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Prabhupada told us the story of the old Bengali lady, who while on her death bed, is being forced by her son to chant ‘Hare Krsna!’

The son says to his mother, ‘chant! chant! Hare Krsna bolo!’ but the mother is simply not chanting. The son then pushes her a little stronger and finally the lady says a full sentence, “I am dying, can’t you see? What more do you want me to say?” The lady says this whole sentence but still she could not say Hare Krsna! Why?

This is because the lady has not seen how

2020 is bringing in new things for ISKCON North America (NA) Communications Department: new management, with the appointment of Madan Gopal Das as Director and Kumari Kunti Dasi as Administrative Director, as well as back-to-back events to boost the North America teams with a Training Workshop and Communications Conference in the fall of this year.  

The NA Directors of Communications work directly under the guidance of Anuttama Das, ISKCON GBC, and Global Communications Minister, with the aim o

Today is the divine appearance day of Chitra Sakhi. Chitra is the fourth of the varistha gopis. Her beautiful saffron complexion resembles the color of kumkuma, and her garments are the color of crystal. She is 26 days older than Srimati Radharani, being 14 years, 7 months and 14 days of age. Her father is Catura, the paternal uncle of Suryamitra. Her mother is Carcika-devi and her husband is Pithara. She is an adhika-mrdvinayika, and her home is in Chiksauli.
In gaura-lila she appears as Sri Go

Candramauli Swami:

In the kirtana of the holy name, so much mercy is easily available, but we can miss it if we do not do two things: be eager for it and appreciate it.

Our consciousness is what makes this sangha (spiritual gathering).

We want to glorify Krishna in the form of the holy name.

I pray that I can never forget the value of the association of devotees, especially when we get together for kirtana.

We have our favorite kirtana leaders and our favorite melodies, but these our secondary t

A yogi friend of mine, Devananda, who I’ve known for forty-five plus years, came by. He spends half his time in India and half in China. It looks like he retreats to his native Toronto now and then. We always have a good chat. Today we covered everything from The Gita, bhakti, jnana, smarta brahmins, Covid-19, transgender, vaccines, Indian history, Islam, you name it. We spoke while eating prasadam, nice blessed food, in the environment of “Govinda’s” dining hall.

Devananda is cool, a Canadian,

The glory of the Lord’s holy name is confidential knowledge that must be passed on to others with care.

This article discusses the offense of telling faithless persons the glories of the holy name.

Among the many presents I received for my sixth birthday were several pairs of heavy red stockings. Like most children, I preferred toys to clothes-especially duplicate clothes. So I ran to my room and pouted. Like any good mother, mine told me to return to my guests, smile, and say, “Thank you,” reg

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श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

ॐ श्री गणेशाय नमः

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय

नारायणम नमस्कृत्यम नरं चैव नरोत्तमम

देवी सरस्वती व्यासं ततो जयम उदिरयेत

ब्रह्मा द्वारा स्तुति

श्रीमद भागवतम अष्टम स्कन्ध

अध्याय पाँच एवं छह

24 श्री शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: हे समस्त शत्रुओं का दमन करने वाले महाराज परीक्षित ! देवताओं से बातें करने के बाद ब्रह्माजी उन्हें भगवान के धाम ले गये जो इस भौतिक जगत से परे है। भगवान का धाम श्र्वेतद्वीप नामक टापू में है, जो क्षीरसागर में स्थित है।

25 वहाँ (श्र्वेतद्वीप में) ब्रह्माजी ने पूर्ण पुर

Dear ISKCON Leaders and Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

“I am requesting all of my students to read my books very seriously every day without fail”

Letter to Bhargava – LA, 13-06-72

I submit to you, with immense gratitude, this short report on the recently concluded International Shravanam Week, 2020. The objective of the festival was to glorify the reading of Srila Prabhupada’s books every day. By all of your support, it exceeded all of our expecta

I went for a blood test in a downtown lab. Great walk! I paced through the neighborhood frequented by the famous impressionist artists, the Group of Seven, to make it to the lab. There I met an amiable woman, an Afro-Canadian.

“My name is Aretha,” she said.

