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1973 January 28: "I am very pleased that you have acquired some more cows. You are the manager, it is up to you to see that everything is developed very very nicely. Once you are utilizing everything very nicely, then you may increase more and more."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

1973 January 28: "This modern civilization is always artificial. You are actually learning the self-sufficient mode of living, simple living, high thinking, that is our policy. As long as Krsna remains in the center of all these activities, then you are actually in Vrindaban."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

1973 January 28: "Continue executing this process of devotional service enthusiastically. As your service becomes mature you shall see Krsna more and more - and more and more you shall realize the qualities of the holy land of Vraja."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

1973 January 28: "It is very nice that Vaikuntha Players are only taking information from our Srimad-Bhagavatam and Krsna Book for presenting drama without any deviation from sastra. In this way we can present the philosophy of Krsna Consciousness very nicely for everyone to relish."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

In 1963, Pete Seeger visited Kolkata and sang this beautiful version of Lord Rama's song -- Read more ›

Modern farmer.

Srirangam is the foremost of the eight self-manifested shrines (Swayam Vyakta Kshetras) of Lord Vishnu . It is also considered the first, foremost and the most important of the 108 main Vishnu temples (Divyadesams). -- Read more ›

31-12-2013 Entering 2014 with Partha Sarathi Das Goswami, ISKCON Phoenix, South Africa.MP3

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Practically speaking there is always a Sankirtana Yajna performed at any time, in some place of the planet! Surfers Paradise is a suburb within the local government area of Gold Coast City in Queensland, Australia. -- Read more ›

With excitement and joy we are announcing the newly established Institute for Spiritual Culture. The inauguration program will be held on the 5th of March 2014 at the Goshala in Mayapur. The Board Members HH Sivarama Swami, HH Niranjana Swami, HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami, HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami and HG Badrinarayan Prabhu will grace the […]

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Balabhadra receiving a lick from Vegan Indira, the source of so much milk and milk products

Curd made from Vegan Indira's milk after adding lemon juice.

Soup made from whey left over from making curd. Other ingredients are sweet peppers, broccoli and greens frozen and canned from  last year's garden and beets, carrots and Brussel sprouts from our January garden (before the temperatures reached below 0. Read more at ISCOWP January 2014 E-newsletter   Some Articles: Milking a Cow Realizations Winter Arthik and Treats Offered to the Cows (video) How to Make Curd and Whey From Milk ISCOWP in The Huffington Post

The Sankirtana movement is everywhere! -- Read more ›

NEW OPEN POSITIONS IN NEW VRINDABAN – Jan. 26, 2014

ISKCON New Vrindaban is looking for devotees to serve and help fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in the following positions:

Main Cook Restaurant

Assistant Cook Devotee Kitchen

Assistant Cook Restaurant

Cleaning Personnel for Restaurant

Cleaning Personnel for Lodge

Cleaning Supervisor

Lodge Receptionists

These are all paid positions and some are seasonal. Please send your applications to vasudeva108@gmail.com

For additional information about the New Vrindaban community and the lodge, please visit newvrindaban.com and palacelodge.com.

Your servant,

Vasudeva dasa

(Oscar Maduri)
Lodge & Restaurant Manager
ISKCON New Vrindaban
3759 McCrearys Ridge Road
Moundsville, WV, 26041
Phone: 304 843 1600 Ext133

www.palacelodge.com

www.newvrindaban.com
http://www.festivalofcolors.us/

 

The Gold Coast is a coastal city in southeastern Queensland on the east coast of Australia. The city is 94 km south of the state capital Brisbane. -- Read more ›

Trancendental chanting for the pleausure of Bhagavan Shri Krishna in beautiful Radhadesh Iskcon Castle-Temple in Belgium -- Read more ›

HG Bhuta Bhavana Prabhu SB 1.5.25 Iskcon London

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O, look at Vrindavana, so beautiful with many blissful, splendid groves of kalpa-vriksha trees, with many parrots and other birds intoxicated by singing Vedic hymns glorifying Krishna, with many deers so pleasing to Krishna, with splendid transcendental lakes, ponds and streams, all filled with water sweet as nectar, and with mountains of valuable jewels.

[Source : Nectarean Glories of Sri Vrindavana-dhama by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati Thakura, 1-45 Translation.]

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Toronto, Ontario

Acceptance of the Storms

Nature can be very punishable, so it seems at times, with such severe weather being what it is.  Have we done anything wrong? 

An emphatic “yes” would be the appropriate answer.  Let’s be honest.

Someone or something is a witness to our actions, making a subliminal registry.  Karma is then released in time, good or bad, positive or negative.  It can come charging like some lanced gladiator, or softly land like a gentle angel floating in.

During the freeze dynamic of the outdoors, the morning at the ashram had begun.  Two of our monks were comfortably nestled next to the old timed radiator.  They were in the lotus position.  A third one was on a chair nearby, being that he suffered from a stroke years ago.  His mantra chanting doesn’t sound so articulate while he fingers through his meditative beads.  For the other two, their sound is clear in the delivery of the mantra meditation.  I can see that out of respect for the more senior and disabled monk, that they accept his awkward but sincere verbal output. 

