Monthly Archives: July 2015

“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.”From Art of Chanting Hare Krsnaby Mahanidhi Swami

His Grace Mahabhagavat Prabhu, is a disciple of Sankarshan das Adhikari. Mahabhagavat
Prabhu along with his spouse are very senior well respected devotees in Toronto and are often associated
along with the names of Vaisesika Prabhu for expanding the Sankirtan initiative across the GTA and
South Western Ontario. Together as a family they have made preaching their life mission and will go
beyond their limits to ensure that Srila Prabhupada’s books are being distributed.

COMING UP AHEAD

Kamika
Fasting…………………on Mon Aug 10th,2015
Breakfast……………..on Tue Aug 11th,2015 b/w 6.17am-7.31am

Every fortnight, we observe Ekadasi, a day of prayer and meditation. On this day we fast (or simplify our meals and abstain from grains and beans), and spend extra time reading the scriptures and chanting the auspicious Hare Krishna mantra.

English audio glorification of all Ekadasis is available here 

3rd Festival Of Chariots-Brampton
On Aug 8,2015(11am-5.30pm) at Chinguacousy Park 9050 Bramlea Rd,Brampton

An Indian multi-cultural festival will be celebrated with entertainment for Children and the whole family. There will be live music, singing, Kids performances, book fair, question & answer booth,Govinda’s Restaurant and free vegetarian meal. A special feature of the celebration is the Ratha Yatra Parade, the oldest known parade in the world, and the Festival of India.All are welcome. Free admission. Wholesome fun for kids and the entire family.VERY VISUAL EVENT with colourful traditional costumes and flower decorations.
All are warmly invited to attend this joyous, colourful festival, free of charge. Take advantage of a rare chance to experience the vibrancy of India, right here in Brampton.Don’t forget to watch our latest promo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qoJ2Idfl4w
**Photography is permitted**

 Annual Summer Kids Camp(Toronto)
From Aug 4-Aug 7,2015(Ages 4-12years) 9am-5pm
As always there will be lots of fun activities planned out with sumptuous prasadam for all the children.You can pre-register your child/children by emailing to  kids@torontokrishna.com

ON GOING EVERY SUNDAY

Sunday School

To register,contact us
Email:sundayschool108@gmail.com
Call:647.893.9363

The Sunday School provides fun filled strategies through the medium of music, drama, debates, quizzes and games that present Vedic Culture to children. However the syllabus is also designed to simultaneously teach them to always remember Krishna and never forget Him.
The Sunday School follows the curriculum provided by the Bhaktivedanta College of Education and Culture (BCEC).

Gift Shop

Our boutique is stocked with an excellent range of products, perfect for gifts or as souvenirs of your visit. It offers textiles, jewellery, incense, devotional articles, musical instruments, books, and CDs inspired by Indian culture.We’re open on all Sundays and celebrations marked in our annual calendar.

Please note that ISKCON Brampton is a peanut free environment in order to support those with allergies. Your cooperation is appreciated.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Chant and Be happy

Close-ups of Lord Jagannath’s people – those who hold Him dear to their hearts – and those who are meeting Him for the 1st time at Woodstock in Poland.

Hare Krishna! Tribute to HG Surabhi Prabhu
Subhag Swami: One day we were in Mayapur, many years back, desiring to have his association I requested him to have a glass of fruit juice with me. During our conversation we spoke about several things. I conveyed my feelings of appreciation in how he helped in establishing a wonderful temple: Punjabi Bagh. Out of his humility, he replied, “Yes, yes but a very small temple though.” I told him that it doesn’t matter; he helps maintain it and guides the devotees there through the expert medium of HG Samba das, thus doing a great service.
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Scenes from the preaching in Woodstock in Poland (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: When that name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities… Read more ›

I am surprised at how people are reacting to one dentist killing one lion. Yet, every year, in the US alone more than 150 million cows and pigs are slaughtered. Apparently, these people who cry wolf don’t care about Rosy the cow and Honky the pig (I ma…

(This article, co-authored with Aja Govinda Prabhu, was published in Back to Godhead when the claims of artificial life had been in the news in 2010, but was not published on thespiritualscientist.com, though two separate small articles were published: What is the Vedic perspective on the creation of artificial life? and What is wrong with creating life?  As similar news about the claims of the creation of artificial life are again surfacing, this article is being published now.)
“Scientists create artificial life,” declared newspaper headlines around the world in May 2010. Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter, the man behind the sensation, claimed, “This is a philosophical advance as much as a technical advance.”