“Oh! As in Franklin?” I thought, Of course, she was named after her.

“After the vocalist, yes.” She said.

“That gal was the best. She had an incredible voice.”

This Aretha made a remark about my attire, the colour, and how she especially appr

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श्री गुरु गौरांग जयतः

ॐ श्री गणेशाय नमः

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय

नारायणम नमस्कृत्यम नरं चैव नरोत्तमम

देवी सरस्वती व्यासं ततो जयम उदिरयेत

गजेन्द्र की समर्पण स्तुति

श्रीमद भागवतम अष्टम स्कन्ध अध्याय तीन  

1 श्री शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने आगे कहा : तत्पश्र्चात गजेन्द्र ने अपना मन पूर्ण बुद्धि के साथ अपने हृदय में स्थिर कर लिया और उस मंत्र का जप प्रारम्भ किया जिसे उसने इन्द्रद्युम्न के रूप में अपने पूर्वजन्म में सीखा था और जो कृष्ण की कृपा से उसे स्मरण था।

2 गजेन्द्र ने कहा : मैं परम पुरुष वासुदेव को सादर नमस

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Let us join together to hear from the very experienced Kirtan leaders from London as they reaffirm the Purpose #4 of ISKCON (To teach and encourage the sankirtana movement, congregational chanting of the holy name of God, as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu)

About the Team

Radhika Ranjan Das

Full time working professional who has been practicing Bhakti from a young age. Much of his time is spent in sharing kirtan with diverse audiences. He is a core mana

By Madhava Smullen

After World Holy Name Day was established in 1996 in honor of Srila Prabhupada’s Centennial celebrations, World Holy Name Week followed in 2008 and has been held annually ever since, with public Harinama Sankirtan, 12 and 24 hour kirtans, japathons and Holy Name-themed seminars.  

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the traditional methods of sharing the Holy Name are severely restricted. Thus the newly dubbed World Holy Name Festival, organized by the ISKCON Kirtan Minis

An Opportunity to Worship Supremely Merciful Lord Gauranga in Supremely Merciful Abode Navadvipa Dhama, in the Supremely Powerful Purusottama Month by performing the Supreme Spiritual activity- Navadvipa Dhama Parikrama!

Registration is free! Register Now and perform Navadvipa Parikrama from anywhere in the world through Zoom.

By registering for Navadvip dham Parikrama, you will join Sri Caitanya’s transcendental Parikrama Party with HH Jayapataka Swami as the Commander .

You will

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It is definitely a pretty part of the province, near the quiet city of Owen Sound, where several waterfalls embellish the natural beauty of the place. Nanda, Aisvarya and I took a stroll at Harrison Park, on a trail leading to the awesome, cascading Inglis Falls. Our trek was short (and more walking awaited us along Georgian Bay) but sweet, it was near escarpment cliffs and under the canopies of still-green trees. A breeze picked up and sent down residual raindrops from those trees. It took us b

HIM (ALMIGHTY) and they (MORTALS)

HIM is the Almighty.
'they , them, those, these and that',
are  temporary merely to teach,
The Truth of the Transcendental.

Should we hopelessly hang on to 'them' 
To be trampled and torn.
or 'HAVE HIM 'as our ONLY HOPE.
FOR HE is Happiness and, HEALTH.

DISCARD 'these , they and those',
'HOLD HIM THE HIGHEST' .
'they' represent the worthless trinket,
HE embodies the priceless jewel.
'those and that' throw us to the ,
cruel cycles of constant birth and death.
HE ca

WHY ME? - WHY NOT ME?

Why me? Why me? What have I done?
Miseries many, merge within me,
Faith falters, Trust torn to threads,
Goodness taken for granted,
Why me? Why me ? Why me?.

Oh! Are you the sinless?
Without a bit of  blemish?  
Brides burnt, the good grieved,
Homeless hold hope,
Patients persevere.

Poorest pray,
Children cry in the cold,
Seniors secluded,
Women in woe,
Several suffer in silence and solitude,
Yet you ask Why me? Why me?.

Learn from the lost and lone,
They will train your thoughts,
They sing