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Gita class at ISKCON, Laguna Beach
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Preaching program in Balaramdesh with Jayapataka Swami (Album with photos)
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“Man is the architect of his own fortune, so you make your fortune now.”
Dhruvanath: I’d come back from India as a hippie in 1969 or ‘70, and I was attempting to write a book based on the hallucinogenic drug experiences I’d had there. At that time the devotees had a big hit record, The Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, and I thought it would be a great idea to have a chapter of interviews with the devotees.
When I finally found the temple, I met Kulashekar prabhu, and he said, “Our spiritual master is upstairs, why don’t you talk to him?” I said, “Great, why not?” We went to Prabhupada’s room on the first floor in Bury Place.
Before we entered, Kulashekar told me that Prabhupada was a great personality and we should offer our respects to him. I said, “Fair enough.”
Prabhupada was sitting on a cushion behind a low desk on the far side of the room with his back to the window. He was writing something and had his glasses down his nose. He peered up and said, “Hare Krishna,” and somehow I felt overwhelmed to be in his presence.
I automatically fell to the floor like a stick as I had seen devotees do in the temple downstairs. I simply lay there frozen, thinking: “What do I do now? When do I get up?” A few moments passed and Kulashekar motioned, “Okay, you can get up now.”
I had preconceived questions I was going to ask, because at that time LSD was my method for achieving self-realization. But when I sat there directly facing Srila Prabhupada, I went blank. I was speechless.
Somehow or other I had read The Nectar of Devotion, and I remembered that the pure devotees’ eyes are anointed with the salve of love.
Looking at Prabhupada’s eyes I could see this, and I could see that he was unlike anyone I had ever met in my life. After we had exchanged pleasantries, some moments passed, and then Prabhupada broke the ice by saying something that showed he knew what I was thinking.
He said, “How unfortunate it is that the youth of today are trying to become self-realized through the use of hallucinogenic drugs.” I was totally taken aback because this was exactly what I was going to challenge Prabhupada on. All my thoughts of writing a book went out the window.
After that I plucked up some courage and asked a question, “What are the characteristics of a pure devotee?” Prabhupada expounded for about twenty minutes just on that question.
I was with Prabhupada for about an hour, and Kulashekar was the only other devotee in the room at the time. Before I left, Prabhupada looked at me straight in the eyes and said, “Man is the architect of his own fortune, so you make your fortune now. Whatever is done is done. Now start a new chapter in your life, and in the next life go back home, back to Godhead.”
Those words are still ringing in my ears to this day.

Hare Krishna! The Cow Incarnation Of Lord Vishnu
O Shri Hari, Krishna, You are the Remover of all that is evil in the form of materialistic desires that have chained us conditioned souls to the vicious cycle of birth and death. I eternally bow again and again in the dust of the hoof prints of the cows that follow You in Vrindavana. Again and again let us take the dust of the hooves of the cows of Vrindavana upon our heads as we fall down like a stick before the dust of the herd of Vraja. By the grace of Mother Cow alone we see imprinted here and there in the pasturelands wetted by milk from the joyous herd numbering crores, the footprints of Lord Krishna and His cowherd boy friends running here and there. Veritably Shri Krishna, the Source of all Incarnations, is none other than Vraja Gopala, Govinda, Gopinatha and Gopijanavallabha in His Original Form.
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 August 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, Srimad Bhagavatam 3.6.6)

The living beings originate in the spiritual world and then come to a state where they enter into tatashta – tatha, it means the edge – the marginal state where they are neither in the spiritual world nor in the material world. It is the state where the living being enters into contemplation upon his nature, as it is within his nature to not only be the servant of Krsna but also to be isvara, or the controller and enjoyer.

Once that contemplation is there, that is when the living entity enters into a neutral state. So it is not that in the spiritual world, in the midst of loving Krsna, suddenly envy develops, ‘Why do I have to serve Krsna?!’ That is not the case. It is simply that upon eternity, the living entity discovers an aspect of his own nature and when he dwells on it then for that moment, he is in tatashta, in marginal state where he is not absorbed in service.

Then from that state he can immediately return, ‘What is this?! I am not involved now in the nectarian service of the Lord! Let me immediately reassume that service!’  Or one can become curious – as they say in English, ‘Curiosity kills the cat.’  It is curiosity that can bring the living entity to the point where he decides, ‘Yes, maybe I want to try out that material realm!’  Then the living entity comes into the material energy – anadi mahirmukha – meaning that they are in the material world since the time immemorial…

This is a continuation of the previous article in which TOVP Managing Director, Sadbhuja das, went to Europe to see and purchase some of the world’s most unique marble, the best of the best.

Pictured in photo 1 and 2 is the Royal Blue marble from Bolivia that will be used on the Altars.

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In photos 3, 4 and 5 we can see Sadbhuja standing next to some samples of white marble from Vietnam; a mock up what it will look like right next to blue marble mixed together on the steps.

