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In an old fable, Chicken Little (in Britain, we hear, it’s Henny Penny) gets hit on the head by a leaf or an acorn and panics, thinking the sky is falling. Here, for the internet age, is a slightly updated retelling I find amusing and instructive: The Story of Chicken Little. In 1943, during World […]
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A few weeks back, while looking through some old files at the Hare Krishna temple in Brooklyn, I came upon a copy of a newsletter I had edited in 1985 while traveling with a party of pilgrims traveling throughout India. The newsletter included an article I had written, but the newsletter, and therefore the article, […]
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Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2018.
Jayadvaita Swami 2018 financial report
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Now text you copy and paste text from the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase® can come out right — diacritics and all — for anyone you share it with. A simple, free plugin for the desktop VedaBase program makes your text come out in Unicode. That means you can paste your text in email, on Facebook, or wherever […]
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BBT press release The BBT is releasing a trove of more than a dozen letters exchanged between Hayagriva Dasa and Jayadvaita Dasa about Bhagavad- gita As It Is while the book was in production. The letters show that the translations especially, far from being Srila Prabhupada’s words lightly edited for grammar, spelling, and punctuation,were the […]
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Every disciple of Srila Prabhupada is welcome to write an offering. Whoever sends an offering gets a free copy of the book. Please spread the word.
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As an aspiring devotee of Krishna, I face a moral problem: I am pro-dairy but anti-cruelty and anti-slaughter, and I know that the dairy industry and the slaughter industry are partners in cruelty and killing. If I buy milk from the store, I can be sure it comes from cows that have been exploited and […]
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BBT Press release The “annotated scans” for Chapter Eleven of Bhagavad-gita As It Is are now online at BBTedit.com/changes. You can also directly download the pdf file for this chapter. The scans for this chapter are the latest in a series that shows all the revisions done for the transliterations, word meanings, and purports of […]
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BBT Press release The “annotated scans” for Chapter Ten of Bhagavad-gita As It Is are now online at BBTedit.com/changes. The scans for this chapter are the latest in a series that shows all the revisions done for the transliterations, word meanings, and purports of the second edition. Nearly every revision also has a note explaining […]
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Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2017.
Jayadvaita Swami 2017 financial report
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A plea from the devotees who go out chanting Hare Krishna every day in Union Square in New York City NYC Harinam needs a small apartment in Manhattan to continue its service. Below is a letter of inspiration from Rama Raya das, who founded the NYC Harinam Ashram. Please read and consider donating to this […]
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My godsister Parvati Dasi, who looks after Srila Prabhuapda’s samadhi in Vrindaban, has sent me this letter. She writes for a worthy cause. Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This is an appeal for your help for Prabhupada’s Vrndavana Samadhi Project. This year, somehow the donation level […]
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Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2016.
Jayadvaita Swami 2016 financial report
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This man from Nigeria purchased a full set of Srimad-Bhagavatam in Nairobi.
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The Bhaktivedanta Archives has just released the 2017 update for the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase. The updated database files are a free download. Also released: new unedited audio files for 1970.
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Here is the most recent version of the BBT Style Guide. BBT_style_guide_December_2016 (docx, 433 KB) The Style Guide offers the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust’s latest standards on such matters as spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and word choice. This is a routine update. You can always find the latest version of the style guide on the permanent page […]
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust press release The award-winning book Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gita, and the meaning of life is now available as a high-quality ebook at the Kindle Store, on Google Play, and on iBooks. What is life for? What may give it meaning? Does it have any meaning at all? Such questions are independently […]
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This is news of the ongoing maintenance and programs of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Vrndavana, and opportunities to render support. newsletter-sept-2016
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The 2016 Srila Prabhupada Tributes book – “the open Vyasa-puja book” – is now available as a pdf file from www.sptributes.com. Physical books have already been mailed. Each year, all initiated disciples of Srila Prabhupada are welcome to write offerings for the book. And any disciple who sends an offering will receive a physical copy […]
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BBT press release The “annotated scans” for Chapter Nine of Bhagavad-gita As It Is are now online at www.BBTedit.com/changes. The scans for this chapter are the latest in a series that shows all the revisions done for the transliterations, word meanings, and purports of the second edition. Nearly every revision also has a note explaining […]
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The African BBT has just published its annual report. Lots happening. Download here.
