC Strategic Planning Team (SPT) brings to you live interview with Sri Radha Govinda Dasi to help you keep up with the resolutions, better decision making, leading through crisis and grow tall in Krishna Consciousness.

About Sri Radha Govinda Dasi

Sri Radha Govinda Dasi was bo

By Prishni Devi Dasi

In 1976, Srila Prabhupada instructed the founding members of the Bhaktivedanta Institute “to build a model of the universe that could later be built full size at the future Mayapur Temple and Planetarium complex.” To help broadly facilitate Srila Prabhupada’s directive, the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies (BIHS) in Gainesville, Florida recently hosted its second cosmography workshop with the title, “Models and memes and maps: A modern journey through ancient cosmo

ISKCON Zurich is searching for new Co-Temple Presidents for the Krishna Temple in Zurich, Switzerland. 

After thirteen years as temple president, Krishna Premarupa Das will focus more on his other services within ISKCON from October 2021 onwards. In the course of planning the succession, his tasks will be delegated to three Co-Presidents who together will form the new temple management. 

The individual service profiles are: 

• Co-President Administration, with the departments Finance and Accounti

Thus far it is a mild winter. Such is the forecast. Such is the experience. Stepping outside for an eager stroll allowed me to feel the atmosphere. I encouraged one of our boys in the ashram, who hails from Bangladesh, to go for a daily outside experience. “Get acclimated. Go out for some air. There is lots of prana.” Actually he’s constitutionally quite strong.

“It is when you stay indoors that you get sick,” I continued.

However, he is actually a bit under the weather. Now, I can’t pressure. I

अध्याय इक्कीस – महाराज पृथु द्वारा उपदेश (4.21)

1 महर्षि मैत्रेय ने विदुर से कहा: जब राजा ने अपनी नगरी में प्रवेश किया, तो उसके स्वागत के लिए नगरी को मोतियों, पुष्पहारों, सुन्दर वस्त्रों तथा सुनहरे द्वारों से सुन्दर ढंग से सजाया गया था और सारी नगरी अत्यन्त सुगन्धित धूप से सुवासित थी।

2 नगर की गलियाँ, सड़कें तथा छोटे उद्यान चन्दन तथा अरगजा के सुगन्धित जल से सींच दिये गये थे और सर्वत्र समूचे फलों, फूलों, भिगोए हुए अन्नों, विविध खनिजों तथा दीपों के अलंकरणों से सजे थे। सभी माँगलिक वस्तुओं के दृश्य उप