Upcoming seminar on "Building Strong Krishna Conscious Families" at ISKCON Brampton
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Here are further details on the upcoming Seminar
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Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
Please accept my humble obeisance.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

As many of you have been requesting lately, we are pleased to announce that ISKCON Brampton will be hosting a seminar on "Building Strong Krishna Conscious Families". This seminar is designed to help you take your relationship to a higher level. This is a 3-days seminar, please mark your calendar for the following dates:


Friday October 16th, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Saturday October 17th, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Sunday October 18th, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

This seminar will be facilitated by members of the Grihasta Vision Team - His Grace Partha Das and Her Grace Uttama Dasi (disciples of Srila Prabhupada). They have been successfully conducting such retreats and seminars for many years all around the world.


The seminar will cover:


Strengthening the Bonds that Free us -It deals with many aspects of grhastha life.
Communication and overcoming challenges
Exercises for couples
Parenting lessons

Please help spread the word about this seminar so that many devotees can take advantage of it. We encourage couples to attend, however, everyone is welcome, even if the spouse cannot attend or if not yet married. Devotees can indicate their availability for the course by filling up a preliminary registration form here.

We welcome donations to help cover for the costs of the seminar.

HAPPY MARRIAGES. HAPPY FAMILIES. STRONG ISKCON.

Your menial servant,
Prema Gaurangi Devi dasi

"We require so many householders to set the example for others—how in Krsna Consciousness we can live peacefully and sanely, even in married life.”

—Srila Prabhupada, letter, 12/9/68

Hare Krishna! The building blocks? The Transcendental Sound…
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Hare Krishna! The building blocks? The Transcendental Sound Vibration!
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Harinama Sankirtan Mission. Right now, this moment in Harinam Sankirtana, the Maha Mantra rises. The kirtan leader was born a devotee – blessed by the commitment of his parents and the mercy of Srila Prabhupada. The volume is high, the beats are many per minute. The devotees are all swimming with the current. The commuters are now running – it is rush hour in New York. Everyone is running. These busy people may not notice the devotees – it appears this way – but the inner ear, the Soul’s accomplice, has captured this Transcendental Sound. These Eternal moments are quick!
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Hare Krishna! Our dear Grandfather Srila Prabhupada Acyuta Gopi:…
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Hare Krishna! Our dear Grandfather Srila Prabhupada
Acyuta Gopi: He came to a place where he knew no one and was unsure if anyone would be able to help him carry out his mission. He fought sea sickness, life threatening heart attacks and braved the roughest conditions because he had such firm faith and conviction in the orders of his guru and the message of Lord Caitanya. Because of his journey and his sacrifice, I am here today. Because of his amazingly selfless personality I am able to say I’ve dedicated 30 years to this movement. Because of all of his hardships I was able to go to South Africa where I knew no one and gain an entire family in one day because we are connected worldwide by his vision. I can travel anywhere in the world confident that I will be cared for because of Srila Prabhupada’s work. And when he journaled, it wasn’t full of complaints about the hardships he had to endure. Somehow he was thankful to be performing the work that would make his spiritual master proud.
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Hare Krishna! A special preview clip of Acharya the…
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Hare Krishna! A special preview clip of Acharya the Movie!
Yadubara Das: ACHARYA, The Life and Legacy of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In celebration of Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in Boston 50 years ago, when he brought the practice of Bhakti Yoga to the West, we are pleased to release a special preview clip of Acharya the Movie! Please post, share and support!
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Hare Krishna! Varshana – Sunrise Aerial Darshan (10 min…
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Hare Krishna! Varshana – Sunrise Aerial Darshan (10 min video)
Prananatha das: I had spent two weeks at Govardhan last October (2014) working on the film “Govardhan Seva” but during that time I didn’t get the opportunity to visit Varshana. So, on the morning I was leaving, my taxi was heading towards Delhi and I asked the driver to quickly stop at Varshana. The sun was just rising. It was so stunning. I put the drone in the air for a few minutes and, what you see in the video is the unedited footage. I used only a few seconds of footage in Govardhan Seva. Last night I suddenly remembered the rest of the footage was sitting there, so, happy Radhastami .
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How to Use Mantra Effectively
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Mantras are words.

Words are very powerful things, because words contain meaning.

Meaning is to consciousness what the calorie is to digestion.
Meaning is the thing that consciousness digests and subsists on.

“You are what you eat.” As this applies physically to food, it applies psychologically to words. The words you speak and hear create your psyche.

Mantras, therefore, are very powerful things. They are very special words, conveying very special meaning – and therefore possess the power to reshape our psyche, and thus change the tangible direction of our lives.

The real power in the mantra is not the frequency of the sound waves, the real power is the meaning conveyed by the words. A mantra used without awareness of the meaning in the words can exhibit only a small fraction of its potential power. The ultimate effect of using a mantra this way is simply that the user will eventually be blessed to seek and find the meaning of the words. Then, when we use a mantra with awareness of the meaning, much more of the mantra’s power can activate.

The more deeply we understand the meanings of the words and phrases in a mantra, the more deeply its power affects us.

 Vraja Kishor

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Tagged: Chanting, Mantra

How to Use Mantra Effectively
→ The Enquirer

Mantras are words.

