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Prabhupada, “You can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined
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Prabhupada, “You can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined.”
Narada Muni: I was selling books from a book cart at the 1971 Ratha-yatra when I asked someone to take my place for a minute so I could run to see Srila Prabhupada on the Ratha-yatra cart before it left.
When I saw him, I felt that Srila Prabhupada looked at me, and everybody probably felt the same thing.

Prabhupada pilgrimage places on America’s eastern and western…
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Prabhupada pilgrimage places on America’s eastern and western coast (Album with photos)
Chaitanya Charan Das: Prabhupada’s quarters at the New Dwarka temple in Los Angeles are the place where Prabhupada spent the maximum time outside India. During my last year’s US visit, seeing the Matchless Gift center on the Lower East Side in New York had been the most poignant Prabhupada pilgrimage for me. This year, seeing Prabhupada’s quarters in the LA temple was a similarly poignant moment. It’s symbolically significant that these two memorable places exist on the two coasts of America – the eastern and the western. They remind us that Srila Prabhupada, during his manifest presence, spread Krishna consciousness so vigorously all over America, starting from its Eastern coast, where it all began at the Matchless Gift storefront, to its Western coast, where the LA center became the model temple for exemplary deity worship.
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Devotees from ISKCON Auckland, NZ, distribute the Holy Name,…
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Devotees from ISKCON Auckland, NZ, distribute the Holy Name, Srila Prabhupada’s books and …serious prasadam! The perfect program!(Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “If one only chants, with some slight faith, the holy names of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, then very quickly he is cleansed of all offences. Thus as soon as he chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, he feels the ecstasy of love for God.” (Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 8.31)
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Diplomats and Academics Show Support for ISKCON at European 50th…
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Diplomats and Academics Show Support for ISKCON at European 50th Anniversary Event.
During Europe’s main official event celebrating ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary and Srila Prabhupada’s achievements, diplomats, academics and religious and human rights advocates showed their support for an increasingly respected Hare Krishna Movement.
The European event follows similarly prestigious 50th anniversary celebrations around the world, including one attended by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron at Bhaktivedanta Manor; a Washington D.C. gala celebration attended by US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard; and a mega event in Kolkata with West Bengal Governor Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi.
Around 200 people attended the European event at the prestigious Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels on Tuesday September 27th.
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The Walking Monk Comes to Whitehorse. Finding peace and making…
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The Walking Monk Comes to Whitehorse.
Finding peace and making friends one step at a time.
Selene Vakharia: I am on the phone with Bhaktimarga Swami, a 63-year-old monk in Toronto. We are talking about the visit to Whitehorse he has planned for late September.
Better known as The Walking Monk, at 63 he has already walked across Canada four times, as well as across the United States, Ireland, Israel, Fiji Islands, Mauritius, Trinidad and Guyana.
He walks as a way to meditate and to slow down. He uses mantras – repetitive phrases with spiritual meaning – when he walks, to instill introspection and mindfulness into his treks.
During his cross-country walks, he often walks eight hours and 33 km a day. One day along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, he walked over 90 km.
“When you’re walking, you take some time,” says Bhaktimarga Swami. “It’s introspective walking, meaning you do some meditation when walking.”
Bhaktimarga Swami believes in the power of walking for health and for community. He sees walking as an act that takes us away from our technological devices and puts us into contact with our neighbours.
He refers to his long walking expeditions as “friend-raising” for their ability to introduce him to new people. The marathon walks are a traditional monastic practice that is about inspiring and being inspired by those who come into your path. Like everything that Bhaktimarga Swami does, the walks are meant to “share the joy of life and that’s what you want to give out.”
“What makes walking so nice,” he says, “is you’re doing something physically while also doing something on the spiritual side.”
Through the relationships built with others and through the physical benefits, Bhaktimarga Swami finds that the walks keep him in prime condition to take care of and serve others.
“Many issues are overcome by walking because you allow the time to process thoughts, plans and dreams. Introspective or mindful trekking is like therapy.”
In 1973, at the age of 21, he joined the monastic lifestyle. Bhaktimarga Swami always had a spiritual inclination. He visited an ashram in Montreal, settled at one in Toronto, and found the whole lifestyle came easily and naturally. The whole practice for him “ignited that spark from previous existence.”
Bhaktimarga Swami is a practitioner of Bhakti Yoga – a spiritual practice focused on the cultivation of love and devotion. Within Bhakti Yoga, everything is done in devotion and in gratitude – everything is done from the heart, says Bhaktimarga Swami. He extends this practice to his walking, to daily life, and even to the work he is currently doing on a friend’s tomato farm.
“Whatever you’re doing,” he says, “when you redirect it, channel it more, whatever you’re doing is an offering to the divine… it changes your mindset. You begin to appreciate your work.”
He dubs this mindset an “attitude of gratitude” and credits it with bringing joy into the everyday, no matter what it brings his way – chores, work, and even walking.
Having had a longstanding desire to visit the North, Bhaktimarga Swami says he is excited to visit and walk in Whitehorse. He is looking forward to meeting the community and sharing his experiences and lessons on meditative walking. While in town, he will be leading workshops and the mantra meditation at the free weekly Sunday kirtan and vegetarian feast at the United Church, on the end of Main Street in downtown Whitehorse.
Source: https://goo.gl/zwHmpY

