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Hare Krishna,

                            To all the members of Iskcon Desire Tree, wish u a very happy New Year 2019. 

                             May Lord Krshna blesses us...as we may became His "Dasanudas"

                                                          Jai Srila Prabhupada.....

By Sunanda Das

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By Gurudas

I am saddened by my feeling of separation from you, that I will not see you again on this planet, yet I still feel close to you. Our relationship transcends material boundaries and You are in my, and many peoples hearts . Let us all pray for your continued spiritual journey, which makes me happy, as you are not in pain anymore, and with our beloved Spiritual Master, and Radha and Krishna.

I fell in love with you upon viewing your powerful presence
I fell in Love with you, little did

By Giriraj Swami

At Kirtan50 today, Bada Haridas Prabhu and I spoke about the holy name, following the theme of this beautiful verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.2.55):

visrjati hrdayam na yasya saksad
dharir avasabhihito ’py aghaugha-nasah
pranaya-rasanaya dhrtanghri-padma
sa bhavati bhagavata-pradhana ukta

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind to the conditioned souls that if they call upon Him by speaking His holy name, even unintentionally or unwillingly, the Lord is inclined to dest

545,599,371 pieces of literature authored by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada have been distributed worldwide by his sincere followers since 1965 to the end of November.
6,080,380 literatures this year.
601,385 literatures the month of November.
These are official stats issued by the BBT (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, the publishing agency of Srila Prabhupada’s books)
Sankirtan Yajna ki Jaya!
Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!

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This episode we’re interviewing His Holiness Hridayananda das Goswami about preaching in the West and taking initiative to spread Prabhupada’s movement.

Some of the topics we cover:

• How the movement has changed...
• Why we need to create leaders not followers...
• The extreme importance of acting according to our nature...
• What it means to be an adult in the Hare Krishna movement...

We even discuss how leaders and gurus in ISKCON can sometimes misuse their power... and what to do about it.

If you are a pr

From Back to Godhead

Delhi, Friday 5th October, 1956
Edited and Founded
Under direct order of His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhakti-Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada
By Goswami Abhay Charan Bhaktivedanta

The Supreme Lord is said to be ‘Sachidananda Vigraha‘ in the revealed scriptures. ‘Sat‘ means eternal, ‘Chit‘ means fully cognizant and ‘Ananda‘ means joy, and ‘Vigraha‘ means specific Personality. Therefore the Lord or the Supreme Godhead who is one without a second is eternally a joyful per

By Sacinandana Swami 

“When an intelligent person engages constantly in worshiping Me through loving devotional service as described by Me, his heart becomes firmly situated in Me. Thus all material desires within the heart are destroyed. The knot in the heart is pierced, all misgivings are cut to pieces and the chain of fruitive actions is terminated when I am seen as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.20.29-30)

This is the power of bhakti: it can, so to say, ‘digest’

By Giriraj Das

We often read and hear, how being a devotee, our heart should be soft, full of humility and compassion for others. Sometime we are not even sure where to draw the final line as there are different instructions for devotees at different levels of consciousness. We do not even know what is true humility and many a times wonder how a pure Vaishnava thinks, what are his emotions and how does he acts? 

Caitanya Mahaprabhu quoted the below verse, from Mahabharat, to a brahmana during

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, March 2018, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture)

Human relationships become meaningful when Krsna is the priority. It is not good enough when Krsna is simply there in our lives. I mean, it is still nice that Krsna is there, but when Krsna actually becomes the priority, then it becomes significant to the point that everything will change. This is the unique feature of Srila Prabhupada, who truly made Krsna the priority and showed that consistently throughout his whol

Karma – Activities of the Conditioned Soul

• Ignorance of Krsna

• Desire to Enjoy

• Material body

• Identity with body

• Desire to enjoy in body

• Action to get enjoyment

Immediate Experience

Of enjoyment

Or suffering

Attachment to objects

causing enjoyment

Repulsion to objects

of suffering

(samskara)

Desires or hatred Restrictions

in next life (vasana) in next life (karma)

Free will, intelligence

Action

Tama Raja Sattva

Misery Immediate Detachment

Pleasure Peace

Action: Prakrti in combina