Words are very powerful things, because words contain meaning.

Meaning is to consciousness what the calorie is to digestion.
Meaning is the thing that consciousness digests and subsists on.

“You are what you eat.” As this applies physically to food, it applies psychologically to words. The words you speak and hear create your psyche.

Mantras, therefore, are very powerful things. They are very special words, conveying very special meaning – and therefore possess the power to reshape our psyche, and thus change the tangible direction of our lives.

The real power in the mantra is not the frequency of the sound waves, the real power is the meaning conveyed by the words. A mantra used without awareness of the meaning in the words can exhibit only a small fraction of its potential power. The ultimate effect of using a mantra this way is simply that the user will eventually be blessed to seek and find the meaning of the words. Then, when we use a mantra with awareness of the meaning, much more of the mantra’s power can activate.

The more deeply we understand the meanings of the words and phrases in a mantra, the more deeply its power affects us.

 Vraja Kishor

VrajaKishor.com


Tagged: Chanting, Mantra

The Servant Of Radharani
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"Radharani is the most confidential servant of the Lord and Hladini Dasi means the servant of Radharani. So please always be engaged in chanting Hare Krsna mantra at least sixteen rounds daily and work sincerely and eagerly in the service of the Lord observing the regulative principles and thus be happy."

Letter to Hladini
Los Angeles - 29 March, 1970

Is the mind or a source of desires or just a channel of the soul’s desires?
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How to deal with relatives who hurt us by their ego and negativity?
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Philosophy seems abstract – how can we undestand that Krishna tangibly helps us?
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Meditation On Radhastami
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On this auspicious day of Radhastami I long to be in Vraja, celebrating the Queen of Vrindavan’s appearance with all the beloved Vrajavasis. Instead, I find myself on the remote steppes of Mongolia, sharing the message of Lord Caitanya with the people of this isolated country. Despite the many austerities involved in traveling and preaching [...]

Spreading Krsna Consciousness is the Best Welfare Activity, September 19, Boston
Giriraj Swami

09.20.15_BostonGiriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.7.44.

“One should endeavor for that which is never obtained by wandering up and down the universe as a result of the reactions of karma. What is that? One should endeavor to become Krsna conscious. If one tries to spread Krsna consciousness all over the world, he should be understood to be performing the best welfare activity. The Lord is automatically very pleased with him. If the Lord is pleased with him, what is left for him to achieve? If one has been recognized by the Lord, even if he does not ask the Lord for anything, the Lord, who is within everyone, supplies him whatever he wants. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (tesam nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemamvahamy aham). Again, as stated here, tapyante loka-tapena sadhavah prayaso janah. The best welfare activity is raising people to the platform of Krsna consciousness, since the conditioned souls are suffering only for want of Krsna consciousness. The Lord Himself also comes to mitigate the suffering of humanity.”

—Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.7.44 purport

Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.7.44, Boston

Thursday, September 10th, 2015
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Thursday, September 10th, 2015
Toronto, Ontario

In My Private Reading

In my private reading today some powerful points of information appeared so much compressed in one particular purport from the Gita, 3.42. I feel compelled to share this information.

"The senses are different outlets for the activities of lust. Lust is reserved within the body, but it is given vent through the senses. Therefore, the senses are superior to the body as a whole. These outlets are not in use when there is superior consciousness, or Krishna consciousness. In Krishna consciousness the soul makes direct connection with the Supreme; therefore the hierarchy of bodily functions, as described here, ultimately ends in the Supreme Soul. Bodily action means the functions of the senses, and stopping the senses means stopping all bodily actions. But since the mind is active, then even though the body may be silent and at rest, the mind will act - as it does during dreaming. Above the mind is the determination of the intelligence and above the intelligence is the soul proper. If, therefore the soul is directly engaged with the Supreme, naturally all other subordinates, namely the intelligence, mind, and senses, will be automatically engaged. In the Katha Upanishad there is a similar passage, in which it is said that the objects of sense gratification are superior to the senses, and mind is superior to the sense objects. If, therefore, the mind is directly engaged in the service of the Lord constantly, then there is no chance that the senses will become engaged in other ways."

The above is a beautiful explanation of the technicalities of the self.

One last remark is to mention the passing of a dear friend and monk, Sankirtan from Europe. He was taken by cancer but led a glorious devotional life. On this last birth anniversary of Krishna, September 5th 2015 - he left his body. Please pray.


May the Source be with you! 

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Appreciating Radharani’s position and devotion – Radhashtami class
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Lecture at New Ramana Rati, Alachua, Florida
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Introducing Krishna consciousness into the heart of Mongolia (6…
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Introducing Krishna consciousness into the heart of Mongolia (6 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: Mongolia’s vast steppe is home to one of the world’s last surviving nomadic cultures. Situated between China and Russia, the Mongolian steppe remains mostly intact, and its nomadic way of life has been largely unchanged for generations. Some herding customs alive today pre-date the era of Genghis Khan. Slowly, however, the steppe’s landscape is changing, as more and more of its nomadic population move to urban areas in search of education, employment, and modern conveniences. On our 8-hour drive to Erdenet for our first public program in the city, we passed many nomadic people herding their cows, horses and sheep.
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