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Train with free weights or your body weight?
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Nutritional advice that will keep you training
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Simple principles for your next workout
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To be number one, train like you’re number two
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The myths of shedding body fat explored
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The myths of shedding body fat explored

Top 5 mistakes every gym member makes
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Hare Krishna! Haryana Chief Minister inaugurates ISKCON…
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Hare Krishna! Haryana Chief Minister inaugurates ISKCON RathaYatra at Karnal
By the blessings of Srila Prabhupada, this year also we had very wonderful Lord Jagannatha Rath Yatra festival at Karnal. This rath yatra was inaugurated by Honorable chief minister of Haryana,Shri Manohar Lal Khattar He was very much happy to see the youngsters are chanting and dancing before the Rath. He himself offered Aarti to Jaganath on the Rath, sweeped the road and pulled the Rath. Thousands of people pulled the ratha and took Prasadam.
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Hare Krishna! Haryana Chief Minister inaugurates ISKCON…
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10 ways to improve your strength
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10 ways to improve your strength

Best way to track your body stats
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Shri Radhe ~ A Music Video Without Borders (5 min video) A promo…
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Shri Radhe ~ A Music Video Without Borders (5 min video)
A promo for a new musical production by Krishna’s devotees
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Facebook or Facelessbook?
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I am not a big fan of social networking. It is something like empty calories except these are empty likes and friends. Empty calories give us a head rush and hence we feel good for a short time but because it is empty it does not really nourish us physically and hence we crave for more. Similarly empty likes and friends on facebook, twitter etc give us a rush of being liked and important for a short while but because it is virtual inside a computer screen, there is really no bond or connection with the person.

It is simply another form of consumerism where we advertise our self (self-image) in the best possible manner and hope to impress others. We are consuming our own flaring ego. The bottom line is social media cannot satisfy us as it is impersonal and artificial.

Real likes and friends have to be made in the real world with real people as there will be no rehearsals in what you will say, no photoshopping of the self, no grammar corrections, and editing…it will be with the real me with all my bells and whistles. When we bond with an individual in this real manner, we will feel satisfied. I guess I am old fashioned! Real friendship is with real people not virtual avatars!

I consider Krishna as my best friend! Krishna in chapter five of Bhagavad Gita says that among the friends we have in a real way (not virtual) Krishna says I am the best of all friends. The common adage “friend in need is a friend in deed” is so true to Krishna. We may have our best friend, wife or companion. But these relationships are unreliable in the sense they cannot always be with you at the time of need. But Krishna who is seated within our heart says “I am always with you and you just have to turn your face towards me and call out my name in time of need. I will be the swift deliverer from all your problems”. Who can be a better friend than that?

The video although does not talk about Krishna does describe how the social aspects of human beings have evolved and transformed, showing how we have regressed from a social standpoint and how the more we “connect” online, the less actual human interactions we have, making us actually fairly unsocial, In other words, impersonal and artificial!

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Hare Krishna! What’s Wrong with Sex? When the media assault our…
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Hare Krishna! What’s Wrong with Sex?
When the media assault our eyes with images of half-naked bodies, lawmakers fight back with anti-obscenity laws, and the media complain that the government is policing personal morality. “Who are you to restrict our sexual enjoyment?” cry the libertines. “Ubiquitous sexuality,” say the cultural conservatives, “degrades society.” Everyone cherishes the right to enjoy life, and libertines, to defend themselves, appeal to this right. But could they be defeating the very purpose they claim to champion? Could moral restrictions on sexuality uphold, rather than impede, our right to enjoy life?
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Hare Krishna! What’s Wrong with Sex? When the media assault our…
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Jayapataka Swami’s Health update 12/5/15 (3 min…
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Jayapataka Swami’s Health update 12/5/15 (3 min video)
Jayapataka Swami: To My dear disciples and dear well wishers, I was praying to the deities for the various disciples , grand disciples , GBC’s bureau to receive and the content providers of the TOVP exhibhits and TOVP in general. And I was praying that if I have to leave Mayapur that deities are well taken care of. So with your prayers, I wanted to leave that day to Delhi but apparently I was unconscious and I went to the local hospital in Kolkatta. So as a message, I would just like to say please follow Purushottam month, chant Hare Krsna, read Srila Prabhupada books, stay in Prabhupada’s ISKCON and Gauranga!!!.
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Brisbane Ratha-Yatra. Part 2. (Album with photos) See them here:…
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Brisbane Ratha-Yatra. Part 2. (Album with photos)
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Sexual entanglement (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015,…
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Sexual entanglement
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 April 2015, Durban, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture: Sexuality and Spirituality)
I saw in Mangosuthu, Umlazi (in Durban), just outside the university, that abortion was safe, happens on the same day and for only R200. Cheap and best! So, just see, problem solved. But what about the karma… the karma for murder… the charges? Because abortion is murder! Murder in the womb because there is a living being in there. When the baby is out of the womb and if you cut its throat, they will come to pick you up, right? The guys with the blue lights, they will take you in. With abortion, not so much happens now but after this life, the reactions come. Karmic reactions come.
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DID – Dance India Dance parody by Gaurava :-) (2 min…
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DID - Dance India Dance parody by Gaurava :-) (2 min video)
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Are we – Gaudiya-vaisnavas – Hindus or not
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Will accepting reincarnation make people more lazy or more responsible?
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Can an OBE be repeated and experimented upon?
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Are there any scientifically verified cases of past-life memories?
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Extract from Chaitanya Charan's upcoming book: "The Mystery of Reincarnation"