What exactly did Venter do? He:

Determined the sequence of the DNA in one of the world’s simplest bacteria,
Synthesized a copy of that DNA from components sold by a biological supply company,
Replaced the natural DNA in a living bacterial cell with this synthetic DNA.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a long linear molecule found in the nucleus of a cell. Sometimes dubbed as the king of molecules, DNA comprises of genes or biological units of heredity that are passed down from parent to offspring. The complete DNA (also known as the genome) has a few billion chemical bases (bases are specific bio-molecules) paired together into a double helix. The four bases used in DNA (adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine) act like the letters of an alphabet, and the specific sequences of these bases convey information used for building proteins (chemical compounds used by living cells). The actual production of proteins is done by “gene expression” machinery within the cell that makes copies of the DNA and uses the information therein to arrange amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) into the sequence and structure required for the protein under production. Each different gene sequence results in a protein with a distinct structure and shape, and consequently distinct function in the cell.

Venter, like many modern scientists, believes in reductionism: the idea that all the features of a complex system can be explained in terms of or “reduced” down to the properties of its simple components. Reductionist biologists hold that a living organism is like a computer: just as the capacities of the computer can be explained in terms of the capacities of its components, the characteristics, traits, behaviors of livings organisms can be explained in terms of their components, going down ultimately to their genes. As Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins noted, “The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.” Applying the computer analogy to the current experiment, Venter has certainly not created the complete computer. What he has done – introducing a new genetic sequence within a preexisting living organism – is like replacing one chip within a pre-existing computer by another chip. So, even from this reductionist viewpoint, he has not created life. That’s why Caltech biologist and Nobel laureate, David Baltimore, pointed out that Venter has “overplayed the importance” of his results; he “has not created life, only mimicked it.”

What if scientists […]

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Ratha Yatra – Festival of India in Copenhagen (Album with photos)
Here are finally some photo when Lord Jagannatha and His faithful devotees from England visited Denmark and graced Copenhagen with Their divine presence 🙂
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Bangladesh Yatra (Album with photos)
We’re very greatful to the devotees of Narasindhi, Haviganj, Sylhet, Moulavi Bazar, Narayan Ganj, and Dhaka who warmly welcomed us and gave us their wonderful association. It was very purifying for us to be able and chant the Holy Names and discuss the Lord’s patime with all of you. We would like to specifically thank HG Charu Chandra prabhu, the regional secretary of Bangladesh, and HG Navadwip Dvija Gauranga prabhu who accompanied and helped us from the moment we arrived to the moment we left. Hare Krsna! ys, Mayapur Chandra’s team
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Ultimate Realization of Surabhir Prabhu (7 min video)
Surabhir Prabhu (here in an earlier photo with Jayapataka Swami) describes his feelings and realizations upon his return to the association of devotees after being apart for 25 years.
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Srila Sanatana Goswami Disappearance ceremony at ISKCON-Delhi: 31-07-2015 (Album with photos)
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Hare Krishna! First Youth Festival at Iskcon Gurgaon’s recently donated temple
In the last week of May this year ISKCON was donated a fully functional building located on a 4800 sq. yard campus, on the outskirts of Gurgaon, a sattelite city of Delhi, and home to several major software companies. The property was earlier owned and operated by an NGO called Atma Kalyan Kendra run by its founder Acarya Sudarshan Ji Maharaj. It is located on a Sohna road, a National Highway, and has two major universities, several deluxe hotels and residential apartments within few minutes drive. The campus has a spacious hall on front side, which can accommodate about 500 people.
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“People go to Vrindavan and their lives change… for the better,” says Shyam Gopal Das (Maksim Varfolomeev), who wrote and directed the 40-minute film Reconnection with his wife Vijaya Radhika Dasi (Olga Avramenko)…

With the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s departure from India onboard the Jaladuta ship, August 13, less than two weeks away, devotees in Kolkata are putting on a grand celebration of the event. While many exciting offerings…

Indian thought is sometimes deemed fatalistic, as holding that everything is destined by past karma, thereby leaving little room for human initiative. The bhakti literature, however, offers a far more nuanced and empowering outlook to life.
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As Pope Francis stated in his recent Encyclical on climate change, the reality of climate change “represents one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.”

