Govinda’s happy Houston restaurant gets a nice review.
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One of our happy (and excited) guest wrote this 5-star review and we are humbled and happy. "If I had the time, I'd go back to all my years of Houston restaurant reviews and decrease them by one star because THIS is what five-star food tastes like. No restaurant in Houston has had such outstanding, delicious food with a high bar for cleanliness and excellent service. This isn't just a fantastic "vegetarian/vegan restaurant", this is a fantastic restaurant. Period. At night, I dream of their curries and mango lassi. Heck, I dream about their pesto pasta and mac & cheese too. I even dream of their salad bar. YES! I never thought I'd actually love a salad. Govinda's Vegetarian Cuisine is the closest I've ever been to heaven."

Iskcon supporter former Minister of foreign affairs of India Sri Sushma Swaraj ji is no more among us
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Former Minister of foreign affairs Sri Sushma Swaraj ji is no more among us.
May Lord Krishna grant His mercy to this soul. In 1998, Sushma Swaraj ji inaugurated our ISKCON Delhi Temple with the then Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji.
Iskcon will always remember the work she did. He helped Moscow temple and Geeta as well. She behaved with great humility and she used to be interested in learning about the spreading of ISKCON.

The names of Krishna’s Personal Paraphernalia
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By Srila Rupa Goswami

Krishna's mirror is named Saradindu and His fan is named Marumaruta. His toy lotus flower is named Sadasmera and His toy ball is named Citrakoraka. Krishna's golden bow is named Vilasakarmana. The two ends of this bow are studded with jewels and it has a bowstring named Manjulasara. His glistening jewel-handled scissors are named Tustida. His buffalo-horn bugle is named Mandraghosa and His flute is named Bhuvanamohini. Krishna has another flute named Mahananda, which is like a fishhook that captures the fish of Srimati Radharani's heart and mind. Another flute, which has six holes is known as Madanajhankrti. Continue reading "The names of Krishna’s Personal Paraphernalia
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How can we ensure that we aren’t limited by functional vision when things are functioning well?
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Answer Podcast

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Mandodari’s lament after Ravana’s death 1 – Can some people never change
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”Door to door” Harinama-sankirtana Padayatra in Slovenia 2019
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This year, for the eighteenth time, Padayatra festival has been celebrated in the Ljubljana temple community. The Padayatra visited around thirteen villages, most of which are situated about one-hour drive from Ljubljana. Twenty-five to thirty devotees, from different countries such as Croatia, Serbia, Nederland, Italy, Russia and others, came to take part in the festival

Vamsi Das Babaji
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Srila Vamsi Das babaji, previously known as Bhairab Chandra, had appeared in the year 1859, in the village of Majeedpur, which was formerly part of Bangladesh. He was the eldest of seven siblings, and being the son of a poor fisherman, he had suffered a hard and an austere upbringing.

From his very childhood, he was deeply attracted to Lord Gauranga and Sri Nityananda Prabhu. He would keep staring at the deities of Gaura-Nitai at a nearby temple, for hours altogether.

Seeing this, his parents became very anxious, and got him married. But he eventually left his home, leaving behind his wife and little son, and became a renunciant. He soon received initiation in the line of the great vaishnava acharya, Sri Narottama Das Thakura.

After staying at Majeedpur for a few years, he left for an extensive pilgrimage all over India. Travelling all over the country, he finally settled at Navadvipa, where he spent the most of his life.

Babaji was a paramahamsa avadhuta, who would speak, dance, cry and move on the directions of the Supersoul. Being totally oblivious to his surroundings, Vamsi das babaji, would act in ways that were impossible for ordinary people to comprehend.

He led an exceedingly austere life, always wearing a simple loincloth. He took little care of his health, bathing in freezing water, even while sick. He carried with him two bags, one containing his Nitai-Gaura deities and the other one carrying Sri Radha Govinda.

Sometimes he would take the deities out of his bags, worship them mentally with mantras, and again keep them back inside.The worship of his deities was very spontaneous and not according to strict rules and regulations. Nevertheless, the Supreme Lord accepted his offering of love and devotion.

Bed of arrows
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Bhaktivedanta Manor, United Kingdom, 17 July 2019, Srimad Bhagavatam 1.9.45)

Bhismadeva was lying on a bed of arrows. I do not know if you ever had any injuries, but if you did, then usually you call the ambulance and that is it; off you go to the hospital. One arrow is enough. You can tell that one arrow or one bullet will do. But hundreds of them is far too intense! But somehow, Bhismadeva was lying on this bed of arrows, and he was totally self-contained. He was not overwhelmed whatsoever. He was able to do this not just by sheer willpower, but by not identifying with that excruciating pain and instead remaining completely calm and detached.

The article " Bed of arrows " was published on KKSBlog.

DIY Toiletry Kit
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Get your hands crafty making a DIY toiletry kit –toothpaste, body butter, deodorant and body scrub! Perfect for the home or for travelling, low on waste and low on cost become the Zero Waste champion of your home, flat or student residence. Our DIY queen Madhupan will teach you the skills and tips needed to stay healthy, natural and clean green in the bathroom. BYO glass jars for taking your products home!

