The students and staff of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Mission School flagged off the Janmashtami Celebrations with a grand Jhulan festival at the school at Andheri, Mumbai. Besides the students and teachers the festival was enthusiastically attended by the parents as well.
The Janmashtami celebrations will be held on Fri, 11th August with abhishekha performed by the students followed by a boat festival in the temple hall. The 121st appearance day celebrations of Srila Prabhupada will be held on Mon
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By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON New Vrindaban Communications
Neither Filippo Paonessa nor his wife-to-be Sukhayanti Dasi had any previous experience in cow protection or agriculture when they met at the Toronto ISKCON temple. But they found that they were both inspired by Srila Prabhupada’s words on simple living and shared a desire to follow them practically.
Sukhayanti had grown up in Israel and traveled the world in her twenties, meeting devotees at a Rainbow Gathering in Germany in 2005. Attr
A new format for Padayatra
Padayatra is one of the biggest preaching programs of the year in Slovenia. For the past fourteen years Slovenian devotees have been organising a walk every summer. By walking in different sections each year they have covered the entire country, which is not a difficult task since Slovenia is a small coutry of 2 million people (less than 1/6 of Moscow’s population) with a superficy of 20 000 square kms, the size of Costa Rica or Macedonia, and 1/32 the superficy of Fr
The Turkish Pavilion at Tower Grove Park was the place to be last Sunday, July 30th, 2017! It was buzzing with excitement the whole day! The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) chapter in St. Louis, Missouri was excitingly preparing for celebrating The Chariot Festival for the third year in a row. The organizers and volunteers arrived at the site at 8 am and immediately began to set up and decorate the very colorful, tall,and impressive chariot cart. Other volunteers began
TEXT 26
patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah
SYNONYMS
patram—a leaf; puspam—a flower; phalam—a fruit; toyam—water; yah—whoever; me—unto Me; bhaktya—with devotion; prayacchati—offers; tat—that; aham—I; bhakti-upahrtam—offered in devotion; asnami—accept; prayata-atmanah—of one in pure consciousness.
TRANSLATION
If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit a water, I will accept it.
PURPORT
Here Lord Krsna, having established th
After viewing the installed Kalashes and Chakras, Sadbhuja and Rangavati prabhus have decided that the Dome brackets which hold the Kalashes in place need a color adjustment to match the gold color of the titanium nitrate Kalashes and Chakras. They have created a new design which includes painting sections of the Dome brackets gold.
To fulfill the need for a durable, weather-resistant and long-lasting paint they have turned to a German based company named Keim known for its high quality paints.
Many artists are only recognised for their greatness once they are dead but Beethoven was famous during his life but then, he went deaf. Can you imagine that!? It was practically the worse thing that could have affected him. For a musician, the ear is essential. People who cannot sing, it is not that they cannot sing – they cannot listen! Music begins with listening. It is all about the ear, really!
Beethoven, with the perfect ears, who he could perfectly hear different tones and notes, went de
By Tara Duggan
Troupes of neon-vested Segway riders and strolling tourist families exploring Golden Gate Park on Sunday made way for an especially vibrant interruption: the Festival of Chariots, an annual Hindu parade and celebration with roots going back millennia in India.
Held since 1967 in San Francisco, the festival drew hundreds of smiling worshipers who helped pull three large chariots along John F. Kennedy Drive that carried likenesses of Lord Jagannath — who to many Hindus is known as
By GBC Brooklyn Temple Sale Committee
August 1, 2017
The former president of the ISKCON temple in Brooklyn, New York, Ramabhadra Dasa, has kept the temple locked shut for the last ten days, and this past Sunday he had the “ISKCON” sign removed from the face of the building. The sign had announced the temple’s identity for years.
“Hare Krishna Temple in Brooklyn with ISKCON sign prior to it being removed from the face of the building.”
“The congregation has no idea if and when the temple doors
Join us for 5 fun-filled days for a memorable experience of interactive spiritual learning. Each of the five days will have a unique theme from our rich Vedic Heritage. Activities will include arts, crafts, drama, yoga, music, cooking classes, outdoor activities and much more.
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Pelee Island, Ontario
A number of us from the U.S. and Canada came to this island for a physical and spiritual boost. From Ohio, we had families from Cleveland and Hudson; from Michigan, Detroit; and from Ontario, Windsor, Leamington and Toronto.
This southernmost piece of Canada, set in Lake Erie, is referred to as an ecological gem with rare plants and animals. But our group was not poised to try to spot those unique cacti or salamanders. We were here to have a sanga, an association of
Upon landing in Salt Lake City, the Air Canada flight pilot informed us of 95°F weather outside. That’s warm. I was met by my trusted brahmachari team, Hayagriva, Marshal and now also Curtis Taylor from Calgary, to drive us to Helper, a town in Utah. This is a location close to where I reconvene the U.S. walk.
I had been telling everyone back home in Canada that it’s the last leg of my trek. “It will take forty-five days to complete. I won’t see you for a month and a half. I’ll be goin
By Tara Duggan
Troupes of neon-vested Segway riders and strolling tourist families exploring Golden Gate Park on Sunday made way for an especially vibrant interruption: the Festival of Chariots, an annual Hindu parade and celebration with roots going back millennia in India.
Held since 1967 in San Francisco, the festival drew hundreds of smiling worshipers who helped pull three large chariots along John F. Kennedy Drive that carried likenesses of Lord Jagannath — who to many Hindus is known as
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yanti deva-vrata devan
pitrn yanti pitr-vratah
bhutani yanti bhutejya
yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam
pitrn yanti pitr-vratah
bhutani yanti bhutejya
yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam
SYNONYMS
yanti—achieve; deva-vratah—worshipers of demigods; devan—to demigods; pitrn—to ancestors; yanti—go; pitr-vratah—worshipers of ancestors; bhutani—to ghosts and spirits; yanti—go; bhutejyah—worshipers of ghosts and spirits; yanti—go; mat—My; yajinah—devotees; api—also; mam—unto Me.
TRANSLATION
Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship ghosts and spirits
Most by college program organizers asked me to speak on “Spirituality in the age of science.” Not wanting to speak the same content again and again, I started approaching the topic from different angles in different talks. And I soon discovered that I had enough approaches to address this topic in a full book. One such talk centered on “The hard problem of consciousness” at the Texas A and M university, College Station. I explained how consciousness is the basis of all our knowledge – even the d
Every year the youth of Mayapur come together and work to make the festival what it has been for the past thirty-two years – an intense mood of loving devotional service.
Jhulan Yatra takes place every year in the monsoon season over a period of five days, leading up to Balarama Purnima. This is the time when Srimati Radhika and Her beloved Sri Madhava enjoy swing pastimes in the spiritual world.
Every year the youth of Mayapur come together and work to make the festival what it has been for the
By Chaitanya Charan das
My tour to the West in 2017 was the longest till date, lasting for three months and extending across forty cities in five countries: USA, Canada, Trinidad, Panama and UK. During the tour, by Krishna’s mercy, I gave around 132 classes and answered around 1000 questions. Here I share some of the highlights of the tour.
Programs for Western audiences:
Minding the Intel Mind
Perhaps the most significant program during my Western trip was a seminar at Intel, in Phoenix, Ari
