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KidFoodA.jpgGURGAON: The education department has outsourced a contract to provide mid-day meals to primary government schools all over Gurgaon. An MOU has been signed between the Directorate of Elementary Education and ISKCON to provide meals to more than 90,000 students across the city.

A semi-automated kitchen will be set up to ensure that the food is cooked in a hygienic way and also to reduce the need for a large staff. The semi automated
kitchen would reduce our manpower needs but the people working in

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Haribol Prabhus and Matajis

 

I am in a desperate situation here .

 

My Tulasi maharani's abode has been attacked by red ants and I have no clue what to do

 

Could experienced devotees here advice how can I save tulasi maharani from this attack ?

 

Your advice would be worth its weight in gold for me as I dont want any harm to come to Tulasi maharani

 

Thank you v much to all for help

 

Haribol

 

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Sevak

Recently visited Akrura ghat at vrindavan dham. Pujari came up to me to tell me his explanation of pastime - akrura was a non devotee and therefore working with kamsa.


when he came to vrindavan , this place akrura ghat marks end of mathura and begining of vrindavan.Then he said this side (pointing to vrindavan) is for spiritualists and other side (pointing to mathura) is for materialistas. so here by touch of vrindavan akrura became pure devotee.In the same way  saint chaitanya mahaprabhu came he

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Pure devotee manifests Krsna’s mercy in this world ……………….Nectarean MellowsSrila Prabhupada said this chanting of – Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare - It is not an artificial imposition of the mind. It is invoking our original consciousness, our consciousness is so pure. It is to love Krsna but now - that consciousness has become polluted, so polluted by material designations, material attachments and material conceptions. So who is a p
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Every year the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA puts on the biggest Holi celebration in the Western Hemisphere. In 2011 the Spanish Fork Police department estimated that over 40,000 people attended in the first day alone of the two-day festival, starting on the 27th of March. Organizers carefully rationed their stash of approximately 120,000 bags of colored powder.

Attendees come from all over the country (and some from abroad), but the majority of attendees are students from Brigh

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Krishna Kids In India’s IT Hub

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Last year ISKCON Secunderabad started a namahatta center in Kukatpally area which is a part of the city’s IT neighborhood. The center has grown by leaps and bounds. A grand Ratha-yatra in the area was held within two months of the center's opening.

The area is inhabited by a large number of DINK couples (double income no kids) but of course there are others who have kids.

When the center started the children programs, many parents approached the center and expressed their inability to attend due

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 MBookFair1.jpgThe Moscow National Book Fair "Books of Russia 2011" took place on March 16-21 at the Russian Exhibition Center. For the third time in the last two years, Vaisnavas of Moscow Yatra participated in the event.

Srila Prabhupada encouraged his followers to "let there be systematic propaganda for popularizing reading of the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam", and that is why devotees could not miss a chance like this to present Prabhupada's books to the public.

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This time the participation of Sri

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 Raw-cooking-class-160-300x200-1.jpgThe Bhakti Center of New York City is in East Village, within a three block radius of a funeral home, a nail salon, two housing projects, a cemetery, three gay bars, and a Jewish deli. Their ashram, or spiritual place of residence, is tucked away in a quiet five-story walk-up on First Avenue, above The Bhakti Cafe, a vegetarian and raw food luncheonette run by the center’s practitioners. It is almost 10 a.m. when Dave buzzes me into the building.

As I walk up the stairs, I pass a framed print of

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Pune%20A.jpg An incredible 25,000 devotees attended the opening of a brand new temple in Ravet on the outskirts of Pune, India this March 21st through 22nd—including Gopal Krishna Goswami, Lokanath Swami, Radhanath Swami, Chandramauli Swami, Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, and many other senior devotees from ISKCON temples across Maharastra.

On the first day of the festival a fire ceremony was performed by Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, followed by an “Abhisekha” in which the local devotees bathed the Sri Sri Gaura Nita

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 The problems in the World today are: Drugs, alcoholism, terrorism, violence, cancer, poverty, divorce, AIDS, conservation, global warming, droughts, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and financial ruin.

A Krishna conscious person follows the following principles; Krishna consciousness, No Intoxication, No Meat eating, No elicit sex, No gambling, Accepting the law of karma and reincarnation:

1. Krishna (God) consciousness.

Do you follow a God with no name, unknown address, unknown description, and u

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"Jai Jagannath"

 

 

"Just as the sunshine is spread all over the universe, the energy of the lord is spread all over the creation, and everything is resting in that energy."

