Hare Krishna! WSN June 2015 – World Sankirtan Newsletter June…
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Hare Krishna! WSN June 2015 – World Sankirtan Newsletter
June was a very good month for book distribution worldwide. Summer months are generally good for us book distributors. The sunny weather puts people in a relatively nicer and happier mood. The highest increase in June was by the temple in Monterrey, Mexico. Something inspired them to do a lot of book distribution. They had a 610% increase, distributed over 1,800 books, and did 2,024 book points, which makes Monterrey the No. 1 temple in all of Central and South America. Congratulations, Monterrey book distributors! Nairobi also had a good month with a 366% increase, over 1,300 books distributed, and 1,832 book points.
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Preaching program with Radhanath Swami @ Golden Bridge Yoga…
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Preaching program with Radhanath Swami @ Golden Bridge Yoga (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If one chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra without offences, all of one’s sinful actions are surely atoned for immediately, but one should not commit such deeds again, for that is an offence. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.16.14 Purport)
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Padayatra in Russia 2015 (Album with photos) Srila Prabhupada:…
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Padayatra in Russia 2015 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Compared to the ocean of transcendental bliss that one tastes by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, the pleasure derived fromimpersonal Brahman realization is like the shallow water in canal.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.97)
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Preaching program in Kiev, Ukraine (Album with photos) Srila…
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Preaching program in Kiev, Ukraine (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “In Dvapara-yuga one could satisfy Krishna or Visnu only by worshiping Him gorgeously according to the pancaratriki system, but in the Age of Kali one can satisfy and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari simply by chanting the holy name.” (Narayana-samhita)
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Hare Krishna! ISKCON Community Pays Tribute to Former President…
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Hare Krishna! ISKCON Community Pays Tribute to Former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam appreciated the services rendered by ISKCON such as Bhagavad Gita Book distribution, Promoting people to become Vegetarian and ISKCON’s Food for Life Mid-day meal program. Further he also inaugurated Bhaktivedanta Hospital for Heart Center which is part of ISKCON activities. On behalf of the entire ISKCON Community we would like pay tribute for the former President of India. It is a great loss for India.
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Hare Krishna! The one who startled India with kirtan One…
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Hare Krishna! The one who startled India with kirtan
One morning, soon after our arrival at Kailash Seksaria’s home, Srila Prabhupada called on a male devotee to chant the new melody of Gurvastakam. After two lines of the prayer, he asked him to stop and then requested another devotee to continue. The same thing happened, and he asked another devotee to chant, with the same result. Then he asked me to lead the prayer, and he did not stop me. So later, I asked him why he had done that, and he replied: Learn to listen. You cannot follow nicely unless you hear nicely, and you cannot lead nicely unless you have learned to follow nicely.
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Hare Krishna! A special home preaching program in Camarillo,…
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Hare Krishna! A special home preaching program in Camarillo, California
One main area that was discussed was the need to better ourselves in three “S” areas- sanga (association), sadhana (devotional practice) and sadachara (character). The speaker quoted- “If one loses money, nothing is lost. If one loses health, something is lost but if one loses character, everything is lost.” The topic of hatred and religious intolerance rampant in the world today was also touched upon and the speaker enunciated beautifully how greed is leading to proprietorship of things that don’t belong to us in the first place. He specifically talked about the ‘simple living, high thinking’ model which is much needed in today’s society. Focusing on students, he encouraged them to think deeper since they would be the leaders of the future and to follow a path based on compassion and care was of prime necessity.
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730 strong “transcendental army” gathers at the…
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730 strong “transcendental army” gathers at the field for an epic battle! (5 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: Today our ranks swelled to 730 devotees as buses arrived from all over Europe. We held an istagosti where the many services connected to our preaching work at Woodstock were divided up. It’s an exciting time as we begin one of ISKCON’s biggest and most influential programs. But as great as it all is, we remember and keep close you our hearts, the fact that we are simply instruments in the hands of Srila Prabhupada and our previous acaryas. Narottam! Srinivas! Syamananda! Please send us your blessings too! You are our heroes in spreading Mahaprabhu’s samkirtan movement!
