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Hare Krishna! Mayapur Gaura Purnima 2015 update
Devotees are being tossed in the waves of ecstasy and Gaura- prema as they traverse the places of pastime of Lord Caitanya and His associates in Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama. Around 5000 devotees in five different groups which also contains Russians is jubilantly enjoying with transcendental singing and dancing , engaging in nine process of devotional service . They are doing the parikrama covering the seven islands in their footsteps from one island to other and staying overnight in the holiest islands with the association of sadhu’s and vaishnavas – a truly transcendental experience & a perfect setting to enter into the faultless mood of celebrating the appearance of Lord Gauranga.
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Hare Krishna wedding in UK (4 min video)
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Hare Krishna! Your invitation to the Open Vyasa-puja book
The book accepts offerings from everyone directly initiated by Srila Prabhupada. Every disciple who submits an offering will also receive a free copy of the book courtesy of the sponsorships the book receives. We are excited to launch a new online submission form this year. The new form will allow you to update your contact details anytime and submit your offering as a Word document attachment – please see www.sptributes.com for more details. This is a humble effort to increase our operational efficiency in creating the Tributes book by reducing the number of emails sent.
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Jnanagamya prabhu’s (ACBSP) earthly remains cremated and his ashes scattered into the Ganga river.

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Hare Krishna! Mothers glorified at Institute of Spiritual Culture
The event focused on importance of mothers in a Krsna conscious society. First of all, sanyasis enlivened the audience with their words of wisdom. HH Candra Mauli Maharaj emphasized that… Read more ›

Srila Prabhupada’s parikrama in Vrindavana (Album 38 photos)
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Hare Krishna! Introducing My Children to Vrndavana
I remember my first impressions of Vrndavana. The historic temples, the many pilgrims, and the ubiquitous calls of “Jaya Radhe!” (“All glories to Krsna’s most beloved Srimati Radharani”) deeply impressed me with the veracity of my newly adopted Vaisnava practices. Will Vrndavana affect my very independent-minded daughters in the same way? I have three days to show them the Vrndavana I love. It’s hard to believe how much Vrndavana has changed since 1975. Vrndavana then had few amenities for visitors and devotees. Srila Prabhupada’s newly constructed Krishna-Balaram Temple rose high above the quiet, surrounding ashrams on their spacious lots with bird-laden trees. A rural atmosphere prevailed. Not so now.
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Hare Krishna! Remember God? Coming Back to My Eternal Friend
Over the years, I have served the Lord’s deity form, dressing Him, cooking for Him, making garlands and clothes for Him. I have also chanted His name in the streets, my baby daughter on my back, while distributing cookies I baked so others could have their first taste of prasadam. I have sent Srila Prabhupada’s books to all the prisons of Canada that were willing to accept them, and corresponded with many inmates, sending them more books and also prayer beads, encouraging them to take up the chanting of the holy name. I have organized Krishna conscious plays and taken part in a devotee home-school cooperative.
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Meet the highly qualified, expert and devoted professionals who are producing the most accurate and extensive movie about the history of Srila Prabhupada’s life: “Acharya”
Yadubara prabhu (John Griesser) is the Executive Producer and Director.
Photographer and filmmaker since 1970 who, along with his wife Visakha dasi, produced the early films for ISKCON, including Your Ever Well-Wisher, Hare Krishna People, Vrindavan—Land of Krishna and The Spiritual Frontier. More recently, the team produced “Following Srila Prabhupada,” a 31-hour video series on A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada instructed Yadubara das to never put down his camera and to make Krishna conscious films the most popular films.