Monday 26th 6:15pm

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DIY Toiletry Kit
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Get your hands crafty making a DIY toiletry kit –toothpaste, body butter, deodorant and body scrub! Perfect for the home or for travelling, low on waste and low on cost become the Zero Waste champion of your home, flat or student residence. Our DIY queen Madhupan will teach you the skills and tips needed to stay healthy, natural and clean green in the bathroom. BYO glass jars for taking your products home!

Monday 26th 6:15pm

Booking essential as limited space.

Followed by a delicious vegan dinner and dessert

DIY Toiletry Kit
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Get your hands crafty making a DIY toiletry kit –toothpaste, body butter, deodorant and body scrub! Perfect for the home or for travelling, low on waste and low on cost become the Zero Waste champion of your home, flat or student residence. Our DIY queen Madhupan will teach you the skills and tips needed to stay healthy, natural and clean green in the bathroom. BYO glass jars for taking your products home!

Monday 26th 6:15pm

Booking essential as limited space.

Followed by a delicious vegan dinner and dessert

DIY Toiletry Kit
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Get your hands crafty making a DIY toiletry kit –toothpaste, body butter, deodorant and body scrub! Perfect for the home or for travelling, low on waste and low on cost become the Zero Waste champion of your home, flat or student residence. Our DIY queen Madhupan will teach you the skills and tips needed to stay healthy, natural and clean green in the bathroom. BYO glass jars for taking your products home!

Monday 26th 6:15pm

Booking essential as limited space.

Followed by a delicious vegan dinner and dessert

TOVP South India Tour an Incredible Success
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By TOVP staff

We are most pleased to report the great success of the recently completed Phase 1 of the TOVP South India Tour from July 13 – 21. Over $3 million in pledges was raised from hundreds of enthusiastic devotees as well as from commitments by the temples themselves, many of which sponsored Kirtanam Pillars of Devotion. We give all the credit to His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja who is the inspiration and driving force behind these temples which he helped to establish. Continue reading "TOVP South India Tour an Incredible Success
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Марафон по сбору средств в честь Джанмаштами/Вьяса-пуджи/Радхаштами и запуск кампании «Сдержи свое обещание ХВП»: 23 авг. – 6 сент.
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Для преданных ИСККОН, этот месяц является, пожалуй, самым важным и прославленным временем наряду с Гаура-пурнимой. Его уникальность заключается в том, что фактически всего в 30-ти дневный период мы празднуем явление четырех божественных личностей, наиболее достойных нашего поклонения: Шри Баладевы, Шри Кришны, Шримати Радхарани и Шрилы Прабхупады. Только подумайте, насколько удивительно все было устроено, что дни их явлений расположены так близко друг к другу.

Оставляя в стороне все философские моменты, связанные с этой темой, для того чтобы их смогли раскрыть другие авторы вайшнавских статей, мы сосредоточим свое внимание на возможности оказать практическое служение этим четырем дорогим нашему сердцу личностям в данный период. Мы объявляем начало марафона по сбору средств, приуроченному к Джанмаштами/Вьяса-пудже/Радхаштами, который пройдет с 23 августа по 6 сентября.

В течение этих двух недель мы призываем преданных ИСККОН по всему миру поместить лотосные стопы Шри Шри Радха-Мадхавы в свое сердце и помочь нам завершить строительство Их нового дома, столь желанного Шрилой Прабхупадой. Пожалуйста, станьте спонсором кирпича Радха-Мадхавы, который вместе с вашим именем будет помещен прямо под Их божественные лотосные стопы на алтаре.

Вы также можете профинансировать кирпич Гуру-Парампары в честь Вьяса-пуджи Шрилы Прабхупады, который вместе с вашим именем и именем вашего духовного учителя будет помещен по алтарь Гуру-парампары. Мы, несомненно, будем очень рады и Общим пожертвованиям.

Мы просим тех, кто еще никогда не жертвовал проекту, а также тех, кто уже выплатил свое пожертвование, поддержать строительство Храма ведического планетария. Как и прежде, вы можете оплатить свое пожертвование в рассрочку или сразу целиком. Спонсоры, которые уже пообещали перевести определенную сумму, могут воспользоваться этим временем для того, чтобы совершить дополнительный платеж в счет уплаты своего пожертвования.

Кроме того, в этот особый праздничный период мы хотим обратиться к нашим спонсорам, кто пообещал пожертвовать храму, но по какой-либо причине еще не приступил к выплатам или опоздал с уплатой взносов, и объявить о запуске кампании «Сдержи свое обещание Храму ведического планетария». Это дружеское напоминание о том, что без вашей помощи мы не сможем завершить храм. Наш ежемесячный бюджет покрывается благодаря доходам, полученным, главным образом, от взносов старых и новых спонсоров, и мы припадаем к вашим лотосным стопам с мольбами о том, чтобы вы начали или возобновили свои ежемесячные платежи в этот наиболее благоприятный период.

Шри Баларама Джаянти ки джай!
Шри Кришна Джанмаштами ки джай!
Радхаштами Махотсава ки джай!
Вьяса-пуджа Шрилы Прабхупады ки джай!

