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The latest issue of Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu e-magazine was just released.
Topics include: * SRI RADHIKA’S MOOD AND PASTIMES – Excerpts from the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. * PRAYING FOR SURRENDER TO RADHA – A fresh translation done for this issue of Bindu from Srila Prabhodhananda Saraswati Thakur’s, Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi. * MISSING OUT ON VRINDAVAN – A continuation from last issue of another fresh translation done Bindu of commentaries on Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu. If one worships Radha Krishna in the wrong mood that devotee may attain the position of a queen in Dwarka. * A FLAG FOR RADHIKA – A first time translation for this issue of Bindu from Srila Kavi Karnapur’s Alankara-kaustubha. The verse presented in this issue is in the style known as citra-kavya, meaning literally “picture-poem”. This particular verse dedicated to Srimati Radharani is presented in the shape of a flag.
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Auckland New Zealand: Sri Janmastami 2015 (Album with photos)
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On the occasion of Srila Prabhupada Vyas Puja 2015 at Iskcon Juhu, Devotee offer 1800 Bhog Prasadam (2 min video)
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Evening Cultural Program on Nandotsava in Vrindavan (Album with photos)
On the occasion of Nandotsava, two very talented Vaisnavis – Vrindarani & Chandramukhi dasi perfomed traditional odisi Dance for Krishna at Balaram hall. And Vrindavan Kala Kendra devoteed kids perfomed drama on Krishna stealing butter from devotees.
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ISKCON SALE Janmashtami & SP Vyasa-puja (Album with 18 photos)
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Divine Bliss – Sri Krishna Janmashtami at Brisbane temple (Album with photos)
Few photos from Janmashtami 2015
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Initiation ceremony in Nepal (Album with photos)
By Mahavishnu Swami
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Janmashtami In The Land Of Mohammed (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Ufa is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The beautiful city, with many old rustic houses, has a population of just over one million people, 90% of whom are Sunni Mus… Read more ›

We are what we desire (7 min video)
When Srila Prabhupada was asked what is required to become Krsna conscious, he replied with just one word “Desire”. Let us dive deep into this topic to understand why desires are so crucial and most importantly how to change the quality of our desires.
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Mayapur Janmastami Darsan 2015 (Album with photos)
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Aerial view of the Temple of Vedic Planetarium (3 min video)
The main dome of the TOVP is now complete in regard to the installation of the panels. This short clip gives a birds eye view of TOVP on Janmashtami day, 2015.
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Hare Krishna! Curing Depression with Spirituality
Sri Nandanandana dasa: In spite of what a person who is suffering depression may think, it is actually very easy to overcome depression from a spiritual point of view. It is not at all as difficult as o… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! Putting An End to Courtesy Japa
Mahatma Das: “Nish, nish, ram, ram, nish, nish, ram, ram.” Prabhupada once imitated how we sometimes chant without focus, without concentration, without proper pronunciation – how we chant when we don’t feel like chanting. You know the mood behind this chanting; “I have to chant but I’d rather be doing something else.” And in our minds we are thinking, “I can’t wait to get these rounds out of the way.” We all do this. And it can get pretty bad. I know devotees who chant rounds while watching football games on TV. Prabhupada explained that this type of chanting is more or less useless because it will not produce the desired result, love of Krsna. To even call this chanting is a stretch. It is closer to a ritual. But Prabhupada acknowledged the value in the ritual by saying that although this kind of chanting is not very productive, at least those who are chanting this way are keeping their vow to chant.
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Huge Janmastami celebration in Los Angeles
(Album with photos)
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ISKCON Vrindavan – Janmastami 2015 – Midnight Darshan (Album with photos)
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“Bhagavata Subodhini” – NEW book by Bhaktivedanta Vidyapitha
The Bhaktivedanta Vidyapitha at Govardhan Eco Village is privileged to present “BHAGAVATA SUBODHINI” CANTOS 1-2. The first in a series of help books that aims at tackling impediments to scrutinizing study of the Bhagavatam.
