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Vaishnava Summer Festival “Baltic 2018”! We are…
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Vaishnava Summer Festival “Baltic 2018”!
We are pleased to announce the dates of the Vaishnava Summer Festival “Baltic 2018”!
The Festival will take place in Dubingiai, Lithuania on July 24 – 30, 2018.
Make a celebration for your soul – join this amazing, full of fun and awesome Festival!
Baltic Summer Vaishnava Festival and Kirtan Mela 2018 invites all to get to know the Vaishnava culture, the ancient Vedic tradition. Lectures by disciples of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, lectures for beginners, vegetarian food, enchanting kirtans (musical meditation), devotee association, colorful environment, beautiful nature, morning meditations (from 4.30 am!) and many other spiritual entertainments!

We invite to participate both advanced bhakti yogis and the curious ones who want to explore this amazing culture!!
For more information: https://goo.gl/ZR9fTj
Photos from Vaishnava Summer Festival “Baltic 2017”: https://goo.gl/j6ro91

Scenes from the inauguration of the 25th anniversary of New…
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Scenes from the inauguration of the 25th anniversary of New Vraja Dham, Krsna-völgy, Hungary (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Spiritual enlightenment is possible by the mercy of the spiritual energy of the Lord. The chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is first addressed to the spiritual energy of the Lord, Hare. This spiritual energy acts when a living entity fully surrenders and accepts his position as an eternal servitor. (Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.9.6 Purport)
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29th annual Festival of India in Poland: Up And Running!
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Up And Running! (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Our 29th annual Festival of India is in full swing here on the beaches of the warm Baltic Sea coast in Poland. 250 devotees from numerous countries around the world have assembled for 2 months of harinam and festivals introducing people to our Krsna conscious movement. If the weeks and months ahead are anything like the first few days of our programs, we’re in for some real nectar.

Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Cordially Invites Locals to Ratha Yatra Festival
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Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Cordially Invites Locals to Ratha Yatra Festival (video)
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg with an official invitation to our inaugural “Festival of Chariot” at Woodlawn Lake this Saturday from 4pm to 9pm! Don’t miss the free food and fun for the entire family at no cost! Thank you Mr.Nirenberg and the city of San Antonio for your support!

Rathayatra Pastimes by Lokanath Swami
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Rathayatra Pastimes by Lokanath Swami.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu spent His later years in Jagannatha Puri, Orissa, immersed in love of Godhead and absorbed in wonderful pastimes with His intimate associates and with the Deity of Krsna in Puri, known as Jagannatha, “the Lord of the universe.” This was nearly five hundred years ago.

Tamal Krishna Goswami: If they are loyal to me, I’ll be loyal to them
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Tamal Krishna Goswami: If they are loyal to me, I’ll be loyal to them
Giriraj Swami: On Saturday, Hridayananda das Goswami, Rtadhvaja Swami, and many other devotees gathered at our ashram in Carpinteria to celebrate Sripada Tamal Krishna Goswami’s Vyasa-puja. Rtadhvaja Swami quoted a statement that Tamal Krishna Goswami had made about his disciples: “I don’t mind where they are at or what they have done; if they are loyal to me, I’ll be loyal to them—to the end.”

42GB of a complete library of kirtans ready for free downloading
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42GB of a complete library of kirtans ready for free downloading.
Nimai Sundar: I am finally able to share all my recordings of Aindra Prabhu’s Live Kirtans. They are mostly arranged by YYYY.MM.DD, have Album Artwork and metadata that matches.
I have been collecting Aindra’s Kirtans for many years now and it’s been a pain having duplicates, different naming formats and different album names.
So I downloaded all the recordings from 24hourkirtan.com, VIHE.org and Gauravani.com. Then added them to the recordings sourced from Aindra Himself. I then sorted them according to the year as much as possible.

Sunday Love Feast & Panihatti Cidadahi Festival on 01/07/18…
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Sunday Love Feast & Panihatti Cidadahi Festival on 01/07/18 at Sri Jagannatha Mandir, ISKCON Malaysia (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In this age, no one is expected to be highly educated in the Vedic ways of understanding because people are very slow, lazy and unfortunate. Therefore Lord Caitanya has recommended the sound vibration Hare Krishna. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.4.6 Purport)
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Harinama, book and prasadam distribution in Mertasari Beach,…
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Harinama, book and prasadam distribution in Mertasari Beach, Bali, 1.7.2018 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Aryan” refers to those who are civilized, whose manners are regulated according to the Vedic rituals. Any devotee who is chanting the holy name of the Lord is the best kind of Aryan. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 3.33.7 Purport)
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Rathayatra in Vilnius, Lithuania (Album with photos) Bhakti…
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Rathayatra in Vilnius, Lithuania (Album with photos)
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: Yesterday we had an amazing Rathayatra in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. The atmosphere was wonderful, and the thousands of people around were generally very pleased and impressed. I’m sure Srila Prabhupada was extremely happy with it.
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ONE DAY PADAYATRA IN GUJARAT (Album of photos)
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ONE DAY PADAYATRA IN GUJARAT (Album of photos)
Murali Mohan Dasa: During the auspicious month of Purushottama, on Sunday June 10th -ekadasi day- devotees from Ahmedabad conducted a padayatra from Ujala Circle near Sarkhej to Khodivar Matta temple. We started early morning at 6.00 am and walked till noon so that padayatris’ would be saved from the scorching heat.

Shastrakrit Das: It was a hot and quiet evening and we were just…
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Shastrakrit Das: It was a hot and quiet evening and we were just sitting there praying for some mercy. Out of nowhere, this really pious lady approaches the book table with her family. She points to Srimad Bhagavatam first canto and Krishna book asking, ‘how much?’
I said, “for Krishna book, you can give some donation, but the Bhagavatam is $200.”
She was surprised, ‘why this one book Bhagavatam costs so much?’
I told her, ‘Because it’s not just one book it’s an 18 volume set.’
She insisted that she just wants that one book that’s on display. I explained to her how Bhagavatam is non-different from Krishna so we cannot break the Bhagavatam set just like we don’t want to break the deity, and whoever keeps a full set of Bhagavatam in their home even the demigods worship that home. She goes, “ok ok ok I surrender. Put all the books in my car.“