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Does Prasada Guarantee a Human Birth?
Kesava Krsna Dasa: I am guilty of this. I hear it all the time. For so long I was thinking that if anyone is given Krishna prasada (non-devotee), that person is guaranteed a human birth in the next life. I heard this many times, but where is the evidence to support the claim? 
There is no doubt that Krishna prasada will lead anyone who takes it, to Bhakti, in the future. After how long? It depends on whether a fortunate person performs activities in devotio

Respected devotees

Registration for the 2nd annual health care professionals retreat is now open and you can register by simply going to http://iskconnamp.org/. If you are unable to attend the retreat but will like to be added to our google group, please write to medicalretreat@gmail.com

All ISKCON medical/health care professionals in North America are cordially invited to the second annual retreat being held at the Gita Nagari Farm from September 22nd (Thursday) to September 25th (Sunday).

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Lecture on Who's in your Inner Circle by HG Charu Prabhu

(Charu Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples. He served on the BBT library party in 1976, received Bhakti Shastra in 1979, and was Life Membership Director in Los Angeles for 10 years in the 1980's.)

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Tulasi Jala Dan can be followed for one month during the hot season in the northern hemisphere.

One may hang a pot with a hole in it, fill it with water and drip water over Tulasi and Shaligrama Shila.

As it is hot this time of year it is pleasing for the Shaligrama to receive cool waters dripped upon Him.

In the southern hemisphere be careful not to overwater as we come out of Summer and into Autumn.

Source:http://www.ramaiswami.com/tulasi-jala-dan/

QUESTION: I once read somewhere, but I cannot remember where, that Kubja was attracted by Krishna in a selfish way of sensual satisfaction, and still Krishna fulfilled her desire. And then it is said that this intimate contact with Krishna purified her, so that her love later transformed into pure prema, as that of the gopis. Do you perhaps know where is this described?

Her love became like the prema of the gopīs but is actually not on the same level of quality.

In Bhakti Rasamṛta Sindhu, First

Lecture on Appreciating Krishna's love for us by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu

(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)

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Lecture on Appearance of Sri Ramanujacarya by HH Bir Krishna Goswami on 28 Mar 2012 at Suva

(Bir Krishna Goswami spent his childhood in Long Island, New York. As an academically gifted student at North Western University, he began reading Srila Prabhupada’s books. Impressed by Srila Prabhupada's scholarship and saintliness Bir Krishna Swami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971.)

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A Talk by Giriraj Swami Ojai, California

The original Personality of Godhead is Krsna, and He manifests Himself in different forms. One such manifestation is Lord Ramacandra. When Krsna appeared in His original form He acted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whereas when He appeared as Rama He acted as the ideal king. In fact, the pastimes of Lord Rama display ideals in many ways. Lord Rama appeared as the son of King Dasaratha, and Dasaratha acted as the ideal father and king. Rama acted

I have one short story. It is a story I made up myself but I think it is quite nice. Once, there was a group of people who lived in an oasis in the desert. In this oasis, they had their enjoyment, they had their variety of things – camel milk, dates and some bananas; or bananas and dates and camel milk; or camel milk with bananas and dates; dried bananas; camel milkshake – but that was it. So they were milking their varieties and this oasis was known as the “Oasis of sense gratification”.

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Everything can be used in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even modern technology. The TOVP Team happily announces the creation and roll-out of the new TOVP phone App, now available for Androids and iPhone.

With the aim of keeping devotees informed about the progress of the TOVP literally right at their fingertips, the new free TOVP App gives everyone access to features such as news updates, links to the website, photos, Youtube Channel and Facebook Page, TOVP social wall, and

Lecture on One who does wrong and suffers wrong he is wrong by Sivarama Swami on 04 April 2016 at DUB

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam canto - 10, Chapter - 01, Text - 38 by HG Narayani Mataji

(Her Grace Narayani Devi Dasi joined ISKCON in Boston in 1970. She has done many services for Srila Prabhupada including Deity worship in Calcutta temple, traveling book distribution in Western India for the Bombay temple, and teaching Bhakti Sastri, Bhakti Vaibhava and Bhaktivedanta courses in the VIHE in Vrndavana. )

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Lecture on Understanding Krishna's position and disposition from the Gita and the Mahabharata by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu

(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)

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Lecture on Goal of Varnashram by HG Ekalavya Prabhu on 03 April 2016 at Kolkata

(Ekalavya Das was born in New York City, USA in 1965, the same year that ISKCON Founder Acarya, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came to New York. His mother’s younger sister would regularly hear Srila Prabhupada’s Kirtans in Thomkins Square Park in 1966.)

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Human beings are inherently by nature, social entities, who are designed in a fashion where we crave attention, love, care, physical and emotional bonding. We have this deep desire to associate with people and form relationships. It could be as a parent, a son, a daughter, a sibling, a friend, a lover, a spouse, a guardian or a student. Relationships can be defined as intangible assets which fulfill the deepest needs of the heart. Material possessions cannot fill that vacuum. We may have a house

Question: In this Kali-yuga is chanting the best way to get spiritually elevated? And is chanting alone sufficient?

Romapada Swami Answers: Yes, that is the recommendation of the Vedic literatures. Harer nama harer nama harer nama eva kevalam / kalu nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha: "There is no other way, no other way, no other way of spiritual progress in this age of Kali than the chanting of the holy names of Lord Hari, Krishna." In one sense, chanting alone is sufficient, but such

THE ORIGIN IS ONE, MAY BE THE MANIFESTATIONS MANY

There is only a single source or origin for whatever we see in this universe. They are all from the Supreme Being, and vice versa the very universe in itself is that Being alone. That being so, all the divine personalities described in our scriptures are also from the same source, though they may appear to be in the form of different beings in our understanding.

The manifestations (or avatars) from that single entity known as the Supreme Being (the