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Preaching program at “Courage Bazaar” Kiev, Ukraine…
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Preaching program at “Courage Bazaar” Kiev, Ukraine (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: We should not forget the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra under any circumstances. It will help us in the greatest danger, as we find in the life of Gajendra. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 8.3.1 Purport)
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Siddhanta Prabhu’s Story
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Siddhanta Prabhu’s Story
Siddhanta dasa: My first contact with the Hare Krishna movement came in the summer of 1969 when I saw its members chanting on the streets of Hollywood. My initial reaction to the shaven heads, saffron-colored robes, and …

The Time of The Sages Documentary-Trailer (5 min video)The…
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The Time of The Sages Documentary-Trailer (5 min video)
The Oxford Center for Hindu Studies is host to the Bhagavata Purana Research Project. As key step in this project, we have organized an international conference in Chennai, in early 2017, with so…

Croatia Harinama Tour (Album with photos) By congregationally…
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Croatia Harinama Tour (Album with photos)
By congregationally chanting the holy names you achieve everything, including the goal of life and the process for attaining it. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada: …Love of Krishna is the sadhya, and congregational chanting the names of Krishna is the sadhana. Any questions that may arise in this regard can be resolved only by chanting the names of Krishna.
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Srila Prabhupada’s book distribution (Album with…
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Srila Prabhupada’s book distribution (Album with photos)
At the Sadhu Sanga Kirtan Retreat we had a very successful BBT promo. Many devotees got their BBT pen and special bookmarks.
In addition we also distributed 76 sets of Sri Brhad Bhagavatamrta: 20 sets of Sri Chaitanya Caritamrta: 15 sets of Srimad Bhagavatam and 36 copies of Our Family Business
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Pure gold! (1 min video) On this auspicious day of Pandava…
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Pure gold! (1 min video)
On this auspicious day of Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi, one Chakra for the small domes and all of the remaining pieces for the 2 small Kalashes have fully arrived.
You can see in this video how they will look and their size for the small domes.
The Chakras are made of solid stainless steel coated with pure gold. This gold will remain for many years and the chakras won’t need to be recoated for the next 100 years!
This Chakra will be placed very shortly on the domes, once the Kalash will be completed then the Chakra will be installed while we have the cranes.
It will be fully installed by HG Jananivas and HG Pangajangri Prabhus.
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Sanskrit for Scriptural Study (video)ISKCON of New Jersey…
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Sanskrit for Scriptural Study (video)ISKCON of New Jersey hosted His Grace Radhika Ramana Dasa for a wonderful seminar
on Sanskrit for Scriptural Study. Please hear and share.
This seminar will give students an appreciation for the beauty and utilit…

News story and audio interview about devotee musician from New…
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News story and audio interview about devotee musician from New Zealand.
Despite the high acclaim Denver received for his work as Micronism, Mechanism, and the music he released under his own name, he stopped producing a year later, pursuing a newfound interest in the Hare Krishna faith. Since then he’s spent time as a Krishna Devotee in Ashrams in NZ, Peru, and is now based in Brisbane with his wife and son.
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Harinama in Barnaul, Russia, 03.06.17 (Album with photos)…
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Harinama in Barnaul, Russia, 03.06.17 (Album with photos)
“When a person really devotes himself to Krsna consciousness and begins to derive pleasure in repeating the name of his beloved Lord, this repetition captures him entirely. Sometimes he sings the holy names very loudly and dances like a madman. However, he does not care that someone can take him for a madman. He does not care about the opinions of others. This is the perfect level of repetition of the holy name ”
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Bhaktivedanta Clinic (1 min video) “Inauguration…
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Bhaktivedanta Clinic (1 min video)
“Inauguration clip”
Registered as Bhaktivedanta Hospital & Research Institute, it is a non-profit, non-Governmental, non-sectarian organization. This will be the first of its kind in Nepal, serving with a Spiritual theme.
The Medical team at BVH are energetic, empathic and spiritually minded with a total of 20 members including Doctors/Consultants/ Physiotherapist & Paramedics.
BVH is serving with OPD/ Physiotherapy/ Ayurveda/ Naturopathy/ Spiritual Counselling/ Psychiatry Clinic/ Meditation – Yoga/ Home Care Services/ Tele – Medicine/ Pharmacy services.
BVH sub-unit – *Red Trident* is serving by organizing Health camps/ Awareness Programs in Peri-urban & Rural areas of Nepal.
The auspicious Inauguration ceremony was on 2nd April 2017, 10:00 AM.
*We humbly request you to bless us for this project in Nepal.*
Your dear most servants at
Bhaktivedanta Hospital team, Nepal
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ISKCON – Panihati Chip Rice Festival (Album with photos) Srila…
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ISKCON – Panihati Chip Rice Festival (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Haraye namah krsna yadavaya namah, gopala govinda rama sri-mudhusudana. This is another way of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. The meaning is as follows: “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. He is the descendant of the Yadu family. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Gopala, Govinda, Rama and Sri Madhusudana.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 25.64 Purport)
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Nirjala Ekadasi 2017 Invitation (3 min video)ISKCON Nepal…
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Nirjala Ekadasi 2017 Invitation (3 min video)
ISKCON Nepal invites everyone for observing Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi (Total Fast, even from water, if you have broken Ekadasi) on 5th June 2017, Monday.
This video is a production of Hare Krishna Bhaktilok…

