Weekend Shravanam Retreat & Cida Dahi Utsav in Bali
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By Kadamba Kanana Das Please follow this link for more photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CXSSKzJ7ygNFs8FAA Bali is a world-famous Indonesian tropical island paradise famed for its sandy, picturesque beaches, blue oceans, volcanic mountains, paddy fields and lush tropical greenery. Bali is also known as the “Island of the Gods”. Each home is adorned with temples of various sizes
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TOVP in the Times of India: World’s Largest Religious Monument to Open in India
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The Times of India recently published another article about the TOVP in the TIMESNOW section titled, ‘World’s Largest Religious Monument to Open in India’. Please read and share the article below.

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Srila Prabhupada Nectar
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Many devotees saw Srila Prabhupada drive away small and large dogs by raising his cane and crying out, “Hut!”  When Nanda Kumara was travelling with Prabhupada, he saw Prabhupada do this in a dangerous situation and later he had the opportunity to try the technique himself.

 While Prabhupada and the devotees were walking on the beach in California, a large Doberman pinscher dog approached them, snarling and baring his teeth.  Prabhupada continued walking peacefully, but Nanda Kumara stopped and tensely faced the dog.  This challenge only provoked the dog into more threatening and growling, until Nanda Kumara turned and ran to catch up to Prabhupada.  But as soon as he ran, the Doberman Pinscher pursued him, barking and threatening to attack.  

Before the dog reached them, however, Prabhupada suddenly turned.  He crouched with his feet somewhat apart, raised his cane high over his head and gave a loud “Hut!” – and made a growling sound at the dog.  At this display from Prabhupada the dog turned and retreated quickly back to his home.            

Months later Nanda Kumara recalled Prabhupada’s method and tried it on one large monkey in Jaipur.  While Srila Prabhupada was staying at the Radha-Govinda temple in Jaipur, he and his party were being harassed by the monkeys there, who stole food and clothes.  While the devotees were cooking, these monkeys would drop from the trees and steal chapatis off the stove.  Prabhupada had advised the devotees to take a neutral attitude toward the monkeys’ mischief.  

But one time, while with the devotees in Prabhupada’s room, Nanda Kumara heard a monkey rattling the kitchen door.  He suddenly remembered the technique Prabhupada had used on the beach with the large Doberman pinscher, and he decided to try it with the thieving monkey.  

Quietly excusing himself from the room, he picked up a club outside Prabhupada’s door and walked toward a large monkey, who had noticeably big biceps, growled back, bared its teeth, and advanced toward him.  Nanda Kumara turned and ran back into Prabhupada’s room, slamming the door behind him.  Prabhupada had seen the whole incident through the window and burst out laughing.  “You  do not know the process.”

ISKCON Puerto Rico Safe Amidst Hurricane Fiona
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Image: Ananda Loka Das with plantains after Hurricane Fiona   Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico hard on September 19th and many Puerto Ricans are still recovering from the destruction. As reported by NPR The category 1 storm devastated most of Puerto Rico’s plantain crops– a staple food. Puerto Rico has been severely impacted by Fiona, […]

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Archbishop Visits Prabhupada’s House- Argentina
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Archbishop Eric Escala with garland   The voice of the Shepherd, Archbishop visits Prabhupada’s House.    This past Sunday I had the opportunity to visit the ISKCON temple in Buenos Aires, needless to say, it was a very nice experience. I had read many books of His Divine Grace Abhay Caranaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda “The […]

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Make It a Honey Society!
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“Those words which do not describe the glories of the Lord, who alone can sanctify the atmosphere of the whole universe, are considered by saintly persons to be like unto a place of pilgrimage for crows. Since the all-perfect persons are inhabitants of the transcendental abode, they do not derive any pleasure there.”