Sitting cross the cozy meditative zone we’ve created for ourselves was me, and like the other three, we are all dealing with our stormy minds.  In this regard the outdoor winter madness, and the mental barrage within, are one.  Only the mantra, once concentrated upon, will permit a sense of aloofness from any mental blizzard. 

Snowflakes galore descended for the bulk of the day in winters persistence.  Fortunately, it did not deter people from coming to our Sunday Open House.  Then I personally enjoyed the slide presentation by my spiritual sister, Praharana, it was most enlivening seeing from the presentation that some of our monks in Burma are receiving as donations, neglected temples.  These older structures are now being adopted.

The feast was amazing at the Open House, and we had a rousing kirtan to follow, which lasted until 9 PM. 

New laden snow made a walk attractive, and so Durjoy, a young Bangladesh devotee who comes around, joined me in this last activity of the day.  We both vowed that it would be a japa (chanting) walk.  With our winter parka pockets as beadbags, we clutched our right hands tightly onto our beads while addressing the stormy minds within.

May the Source be with you!

5 KM

"We are asking him to do something he can’t do — give up all distraction. Rather than ask for the impossible, ask him to add something.
We tell newcomers they don’t have to change their lives, but just add chanting. This is similar advice....you are already chanting, so please remember to bring the mind back."

From Bhajan Kurtir #38
by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Leicester, United Kingdom, Pandava Sena Program)

We think that the purpose of life is to enjoy this world because we think that this word is a wonderful playground and we are all meant to have a wonderful time. But this material world is not the place to enjoy.

Heard of Mr Bean? There is an episode when Mr Bean arrives at a hotel, checks-in at the desk and then they take him up to the room. When he is alone up there, from his suitcase he pulls out a drilling machine and starts drilling holes in the wall, everywhere. He puts screws in them, then he pulls out of his suitcase paintings and he hangs the paintings on the wall. Next, he has a flower vase with plastic flowers and he puts out that one. Finally, he puts up the sign: Home Sweet Home, on the wall.

Then he wants to use the bathroom and he realizes that he does not have an attached bathroom. So he checks it out in the corridor and, yes, the bathroom is right next to his room. He has a score blade which he puts on the drill and he cuts out a door somehow or other. He locks the bathroom from the inside and now everything is okay! He puts on his sleeping hat, takes his teddy bear and is ready to go to bed…

This is ridiculous! He is treating a hotel room as if it is a permanent place, as if he lives there! It’s ridiculous and we are doing the same thing – we are treating this temporary world which is just a transit lounge, like a permanent place!

 

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“The idea is to help people and spread Krishna consciousness. It happens quite often that you can have a more exclusive group of students whose training is more intensive, or you can have a more inclusive group whose education is more mixed. Both have advantages and disadvantages. But the main thing is the purity of the teachers and the staff. In either case, that is important.”
On Education

ISKCON New Vrindaban is looking for devotees to serve and help fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in the following positions:

Main Cook Restaurant
Assistant Cook Devotee Kitchen
Assistant Cook Restaurant
Cleaning Personnel for Restaurant
Cleaning Personnel for Lodge
Cleaning Supervisor
Lodge Receptionists

These are all paid positions and some are seasonal. Please send your applications to vasudeva108@gmail.com

For additional information about the New Vrindaban community and the lodge, please visit newvrindaban.com and palacelodge.com.

Your servant,

Vasudeva dasa

1970 January 27 : "When I think of Radha-Krishna, I think of first the Radha-Govinda Vigraha of Mullicks Thakurabati. From my very childhood I am devoted to that same Deity. Your ambition to have a place like Mullicks Thakurabati is also my ambition."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1970 January 27 : "Just like a tree when overladen with fruits becomes humble and lower down; similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1971 January 27 : "To open 108 branches of our society all over the world has been my desire and it is actually happening. Yes, you have my blessings always. You are very sincere boy."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1971

In the material existence we find so many species of life—animals, insects, men, and so on. All are arranged by the superior power. They are not accidental.

- Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita As It Is 16.19 purport

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Indradyumna Swami: As soon as our bus arrived in the sacred abode of Dwarka the other day we all jumped out and began harinam through the town. Chanting and dancing for hours we finally ended up in front of the 5,000 year-old Rukmini Dwarkadish Temple. As we continued kirtan many of the brahman priests came outside to watch. At one point the main priest invited us to chant inside the temple compound. Due to security measures no instruments are allowed to be brought inside the temple, but he made an exception for us. “In my lifetime it has not happened,” he said. “But you ISKCON people - your kirtan is special.” -- Read more ›

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When we come to festivals and give our heart to the festival, listen with a desire to advance, apply the knowledge the speaker has spoken in our lives, chant from the heart and dance in kirtan we make a quantum leap in our devotional lives.

27-12-2013 Suffering and Transcendence, Napier, South Africa.MP3

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Discussion with Ramabhadra Prabhu.

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