ISKCON Birmingham: Book distribution and Harinama – Saturday 3rd…
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ISKCON Birmingham: Book distribution and Harinama – Saturday 3rd June 2017 – Birmingham City Centre (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: A pure devotee always thinks himself as not-devotee. If one thinks that he is big devotee that is not good, thinking that he is first degree. We should not be puffed up. A devotee avoids it, remaining always in the second degree. Krishna has given everyone something extraordinary, and to serve Krishna with one’s extraordinary talent means successful life. Letter to Sukadeva, March 17, 1973.
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ISKCON Birmingham: Saturday 3rd June 2017 – Birmingham City…
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ISKCON Birmingham: Saturday 3rd June 2017 – Birmingham City Centre (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: A pure devotee always thinks himself as not-devotee. If one thinks that he is big devotee that is not good, thinking that he is first degree. We should not be puffed up. A devotee avoids it, remaining always in the second degree. Krishna has given everyone something extraordinary, and to serve Krishna with one’s extraordinary talent means successful life. Letter to Sukadeva, March 17, 1973.
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Death: An inconvenient truth?
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Death: An inconvenient truth?
Life is like a game of chess – whether you’re the king, queen or pawn, at the end of the game everyone ends up in the box. Unless, of course, you get cremated. Morbid? Depressing? Dark? Though discussions on d…

Sincerity Yours to Keep!
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Sincerity Yours to Keep!
Vaisesika Das: We come into the material world naked and we will leave it naked. As living entities, we don’t own anything, nor can we keep anything. However, there is one item that is uniquely ours: our sincerity. Since…

Walking Monk travels Highway 30. A Hare Krishna monk known as…
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Walking Monk travels Highway 30.
A Hare Krishna monk known as the Walking Monk, Bhaktimarga Swami has been crossing Nebraska by walking Highway 30 and Thursday arrived in Sidney.
Swami hopes to encourage people towards “an enhanced walking culture.”
“That means, basically, getting out of the house or the office and doing what our bodies are designed for,” he said. “It means greeting the elements and working your machinery, and also going for some reflective downtime, taking some time to process the things that are going on in your life.”
People, Swami said, need to “exhale a little bit.”

“There’s a lot of inhalation, but little exhalation,” he said. “Walking allows that to happen.”

Swami has done many pilgrimages. A native of Ontario, he has crossed Canada from coast to coast four times. He has also walked Ireland and Israel, Guyana, Trinidad, and the Fiji Islands.

Last year, Swami started in New York and has been making the walk to San Francisco. He resumed his travel in Seward, heading toward Wyoming in 20 miles segments.

Highway 30, Swami said, offers both a linear route and a sense of history, as it’s the first highway built across the country.

“It’s also the trail for a lot of migrants who were going for the gold rush,” he said, “and I believe the Mormons had also come from the east and gone to the west to settle where they are in Utah.”

The undertaking of a pilgrimage is an ancient practice, valued by many traditions and peoples.

“It doesn’t matter what strain you come from,” Swami said, “whether it’s a European one or an Eastern one, or a Native one, there seems to be a portion of people’s lives where they would actually go, on an individual basis or as a group, for personal healing, go for a downsized kind of vacation, and go to a destination that means something to the individuals.”

Swami has gained much from his pilgrimages.

“It doesn’t cease to amaze me when I’m walking these vast tracks of land,” he said. “It’s awe inspiring and it’s a very humbling experience. It’s like stepping into infinity, endless fields and beautiful rolling hills and the sky is definitely to no limit. That’s your constitutional position, as our Guru used to put it, to feel small but to do big. It’s taking a humble position and being ready to serve.”

He added, “Walking puts you into that service frame of mind.”

Traveling Nebraska, Swami’s interactions with others have been rarely hostile, sometimes curious and mostly kind.

“A lot of people offer that gesture of a wave. An officer pulled over yesterday. Before he even asked me a question he went to his trunk and gave me two bottles of water,” he said. “That type of kindness is there.”

