Saksi Gopala Temple is a very important temple located almost midway between Jagannatha Puri Dhama and Bhubaneswar, in a town called Saksi-gopala, about 20 km west of Jagannatha Puri Dhama. The Saksi-gopala Deity here, being 5000 years old, is an exceptionally special one. It is said that Vajranabha, Lord Sri Krishna’s great-grandson, installed two Gopala Deities in Vraja Mandala namelySaksi-gopala and Madana Gopala (Madana Mohana). The Saksi-gopala Deity is the life-size Gopala Deity who walk
Sri Raghunatha dasa took his birth in the village of Sri Krsnapura in the district of Hooghly. His father's name was Sri Govardhana, whose elder brother was Sri Hiranya dasa. Both of them were respectable wealthy land-holders belonging to the Kayastha caste. Read More |
By the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami remained a lifelong brahmacari. His service was constant chanting of Hare Krishna and reading Srimad Bhagavat |
Bhakti Caru Swami - Panihati Festival Class - 2008-06-15 Orlando
Bhakti Caru Swami - Panihati - 2011-07-03 California
Bhakti Vikas Swami - Panihati Festival-The Essence of festivals - 2011-06-05 Atlanta
Giriraj Swami - Panihati - 2008-06-15 Laguna
Giriraj Swami - Panihati - 2009-06-07 Santa Barbara
Giriraj Swami Panihati Dahi Cida Festival - 2010-06-20 Carpinteria
Giriraj Swami - Panihati - 2011-07-03 California
Kadamba Kanaan Swami - Panihati Festival - 2011-06-13 Bhaktivedanta Manor
English Pasankusa Ekadashi Mahatmya without Music
Hindi Pasankusa Ekadashi Mahatmya without Music
English Narration: Madan Manjari Devi Dasi (RNS)
Hindi Narration: Madhava Das (BVKS)
Recording, Editing, Music mixing : Madhava Das (BVKS) at Gopal's Studio (ISKCON Desire Tree)
तेरी भक्ति सबसे मीठी
जैसे अमृत का पान,
जिसने पाया तेरी भक्ति का वरदान
फिर ना हुआ वो कभी जीवन में अकेला
अमर ना होकर भी पाया उसने अमृत्व का वरदान,
राधा और मीरा दोनो ही तेरी दिवानी
ऐसी दिवानगी ऐसा प्रेम जिसमे है सिर्फ दिव्य मिठास,
तेरी भक्ति मिटाये दुनिया की सारी कडवाहट
जीवन को दे ऐसी पूर्णता की फिर ना हो जीवन में अपूर्णता का कोई स्थान,
क्यूंकि कृष्णा भक्ति ही तो है जीवन का सच,
बाकी सब तो है मिथ्या।
लेखिका,
अंकिता शैली
![Shyamasundar: He always made you feel like you were his friend. He listened to what you had to say and took your puniest achievements. First of all he overlooked all your glaring outrages and took your puniest achievements and made them very big. I’ll never forget this. I had worked hard on this Bury Place temple (in the photo) for several months, doing all the building and carpentry. In those days there were only three or four of us and a couple of new English boys. So it was pretty much a one-man job. I was going to stick to the standard I set out when I designed it, even though Prabhupada was in England pushing me day and night to finish this thing so that he could get on with things. But he respected the fact that I wanted it done just right because we were going to be a central showplace in which what was then the most happening city in the world, and right on the main street. And the people who saw it should see something perfect. I was determined to make it that way. Prabhupada went along with that for months, despite his discomfort. One day after it was finished and the Deities had been inaugurated, we took a walk in the park one morning. We were walking back, and Prabhupada looked at the front of the temple. He looked it up and down, and he motioned to either Gurudas or Mukunda and said, “You shall put a plaque on the front of this door (he showed with his cane beside the door where he wanted the plaque), a brass plaque, and you will put on that plaque, ‘This temple has been built by the hard labor of Shyamasundar das Adhikary.’” [Breaks up crying.] We took this idea of just doing anything we wanted for Krishna, no matter how outrageous it might appear to anyone else. It was very common for us to think that there was no such thing as an impossible situation, and we just did everything. And that is a good case in point, because without any building permits we gutted this whole building in downtown London, took out the first-floor story, and made it two stories high. That is, until the building inspectors arrived, Mr. Savage and Mr. Black, typical English bureaucrats. They had seen that we had already done it, so they were quite willing to go that extra mile to help us out a little. But we had to comply with certain regulations. And these steel beams were going to be very expensive. They had to be fifty or sixty feet long, in one single throw. I-beams of very heavy steel. And somehow we had to get them into the ceiling. And we had no money. So I went to Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and asked him, and he said, “Oh, yes, just have my secretary give you the check.” So he bought them. [Laughs.] Those days we rubbed elbows with those characters, you know. After we lived in John Lennon’s house, we still maintained contact