Protection of the cow
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 7 November 2010, Vrndavana, India, Govardhan Puja Lecture) The cow and the bull are described by Srila Prabhupada as being totally harmless creatures. Everything about them is auspicious. They are supportive for the environment and in this way; with cow protection, we find all the good that is required. The cows provide […]

See within to seek without; seek without to see within
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Ads, promos, billboards fill us with ideas of what all we need. Some of these things may be our actual needs, but many are simply superfluous trinkets that we mistake as our needs due to the outer propaganda blitz. To seek without intelligently, we need to see within diligently. Seeing within means to contemplate our […]

Rivers and Ropes
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Last night I was thinking of the mantras of the Veda appearing like a lotus around Krishna and  in my mind saw the Vedas just like rivers of attractive transcendental sounds. I’ve never heard anything like that before, afaik.

So for little while I was thinking the Vedas are like beautifully assembled waves flowing […]

Devotees from ISKCON Vinnytsia, Ukraine, share their close personal relationships with their Deities (7 min video)
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This film is dedicated to the 20th anniversary since installation of the ISKCON Temple Deities, Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. The excerpt concentrates on the close personal relationships between the Deities and devotees. A video by Nati Berriti. Read more ›

Celebrate Diwali , Damodar Lila and Swathi Natchatra at ISKCON Scarborough coming Sunday!‏
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Hare Krishna!Please accept our humble obeisances!All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!Coming Sunday – November 3rd 2013, three special events are taking place on the same day:Diwali(Dipavali):King Dashrath ruled the …

Invitation to a New Vrindaban Community Dialog – Sunday, November 10th!
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Event: Community Dialog Date: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 Time: 3 to 5 pm, following the Sunday Temple Program Place: Under the Lodge Dear Brijabasis, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! As you may be aware, the board members of ISKCON New Vrindaban and ECO-Vrindaban will gather for a bi-annual face to […]

The Glory of Gita wisdom (Reflections on the second anniversary of Gita-daily)
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(Gita-daily completes two years today. All the 731 articles till date are available date-wise and chapter-wise on Gitadaily.com.) Einstein, Emerson, Thoreau, Huxley, Hesse …I was amazed that this list that seemed like an intellectual who’s who in recent world history was actually a list of thinkers who had appreciated the Gita. As I had been […]

Can’t the universe have always existed the way it is? Why bring God into the picture?
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From Raghunandan P We can think of universe as something which is just there ….if we think of it as a sphere of infinite radius if we can be thought of being at point A we won’t know what is at B hence why is it not possible that at every place other than A the things […]

Free, downloadable activity book for Govardhana Puja–activities for ages 4-18 by Urmila Devi Dasi
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PDF document, !84 pages, (15.5 MB.) Urmilä has her Bachelor’s of Science in Religion and Education from Excelsior College of the University of the State of New York. She has a Masters of School Administration, and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has done ground-breaking research on job satisfaction of teachers in Krishnaprimary and secondary schools worldwide. Read more ›

Karoli: The Abode of Radha Madan Mohan (Album 235 photos)
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The town of Karoli is 3 hours south of Vrindavan. It is of special interest to ISKCON devotees because Madan Mohan, the deity of Srila Sanatan Goswami, is worshipped there, along with His beloved Radharani, in great opulence. The town itself is steeped in antiquity and a photographers dream. [ All photos by Ananta Vrindavan das ] Read more ›