Author Archives: Dandavats

A breakthrough for Krishna Conciousness to be spread in Miami!
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The North American Governing Body Commission’s Executive Council gives their full support for your current initiative to start a new ISKCON center in MiamiRead More…(This post has been viewed 303 times so far)

Do we relish the plans of Krsna?
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Rishabh Verma: The Bhakti tradition is quite different to other traditions of the world. While most other traditions long after peace and happiness, the Bhakti tradition strives after the satisfaction of our eternal master, Lord Krsna.Read More…

First Russian ISKCON Farm Conference
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By Bhaktin Anna27th September to 3rd of October the Conference was carried out in West Siberia, near the city with an almost Vedic name – Omsk. This city has a temple of Sri Sri Radha Govinda – the only temple in Russia with Radha Govinda Deities. The…

How Krishna protects you if you chant your rounds
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If you are not chanting 16 rounds, however…” and He stopped for a moment and opened His lotus eyes very wide, moving His hand back and forth in front of His face, and He continued… “then your whereabouts are unknown!”Read More…

ISKCON Prison Ministry Newsletter
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After years of dreaming of a better, more modern IPM website for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada, today it finally manifested. I felt like crying out of joy! Kṛṣṇa helped me make this desire a reality by inspiring Svarbhanu prabhu to embrace this proj…

Sharing Radha-kunda Secrets
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By Srimati Dasi Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura in a lecture at Radha-kunda on 16th October, 1932 said: “I have taken bath in Radha-kunda ,” “I took a dip in Radha-kunda ,” “I am a lump of flesh and blood,” “I am my wife’s maintainer,” “I…

Sadhu sanga Ayodhya 2019
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By Aseem Krishna das Sadhu Sanga 2019 with His Holiness Subhag Swami Maharaj was organized in Ayodhya Dham from 26th September to 1st October 2019. This Sadhu sanga event is organized every year at one of Lord’s pastime places with the purpose for the…

Notes and Directives from the 2019 annual meeting of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (Global)
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By Shyama Mohini devi Dasi The annual meeting of The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (Global) took place from 18–21 June 2019 in Sardinia, Italy. BBT members agreed to work cooperatively toward recruiting and training new, young devotees in publishing and o…

Thank You, Tribhuvanatha Prabhu
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Padmapani das: An important feature of Srila Prabhupada’s mercy is the association of devotees which he has so kindly provided for our spiritual advancement and friendship. One such notable devotee and servant of His Divine Grace is our dear godbrother…

Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Bangalore TOVP Tour Visits a Grand Success
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By TOVP staff From October 12 – 14 Their Graces Ambarisa and Braja Vilasa prabhus, lead by Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord Nrsimha’s Satari visited the Twin Cities of South India, Hyderabad and Secunderabad, as well as Bangalore, for TOVP fundraisi…

Tribhuvanath Das Leaves (October 16, 2001)
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Tribuvanatha Prabhu left his body early on Tuesday 16th October 2001. Earlier in the year, he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer while on a preaching tour of Africa, and had made several trips to Brazil for alternative treatment.Read More…

World Record for Largest Addiction Awareness Festival set by ISKCON
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By Padasevan Bhakta Das The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) celebrated an annual Mega Youth Fest ‘UDGAAR – An Expression of Goodness and Joy’, on October 6th at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. It was based on the th…

Char Dham Parikrama – Yamunotri (5 min. video)
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Indradyumna Swami: This video is the first in a series of four entitled, “Char Dham Parikrama”. In this segment, “Yamunotri”, we visit close to the source of the holy Yamuna river. With our eyes we see her sacred waters and with our ears we hear how sh…

Pilgrimage to Hitchcock Hall
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By Giriraj Swami On my way to speaking at Ohio State University (OSU) last night, I visited Hitchcock Hall, where Srila Prabhupada and Allen Ginsberg had presented a program. And I reread the account of the event in BTG, which began, “On the night of M…

Trip to Tipp, Ireland’s Woodstock, the wildest drunken festival in history
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By Parasuram das 1990 was the first Trip to Tipp, it was also the year that Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Germany was re-unified after the fall of the Berlin Wall and, away from the headlines, a computer nerd called Tim Berners-Lee was regi…

Record for Largest Drug Awareness Lesson to be set at ISKCON Youth Festival UDGAAR
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By UDGAAR staff The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is celebrating its annual Mega Youth Fest ‘UDGAAR – An Expression of Goodness and Joy’, on October 6th at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. The theme for this festiva…

TOVP: The flooring in one of the Chatris is finally completed! (Album of photos)
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Sadbhuja Das: The flooring in one of the Chatris is finally completed! The detail work was done a couple of days ago, and now we are currently cleaning and polishing the surface. It is looking quite stunning, and we hope to commence the flooring in the…

Ratha Yatra in Madrid 2019 (Album of photos)
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Yadunandana Swami: The Ratha Yatra in Madrid took place on Saturday 21st of September. The Ambassador of India in Spain, Shri Sanjay Verma was present for most of the parade together with a delegation from the Indian Embassy.Read More…