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Hare Krishna! Sh. Arvind Kejrival ( Delhi CM) Visited Iskcon Rohini On Janmashtami
The leaders of rulling party (CM ARVIND KEJRIWAL) and opposition party (VIJENDER GUPTA) took shelter of Lord KRISHNA under at iskcon temple rohini in Delhi The grand festival took place on janmashtami 5th Sept both the leaders took darshan performed aarti and did Abhishek of the Lord. CM came along with his wife and his father and several MLA’s of aap party was also present. In photo the temple president (iskcon rohini) HG KESHAV MURARI DAS is describing Krishna katha and performed acstatic kirtan.
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How to Practice the Art of Forgiveness
We can master the art of forgiveness when we religiously practice and learn to maintain the consciousness of compassion, to pray as a well-wisher of everyone and to view every situation as an opportunity to sincer… Read more ›

Ramai Swami: The Bhakti Centre on the Gold Coast celebrated Janmashtami on Saturday and Brisbane temple on Sunday. Devotees and guests at both places felt great satisfaction and bliss participating in the many activities throughout the day and night.
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Sri Krishna Janmashtami 2015 at Sri Jagannatha Mandir, ISKCON Malaysia HQ (Album with 100 photos)
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Hare Krishna! Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Pack
All of the followers of Srila Prabhupada for generations to come adhere to the guidance, association and serve the mission of His Divine Grace, while deepening one’s individual connection and relationship with and recognizing him as the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON and our primary Siksa Guru for all time. This booklet through its various elements will guide the devotees worldwide as to how to make proper arrangements for this ceremony in order to establish Srila Prabhupada’s supreme position in ISKCON as the Acharya
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Hare Krishna! O Lord, I am just like a puppet in Your hands!
Giriraj Swami: Today is Srila Prabhupada’s divine appearance day. Here is my offering to him: In Los Angeles in 1968, on the disappearance day of your guru maharaja, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, you explained your commission: “Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja … underwent very severe penances for starting this worldwide movement. That was his mission. In 1896, Bhaktivinoda Thakura wanted to introduce this Krsna consciousness movement by sending the book Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, His Life and Precepts. Fortunately, that year was my birth year, and by Krsna’s arrangement, we came in contact… . Who knew that I would come to his protection? Who knew that I would come to America? Who knew that you American boys would come to me? These are all Krsna’s arrangement. We cannot understand how things are taking place.
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Sri Krsna Janmastami Festival 2015 at Bhaktivedanta Manor (Album with 328 photos)
These pics are mainly of the dedicated vaishnavas who worked so hard to make this happen. All Glories to Their Service.. Sri Krsna Janmastami Ki Jaya….
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Janmashtami at ISKCON New Govardhana – Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari’s Photos (Album with photos)
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Hare Krishna! A Child Sent by Krishna
In a little house in the Tollygunge suburb of Calcutta, a male child was born. Since he was born on Nandotsava, the day Krsna’s father, Nanda Maharaja, had observed a festival in honor of Krsna’s birth, the boy’s uncle called him Nandulal. But his father, Gour Mohan De, and his mother, Rajani, named him Abhay Charan, “one who is fearless, having taken shelter at Lord Krsna’s lotus feet.” In accordance with Bengali tradition, the mother had gone to the home of her parents for the delivery, and so it was that on the bank of the Adi Ganga, a few miles from his father’s home, in a small, two-room, mud-walled house with a tiled roof, underneath a jack-fruit tree, Abhay Charan was born. A few days later, Abhay returned with his parents to their home at 151 Harrison Road.
