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Param Dayal Nityananda das: Members of ISKCON understand that truth can be found in other teachings, but falsity is also found in many of them. As such, to properly represent Srila Prabhupada, we have to be able to see if someone is following a teaching which contains some truth, which we can add to, or if it contains fallacies we should expose. Of course Srila Prabhupada ordered us to present things nicely. When I moved into the Boston Temple in 1980 I was told that preaching to a newcomer was

ISKCON Mayapur welcomes worldwide devotees to join us on the joyous occasion of celebrating the appearance day of Sri Narasimhadeva, Sri Narasimha Caturdasi festival 2018. This year, the festival falls on 29th April. A three days festivities including Narahari Nama Kirtan, adhivas, Maha abhisheka and Sri Narasimha Katha are planned for this year’s festival.

Sri Sthanu Narasimhadeva of Mayapur has a special place in the hearts of devotees worldwide. He is famous as performer of various pastimes,

Personal Letters from Srila Prabhupada

As a genuine spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada takes personal responsibility for the advancement of each of his students in the spiritual life of Krsna consciousness. Although now his transcendental instructions are available in book form, when Srila Prabhupada first began the Krsna consciousness movement, the only way his new disciples could get the answers to their many questions was to ask Srila Prabhupada personal

Sanskrt is a great language, this is the language of the God. I've started to learn it in 2012, because archeology is my key to the truth. Ancient things on my opinion are more truthfull than new ones. I found that the first human word in many languages is MATA -- maybe because the soul who born on the Earth has a strong material desire. And there are very many similar words in Sanskrt, English and Slavic(Russian, Ukrainian) languages.

Mother Mata MATi

Three  Tri     Tri

Nose   Nasika Nos

Brother Bh

In this episode...

• How a French Canadian mother of a 1 year old went from idea to published book within 2 weeks... without her husband even knowing about it!
• Her dream from Star Wars that came true when she became a devotee.
• What her English teacher taught her that led her to Krishna consciousness.
• The difference between goals and tasks and how they help you to get more done
• The accelerator that gets things done… this podcast is an example.

You can get the journal here: https://amzn.to/2IcLEXG

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Hare Krishna!

My name is Anand I live in U.K and work as an IT Professional, I presume you all came across this question but I want to have a clarity in this please.

i work Mon-Fri I leave 7:30 A.M to work and return back at 6:40 P.M, I mostly eat my lunches at work outside and I'm confused how I can offer food to Lord Krishna.

i have read blogs in ISKCON and also searched on other sites but there was no clear answer, I just need to know the process how I can offer food when I'm out at lunch in res

From our childhood in our academics, so many times we have been taught that human is a social animal and he can not live without interactions. When we interact with the other persons, we are bound to built up some sort of relationship. That interactions lead to relationships and relationships implies expectations. Any relationship sustains, because there is a constant exchange of expectations and its fulfillment. The movement there is any insufficiency of reciprocation relationship gets straine

Hare Krishna.

Whenever I heard about `love in separation' I could never comprehend fully that how could someone be near us and yet we would feel separation from him/her. Whenever this topic would come up during the lectures I would get bewildered as I could not understand howsoever hard I would try to `feel' it.

I am ashamed to admit that I still do not feel any separation with Lord or my Guru Maharaj or my shiksha Guru, rather I feel the opposite ! That they are always near me and many a time

In general, when we attempt to make a phone call to a very important person how much we try to:

• Take care of surroundings without disturbance and for proper signal
• Go to a closed room or a secluded place for clear voice
• Cautiously and Consciously wait for his response
• Keenly observe the status of dialing to ringing to connecting till the person responds to our call
• Discard all other activities and with all attention we are ready with a humble response

The idea is, when we chant the holy names

Srila Prabhupada…"Because this body belongs to Krishna, and we are using it in His service, it should be kept in good working order. A little dal, a little rice, some vegetable and a few chapatties is a substantial diet, along with a little fruit and milk.

Two cups of milk a day is sufficient. The Ayurvedic system of eating is to decide how much you can comfortably eat, then take half of that amount, filling the remaining half one quarter with water and leaving one quarter for air. This simple

Every year for Nrsimha Caturdasi in Mayapur we celebrate the Lord’s appearance with a grand three day festival. The first day is celebrated with a huge procession throughout the ISKCON Mayapur property and on the second day we perform a three hour long Maha Sudarshana Homa before the Deity of Lord Nrsimhadeva. The third day is observed as Nrsimha Caturdasi. We would like to offer you an opportunity to personally benefit from the Sudarshana Yajna by participating in the offering as explained belo

The Ten Offenses in Chanting the Holy Names

1. To blaspheme the devotees who have dedicated their lives to the propagation of the holy names of the Lord.

2. To consider the names of the demigods like lord Shiva or lord Brahma to be equal to, or independent of, the name of Lord Vishnu.

3. To disobey the orders of the spiritual master.

4. To blaspheme the Vedic literature or literature in pursuance of the Vedic version.

5. To consider the glories of chanting Hare Krishna as imagination.

বাংলা ভক্তিশাস্ত্রী অনলাইন

প্রার্থীর যোগ্যতা ও আবশ্যিক শর্তাবলীঃ

·     প্রতিদিন কমপক্ষে ১৬ মালা জপ করা এবং চারটি বিধিনিষেধ পালন করা ।

·     বৈদিক শাস্ত্র বিশেষত গৌড়ীয় সিদ্ধান্ত সম্বন্ধে নূন্যতম সাধারন জ্ঞানের অধিকারী ।

·     স্থানীয় ইস্কন কর্তৃপক্ষ থেকে অনুমোদন পত্র (এর অর্থ হচ্ছে আপনি কমপক্ষে বিগত এক বৎসর যাবৎ কৃষ্ণভাবনামৃত অনুশীলন করছেন) ।

·     কেবলমাত্র এই অনুমোদনপত্র জমাদেয়ার পরই আপনার নাম নথিভুক্তকরণের প্রক্রিয়া শুরু হবে । অনুমোদন পত্রে অবশ্যই সেই কর্তৃপক্ষের ঠিকানা, মোবাইল নম্বর, হোয়াটস্‌ এপ,

When you come to Mayapur Institute, you will get to live in the holy dham which is imbued with the kripa shakti of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and you attend the morning program, read scriptures, participate in cheerful festivals and take the most purifying Ganga bath, associate with senior Vaishnavas from worldwide. More importantly, you will be reading the scriptures extensively as part of your assignments to take in as much scriptural knowledge as possible. You will be then greatly inspired to r

Our consciousness shapes our vision. External world may not change for us or will never change for us but if we purify our consciousness then the way we see the world will drastically change. Just before the Mahabharata war Arjuna was in a miserable situation failing to understand the righteous and unrighteous path. But Krishna’s guidance completely transformed his life. The situation for Arjuna remained the same. He had to fight the war; he had to fight against his great grandfather Bhisma, gur

By Karnamrita Das

Some persons caught up in the counter-culture of the late '60's and '70's felt that all materiel prospects were void and society's status quo, miserable stagnation. Thus, as if in a life and death battle, they intensely felt compelled to search out meaning and happiness on the spiritual quest, appearing as their only hope. This free verse poem, inspired by the months I spent in the redwood forest in Muir Woods in Marin County [near San Francisco, California], condenses the bac