The New Religion: Shopping! (7 min video)
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The New Religion: Shopping! (7 min video)
Mahatma Das: So we thought that the religion for this age was Harinama, wrong! The religion is …“Shopping!” 🙂
Our leaders do not see us anymore as citizens but as “consumers”. …

Painting Deities with Srila PrabhupadaYamuna Devi: “One…
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Painting Deities with Srila Prabhupada
Yamuna Devi: “One day Srila Prabhupada asked me to paint a set of Radha-Krishna Deities that he was sending to Hamburg to have installed. When I informed him I was not an artist and didn’t feel I could do it, he said that he would show me what to do. So he told me to find a special black, white and red paint, and that evening we sat Them on his small desk and Srila Prabhupada personally painted the Deities and instructed me at the same time. I sat in front of him, and as time seemed to disappear, the lovely forms of the Lords slowly became manifest through the painting. After we were finished, I immediately went to my room and wrote what he had explained. He said that the painting of Radha and Krishna Deities is called Anga-Raga. Anga means ‘body’ and Raga means ‘painting of.’ So Radharani holds her fingers in a mudra. Mudras can also be used by the Spiritual Master when he is preaching, and different mudras have special meanings. And Srila Prabhupada held up his fingers just as Srimati Radharani’s were—with forefinger and thumb together. Srila Prabhupada often used that ‘mudra’ when he made a specific point.”

Harinama on a stormy winter’s night in Auckland, New…
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Harinama on a stormy winter’s night in Auckland, New Zealand (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: One is understood to be an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead if he considers himself a servant of the holy name and in this spirit distributes the holy name to the world. (Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 8.16 Purport)
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Mark becomes Vishnujana…
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Guru das: Sunlight burst into the temple and a tall youth with beautiful symmetrical features and a long face framing sensitive eyes came into the temple room. He carried a 12~string guitar and was wearing a one~piece homemade wrap~around skirt. Two …

Glastonbury Rathayatra, UK – 28th May 2017 (Album with photos)…
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Glastonbury Rathayatra, UK – 28th May 2017 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The names of the Lord and the Lord are non-different. So Lord Krishna’s instructions to Arjuna to “remember Me” and Lord Caitanya’s injunction to “always chant the names of Lord Krishna” are the same instruction. (Bhagavad-gita, Introduction)
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The recordings of the “Holy Name Festival 2017…
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The recordings of the “Holy Name Festival 2017 Videos”
Srila Prabhupada: When that name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind, and therefore all the senses become inert. (Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 4.71 purport, Vidagdha-Madhava 1.12)
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Krishna Wisdom: Making a Difference in the World (2 min…
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Krishna Wisdom: Making a Difference in the World (2 min video)
Balaram Nityananda: Honoured to be working with our Temple President at Bhaktivedanta Manor Srutidharma Prabhu as he encourages devotees to help fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s desire by taking part in outreach activities aimed at local people completely new to Bhakti, through www.krishnawisdom.com
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The Telangana, South India Padayatra On The Road Again. Vishnu…
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The Telangana, South India Padayatra On The Road Again.
Vishnu Swamy Dasa: The state of Telangana is located in south India. It is the twelfth largest state in India with an area of 112,077 square kilometres (43,273 square miles) and a population of 35,193,978. Its major cities include Hyderabad, Warangal, Khammam, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Nalgonda. The first Telangana padayatra started on December 6th 2012 and was completed on November 1st 2015. The padayatra travelled approximately 4500 kilometres to all 10 districts in Telangana and visited 500 villages and towns there. Our small team of devotees decided to do another padayatra in Telangana. We set off on January 22nd 2017 and have covered 500 kilometres and visited 60 villages thus far.

Our daily routine on padayatra starts with mangal arati at 5 am, Guru-puja and Bhagavatam class from 7 am and prasadam at 9:30 am. We generally travel from one village to the next after mangal arati or in the evenings according to the weather conditions. We usually have supper prasadam at 5 pm and then sankirtana with our Gaura Nitai chariot from 6 to 9 pm. When people give us donations we give them a book in return. Many people also give us donations of rice and flowers and other things.

We originally started with four padayatris: another devotee named Vishnu Swamy Das, Srinivasa Sevananda Dasa, Ramanuja Dasa and myself. Ramanuja Dasa had to leave after a month so there are just the three of us of now. We travelled to the area of Narsampeta in the Warangal district from April 7th to April 13th. While there we stayed at the ‘Narsampeta Orphanage’.

Krishna Arjuna Temple – The Glory of Kurukshetra (Album with…
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Krishna Arjuna Temple – The Glory of Kurukshetra (Album with photos)
ISKCON Vedic Cultural Centre Update – 30th May 2017. Have a look at Srila Prabhupada’s Dream Project!
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