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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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Sivarama Swami is encouraging the devotees (most of them his disciples) in their service of book distribution by personally serving them prasadam. (Album with photos)
He said that because now he hardly can go out on book distribution, he wants to serve those who can…
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Hare Krishna! Spirit Matters: an introduction to Bhakti Yoga through videos
Spirit Matters aims to introduce aspects of Bhakti Yoga to those interested in learning about mantra meditation, yoga knowledge and how to live a more conscious life. The channel was designed as part of my honors project for my visual communication design degree, which I will complete in a few weeks. Following the Bhakti Lounge motto, my intent with this channel is to make it easy for people come to Krishna consciousness, grow in Krishna consciousness and share Krishna consciousness with others.
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Prerana-Timeless Leadership -Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj 2015 09 26 ISKCON Chowpatty
Each temple in Bali hosted a program of evening kirtan for Holy Name Week and this was followed at Radha Rasesvara Mandir.
“Once a devotee said to Srila Prabhupada, ‘I want to renounce everything.’ Srila Prabhupada’s response was, ‘Krishna owns everything. The only thing you have to renounce is the misconception that you have something to renounce.’ Essentially sannyasa means to give up our false-ego—ahankar; the desire to be the controller, the proprietor and the enjoyer.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave us a beautiful verse that He told us to keep on our heart and to put on the thread of the holy name and keep it there always;
trnad api su-nicena
taror iva sahisnuna
amanina mana-dena
kirtaniyah sada harih
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“One who thinks himself lower than grass, who is more tolerant than a tree, and who does not expect personal honor but is always prepared to give respect to others can very easily always chant the holy name of the Lord.”
It is that spirit that is true sannyasa.”
—Radhanatha Swami
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Srimad Bhagavatam class at Phoenix, Arizona
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A natural cave, in the outskirts of Rome, Italy, has been transformed into a beautiful temple of Lord Chaitanya by Mukundananda prabhu. The devotees in Rome use it regularly to hold their meetings, talk about Lord Krishna, chant bhajans and kirtans and, of course, take prasadam. Look at these photos to see how nicely it is done inside: https://goo.gl/YfB5TV
ISKCON Auckland New Zealand: Friday night holy name week harinam (Album with photos)
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Hare Krishna! Street Chanting is Krishna’s best Propaganda
There is absolutely no greater experience to be had than to be a member of the Harinama Sankirtan party, watching the faces of the members of the public as they smile, laugh, frown or scowl at you while you chant and dance jubilantly to the sweet sound of the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra. This 5 minute ecstatic video was recently filmed on the Appearance Day of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur. It appears that there was some divine intervention because all of a sudden, as if out of nowhere, 100 youths spontaneously joined the blissful Kirtan party. (watch from 2.30 minutes in)
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Jaya Jagannath! Puri Parikrama organization is pleased to announce the most auspicious 2015 Sri Ksetra Puri Parikrama! A much loved annual event, this year’s Puri parikrama will be from the 27th to the 30th November. Every year our International group attends the parikrama, along with many Hindi speaking devotees. The parikrama usually consists of a majority […]
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While South Africa commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s visit to the rainbow nation, October 2015 has special significance for the Durban Yatra since it marks the 30th anniversary of the flagship Sri Sri Radha Radhanatha temple. The temples roots have grown deep within Durban and as a result has earned a special place in the city’s heart. In 2013, the temple won the city’s tourism award and now in 2015, was the winner of Trip Advisors certificate of excellence. All this has been made possible by the valuable input of many devotees – Kadamba Kanana Swami is counted among them.
The festive mood was amplified by Kadamba Kanana Swami’s recent trip to Durban (11-19 September) with his sweet bhajans, explosive kirtans and deep philosophical presentations.
His stay began with a Spring Student Retreat hosted by the temple. Students from Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban participated in the retreat – their stay at the temple deepening their love for Krsna consciousness. Hard work by the Bhakti Yoga Society preaching team in South Africa’s prestigious universities has produced a strong number of enthusiastic Bhakti Yoga practitioners who are determined at reaping life’s greatest rewards. Kadamba Kanana Swami dedicated his time fully to nurturing these spiritually hungry souls with his apt discussions and high-energy kirtans. The retreat was a resounding success with Kadamba Kanana Swami enjoying the retreat just as much, if not more than the students. The rest of Kadamba Kanana Swami’s stay in Durban was spent giving daily Bhagavatam classes at the temple and evening programs around the Durban region.
Please see below links to all classes and kirtans by Kadamba Kanana Swami. Recordings were captured by Bhakta Nimai (Germany).
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24hour Sankirtan program going on Iskcon, Vrindavan. Here are some images of the program to understand better. (Album with photos)
Hare Krishna! Another Dimension – Ukraine Television Interview with Niranjana Swami
Due to the active and coordinated activities of the community in Kiev was built and is currently expanding the greatest temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in the post-Soviet countries are constantly being published regularly print – newspaper “House of Prabhupada” , operates the largest branch of the charity ‘Food for Life “in Ukraine , and everyone can go to study Vedic Sciences in Kiev Theological Academy of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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Iskcon Mira Road Temple Opening (125 Photographs):
Photography Courtesy: Arjun Bhattacharyya
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The Making of the Srila Prabhupada Art Gallery, Malaysia: Behind the Scenes HG Simheswara Das prabhu, the regional secretary of ISKCON Malaysia and chairman of the temple building project called all the BCC youths for a meeting. Unknown to us, he had already planned to give us a project to glorify Srila Prabhupada. His Grace wanted people to know about Prabhupada’s life and especially on His Divine Grace travels in Malaysia back in May 1971. Simheswara prabhu told us that we have to come up with a proposal to achieve this project. Although we have taken on projects larger than this, none came close to being as artistic as this project. We were taken aback that prabhu had faith on us to achieve this honourable project. Read the entire article here: http://www.dandavats.com/?p=20190
Mangal Arati Of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath; 30th September 2015
