BERKELEY, Calif. – An Indian American couple has pledged $4.6 million to establish a Hindu Studies program at the new Center for Dharma Studies in Berkeley, Calif., which was launched Dec. 5.
The Center for Dharma Studies, which will be housed in the Graduate Theological Union near the UC Berkeley campus, is the first of its kind in North America, Prof. Purushottama Bilimoria, assistant director and senior lecturer at the Center, told India-West.
San Francisco, Calif., Bay Area couple Dr.
Gift a Van. Get the mercy of a million books!
Please help us to buy 2 new sankirtan vans and to distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books in Germany.
Dear Devotees and Friends, approaching ISKCON’s 50th anniversary in 2016, we have one very special goal in mind: distributing ONE MILLION Shrila Prabhupada’s books from Simhachalam, our Prahlada Laksmi Narasimhadeva’s temple in Germany. And you could easily be part of it! Simhachalam temple is not only well known for the first Narasimha deity installed
By HH Sivarama Swami
Krsi goraksya vanijya. Krsi means ploughing or agriculture and goraksya, cow protection. These are the staples of society, this is what people live on. All living entities subsist on grains. So the ksatriyas may direct and instruct people, the brahmanas may perform their yajnas, but if they don’t eat then giving shelter or instruction is not going to work.
That eating is therefore the most essential aspect of life and this is why the vaisyas and their assistants, the sudras
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Drip drops of rain pattered on my windshield. I careened around corners, twisting the steering wheel through the mountain road, lost in thought. Music blasted from the speakers and every so often I tapped my thigh in rhythm.
Lecture on Chaitanya Charitamrita Adi Lila Chapter 02, Text 02 by HG Tamohara Dasa on 18 Apr 2014 at ISKCON Alachua
(His Grace Tamohara Dasa has been involved in ISKCON leadership for many years. In addition to services of temple president, BBT manager and director of two gurukulas, he served as the director of the ISKCON Child Protection Office,He has been a GBC member since 2006 and currently serves on the executive committee of the international GBC.)
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When I say I’m vegetarian, a common reaction from some religious people is, “But didn’t God put animals on Earth for us to eat?” As they have grown up believing that animals are food and not friends, they seem genuinely confused as to why anyone would refuse to eat something granted to them by God. I was equally confused by their reaction: why would God want humans to harm any of his other creations?
To better understand this sentiment, I decided to research a couple of key scriptures: the
Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter-18, Text 63 by Sesa Prabhu at ISKCON Alachua on 06 Dec 2015 at ISKCON Alachua
(Sesa Dasa was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party. Sesa Dasa has a portfolio of two ministries: Minister of Educational Development and Minister of Justice, under which ISKCON Resolve works.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03, Chapter 15, Text 44-45 by HG Vijaya Prabhu on 11 Dec 2015 at ISKCON Melbourne
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Prabhupada: Yes. Three kinds of happinesses, bhoga, tyaga, and bhakti, seva. Bhoga tyaga seva. The karmis, they are after bhoga, sense enjoyment. And the jnanis, they are after another side of negation of sense enjoyment. When one is fed up with sense enjoyment... Just like in your country, the young boys, they are practically fed up with the way of sense enjoyment as their fathers and grandfathers had done. So in the name of tyaga, renunciation, they have taken another kind of sense enjoyment
ISKCON DAIVA VARNASRAMA MINISTRY of India
(IDVM-India)
Date : December 19, 2015
Subject : ISKCON’s Golden Jubilee, Global Go Puja – January 1, 2016
To : ISKCON Leaders and ISKCON Centers
OM SRI SURABHYAI NAMAH! OM SRI GURAVE NAMAH!
Dear GBC Members, Deputy GBCs, Sannyasis, Temple Presidents, ISKCON Leaders and devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
As we all know, we are about to embark in a most commemorative period in the history of our Society, th
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 September 2015, Durban, South Africa, BYS Retreat, Lecture at the Goshala)
Who is free? You are free when you love what you do. You are not free when you hate. When you hate, you are locked into whatever you hate. Only when you love something are you free because then you are doing what you want to d
In appreciation of the service rendered by his disciples, Srila Prabhupada once said that his guru maharaja, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, had sent them to help him in his preaching mission.
One disciple spoke up and said, “But Srila Prabhupada how could that be? We were so sinful before we met you.”
Srila Prabhupada replied, “That is superficial. As soon as you heard the chanting of Hare Krsna you all came running!”
The European Sankirtan Festival in Simhachalam, Germany will take place from Wednesday, 30 December to Sunday, 03 January. This festival recognizes and honours the effort of those devotees who participated in book distribution during the month of December from all over Central Europe. We are happy to announce that Kadamba Kanana Swami will be attending as well on 30 and 31 December! Be part of this wonderful event of enlivening kirtans, seminars and sadhusanga. See the following newsletter for
Moksada Ekadasi This Moksada Ekadasi occures in the waxing moon in the month of November/December. The glories of this Ekadasi is described in Brahmanda Purana in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Maharaj Yudhistira.
Once Yudhistira asked Lord Krishna, my dear Krishna what is the name of the Ekadasi that occures during the waxing moon in the month of Novembeer/December? Also please explain to me in details about the procedure for observing this Ekadasi. ?
Lord Krishna Said, o best of th
