(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 05 April 2009, Durban, South Africa, Lecture)

Once, at a program in Johannesburg, as I came out of the car, the devotees were very eager to help me get out of the car and someone was very eager to close the door… but my hand was still inside and my hand got caught in the door – four fingers were caught in the door!

I do not know which was worse – the pain of the hand being caught between the door or the pain in my mind, thinking that four fingers were gone and I will have to go through life from now on, missing four fingers from my hand!

Anyway, at the same time, I called out, “Open the door!!!” which they did and as my hand came out, it was perfectly alright! Suddenly, I realized, “All glories to the car designers!”  What foresight! They planned for it by the putting the rubber-belt in there! Believe it or not, I even played harmonium that evening although a little slower than usual!

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The harinam and program Wednesday March 11, 2015 in Prague (Album 31 photos)
For many years harinams – the color joyous procession of devotees singing the holy name of Krishna accompanied by harmonium, mridangas and karatalas – are inseparable from Prague. This singing represents the yuga-dharma for this age. We go regularly on Wednesdays and Fridays at 4 PM from Obecni dům on Republic Square. If you would like to join, you are cordially invited. “Sankirtana brings grace of Krishna’s holy names to the spiritually inert mass of people and indeed to all living beings who do not otherwise have the opportunity or inclination to Krishna consciousness. This public chanting purifies the contaminated atmosphere of the Kali Yuga. Everyone who will participate, will be dear to Lord Chaitanya.”
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Bliss in Mayapur! (Album 30 photos)
Happy devotees perform the Sankirtana Harinama Yajna in the Holy Dham.
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Parikrama in Radhakunda (Album 104 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The only purport of the holy name of Krishna is that He is dark blue like a tamala tree and the son of mother Yasoda. This is the conclusion of all the revealed scriptures. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 7.86)
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Mother Malati’s Magical Memories (16 min video)
Mother Malati blessed the TKG Academy students with her stories of Srila Prabhupada with her daugher Sarasvati. Take a look below to hear about gulabjamuns, airplane rides, and Srila Prabhupada’s immense love. The students were spellbound! Having Srila Prabhupada’s devout disciples bring the magic of Krishna consciousness directly to the students is certainly a great privilege that we treasure at the TKG Academy.
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Harinama in Auckland New Zealand (Album 17 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: You have manifested the holy name of Krishna throughout the entire world. Anyone who sees You is immediately absorbed in ecstatic love of Krishna. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 7.13)
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Hare Krishna! Sri Ananta Padmanabha Swamy Temple at Trivandrum
Sri Ananta Padmanabha temple is one of the most prominent temples of India. It is considered as one of the 108 Vaishnava temples (divya sthanam), one of the seven moksha sthalas and one of the six Narayana sthalas. Lord Balarama, Lord Nityananda and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited this temple. The Temple is located inside the East Fort in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
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Haryana CM Khattar shows the way; bans cow slaughter in state!
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has the potential to emerge as an important political leader who is not hesitant to stand up for Hindu interests.
Khattar’s state government is set to ban the sale of beef and cow slaughter in Haryana, which will become a crime chargeable under the same section that deals with murder.
After Maharashtra, Haryana government will introduce a bill in the Budget session to ban beef and cow slaughter in the state. Punishment under Section 302 which amounts to murder, will be slapped for cow slaughter and possession of beef will also be included as crime.
Haryana Agriculture Minister Om Parkash Dhankar had on March 8 said that the state is set to introduce a bill for “protection and upkeep” of cows in the session.
In the proposed ‘Govansh Sanrakashan and Gau Samvardhan (Cow Protection and Cow Conservation and Development) Bill’ efforts will be made to ban cow slaughter and for conservation and better care of indigenous cattle, he said. Dhankar also said adding that sale of packaged beef has been banned in the state.
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Peter`s View. The Krishna`s in Malaysia (4 min video)
“…What I see is a movement dedicated to doing many good deeds in a troubled world…” Peter Quest from www.lovelyplanet.com talks about his experience so far with the Krishna`s in Malaysia.
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TKG Academy Newsletter for Spring 2015!
TKG in TKG Academy stands for His Holiness Tamal Krishna Goswami. He was a dynamic, influential and powerful guru, winning the hearts and minds of all he met. It was his personal instructions and guidance that have formed the existing academic and spiritual standards of TKG Academy. He invested a considerable amount of time training and instructing the teachers, perfecting the curriculum, and creating a nurturing community where the school and its families can thrive.
Dear friends, take a look at what we have accomplished! Your support makes all this possible. Thank you.
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Hare Krishna! Meet Narayana & Laura Meyer, TKG Academy’s regular supporters
Let me introduce Narayana and Laura Meyer. We wish to recognize them as the Donor Spotlight for this month and express our gratitude for their support over the past year. In addition to their regular monthly donation, they gave $1,500 to TKG Academy over the New Year holiday. Narayana is the son of Kalachandji Dham’s Mathuranatha Prabhu and Mother Lila. He grew up in the Dallas Hare Krishna community. Along with his brother Janardan, he attended TKG Academy throughout his entire education – from preschool to high school. Narayana and Laura have recently moved back to Dallas.
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GBC Leadership College, Questions and Answers, Govardhan Eco-Village, Wada, Maharashtra
Radhanath Swami: “Getting things done is important. But the spirit and the unity of the community is what will give substance to what you get done. We can build a temple, but people are not going to be Krishna conscious beyond a certain level just due to the temple. They are going to be Krishna conscious by the quality of the association they get when they come to the temple. In one purport Srila Prabhupada writes that the purpose of developing all these temples is to give people the opportunity to associate with devotees. And the quality of their association with devotees is what is going to be important. In Mayapur, with the Temple of Vedic Planetarium, there are going to be millions of people coming from all over the world to see the temple and experience the atmosphere of Mayapur. But what is really going to open their hearts to receive the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the quality of the association of devotees they get when they come.”
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Hare Krishna! Two Muslim Classmates Meet as Krsna Devotees
“Dissipating Lord Caitanya’s message in Kazakhstan is challenging. The devotees faced hurdles as in 2007, when envy and anger overcame the local governors who destroyed houses at the farm where the devotees lived and wanted to destroy the temple as well. Under the Lord’s protection, diplomacy and wisdom of Srila Gurudeva and other leaders and the support of devotees worldwide, Krsna consciousness is thriving in Kazakhstan. There is a big summer tent for festivals, goshala (cow farm), a wonderful lake revered as the local Radha-kund and a beautiful garden with apple trees and flowers.
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After an absence of more than fifteen years, Hare Krsna Food For Life has reopened in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 26 December 2015, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.26) 

