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Burn the ships behind us – Live to Give Success Mantra (3 min. video)
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By Iskcon Silicon Valley A call to innovate and look towards the future by H.G. Vaisesika Prabhu! Embrace the new normal as the “now” the Lord has given us to serve Him in new and previously unimaginable ways. Raise the bar, never resting on our laurel…

Srila Prabhupada-Our Preeminent Siksha Guru with Suresvar Das (video)
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GBC Strategic Planning Team (SPT) is pleased to invite you to the Day 3 of our 3 day series celebrating Srila Prabhupada Disappearance Day festival reflecting on the role of Srila Prabhupada as our preeminent Siksha Guru with Suresvar DasRead More…(T…

A FRIEND PLAYS A TRICK ON KRSNA
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Once one of Krsna’s friends informed Him, “My dear Krsna, if you will open Your mouth I shall give You a nice sugar candy mixed with yogurt.” Krsna immediately opened His mouth, but instead of giving Him sugar candy with yogurt, the friend dropped a fl…

KRSNA AND BALARAMA PLAY LIKE HUMAN CHILDREN
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Sometimes Krsna and Balarama would play on Their flutes; sometimes They would throw ropes and stones devised for getting fruits from the trees, sometimes They would throw only stones, and sometimes, Their ankle bells tinkling, They would play soccer wi…

TOVP TALKS with His Holiness Radhanath Swami
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Lord Sri Krishna says: “For one who explains this supreme secret to the devotees, pure devotional service is guaranteed, and at the end he will come back to Me. There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more …

KRSNA AT KESI-GHATA
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One of the gopis once playfully warned her friend about the power of Krsna’s attraction: “My dear friend, if you are at all attached to your worldly friends and relatives, do not look at the smiling face of Lord Govinda as He stands on the bank of the …

KRSNA AND THE COWHERD BOYS LEAVE FOR THE FOREST
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One day Krsna decided to take His breakfast as a picnic in the forest. Having risen early in the morning, He blew His bugle made of horn and woke all the cowherd boys and calves with its beautiful sound. Then Krsna and the boys, keeping their respectiv…

DESCRIPTION OF AUTUMN
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Vrndavana forest improved from the rains and was replete with ripened dates, mangoes, blackberries, and other fruits. Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, accompanied by His cowherd friends and Lord Balarama, entered the forest to enjoy the …

KRSNA IN VRNDAVANA FOREST
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>Krsna has many pastimes, of which His pastimes in Goloka Vrndavana are supreme. He also has pastimes in the Vaikunthas, the spiritual world, as Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha.Read More…(This post has been viewed 330 times so far)

KRSNA, THE DARLING OF VRNDAVAN
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When Lord Krsna wanders in the forest of Vrndavana with His friends on an equal level, there are innumerable cows grazing. This is one of the Lord’s blissful enjoyments. When He plays on His flute, all living entities-including trees, plants, animals, …

KRSNA A WITH PEACOCK
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Sukadeva GosvamI said to King Pariksit, “For one who has accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murari, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the w…

Srila Prabhupada Showed Us How to Conquer Death (video)
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Who was Srila Prabhupada? What did he do, why did he come, and where did he go? A session with Bhakti Charu Swami in which he speaks about who Srila Prabhupada is and why he came to this planet, as part of our Spiritual Voyager retreat during the 2020 …

LORD KRSNA SPORTS WITH HIS QUEENS IN THE WATER
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The master of the goddess of fortune resided happily in His capital city, Dvaraka, which was endowed with all opulences and populated by the most eminent Vrsnis and their gorgeously dressed wives. When these beautiful women in the bloom of youth would …

Updates from Iskcon Vrindavan (10 min. video)
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In this week’s updates, we will inform you about the current situation in the temple and the plan for the coming weeks and also introduce you to ‘Your day in Vrindavan’, an excellent seva opportunity for those who are not in Vrindavan but would like se…

DHRTARASTRA INQUIRES FROM SANJAYA
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At the beginning of the Bhagavad-gita, Dhrtarastra says, “O Sañjaya, after my sons and the sons of Pandu assembled in the place of pilgrimage at Kuruksetra, desiring to fight, what did they do?” Dhrtarastra was blind from birth. Unfortunately, he was a…

Attainment of love of Godhead means complete freedom from all other attractions (video)
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We should specially note in this verse the description of gatiṁ bhāgavatīm. To become merged in the rays of the Parabrahman, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as desired by the brahmavādī impersonalist, is not bhāgavatīm perfection.Read More…

KRSNA RESCUES 16,100 PRINCESSES
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>Once a demon named Bhaumasura stole Lord Varuna’s umbrella, mother Aditi’s golden ear rings, and the playground of the demigods, known as Mani-parvata. He also kidnapped 16,100 beautiful young maidens from various royal families all over the world. In…

Harinama in Cologne, Germany (Album of photos)
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Srila Prabhupada: Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 20.12)Read Mo…

Our real business is to go back to Godhead (video)
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When the living entity is encircled by wife, children and home, he acts on the mental plane. Sometimes he is very happy, sometimes he is very much satisfied, sometimes he is not satisfied, and sometimes he is bewildered. Read More…

JAMBAVAN GIVES LORD KRSNA TWO JEWELS
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The sun-god felt great affection for his devotee Satrajit, and as a token of his satisfaction the demigod gave him the Syamantaka jewel. Each day the gem would produce about 170 pounds of gold, and the place where it was kept and properly worshiped wou…

KRSNA MEETS THE GOPIS AT KURUKSETRA
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Hearing that a total eclipse of the sun was soon to occur, people from all over India, including the Yadus and the residents of Vrndavana, converged at Kuruksetra to earn special pious credit. When Krsna and Balarama saw Nanda Maharaja and mother Yasod…

PARTHASARATHI
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Lord Krsna said to Arjuna, “In all activities just depend upon Me and work always under My protection. In such devotional service, be fully conscious of Me. If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditioned life by My g…

Care in Grihastha Ashram (video)
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The Global Devotee Care Directorate is pleased to announce their next live conversation with Partha Das and Uttama Dasi on Devotee care in Grihastha Ashram.Read More…(This post has been viewed 320 times so far)

KRSNA AND BALARAMA SUMMON YAMARAJA
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When Krsna and Balarama offered Their teacher, Sandipani Muni, anything he desired, he asked for the return of his son, who had drowned in the ocean at Prabhasa. The two Lords at once traveled there on Their chariot and ordered the ocean to return Thei…

Where have you been man? I have been looking for you!
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Shastrakrit Das: I was at a supermarket aisle and this nice young man passes by me, I just said hello. He goes “where have you been man? I have been looking for you!“ I thought he had mistaken me for someone else. He goes “no you, you gave me a Bhagava…

KRSNA TEASES RUKMINI
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>Once, in the company of her maidservants, Queen Rukmini was personally serving her husband, Lord Krsna, by fanning Him as He relaxed on her bed. Rukmini’s quarters were extremely beautiful, boasting a canopy hung with brilliant strings of pearls, as w…