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Eco-Ethical Integrated Sustainable solutions – Resolving Food, Water, Energy, Waste Nexus | Govardhan Eco Village – 31st Oct and 1st Nov 2015

By Nimai Lila das

Over the past few years, Govardhan Eco Village(GEV) has been making steady attempts to generate positive change waves on the social and environmental front through its multifarious programs and projects. GEV is frequently visited to witness a working model of spiritual ecology demonstrated with its efforts in areas like Organic Farming,

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Illustrations Of Creation

“I’m a little Vaisnava, come and play with me.
When you come to my CLASS, this is what you’ll see!”

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While studying the process of creation, based on an article by H.G. Urmila Devi, Upper Elementary students created illustrations of their understanding and impressions on the subject.
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The Padayatra Worldwide Ministry headed by Lokanath Swami started to work on its offering of 50 padayatras on Gaura Purnima 2014. To this day 22 padayatras have taken place, 8 are being planned and 20 remain to be done by ISKCON devotees. 

ISKCON’s Padayatra Ministry is inviting all the devotees worldwide  to participate in this glorification of ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada. This  goal of 50 padayatras  is very feasible, aspadayatra is basically a low-cost  project  of variable duration that can

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Street Spirituality

High s22122007.jpg?width=500treets are intriguing places; a microcosm of modern life. It’s where people descend in their thousands, searching for something extra to enrich their existence. These urban hubs are a melting pot of entertainers, campaigners, shoppers, beggars and advertisers, a marketplace for the latest commodities and ideas, a space for meeting, sharing and exploring. Here you’ll find people from every imaginable socio-economic background, swarming like bees around a hive.

Enter the monks. Yes, you rea
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Toronto's Hare Krishna Temple

Toronto's Hare Krishna Centre (ISKCON Toronto), has always been the hub of a rich, vibrant and enthusiastic community. Whether it be grand festivals, programs at local universities and yoga studios, philosophical discussions, cooking sessions, or singing and dancing on the streets, there are events taking place for everyone's interest.
 
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

AN INSPIRATIONAL MARATHON VIDEO FROM ISKCON LONDON

2:19 PM By Keshav

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Every December the worldwide Hare Krishna community (5

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As Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, continues his relentless campaign for internet.org, a free but limited internet service across the world, those who have seen those days without Internet wonder whether this move will prove to be a boon or curse.

Mark already says it’s a boon, and goes on to quote a few people who earned some money by taking advantage of it. Is that all the Internet will be used for, once free? What about its misuses for criminal activities and out of ignorance? I am not sure ho

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ISKCON SCOTLAND looking for volunteers

 

ISKCON SCOTLAND @ KARUNA BHAVAN are currently looking for volunteers to reside and be trained as brahmacaris (celibate monks). We will provide good brahmacari training, association and a variety of service opportunities. We will also provide accommodation, Prasad and any necessary items such as toiletries, clothing and reasonable travel expenses.

We do not offer financial remuneration or stipend.

All interested applicants should contact Raghunatha Bhatta Das

By Email: gouranga108@googlemail.c

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Govinda’s Philadelphia is looking for devotees with a passion for prasadam distribution. Available positions include server and line cook. Server duties include register, light food prep, stocking goods, and maintaining cleanliness. Line cook should have experience working in a kitchen or with an industrial grill in a fast paced environment. Full or part time. Please send inquiries to Haryasva dasa at 1-267-242-4805 or govindasvegetarian@gmail.com. Hare Krishna.

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FREE TO PREACH IS FINALLY OUT

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Dear Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are pleased to announce that the book “Free to Preach”, by Prema Padmini dd, is now available for purchase for only $2.00.

It is a touching, inspiring and personal account of a grihastha couple spreading Krishna consciousness in a Muslim country in the Middle East. Described are detailed accounts of their challenges and obstacles as well as their successes in spreading Krsna Consciousness and taking Cait

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This year 5600 people from 30 countries participated in the annual pilgrimage to Vrindavan, India lead by Radhanath Swami. It was held from November 7th to 17th.

Every morning participants went out in groups to visit holy spots of Vrindavan where Sri Krishna had enacted his pastimes 5000 years ago. And every evening they converged at the festival site where Radhanath Swami spoke on the pastimes of Sri Krishna andSri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This year being the 500th anniversary of Sri Chaitanya’s

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SHORT-TERM SANSKRIT COURSE

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January 10 to March 31, 2016

Learn :

• Sanskrit Pronunciation and Meter.

