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Please view the following galleries: Darshan Abhishek Preperation Jananivasa Prabhu said that he was instructed by Srila Prabhupada to celebrate festivals related to the pastimes of the Sri Sri Radha-Krishna in a grand way in Sri Mayapur. These pastimes are going on eternally in the spiritual world. By celebrating these festivals, we can engage ourselves […]
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The Gita Project UK
The Gita Project aims to donate sponsored copies of Bhagavad Gita As It Is to various institutions including prisons, hotels, airports, courts and hospitals. Many books have already been donated to different hospitals across London…. Read more ›
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The Oxford Debate
Radhanath Swami was invited to participate in an historic discussion by the Oxford Union, one of the world’s most prestigious debating societies. Other speakers that evening included Dr. Cornel West, a provocative American academic, activist and author, and Angela Davis a prominent political activist, author, and educator. The discussion was attended by 400 students and held in honour of the revolutionary campaigner of black rights Malcolm X who himself had come to the Union 50 years ago.
Other notable people who have spoken at the Union over the years include Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill and the former US President Ronald Reagon.
Saving Souls
Hari-dhama Das, who works for the London Ambulance Service as a Community Resuscitation Training Officer, has undertaken several projects at Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament in training their staff in emergency lifesaving skills. Both establishments set up HeartStart training schemes, looking at how responders care for someone having a heart attack, going into a cardiac arrest, choking and having a serious bleed.
Hari-dhama Das has placed over 20 defibrillators (the lifesaving machine that shocks the heart in a cardiac arrest). At Buckingham Palace more than 500 Royal Household staff have now been trained, for which they recently received a “Certificate of Excellence” from the London Ambulance Service .
Pictured: Hari-dhama Das with Stuart
Holden, Buckingham Palace’s Senior Health and Safety Advisor.
ISKCON Kolkata Newsletter January 2015
Gita Marathon began on 1st December, 2014. Till 7th January 2015 more than 10,822 Srila Prabhupada’s literatures have been distributed by the devotees of ISKCON Kolkata. Devotees are distributing these transcendental books by putting tables in different locations in Kolkata, one-to-one distributions and by collecting sponsorships to distribute Bhagavad Gita in schools. The book marathon ends on 31st Jan 2015
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Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108@gmail.comysRasa Rasika dasa
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 09 November 2014, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.19) We have seen cases where devotees were murdered. I know of a devotee who was murdered whilst chanting japa; it happened in South Africa. Everyone was stunned because this was evil. I mean, this was a devotee. We had a big gathering for the departure of […]
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One subject that has come up in the last week is the notion of ‘blasphemy.’ Its an old word which we hardly use any more in English, except when we’re referring to how religions other than Christianity get offended by … Continue reading →
Nityam Bhagatavata Sevaya Issue no 4
Dear Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All Glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga! By the mercy of Sadhus and Vaishanavas, below is the link to the fourth issue of NBS. This issue features: 1) THE SECRET OF LEARNING BHAGAVATAM His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 2) DANGERS OF BAD ASSOCIATION Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur 3) GLORIES OF SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM Conversation between Lord Chaitanya & Devananda Pandit 4)THE IMMORTAL HIDDEN NECTAR Srila Sanatana Goswami 5) ONLY LISTENING TO THE BHAGAVATAM WITH FULL ATTENTION WILL PRODUCE RESULTS Bhagavata-mahatmya
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Preaching program in Benesov, Czech Republic (Album 13 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The difference between a devotee and a nondevotee is this, just like the bee and the fly: the bee always is attracted by the honey and flies go to the open sores. So the d… Read more ›
Radhadesh Mellows 2015 official Harinam Chaddars & Scarfs (Album 26 photos)
100% cotton Chaddars & Scarfs which have all been block printed in natural colours in a little rural village off Jaipur
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Iskcon Arusha, Tanzania
Tanzania, a country in East Africa, borders Kenya but is much more rural and about thirty years behind in terms of modern development. The small town of Arusha, two hours’ drive from the Kenyan border, is popular with tourists for nearby wildlife reserves like Arusha National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, as well as for mountain climbing on the nearby Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro. The preaching center itself is located on a dirt road off of the main Njiro Road in Arusha. Close to rural villages belonging to the Masai and other tribes, it caters mainly to local Africans. Although people in Kenya speak English, Kiswahili is the main language in Tanzania. The locals are simple village people working on the land. The landscape is green with regular rainy seasons.
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Ponggal Programme 15 january 2015 at New Godruma Dham farm (Album with many photos)
Hare Krishna. Ponggal is celebrated grandly in South India. In Malaysia also Ponggal is a grand celebration especially for the Tamils. It is also widely celebrated in schools, villages, universities and homes. But to experience the original mood of the celebration one will definitely need to be at a farm setting where there are abundant cows, trees, hills and ponds.
At New Godruma Dhama farm the regular farm employees from Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and volunteer workers from Denmark, Germany and Italy joined the first part of the Ponggal celebration at the sugar cane plantation at 7AM. At about 8.30AM about another 50 devotees joined the celebration and this time at the rose apple orchard which is bordering the farm’s cow barn. Gopesa Govinda prabhu the farm manager and Gokul Damodara prabhu the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Manager and Sri Jagannatha Mandir, Kuala Lumpur temple commander jointly organised this wonderful programme.