The ISKCON 50th event in BOZAR – Centre des Beaux-Arts,…
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The ISKCON 50th event in BOZAR – Centre des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. (Album with photos)
Kripamoya Dasa: Ananda sang from her Mahabharata album ‘Inevitable Time’ ( https://youtu.be/dHh-_HZDjng) and the Samadhi Dancers ( http://samadhidancecompany.nl/) gave an audience-wowing performance. The Bhaktivedanta Players took the audience back to 1966, and many academics, politicians and religious leaders spoke highly of ISKCON’s contribution. Jahnavi gave a speech on behalf of the youth and led this kirtan to conclude the evening. Her brother Mali supported on karatals, Manu played mridanga,Surabhi Kunj played bamboo flute, and Sita and Radha Sivyer lent their powerful voices. The audience danced!
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Sacinandana Swami: Srila Prabhupada received the rose each one…
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Sacinandana Swami: Srila Prabhupada received the rose each one of us offered him. He gave another rose back to us, and he lectured.
While he lectured, like so many of my God-brothers, I felt that Srila Prabhupada was speaking just for me and was looking at me. I felt personally addressed by Srila Prabhupada.
It reminded me of how, when Krishna ate lunch surrounded by His cowherd boyfriends, He communicated to each one of the thousands of them.
Prabhupada’s eyes were wandering over his audience, and sometimes he closed his eyes in deep concentration, but somehow he connected to every one of us.
Then, because I felt so personally addressed by Srila Prabhupada, I put a challenging question to him.
Foolish as I was, I wanted to test Prabhupada to see if he was really the perfect spiritual master I could surrender to for my whole life.
Such surrender would have serious consequences as far as money and my position in life were concerned.
Since my mind was not spiritually developed, to see how Prabhupada would react I asked a question which I felt he could not answer.
I said, “If God is all good, why did He create this maya which inflicts suffering upon the living entities?” Prabhupada looked at me and requested Shyamasundar to repeat the question.
Shyamasundar had not heard my question, maybe due to my accent, and I repeated it. Prabhupada again asked for the question to be repeated.
I became insecure, but I again asked, “You say God is all good. It can’t be because He has created maya, which is certainly not all good. So either He is not all good or maya is no longer under His control and makes us suffer against the good intentions of God.”
Prabhupada looked at me intently and then said, “Krishna has not created maya, you have created maya.” I was startled.
Philosophically I couldn’t understand what he was saying—I created the whole material world? I could not even create a house because at that moment I was insolvent.
Later I understood his explanation, but at the time all I understood was that Krishna was not at fault for my situation. I was at fault. I thought,
“What a brilliant answer. I have understood the point. I better surrender to Krishna and Srila Prabhupada,” who seemed to be very close with the Lord.
It was my first memorable encounter with Srila Prabhupada and he had demolished, like a sadhu always does, my concept that I could challenge him.
And besides answering my foolish question, he effected a transformation in my heart.
In London, while all the devotees were taking breakfast prasadam and the temple room was empty, Srila Prabhupada went to the temple alone to take darshan and pray to the Deities. After a long time he returned to his room.
In the morning I washed Sri Sri Radha-London-Isvara’s dishes and at that time I was in turmoil. I thought, “What will be the consequences of my decision to surrender?”
My fiancīe had come to convince me to take up my old ways and my dying grandfather had requested me to come to his deathbed so he could ask me to give up Krishna consciousness.
My family tradition was that you had to agree to the wish of a dying man, but I could not agree to give up the Lord’s grace upon me. So I stayed in the temple but I did not clean the Lord’s plates well.