Hare Krishna! Announcing DevoteeEvents.com – ISKCON Events, Courses and Festivals, all in one place!
DevoteeEvents.com is the best place to find out what festivals, courses, retreats and other events are happening in ISKCON. You can easily submit your event for free! Built with the latest technology, the site lets you quickly search and filter for specific categories, types, locations and dates of events. Want to know what events your guru is attending? Just select your guru’s name in the list. Want to know what’s scheduled for broadcast on MayapurTV? Just click on the MayapurTV. Want to know what ISKCON 50th anniversary events are happening in your area? Just click on 50th.
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The restaurant will offer meat-free burgers, burritos, macaroni and cheese, pizza, salad, as well as milkshakes and vegan non-dairy shakes.

Woodstock Ratha Yatra (7 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: For 4 days in a row we take Lord Jagannatha on His Rath Cart through the massive crowds at Woodstock. Not only are people eager to pull the ropes, but they spontaneously jump into the kirtan and ch… Read more ›

Chanting with gratitude, a mellow kirtan by Chakrini Dasi (24 min video)
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2 Principles of Marriage
Radhanath Swami: Across all religions there is a universal concept that when a man and woman marry with proper attitude they become one body. After marriage they start living for a common purpose – to serve God together. The first principle they follow is – “I will do anything to protect you and you will do anything to protect me. We are there for each other and whatever the difficulties we may face we will be faithful to each other, till death separates us.”
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Hare Krishna! Reflections on Guru-purnima
Giriraj Swami: Today is Guru-purnima. Srila Prabhupada has explained that the system of honoring the spiritual master is current in all sections of Vedic followers. In the Mayavadi (impersonalist) sects, the di… Read more ›

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Surabhi Prabhu: The final journey. (Album with photos)
Final journey to the Yamuna for Surabhi, a wonderful soul to whom we are all deeply indebted for the magnificent temples whose facilities we are now relishing! He left peacefully in Vrindavan surrounded by devotees responding to Srila Prabhupada’s recorded kirtan. Then we took him on the last journey in the evening!
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Today is Guru-purnima. Srila Prabhupada has explained that the system of honoring the spiritual master is current in all sections of Vedic followers. In the Mayavadi (impersonalist) sects, disciples offer respect to the spiritual master once in a year, on Guru-purnima. And in the Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya, disciples also offer homage annually—on the appearance day of […]

Preparing prasadam for close to 150,000 people at Woodstock is no small endeavour. But it’s all worth it! The kids love our food. And today they loved our stage show too. Woodstock is in full swing!

Question: How does purification work for devotees – purification of anarthas? I always hear devotees say, “this is for your purification,” but how does it work? śṛṇvatām svakathā krishna, punya śravana kīrtana, hṛdyāntaḥ stho hyabhadrānī vidhunoti suhṛt satām This verse from Bhāgavatam (1.2.17) is the answer to your question, and there is no better answer. Abhadra […]

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 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

Today we will travel with Lord Jagannatha, Baladeva, and Subhadra in procession, and we will chant the holy names of the Lord and dance for His pleasure. So we shall read from Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, Chapter Thirteen: “The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yatra.” TEXT 1 sa jiyat krsna-caitanyah sri-rathagre nanarta yah yenasij jagatam […]

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Padayatra festival in Czech Republic (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Hare Krishna mantra is specifically mentioned in many Upanisads, such as the Kali-santarana Upanishad, where it is said: “After searching through al the Vedic literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for this age than the chanting of Hare Krishna.” (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 3.40 Purport)
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BY HARRIENA BHARDWAJ

SEBERANG JAYA – Best wishes from the Prime Minister of India in regards to ‪ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary. Jai Srila…