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Seberang Jaya – Temple update 17/1/2015 (Album 6 photos)
Simheswara Dasa: Latest progress report on our Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple of Devotion & Understanding building project in Seberang Jaya, Penang, Malaysia. Met with Vice Chairman of project Kalesa dasa and site manager Mr. Ehambaram for two days. We have finalised paintwork decision, Kalasam for sikhara, wall work on perimeter of temple and worked on gantt chart to complete all works by July 2015. We have proposed opening of temple on Balarama Purnima 2015, August 29.
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Chanting Pledges
Reciting the Hare Krishna mantra is the foundational spiritual practise for devotees. Practitioners from around the UK who make their lifetime commitments vow to meditate for more than one hour each morning, but that’s not easy in the beginning. So to mark gradual progress a ceremony is held whenever members feel ready to make a specific commitment to 15, 30 or 45 minutes of chanting each morning. In Bristol, a Vaishnava Sankalpa ceremony was held for ten meditators who were making their commitments to between 1 and 16 rounds daily. They each performed a short puja before receiving a certificate, to the loud applause of the local members.

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Training the Temple Managers
Bhaktivedanta Manor devotees attended interactive workshops co-ordinated by Sanjay Bhandari (Sandipani Muni Das).
The sessions focused on developing communications skills, goal setting and time management. Sanjay runs training workshops for the world’s leading financial organisations such as Barclays in London and Goldman Sachs in New York.
“We know in theory the qualities that were explored, but unpacking them for today’s sensibilities made a lot of usefuldifference,” said Caitanya Jivan Das. “It was great to spend time with colleagues and getting to learn deeper aspects of each other’s personalities,” added Brijlata Dasi.

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Bhaktivedanta Research Centre Mission for Manuscripts Team has been busy with their service at Navadwip Sadharan Granthagar (library), They are cataloging and digitizing manuscripts that have been neglected for many years, making them available for dev… Read more ›

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Mitzvah Day
As part of Mitzvah Day 2014 local Jews, Christians and Bhaktivedanta Manor devotees worked together to plant hundreds of daffodils adjacent to Aldenham Parish Church. Mitzvah Day is an annual day of faithbased social action that takes place… Read more ›

The Holy Name As Our Only Benediction – Harinama At Rawang Kuala Llampur (Album 75 photos)
By Bhaktin Suja Anathay. The words ‘street chanting process must go on’ from Swami Srila Prabhupada…and ‘Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings’ from Lord Caitanya’s Siksastakam drives our focus persistently back to Harinama Sankirtana. With this driving force in its spine, SJMKL made its first Harinam of the year on 10th January 2015, at Rawang KL. This time, the event was led charmingly by HG Gaura Kesava Prabhu, accompanied by a group of devotees from the temple including Temple President HG Kripa Sindhu Prabhu, devotees from Mayapur and Russia, to reach out and supply divine mercy to all. The beautifully decorated palanquin of Their Lordships Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda graced many homes throughout the distance of approximately 3 km and this was indeed a very special occasion to all who had the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the attractive Lordships, because this was a New Year visit from the Supreme Himself! The palanquin procession started at 5.30pm and ended by 9.30pm at Taman Bayu Permai, Rawang and throughout the route, families living in the area graciously offered archanas to the deities. While some devotees were engaged in kirtan, others were focused on distributing books, patiently explaining its’ content and preaching about Krsna Consciousness to the public. A total of 3 Tamil Bhagavad Gita and 20 small books were sold and 31 chanting beads were distributed out. There were also distribution of sumptuous full meal prasadam to about 50 families living in this area to let them experience divine taste of pure vegetarian prasadam. The event ended after closing kirtan at the temple, and devotees left Rawang fully satisfied with its accomplishment. Here’s a fascinating excerpt on the object of Harinama Sankirtana: “…this sankirtana or street chanting must go on, it is our most important program. Lord Caitanya’s movement means the sankirtana movement. You may simply take two hours for chanting sixteen rounds daily, two hours for reading congregationally, and balance of time go out for sankirtana. We must do both, reading books and distributing books, but distributing books is the main propaganda.” Srila Prabhupada Letter, 09-18-72
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Bhakti Vriksha Team
The achievement of the East London based Bhakti Vrksha team, which includes 150 members from acrossthe city, was extraordinary. During the Winter Book Marathon they distributed 10,200 books in all kinds of ways around their local areas.“It’s wonderful to make Srila Prabhupada famous by talking about his books to so many people,” explained Bhakti Vrksha leader Aravind Krishna Das. “It’s inspiring to see so many devotees of all ages focused on the same goal. To be amidst the atmosphere of so much book distribution is contagious and intoxicating!”

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‘India Rising Cultural Festival & Iskcon Fest 2015’ (11 min video)
Iskcon Mumbai Chowpatty with Radhanatha Swami
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A visit to Melkote in Karnataka (Album 187 photos)
Indradyumna Swami: The town of Melkote in Karnataka is a celebrated place for Sri Vaisnavas. The illustrious head of the Sri Sampradaya, Srila Ramanujacarya ( 1137 AD – 1077 AD ) resided in Melkote for 12 years. The utsava ( festival ) Deity was once stolen by invaders and taken to Delhi. Ramanujacarya personally went to Delhi and rescued the Deity. Krsna and Balarama visited Melkote and gave a diamond crown to the presiding deity, Lord Narayana. Devout Sri Vaisnavas consider Melkote to be the Badarikasrama of South India. There is a famous temple of Lord Nrsimhadeva on the hill overlooking Melkote that was constructed in 1599 AD. Melkote is a small, quiet town that receives pilgrims from all over India throughout the year. There is a sanskrit school and a famous library containing ancient palm leaf scriptures in the town. During our visit we were fortunate to participate in a Deity procession around the temple. Melkote was the last stop on our South India pilgrimage. Now we turn our attention to our festival tour in Maharashtra. Time to share our good fortune with all.
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HG Hari Sauri Prabhu at ISKCON Mayapur on 2015-01-10, Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 06 02 45 46

