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How do we have a happy, Krishna conscious marriage? To find out, we interviewed Partha Das and Uttama Dasi, members of the Grihastha Vision Team and themselves a happily married couple who are about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Please join us in remembering His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada!
I was discharged from the hospital and returned home about a week ago.
It is so nice to come back to Mayapur and continue my service in TOVP.
I still haven't fully recovered, but luckily I'm able to take a short walks and also go to my office a few days a week to do my service.
Thanks everyone for your prayers for my recovering.
SB 7.6.6-7.6.30 Lecture: Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 6 Chapter 6
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura as well as Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura desired that some day high-court judges might wear Vaisnava tilaka
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Bhagavat Ashraya Prabhu at ISKCON Sydney, Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir
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By Rupanuga dasaThe most interesting thing about Koko, however, is her communication of certain abstract concepts, like old age and death. She cried when her pet kitten (which she named All Ball) died. Previously, her keepers phrased questions to her about death: "Why do gorillas die?" they asked, She sighed in return, "Trouble, old." When asked, "Where do gorillas go when they die?" She answered, "Comfortable hole," blowing a kiss goodbye. Her psychologist was puzzled where she got such a concept, but found a confirmed observation of a group of gorillas who came upon a dead crow, dug a hole, placed the corpse within, and covered it with dirt. Continue reading "The Comfortable Hole
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In March 2020 we published our first video in English. Back then we still had no idea what was coming up...To be honest, even to this day sometimes it feels unreal to see how big our channel has grown, how many people it has reached and inspired for positive changes. Filming, video editing, storytelling, online preaching were never our skills, we didn't study or knew much about it before, but I guess when Krishna wants you to be an instrument in His hands all these details don't matter that much. And now we have to admit: it's been an amazing journey, sometimes tough and challenging but always worth it. It helped us grow and learn a lot of new things, empowered us to share and see this huge world and one big family. We are so grateful to the Lord that He trusted us with this little mission, we are so grateful to all of you for making it happen. Jai Srila Prabhupad!
This online festival is Saturday. The speakers are devotees that we haven't heard from (except for a couple). The theme is very apropos.
Мое единственное желание – служить вам, Шрила Прабхупада!
“Мой дорогой мальчик… чего бы ты ни желал, воспевая свою мантру, силой ее могущества ты полностью получишь это. В действительности, ты обретешь больше того, что желаешь”.
( Шри Брихад-бхагаватамрита 2.1.189)
My only desire is to serve you, Srila Prabhupada!
“My dear boy, whatever you desire while chanting your mantra, by its power you will fully achieve. Indeed, you will attain more than your desire.”
( Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta 2.1.189 )
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As I prepare for open Heart Bypass Surgery tomorrow, I've been earnestly praying for Lord Narasimha's protection during this heavy procedure. It brings to mind other occasions when He mercifully intervened when I literally had guns to my head.
With a very heavy heart we would like to inform that on May 27, 2021 (Pratipat & Appearance tithi of Sri Narada Muni), H. G. Mahaprabhu das left his body. He was a very good health and spirits till his last breath and finally left due to a cardiac arrest, at his home in Mumbai
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Jaya Jagadisha Prabhu at ISKCON Los Angeles.
In a lecture on March 8, 1966, Srila Prabhupada instructed that if we want to do something good for our families we should try to make them Krishna Conscious, then our lives will be successful. Communities are the sum of the individuals who make up those communities. If our family units are strong then the communities that we collectively represent will be strong as well.
The Ministry of Education invites devotees to a symposium designed to bring together via Zoom/Online with the global ISKCON-members involved in Education
The pandemic is heavily affecting ISKCON devotee communities around the world as there is a lack of resources and access to medical equipment and facilities especially for those in rural devotee communities such as Mayapur and Bangladesh. Over 7000 devotee families in Mayapur and Bangladesh are struggling to feed and take care of their families […]
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Saturday, June 5th from 5-8 pm EST on https://www.facebook.com/kirtantoronto. A jam-packed event involving many speakers including HH Radhanath Swami, HH Jayapataka Swami, HH Bhakti Purushottam Swami, and will feature kirtaniyas including Gaura Vani Das, and Amala Kirtan Das, and more. In addition, a special Nrsimha Yagna will be performed live from New Vrindaban, West Virginia.
