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Helping everyone to come closer to Krishna by Badahari Prabhu (1 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: If one renders even a small amount of sincere devotional service, Krishna becomes obliged to elevate such person; and what to speak of one whose entire life and soul has been dedicated to Krishna’s service. Letter to Harer Nama, November 6, 1969.
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What Comes First, Love Or Trust?
Radhanath Swami: That’s a beautiful question. They are like a coin with the head side and the tail side. If you have heads and tails on the coin, it’s the same coin.
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Harinama at Burleigh Heads - 25 January 2015 - ISKCON New Govardhana - Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari (Album 20 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare-these sixteen names composed of thirty-two syllables are the only means to counteract the evil effects of Kali-yuga. In all the Vedas it is seen that to cross the ocean of nescience there is no alternative to the chanting of the holy name.” (Kali-santarana Upanisad)
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ISKCON Communications Ministry has issued a media release about the film "Wolfpack" that was screened at Sundance Film Festival in the USA on Sunday. The film has received a significant amount of media attention. Wolfpack portrays a true story of a family in New York City where the father locked his children inside their four-bedroom apartment for years--except for occasional supervised visits outside. 

Brihat Mridanga Awards in Bali (Album 21 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “The essence of all Vedic knowledge-comprehending the three kinds of Vedic activity, the Vedic hymns, and the processes for satisfying the demigods-is included in the eight syllables Hare Krishna Hare Krishna. This is the reality of all Vedanta. The chanting of the holy name is the only means to cross the ocean of nescience.” (Narada-pancharatra)
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December book distribution awards & mahaprasad on Jan 17 @ ISKCON Baroda (Album 188 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the material world, everything is full of anxiety
(kuntha), whereas in the spiritual world (Vaikuntha) everything is free from anxiety. Therefore those who are afflicted by a combination of anxieties cannot understand the Hare Krishna mantra, which is free from all anxiety.
(Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.74 Purport)
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Israeli soldiers join a Harinam party in Tel-Aviv 26/01/2015 (Album 159 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Many people come and inquire whether they have to give up family life to join the Society, but that is not our mission. One can remain comfortably in his residence. We simply request everyone to chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 7.128 Purport).
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Text 1 invokes blessings by respecting those who are attached to understanding Śrī Rūpa’s words.

Text 2 is also introductory. It states that this book is something of a sequel to Bhakti-Rasāmṛta-Sindhu-Bindu

Text 3 begins defining the difference between Vaidhi and Rāgānugā

3: Śāstra is the stimulus for Vaidhi. Lobha is especially the stimulus for Rāgānugā.

“especially” (eva) might mean that śāstra is also a stimulus for Rāgānugā, but the primary stimulus is lobha. Maybe he say something about it later.

4: The qualification to practice either depends (respectively) on the stability of one’s comprehending śāstra and ones feeling lobha.

Text 5 begins defining Lobha

5: He quotes BRS 1.2.292: “Lobha arises when one’s concentration naturally goes towards the sweetness of [a certain] bhāva, without prompting from logic or śāstra’s advice.”

He then explains this verse: When one hears about the sweet bhāvas of śṛṇgār, etc in vraja-līlā one feels, “I want those same feelings.” That “greed” (lobha) must come naturally, not as a result of logic or śāstra’s advice. If it doesn’t come naturally it is not actually greed. This “greed” never arises from such things. It arises on its own, and doesn’t take any consideration of “worthy” or “unworthy.” It arises by hearing about the desired bhāva, or witnessing it.

Text 6: What is the cause of getting lobha after hearing or seeing the desired bhāva?

Kṛpā is the cause. bhagavat-kṛpā or the kṛpā of a devotee who seeks rāga.

bhakta-kṛpā can be either from the past or from the present. When it is from the past, it causes one to take shelter of a guru. When it is in the present, it arises as a result of taking shelter of a guru.

He quotes the last verse in the BRS section on Rāgānugā: “The sole cause of lobha is the mercy of Krishna and his devotee.”  

“Gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanudasah. My only true identity is that I am the servant of the servant  of the servant  of the servant of the Lord of the gopis — Sri Krishna. After offering this Prayer, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu invited everyone to bring Jagannatha together to Sri Vrindavan Dham . In this way he taught us what our sense of identity should be. We are not these bodies, we are not the proprietors, we are the  servants of the servants  of the servants of Krishna.”

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Radhanatha Swami
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Giriraj Swami

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BY SIMHESWARA DASA

I was at temple project site on last Friday and Saturday. We had meetings and here are some progress cleaning of temple walls before painting begins. The GI tubing for sound and wiring has been completed. Front wall being put up. Countdown for August 29, 2015 and only then it will be Merdeka, our Independence Day which incidentally falls on 31/8.

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According to Kapila Deva (Bhāgavatam 3.28-33). Start from the bottom and read upwards.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 23 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Lecture)

It is interesting that Prabhupada was not a temple devotee! Prabhupada was that nice Mr De from the congregation. (Indian accent) He used to give nice donations for Janmastami. Also, he would play mrdanga. That was a nice thing.

This Mr De, he was a nice man, nice congregational member. Next moment, here comes the acharya! He did bigger than all the others. They could not believe it! Some really had a problem with it, “He always was a real business man. That is why he was so successful.” This was too much for them. How could Mr De, some congregational member who took sannyasa, but so much later than they took sannyasa, how could he become the next world acharya? Ah… was not even a temple devotee. So, let us see. Who will be the next? (laughing)

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Latest photos from the construction of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur, India (Album 30 photos)
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Kirtan at Klyde Warren Park- Dallas Texas (Album 24 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: As far as possible, therefore, the devotees in the Krishna consciousness movement gather to chant the holy name of Krishna in public so that both the chanters and the listeners may benefit. (Sri-Cantanya-Caritamrta, Antya-lila 1.101)
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Blue Mystic - A drama by Bhaktimarga Swami and Toronto Drama Team (Album 20 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Bhajananandi refers to one who is satisfied to cultivate devotional service for himself, and goshty-anandi is one who is not satisfied simply to become perfect himself but wants to see others also take advantage of the holy name of the Lord and advance in spiritual life.
(Sri-Cantanya-Caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.92)
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Abhishek ceremony in Mayapur for Sri Advaita (Album 90 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Lord’s holy name is called sravana-mangala. This means that one receives everything auspicious simply by hearing the holy name.
(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2.7.15 Purport)
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Sunday Program in Moscow (Album 5 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Hare Krishna movement is present in every millennium of Lord Brahma’s life, and the holy name is chanted in all the higher planetary systems, including Brahmaloka and Candraloka, not to speak of Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka. The sankirtana movement that was started in this world five hundred years ago by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is therefore not a new movement.
(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2.7.15 Purport)
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Devotees engaged in Harinama saving the souls drowning in the ocean of material existence :-)

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