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1975 June 11: "Even there may be some problems, always try to remain in Krishna Consciousness. Do not give up chanting simply due to some external difficulties. Under all circumstance you should always chant Hare Krishna."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

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A - Always chant a fixed number of rounds each day, and always look to increase that number

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20 April 2014, Durban, South Africa, Lecture: The real meaning of charity)

Charity begins at home! It begins with us being generous not only with our money but with ourselves. Vaisnava charity means to give yourself. It is like, we do not ask for your money but we ask for you. Give your life. Gandhi had a movement and there was a big lawyer who was working for the British and making a fortune. Gandhi approached this lawyer…

Gandhi said, “Join my movement.”
He said to Gandhi, “Please do not ask me to join your movement. Ask me for money. I will give you money.”
Gandhi said, “We do not want your money. We want you.”

Then he forced him to join his movement and he became a big leader and without him, the Gandhi movement would have never been pushed forward.

So we want you. We do not want you to just come and put a bottle of milk with some fruits on the altar. We do not just want some donation in the box. No! We want your life because that is real charity – to give yourself! That is the greatest charity, to give ourselves to Krsna. That is real charity. That is what we want. That is our aim, fully.

But that is not easy. I thought I will do that. You know, when I was thirteen, twelve actually, the Beatles came to the Netherlands and that was a big change. All the young people stopped going to the barber on that day; the barbers went bankrupt overnight. That was it and I was also one of them. I had long hair and it was completely white. Extremely white, whiter than, much whiter than Bhakti Caitanya Maharaj and I was very proud that I had such white hair because no one else had. When there was a crowd, I would stand out and everyone would say, “Oh!” I was very proud. Then I joined the Hare Krsna movement and I shaved it all off! Then it grew back in this ‘mouse’ colour which I have now. I lost the white colour. Just see, Krsna took it away, what to do!?

I thought with that sacrifice, I had done it, that I had given myself in charity but it was not so easy because I found that internally, I was holding back. I put on the neck beads, I put the tilak, I said the prayers but inside my heart, I kept my own space. Oh yes, externally I chanted, I showed my devotion but inside my heart, there was a secret chamber. In that secret chamber, I kept hidden my secret material desires and I did not show them to anyone. I was hiding them and no one could see that they were there but they were there.

It could be seen in my lack of love. It could be seen in my lack of really being happy. It could be seen in my lack of being kind to anyone and everyone. It showed that I still did not melt. It is said sneha is an advanced stage of love and in that state of sneha, the heart begins to melt. So the heart melting, means that one becomes extremely compassionate and kind towards everyone but when that little secret private chamber in my heart was still there, holding on to my own selfish desires, the result was that hard-heartedness did not leave me. Oh, it is not so easy, not so easy. Real charity is not so simple. Real charity is a big challenge, big challenge!

 

 

Tulasi Arati Of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath 10th June 2014

Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.22.

“When I first visited the temple in Boston, the deity worship seemed odd—it was very foreign to my experience and culture. And I had learned in the Ten Commandments: ‘Thou shalt not make graven images.’ Still, I was intrigued, and I liked everything else—but the deity worship was a little hard to relate to. But then I saw Satsvarupa do the deity worship, and he was such a sober, pure-hearted, intelligent, and responsible person that I thought, ‘There is definitlely something to it; it is not just playing with dolls.’ At that time we did not have Radha-Gopivallabha, we had only small brass Radha-Krishna deities. Soon the devotees trained me as a pujari, and I experienced so much reciprocation from the deities. It was amazing. If I had never experienced it, I would never have imagined it. It was a very personal relationship, with tangible personal reciprocation.”

Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.22, Boston

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After visiting the Czech Republic, Kadamba Kanana Swami spent a few days in Germany and then travelled to Ljubljana (Slovenia) to participate in the kirtan festival (30 May – 1 June). 

Thereafter, Maharaj travelled to Sweden. June is the designated month for writing and Maharaj decided to spend it at New Radhakunda which is situated 30 km south of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. New Radhakunda is the headquarters of the North European Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) and provides a favourable atmosphere for writing.

Maharaj arrived here on Monday (2 June). He is spending time working on his book and makes a public appearance once a week. On Sunday (8 June), Maharaj gave the morning Srimad Bhagavatam class at New Radhakunda and the Sunday feast Srimad Bhagavatam class at the Hare Krsna Center in Stockholm.

 

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Please click here to view some nice photos. Photo credits: Nama-rupa dd and Uffe Prabhu.

 

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7th June,

Kirtan in London is going strong, on this Saturday we split our group into two,
one went for a carnival and one for a Rathayatra,

(watch out for two very enthusiastic ladies)

and then we met up for the evening Kirtan.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Your servant
Parasuram Das

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1967 June 10: "If I get the permanent visa,, even in my broken health I shall stay in U.S.A. and try to propagate my mission through my disciples like you. I don't mind whether I die here or in Vrndavana - wherever there is Krishna, that is Vrndavana."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

1967 June 10: "Although I am practically on the path of death, still I cannot forget about my publications. I wish that if I live or die you should take very serious care for my publications."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

1969 June 10: "Unless one is a resident of Krishna Loka, one cannot be a Spiritual Master. That is the first proposition. A layman cannot be a Spiritual Master, and if he becomes so then he will simply create disturbance."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

1969 June 10: "The symptoms of nitya siddha is that from the beginning of his life he is attached to Krishna, and he is never tired of rendering service to Krishna. So we have to know what is what by these symptoms."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

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1969 June 10: "When the Spiritual Master speaks it should be taken that Krishna is speaking. That is a fact. A Spiritual Master must be liberated. It does not matter if he has come from Krishna Loka or he is liberated from here. But he must be liberated."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

1969 June 10: "I am not very interested to establish a Hindu temple. I never described my movement as Hindu religion. This kind of devotion is not purified. It is contaminated by material desires."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

1969 June 10: "Sex urge is something like itching. So an intelligent person rather suffers the pain of itching sensation than accepting the after effects of satisfying the itch."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

1974 June 10: "From my very childhood I was also worshipping Lord Jagannatha. When I was six years old my father gave me a Ratha and I was performing Ratha yatra in my neighborhood. And now in the Western world you are worshiping Jagannatha so gorgeously and it pleases me very, very much."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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1975 June 10: "Your endeavor to prove scientifically the existence of re-incarnation is not very practical. It is like bringing a cannon to kill a mosquito. It is not required. Explanation is already given in the Bhagavad-gita."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

BY ISKCON GBC 

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

MAYAPUR - Whereas there is a need to recognize as general members those who wish to identify with the spiritual family of ISKCON,

Whereas such recognition should include some basic parameters,

Whereas such recognition should not involve any legal rights for the general members,

RESOLVED:

Whoever, regardless of gender, race, nationality, religion, etc., subscribes to the following statement, shall be considered a general member of ISKCON:

“I wish to be counted as part of the spiritual family of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and I will practically support its mission. I accept the teachings of Lord Krishna as presented by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON.

“While I understand that this general membership does not confer upon me any rights in ISKCON organizations, I am grateful to participate in this spiritual movement intended for the upliftment of the entire human society.”

TRANSLATION
Your enemies will describe you in many unkind words and scorn your ability. What could be more painful for you?

PURPORT
Lord Kṛṣṇa was astonished in the beginning at Arjuna’s uncalled-for plea for compassion, and He described his compassion as befitting the non-Āryans. Now in so many words, He has proved His statements against Arjuna’s so-called compassion.

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.36

Today I was speaking with an old devotee friend....recently he is struggling with Japa but after talking with him for awhile, wants to change that situation.