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Srila Prabhupada Disciple Profile
Ragatmika Dasi concluded that the goal of life was to “merge with the totality of spirit.” However, not wanting to achieve liberation alone, she wished to share her new-found discoveries with her friends. In pursuance of meeting them, she had a timely meeting with Bhuta Bhavana das on the subway in 1971, who told her that “Buddhists want to go home alone, but devotees of Krishna want to take others with them.” This resonated deeply with her. He invited her to the Sunday Love Feast the next day. Having previously gotten a BTG in Central Park, wherein there was an article describing the four regulative principles of freedom, which had appealed to her, she felt she had nothing left to do in this world but go to that Sunday feast. At the Brooklyn Temple, hearing the Panca Tattva mantra brought tears to her eyes. The story of “Liquid Beauty” also impressed her. When it came to honoring prasadam, she not only ate the prasadam from her own plate, but also the remnants from all the other plates at the Sunday program, disregarding her identification as a macrobiotic. She finally felt “at home.” The next day (4th of July) she was in a sari on Jones Beach, distributing BTG’s with the devotees.
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Navadwip Mandal Parikrama 4th Day (Album 14 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” If one practices chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, he is naturally expected to chant Hare Krishna when he meets with some accident. Even without such practice, however, if one somehow or other chants the holy name of the Lord (Hare Krishna) when he meets with an accident and dies, he will be saved from hellish life after death.
(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.2.15 Purport)
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Rasika Nam prabhu: From hippy to bhakta to departed soul. (4 min video)
During the night from 23 to 24 February Rasika-nama Prabhu wonderful devotee, with the voice of a Gandharva, who has spent a lifetime performing Harinam left his body. He is remembered by many for his wonderful kirtans at Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2014. He was like a Vishnuduta with a constant smile, carrying on his shoulder an accordion, always singing the holy name with enthusiasm and faith!.
During a Harinam Rasika-nama Prabhu (while he was leading it) became ill and he was taken to the hospital for “emergency” with a suspected heart attack, and that same night he went to Krishna. Rasika-nama Prabhu left the body, looking at Prabhupada, with his japa mala in his hands, and while he was conscious. He told the doctor that Prabhupada is our spiritual master. He was 32. Rasika-nama prabhu ki jaya! Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!
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Great and young kirtaniya Rasika Nam prabhu (Roman Shkirya) has left us.
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Parikrama Day 3 (Album 208 photos)
Today the Parikrama headed to Madhyadvipa, the island of Smaranam ( remembering). The fisrt Holy place visited was Hamsa Vahana, where the devotees prayied for eagerness toLord Shiva. Then the Parikrama reached Naimis… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir: HH Sivarama Swami
“The conditioned soul has desires and the Supreme Soul fulfills them.” I have a desire to lift my arm and Supersoul fulfills that desire. But He is also the permitter. That means that He is not obliged to lift my arm. He is not obliged to move the senses so that my arms actually..…my muscles, so that my arms can lift up. And so what determines that someone can lift their arms and some else cant? And then that will be the karma. So you have your free will, oh yes, I want to do something. And then the Supersoul takes that into consideration, and says this person deserves to lift his arm.
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Hare Krishna! From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir: HH Candramauli Swami
It is explained that there are six enemies of the conditioned soul: lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride, and envy. Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains that in anger, lust is there. In gr… Read more ›

