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Akshaya tritiya, according to the Vedic calendar, is a day considered to be conducive to success in any significant endeavor. Traditionally, those aware of Akshaya tritiya's benefits schedule major life events, charities and spiritual activities on this day. To Watch the importance of Akshaya Tritiya by HG. Kripamoy Prabhu, Click Here. (Source - Krishna.com)

Since the time of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mayapur has been a place for learning Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures. It was a highly reputed plac

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Akshaya tritiya, according to the Vedic calendar, is a day considered to be conducive to success in any significant endeavor. Traditionally, those aware of Akshaya tritiya's benefits schedule major life events, charities and spiritual activities on this day. To Watch the importance of Akshaya Tritiya by HG. Kripamoy Prabhu, Click Here. (Source - Krishna.com)

Since the time of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mayapur has been a place for learning Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures. It was a highly reputed plac

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Akshaya tritiya, according to the Vedic calendar, is a day considered to be conducive to success in any significant endeavor. Traditionally, those aware of Akshaya tritiya's benefits schedule major life events, charities and spiritual activities on this day. To Watch the importance of Akshaya Tritiya by HG. Kripamoy Prabhu, Click Here. (Source - Krishna.com)

Since the time of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mayapur has been a place for learning Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures. It was a highly reputed plac

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Akshaya tritiya, according to the Vedic calendar, is a day considered to be conducive to success in any significant endeavor. Traditionally, those aware of Akshaya tritiya's benefits schedule major life events, charities and spiritual activities on this day. To Watch the importance of Akshaya Tritiya by HG. Kripamoy Prabhu, Click Here. (Source - Krishna.com)

Since the time of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mayapur has been a place for learning Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures. It was a highly reputed plac

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To the beat of Lord Krsna’s drum

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By Hunter Wells

It all looked a bit incongruous really. Given name John, John Herbison – spiritual name Yasoda Dulal – is standing in the middle of small-town New Zealand, the mist is swirling and he’s beating his drum and chanting mantras.

“…hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, hare hare.”

Shaven head except for that trademark tuft, draped in a traditional dhoti or robe, dripping with beads and the very materialism he’s busy renouncing is rumbling by at 100km/h. Trucks, cars and people obsessed with “matt

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(By HG Simheswara Prabhu)
A cultural exchange on vegetarian cooking and eating lifestyle was held at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Kanhaiya temple in Prai, Penang. (Monday, 2nd May 2016)
About 60 Chinese and 20 Indian members joined to exchange their vegetarian lifestyle and knowledge.
Mr. SK Wong the President of the Malaysia Youth Vegetarian Society was amongst the many who attended.

Miss Terese Chen from Taiwan who organizes the annual vegetarian cooking competition among world chefs was very i

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Review of Ekadashi Reminder for Android

Ekadashi - the eleventh lunar day (Tithi) of the Shukla (bright) or Krishna (dark) paksha (fortnight) of every lunar month in the Hindu calendar (Panchang) - has important place in spiritual culture of India.


Fasting

In Hinduism it is considered a spiritually beneficial day and is usually observed by a partial fast. Beans and grains are not eaten during Ekadashi, as on this day these two foods are believed to be contaminated by sin. Only fruits, vegetables and milk products are eaten during E

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Srimad Bhagavatam is the essence of all Vedic Literatures. Patient and submissive studying of Srimad Bhagavatam helps one to become free from the polluted aim of life and reestablish our lost connection with the Supreme Lord. H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj narrates the mood of studying Srimad Bhagavatam from the life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Gadadhara Pandit

At Mayapur Institute, we offer Bhakti Vaibhava Course, where Srimad Bhagavatam is taught by our expert teachers.

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Srimad Bhagavatam is the essence of all Vedic Literatures. Patient and submissive studying of Srimad Bhagavatam helps one to become free from the polluted aim of life and reestablish our lost connection with the Supreme Lord. H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaj narrates the mood of studying Srimad Bhagavatam from the life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Gadadhara Pandit

At Mayapur Institute, we offer Bhakti Vaibhava Course, where Srimad Bhagavatam is taught by our expert teachers.