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Calgary Ratha Yatra & Festival Of India (Album with…
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Calgary Ratha Yatra & Festival Of India (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: One must engage his tongue in the service of the holy name. Our Krishna consciousness movement is based on this principle. We try to engage all the members of the Krishna consciousness movement in the service of the holy name. (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 8.16 Purport)
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Hare Krishna! Liberation Through Chanting Srila Prabhupada: In…
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Hare Krishna! Liberation Through Chanting
Srila Prabhupada: In our country Carvaka Muni has advised, bhasmi-bhutasya dehasya kutah punar-agamano bhavet: “Why are you thinking of your next birth? Another birth is not possible. We see that the gross body is burnt into ashes. And where is the soul? Who is coming back again? Don’t care for all these things.” Yavaj jivet sukham jivet: “Live happily. Eat, drink, be merry, and enjoy.” This philosophy is going on. “There is no mind, there is no intelligence, there is no soul, only this gross body, and as long as we possess this gross body, let us enjoy the senses.” This is called maha-vimoha, the greatest bewilderment. People have no education about how we are existing in the material world, how nature is working. They are thinking there is no life after this one, but that is not the fact. They are living in a very great entanglement.
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Iskcon Penang Gelugor: Hare Krsna, we are please to inform that…
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Iskcon Penang Gelugor: Hare Krsna, we are please to inform that ‘GITA’ (an NGO associated with ISKCON Gelugor) gave away 3,000 Bhagavad Gita’s to 28 Tamil Schools in Penang this morning at Auditorioum A Komtar, Penang. ISKCON Gelugor would like to thank HG Madhusudan prabhu and his core team in this first time, record breaking event! 25/07/2015 (Album with photos)
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Hare Krishna! Lord Nityananda Delivers the Thieves When I was…
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Hare Krishna! Lord Nityananda Delivers the Thieves
When I was eight or nine years old, my parents took me to the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C. After meandering through myriad halls and galleries, we came across an exhibit of valuable gemstones in the Museum of Natural History. I remember being particularly struck by the famous Hope Diamond, a large bluish diamond pendant surrounded by small white diamonds. I was surprised that something could be so beautiful and so valuable. Although I’ve forgotten most of what I saw during my weeklong visit to the Smithsonian, I vividly remember my sense of wonder upon seeing such a unique jewel. Lord Krishna likes jewels too. Scriptures explain that He adorns His body with jewelry. He is famous as the wearer of the Kaustubha gem, and scriptures describe other forms or incarnations of the Lord as decorated with exquisite valuable jewels.
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London Yatra: ISKCON50 Festival of Srila Prabhupada’s…
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London Yatra: ISKCON50 Festival of Srila Prabhupada’s Arrival in Boston
Date: Thursday, 17th September
On 17th September 1965, Srila Prabhupada reached Boston’s Commonwealth Pier in hopes of fulfilling the order of his spiritual master. The ship was to stop briefly in Boston before proceeding to New York City. Fifty years on, on 17th September 2015, we will be commemorating this milestone at ISKCON-London with a range of festivities.
He took a short walk into the city and then returned to the ship. As he awaited the ship’s departure for New York, Srila Prabhupada composed a Bengali poem, entitled “Markine Bhagavat-dharma” (“Teaching Krsna Consciousness in America”). Being a pure devotee of Sri Krishna, Srila Prabhupada prayed, “I wish that You may deliver them. Therefore, if You desire their deliverance, only then will they be able to understand Your message.”
We would like to invite everyone to come and take part in this festival.
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Preparing for the preaching in the huge Polish Woodstock…
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Preparing for the preaching in the huge Polish Woodstock Festival (7 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: The great Polish Woodstock Festival is still days away but the entire area is quickly filling up with young people and tents. Our good friend, Chaturatma das, also arrived today. As we walked around the festival grounds we were greeted everywhere with “Hare Krishna!” and a number of warm hugs. Woodstock!
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The latest issue of Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu e-magazine was…
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The latest issue of Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu e-magazine was just released. Topics include: * THE KING OF ALL EDUCATION – An Excerpt from a lecture by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, wherein he speaks about what is real knowledge. * DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR BHAJANA – Wise advice from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada. * EMBODIMENT OF KRISHNA’S MERCY – Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja speaks about the glories of the Lord’s devotees. * EXPLAINING THE INEXPLICABLE – An excerpt from Srila Rupa Goswami’s Laghu-bhagavatamrita, wherein he explains how it was that millions of gopis were able to assemble together in a small area during the rasa-lila.