with all the Beatles. We interacted with them whenever we needed something, or when they needed. One day John Lennon called up and asked if I could come and carve a piano for him. Yoko wanted Krishna carved in the music stand in the front of her white piano. The piano was on the ground floor of Apple Studios on Salvo Row, next to the recording studio. It took about a month, and I carved a very nice Krishna in that piano. And during that time Brian Jones had died of the Rolling Stones, and they were breaking in a new guitar player named Mick Taylor. So they had borrowed Apple Studios to bring Mick Taylor up to date on all their songs. So I had live Rolling Stones for a month while I worked. “Hey, you, get off my cloud” over and over. [Laughs.] And we thought nothing of it. This was just an ordinary thing. And Prabhupada made us feel that. He always appreciated going for the top, going for the highest people in realms and spheres of influence to accomplish spreading Krishna consciousness, to accomplish the desire of his spiritual master.](http://41.media.tumblr.com/c9abcd8b1da566c444864e21b4b747f9/tumblr_nwmchaidQk1sbj0vuo1_1280.jpg)
Shyamasundar: He always made you feel like you were his friend. He listened to what you had to say and took your puniest achievements. First of all he overlooked all your glaring outrages and took your puniest achievements and made them very big. I’ll never forget this. I had worked hard on this Bury Place temple (in the photo) for several months, doing all the building and carpentry. In those days there were only three or four of us and a couple of new English boys. So it was pretty much a o
Srila Prabhupada’s grand disciple Srimati Radha Vinodini Devi Dasi passed away yesterday morning at 6:37 AM at the Bhaktivedanta Hospice in Vraja. Please pray for a smooth and auspicious transition for this great soul.
Pious Credits in a Cab
A while ago we reported how one cab driver, Yamaraja das, tries to give Krishna to people while on the job. “I try to influence people in any way possible, while maintaining a respectful distance and without imposing my beliefs on them,” he said. A driver must be careful not be perceived as soliciting his customers in any way. Here are a few more examples of Krishna’s causeless mercy operating on the conditioned souls who think they are merely ordering a cab. A student
For more information, please read the article "Only on the Banks of Mother Ganga"
Today marks Sri Rama-vijaya-dasami (Dasara), the day on which Lord Ramachandra vanquished the powerful tyrant Ravana. As described in Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.7.25):
“When Ravana was engaged in the battle, the trunk of the elephant which carried the king of heaven, Indra, broke in pieces, having collided with the chest of Ravana, and the scattered broken parts illuminated all directions. Ravana therefore felt proud of his prowess and began to loiter in the midst of the fighting soldiers, thinking
When the rising sun appeared in the East, the jewel of the twice-born, Lord Gaurasundara, awakened, and, taking His devotees with Him, He went all over the countryside towns and villages. The mrdangas (khol) resounded "tathai, tathai," and the jhajas [large metal karatalas that look like small cymbals] in that kirtana played in time. Lord Gauranga's golden form slightly trembled in ecstatic love of Godhead, and His footbells jingled. All the devotees chanted the names Mukunda, Madhava, Yadava
HH Lokanath Swami Maharaj gave a very wonderful lecture on "Kirtan and Book Distribution" today 22nd October. This lecture is dedicated to all ISKCON devotees who all are distributing Srila Prabhupad's books for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupad.
https://youtu.be/eBuZPsG77xM
Preaching in Mauritius (Album with photos)
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Lecture on To Manage the mind regulate the minds diet by HH Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on Oct 2015
(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body)
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Lecture on The Science of Consciousness by Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu on 07 Nov 2014 at Carpinteria
(Ravindra Svarupa Dasa received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University in 1980.)
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Lecture on Nobody to Somebody by HG Akuti Mataji on 11 Oct 2015 at ISKCON Alachua
(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 03 Text 27)
(HG Akuti Mataji is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and the spearhead behind the new Krishna Lunch program at Santa Fe Community College. )
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Lecture on Feed the Good Starve the Bad by HG Charu Prabhu on Oct 2015
(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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