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This year is the 50th year anniversary/golden jubilee of the Jaladuta Diary.
April 1965: While approaching the Scindia Steam Navigation Company in Bombay to sponsor his passage to America, Srila Prabhupada received one of their complimentary diaries. He used it at first as an appointment book. Once his voyage to America on the Jaladuta began in August of that year, he made regular entries in the diary to record the events of the journey.This diary of the voyage of the Jaladuta is a personal account of the challenging journey that launched Srila Prabhupada’s life mission. Readers will find it to be a remarkable document in the history of religious movements. It reveals the full measure of Srila Prabhupada’s devotion, faith and self−abnegation, which qualify him as one of the world’s few genuine spiritual leaders. We hope this book will inspire others to appreciate Srila Prabhupada’s triumph over adversity and to follow in his footsteps.
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Hare Krishna! Krishna, Lord of Paradox
The Bhagavad-gita is one of the world’s perennial wisdom texts. Because it offers knowledge of the Absolute Truth, some of its texts can be difficult to understand. Few are as difficult as verses four and five of Chapter Nine: “By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them. And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am everywhere, I am not a part of this cosmic manifestation, for My Self is the very source of creation.”
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Hare Krishna! Desire Nothing But Bhakti
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuapada
Suppose you go to Svargaloka and become Indra, the king of the heavenly planets. That is not a permanent position. By pious activities you can become Brah… Read more ›

Ratha Yatra 2015: W.C Berbice (Album with photos)
Berbice is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana
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Harinama at Coolangatta – 12 April 2015 (Album with photos)
ISKCON New Govardhana – Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari
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Hare Krishna! Swami Baba Ramdev visits ISKCON Melbourne
As part of our ongoing efforts to establish good relations with the wider Hindu Community, ISKCON’s Melbourne Mahaprabhu Mandir Temple was honoured to welcome Swami Baba Ramdev, the famous yoga teacher from India, on Friday 10th April. It was just a short visit (part of an official welcome to Melbourne) as Swami Ramdev gave his yoga programs elsewhere.
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Looking For Preschool Teachers!
Inspired by the success of Krishna conscious schools in various parts of the world, the devotees in the Greater Toronto Area are inspired to begin with a Krishna conscious pre-school in Toronto, Canada. Below is the for… Read more ›

Welcome to the Scandinavian Bhakti Sangam festival 2015 at Almviks Gård, Sweden (7 min video)
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Hare Krishna! First Stone Grounding And Ananta Sesa Installation In Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia
For the last two year the devotees did preaching programs like book distribution, food for life and Sunday feast. Their preaching center is located in c… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! Book distribution to Ijtema teacher
Suddenly, a loud strong feminine voice screeched our conversation, “Who is Muslim among you”? All three of us (including Smita Krishna Prabhu) turned towards that voice and found a fat middle aged lady, veiled from head to toe by burqa with only eyes uncovered sitting little far on a bench with a big purse on her shoulder. I tried to ignore her question and started preaching that man again but the lady did not stop and shouted again boldly, “I am asking who is muslim among you?” The man turned towards her and said,”I am”. The lady immediately asked me, “Then, what is your business with him, what are you talking to him?”
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Hare Krishna! Keep it up Hema! You have set an example!
You represent women community who normally grab attention of people in general only for wrong reasons while their finest contributions are rarely appreciated and encouraged. Most importantly you r… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! Revelations about the Book of Revelation
Astrological portents are described in the Bible (Luke 21.25) “And there shall be signs in the Sun, the Moon and the stars.” All over the world people are waking up to such signs of the times, including followers of Christianity. Many have tried to decipher the Bible’s Book of Revelation and its prophecies of “end times” to come. And naturally many wonder when these final days of will arrive. By examining the Book of Revelation through the looking glass of Vedic knowledge many of its mysteries are unraveled and light is shed on its prophecies.
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Navadwipa mandala parikrama (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Although a Vaishnava is the most exalted person, he is prideless and gives all respect to everyone, knowing everyone to be the resting place of Krishna. If one chants the holy name of Lord Krishna in this manner, he will certainly awaken his dormant love for Krishna’s lotus feet. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 20.25.26)
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Hare Krishna! ISKCON South Africa Releases Annual Report
It is a great pleasure to present to you the ISKCON South Africa Annual report for 2014. The theme for the report is #ISKCONinAction. We pray it reflects the love, dedication, inspiration and compassion that the many members of ISKCON represent in their every day actions along with ISKCON’s many great friends and well-wishers. In this report you will hear from His Holiness Bhakti Caitanya Swami, the Co-GBC for South Africa who along with the National Secretaries reflects on the great strides ISKCON continues to make and the build-up too much awaited significant events in 2015 and 2016.