“The exact adjustment is in Vaishnava philosophy, which is called Yukta Vairagya, means that we should simply accept the bare necessities of our material part of life, and try to save time for spiritual advancement. This should be the motto of New Vrindaban, if you at all develop it to the perfectional stage.” – Srila […]

Gita Verse-by-verse Study Podcast: Download by “right-click and save content”

Gita Verse-by-verse Study Podcast: Download by “right-click and save content”

Gita Verse-by-verse Study Podcast: Download by “right-click and save content”

Gita Verse-by-verse Study Podcast: Download by “right-click and save content”

————————– It was a strange sight: In the middle of a vacant lot strewn with rubble and the metal bars that had once supported the temple structure were the beautiful Radha-Krsna Deities, Sri Sri Radha-Rasabihari, dressed in Their green and silver outfits and garlanded with flowers. They stood on Their carved teakwood altar amid the […]

“Attention means steady application of the mind, or focusing the consciousness on a particular subject. Whatever one focuses his attention on becomes deeply impressed in the mind. Although the mind can move from one object to another with fantastic s…

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 16 August 2006, Goloka Dhama, Germany, Janmastami Lecture) One pastime that I like very much is when Krsna eats dirt. I like it so much because Mother Yashoda looks inside Krsna’s mouth and sees the entire universe there, that is quite amazing – the universe is within Krsna, who at the same […]

Celebrations for the anniversary of the grand opening of the Sri Sri Radha-Rasabihari temple at Hare Krishna Land were held on the day of  Makara-sankranti. “Srila Prabhupada had in mind a design similar to the Radha-Govindaji temple in Jaipur. During the pandal festival at Cross-Maidan a Dutch devotee was regularly coming to hear Srila Prabhupada’s lectures and see him afterwards. Then Srila […]

The Srikanteswara temple in Nanjangud, Karnataka is dedicated to Lord Siva. The Deity is called Nanjuneswara, which translates as, “The Lord Who Drank Poison.” Lord Siva drank poision to protect the world during the famous pastime of the churning of the milk ocean. Numerous other Deities are worshipped in the complex.The beautiful and ornate temple […]

Sridama dasa and Giriraj Swami spoke at the festival where all the participants in the Devotee Care or “Mitra” program gathered in Andheri. “Giriraj Swami wanted a system where his disciples could be properly guided, trained, nourished and sheltered even if he could not be physically present. We are all malnourished because of the material energy so we […]

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Hasyagrami prabhu ACBSP left his body in Mayapur.
Balabhadra Bhattacarya Dasa: Hare Krsna dear matajis and prabhus, I have to share some sad but glorious news with you. My dear god brother and musical partner (Murari Band) for more than 35 years, Hasya… Read more ›

Please find below recordings from Kadamba Kanana Swami’s visit to Cape Town. You may listen online by hitting the “play” button or download by right-clicking on a title and “save link as“.     KKS_CPT_ 21December2014_Kirtan_Snana Yatra https://ia902603.us.archive.org/20/items/KKSCPT22December2014DiscipleMeetingLecture/KKS_CPT_%2021December2014_Kirtan_SnanaYatra.mp3 KKS_CPT_ 21December2014_Lecture_Snana Yatra https://ia902603.us.archive.org/20/items/KKSCPT22December2014DiscipleMeetingLecture/KKS_CPT_%2021December2014_Lecture_SnanaYatra.mp3 KKS_CPT_ 22December2014_SB_9.19.19 https://ia902603.us.archive.org/20/items/KKSCPT22December2014DiscipleMeetingLecture/KKS_CPT_%2022December2014_SB_9.19.19.mp3 KKS_CPT_ 22December2014_Disciple Meeting_Reading of Pastimes https://ia802704.us.archive.org/14/items/KKSCPT22December2014DiscipleMeetingReadingPastimes/KKS_CPT_%2022December2014_DiscipleMeeting_ReadingPastimes.mp3 KKS_CPT_ 22December2014_Disciple Meeting_Lecture https://ia902603.us.archive.org/20/items/KKSCPT22December2014DiscipleMeetingLecture/KKS_CPT_%2022December2014_DiscipleMeeting_Lecture.mp3 […]

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Auckland New Zealand Friday night kirtana (Album 42 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Spiritual enlightenment is possible by the mercy of the spiritual energy of the Lord. The chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is first addressed to the spiritual energy of t… Read more ›

Sociologists of Religion
Prof Eileen Barker from the London School of Economics brought three Sociologists of Religion to the Manor. The delegation, from Sweden, included Prof Peter Akerback from Stockholm University, Sanja Nilsson studying for her PhD… Read more ›

The members of the Krishna consciousness movement are fortunate indeed that blasphemy is no longer a capital crime in Britain. If it were, we would all have been burned a long time ago.

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The Hidden Forest
During a function held at the House of Lords designed to raise environmental awareness within the Hindu community, a new book was launched on that same theme. Commissioned by the Bhumi Project and written and illustrated by Jahnavi Ha… Read more ›

Committing to Spiritual Life
Radhanath Swami initiated 40 devotees from across Europe at the Manor, including 22 members of the local congregation. Included were Manor residents Bhaktin Jurgita, who is now called Yugala Priti Dasi and Bhakta Silvan, wh… Read more ›

Harinama in Jackson Heights New York (Album 13 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: When the chanting is performed offenselessly the Lord will automatically reveal Himself to the view of the chanter. The chanter, therefore, has to concentrate on hearing the vibra… Read more ›