By Audrey Dwyer
It takes about three pairs of shoes to walk across the United States.
At least that’s according to Bhaktimarga Swami, a 63-year-old Canadian born monk (formerly John Peter Vis) who has embarked on a transnational marathon walk of 3,000 miles across the United States from New York City to San Francisco on the Old Lincoln Highway.
Met with incredulous stares from passersby, this man, who follows the monastic lifestyle of the Hare Krishna order, dresses in an orange robe and he typ
“Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?" - PAUL MC CARTNEY; JOHN LENNON
When I was 64, I first published this blog. Today, June 22, is my 67th birthday, and I find the message I share here even more important, as over the last year and a half I have had to literally stare death in the face. Growing up in the 1960s I naturally remember the Beetle’s song, “When I’m Sixty-Four.” Yeah, after 47 years of bhakti practice those old songs (and ad jingles!) are still floatin
Yesterday, on Ekadasi, Aditya dasi left her body in Sri Vrindavan dhama, while a close devotee was chanting in her ear. She was a pure, devoted soul who sincerely served Srila Prabhupada and his Lords for the last forty-five years. She was our secretary in Juhu, and after Prabhupada’s departure she did wonderful service in his quarters. To assist me with the preaching, she even visited Pakistan, where she was much appreciated and loved by the local ladies. Later, when I was kept out of India be
Krishna is Never Obtainable
Directly!
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As aspiring devotees, we are all very eager to receive the mercy of the Lord and to obtain this mercy there is one absolute necessity and that is to obtain the blessings of the dust of the lotus feet of pure devotees. Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says, chaadiya vaishnava seva nistaara peyeche keba: unless one serves a Vaishnava, he cannot be delivered. Srimad Bhagavatam in 2.3.23 makes it very clear
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The Johannesburg brahmacharis on tour with their new sankirtana bus
ISKCON devotees in Johannesburg, South Africa, have shown their unwavering determination to serve Srila Prabhupada and Krishna.
Last October, brahmachari Narottam Das and his friend Mukharavinda Das walked an incredible 654 kms from Johannesburg to Durban to raise funds for a new Sankirtana bus so that their Brahmachari ashram could bring Prabhupada’s books and the Holy Name to people.
The journey, which took them eighteen
Jaya Chaitanya Das (far right, front row) with a group of monks outside the LA temple
Jaya Chaitanya Das, 30, recently went from being a hip-hop producer to ISKCON’s top book distributor in the U.S., selling 85,000 of Srila Prabhupada’s books in one year.
Now, he has come up with an innovative new program that shows young Americans today may be more interested in staying in ISKCON’s brahmachari ashrams than we might think.
Using the slogan “Be a Monk till Monday,” Jaya Chaitanya’s basic idea
Marble cladding work on the temple exterior and the installation of Rajasthani style sandstone window frames on the higher levels of the structure continues throughout various areas of the TOVP and will soon cover all sections of the temple, floor by floor.
After several weeks of assembling the titanium nitrate Kalashes, we have finally reached the final stage of commencing their installation on top of the TOVP Domes and Chatris.
This is a major achievement in the progress of the TOVP, and if the Lord allows us we are on schedule to complete the installation of both the Kalashes and Chakras by the end of 2017 with a grand installation ceremony.
In the video you can view the first piece being hoisted up by the immense crane on the premises and place
VIHE Publications’ book The Art of Teaching – A Guide for Training Our Children in Krishna Consciousness by Bhurijana Das, is now available as an eBook on Amazon Kindle. (E-book link: http://a.co/acbiOzv)
A valuable resource for parents, teachers, preachers, and anyone else who wants to teach. Bhurijana Dasa began his teaching career in 1976, working with students and developing curriculum. This book contains the essence of his years of teaching experience and his study of Srila Prabhupada
Since the Snana Yatra festival, the devotees at Jagannatha Gauranga temple in Bali are missing the darshan of Their Lordships, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra.
Their Lordships are resting in a nearby room and being taken care of nicely by the pujaris. In a few weeks time They will be seen again at the Rathayatra in one of the main parks of Denpasar.
An 80-year old body builder.
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Not long ago, someone in our community passed along to me a magazine pitch she’d received in the mail. On the front of the oversize envelope, a headline announced—blue type on a bright green background—”Old Age Isn’t Natural.”
And there, bursting with good health, shone Living Proof, our
Constant Engagement of Our Senses for Krishna
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Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.
In Bhagavad Gita verse 8.5, Lord Krishna declares to Arjuna
anta-kaale ca maam eva / smaran muktvaa kalevaram
yah prayaati sa mad-bhaavam / yaati naasty atra samshayah
"And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of
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H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj gave a wonderful message in Abu dhabi from Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.12.37:
santah sama-drsah suddhah
sarva-bhutanuranjanah
yanty anjasacyuta-padam
acyuta-priya-bandhavah
Persons who are peaceful, equipoised, cleansed and purified, and who know the art of pleasing all other living entities, keep friendship only with the devotees of the Lord; alone can very easily achieve the perfection of going
Prabhupada: “Expert means whatever he is doing, he must do it very nicely That's all. Suppose you are sweeping this room. You can do it very nicely, to your best knowledge. That is expert. Then people will say, "Oh, you have very nicely done." Any work you do, do it very nicely. That is expert. Don't do it haphazardly. To your best talent, to your best capacity, try to finish it very nicely, whatever it may be. You are entrusted with some work. Do it
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada'
BG 9.17
pitaham asya jagato
mata dhata pitamahah
vedyam pavitram omkara
rk sama yajur eva ca
I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable om. I am also the Rg, the Sama and the Yajur Vedas.
BG 11.43
pitasi lokasy
Srila Prabhupada:
My father's income was no more than 250 rupees, but there was no question of need. In the mango season when we were children, we would run through the house playing, and we would grab mangoes as we were running through. And all through the day we would eat mangoes. We wouldn't have to think, "Can I have a mango?" My father always provided food-mangoes were one rupee a dozen.
Life was simple, but there was always plenty. We were middle class but receiving four or five guests da
Having settled the course of action to be taken against Blitz, Prabhupada turned to Pradyumna prabhu. He asked him if he would like to personally worship the salagrama-sila given by Sampath Kumar, which was still sitting on his desk. He obviously had changed his mind about sending the Lord to the Bombay temple.
Pradyumna was readily agreeable and so Prabhupada gave him some simple instructions. "So we can carry, and every morning just put in a simhasana an