One morning as I was washing the plates, absorbed on the mental platform, the temple president came into the kitchen.
His face was red and he stammered, “During Prabhupada’s darshan of the Deities, Krishna told Prabhupada that His plates are not nicely cleansed, that the old offering is still on the plates. Prabhupada said that whoever washes the dishes has to do a good job from now on.”
This woke me from my dreaming state. I had to be responsible. I had been pondering deeply important issues but I had not performed my service correctly and Krishna had complained to Srila Prabhupada.
Besides Krishna, only the cook, who put the new offering on the plates, could know that the plates were dirty.
But the cook was too fast—he put the new offering on hurriedly, without looking at the plates.
Then the dirty plate was covered and only the person who ate the offering could know that the plate was dirty.
It was that Person, Lord Krishna, who had detected this and He had told Srila Prabhupada. I was moved.
And I was also happy that there was a direct connection between Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krishna. I became more inspired to surrender my life to Srila Prabhupada.
On a morning walk in Amsterdam we passed many sleeping hippies and Prabhupada commented on them.
Finally we came to a tree with a nest that had a little bird that was just about to fly.
The bird was a little doubtful if he should fly or not, but Prabhupada encouraged him and finally the bird more or less tumbled down but with some idea of how to hold his little wings.
Prabhupada turned to us and said, “How does the bird know how to fly?” “Instinct, Prabhupada,” said someone who wanted to represent the modern scientists.
Prabhupada immediately said, “That is just a name. The Lord as Paramatma is in the heart of the bird directing him to fly.”
Whatever Prabhupada saw, even a little bird making his first attempt to fly, he connected to Krishna. That was especially visible during morning walks.
My father was angry that Prabhupada had stolen his son and at a public program he confronted Srila Prabhupada.
My father said, “It is not responsible to bring the Indian culture into Germany. It’s as irresponsible as taking a crocodile from Egypt to the cold Rhine River. Just as the crocodile cannot survive there, so the people who are with you now will not be able to stay.”
Prabhupada must have understood that this man was the father of one of his disciples and he took up the challenge. He said, “You can become Krishna conscious in a suit and tie.”
My father thought, “This answer is too simple for my intellectual challenge.”
But the pure devotee’s words do not necessarily act on the intellectual or mental platform that the question came from. They have a transformative shakti which works on a much deeper platform.
From Prabhupada’s answer my father understood that Krishna consciousness was more than externals. It was not a matter of Indian culture—one didn’t have to dress according to the Indian culture.
The Germans are used to tough discussions and in the end my father thought, “What a pleasant encounter. My son is in good hands. This spiritual leader is a sensible personality.”
I was very grateful to Srila Prabhupada for solving a difficult family issue.
Our temple leader had made a big poster with Prabhupada’s picture and in big letters “DER FŪHRER,” in small letters “of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness” and in big letters “KOMMT.”
Anyone would read “DER FŪHRER KOMMT,” the fūhrer comes, reminding them of someone totally lacking divine qualities.
People drew little moustaches on the posters under Srila Prabhupada’s nose. It was an example of how Prabhupada’s disciples did not always serve his preaching mission well.
Srila Prabhupada had a few hostile elements in the audience, probably in part due to the unintelligent advertising.
One particularly disturbed man said, “The chanting is mass self-hypnosis,” maybe remembering Hitler’s influential and passionate speeches.
Prabhupada kindly said, “It is not self-hypnosis, it is self-purification.”
Prabhupada was so expert that with a few words he could alter the consciousness of those who heard him.
—Sacinandana Swami
Excerpt from “Memories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint”
by Siddhanta das

