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Forgive and Be Free

2515037418?profile=originalLecture On Forgive and Be Free by HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 19 May 2014 at Jagannath Puri

(HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank. He was initiated by the spiritual name His Grace Devamrita Dasa.)

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Brahma-First Guru of all Sampradaya

2515037470?profile=originalLecture on Brahma-First Guru of all Sampradaya by HG Vishwarup Prabhu on 25 Oct 2015 at Manchester

(HG Vishwarup Prabhu delivered professional and spiritual discourses to medical professionals in UK and USA in 2007-2008.)

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 2.24

TEXT 24
acchedyo 'yam adahyo 'yam
akledyo 'sosya eva ca
nityah sarva-gatah sthanur
acalo 'yam sanatanah
SYNONYMS
acchedyaḥ—unbreakable; ayam—this soul; adāhyaḥ—cannot be burned;ayam—this soul; akledyaḥ—insoluble; aśoṣyaḥ—cannot be dried; eva—certainly; ca—and; nityaḥ—everlasting; sarva-gataḥ—all-pervading; sthāṇuḥ—unchangeable; acalaḥ—immovable; ayam—this soul; sanātanaḥ—eternally the same.
TRANSLATION
This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlast
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Update on Mukunda Goswami's Recovery

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Mukunda Goswami

 

Mukunda Goswami is making a slow but steady recovery from the surgeries.

While in ICU he was looked after 24/7 by a team of doctors and nurses to make sure that his vital functions were properly restored. Their particular concern was Maharaja’s lungs (risk of a pneumonia) from extended confinement to bed due to the hip fracture as well as possible clotting. Therefore the day after the hip surgery physiotherapists started gently but forcefully encouraging Maharaja to sit up

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Krsnaizing Halloween

Krsnaizing Halloween (Album with photos) Even Halloween can be engaged in Lord Krsna’s service. At TKG Academy we celebrated the Fall Festival with the students dressed as characters from our devotional scriptures. The costumes included some of the Lord’s main incarnations, such as Lord Nrsimhadeva, Lord Vamanadeva, Lord Ramacandra along with His wife Sita, Their devotee Jatayu and Ahalya, Lord Parasurama and Kurma Avatar. There were other manifestations such as The Universal Form and Mohini Murti and some demigods, like Agni and Lord Siva. Lord Krsna’s personal weapon, the Sudarsana Cakra was present. We also had Lord Krsna Himself, in His original form as a cowherd boy in the village of Vrndavana, along with His mother Yasoda, His most beloved Srimati Radharani, other gopis and cowherd boys and the river Yamuna. We had some characters from the Mahabharata, such as Bhismadeva and Yudhisthira. The goddess Kali appeared in her very ferocious form and the most recent and merciful incarnation of Lord Nityananda joined as well. Everywhere you looked you were reminded of Krsna and His various pastimes. In fact, the students enacted those pastimes, according to the particular personality they were dressed as, thus further immersing our minds in remembrance of the Lord and absorbing our consciousness in Him. Find them here: https://goo.gl/urbllr


Krsnaizing Halloween (Album with photos)
Even Halloween can be engaged in Lord Krsna’s service. At TKG Academy we celebrated the Fall Festival with the students dressed as characters from our devotional scriptures. The costumes included some of the Lord’s main incarnations, such as Lord Nrsimhadeva, Lord Vamanadeva, Lord Ramacandra along with His wife Sita, Their devotee Jatayu and Ahalya, Lord Parasurama and Kurma Avatar. There were other manifestations such as The Universal Form and Mohini

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SGGGPY to Mattampally Village – Lucky Seven !

On October 25, 2015, the inaugural day of Sri Govind Gau Gram Prachar Yatra in ISKCON Hyderabad, several devotees from city had accompanied the Yatra devotees to the first village of Ramapuram. They had tasted the nectar of preaching in village. They did not wish to come back to the artificial life of city but were forced by their conditions. Again when they got the opportunity of weekend break, they fled towards Mattampalli in their cars. The sto

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Visit Holy India and spend time with renowned teacher and spiritual activist Radhanath Swami. From January 24-30 spend a life changing week at the Govardhan Eco Village for the inaugural Bhakti Immersion Festival diving deep into the essence of India’s Yoga traditions, with Radhanath Swami and a host of wonderful teachers and artists including kirtan musicians Gaura Vani and Vishvambhar Sheth, master yoga instructors Raghunatha Cappo & Gopi Kinnicutt, Dhanya and Virabadha teaching Ayurveda and

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Hare Krishna! When Science leads to God
If you think strongly enough, you will be forced by science to believe in God: Lord Kelvin There is a perfect brain behind all the natural physical laws: Albert Einstein This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being…This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all, and on account of His dominion He is to be called Lord God,

