Vijaya das: This festival attracts 60,000 people every year. It lasts six days, and people mostly just camp out the whole time, as we did. Ajita Prabhu (the president of New Govardhana) and his team of seventeen devotees were there to feed prasadam to the masses. They distributed thousands of plates of prasadam, and the people loved it.
Ajita arranged for a book booth right next to Govinda’s, our prasadam tent. I distributed from a table in this booth. The people were really receptive. The firs
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Dear devotees everywhere: This evening we begin a 2 1/2 month summer festival tour. Myself and a team of 300 devotees will hold a festival every day of the week, except Mondays, from now until the beginning of September. It means over 50 festival programs, including the great Woodstock festival in early July where just under a million people are expected. We are beginning here in Moldova and moving to the Baltic Sea Coast in Poland next week. This is a herculean task and we beg your blessings,
The lowly leper who used to utter loudly Lord Narayan’s Name Super
Since a long time ago I longed to write about two characters who were just beggars from material point of view. One of them was a leper and the other was a roller. By roller I mean a person who, wearing a mere loin cloth and carrying a vessel on his right hand, used to roll up the entire stretch of Baroda Street Chennai where my family resided during my school days ,on Saturdays calling loudly the name of Tirupathi Balaji. I us
After the drama we went for prasadam. Most favourite of all :p
Prasadam, feast made up of organic ingredient which is hardly available even to richest people in the world is the daily food of the residential devotees present there. It tasted divine and fresh.
It was 2/2:30 pm we entered in the temple hall, it was decided to offer heartfelt prayers through hare Krsna Mahamantra in 56 varieties of tunes. That’s really incredible you know singing the mahamantra in 56 different tunes along with the mu
It was the plan of many days. Tomorrow we would be leaving for Wada, Govardhan echo village one of the outstanding project of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath temple. Iskcon Chowpatty.
My mother slapped me softly and said see the time don't you want to catch the early train.. Immediately i woke up. all my senses became alert, i was afraid because last night i was so tired that i had slept without putting an alarm. i saw, it was exact 4am yeah i am going wada :D
Till now i had seen Radha Vrindavan Bihari, is
Hare krsna dear friends! Oh ya ya wish you a very Happy Mother’s day too :D
Actually We don't need a special day to celebrate mother's day father's day; do we?? Are pitoge..(image of parents beating a child) but since there is one, Happy Mother's Day :)
A 5 year old boy says to his mother,
“Mumma I love you!”
Mother said “I Love you too beta.”
The guy grows up to be 18
“I love you mom”
Mother, “Kitne paise chahiye bol”
The guy grows up to be 25
“I love you mom”
“Kaunsi ladki hai bol” :p
The guy grows up
Hare krsna dear friends!
We all wonder about the phenomenon called love. There is no greater power in this world than the power of love. but often we misunderstand and fail to distinguish beween love and lust. few days back i was hearing some discourses by HG Balgovinda prabhu and i got to know 2 prominent symptoms of love
Before i tell you about these two most prominent symptoms, let me quickly take you through all the 9 symptoms of love as explained by Prahlad maharaj :
1. Hearing: Shravanam
whene
Today I want to give a touch to a very significant part of the human relationships that is expectation : apekshaye!!!
In life whatever we do we keep certain expectations, isn’t it??
Ek baar ek bachese teacher ne pucha beta bade hoke kya banoge??
Vo bola “Dulha!”
Arey nithalle pathshala me padh raha hai tu bol raha dulha banega
Mera matalab hai bade hoke kya karoge??
Vo bola “Shadi!”
Ye to nalayak bacha hai bola mera matalab hai tumhare pitaji tumse kya chahte hai?
“Pota!”
“Arey teri maa ki apeksha kya ha
once a lady asks her husband, “ Mein aapke sapneme ati hu kya??? ” :p
Husband says “Bilkul nahi!” haha
Wife says “QQQQQQQ”
Husband, “nahi nahi me ratme hanuman chalisa jap karke sota hu.”
Wife, “To kya hua??”