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Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2015.
Jayadvaita Swami 2015 financial report
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Lately I’ve had occasion to recall Bridge on the River Kwai, a classic film from the 1950s. The film concerns a fictional Colonel Nicholson, a British officer in World War II, a man of determination and courage, who is confined with his officers and men in Burma in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Nicholson rallies the […]
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BBT Africa holds an annual conference, each year in a different part of Africa, as part of the BBT’s partnership with the African temples, members, and supporters of the Hare Krishna movement. The first conference was held in Durban, South Africa, in 2010. In the following years it was held in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Phoenix (Mauritius), […]
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Today the Bhaktivedanta Archives has released the 2015 update for the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase. The updated database files are a free download. Also released: new unedited audio files for 1973.
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For more info, go to www.sptributes.com.
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The third annual Bhaktivedanta Swami Lecture will be held today at the Business School of WITS University in Johannesburg. The speaker will be Bhuta Bhavana Dasa. Here’s the link to click to see the lecture streamed online. Time: Johannesburg: 7:30 pm London: 5:30 pm New York: 1:30 pm
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Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2014.
Jayadvaita Swami 2014 financial report
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Here is the most recent version of the BBT Style Guide (formerly the BBT Style Sheet). You can have it either of two ways: The BBT Style Guide (December 2014) (Word file) (423 KB) The BBT Style Guide (December 2014) (PDF file) (825 KB) The style guide offers the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust’s latest standards on […]
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The devotees in Helsinki reached the end of their lease on their old temple but have a chance to buy a new place at a bargain price, courtesy of the Helsinki City Council. To help the devotees out or learn more, you can see their page on Indiegogo.
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I’ve written a book, which is set to be launched in mid April. It’s a commentary on Ecclesiastes, “the strangest book in the Bible,” from the point of view of a follower of the Bhagavad-gita. The book will be published by the BBT. And I could use some help. In fact, I could use a […]
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The 2014 Srila Prabhupada Tributes book–“the open Vyasa-puja book”– is now available as a pdf file from www.sptributes.com. The book should be available later this week in epub format. Physical books are on schedule for delivery soon, well in advance of Vyasa-puja. Why so far in advance? So that devotees can start reading the offerings […]
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Every year, BBT Africa holds a conference to bring together our book-publishing team with the devotees who read and distribute the books. This year, in June, we held our conference in Accra, Ghana. Here’s a photo of the attendees and of some members of our team.
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The African division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has published its annual report for 2013, telling about our goals, programs, accomplishments, challenges, finances, and more.
You can view the report online or download it.
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The Bhaktivedanta Archives has released the 2014 update for the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase. If you already have a copy of the VedaBase, the update is free. At the same time, the Archives has released mp3s of its full collection of audio recordings of Śrīla Prabhupāda from 1975 (315 hours, 563 audio files, 14Gb). Here are the details […]
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The deadline for Srila Prabhupada Tributes — the open Vyasa-puja book — is fast approaching. All devotees initiated by Srila Prabhupada are welcome to write an offering. No exceptions. Here are the submission guidelines. Here’s where to send your offering: sptributes@gmail.com. Here’s your deadline: April 15. Everyone who sends an offering will receive a free […]
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Today the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Africa will broadcast the second annual Bhaktivedanta Swami Lecture, to be given at WITS University, Johannesburg, by His Holiness Devamrita Swami. The event will go live at 6:25 pm in Johannesburg. That’s 5:25 in Belgium, 4:25 in London, 12:25 in New York. Other worldwide timings here: http://tinyurl.com/BhaktivedantaSwamiLecture2014 Link to […]
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A letter from the BBT chairman: In cooperation with the ISKCON GBC, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust is marking March 14 as the first annual “BBT Only” Day. This is a day to remember the following important instructions from Srila Prabhupada: He formed the BBT to serve as his exclusive publisher. He wanted all his books […]
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This site has been revamped, with a new look and new functionality. Now it works well on tablets and phones. (And on my side, it’s also easier to use.) My thanks to my grand-disciple Uddhava Dasa (assisted by Ragalekha Devi Dasi) for all the work involved. Hare Krishna.
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Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2013.
Jayadvaita Swami 2013 financial report
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