WHY I LOVE THE U. S. A.
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I love America because this is the first country that His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada traveled to on the order of his Spiritual Master Srila Bhaktisiddhanta SarasvatiRead More…

“Something Understood” – Faith and the Body (audio)
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Jahnavi explains how yoga teaches the practitioner to see the body as a temple dedicated to the glory of God; how pilgrimage, by engaging the body in repetitive movement, makes an internal journey of prayer and sacrifice easier instead of just sitting …

ISKCON’S BIGGEST GATHERING OF LEADERS – ILS 2020 – Leading ISKCON into the Future
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By ILS staffILS 2020 Invitational Video. ILS 2020 promises to be the largest gathering of ISKCON leaders to date. Five hundred devotees attended ILS in 2012 and the numbers have been steadily increasing. This will be our 5th ILS gathering, and we are a…

Mayor inaugurates the 10th Ratha-yatra in Karnal, Haryana
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The 10th Jagannath Ratha-yatra in Karnal was celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm by the local residents along with devotees from different parts of the world.Read More…

A Plea For Little Gopali dasi
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Indradyumna Swami: Once again I approach you with a straw between my teeth and ask you to donate liberally to a worthy cause. Last week, after a festival in Ukraine, two devotee couples and their children were driving back home at night. Suddenly a veh…

The Wild Pursuit of Bliss Inside East Dallas’ Kalachandji’s Temple
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By Eve Hill-Agnus Driving down Graham Avenue, past a taqueria and fruteria, toward the tangle of freeways that loop around Old East Dallas, you might notice an elaborate cupcake of a building. It rises improbably out of a neighborhood of single-famil…

Devotees share the Holy Name with thousands of runners at The Great North Run
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Mina Sharma: Devotees were out in force on Sunday 8th September at The Great North Run, the largest half marathon in the world, sharing the Holy Name with 57,000 runners – including Sir Mo Farah. Joined by UK GBC HG Praghosa Das, around thirty de…

HG Bahulasva Prabhu’s last interview, few days before he left his body (video)
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The video interview that Sidhanta prabhu made with Bahulasva on Wednesday. Bahu left his body today 17 September 2019, at PM!Read More…

Bhagavad Gita & the Youth
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By Ankit Sharma Presently, the young generation is disappointed from the increasing competitive life style, rapid technological advancement, and unending global problems. They are looking for change and hankering for stress free life style. They have …

The 2020 ISKCON Global Conference of Devotee Attorneys
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By Guru Gauranga das According to ISKCON’s general counsel, Devakinandan Prabhu, the 2020 ISKCON Global Conference of Devotee Attorneys will offer devotee attorneys, jurists and law students from around the world the opportunity to meet in person for…

World Holy Name Festival
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By Iskcon Harinam Sankirtan Ministry(This is a sticky, always updated post, with the latest news from the World Holy Name Festival). Srila Prabhupada’s greatest desire was to spread the chanting of the Holy Names all over the world. To fulfill this de…

TOVP: Beautiful relief panel work of Krishna and Balarama almost ready (Album of photos)
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Sadbhuja Das: Here is some relief panel work of Krishna and Balarama, along with all his cowherd boy friends who are jubilantly herding all the cows of Vrindavan. This is only one of the four relief panel works, which will be placed in the main dome ar…

Uttrakhand Mountains reverberate with cheers of Jai Jagannath!!!
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A spectacular event organized in a picturesque valley in the Kumaon Himalayas, attracted a gathering of above 2500 people. It was Indeed a beautiful and serene place to organise Lord Jagannath’s chariot festival, that too with a typical ‘pahari’ flavou…

PM Narendra Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and Mathura MP Hema Malini join forces for Lord Krishna’s Vrindavana and its residents
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On Wednesday, September 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the holy town of Mathura to inaugurate and announce various projects related to animal/cattle healthcare, dairy development, cleanliness and tourism. The program was organized at Mathura’…

Bhaktivedanta Manor Announces New President
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By Gauri das The appointment will begin in January 2020, which is a great conclusion to the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of ISKCON UK celebrations. Chairman of the temple trustees, Navina Krishna Das, said, “The initial proposal of Visakha Das…

Sri Bhadra-purnima
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Giriraj Swami: Today is Bhadra-purnima. Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.13.13) states, “If on the full moon day of the month of Bhadra one places Srimad-Bhagavatam on a golden throne and gives it as a gift, he will attain the supreme transcendental destination.”…

Gaura Purnima Festival begins!
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The Radha Madhava Community is a colorful community with ISKCON residents coming from many different parts of the world and India. Our residents accept His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as their ultimate authority and guide on all ma…

Srila Prabhupada talks about his sannyasa initiation
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By His Divine Grace A.C.B. Swami Prabhupada In the beginning, when my Guru Maharaja ordered me, I thought it that ‘I shall first of all become very rich man; then I shall preach.’ (laughs) So I was doing very nice in business. In the business circle, …

The Glories Of Srila Haridasa Thakura
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By His Divine Grace A.C.B. Swami Prabhupada From this statement by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu we can clearly understand that the word yavana does not refer only to a particular class of men. Anyone who is against the behavior of the Vedic principles is ca…