• Sandhi (Euphony).

• to get a clearer understanding of the structure of Sanskrit verses by rearranging them in prose order ( i.e. doing their anvaya ).

• some frequently used terms in Sanskrit commentaries.

• the most common senses in which the different cases of a noun are used.

• the most important indeclinables (avyayas), pronouns and compounds.

• some commonly used suffixes.

• basic usage of verbs in all the tenses.

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Bhakti Caitanya Swami: This is the Deity of Lord Gauranga which Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura chanted in front of when he took his great 9 year vow to chant a billion names of the Lord. He chanted 300,000 names a day, about 170 rounds a day, for those 9 years, sitting in front of this Deity. The Deity is now in the Rudradvipa Gaudiya Matha. We were there this morning, and had His darsana!

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 2.35

TEXT 35
bhayad ranad uparatam
mamsyante tvam maha-rathah
yesam ca tvam bahu-mato
bhutva yasyasi laghavam
SYNONYMS
bhayāt—out of fear; raṇāt—from the battlefield; uparatam—ceased;maṁsyante—will consider; tvām—unto you; mahā-rathāḥ—the great generals;yeṣām—of those who; ca—also; tvam—you; bahu-mataḥ—in great estimation;bhūtvā—will become; yāsyasi—will go; lāghavam—decreased in value.
TRANSLATION
The great generals who have highly esteemed your name and fame will think that you have left the battlefield ou
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Three amazing sales, by Vijaya Prabhu: “At the wonderful Vyasa-puja celebration for His Grace Vaisesika Prabhu, many of his disciples gave him gifts. Sankirtana Dasa, Kumari Lila Dasi, and Iwere thinking about what we could offer him on his birthday.
It was late by the time we left, and we were intoxicated by the feast of delicious prasada. We wanted to offer him something substantial, so we set out door-to-door. (We were later joined by Haladhara Rupa Dasa.) We were driving in the neighborhoo

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Srila Prabhupada said that five plus five is ten, two plus two is four, and everything plus Krsna is Vrindavan. So this formula is very brilliant and very simple and if we can just apply this formula by adding Krsna, everything will change. That is all that needs to be done – just add Krsna in any situation.

The holy name is one way to add Krsna but prasadam is another way. Some lectures on your phone and some pictures on the wall are also ways to add Krsna. There are many varieties of things

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Pure devotion

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In ISKCON, we have many varieties of devotees from entry level to advanced. While all of them look similar externally, they are not internally. The mood and prayer of a devotee is very difficult to judge by one's external outfit or behavior. To a certain extent, one can judge based on one's words and actions, however, even that can be deceptive. Therefore, we have to be careful as to who is elevated and who is not. To really understand who is elevated requires understanding of lives of great va

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TOVP UK Tour reports, photos and videos

 


 

TOVP UK TourLord Nityananda's Padukas and Lord Nrsingadev Sitari in all its glory in Leicester! Many devotees make an…

Posted by Temple of Vedic Planetarium on Sunday, November 22, 2015

TOVP UK TourVisit to Avanti School in Leicester

Posted by Temple of Vedic Planetarium on Sunday, November 22, 2015

ISCON UK Tour – ISKCON London HG Jai Nitai Das and the ISKCON London team welcomed the Padukas , Sitari and…

Posted by Temple of Vedic Planetarium on Sunday, November 22, 2015

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Love is in the Details

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Bhakti is about detail, little things. Big things are wonderful, but even more wonderful are the little things within the big things. And if you don’t have a big thing, equally wonderful is the little things.

The culture of bhakti is something very deep. In the Bhaktivedanta Hospital the big things are the machines and the surgeries going on. But when someone comes around and offers charnamrta or Jagannath’s chariot comes around, its the small detail that changes people’s heart. Devotees kindne

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HRD Ministry sets up exclusive panel on Sanskrit promotion

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The human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has constituted a 13-member expert committee exclusively on Sanskrit in its attempt to revive interest in the ancient language.

Headed by N Gopalaswami, the former chief election commissioner (CEC) and now Chancellor of Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth in Tirupati, the committee has been asked to recommend measures to integrate the study of the ancient language with other disciplines such as ph

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