Hare Krishna! Sita Devi’s Inner Harmony
Sita Devi’s example shows that one who acts according to God’s desire is peaceful and has harmonious relationships, regardless of circumstances. Sita Devi exhibits her inner harmony throughout her ordeal, whether she’s hearing of her husband’s fourteen-year banishment to the forest, being abducted and imprisoned by Ravana, or being reunited with Lord Rama.
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Beautiful gallery about the shooting of the new “Acharya” film, Srila Prabhupada’s biogaphy. India Reenactment Shoot, Behind The Scenes and Archival Shots Of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
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Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama Day 2 (Album 64 photos)
Gauranga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Very special day. Agnidev prabhu sang Boro Sukhe Gabor gai at Surabhi Kunj leading amazing kirtan. The devotees stood up and danced in ecstasy! HH Jayapataka Maharaj d… Read more ›

Acharya – Official Trailer 2015 (3 min video)
ACHARYA, The Life and Legacy of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Directed by Yadubara Das,
Due for release September 17th, 2015
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Mayapur Kirtan Mela 2015 (Album 101 photos)
Here are some shots of the devotees chanting for Sri Panca Tattva’s pleasure. Nitai Gaura Premanande!
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Devotees perform Harinama for disabled children in their hospital (5 min video)
Hare Krishna Dear Devotees. please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
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A young Krishna conscious artist (2 min video)
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Initiation Ceremony at Kalachandji’s Hare Krishna Temple in Dallas (Album 34 photos)
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Navadwip Mandal Parikrama 2nd day In Godrumadvip (Album 5 photos)
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First day of Nabadwip Mandal parikrama and we are in Harihar khetra……!
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Hare Krishna! Should we hate the mind?
Admittedly, the problem of hating the mind is far less common than the problem of believing it naively. But just as dualities characterize almost everything in the material world – heat-cold, pleasure-pain, honor-dishonor – so too can they characterize our attitude towards our mind. We can oscillate from attachment that manifests as unhealthy trust in the mind to aversion that manifests as unhealthy loathing of the mind. However, such loathing is unscriptural and unworkable.
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Hare Krishna! From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir: HH Prahladananda Swami
Srila Prabhupada once wrote to me. He said, “The boys and girls in your country are generally good souls. That’s why they have taken birth in such a nice country. So now let them utilize everything in Krishna’s service. That will make their life perfect. As Krishna sees that you are working seriously to help bring His other children back to the spiritual kingdom, then He will bestow all of His blessings upon you. Krishna is never ungrateful for our efforts to serve Him. Rest assured.”
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Hare Krishna! Humble and Feeling Good
In a famous story from the Mahabharata, Krishna once met with Yudhishthira Maharaja and Duryodhana. Desiring to glorify His devotee Yudhishthira, Krishna requested him to find a person lower than himself, and asked… Read more ›

Annual Global Meetings of Iskcon’s Governing Body Comission in Mayapur, India (Album 14 photos)
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Harinama in Israel (Album 20 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Although the Hare Krishna maha-mantra is powerful in itself, a disciple upon initiation receives the mantra from his spiritual master, for when the mantra is chanted by the spiritual master, it bec… Read more ›

North American GBC and Temple Presidents Speak About the TOVP (12 min video)
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Hare Krishna! Annual Global Meetings in Mayapur, Day 5: GBC Plans for ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary
Pancaratna Dasa, a member of the 50th Anniversary International Steering Committee, presented an elaborate report on the progress made so far along with the list of events being planned. As this year also marks the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s departure to the West, devotees in Kolkata and Mayapur have been working on organizing ‘Srila Prabhupada’s Legacy Night’ in a stadium in Kolkata along with a mega Padayatra from Mayapur to Kolkata. Similar preparations have begun in Cochin, the South Indian city where Srila Prabhupada picked up the boxes containing Srimad Bhagavatam. The Zonal Secretary for the region, Bhakti Vinoda Swami, would be organizing a cultural festival involving the eminent personalities of Kerela who would participate in the launch of Malayalam translation of Srimad Bhagavatam.
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Hare Krishna! Sannyas ceremony at ISKCON Mayapur
While others are forced to renounce belongings at death, sannyasis do so voluntarily for Lord Krsna and attain Him. A sannyasi in bhakti cult is characterized by having full absorption in hearing & preaching glories of Lord Krishna. He emphasized that sannyasis in our movement following Srila Prabhupada are parivrajkacarya meaning they constantly travel and preach. Whereas a mayavadi sannyasi tries to give up activities and may engage in study of vedanta/ sankhya philosophy.
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Our two new sannyasis. Dhira Shanta Das Goswami to the left of Bhakti Chaitanya Swami and Bhakti Swarup Chaitanya Swami to the right. Srila Prabhupda ki jaya! Read more ›

Transcendental Kirtan Mela Final Day in Mayapur (Album 13 photos)
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Evening harinam in Bangalore together with the local bhakti vriksha devotees (Album 43 photos)
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First Time Ever Ekadashi Cook Book By BBT Mumbai
Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna This is to announce the release of a first time ever Ekadashi Cook Book by BBT Mumbai. The book is written by Krishna Priya Devi Dasi and features 260 Ekadashi Recipes. It’s a 454 page four color book that is beautifully designed. The book can presently be obtained from temples in India and also from www.indiabbt.com Bhima Das
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HG Bhaktisiddhanta Das: his involvement with the conceptual designs of the TOVP (10 min video)
Bhaktisiddhanta prabhu (ACBSP) explains his personal journey to becoming a devotee and eventually ending up in India for 37 years as a diorama and murti-maker, manager of Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi, to his involvement with the conceptual designs of the TOVP. He deeply believes that the building of the TOVP is under the direct guidance of Srila Prabhupada. We are just his instruments and he is with us at every moment.
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Hare Krishna! Huge Mayapur Sankirtan award ceremony for Mayapur book distributers
A Sankirtan award distribution ceremony took place in Temple on 19th February morning. This year Mayapur Temple enjoyed a special success by securing the first position w… Read more ›