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Make Krishna Your Valentine (video)
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“Those friends who show affection but are self-absorbed at heart are not friends in the truest sense. They simply play a part in mutual self-interest. They would never show their love unless there was some profit they could take advantage of. Oh slend…

Sri Advaita Acarya-Calling for the Lord (video)
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By the momentum of Advaita Acarya’s spiritual fervor, his loud cries pierced the coverings of the material universe and reached the ears of Sri Krishna in Goloka leading to the advent of Sri Krishna Caitanya, the Golden Avataar.Read More…(This post h…

TOVP Exterior Work in Progress and Night Lighting (4 min. video)
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We are showing you a small video clip of the embellishments some areas have been completed at the moment and also been worked on as well.
You will see the Nrisimhadev wing and Chatris. Some of the Chatris have been completed with balustrades and a …

Who is crazy? (video)
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One of the first pieces of Krishna conscious literature widely distributed in the western world, “Who Is Crazy?” inspired many people to investigate the spiritual dimension of their lives.Read More…(This post has been viewed 447 times so far)

[Interview] with H.G. Nrsimhananda Prabhu: Books are the Basis (video)
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“By reading daily the knowledge will be revealed to you and by this process your spiritual life will develop”
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Bahurupa – Bombay, 22 November 1974Read More…(This post has been viewed 334 times so far)

[Interview] with H.G. Nrsimhananda Prabhu: Books are the Basis (video)
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“By reading daily the knowledge will be revealed to you and by this process your spiritual life will develop”
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Bahurupa – Bombay, 22 November 1974Read More…(This post has been viewed 334 times so far)

Vrindavan Parikrama (15 min. video)
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For hundreds of years, pilgrims have been doing Vrindavan Parikrama, especially on Ekadashi. Come along on this wonderful Parikrama around the town of Vrindavan with HG Deena Bandhu Das!Read More…(This post has been viewed 325 times so far)

Gratitude
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HH Radhanath Swami: When I was a little boy, my mother taught me a lesson. She always emphasized, more than anything else, the quality of gratitude. She told me, “If you are not grateful for whatever you have, you receive, you can never be happ…

Interview: Books are the Basis (video)
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“Your guru is writing books. If you think, ‘There is no necessity of reading books,’ that is guror avajna”! Srila Prabhupada Lecture on Bhagavad Gita 17.1-3 – Honolulu, 4 July 1974Read More…(This post has been viewed 334 times so far)

The Night Train to Nowhere (a gurukula film)
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A gurukula boy convinces his best friend to run away from school with him to meet his estranged father in the jungles of North India. But the adventure turns out to be much more than they bargained for when their train ride comes to an unexpected end a…

The Night Train to Nowhere (a gurukula film)
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A gurukula boy convinces his best friend to run away from school with him to meet his estranged father in the jungles of North India. But the adventure turns out to be much more than they bargained for when their train ride comes to an unexpected end a…

[Interview] H.G. Revati Raman Prabhu: Books are the Basis (video)
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“Actually these books are the foundation stone of our movement. Whatever we are is resting on these books, so far reading them and distributing them. This should be our only motto”
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Hrdayananda — Bombay, 31 October 1974Read …

Why they love Mayapur? (7 min. video)
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Sri Dham Mayapur is home to an international community. Some people come for a short time, some stay for decades. We asked Mayapur residents: “What is your reason nr.1, why you love to be in Mayapur?”Read More…(This post has been viewed 336 times so …

Inclusivity
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One of the greatest teachers of the past that continues to inform the teachings and spiritual practices of ISKCON today, Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur, envisioned inclusivity not alienation based on bodily identification.Read More…(This post has been vie…

The amazing energies of the Lord and their expansions (video)
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In the material world, the living entity must accept different types of bodies. But the living entities who are promoted to the spiritual world do not return to the prison-house of a material body.Read More…(This post has been viewed 467 times so fa…

The tortoise incarnation (video)
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The primeval Lord then assumed the tortoise incarnation in order to serve as a resting place [pivot] for the Mandara Mountain, which was acting as a churning rod. The demigods and demons were churning the Ocean of Milk with the Mandara Mountain in orde…

End of life care and bhakti wisdom (video)
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HH Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton, the only son of a respected Chicago lawyer who was later appointed judge. In March of 1969, while studying at Brandeis University in Boston, he met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, th…

Govardhan – Dan Nivartan Kund (12 min. video)
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Just after our Bhaktivedanta Ashram at Govardhan is the enchanting Dan Nivartan Kunda where the gopis got even with Krishna for taxing them. Relish this humorous pastime narrated on location by HG Deena Bandhu das.Read More…(This post has been viewed…