From CHANT AND BE HAPPY – THE POWER OF MANTRA MEDITATION
It’s a scene that has been repeated countless times on the thoroughfares of cities throughout the Western world-from Hollywood Boulevard and Fifth Avenue in America, to London’s Oxford Street and the Champs Elysees in Paris. There, in the midst of traffic, shops, restaurants, and movie theaters, people suddenly find themselves confronted by a group of young persons singing and dancing to the beat of cylindrical drums and the brassy cadenc
By Mani Manjari Devi Dasi
Paechter (1999) explains that there are two types of curriculums or ways in which teachers transmitted their own views and values to students: the intended hidden curriculum and the unintended hidden curriculum. In the intended hidden curriculum, the teachers are aware of the views and values they are given to their students. In the unintended hidden curriculum teachers are not aware of the views and values they are given to their students; since those views and valu
By Parasuram das
1990 was the first Trip to Tipp, it was also the year that Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Germany was re-unified after the fall of the Berlin Wall and, away from the headlines, a computer nerd called Tim Berners-Lee was registering something called the World Wide Web. I was oblivious to all of this, I was busy chasing horses, tents and carts in an attempt to walk from Belfast to Moscow, the first traditional Padayatra outside of India in an attempt to celebrate Srila
हरे कृष्ण !
त्वया उप्भुक्त सक्र गंध वास: अलंकार चर्चिता ।
उच्छिष्ट भोजिन: दासा: तव मायाम जयेम हि ॥
श्री उद्धव ने कहा –
“ हे भगवन् ! आपके द्वारा भोगी गई मालाओं, सुगंधित तेलों, वस्त्रों तथा गहनों से अपने को सजाकर तथा आपकी जूठन खाने वाले हम आपके दास निश्चय ही आपकी माया को जीत सकेंगे ।“
यदि आपकी माया हम पर आक्रमण करे भी तो हे प्रभु ! हम उसे अपने शक्तिशाली हथियारों से आसानी से जीत लेंगे । ये हथियार हैं आपका जूठन, वस्त्र, गहने आदि । दूसरे शब्दों में, हम कृष्ण – प्रसादम से माया के उपर आसानी से विजय पा
Celebrating Srila Prabhupada’s 54th arrival anniversary to the United States with great news!!
On August 28th 2019, Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Society, the Department of the Interior, and the National Park Service. During the upcoming weekend, Sept 27 – 29, we will dedicate a bronze plaque to commemorate these momentous occasions.
On the occasion of World Holy Name Festival, ISKCON Rohini organized an Interfaith dialogue on Glories of Holy Names on 23rd Sept 2019.
On September 15th, brahmacharis from the Radha Krishna Temple in London celebrated the 50th anniversary of ISKCON UK by recreating The Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road album cover and sharing the photos throughout social media.
“After we celebrated ISKCON’s global 50th anniversary in 2016, I was keen to capture the mood of something quintessentially British for our own UK Golden Anniversary in 2019,” says UK communications director Mina Sharma. “And what is more British than
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The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is celebrating its annual Mega Youth Fest ‘UDGAAR – An Expression of Goodness and Joy’, on October 6th at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. The theme for this festival is ‘Anti-Addiction: Making India Addiction Free’. The new world record for “ Largest Drug Awareness Lesson” will be established at the festival which will be delivered by Dr. Vivek Bindra, famous motivational speaker and Business Coach. T
Traditions across the world have stories similar to the Western classic about Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. In such stories, the same person acts sometimes like a principled, selfless benefactor and sometimes like an opportunistic, self-centered malefactor.
And similar is our own story too. What makes us behave like this? Our mind, or more precisely, the way we respond to our mind. Our mind reacts impulsively to external perceptions and internal recollections; it becomes infatuated with some things and
In our times, equality is considered one of the most cherished values. Few things provoke as much indignation as incidents of discrimination – or even allegations of discrimination. Such outrage is healthy, for it helps create a world where everyone has equal opportunities.
Still, what is the basis for our longing for equality? Intuition, we might say – we innately feel that everyone should be treated equally. Yes, but what is the basis of that intuition? In other words, what is the worldview t
Thousands of devotees from all over Ukraine and Moldova flocked to Koblevo, a Black Sea resort near Odessa, to attend Ukraine’s Bhakti Sangam festival from September 12th to 16th.
Launched in 1996 by Niranjana Swami and starting with an attendance of only 400, it grew to become one of ISKCON’s biggest festivals, with an unbelievable 12,000 devotees participating at one point.
With less devotees having the funds to travel since the Russo-Ukranian war began in 2014, and fo
Question: Whose mercy is more important, Guru or Krsna?
There is no difference between the mercy of Guru and Krsna, no difference whatsoever. The Guru is the direct representative of Krsna in each of our lives. In the beginning, we naturally see that the Guru is more accessible because he is here in our world and he speaks to us directly. Sometimes he would chastise us, and sometimes he would encourage us. So the Guru has the power to correct us.
Krsna on the other hand is silent. Now, He may
D Magazine of Dallas, Texas has published a ten-page feature article about the Dallas Radha Kalachandji temple in its September 2019 issue, exploring Deity worship in-depth, pujaris’ relationships with Krishna and what makes the Dallas ISKCON community special.
D Magazine is available at every grocery store in Dallas, and is one of the best-selling magazines per capita in the U.S. on local newsstands. Devotees are saying that its piece – entitled “The Wild Pursuit of Bl
Äkāśamuṣṭihanana nyāyaḥ (striking sky with fist)
A man was threatening to strike the sky with his fist, because he was angry at it. But sky remained calm and silent as always, leaving the angry man bellow.
Atheists are proud of their meager powers, which are tiny compared with the vastness of thy sky, power of the nature, not to say the might of the Supreme Lord, under whose order the material nature works. Their performance of arrogance and intimidation result in anger, all that shorten their l
