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Hare Krishna Dear devotees,

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 brahma

By Sri Krishna Purushottam Das

Unlike the famed charging bull at the Wall Street in New York, there stood two Gir cows receiving worship and adoration last Sunday morningat the grand Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai. What was the occasion? The building hosted an unprecedented national conference on the glorious Mother Cow, Bos Indicus, jointly conducted by ISKCON Cow Protection Ministry-India and the Virat Hindustan Sangam (VHS).

The keynote speaker was renowned Indian politician

By Mahatma das

I was checking for a document on my computer and came across a letter I wrote to a devotee who had recently come back to devotional service.

Over the years he had his ups and downs and wrote me out of concern that this pattern might continue. He feared that he might leave devotional service again.

You might say, “Well I haven’t fallen away from Krishna consciousness, so how does this letter relate to me?” I think we all constantly battle internally with falling away from Krishna

By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON New Vrindaban Communications

Archival Research by Chaitanya Mangala Das

It’s a crisp, frosty November day in the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia, bare trees silhouetted against a clear blue sky. On one hilltop, an unusually royal building stands out, sunlight glinting off its gold-filigreed domes and spires.

Participants of ISKCON New Vrindaban and ECO-Vrindaban’s winter 2016 Board Meetings, wrapped up warmly in coats and scarves, are being shown the latest

SB. 11. 29. 9

TRANSLATION

Always remembering Me, one should perform all his duties for Me without becoming impetuous. With mind and intelligence offered to Me, one should fix his mind in attraction to My devotional service.

PURPORT

The words mad-dharmātma-mano-ratiḥ mean that all of one’s love and affection should be devoted to pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not indicated here that one should try to relish selfish satisfaction in devotional service, but rather that one shou

Is it Okay to Call Each Other Gopi?

By Khonika Gope-Kumar

“Wow! You look like a beautiful gopi!”
“The sweetest gopi ever :-) ”

Two of my “devotee” girlfriends recently commented on a Facebook picture of mine. And that left me very uncomfortable.

Though since childhood, I was used to being called “gopi” by my classmates and coworkers as my surname had been “Gope”, however, that never made me uncomfortable. I knew those karmi people did not have any clue what they were referring to. But my devote

He was a Vaidya by caste.
In his past incarnation he was Vira Duti.
(GGD. 176).

His Sripata was located at Kumarahatta at Halisahara (Pata Paryatana).

Sivananda had three sons named Caitanyadasa, Ramadasa, and Paramanandadasa (Kavi Karnapura).
Sivananda was one of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's intimate associates.
As directed by the Lord, he escorted the Gaudiya devotees to Nilacala every year, providing them with food and lodging along the way.

During one pilgrimage to Nilacala a dog joined thei

Shri Svarupa Damodara is an eternal associate and friend of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Previously his name was Shri Purushottama Acharya.
He lived in Nabadwipa.
He always stayed with Mahaprabhu.

When Shriman Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, he became half-mad.
He went to Varanasi and took sannyasa from a sannyasi named Chaitanyananda, who ordered him to study Vedanta and teach it to the people in general.
Shri Purushottama Acharya did not accept the dress of a sannyasi, but only gave up the shikha and

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura is a prominent preceptor Acharya in our succession of spiritual masters and disciples coming from Lord Krishna. He was a pioneering spiritual leader, a householder, a magistrate working in colonial India under the British rule, a prolific preacher, writer, and poet. He wrote volumes of books reintroducing the pure teachings of Lord Chaitanya at a time when those teachings had practically become lost. He composed hundreds of devotional songs glorifying Krishna to uplif

ISKCON GOVERNING BODY COMMISSION SOCIETY

Registration Number S/74662 under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961
P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal 741313

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 

SRI MAYAPUR DHAM, FEBRUARY 9 - 22, 2017

Go to 2017 Zonal Assignments

Section 100: APPOINTMENTS

101. GBC Officers and Members

1. His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami is elected GBC Chairman. 

2. His Grace Madhu Sevita Das is elected First Vice-Chairman. 

3. His Holiness Bhakti

Read more about Jagannath Ratha Yatra on www.harekrishnacalendar.com

After several weeks of assembling the titanium nitrate kalashes, they have finally reached the final stage of commencing their installation on top of the TOVP Domes and Chatris. A video by ToVPInfo.

Lord Narayana speaking to Gopa Kumara:

“Welcome, welcome, my dear boy! I am fortunate – most fortunate – to meet you here. For so long I have been eager to see you! My dear friend, you have passed many lifetimes without paying any attention to me at all. For so long hope had me dancing like a fool thinking, ‘Perhaps in this lifetime, or this, or this, or this, he will finally turn his face toward me.’ But I could find no pretext on which to bring you to my abode, dear brother, and still follow

Annually when the Lord of the universe, Jagannath alongwith His siblings – Baladev and Subhadra come out of Their temple to shower mercy by glancing with Their big round eyes during the month of Asad, as per the Vedic calendar is known as Rath Yatra. The scriptures mention that whoever takes darshan of the gleeful grin of Jagannath seated on His cart cuts the knot of repeated birth and death of this material world. The devotees of ISKCON Mayapur will be celebrating Jagannath Rath Yatra on 25th 

Controlling senses is great challenge for everyone. While talking with students, most of them complains that they can’t concentrate or focus on any subject matter for long time. Uncontrolled mind and senses is also hindrance in one’s spiritual life too.  As per my observation almost everyone of us is struggling with our senses.

Why our senses are uncontrolled?

Vedic Upanishads give a very good analogy of the ‘Chariot with Five Horses’.

The  chariot  stands  for  the  human body.

Five Horses represen

By Madhava Smullen

“We never thought a spiritual event could be so much fun – we would love to come again!” wrote one family after attending the Children’s Summer Camp in New Vrindaban last year.

“Wonderful event – we can’t wait till next year,” wrote another. “Our son says he will miss New Vrindaban very badly.”

These families are in luck. After the very well-received first New Vrindaban Children’s Summer Camp drew around 25 families from up and down the East Coast, organizers Sundari Dasi and

By Sukadev Das

It was our great honour to receive the visit by Crown Prince of Udaipur Rajasthan His Highness Prince Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar who comes in the lineage of great king of Mewar (Rajasthan – capital is Udaipur) Maharana Pratapa and great devotee Meera Bai. I had the opportunity to receive him to our temple, took him around our temple area including our Tulasi house, he was very impressed with how Tulasai Maharani was well cared and looked after in Melbourne (cold place). As we were wa