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Srimad Bhagavatam Class By H.G.Sankarshana Prabhu (video)
Given in Vrindavana, Krishna Balaram mandir, 12.04.2015
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Srimad Bhagavatam Class By HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj at Iskcon Kanpur 11-04-2015 (video)
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ISKCON Studies Institute Conference 2015
The ISKCON Studies Institute cordially invites you to attend its upcoming conference to be held at Radhadesh (Belgium) from May 22-24, 2015. This year’s conference theme is Devotional Ethics, Community, and Practice in Caitanya Vaisnavism.
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ISKCON Sri Lanka School Preaching – “Heavy Chanting” of Hare Krishna Mahamantra by School Children (2 min video)
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Hare Krishna! Srila Prabhupada’s Jaladuta Diary entries
April 1965: While approaching the Scindia Steam Navigation Company in Bombay to sponsor his passage to America, Srila Prabhupada received one of their complimentary diaries. He used it at first as an appointment book. Once his voyage to America on the Jaladuta began in August of that year, he made regular entries in the diary to record the events of the journey.
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Hare Krishna! TOVP Tour Daily Diary: Day 24 – $325,000 pledged at New Jersey TOVP Presentation
After kirtan and abhisheka of the Padukas, a few local leaders, including Madhupati prabhu, Temple President of both New Jersey temples, and Devakinandana prabhu, spoke and began the program. Radha Jivan then introduced Ambarisa prabhu who had come for both the New Jersey programs, and together with Jananivas prabhu they urged the 150+ devotees to make a sacrifice for the TOVP despite the large financial burden of the new facilities. Devotees responded enthusiastically and the pledges amounted to over $325,000 by the end of the program. Prasadam was served to all the Vaishnavas.
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Dedicated diciples in Ljubljana Iskcon temple perform Puja ceremony (2 min video)
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Goshala ISKCON Mayapur (8 min video)
Beautiful, happy, protected cows!
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Hare Krishna! Japa: An Outline
1. We all have a relationship with Krishna. A. We are fully and eternally related with Krishna on the spiritual platform. B. The relationship is there whether we are theists or atheists, practitioners or non-practitioners… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! List of English Words derived from Sanskrit via Latin Greek Persian
Be it Greek Latin English Hindi Lithuanian – Sanskrit is the mother of all Languages. Even Scholars like Voltaire, Immanuel Kant etc believed that Sanskrit was the root of all Indo-European languages. “I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges” said Voltaire. He believed that the “Dynasty of Brahmins taught the rest of the world”.
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The Astrological Newsletter, A Gaudiya Vaishnava Publication April 2015
Dandavats to the Vaishnavas. May Shrila Prabhupada be eternally glorified. Please find attached the latest issue (April 2015) of The Astrological Newsletter. This issue features a lecture Shrila Prabhupada’s that deals with astrology, the Mahabharata and the reign of King Yudhishthira over the entire world. Smt Abhaya Mudra Dasi unravels the mysteries of the Book of Revelation in the Bible. There are many other items of interest to the Vaishnava community, and as usual we appreciate your feedback. Thanks for reading. Yours in the service of the servants of Prabhupada’s servants, Patita Pavana dasa, Ed.
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“Prabhupada’s Vision: Our Mission” Poster
Prabhupada’s Vision for New Vrindaban: Founded in 1968, Srila Prabhupada boldly envisions New Vrindaban as a sacred village known worldwide for Cow Protection, Simple Living, Holy Pilgrimage, Spiritual Education, and, above all, Loving Krishna.

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Hare Krishna! Double voice amplification kirtans and the missing silence
This paper is about what I call “double voice amplification kirtans.” These are kirtans in which the lead-singer sings into the microphone, after which, on the response, another devotee also sings into a microphone. The result is an uninterrupted amplification of two lead-voices throughout the entire kirtan. I think this type of kirtan is problematic for several reasons, which I explain as follows.
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Hare Krishna! Was Alexander the Great a Contempory of Canakya Pandit? – the Puranic Version
Srila Prabhupada: “That is a fact-the brahmanas were accepted. They formed the advisory committee of the king. For example, Candragupta, the Hindu king, was in the age of Alexander the Great. Just before Candragupta, Alexander the Great went from Greece into India and conquered a portion. When Candragupta became emperor, he had Canakya as his prime minister. Perhaps you have heard this name Canakya?”
