We all feel sometimes that our abilities are not adequately recognized, that we are underappreciated.
Most people spend their entire lives trying to correct this by slaving for worldly recognition. Sadly however, the recognition doesn’t come. Or if it comes, it doesn’t come enough. Or if it comes enough, it doesn’t last long enough. After all, our abilities don’t stay with us always. Sometimes we are able to deliver and sometimes not. Overall, the craving for worldly recognition sentences us to perpetual dissatisfaction.
The Bhagavad-gita (07.08) indicates that our abilities come from Krishna, in fact, are Krishna manifesting himself. It isn’t too difficult to realize that the abilities that we have are not actually our own. If the abilities were entirely one’s own, then why would one not be able to deploy them constantly?
For example, even the best cricketers who can bat with effortless grace sometimes flop. We tend to downplay it as the player “being out of form.” But no one wants to be out of form. Then what makes them go out of form?
Acknowledging that the abilities we have are not ours might seem even more depriving and hurting than not being appreciated for those abilities. But actually it can be the way to becoming healed and fulfilled.
How?
Whatever abilities we have, we use them not to slave for worldly recognition, but to give Krishna recognition. That is, we remember that it is Krishna who has kindly given us these abilities and whatever we are able to achieve is by his mercy. Thus our abilities become impetus for us to devotionally connect with Krishna – a connection that is the source of lasting fulfillment. Even when our achievements and our abilities don’t last, that devotional connection lasts and fulfills forever.
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07.08 - O son of Kunti, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.
Indradyumna Swami: Our Kartika parikrama continues as we tread the sacred path from one holy place to another in the association of loving devotees 
The official website of the center of International Society for Krishna Consciouness in Santiago, Chile where the main deities are Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Sri Giri Govardhana 
Shringara Vat is the Banyan Tree where Krishna took Radharani alone from the Rasa Dance and decorated her (shringara). On the very Rasa Purnima day, he invited all the devotees for darshan, kirtan, artika, and most delicious prasadam 
In India, Srila Prabhupada’s main program for revitalizing the Vedic teachings was the construction of major temples. In 1972, he laid the foundation stone of the temple in Juhu, Mumbai. Opened in 1978, ISKCON Juhu has become a must visit pilgrim center with nearly 25000 pilgrims streaming in daily. 
Offering of candles and prayers to the Lord every day in Union Square for the whole month of kartik 
Kartik (Damodar) is the best, the purest of purifiers, and most glorious of all months. Kartik month is particularly dear to Lord Sri Krishna. This month is full of bhakta vatsalya. Any vrata, even the smallest, will yield huge results. The effect of performing a Kartik Vrata lasts for one hundred lifetimes, Kartik or the festival of offering lamps to Lord Krishna, glorifies Lord Krishna’s pastime of being bound with ropes by Mother Yashoda. 
Vishvamitra Das (Vladimir Kritsky) joined the Krishna Consciousness movement in 1979. In the beginning of the 80's he was arrested for his faith and has spent six years in prison.
He was sentenced twice. The second time, he was punished for preaching in jail. 
Nestled away in the Appalachians, just south of Wheeling, West Virginia (the birthplace of my maternal grandfather, Charles Rowan) is a community of 350 ISKCON devotees called New Vrindaban. (Old Vrindaban is in Uttar Pradesh, India, the boyhood home of Krishna.) 
Indradyumna Swami: On the first day of Kartika here in Vrindavan our parikrama party walked to the courtyard where the sacred samadhis of Srinivasa Acarya, Ramachandra Kaviraja and Hemalata Goswami are located. We had many hours of kirtan and katha and felt our souls greatly purified. 
Kirtan is now the in-thing in many parts of the world including Europe. In many places other groups are way ahead of us as far as filling this growing need of the general public. While we cannot claim to be the sole inheritors of kirtan, we are certainly one of the first and main proponents of it in the west 
Today the animal rights lobbyists are very outspoken about animal welfare and often they advocate a vegan diet due to the cruelty inflicted on Mother cow in the dairy industry. Many devotees are being influenced by the vegan argument. We will have two presentations on this topic from different points of view 
Photo report from 12th ISKCON European Leaders Meeting Radhadesh, Belgium, October 5-6 
Kirtan is fully participatory, call-and-response devotional chant. A live kirtan is at once ecstatic, contemplative and — most of all — playfully improvised. Enjoy singing along with this music!