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The Spread Of The Lumpy Skin Disease In Cows
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Image Source: Sri Mayapur Goshala   The viral infection has killed nearly 75,000 cattle in India and spread to more than 10 States and UTs, hitting Rajasthan the worst The lumpy skin disease outbreak continues to affect dairy farmers, especially small cultivators in India and South Asia. The infection, caused by the capripoxvirus, is spread […]

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Lord Jagannatha on University of Florida Campus
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The 8th annual Orlando Rathayatra was held on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at the unique location on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida. The Rathayatra took over the beautiful UCF campus and despite it being a weekday, a good number of devotees were present as well as many UCF […]

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TOVP Publishes ‘Srila Prabhupada in Mayapur’
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Recently the TOVP Communications Department released a new online flipbook, ‘The TOVP Story, 1971-2022’ for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and the Vaishnavas. We are happy to announce the publication of yet another flipbook, ‘Srila Prabhupada in Mayapur’. This flipbook is a compilation of most of the known quotes from Srila Prabhupada related to the […]

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Locals Embrace the Return of the Festival of Colors to West Virginia
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After a three-year COVID-related hiatus, the hills of West Virginia were covered in colorful clouds again as locals returned to Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold for the 2022 Festival of Colors. Guests enjoyed the musical stylings of Devananda Prabhu, NamRock, Ananda Groove, and Malini devi dasi, who also led participants in dance and yoga. Local Sarah […]

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Sadhu Sanga Retreat 2022
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Indradyumna Swami: This dynamic video of the Sadhu Sanga Retreat held last May in the USA is actually meant to be a promotion for next year’s retreat in Dallas, Texas from May 26-29. The 2023 retreat will be held in a large convention hall. Stay tuned for registration which will begin in November, just after
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Blessing received by a child within the womb realized several years later!
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Her sister and her were drawn to the festival, they went in and eat lots of sweets and the visiting swami from India blessed her and the child within the womb. It was chiddha dahi festival and she met Jayapataka swami before his stroke and received profuse blessings. It all came to her 14 years later when she saw me today. No wonder this boy was drawn to the books and Krishna philosophy. She promised to bring her son and come for kirtan this week


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GBC Proposals, AGM 2023
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Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The Annual General Meeting of the ISKCON GBC Society will begin in February 2023. Following the ISKCON GBC Society’s Rules of Order, the GBC Secretariat requests proposals, duly sponsored by two GBC members, to be submitted by *November* 15, 2022. Note that no
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Mahalaya Amvasya Seva Opportunity – Sept. 25th 2022
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𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗸𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗮, 🙏𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗼𝗯𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀. 🙏All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! 🙏All Glories to Sri Mayapur Dham! 𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 🙏🙏 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐮 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 […]

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H.G. Ambarisa Prabhu Launches Srila Prabhupada International Heritage Museum Project in the TOVP
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TOVP Chairman, His Grace Ambarisa Prabhu, is pleased to announce to the worldwide ISKCON community the future opening of a beautiful, inspiring and permanent Prabhupada Museum in the TOVP, to preserve and display various artifacts related to ISKCON Founder/Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The museum will be called The Srila Prabhupada International Heritage Museum.

We are appealing to devotees throughout the world who possess items such as Prabhupada’s original Bhagavatam sets, personal furniture, clothing, beads, shoes, pens, watches, etc. to donate their collection or item of Prabhupada memorabilia for the higher cause of preserving and displaying them to the general public for hundreds of years to come in the TOVP. Sridham Mayapur is the World Headquarters of ISKCON, and we anticipate 10 million+ visitors a year once the temple opens. It is highly befitting that a museum of this kind be present to preserve and display Srila Prabhupada mementos for generations of visitors into the future to view.

There is a great risk in keeping these possessions private. Over time they may get damaged, lost, destroyed or even forgotten. And no one gets the opportunity to see the auspicious prasadam of Prabhupada’s personal artifacts which, according to shastra, are as worshipable as he is. What better place to keep these sacred items of our empowered Founder/Acarya and Senapati of Mahaprabhu than at Srila Prabhupada’s ‘Place of Worship’, Lord Gauranga’s own birthplace, Sridham Mayapur.

This project also raises another opportunity for devotees to become sponsors and finance the construction, display cases and other paraphernalia that will be needed for such an important museum. $250,000 is being raised for this specific purpose.

If you would like to add to our growing collection of Prabhupada memorabilia or help finance the project, please contact Braja Vilasa directly at +91 96359 90391 or brajavilasarns@gmail.com.
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