Is the correlation between past-life wounds and this-life's birth marks and birth defects really so precise? Could this seeming precision be a result of mere coincidence? To find the answers to these questions, Dr Stevenson divided the average-sized adult body into a grid of 160 boxes, each ten centimeters square. By plotting the skin marks on this grid, he showed that the chance of the correspondence between the position of a birthmark and the position of a wound is just 1/160. Moreover, many cases like those involving death due to fatal bullet wounds feature two birthmarks on the child’s body corresponding with the two wounds – the entry wound and the exit wound – on the body of the previous personality. In these cases, the probability decreases to 1/160 x 1/160, or 1/25,600.

Let’s consider a case that involved six correlating birthmarks.

Case with multiple correlating birthmarks - Necip Unlutaskiran (From “Where Reincarnation and Biology Interesect – Ian Stevenson, pg 48)

Necip Unlutaskiran was born in Adana, Turkey, in 1951. On his birth, his mother noticed that he had seven birthmarks. When he was 6, he started speaking about a previous life in Mersin, a city that was about 80 kilometers from Adana. He said his name in that life had been the same as in this life: Necip. He also stated that he had children whom he wanted to see. He further said that he had been stabbed; and while describing the stabbing, he pointed to the parts of his body where he had birthmarks to indicate the places he had been stabbed.

His parents neglected his statements for 6 years, till finally his mother took him to a village near Mersin, where her father was living with his second wife. Though Necip had never met his grandfather's second wife till then, on seeing her, he suddenly said that he recognized her from his previous life in Mersin. There, she had known a man named Necip Budak, and she confirmed the accuracy of Necip's statements about him.

When Necip expressed his now-intensified desire to go to Mersin, his grandfather

took him there. There, he recognized several members of the family of Necip Budak, who provided further confirmation for the accuracy of Necip's statements about the life of Necip Budak.

Necip Budak had been a quarrelsome person, especially when drunk. Once in a drunken state, he had begun teasing and then taunting an acquaintance, who, possibly drunk himself, had stabbed Necip Budak repeatedly with a knife. Necip Budak had collapsed on the street itself and was rushed to a hospital, where he had died the next day.

Among the various statements made by Necip, the most significant was his claim that he had once stabbed "his" (Necip Budak's) wife in the leg, resulting in a lifelong scar. Necip Budak's widow did indeed have a scar on her thigh at the place where Necip had claimed to have stabbed her.

Additionally, the twelve-year-old Necip also expressed emotions as if he were Necip Budak. He showed great affection toward the children of Necip Budak and showed such fond attachment toward Necip Budak’s wife that, out of intense jealousy towards her second husband, he wanted to tear up a photograph of that man.

Most importantly, the locations of Necip’s six birthmarks correlated with the locations of the knife wounds that had led to the death of Necip Budak. The probability of six correlations is extremely low, 1/160^6, making chance an unrealistic explanation.

For our analysis, these birthmarks cases with their precise correlations are particularly difficult, if not entirely impossible, to be explained away as products of exaggeration.

Devotees celebrate WWII victory celebrations in Moscow in their…
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Devotees celebrate WWII victory celebrations in Moscow in their own way! (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: A pure devotee cannot forget the Supreme Lord for a moment, and similarly the Supreme Lord cannot forget His pure devotee for a moment. This is the great blessing of the Krishna conscious process of chanting the maha-mantra. (Bhagavad-gita 9.14 Purport)See them here: https://goo.gl/w0rQKY

Are there any NDEs that conclusively prove the existence of the soul?
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Extract from Chaitanya Charan's upcoming book: "The Mystery of Reincarnation"

One of the most amazing cases of a NDE during documented unconsciousness is that of Pam Reynolds reported by Dr Michael Sabom in his book Light and Death

Pam Reynolds was diagnosed with a giant basilar artery aneurysm: a weakness in the wall of the large artery at the base of her brain had caused that artery to balloon. A fatal rupture could have come at any moment. Initially, doctors offered her no hope of survival. But eventually she came in touch with neurosurgeon Robert Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Spetzler was a specialist who was at that time pioneering a rare, dangerous, but sometimes necessary technique called hypothermic cardiac arrest, or "Operation Standstill." This daring operation required that the patient's body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and the blood drained from her head.