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Iskcon: The Complete Social Service. Suppose you are the friend…
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Iskcon: The Complete Social Service.
Suppose you are the friend of a millionaire. One day you see your friend’s estranged son wandering on the streets, drunk, disheveled, diseased, distressed, and starving. When someone offers him food, he gulps it down and continues his aimless wandering. Then someone else comes and gives him a new set of clothes. He happily wears the clothes, but still remains lost and forsaken. Someone else gives him free medicine, which provides him some relief but no permanent solace. Then you seat him in your car, take him home, bathe and feed him, and treat his ailments. When he has sobered, you talk with him lovingly, explaining his father’s great affection for him. You clarify and remove the misunderstanding that strained their relationship. And when he is ready, you take him back to his father’s mansion, where he is fed the best food, given an entire wardrobe of clothes, and attended to by a team of expert doctors. His reunion with his father has solved so many problems. Material welfare workers are like the people who offered food, clothing, and medicine to the lost son, whereas the devotee is like the father’s friend, who took the son back to his father.
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Hare Krishna! Looking for the Supreme God I was born and brought…
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Hare Krishna! Looking for the Supreme God
I was born and brought up in a Hindu family in Delhi, and we used to go to various temples and offer prayers before the gods. Two questions, however, always tickled my mind: Why do we worship so many gods, and who is the real God? As I never got answers to my questions, I considered all the gods equal, and in my teenage years all religions and faiths became one for me. Be it Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, or Christianity, all pointed towards one God. But I could not find out who this God is. During my school days, when I badly needed the help of God I would cry out to Him, but no name would come on my lips. Sometimes I wondered whether God has any name, and slowly and steadily I felt that God has no form or name but is a supernatural power—a powerful light we cannot see but can only feel.
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Hare Krishna! Please do not leave! Yamuna Devi: So my sister…
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Hare Krishna! Please do not leave!
Yamuna Devi: So my sister bluntly expressed to Srila Prabhupada that she wanted to leave. She told him that “When you are here, everything is fine; but when you leave, everything becomes harder to deal with, especially the men, and I don’t want to do it.” I looked at Srila Prabhupada, whose eyes glistened with tears of love. I was also crying—we all were. With a combination of deep love and gravity, he said: Please do not leave. We have the best philosophy. You will not find a better philosophy in this world. There is nothing like the knowledge that we have in Krishna Consciousness. We have the best scriptures, like Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, The Nectar of Devotion and Caitanya-caritamrta.
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Maha Saturday Harinama at Union Square Park, New York City…
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Maha Saturday Harinama at Union Square Park, New York City (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If someone calls Lord Ramacandra by the vibration Hare Rama, understanding it to mean “O Lord Ramacandra!” he is quite right. Similarly, if one says that Hare Rama means “O Sri Balarama!” he is also right. Those who are aware of the Vishnu-tattva do not fight over all these details. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 5.123 Purport)
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Confusion is a Blessing If We Respond Accordingly. Radhanath…
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Confusion is a Blessing If We Respond Accordingly.
Radhanath Swami: Confusion is a blessing. Because when we are confused, it shakes us from our complacency, and we start asking the questions that you are asking today.
This is the basis of the Bhagavad Gita. Arjuna was in total illusion. Then he became extremely confused. He thought his illusion was truth. The Bhagvad Gita begins were Arjuna is telling Krishna why he will not fight and he cannot fight. He had such good logic, such good scientific philosophical and social reasons. But ultimately all of his reasoning couldn’t really save him from distress because the nature of the world is that things happen that we just don’t want to happen, but they happen anyway. It’s the nature of this place.
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Hare Krishna! US Congressman and Mayor Among 10,000 Attendees for Detroit ISKCON Rathyatra
Perhaps one of the greatest surprises of the day was when US Congressman David Trott joined the Opening Ceremonies as Honory Chief Guest. He joined already impressive group of Honorary Chief Guests for the Opening Ceremonies, including the Mayor, entire City Council, City Manager and several key city officials. Just before Mayor Gatt and Congressman Trott addressed the large crowds, they both were presented with a copy of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As it Is. Mayor Gatt was so touched by the gift that he announced in front of all: “wow, I’m honored. I will begin reading it today!” Congressman Trott pledged his support for the festival and requested us all to reach out to him whenever needed.
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