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Very profound chanting experience with a powerful voice and beautiful music and rather psychedelic light effects..with Govinda Swami Read more › 
Our relationship with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is eternal. Nitya-siddha Krishna-prema. The pure souls are eternally in love with Krishna. Simply by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra one revives his original relationship with God and thus becomes so happy that he does not want anything material. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 7.7.39 Purport) Read more › The Following transcriptions have been uploaded.
When there are so many cases of past life memories, why don’t we find some people remembering their experience in heaven, hell or as animals?
How do see spiritual organizations that are largely Vaishnava except for considering their founder as an incarantion?
If someone is following an Abrahamic religion, should we encourage them to follow that religion or to take up Krishna consciousness?
Are Manava seva and Madhava seva like two largely overlapping circles?
Why does Prabhupada translate bhakti in Bhaktirasamritasindhu as ‘devotion’ instead of ‘devotional service’?
Does Krishna compassionately pull impersonalists from Brahman to Bhagavan?
Does our seeking end after we find God as the Bible indicates or continue forever as Gaudiya Vaishnavism indicate?
Why do we do pradakshina?
http://www.thespiritualscientist.com/2014/05/why-do-we-do-pradakshina/
Three people died of poisonous insect bite in villages around Barsana. Though the rains are good for the fields to grow the crops, villagers have always been worried about mosquitoes, which spreads different diseases. The villagers usually take measures to protect themselves from mosquito bites, but this year they are scared of an unknown insect bite that has killed three villagers. The villagers said that the bite of this insect affects the throat and after few hours it it followed by suffocation and death. Read more › 
Car runs on cow dung , battery runs on cow urine for 400 hours. Herding cows with music is a wonderful experience. Much better than the current methods where fear and punishment is the norm. Read more › 
His Holiness Bhakti Anugraha Janardana Swami, who is the vice-president of ISKCON Vrndavan, the largest ISKCON temple located in India, arrives in Iloilo City today with two other travelling monks, Balarama Das and Jagadananda Pandit Dasa. Read more › 
Gorilla Reunion: Damian Aspinall's extraordinary gorilla encounter on Gorilla School.
A powerful drama performance by 2nd generation ISKCON devotees.
Yes, that's right... it's the Hare Krishna MahaMantra Challenge, in which you have to sing the MahaMantra to the melody of a popular western song... it can be from any genre or time period, so long as it's not a traditional Indian melody, and it must be recognizable. Whether you tell us what the melody is or not is up to you.... We've chosen not to tell anyone what melody we used because it's more fun to make you guess. Read more › 1) Why is Lord Siva called Abhava – one who feels no misery – if he is said to feel pain and pleasure. 2) From the lila of Pundarika Vidyanidhi how do we judge the mood of a person in opulence and 3) Why does Krsna have the name Jagannatha? Continue reading "Caitanya-lila d.d. asks
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This past week many devotees increased their chanting of the holy names. We had a different group of devotees going out for Nagar Sankirtan every day from the 5th to the 12th. The different groups were the Mayapur brahmacharis, Indian council, Mayapur management, International high school, International primary school, the ISCKON security department, Jagannath temple devotees, Bhaktivedanta National school, and even our various shop keepers organized their own Hari-nam party.
Read more › This past week many devotees increased their chanting of the holy names. We had a different group of devotees going out for Nagar Sankirtan every day from the 5th to the 12th. The different groups were the Mayapur brahmacharis, Indian council, Mayapur management, International high school, International primary school, the ISCKON security department, Jagannath temple devotees, […]
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Bhaja Bhakata Vatsala by Vraja Krishna Das at ISKCON Juhu on 13 September 2014 01
This week’s challenge: Who are the two main people and what are they doing?
Extra credit: Can you name the other five people?
Extra, extra credit: When and where was this photo taken?
What to do: Post your guesses on the “who, what, when, where & why” in the comment section at the New Vrindaban Facebook Page.
Absorbed in the thought of the transcendental qualities of the Lord, who is sung in select poetry, the ladies on the roofs of all the houses of Hastināpura began to talk of Him. This talk was more attractive than the hymns of the Vedas. [ŚB 1.10.20]
The chatter of the ladies on the rooftops was more spiritual than the mantras chanted by the brahmanas.
Why?
The goal of Vedic mantra is to sacrifice oneself entirely into the fire of Brahman. The ladies on the rooftops had absolutely and completely sacrificed every atom of their being to Krishna. Therefore their chatter is on a higher platform than Vedic Mantra.
Similarly the songs of Śrī Narottama are better than the chandas of Ṛg, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva.
The import for us?
“Schnick Schnick Rāma Rāma” doesn’t attract anyone or produce much spiritual bliss. We have to sacrifice our whole minds and hearts to the mantra, giving a completely open space for the mantra to fill. Then our chanting sounds like the chatter of the ladies on the rooftops, otherwise we are lucky if we sometimes sound like Vedic Brahmanas. More like frogs and strange crickets, usually. ;-)
Materialists sometimes accuse spiritualists, “You are escapists – you run away from problems. You don’t even know the meaning of challenge.”
The fact however is that it is the materialists who run away from the ultimate challenge: the challenge of meaning.
The deepest thinkers throughout history have pondered the challenge of meaning, especially when confronted with the mortality and fragility of human existence: “What is gained by succeeding in challenges that will mean nothing to me when everything will be finished at death? Why do I exist? Why does anything exist? What is the point of it all?”
The deepest thinkers throughout history have pondered the challenge of meaning, especially when confronted with the mortality and fragility of human existence
Materialists find such questions so discombobulating that they frequently avoid them altogether. They lose themselves in the here-and-now by setting challenging worldly goals. On achieving some of these goals, they ostentatiously pat each other on the back. But even after joining such a self-congratulatory circle, they can’t get rid of the existential meaninglessness that gnaws at their hearts. So they bury themselves in new challenges – till death ends their meaningless pursuit of challenges.
Spiritualists are bold enough to confront the challenge of meaning head-on. They recognize that the search for meaning being a function of consciousness cannot be fulfilled in unconscious matter. So they explore the arena of consciousness, the spiritual reality that underlies material reality. To guide such exploration, they turn to time-honored spiritual texts such as the Bhagavad-gita. Therein they come to know about their own identity as indestructible spiritual beings, souls, whose search for meaning comes from the consciousness that is integral to their spiritual essence. And that search culminates in understanding the all-attractive, all-loving supreme person, God, Krishna, who imbues everything with meaning. All living beings are his eternal parts and are meant to delight in a life of eternal love with him.
Those who dedicate themselves for learning to love and serve him transform their life in this temporary world into a gateway to the eternal world. Significantly, such devotee-spiritualists don’t avoid all challenges in this world – they embrace those challenges that are spiritually meaningful. For example, Arjuna after hearing the Gita took up the challenge of assisting the divine in establishing dharma in this world by doing his prescribed duty, and so do all Gita-guided spiritualists.
Gita wisdom offers its analysis of meaning not as a dogma to be accepted uncritically but as a proposition that can be realized experientially through the time-honored process of bhakti-yoga. The Gita (07.03) indicates that those who meet this challenge of meaning are rare, one among millions. After all, it takes courage to turn away from the meaningless challenges of popular culture – courage that materialists lack and spiritualists possess.
HG Jai Nitai Dasa – SB 10.72.5 – 17.09.2014