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Get a Front Row Seat for Live Vrindavan Kartik Nectar! Vrindavan.tv’s broadcast schedule for 2015 is it’s biggest yet! This year we bring you live coverage of Indradyumna Maharaja’s Kartik parikrama that includes visits to Jaipur and Kurukshetra. On November 10thwe will be live streaming the samadhi installation of H. G. Brahmananda Prabhu from the Samadhi garden at the Goshala. In attendance will be H.H. Radhanath Maharaja and H.H. Gopal Krishna Maharaja amongst other dignitaries. On November 12th, Govardhan Puja, watch the circumnavigation of the hill of sweets in the courtyard of Krishna Balaram Mandir and a special Go Puja ceremony at the Goshala as this is also Go Puja day. November 15th, the sacred disappearance day of Srila Prabhupada, tune into vrindavan.tv for all the ceremonies and remembrances of his disciples, including the special evening observance in his rooms. We are also streaming every night at 5:30 (Vrindavan time) Prabhupada memories given by disciples such as Gargamuni Prabhu, Gurukripa Prabhu and others for the whole month of Kartik live from Prabhupada’s house. Vrindavan.tv live streams darshan of Krishna Balaram, Radha Shyama Sundara and Gaura Nitai all day, every day. During the month of Kartik, don’t forget to watch the evening offering of ghee lamps by the many pilgrims during damodarastakam prayers. H.G.Madhava Prabhu Is singing in the Night Shift of 24 Hours Kirtan from 9:00 pm to 1:00 am everyday till 25th November. Check out http://vrindavan.tv for our broadcast schedule and all the details!

Get a Front Row Seat for Live Vrindavan Kartik Nectar! Vrindavan.tv’s broadcast schedule for 2015 is it’s biggest yet! This year we bring you live coverage of Indradyumna Maharaja’s Kartik parikrama that includes visits to Jaipur and Kurukshetra. On November 10thwe will be live streaming the samadhi installation of H. G. Brahmananda Prabhu from the Samadhi garden at the Goshala. In attendance will be H.H. Radhanath Maharaja and H.H. Gopal Krishna Maharaja amongst other dignitaries. On Novembe

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2515037554?profile=originalOn September 24th, 2015, Radhanath Swami was invited to a special service at the United Nations Church Center in New York City. This event was to mark the involvement of faith leaders in helping to realise the goals of the United Nations and World Bank over the next 15 years.

The new set of 15 year goals for the UN are known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A total of 18 goals, they aim to address global issues ranging from gender equality, eduction, and climate change. Separatel

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Intention in tension?

By Chaitanya Charan das

“Stones and sticks will break my bones, but words will never harm me.” This saying urges us to become thick-skinned and not let people’s harsh words hurt us. It is an expression of a conscious intention, a rallying call to steel oneself against painful words, whose power to injure is conveyed in another aphorism: “Words hurt more than swords.”

The Sinister Shapeshifter

The dynamics underlying these two paradoxical sayings can be understood from a pastime in the Ramayana.

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Yatra into the Villages and the Self

3rd – 5th day of Sri Govind Gau Gram Prachar Yatra

  • Vrndavanlila Dd (Dr. Vrinda Baxi)

Srila Prabhupada: Just see how quickly there will be response. Therefore I was insisting, “Go village to village, town to town.” Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s prediction: prthivite ache yata nagaradi
Mahamsa: Grama, yes.
Srila Prabhupada: So it will never be foiled. Let us now begin village to village.

(Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk – Bombay, 21Nov’75)

In the spirit of serving their beloved guru and his guru His

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 2.23

TEXT 23
nainam chindanti sastrani
nainam dahati pavakah
na cainam kledayanty apo
na sosayati marutah
SYNONYMS
na—never; enam—unto this soul; chindanti—can cut into pieces; śastrāṇi —all weapons; na—never; enam—unto this soul; dahati—burns; pāvakaḥ—fire;na—never; ca—also; enam—unto this soul; kledayanti—moistens; āpaḥ —water; na—never; śoṣayati—dries; mārutaḥ—wind.
TRANSLATION
The soul can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can he be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wi
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Kartik in Vrindavan

Hare Krishna.

1st November, 2015. Vrindavan


I had a small realisation last weekend when I went to Sri Vrindavan Dhama to attend the Govardhan Parikrama yatra of HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj.

We, the whole family, reached Vrindavan on Friday evening. Surprisingly there wasn’t too much traffic on the roads so we reached fast, may be because it was a Friday or may be because it was `Karva Chauth’ (married women fast without even water for the long life of their husband, a popular festival in Nort

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Power of Prayer by H.G. Mathura Vasi Devi Dasi

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Prayer is a divine and sacred medium through which our soul connects with God - our Creator, our Eternal Father. It is the most potent embodiment of our bond, our association, our connection, our expression, our dialogue, our relationship with God.

People often ask why should we pray if God already knows everything. He already knows our feelings, our desires, then why should we say anything? Why should we do anything or worship Him? The answer to this is because the key to life is all about recip

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This self, the Vedic sages tell us, is joyful by its very nature. It need not seek joy outside itself, because it is practically made of joy, and not joy that comes and goes like vapor but joy that endures, the way sunlight stays forever with the sun.

One who realizes this self, who identifies with the “self within himself,” at once becomes joyful, the Bhagavad-gītā says. And so such a person has nothing to desire and nothing over which to lament. He is equal in all circumstances, and so he de

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"What if a woman is married to a man who is not a devotee?” The author—who qualified her answer by stating that it assumed “the husband is a normal man and not a homicidal maniac”—then went on to state that “all women have just one duty or dharma in this world—to serve her husband.” This she referred to as “stri-dharma.”

Sundari Radhika says in her article that any husband, whether he is “qualified” or not, is a direct representative of Krishna and the wife should serve him no matter what. She ev

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