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Hare Krishna! Celebrating the Glories of Our Mothers
In material life and its culture, where sense gratification is the goal of life, mothers don’t have a very respected and valued position at all. Indeed, it is a down-trodden and pitiful one – the mother is the slave at home! She can’t go out and enjoy life by having a career, developing her talents, and earning money. To be ‘just a mother and housewife’ is not given any importance and value as a rule.
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Srimati Tulsi Gabbard’s lovely wedding (3 min video)
Here are some highlights from Tulsi’s beautiful Hindu Vedic wedding on April 9, including walking down the aisle and a fire ceremony which ended with a lively kirtan.
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Mahatma prabhu talks about the importance of Mayapur and the TOVP, answering questions about its effect on the world, its place in ISKCON (7 min video)
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Hare Krishna! Maya’s Friend Norm
Lord Krishna’s deluding potency, works with certain energies that have the capacity to make material life seem like normal life. As we go about our everyday activities in the material world, we are continuously confronted with the normality, or normalness, of material existence. In other words, we are constantly bombarded with the notion that material life, with all its mundane rationality, constitutes normal life and that this world is where we belong. As Srila Prabhupada affirms, however, material life, which is devoid of love of Lord Krishna and service to Him, is very abnormal.
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Harinama in Prague (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! The Divine Form
Then, as if by divine providence, an art college friend, upon returning from a visit to Bangkok, gave me some rice-paper rubbings taken from bas-reliefs of divinities of the temple of the reclining Buddha. Although I didn’t know it at first, the images depicted the pastimes of Lord Ramachandra. I immediately appreciated the combination of delicate exquisiteness and divine irresistible power that Ramachandra personified while upon His chariot, bow drawn, ready to slay His evil enemy.
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The Art of Sankirtan (video)
Sankirtan stalwarts share their journey and experiences on the sublime art of distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books. Watch these amazing devotees expertly distribute Lord Chaitanya’s unalloyed mercy in the form of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books like ‘The Bhagavad-gita As it is’, ‘Srimad Bhagavatam’, ‘Science of Self Realization’, etc. Listen to what makes them tick, how they deal with rejection, why they love what they do, and how they do it. Join in on the action on the streets where they meet the multitudes.
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Auckland NZ: Harinam with HH Janananda swami. (Album with photos) Kumeu, New Zealand
Srila Prabhupada: “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare-these sixteen names composed of thirty-two syllables are the only means to counteract the evil effects of Kali-yuga. In all the Vedas it is seen that to cross the ocean of nescience there is no alternative to the chanting of the holy name.” (Kali-santarana Upanisad)
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Bhaktivedanta Academy Hiring Pre-Kindergarten Teacher’s Assistant
The Bhaktivedanta Academy, a spiritually-centered pre-k thru 10th grade school, located in Alachua, Florida, is seeking applicants for the position of Middle School Subject Area Teacher for our International Baccalaureate 7th through 10th grade Middle Years Programme*.
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Blissful Kirtan Mela Mauritius (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “The essence of all Vedic knowledge-comprehending the three kinds of Vedic activity, the Vedic hymns, and the processes for satisfying the demigods-is included in the eight syllables Hare Krishna Hare Krishna. This is the reality of all Vedanta. The chanting of the holy name is the only means to cross the ocean of nescience.” (Narada-pancharatra)
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Hare Krishna! The Issue of the Proto-Indo-European Language
There has been an attempt to explain the origins of such languages as Sanskrit, Greek and Roman for many years. This is because there has been a recognition of many similarities between them, but the exact original language which they have derived from has never been identified. So they say that it is now extinct, but they call it the Proto-Indo-European Language (PIE). This has now given way to the groupings of many other languages that are now included in what has become the “family” of 439 languages and dialects (as of 2009) of Indo-European languages.
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Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura on Enthusiasm
I am overjoyed to hear that your enthusiasm for chanting is increasing. As our contaminations are removed by chanting, the Lord’s form, qualities, and pastimes will be revealed to us in the holy name. There is no point in making a separate effort to artificially remember the Lord’s form, qualities, and pastimes. The Lord and His name are one and the same. This will be understood clearly when the coverings in your heart are removed. By chanting without offenses you will personally realize that all perfections come from the holy name. Through chanting, the distinction that exists between the self, and the gross and subtle bodies, is gradually effaced and one realizes one’s own spiritual form. Once aware of the spiritual body, as one continues to chant, one sees the transcendental nature of the Lord’s form.
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