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waking Up From A Dream...(part-2)

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura movingly describes the precariousness such person experiences:

"alas, how unfortunate i am. having ffallen into this insurmountable ocean of material existence, i am being thrown here and there by the violent waves of my wicked desires.... i cry miserably at my helpless condition.

but i do not see any hope of being saved. what should i do? how will i be delivered? i do not see any solution to my dilemma. oh Lord, take me to You. take me up to the shade of the cool dust o

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Sri Sri Siksha Ashtakam

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Sri Sri Sikshashtaka
Eight Instructions
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu


instructed His disciples to write books on the science of Krishna, a task which
His followers have continued to carry out down to the present day. The elaborations and expositions on
the philosophy taught by Lord Caitanya are, in fact, the most voluminous, exacting, and consistent, due to
the system of disciplic succession. Although Lord Caitanya was widely renowned as a scholar in His youth, He
left only eight
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Jaya Jaya Goracander Arotik(Gaura Aarti)

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Gaura-Aarti(from Gitavali)

(1)
(kiba) jaya jaya goracander aratiko sobha
jahnavi-tata-vane jaga-mana-lobha
jaga-jana-mana-lobha
(First Refrain)
gauranger arotik sobha
jaga-jana-mana-lobha

(2)
dakhine nitaicand, bame gadadhara
nikate adwaita, srinivasa chatra-dhara

(3)
bosiyache goracand ratna-simhasane
arati koren brahma-adi deva-gane

(4)
narahari-adi kori’ camara dhulaya
sanjaya-mukunda-basu-ghosh-adi gaya

(5)
sankha baje ghanta baje baje karatala
madhura mridanga baje parama rasala
(Second Refrain)
sankha baje gha
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Ek Din Santipure

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Song Name: Ek Din Santipure
Official Name: Prasad-Sevaya 2
(Songs for the Honoring of Spiritual Food)

Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Book Name: Gitavali (Section: Prasada Sevaya Song 2)


(1)
bhai-re!

ek-dina santipure, prabhu advaitera ghare,
dui prabhu bhojane bosilo
sak kori' asvadana, prabhu bole bhakta-gana,
ei sak krsna asvadilo

(2)
heno sak-asvadane, krsna-prema dise mane,

sei preme koro asvadana
jada-buddhi pari-hari', prasada bhojana kori',
'hari hari' bolo sarva-jan

TRANSLATION

1)
 O brothers! One day at Sr
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The Ten Offenses to the Holy Name

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Song Name: The Ten Offenses to the Holy Name
Official Name: The Ten Offenses to the Holy Name
Author: Vyasadeva
Book Name: Padma Purana (Section: Brahma Khanda 25.15–18)


1)
 To blaspheme the devotees who have dedicated their lives for propagating the holy name of the Lord.

2)
 To consider the names of demigods like Lord Shiva or Lord Brahma to be equal to or independent of the name of the Lord Vishnu.

3)
 To disobey the orders of the spiritual master.

4)
 To blaspheme the vedic scriptures or scriptures in
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waking Up From A Dream...(part-1)

 

when the soul slowly awakens from the dream of material life, it can understand that it has long served ungrateful masters- the mind and the body. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes....

"At that time the aakened soul says in effect to the mind and body: i am not identical with you. i do not want what you require. i have long believed that i was identical with both of you and we shared the same interest . but now i find categorically i am different from you. i am made wholly from the

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COW PROTECTION

“Holy Cow!” We’ve all heard that expletive enough times, but what on earth is holy about a cow? To find that out, we need to go to India.

In the Indian villager’s agrarian lifestyle, conserving natural resources is an integral part of daily existence. He uses nature’s gifts directly to manufacture all his necessities, from his mud hut dwelling to his home-spun clothes. But the most important feature of village conservation is protecting cows. Each homestead keeps at least one cow, and the animal

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Gaur Purnima 2011 In New Vrindavan


Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his Golden Avatar

Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his Golden Avatar

 

We will celebrate the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu on March 19th. Since this is weekend day, everyone should have free time to participate in our festival. We want to spend the day chanting the Holy Name and hearing about Lord Chaitanya’s lila.

Guest Lodge will be open for Gaur Purnima. Please call 304-843-1600 Ext. 111 for reservation.

Who is Lord Chaitanya: is believed by Gaudiya Vaishnavas that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is Lord Krishna Himself
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