It is really nice to celebrate the programme with our very own cows, trees, fruits and roots harvest. The set up at our Gosala and Rose Apple orchard made the event real and original. Cows were roaming around the orchard while devotees kept feeding these favourite of Lord Krishna’s animals with fruits and especially jaggery. The happiness of devotees kept increasing as they kept feeding mother cow.
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Huge Makara Sankranti prasad distribution and kirtan (5 albums with hundreds of beautiful photos)
Makara Sankranti, the day when the Sun enters the Northern Hemisphere, and begins it’s six months residence there, is a huge festival in the state of Gujarat. Gujarat is where Lord Krishna Himself resided at Dwarakadham, 5,000 years ago. A large segment of the population of Gujarat are devotees of Lord Krishna. ISKCON Baroda, for the past 20 years, on this festive occasion, prepares 25,000 prasad packets at the temple, and distributes the packets at various places around Baroda. The prasad packets, approximately 350 grams in weight, consists of two types of laddus — sweets — one made of wheat flour fried in ghee, and then mixed with sugar, and the other made with sesame seeds – “til” in Gujarati and Hindi – of two varieties, black and white, mixed with “gur” – unrefined sugar The prasad distribution is accompanied by harinam nagar sankirtan, by ISKCON Baroda temple and congregational devotees.
See them all here: http://goo.gl/q3BL0k.
A visit to the Indus University at Ahmedabad (Album 47 photos)
The visit of ISKCON Gujarat Zonal Secretary Jasomatinandan Das, Kaushalya Pitham head, Acharya Samskritananda Hari, and ISKCON Baroda Temple President Basu Ghosh Das to the Indus University… Read more ›
“Bhagavat Kathaa” (Album 144 photos) specifically on the pastime of Lord Krishna’s killing the demon Putana, organized and delivered by ISKCON Bhavnagar Temple President Kundal Krishna Das at Bhavnagar.
The pictures are from the program held at the ISKCON Land, Bhavnagar, on Friday, January 9, 2015
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The mind is fascinating. Especially, how easily it gets roped into finding someone attractive. The greatest films are based on that storyline: boy meets girl. But did you know that attraction is a science?
Tanzanian people were first introduced to Krishna consciousness in the 1970s by Srila Prabhupada’s early disciple Brahmananda Das as well as then Nairobi temple president Ajamila Das. In the 1990s, the late inspirational traveling preac…
Preaching programs in Leicester and Mayfair, UK (Album 94 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If one renders even a small amount of sincere devotional service, Krishna becomes obliged to elevate such person; and what to speak of one whose entire life and soul has been dedicated to Krishna’s service. Letter to Harer Nama, November 6, 1969.
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The Krishna Sambandha kirtan band from Chile, South America, has a motto that is inspirationally opposite to just about every other music artist out there: “We don’t want fame through music, but we want to make Krishna famous.&rdq…
ISKCON Hosts First Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue in India
Tirupati, India—Twenty men and women of the Christian and Vaishnava traditions met for more than two days of interfaith dialogue in the historic temple town of Tirupati, in Andra Pradesh, India, earlier this month. The event, convened by the ISKCON Communications Ministry, was the first formal Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue ever held in India. The group was hosted by the ISKCON Tirupati Temple. Its conference rooms overlook the beautiful Tirumala Hills, the seat of the famous Balaji Temple, one of India’s most famous pilgrimage sites.
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Presented in lay person’s language, Six Causes will allow readers to assimilate a profound understanding of matter, conscious experience, God, morality, reincarnation, karma and time.
Association creates a strong and many a times lasting impression in our life. Association being contagious, we unknowingly inherit the qualities of the people we associate with.
Twenty men and women of the Christian and Vaishnava traditions met for more than two days of interfaith dialogue in the historic temple town of Tirupati, in Andra Pradesh, India, earlier this month. The event, convened by the ISKCON Communica…
Muslim scholars responded to the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Slamming the incident as un-Islamic, scholars express anger towards the perpetrators who “betrayed and tainted” Islam rather than defended it.
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In today’s stress-filled environment, corporate leaders are increasingly turning towards the world’s time-honored traditions for relief and insight. “10 Leadership Sutras from Bhagavad Gita” serves this need by pr…
Dear Devotees & Friends,We are pleased to inform you that HH Prahladananda Maharaj will be visiting Perth from Saturday 17 Jan till Sunday 25 Jan.HH Prahladananda Maharaj is a very senior disciple of HDG Srila Prabhupada. He is also the Health minister, Sanyasa minister and … Continue reading →
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Our Cows in Gokulam, ISKCON Malaysia Farm Janda Baik (6 min video)
In conjunction with Ponggal Festival at Janda Baik, Pahang.
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The ISKCON Euro RGB is an assembly of Global GBC of ISKCON along with senior ISKCON leaders and devotees in Europe. Their purpose is to watch after the welfare of Srila Prabhupada’s movement in Europe and help ISKCON develop and grow…
Recently a man was jailed for hunting badgers with a dog, and another was fined for shooting a seagull. But when it comes to the meat industry it seems that any amount of cruelty is acceptable.
This week’s challenge: Who is this striking young man? Bonus challenge: What is he doing and when was the photo taken? What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the New Vrindaban Facebook page.