I was reading Chanakya Pandit’s Neeti-Shastra. It was a long time ago that he wrote it, when he said ‘Which family has no blemish? Which family is not scarred by some scandals?’

In every family, there are some stories… Like, I have this uncle and his wife was a professional prostitute. What to do!? She got pregnant and he married her. The whole family, whenever they see her, it is always like, ‘There she is!’ She does not care but they will never ever forget that once she was a professional prostitute! That is how it is… We sort of do it behind the back of my uncle but some people want him to see their disapproval. It is somewhat of family entertainment.

Okay, now I put it on the table, ‘Oh my God, really? In your family, Maharaj? We always thought that you were from a respectable background and now we have to hear this? Oh gosh, Maharaj has gone down one level in public estimation, on this day.’ But as Chanakya Pandit explains, every family has some stories, something is there to tell, that is the situation but then we all try to sort of cover it up and keep it quiet.

The other day, I was talking to one devotee, devotee X, who was explaining that their family last name is the same as one of the people in the history of America who made an attempt to kill the president. It took him until he was forty-three when he finally asked his mother, ‘Does our family have any connection with so and so?’ And his mother just went like ‘We do not talk about that!’ Another blemish on the family. So it is interesting these things. In every family, there are some stories…

Sannyas initiation of HH Krishna Kshetra Swami (45 min full HD video)
We have been there with two professional cameras and we shoot everything in all details.
The editing is been done with great care and I guess it could be used as a documentary to represent the Initiation ceremonies in Vaishnava culture.
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Prahaladananda Swami, Bhakti Charu Swami, Radhanatha Swami and Giriraj Swami participated in the questions and answers session.

“Getting things done is important. But the spirit and the unity of the community is what will give substance to what you get done. We can build a temple but people are not going to be Krishna conscious beyond a certain level due to the temple. They are going to be Krishna conscious by the quality of the association they get when they come to the temple. In one purport Srila Prabhupada writes that the purpose of developing all these temples is to give people the opportunity to associate with devotees. And the quality of their association with devotees is what is going to be important. In Mayapur, with the Temple of Vedic Planetarium coming up, there are going to be millions of people visiting from all over the world to see the temple and experience the atmosphere of Mayapur. But what is really going to open their hearts to receive the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the quality of the association of devotees they get when they come.”

— Radhanatha Swami

GBC College Q and A, Eco-Village, Wada

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Srimad-Bhagavatam has been reprinted in Spanish after being out of stock for four years!
ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada’s masterwork the Srimad-Bhagavatam has been reprinted in Spanish after being out of stock for four years, to the delight of the Spanish-speaking world. Why has it taken so long? Well, for one, the once-struggling Spanish and Portuguese branch of Prabhupada’s publishers the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has been on a decade-long climb back to success and sustainability, during which it had to focus on smaller books for mass distribution.
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Gaura Purnima 2015 at ISKCON Chicago (Album 142 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the Adi Purana Krishna tells Arjuna: “Anyone who is engaged in chanting My transcendental name must be considered to be always associating with Me. And I may tell you frankly that for such a devotee I become easily purchased.” (Nectar of Devotion, 12)
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