Dr. Spetzler explains, "If you would examine that patient from a clinical perspective during that hour, that patient by all definition would be dead. At this point there is no brain activity, no blood going through the brain. Nothing, nothing, nothing."

During this period of clinical brain death, Pam had a vivid NDE in which she saw - with clarity and detail - her head, the cranial saw, the operating room, and the doctors and nurses there. She was surprised to see the peculiar way in which her hair had been shaved and was alarmed to see someone cutting her groin area during what was supposed to be brain surgery. From the area where her legs were, she also heard a female voice saying that the blood vessels were too small on the right side, and a male voice suggesting that they try the other side.

It's incredible that, during this period of brain death, she had any perception at all. But it's even more incredible that she could have heard the two voices. During the entire time not only was she under general anesthesia, but she also had special earpieces actually molded into her ears. Those tiny speakers were emitting 90 to 100 decibel clicks at a rate of 11 to 13 clicks per second. Sound at that volume is easily louder than a whistling teakettle and nearly as loud as a lawn mower or even a passing subway train. This sound was meant to monitor her most basic level of brain function and ensure that she was deeply and consistently anesthetized. Just imagine tiny speakers specially molded to completely fill the ear canal emitting clicks that loud and rapid. Then imagine the likelihood of accurately hearing a brief conversation that was taking place at the volume of normal conversation – about 60 decibel, substantially below the 90 to 100 decibel clicks. Even though the conversation was happening a few feet away, there's little possibility it could have been overheard. Regardless, even if Reynolds had somehow been partially conscious and hearing things as she normally would, it's strange that - as Dr Sabom confirms - she never mentioned hearing clicks, much less feeling distracted by them or struggling to hear through them.

Dr Spetzler summarizes the profound questions raised by Reynolds' NDE:

"At that stage in the operation, nobody can observe, hear, in that state, And I find it inconceivable that your normal senses, such as hearing, let alone the fact that she had clicking modules in each ear, that there was any way to hear [what she heard] through normal auditory pathways. I don't have an explanation for it. I don't know how it's possible for it to happen, considering the physiological state she was in. At the same time, I have seen so many things that I can't explain, that 1 don't want to be so arrogant as to be able to say that there's no way it can happen."

When Reynolds was asked how she was able to hear, she replied that it was through nonphysical processes.

This devotee, Gaura Nataraj das (Aleksey Furdak) performed…
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This devotee, Gaura Nataraj das (Aleksey Furdak) performed Bharatha Natyam in a Metro Station in USA. His Reply to the Haters was Awesome!
“Who goes to see classical dance or music performances? Elderly people and other musicians and dancers! Of course the subway is not the best place where the art can be appreciated. But nevertheless there were so many people who were touched by my performance and expressed their gratitude. But they would never go to see classical dance or music performance in the theater. So maybe it was their only opportunity to encounter this beautiful art. And if you still think that what I did is unacceptable and crazy… well, love makes us do crazy things. As Kulashekara Alvar says in his Mukunda Mala Stotra: “My mind cannot turn from Sri Krishna’s lotus feet, even for a moment. So let my dear ones and other relatives criticize me, my superiors accept or reject me as they like, the common people spread evil gossip about me, and my family’s reputation be sullied. For a madman like me, it is honor enough to feel this flood of love of Godhead, which brings such sweet emotions of attraction for my Lord.”
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By His Mercy (4 min video) Indradyumna Swami: Each time we come…
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By His Mercy (4 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: Each time we come to Russia our visit to the St. Petersburg yatra is one of the highlights of our tour. Our visit this past week was no exception, as we had kirtan for hours each day with hundreds of devotees in their center downtown. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, by whose mercy the chanting of Lord Krsna’s holy names have spread to every town and village in this land!
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Hare Krishna! The Best Benediction Some people fantasize about…
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Hare Krishna! The Best Benediction
Some people fantasize about accumulating immense wealth and dream of what they would buy if they only had enough. To them, happiness hovers elusively on the other side of that new car, that big house, that diamond necklace. While many of us will say, “Money can’t buy happiness,” do we really believe it? If not money, what is the solution to our hankerings? What is the greatest treasure that will bring true happiness? And how do we acquire that treasure? Srila Prabhupada answers these questions in one of his purports, which recounts the story of a fortunate brahmana who sought the best benediction from Lord Siva
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Case with multiple correlating birthmarks - Necip Unlutaskiran (From “Where Reincarnation and Biology Interesect – Ian Stevenson, pg 48)