Iskcon 50: Message from the EO (Executive officer –…
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Iskcon 50: Message from the EO (Executive officer – appointed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh) of the TTD = Tirumala Tirupati Devastaanams – the managing authority for the Tirupati “Balaji” (Srila Prabhupada told us – I visited Tirumala with him during April 1974 – for a brief 3 day visit – that “Balaji” means “Baal Krishna”, that is Lord Krishna’s childhood [baal] form.) temple – India’s most visited and wealthiest Hindu temple, congratulating ISKCON on ISKCON’s 50th anniversary.
Tirupati is located 150 kilometers North of Chennai (Madras) in Andhra Pradesh, South India. It can be reached by flight (only via Hyderabad or Vijayawada – there was – not sure if there still is a hopping flight from New Delhi via Hyderabad), or by rail or road

Shastra Dana report for Sweden; August – September 2016. Mukunda…
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Shastra Dana report for Sweden; August – September 2016.
Mukunda dasa: We distributed:
150 “Beyond Birth and Death”
60 “Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers”
8 Bhagavad-gitas
5 Krishna books
3 Srimad Bhagavatams
Panca-Tattva’s Shastra Dana program has now existed for seven years.
From August 2009 to September 2016 we have distributed approximately 17,000 books.
Srila Prabhupada wrote to Cyavana das on the 26th of December 1971: ”Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity. Without books, our preaching has no solid basis”
Special thank to the following devotees: Ella & Sune Hellstrom, Magnus Hedstrom, Sten Bergil, Gilbert Rylander, Tomas Nilsson, Bh Jimi, Raman, Mikael Forian, Mikael Johansson, Robert Akerman, Cathryn Claesson, Astasiddhi dd, Smita Krishna Swami, Aja das & Pancavati dd, Yogindra das, Bahulasva das, Sri Jayadeva das, Dharani dd.

A wonderful service towards introducing Srila Prabhupada into…
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A wonderful service towards introducing Srila Prabhupada into schools (3 min video)
On the occasion of the appearance day of Srila Prabhupada and also celebrating 50 years of ISKCON’s Golden jubilee the youth initiative of ISKCON Pune GYST (Gita Youth Society for Transformation) distributed fruit sweets in 15 government schools of Pune.
Total 20,000 students got the sweets. Each student was given a card along with the sweets which contained the brief introduction of Srila Prabhupada and short summary of his teachings. Each school also received a picture frame of Srila Prabhupada which was hung in the school office. More than 30 volunteers were involved in making this activity possible. Our special thanks to HG Radheshyamprabhu the temple president of ISKCON Pune who inspired us.
The children and school teachers were extremely happy on receiving Prabhupad’s message with sweets and cards. The whole effort of was led by HG AnandMurariPrabhu a brahmachari monk and Bhakta Manjunath a brahmachari monk boosting the team to Glorify Srila Prabhupad also promoting Kids Janmastami in more than 20 schools and also in Rehabilitationaddiction centres across pune city. ISKCON Pune seeks blessings of all Vaishnavas to be able to continue such activities and please Srila Prabhupada more and more in coming future.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/nJWqg1

Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Bhakti Charu Swami: “Time and time…
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Bhakti Charu Swami: “Time and time again I am coming back to this point because it has become quite a common practice in India to present somebody as God or present oneself as God. We can see that those people didn’t even read Bhagavad-gita, and even if they did read, they didn’t understand Bhagavad-gita. The extent of their understanding of Bhagavad-gita is karmany evadhikaras te ma phalesu kadacana. [Bg 2.47] “You work like a donkey and don’t worry about the results. Give the results to me”, that is their interpretation. Political people make this slogan: You work, don’t worry about the results. But they don’t understand who the result is meant for; the result is meant for Krishna. Krishna is saying to try your best to serve Him, accept everything for His sake and offer everything to Him as your service and don’t expect anything, because He will reward you in the most wonderful way. In this way we can see that although the Bhagavad-gita is there, so wonderfully presented by Krishna, unfortunately most of the Hindus are not taking advantage of it. There are plenty of translations of the Bhagavad-gita, plenty of Bhagavad-gitas in the market, but not a single devotee is generated from those books. I remember in ’76, I was a new devotee at that time, we took statistics of English Bhagavad-gitas in the market and we found more than 250 Bhagavad-gitas. There were more than 250 Bhagavad-gita translations in English. All those Bhagavad-gitas put together did not make a single devotee, whereas Prabhupada’s one “Bhagavad-gita As It Is” is making millions of devotees all over the world. And who knows how many devotees this book will make? As time is passing, more and more people are becoming devotees. So that is the potency of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is. What is the meaning of “As It Is?” Prabhupada explained it: the way Krishna spoke and the way Arjuna understood it. That is the meaning of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.”

What is actual independence? Niranjana Swami: Everybody really…
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What is actual independence?
Niranjana Swami: Everybody really likes to be independent. It’s one of the characteristics of being in the material world is that we like our independence. We don’t want anybody telling us what to do. We don’t want to become completely dependent upon anybody, because to become completely dependent upon somebody in the material world is a sign of misfortune. As soon as you become completely dependent upon somebody then you are obliged, you have to do so many things – things that you don’t want to do, but you feel like you have to do because, “I am dependent on that person.”
And then we always try to make some kind of separate arrangements so that we can gradually release ourselves from the clutches of that dependence. But when we try to release ourselves from the clutches of that dependence, than we have to become dependent on somebody else. But we don’t realize it. Or we may think, “At least this is a better type of dependence. It was better than the previous one.”
And actually that is what Srila Bhaktisiddhanta talks about here in this quote. He is describing what is actual independence. The quote begins with the statement,
“To try to become God is non-devotional. The desire to become independent in this world means to become the servant of others. Material independence is simply a covered form of dependence. Complete independence is obtained by becoming dependent on the Lord, who is full of eternality, knowledge and bliss, and desiring only to serve Him. As long as the living entities hold the rope of the Lord’s mercy they are known as His servants. Those who think themselves self-dependent, or independent, should know that they are actually dependent on others. Only those who depend on the Supreme Lord are truly independent. When we attain actual independence than the conception that we are eternally dependent on Sri Hari becomes prominent. Any object that is a complete whole is transcendental.”
This is an important point to explain.
“Service to, or dependence on that transcendental, absolute truth Sri Hari is actual joyful independence. Otherwise, the show of independence, while identifying oneself as the doer or master, brings only distress. It is nothing but subordination under maya.”

The bond of friendship. Kadamba Kanana Swami: I think that the…
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The bond of friendship.
Kadamba Kanana Swami: I think that the only thing that can really bond us together is friendship. Just common acceptance of Krsna as the Supreme Lord will bring us together from time to time – we will come together at the temple and festivals – but friendship will take us so much further. Because it is in friendship, in real friendship that we are going to stimulate each other so much more than by just being colleagues!
I have often given this example of how we can be together like colleagues. We are all devotees of Krsna and we are all colleagues. We are all devotees in the same temple and we are all colleagues. We are all chanting Hare Krsna and we are all colleagues. We are all dancing in the kirtan party as colleagues. But when there is no friendship, it is not enough.
If there is friendship, then friendship is different. Friendship is like a family spirit. When your colleague is not performing well and it disturbs your work, you can say, “Get it together! You know, they’ll throw you out of here one of these days if you don’t get it together.”
That is what you say to a colleague but to a family member, you say, “When in the world are you ever going to get it together? But we can’t throw you out because you’re part of the family.”
That is different. That is friendship and in that friendship there is trust. We know we are going to be accepted. We do not have to have a masquerade where everyone acts out to be a pure devotee in a Hare Krsna community. We can just be more honest. If there is friendship, we can just be who we are and still be accepted. In that way, we can get some real human support which is what we need!

