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Hare Krishna! Inauguration of ISKCON 50 celebrations at ISKCON Punjabi Bagh
On 13th Aug’15, , the entire community of devotees at ISKCON Punjabi Bagh came together to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s Historic Jalduta Yatra. It officially marked the launch of ISKCON 50th Anniversary Celebration as well. It was an evening of expression of gratitude to Srila Prabhupada and about the opportunity we have for celebrating 50th Anniversary
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Dublin Rath Yatra 2015 (Album with photos)
Celebrating Jagannath Rath Yatra – 29th August 2015
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Hare Krishna! WSN July 2015 - World Sankirtan Newsletter
In July, the biggest increase percentage-wise in the Large Temple category was Bhaktivedanta Manor’s score, an increase of 222%. It’s nice to note the Manor’s steady increase. I’m sure that Srila Prabhupada is pleased with the Manor devotees. The Manor was the last place he visited in the West, and many European devotees went there at that time to get his association and give him their good results in book distribution. Another surprise is that the No. 1 temple in the world is in the Small Temple category, which may be a first. Rupanuga Vedic College in Kansas is No. 1, with 31,046 book points: a 242% increase. This demonstrates that where there is teamwork, amazing things are accomplished. The RVC has seven books distributors traveling all over the USA. During the summers they do the WARP concert tours together, driving and distributing long hours. Very focused book distributors.
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Krishna Sambandha live in Mall Sport 2015 (3 min video)
HARE KRISHNA!!! expo yoga Chile 2015
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Please find high-resolution photos from the final day of Jhulan Yatra 2015 at Bhaktivedanta Manor.
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Tucson Arizona Temple expanding - seeking devotees
We are looking for a devotee couple (kids ok) to assist in preaching, hari nam, restaurant cashier, boutique and cleaning
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Hare Krishna! The Prime Minister of East Timor receives Bhagavad Gita As It Is
On Ekadasi day, August 26, 2015 Trata-dasa (Dr. Tri Astawa) from Bali, Indondesia, an ISKCON devotee/ disciple of His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami, met with the Prime Minister of East Timor, Dr.Rui Maria de Araujo in Jakarta, Indonesia and presented him with the Bhagavad Gita As It Is in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian). The occasion was a reunion of medical doctors who worked at a hospital in Dili, East Timor. Trata-dasa and the now Prime Minister worked together at the hospital.
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Seeing her fulfilling everyone’s desires with her milk, Emperor Pṛthu fell in love with the Earth Goddess. But since he had taken her milk, she seemed like a mother to him, and it felt wrong to express his love in a romantic way. Even then, since he had threatened to punish her, it also felt wrong to love her like a mother. Finally, he realized that she was like his daughter, and he expressed this love to her with great affection.

Remembering that she had asked him to make her surface more level for the sake of agriculture, the Emperor stuck the mountaintops with arrows. They crumbled, and the earth became much more level.

The All-Attractive Son of Vena then turned his fatherly attention to the practical welfare of his people, who lived in a disorganized fashion, scattered here and there. He gave them places to live, organized into cooperative units: small villages, larger towns with markets, and large cities with bustling commercial centers. He also made fortresses with barracks to house the soldiers and protect farmers and animals in the pastures. And he built mining villages near the mountains, where miners dug for gold, silver, and other metals.

Previous to Pṛthu, planning of towns, villages and so on was unheard of. People simply lived wherever they liked, without fear. But after the calamities initiated by Vena, Pṛthu introduced these social structures to help people protect one another.

Srimad Bhagavatam Class 07 01 47 by HG Anirudh Swarup Prabhu at ISKCON Juhu on 18 May 2015

“Recognising our dependence on Krishna”

“What is true virtue?”

Here is the first of of three Mahabharata lectures delivered in New Vraja Dhama, the Hungarian farming community.

“A lesson learned from the life of Bhishmadeva”

The Hare Krishna Festival tour that drew many Irish people to Krishna consciousness in the 1990s returned to the Emerald Isle this summer, and once again got Irish feet dancing. Between 1990 and 1995, the late inspirational preacher and Prabhupada disciple Tribhuvanath Das toured Irish cities with his festivals based on Prabhupada’s model from the early days of ISKCON.

There may be many Hindu temples in Malaysia, but the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple of Devotion and Understanding in Seberang Jaya, Penang, is in a class of its own in terms of building design and function. The temple is now receiving the final touches before the “kumbabeseigam” (consecration ceremony) on August 29.

Pumpkin seeds are truly a gift of nature. Nuts and seeds makes healthy and balanced diet. Pumpkin seeds are said to be dietary powerhouses.

“In Vrindavan” is a new Music Video and Single by the Kirtaniyas featuring children from Food for Life Vrindavan, an all girl’s charity school run on donation basis in Vrindavan, India.

Pushpa Abhishek 2015 for Sri Sri Krsna Balaram of Iskcon Bon Accueil, Mauritius (1 min video)
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Here are the just installed murtis of ISKCON of Central New Jersey (Album with photos)
Aren’t They Beautiful!
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Hare Krishna! ISKCON Leadership Sanga 2016
The vision of the ILS is to allow leaders to share their service with their peers and with the members of the GBC – an opportunity for association, vision, inspiration, and education in the holy dhama of Mayapur. The ILS 2016 will feature at least 13 venues presenting 80–100 seminars in all areas of the GBC strategic plan with emphasis on: outreach the “marketing” and communication of Krishna consciousness devotee care online strategies leadership skills best practices in many areas of temple/project/community development strategic planning and project development Special topics for ISKCON Leaders
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Hare Krishna! Bhakti Sangam festival in Ukraine - video
Indradyumna Swami: The annual Bhakti Sangam Festival is surely the most amazing event on this planet, with so many Maharajas and preachers sharing their realizations in seminars, and the evenings are spent in most sublime kirtans. Last year’s Bhakti Sangam festival in Ukraine was cancelled due to the political situation in the country. So this year’s festival is especially important to the many devotees in the country. They are relishing each other’s association, spending the time chanting, dancing and hearing spiritual discourses by senior devotees. In a country with political instability, fighting on the eastern front and an economic crisis, Ukrainian devotees are taking shelter of Krsna’s holy names at the Bhakti Sangam Festival in the countryside near Shatsk.
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Once again, the Cairns devotees were able to organise Lord Jagannatha’s Rathayatra in the Cairns festival parade.

Today is Balarama Purnima. “One cannot attain the supreme platform of self-realization without being sufficiently favored by Balarama. One must have the spiritual strength which is infused by Balarama, or Sankarsana. Balarama, or Sankarsana, is the source of spiritual power, or the original spiritual master. Therefore Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who is also the incarnation of Balarama, is the original spiritual master. And the spiritual master is the representative of Balarama . . . The spiritual master is the manifestation of the mercy of Krsna.” (Krsna, Chapter 2)

sri-gopya ucuh
aksanvatam phalam idam na param vidamah
sakhyah pasun avivesayator vayasyaih
vaktram vrajesa-sutayor anuvenu-justam
yair va nipitam anurakta-kataksa-moksam

“The cowherd girls said: ‘O friends, those eyes that see the beautiful faces of the sons of Maharaja Nanda are certainly fortunate. As these two sons enter the forest, surrounded by Their friends, driving the cows before Them, They hold Their flutes to Their mouths and glance lovingly upon the residents of Vrndavana. For those who have eyes, we think there is no greater object of vision.’ ” (Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.21.7)

We pray for Lord Balarama’s mercy.

Hare Krishna.

—Giriraj Swami

Motion in Mayapur after the flood…

Krishna Balaram Mandir in Vrindavana nicely decorated!