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Hare Krishna! A Special Recipient of Srila Prabhupada’s Mercy
Giriraj Swami: For Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja this year, I wish to tell you about his dear friend and staunch devotee Mr. P. L. Sethi. May this story inspire you in Srila Prabhupada’s service—in Krsna consciousness. Mr. Sethi replied, “No. Why should we stop?” Mr. Mhatre threatened, “Well, you can build it up, but I will come in the night with fifty gundas [hooligans] and break it down.” And Mr. Sethi turned to his son, who was by his side, and said, “Brij Mohan, bring my revolver and my rifle.” Then Mr. Sethi said to Mhatre, “Don’t bring fifty gundas. Bring a hundred. Bring two hundred. I have two hundred and fifty cartridges.” He was that staunch. Then he and his son—he with rifle in hand, his son with revolver—stayed up all night, in the pouring rain, to complete and protect the project. And no one came to disturb the work.
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Janmashtami day at Shree Krishna Balarama Temple – ISKCON Vrindavan (Album with photos)
1. Gurukulis performance 2. Abhisheka on the kitchen of Krishna hall 3. Sponsor’s Abhisheka in Krishna hall 4. Main Krishna’s abhisheka in the temple
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Hare Krishna! Honoring Srila Prabhupada
Radhanatha Swami: When Srila Prabhupada began his book distribution he was the only distributor. He would take his magazines and just go from tea shop to store at his old age trying to convince people to accept the message of Krishna in the form of Back To Godhead Magazine. And in a few years he created the largest publisher in Indian literature in the history of the world. Hundreds, of millions of books have been distributed. Sometimes tens and thousands of Bhagavad-Gita distributed in one day, by those who are touched by his spirit of compassion. We can speak on this subject for many many hours, days, weeks, months, years and life times. What was Srila Prabhupada’s motivation? Selfless, unconditional love for Krishna. Selfless unconditional love and compassion for you and me to share the highest treasures of the spiritual world, which can be easily attained by simply orchestrating our propensities and life, in a spirit of devotion, toward Krishna and chanting his holy names. On the basis of the holy scriptures, Srila Prabhupada established everything he said.
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Hare Krishna! Appearance day of HDG Srila Prabhupada
An excerpt from the Prabhupada Lilamrta about Srila Prabhupada’s mother, Srimati Rajani Devi. Abhay’s mother, Rajani, was thirty years old when he was born. Like her husband, she came from a long-established Gaudiya Vaisnava family. She was darker-skinned than her husband, and whereas his disposition was cool, hers tended to be fiery. Abhay saw his mother and father living together peacefully; no deep marital conflict or complicated dissatisfaction ever threatened home. Rajani was chaste and religious-minded, a model housewife in the traditional Vedic sense, dedicated to caring for her husband and children. Abhay observed his mother’s simple and touching attempts to insure, by prayers, by vows, and even by rituals, that he continue to live.
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Hare Krishna! A Vaisnava Soldier Departs
What a more auspicious day than Janmashtami day to leave this mortal world, surrounded by loving family, devotee friends and the holy names of Krishna. This is the atmosphere in which Sankirtan Prabhu departed on September 5th 2015 at 10.15am, at his sister’s home, Vanamali Devi Dasi, in Lungern outside Zurich, Switzerland, his native country. The last words Sankirtan Prabhu uttered as he prepared for departure were, “When I hear Srila Prabhupada’s bhajans and his singing I feel that he is calling me to…” Sankirtan Prabhu met the devotees while traveling around the world in the early 1980s when he came across Srila Prabhupada’s books in Peru, Bolivia. He later travelled to Australia and New Zealand and finally met his initiating spiritual master, Lokanath Swami.
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Sri Krishna Janmastami morning program at Los Angeles (Album with photos)
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Sri Mayapur Janmastami Day Darshan (Album with photos)
Simply beautiful!