Donor Appreciation Day 2016 (Album with photos) Govardhana…
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Donor Appreciation Day 2016 (Album with photos)
Govardhana Farms & Iskcon Govinda’s Herd: This past Saturday we organized a donor appreciation day for our special donors. It was a day especially for them to have fun with the cows and bulls. We arranged many different activities from feeding the cows and bulls treats, to lunch prasadam in the barn of course, a go-puja and kirtan. It was lots of fun. We really wanted to show our appreciation to our donors who support us and, in fact, keep our project “alive”. We wouldn’t be able to do what we are doing without them. We look forward to our next donor appreciation day sometime in 2017.
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Harinama in Gorky Central Park (Moscow, Russia) (Album with…
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Harinama in Gorky Central Park (Moscow, Russia) (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the Age of Kali, there is no religious principle except chanting Krishna’s name. It has been ascertained from all the scriptures that Krishna’s holy name is the essence of all mantras. (Renunciation Through Wisdom, 5.1 Purport)
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Bhagavad-gita’s commentary about contemporary issues
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Bhagavad-gita’s commentary about contemporary issues
Urmila Devi Dasi: So, yeah, I’m a US citizen, so, yeah, I watched some highlights of the presidential debate and read/watched some commentary. Here’s Krishna’s commentary, from Bhagavad-gita:
Bg 16.4; 7-18 – “Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature. Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them. They say that this world is unreal, with no foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust. Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world. Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent. They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification. The demoniac person thinks: “So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him, and my other enemies will also be killed. I am the lord of everything. I am the enjoyer. I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice.” In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance. Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound by a network of illusions, they become too strongly attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell. Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes proudly perform sacrifices in name only, without following any rules or regulations. Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and blaspheme against the real religion.“

Yama Niyama das Brahmacari weights on the presidential elections…
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Yama Niyama das Brahmacari weights on the presidential elections (1 min video)
One of the deepest anarthas (dirty things in the heart) is to think that we can make this material world a better place by rearranging matter, whether by voting for a certain politician, political activism (as opposed to spiritual activism), arranging committees, commission, and councils, or taking some kind of self-help seminar. This is a clip from Yama Niyama das brahmacari (Ekendra das’s character) in a comedy bit performed at the Festival of Inspiration 2016.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/aEXoTL

George Harrison on Chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra (1 min…
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George Harrison on Chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra (1 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: It is the special mercy of the Supreme Lord that as soon as He knows that one is glorifying His name, fame and attributes, He personally helps cleanse the dirt from one’s heart. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.2.12 Purport).
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Preaching program for children in Kiev, Ukraine (Album with…
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Preaching program for children in Kiev, Ukraine (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Sri Krishna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramatma (Supersoul) in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.2.17).
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Amazing Mexico City Harinam, Mexico (Album with photos) Mexico…
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Amazing Mexico City Harinam, Mexico (Album with photos)
Mexico City is for sure one of the best places for Harinam Sankirtan in the world. Culturally the people are very open minded and they readily join in chanting and dancing and easily take books without any inhibitions. Even death personified is ready to join in Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sankirtan mission.
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Old maps depicting Mayapur discovered (Album with…
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Old maps depicting Mayapur discovered (Album with photos)
Bhaktivedanta Research Centre: These maps were found within Sundaranand Vidyabinode collection. These images show a government map of Burdwan and Nadia districts from 1917-18, the year that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura took sannyasa and began his preaching through the Gaudiya Matha.
Present day Mayapur in those days was called “Miapur bil” and was simply rice paddies.
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