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As we were driving through West Bengal, I spotted a newly built house, with two words painted in large black letters across the entry portico – God Gift (written as spelled :). I imagined how every day the family would get this message as they arrived home and could not help but smile.

It also reminded me of a quote posted at one of the seminars at the ISKCON Leadership Sanga last week – Interrupt anxiety with gratitude. Anxiety is a given in most of our lives. It seeps in all over the place, i

After our taking a swim in the river along the gorge between Otaki and Napier in NZ, Ameyatma bathed me in the purifying waters of his door-to-door book distribution mission just before the sun went down. We knocked on about twenty doors and took turns doing the presentation of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
It is a bit inconceivable how sweet and gracious the people of Napier were. One lady, whose name is Storm, raced to beat us to the door and had it open before we got there. She was eager to chat

Many disciples of His Divine Grace attended and each one of them offered his homage and realizations for the glorification of Srila Prabhupada. Many concluded that although Srila Prabhupada was no longer physically present on the earth he is still very much present in this world in the form of his books and his instructions given to his followers.
Many programs were held at the Krishna Balaram temple in his honor like an Abhisek, performed to his deity, arati and pushpanjali at his Samadhi. 
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One of my closest friends, Dr Abhishek Ghosh, who is a faculty member at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA, invited me to speak to his students for a World Religions course. As most of the students were from a Christian background, he asked me to give an insider perspective on how I as a Hindu see Christianity in particular and other religions in general.

I spoke on how God is bigger than the religions we dedicate to him (Religion is meant for God; God is not meant for religion) and

Spiritual life has been challenging in every age, even in the satya yuga! Although in the satya yuga, conditions were very easy and very nice. There was no need to work; grains were growing naturally, fruits were everywhere. All that needed to be done was meditation but it needed to be done for a very long time – that was the problem. Now everything has to be done for a short time and quick results are there but in satya yuga, everything had to be practiced for an extremely long time. So then a

The London Saturday Night Harinama Sankirtan Party's ranks were
boosted this weekend as many Srila Prabhupada disciples came along to
celebrate Srila Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, which had fallen
earlier in the week.

Please find photos below.


Slideshow (please turn on sound):
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/maha_harinama_sankirtan_05112016/slideshow

Gallery:
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/maha_harinama_sankirtan_05112016


Sri Harinama Sankirtan Yajna Ki Jaya!

Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya!

Nitai Gau

Please find below photos from Annakuta, Go Puja and Govardhan Puja
2016 at Bhaktivedanta Manor.


Slideshow (please turn on sound):
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/govardhan_annakuta_gopuja_2016/slideshow

Gallery:
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/govardhan_annakuta_gopuja_2016


With best wishes,

   Hare Krishna,

      David.

During the London leg of my tour of the West, the most memorable engagement was a talk show at Queens College, Cambridge University. The format was that the program coordinator acted as a host for a talk show entitled “Debunk the monk.” He shot a flurry of questions at me, challenging my beliefs and practices and the students got into the spirit and followed shoot. I was enlivened by the program format and the QA soon went in the direction of science and spirituality, as I had hoped.

Ever since

Honoring our Godbrothers and Godsisters
by Padmapani dasa

“Regarding serving your godbrothers, this is a very good practice. The Spiritual Master is never without His followers, so to serve the Spiritual Master also means to be the servant of His disciples. When you want to serve the king, you must also serve his minister, secretary, and everyone who serves him. And to serve his servants may please him more than to serve the king personally. So the Spiritual Master is not alone. He is always wi

Sometimes people think that the ancient Vedic literature no longer has any real usefulness in this day and age. That it is little better than an antique of foregone days. However, this article shows the universal and ever-relevant nature of the Ramayana, and how it explains the symptoms of society when there is no ruler, or when there is an unqualified leader. This is from the discussion between Markandeya and the great sages and Visishtha when they urge him to install a proper king onto the th

On the sacred day of Govardhan Puja, 31st October 2016, Bhaktivedanta Manor hosted a gathering at the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

The House of Lords is the upper house of the UK Parliament and was built to advise the Crown Imperial since 1295. The House of Lords scrutinise bills that hav

Dear devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.Srila Prabhupada said that a GBC member could have “thousands of secretaries,” and in keeping with this principle the Governing Body has designed new posts for senior devotees to be engaged in assisting the GBC expand the oversight of the Society’s development. One such post is that of Global Duty Officers (GDO), who help the Governing Body and its members by taking up important services giving support and leader

Please find below a few phone snaps of the Vyasana and bhoga offerings
from Srila Prabhupada's Disappearance Day 2016 at Bhaktivedanta Manor.

A small murti of Srila Prabhupada was given abhishek earlier in the
day, pushpanjali was performed after the 12:30 arati, and many
devotees read out heart-felt offerings.

http://davidc.zenfolio.com/srila_prabhupada_disappearance_day_2016


If you are in the UK and can come to London please join our maha
harianama sankirtan party THIS SATURDAY EVENING (5t