Two weeks ago at Bhaktivedanta Manor, a new garden was dedicated to Srila Prabhupada and his disciples. Since it was the week in which we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formal establishment of ISKCON, I gave the following speech:
If you would please look up and cast your eyes behind me towards this sequoia tree. It’s at least 100 feet high. It was planted here in the 1880s by a gardener who never got to see it the way we can see it today. This tree is one of 183 trees here at the
Canto One, Chapter One
Questions By the Sages
Srila Vyasadeva offers his obeisances to Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and immediately glorifies the Srimad Bhagavatam as completely pure, free from materially motivated activities, and especially nectarean having emamated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva Goswami. (1-3) The narration of the ”Bhagavatam• begins in the holy place of Naimisaranya, where great sages first glorify Srila Suta Goswami, the speaker of the Bhagavatam, and
A nice South Indian gentleman, Suresh, and his family approached my book table a couple of months ago and bought Krishna Dharma's thick
Mahabharata from me. We exchanged numbers. I send favorable people some Krishna conscious quotes.
Recently, to my surprise, I received a text from Suresh saying that his 12-year-old son Sreyas is on a school break for the summer and has
read the Mahabharata three times cover to cover. Sreyas kept asking Suresh for more books about Krishna. Suresh suggested t
The devotees from the TOVP team are developing a project called FullDome. This project will be located on a small piece of land near Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi.
Operation FullDome is a way to give any visiting guest to Sri Dham Mayapur an opportunity to experience the most unique immersive spiritual experience in a spiritual town. The visitors will relax in comfort and watch high-quality presentations of professionally made FullDome films, using only top grade technology – the same technolo
Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held his first ever Ratha-yatra festival at home. Many years later, ISKCON’s first ever Ratha-yatra was held in Los Angeles, San Francisco on July 9, 1967, and tens
When sites for Sunday temple feasts become dining destinations
For many Americans, the common perception of the Hare Krishna faith is young men with shaved heads and saffron robes professing their faith in airports and city centers. Founded in the 1960s by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Hare Krishnas, or International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), formed to encourage the spread of bhakti yoga, a Hindu spiritual practice in which followers devote all actions and intenti
Mumbai: Actress-politician Hema Malini, who is currently in Russia as part of a parliamentary delegation, visited the Iskcon temple in Moscow.
Hema Malini on Monday night took to Twitter to share a string of images of herself from the temple where she did aarti.
"At the Iskcon Temple, Moscow, where we were given a warm welcome and served a tasty lunch," she added.
Source:http://zeenews.india.com/spirituality/hema-malini-visits-iskcon-temple-in-moscow-2022884.html
Siddha-svarupa: McDonald's, they are very proud. They announce how many hamburgers they have sold. They have branches everywhere in the world.
Prabhupada: Hamburger means?
Siddha-svarupa: Uh, that's beef. They kill the cows at an unbelievable rate, the number of cows they're killing for their meat.
Manasvi: I think up to now they have sold 200,000,000 hamburgers, or something like that.
Prabhupada: You also keep account? [laughs]
Manasvi: No, they put that ad in every day.
Siddha-svarupa: They
In the book The Seventh Goswami, a biography of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura , it is stated that Thakura Bhaktivinoda prayerfully invoked the Lord, and expressed his heartfelt desire, “When will that day come when the fair-skinned foreigners will come to Sri Mayapur-dhama and join with the Bengali Vaisnavas to chant ‘Jaya Sacinandana, Jaya Sacinandana!’ … Very soon the chanting of Harinama sankirtana will be spread all over the world. Oh, when will that day come when people from America, England,
There was arranged the Rathyatra festival on 25 June'17 Sunday, on the auspicious day of Ashadh dwitiya in the city of Surat, Gujarat. Since Surat is one of the major cities of Gujarat, many thousand faithful people took part in it with a great enthusiasm. It was one of the best chance for the devotees to please Srila Prabhupada by distributing his books as Rathyatra is a festival in which totally new beginners wh
Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held his first ever Ratha-yatra festival at home. Many years later, ISKCON's first ever Ratha-yatra was held in Los Angeles, San Francisco on July 9, 1967, and tens of
Lord Chaitanya’s verse: “My Lord Govinda, because of separation from You, I consider even a moment a great millennium. Tears flow from My eyes like torrents of rain, and I see the entire world as void.”
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/DxfY2u
Source:https://www.facebook.com/back.to.godhead.iskcon/videos/1803282089697125/
Q. I encountered a verse that seemingly contradicts a verse in the Bhagavad Gita. and I was wondering if you could help me to understand how to reconcile these two verses.
Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 2, chapter 2, text 27)
“In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional servi
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
"No meat eating, Including fish and eggs"
Unknown to most devotees and vegetarians in general we are breaking regulative principles by taking gelatin from cows, buffaloes, pigs, chickens and so on, we have started a petition to support government initiatives to use vegetarian capsules. Kindly support this cause so that devotees may be aware and demand vegetarian capsules. Currently there's apathy surrounding tak
SRIKSETRA PURI PARIKRAMA 2017
Org. by ISKCON Sri Mayapur
Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We would like to welcome you to our 13th anniversary celebration of Sri kñetra parikrama. This year the parikrama day falls on 22nd November. On this day, devotees will circumambulate the entire Sri Ksetra dhama, a distance of around 19 Km. This parikrama has been performed since the time Vidyapati visited Sri Ksetra. ISKCON has been organizing this parikrama for the last tw
This morning I read a posting by Vijaya Dasa, ISKCON’s Minister of Book Distribution, in which he relates an interesting encounter he had heard described after one of his classes:
When in Alachua I gave a Bhagavatam class about book distribution, a Vaishnavi, Guru Prasad dasi, commented on an experience she had had distributing books.
She was distributing at the Dallas airport without much success, but she was still happily approaching people.
A lady sitting nearby was watching and finally walk