To husband bola, “Bhoot pishach nikat nahi ave, Mahavir jab naam sunave” haha
Husband is so much haunted by her wife ghost hehe.. Some people are so fond of horror movies that even they are scared of them they will go and watch in the theater in the company of their friends and while sleeping the
Hare krsna dear friends. I am so excited today. You must be thinking what a joke! Inspiration from 2 drunkards???? Are you insane! No no I am sane baba. But I do get so much of hope from the lives of these two drunkards. ☺
About 5 centuries ago in west Bengal there lived two brothers, jagai and madhai. They were super well known for all their social welfare activities. I mean immoral activities. :p like robbery, murder, gambling, illicit affairs etc
Not only the people of nawadwip were afraid an
We all like music, songs..but there are very super serious species who will say they don’t like songs. But it’s a lie you know everyone is affected by songs..and the music of various instrument has halchal in their hearts :D
One may like a song so much so that he listens it every day, every day for a month, two months three months. chalo say for a year but not more than that..
but you know one song, a mantra is sung decades after decades, centuries after centuries in various melodies bringing chan
You must be aware of one famous idiom, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will
never hurt me. Is it real always??? I wish it could be. But in life most of our happiness and
distress is controlled by what people speak about us. isn’t it.
I remember, I was a school going kid, very sensitive one of my very good friend made fun of me
by calling ye moti, moti means a fat girl And I started crying. Hahaha.
It may be oral or written words it has a very powerful effect and sometimes one may forge
Chida-dahi Mahotsav celebrated today on the banks of river Ganga. Sri Sri Gaura Nitai deites were installed on a beautiful altar. HH Bhakti Nityananda Maharaj and HH Gauranga Prema Swami Maharaj spoke on the pastime of Danda Mahotsava. Many different preparations of chipped rice soaked in milk, yogurt and different fruits like mango, jackfruit and bananas were lovingly prepared in large quantities and offered to Sri Gaura –Nitai. . All the devotees bathed their own deities of Gaura Nitai in the
Ananda Vrindavana Devi Dasi: I pushed through the crowd to hold the rope for a few moments. We were in New York, on 5th Avenue, and the 3 large carts of the Ratha Yatra festival – an annual parade held in cities all over the world – were being pulled.
I held the rope and made my prayer – ‘Krishna, as I pull you to Vrindavan (Ratha Yatra symbolizes Krishna’s return to his home, Vrindavan), please pull me back to the spiritual world, back to loving you with full heart.’
As I released the rope and
Our article “Thoughts from the Astrology Tent” (Dandavats, Aug.21, ’09) generated much interest from Dandavats readers, and we received a number of inquiries that ranged from Krishna conscious astrology to the first Woodstock Festival in NY. However, in that article I mentioned that in 1969 “I was one of three devotees at the first Woodstock”. But no, there were four shaved-up brahmacharis in dhotis (and a number of future devotees, as I have since learned). My memory has been jogged by a recen
After years of planning for its 50th anniversary, and nearly six months of celebrations this year so far, ISKCON is now gearing up for its Golden Jubilee Incorporation Day on July 13th, 1966. And temples, centers, and individual devotees all over the world are getting ready to do something big for founder Srila Prabhupada, whom many feel they owe their lives to.
After braving thirty-five days at sea on the Jaladuta steamship and two heart-attacks to bring his message of devotion to the Western
Three 40-foot high, colorfully-decorated Rathayatra carts hand-pulled by devotees and surrounded by thousands of chanting and dancing people —rolled down New York’s 5th Avenue June 11 to kickoff a national celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness better known as the Hare Krishna Movement.
The Rathayatra parade began at 12 P.M. at West 45th Street and 5th Avenue, and ended at Washington Square Park where it joined the “Hare Krishna Festival” for
Schedule of Events: Groundbreaking Ceremony 10 am
Cultural Dance and Music, Kirtan 11 am
Sumptuous Lunch Free for the Public 12 pm
When: Sunday July 10, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM MDT
Where: SLC Krishna Temple
965 East 3370 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84601
Nowadays the great innovations of medical and scientific science can maintain patients alive, even those that in the past were given no hope to survive. These innovations can prolong the patient’s existence artificially even knowing that they will never regain acceptable health and life conditions. This situation is commonly called over-medication. The definition of cerebral death, since the end of the sixties has allowed for the development of transplant surgery. Before that time, the extracti
Bhima the mighty warrior of the Pandava dynasty requested one vrata day by which he could obtain the fruits of all the other days of vrata that he was incapable of observing. Vyasadeva advised him to follow this difficult vrata.
PADMA PURANA – Vyasadeva speaking to Bhimasena:
“Oh son, Lord Keshava, Who holds the club, disk, conch and lotus flower in His hand, personally told me that all of the merit achieved by fasting on whatever Ekadasis fall in one year can be attained by fasting on this one