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Hare Krishna! The Gifts of His Divine Grace
Jayadvaita Swami: In just a dozen years, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada gave the world a legacy that will last forever. Generally speaking, gross material accomplishments win immediate p… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! Sweetest Description of Janmastami-lila
Srila Kavi Karnapura: Cymbals, damru drums, bherries, and big drums vibrated auspicious sounds hi specific melodies. A celestial concert of precise poetical meters, proper rhythms, and metrical compositions suddenly manifested there. The musical ensemble inspired the society girls to sing and dance in mirth and merriment. Though not good singers, by the will of the Lord they sang with great virtuoso. Then” wonderful songs filled Nanda Maharaja’s heart with joy. The combined vibrations of brahmanas’ chanting Vedic hymns, the recitation of Purank lore, and the panegyrists’ prayers transformed the ethers into sabda brahman, The joy of Krishna’s birth celebration taxed the drains of Nanda’s capital city as they swelled to the brim with milk, yogurt, and other auspicious liquids. Soon rivers of this nectar flooded the streets of the town and permeated the entire atmosphere with a sweet fragrance.
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Krishna’s invitation needs an immediate attention!
How many of us remember our days in our mother’s womb? Although we spent 9 months there but we remember nothing. How many of us can recollect each and every moment of our life which we have spent till now? Of course we can remember in bits and pieces but not in entirety. In fact if we retrospect our life’s spent moments then it will pass in a flash. What does it convey? That the moment which is very precious to us now will lose its relevance in future and we will forget it. Not that we forget many incidents of this life but the Vedic books tells us that we have forgotten many lives which we have lived here in different forms and in different species.
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Seberang Jaya, Malaysia Temple Opening (Album 136 Photographs)
Photography Courtesy: Arjun Bhattacharyya
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Hare Krishna! Srila Prabhupada and some of his disciples talk about Janmastami, Montreal, August 16, 1968
So today is that auspicious day, Janmastami, when Lord Krishna appeared five thousand years ago in India, Mathura. Those who are Indian ladies and gentlemen present, they know very well where is Mathura. It is about ninety miles south of New Delhi. Mathura is still existing and it is eternally existing. Krishna appeared in Mathura in His maternal uncle’s house in a very precarious condition. That birthplace, Lord Krishna’s birthplace, is now maintained very nicely. One who goes to India, they see. So anyway, Lord Krishna appeared on this planet five thousand years ago. Krishna does not take his birth like us. So we shall invite today to speak about Krishna from our students, as well as all the members who are present here.
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Hare Krishna! Why Krsna Comes To This World
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
Lord Krishna: “One who knows the transcendental nature of My advent and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode.” Therefore Krsna says, “Just try to learn about the transcendental nature of My advent and activities.” The advent of Krsna it is a very important thing. We should try to understand Krsna, why He makes His advent, why He comes down to this material world, what His business is, what His activities are. If we simply try to understand Krsna, then what will be the result? The result will be tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti so’rjuna: we will get immortality. The aim of life is amrtatvaya kalpate, to achieve immortality. So today, on the advent of Krsna, we shall try to understand the philosophy of Krsna.
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Hare Krishna! The Appearance of Lord Krishna
Giriraj Swami: Personally, He has nothing to gain. But He comes out of His mercy, to deliver us. The material world is compared to a prison house, and we, conditioned souls, are the prisoners. We are restricted, like prisoners. We can’t just go anywhere and everywhere, wherever we want. Liberated souls can travel anywhere in the universe. They don’t need spaceships or any other such contraptions. They can move about freely. But we, conditioned souls, are bound. We are not allowed to leave this planet very easily, and even if we do, we don’t really have any other place to stay. So we are bound, and at the same time we have to suffer.
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Hare Krishna! How to Celebrate Janmashtami
Where Vaishnava temples exist, festivities begin before dawn and extend all day until midnight, the exact moment of the anniversary of Krishna’s appearance. Events include kirtan, singing the Lord’s name along with other devotees; and japa, private, more intimate prayer. Some devotees cook a feast of over one hundred dishes, while others perform drama and dance. Some clothe and decorate the deity of Krishna while others string enormous flower garlands and other decorations for the temple. Incense burns, scriptures are read, and all but the young and the infirm fast all day. The deities are also bathed with a variety of auspicious liquids in a kind of ablution ceremony called abhisheka. Sometimes taking over two hours, this is performed with great pomp.
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