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Ebook for Kirtan News Letter

2515094241?profile=original“What is the business of our Krishna conscious students? They are busy in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, in distributing knowledge in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore they are doing the best welfare work in the world. Other welfare work will be finished as soon as this body is finished. But these welfare activities will not be finished

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So you read carefully Bhagavad-gītā. Everything is there. Every word, every line is so, I mean to say, instructive. It is simply... That is the basic principle of spiritual knowledge. Now we have presented. Every one of you should very carefully read. Every one of you must have one book and read it carefully and appear in the examination next Janmāṣṭamī. You'll get designation, (laughs) Bhakti-śāstrī - Lecture on BG 2.26 -- Los Angeles, December 6, 1968

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Alachua, Florida is already home to the largest group of ISKCON members in North America, with some 500 congregational families. Now devotees are planning an intentional devotional community there for couples or singles aged 55 and over.

Prabhupada disciple Kirtiraja Das, who served as a GBC and regional secretary in the former Soviet Union before moving to Alachua with his family in 1991, is developing the project as its managing director. He has worked as a realtor for the past twenty years,

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The Power of Prasad

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I believe in the power of prasad.

My dad has been telling me for the past several years, "Prasadam, prasadam!! You must serve prasadam always; if someone eats prasadam their lives will change forever."

He's not exaggerating.

My father and mother would frequent the Hare Krishna temple while they were finishing up their degrees at University of California, Berkeley. The food was cheap and tasty, and - little did they know - it was spiked. With love, of course. Little did they know that food th

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In an effort to compete with Sabjimata Mata's and Kurma Prabhu's delicious prasadam blogs, I hereby submit our twelve month sandwich.


There are five main cooks who are always involved. The first one is Gaurachandra; on His right side stands Nitaichand, and on His left side stands Gadadhara. Cooking nearby is Advaita, and Srinivas is holding the spatula. Sweet Mrdanga sauce is mixed in with spicy kartals - all accompanied with side orders of conch and bells. All the demigods headed by Lord Bra

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                                      “Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.”
                            -Radhanath Swami, The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami
Yoga- In Hinduism, a set of mental and physical exercises aimed at producing spiritual enlightenment. This is a basic definition I found on google. To me, Yoga is something completely different. Yoga aids an individual in obtaining inner freedom to embrace one's truest self. Your highest self, detaching ones
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“Jananivasa told me about a conversation he had had in the temple with a middle-aged Bengali guest who had asked him, “Are Radha-Madhava made of brass or gold?”
“Well, what are you made of?” Jananivasa replied.
After a pause, the gentleman answered, “Flesh and blood.”
Jananivasa told him, “As long as you think you’re made of flesh and blood, then you’ll think the Deity is made of one metal or another. But if you can understand that you’re not the body, that you’re spirit soul, and also that the

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On the 11th of April our party traveled to Paksi-tirtha also known as Tirukalukundram. The town is located 15 kilometers southeast of Chingleput and 17 kilometers west of Mahabalipuram. The town is known for its Hindu temple called the Sri Vedagiriswarar and it is also popularly known as Kazhugu koli (Eagle temple). The temple is dedicated to Lord Siva and sits high atop the Veda-giri hills. A long expanse of steps leads up to the temple, the presiding deities of which are a Siva-lingam and Par

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The Brahmastra Weapon

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This morning I was reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter 7, entitled “The Son of Drona Punished”. This chapter has always intrigued me, because although the Srimad Bhagavatam was compiled by Srila Vyasedeva five thousand years ago, there is mention of the ultimate weapon, the brahmāstra [nuclear weapon] being used. We think that Atomic energy or Nuclear energy is some modern technological advancement, but actually this knowledge has been around since the time that Srimad Bhag

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 4.14

TEXT 14
na mam karmani limpanti
na me karma-phale sprha
iti mam yo 'bhijanati
karmabhir na sa badhyate
SYNONYMS
na—never; mām—unto Me; karmāṇi—all kinds of work; limpanti—do affect; na—nor; me—My; karma-phale—in fruitive action; spṛhā—aspiration; iti—thus; mām—unto Me; yaḥ—one who; abhijānāti—does know; karmabhiḥ—by the reaction of such work; na—never does; saḥ—he; badhyate—become entangled.
TRANSLATION
There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the fruits of action. One who understands this
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Srila Prabhupada: Pious activity is on the material platform, but chanting of the holy name of Krishna is completely on the spiritual plane. Therefore although pasandis do not understand this, pious activity can never compare to the chanting of the holy name. (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 3.79 Purport) 

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