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And finally a pink marble from Turkey is shown in the photo 6.

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Sri Vrindavan Dham Festival in Sri Vrindavan Dham Project 26.09.2015 (Album with photos)
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Glastonbury Rathayatra (Album with photos)
This Sunday was Glastonbury Rathayatra, the last Rathayatra of the year! It was a blissful street procession as the devotees chanted and danced their way through Glastonbury town. The festival was carried on later in the Assembly Rooms with a stage programme of Bhajans, poems, songs, Parasuram’s famous magic show, a final kirtan and of course a delicious feast at the end. A really wonderful end to the Rathayatra season. Jai Jagannatha, Baladeva, Subhadra! Jai Srila Prabhupada!
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Pictures of Sravanam Kirtanam Camp at Dallas
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Being the change you want to see – Yoga Psychology Seminar 1: The Quality of Mercy 6pm Tuesday 13 & 20 Oct 2015 at The Loft Yoga Lounge with Dina Dayala (PhD Vedic Psychology) $8 – includes vegetarian dinner with dessert

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New video: Only devotees can know Krsna
With the analogy of bee licking on the bottle of honey, Srila Prabhupada explains that Mayavadis do not have access to the real knowledge about Krsna as they do not dive deep into the ocean of devotion. Please watch this video to know some more philosophical points about how only devotees can know Krsna.
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In the Japa Room today we have been showing the second part of the Japa Retreat in Alachua with Mahatma dasa. Email subcribers please click the big blue link above to see the video.

Hare Krishna! Sivarama Swami addresses World Peace Forum
A group of devotees from Radhadesh, Belgium, recently attended the World Peace Forum conference in Luxembourg and Germany for two days. The meeting was attended by MPs, diplomats, academics and other professionals. The general mood among the meeting’s participants was very open and friendly. We have been invited to these meetings for the last 3 years. The main topic was the current refugee crisis in Europe. Representatives of different projects described their work and got responses. On the first day we chanted for 20 minutes for the delegates and distributed nearly 100 burfis. On the second day devotees started the general program with a bhajan and then we played a 10 minute video presentation by HH Sivarama Swami on the topic of the ISKCON Hungary response to the refugee crisis.
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No other religious/spiritual text proclaims the supremacy of God as Bhagavad Gita does. In Bhagavad Gita, Krishna proclaims His supreme dominion as supreme God of all that be in a poetic and awe-inspiring manner. Arjuna who was the direct first-hand recipient of this knowledge conceded to the supremacy of Krishna after Krishna proclaimed His supremacy. Following, Arjuna himself glorifies Krishna in his own words as follows.


- literal translation of Bhagavad Gita 10.12-16 by HH H.D. Goswami

Hare Krishna

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Nandgaon and Vrindakunda Vrindavana parikrama (Album with photos)
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Hare Krishna! Who Owns God?
Ravindra Svarupa Das: As we enter the Christmas season, and songs about God are playing everywhere, we might ask ours – who does God belong to? Is He a Christian God, a Jewish God, a Muslim God? This talk explores these questions with the Bhakti theology and the teachings of Srila Prabhupada.
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Hare Krishna! Who Is a Guru, And Why We Need One
Srila Prabhupada: If one wants standard transcendental knowledge, not upstart knowledge, one must received it from the parampara system, the disciplic succession. Another meaning of the word srotriyam mentioned above is “one who has heard from a guru in the disciplic succession.” And the result of this hearing will be brahma-nistham, “He is firmly fixed in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” He has no other business. These are the two main qualifications of a bona fide guru. He does not need to be a very learned scholar with an M.A., B.A., or Ph.D. No. He simply needs to have heard from the authority in disciplic succession and be fixed in devotional service. This is our system.
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Srimad Bhagavatam class at ISKCON, Phoenix
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That's quit clear. In ninth chapter of Bhagavad-gita it discribe how is he creat thing everything and doing everything than everthing is outside of everthing. Than he said none of this effect me. na ca māṁ tāni karmāṇi nibadhnanti dhanañ-jaya udāsīna-vad āsīnam asaktaṁ teṣu karmasu. (Bg 9.9) none of this work affect him but creation, maintenance, and destruction because he always neutural. .. Normaly someone has to create everthing, and maintance everthing and they caught up in that. Thinking about it all the time. Even we just, some small think we doing cooking. But Krishna he is just busy enjoying spiritual world althougt he is still in carge he is stiil doing. Cause everthing come from him. He created the energy and made it keep going.

sa evedaṁ sasarjāgre bhagavān ātma-māyayā sad-asad-rūpayā cāsau guṇamayāguṇo vibhuḥ

In the beginning of the material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead [Vāsudeva], in His transcendental position, created the energies of cause and effect by His own internal energy.

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.30

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