The pandemic is heavily affecting ISKCON devotee communities around the world as there is lack of resources and access to medical equipment and facilities especially for those in rural devotee communities such as Mayapur and Bangladesh. Over 7000 devotee families in Mayapur and Bangladesh are struggling to feed and take care of their families because of the situation. It is heart-wrenching to see these devotees suffering, leaving their bodies, having no access to any basic items.
Today His Grace Mahaprabhu Dasa (Sri R. K. Maheshwari), my dear friend and Srila Prabhupada’s staunch devotee, passed away at his home in Khar, Mumbai. To honor his sacred memory, here is an excerpt from my book I’ll Build You a Temple: The Juhu Story about Mahaprabhu’s first visit to Hare Krishna Land, on the occasion of the temple’s grand opening, January 14, 1978.
One of the first-time visitors, a lawyer, R. K. Maheshwari (later initiated as Mahaprabhu dasa), later remembered hearing about the opening day: “I was playing cards at Khar Gymkhana, a well-known club in this area, and all of a sudden I saw a newspaper with a full-page advertisement about the Hare Krishna temple opening that day. So I thought, How much money do these people have? A full-page advertisement in The Times of India! Being a Marwari, I always thought of everything in terms of money.
“Then I decided, ‘Let me see what this place is,’ and I immediately drove to the Juhu temple. At the gate they asked me, ‘Have you got a pass or invitation card? Vaijayanti Mala is giving a dance performance, and the hall is booked, and Raj Narain, union minister, and Patwari, governor, are coming for the inauguration, so there’s a big crowd and only important people are invited today.’
“ ‘Is this a temple or what?’ I asked. ‘Well, today is inauguration day,’ the devotee replied. So, I approached another devotee, an Indian—Rama Tulasi. He was telling a group of visitors that, like fish out of water, in the material world nobody is happy. You are searching happiness in the wrong atmosphere. The Gétä has confirmed that this material world is duùkhälayam, a place of misery.
“The visitors were asking about the temple, why these foreigners were so much interested in Indian culture. ‘We are having some doubt,’ one said, ‘because when the British came to India . . . Now most of the people here are American. They are coming in the guise of religion and teaching us our sanätana-dharma. We cannot understand all this. We know Krishna very well.’
“But Rama Tulasi was speaking philosophy. ‘If you want to be happy,’ he told them, ‘connect yourself with Lord Krishna by chanting the holy name of the Lord. That is the connection. And if you chant the holy name of the Lord, wherever you may be, whatever situation, you will be blissful. I’m not talking happiness—you may be happy, you may not be happy—but blissful is something different. I cannot explain to you what is spiritual bliss. You have to experience it.’ So, yes, that much I understood.
“I wanted to know more; I wanted to go inside. So I found some stairs, and I got to the second floor and saw the program. I spent the whole day in the temple, and the next day too, and I came regularly thereafter. I could see that these people were genuine, and I made up my mind that I wanted to get involved in their institution and become a life member. My membership card was signed by the temple president: ‘Giriraj das Brahmachari.’ I was keen to get his association, and once I met him, that changed the lifestyle of this practicing lawyer of the Bombay High Court.
“For me, that was a total change. I had been so much involved in material things that when my wife would go to a temple, I would sit in the car. I was never interested to go to any temple because my impression of temples was that they were all cheats, fooling people and making money and not following any rules or regulations or properly guiding people—just making a business. But all that changed with my first visit to Hare Krishna Land, on the day of the grand opening.”
Hare Krishna.
