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VOLUME ONE OF “CHASING RHINOS WITH THE SWAMI” IS NOW AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK!
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Months in the making, my AUDIOBOOK version of VOLUME ONE of CRWTS is finally here! Reading “Chasing Rhinos With The Swami” is a great experience, but hearing it spoken (in my Tom Waits/Peter Coyote/Sam Elliot voice, a little gruff sometimes after a lon…

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.6.4 – HH Bhanu Swami – 23 March 2022 – New Govardhana, Australia
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Srimad Bhagavatam class given by HH Bhanu Swami at ISKCON New Govardhana Temple.krishnafarm.net Srimad Bhagavatam 3.6.4 – HH Bhanu Swami – 23 March 2022Read More…

Simply addressing the energy of the Supreme Lord as Hare…
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Simply addressing the energy of the Supreme Lord as Hare and the Lord Himself as Krishna very soon situates the Lord within the heart of the devotee. By thus addressing Radha and Krishna, one directly engages in His Lordship’s service. (Sri Caita…

We are surrounded by unlimited sins…
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The performance of sankirtana-yajna is a special concession for human society to save people from being affected by known or unknown sinful activities. We are surrounded by unlimited sins, and therefore it is compulsory that one take to Krishna conscio…

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.6.1 – Nrsimha Kavacha Das – 20 March 2022
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Srimad Bhagavatam class given by HG Nrsimha Kavacha prabhu at ISKCON New Govardhana Temple.krishnafarm.net Srimad Bhagavatam 3.6.1 – Nrsimha Kavacha Das – 20 March 2022Read More…

Our Whole Philosophy Is Love
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Without love, nothing can sustain. If I do not love Krishna, I cannot surrender—it is not possible. Just like a small child—he is naturally surrendered to the parents because there is love. The child loves the parents. So without the basic principle of…

Internal Prayer Should Be a 24 Hour Process (4 min. video)
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Prayer is one of the nine items of bhakti. Prabhupada said we can pray to Krishna to protect us so we don’t fall down. Even great sages sometimes are in compromised positions and fall down. In our conditioned state, we’re actually praying to Krishna to…

To cross the ocean of nescience there is no alternative to the chanting of the holy name
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“Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare-these sixteen names composed of thirty-two syllables are the only means to counteract the evil effects of Kali-yuga. In all the Vedas it is seen t…

Career, Kids, Krishna: Striving for Balance
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Radha Dasi (Rebecca Cornia, JD) is a successful, Harvard-graduate lawyer, also one of the few female members of the leadership of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Her journey has been a delicate dance of balance between her…

The sankirtana movement is not a new movement
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The Hare Krishna movement is present in every millennium of Lord Brahma’s life, and the holy name is chanted in all the higher planetary systems, including Brahmaloka and Candraloka, not to speak of Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka. The sankirtana mo…

Guava Jam
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Urvasi devi dasi: I was serving at the Montreal temple, Canada, and there were a lot of devotees going to India; and before we left, I went back home to Los Angeles, where my parents live, to give them a visit. As I was leaving there, my mother asked m…

Associate with those who have the same goal
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Sacinandana Swami: In his book Madhava-mahotsava Srila Jiva Gosvami expresses an important point with regards to associating with Vaisnavas. He says that in worldly dealings, when it comes to attaining one’s own goal, one usually ignores others; after …

O Radharani! O Hare! O energy of the Lord! Please engage me in Your service
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“In the beginning of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, we first address the internal energy of Krsna, Hare. Thus we say, ‘O Radharani! O Hare! O energy of the Lord!’ When we address someone in this way, they usually say, ‘Yes, what do you want?’ The answer i…