Yours in service,
Giriraj Swami
Effective communication is vital in any organization, and this is especially true in ISKCON which carries the sacred mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada. For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and the Vaishnavas in this, His Divine Grace’s 125th birth anniversary year we humbly request your valuable participation in the Inaugural ISKCON Communications Global Conference. This […]
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The international conference, June 19th, 2021, will be a 3-hour online event from 7 am EST-10am EST. Please register at https://forms.gle/FtxgHAxU3omuuks98 or iskconcommunications.org.
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Question: If I'm originally in the spiritual world, but even the potential to fall down is an imperfection in the creation??
By Aditya Varna Devi Dasi How beautiful on the mountain are the feet of those who bring good news (Isaiah 5:27) Through her sharp camera lens and with the point of her pen HG Visakha Dasi takes us on a roller coaster ride through the near 6 years, of her life from 1971 to 1977. Something extraordinary happened to this self-confessed, proud atheist. A Darwinian, which was as she points out the intellectually held position of the day. She traveled to India, camera in tow to meet up with her boyfriend and very much in the mood of an Anthropologist, to capture a culture diametrically opposite to the American middle-class environment of her upbringing. Continue reading "In appreciation of FIVE YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS
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Devotees from the Sydney area, as well as other parts of Australia, came to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha’s installation , which was in May of 1971.
A good description of the event 50 years ago is given in Kurma das’s book, “The Great Transcendental Adventure.”
To coincide with that, Jayasri dd and Pratapana das, organised a reunion of devotees who served Their Lordships during the 1980’s. Around 50 devotees came and there were many functions in Kings Cross, such as, kirtan, story telling, boat cruise and wonderful prasadam.
Everyone came together for the actual day of the anniversary and the devotees from North Sydney arranged a wonderful festival all day long with story telling, readings, kirtan, yajna, abhiseka and puspa abhiseka. The deity room, deities, and altars were spectacularly decorated with beautiful flower display.
ISKCON Gangasagar temple is under seawater. Totally damaged. Water level increasing more. Photo time 10.21 am
“Let me offer my obeisances unto Lord Nrisimhadeva who is always enlightening Prahlada Maharaja within his heart and who always kills the nescience that attacks the devotees. His mercy is distributed like the moonshine, and His face is like that of a lion. Let me offer my obeisances unto Him again and again.”
Virtual event LIVE from Bhaktivedanta Manor on Facebook & Youtube. 16:00 - Maha Yagna
16:50 - Talkshow
17:30 - Drama
Srimad Bhagavatam class by H.G. Smarahari Prabhu at ISKCON Vrindavan
By the GBC SPT Lord Nrsimha roars loudly and causes others to roar. With His multitudes of arms, He tears the demons asunder and kills them in this way. He is always seeking out and tormenting the demoniac descendants of Diti, both on this earth planet and in the higher planets, and He throws them down and scatters them. He cries with great anger as He destroys the demons in all directions, yet with His unlimited hands He sustains, protects, and nourishes the cosmic manifestation. I offer my respectful obeisances to the Lord, who has assumed the form of a transcendental lion.” Continue reading "Nrishimha Caturdasi Special class: Bhakti Caitanya Swami (video)
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By Syamasundara dasa The world population are looking for answers to the world’s problems. We read how by taking care of the cow and bulls one earns happiness. Surely we should be working to practically demonstrate this to ourselves first and then express that working model to the world. If we don’t talk about the oxen then the ox disappears from our society as we can see practically. Occasionally you may come across a working ox, but mostly they are kept as zoo animals and work by raising donations, but surely we are meant to be in close synchronization with the words of Lord Caitanya and be eating our grains that come from bulls (oxen). Continue reading "The Oxen in the Room
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By ISKCON MINISTRY OF EDUCATION “All of the leaders should study my books very carefully, since now everyone will have to appear for the examination” Srila Prabhupada Letter to Jayatirtha -- Mayapur, 22 January 1976 Continue reading "[Interview] with H.G. Jai Nitai Prabhu – Books are the Basis
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