 

НОВОСТИ ХВП – БУДЬТЕ В КУРСЕ

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Janmastami/Vyasa Puja/Radhastami TOVP Fundraising Marathon and Live Your TOVP Pledge Campaign Launch: Aug. 23 – Sept. 6
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This is perhaps the most important and celebrated time of the year for ISKCON devotees, apart from Gaur Purnima. The specialty of this time is that practically in the space of one thirty-day period alone we rejoice at the appearance of our four most worshipable divinities, Sri Baladeva, Sri Krishna, Srimate Radharani and Srila Prabhupada. If you think about it, it’s really a very unique arrangement that the appearance days of these four are so closely aligned.

Leaving aside all the philosophical points that could be made about this for other authors of Vaisnava articles to write about, we will focus on the practical seva opportunity to these cherished personalities during this time. Announcing, the Janmastami/Vyasa Puja/Radhastami TOVP Fundraising Marathon from August 23 until Sept. 6.

During these two weeks we are encouraging ISKCON devotees worldwide to place in their hearts the lotus feet of Sri Sri Sri Radha Madhava and help complete the construction of Their new home, so much desired by Srila Prabhupada. Please consider sponsoring a Radha Madhava Brick to be inscribed with your name and placed directly underneath Their divine lotus feet on the altar.

You may also consider sponsoring a Guru Parampara Brick for Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja with both your guru and your name inscribed on it, and placed under the Guru Parampara altar. General donations are also certainly welcome.

Whether you’ve never donated before or have already made and completed a pledge, please consider donating to support the TOVP construction. You can pay in installments or all at one time, as has always been our payment system. Donors with pledges can also use this time to make an additional payment towards their pledge.

Additionally, we are also using this special festival season to address our donors who have made pledges but have not begun their payments or have fallen behind on their payments for whatever reason with our Live Your TOVP Pledge campaign launch. This is a friendly reminder that without your help we cannot complete the TOVP. Our monthly budget has been based on income primarily from new and ongoing pledges, and we pray and beg at your lotus feet that you please somehow resume or begin your pledge payments during this most auspicious time.

Sri Balarama Jayanti ki jaya!
Sri Krishna Janmastami ki jaya!
Radhastami Mahotsava ki jaya!
Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja ki jaya!

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Update of Srila Prabhupada Samadhi in Mayapur new…
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Update of Srila Prabhupada Samadhi in Mayapur new Kalash.
Sadbhuja Das: Just updating you all on the progress of the Kalash for Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi in Mayapur. The superstructure is about 90% complete, and we should commencing the titanium nitrate in a few days time, which we will keep you posted on. The visuals of this Kalash will be just as brilliant as the one on the TOVP when it is completed. We are all eager to see the finished result of this soon!

Preaching in Polish Woodstock: Success beyond all expectations!…
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Preaching in Polish Woodstock: Success beyond all expectations! (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: The success of our Krsna’s Village Of Peace was far beyond our expectations this year at Polish Woodstock or Pol’and’Rock. We made big plans, but it seems Krsna had even bigger plans. More people came to our village than we ever expected, more people took prasadam than we dreamed would and it was impossible to count the number of people who chanted with us on our 4 Ratha Yatra parades through the masses and in our Mantra Yoga tent. Only Krsna knows all the details. And we pray He was pleased!

TOVP South India Tour an Incredible Success
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We are most pleased to report the great success of the recently completed Phase 1 of the TOVP South India Tour from July 13 – 21. Over $3 million in pledges was raised from hundreds of enthusiastic devotees as well as from commitments by the temples themselves, many of which sponsored Kirtanam Pillars of Devotion. We give all the credit to His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja who is the inspiration and driving force behind these temples which he helped to establish.

The greetings for Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Satari were well-organized, opulent and fully ecstatic with the fervor of thundering kirtans keeping pace throughout the programs. Revati Raman prabhu, Andhra Pradesh GBC and Tirupati temple president, spearheaded the entire tour and attended almost every program to inspire the devotees to fulfill His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja’s wish to manifest Srila Prabhupada’s desire and build Sri Sri Radha Madhava’s new home. His own temple pledged over $2 million. Jananivas prabhu and Braja Vilasa prabhu spoke at the programs giving news and updates about construction progress and the importance of the project.

Although not part of this phase of the tour, we also stopped in Chennai to spend time with His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja and His Holiness Bhanu Swami who were present there. $100,000 was raised in pledges from the Temple Council even though our official visit isn’t scheduled until November.

We also want to thank three devotees from the Tirupati temple, the brothers Radha Krishna, Hari Krpa and Ranga Narayanam prabhus, who sponsored an Atma Nivedanam Pillar of Devotion. They had previously already given $150,000 and we are most grateful to them.

Below we wish to acknowledge and thank all the temple leaders who made this tour possible and bent over backwards to make it successful:

H.H. Sukadeva Goswami Maharaja
Nara Hari prabhu
Mathuresh prabhu
Varada Krishna prabhu
Anukula Keshava prabhu
Sudhir Caitanya prabhu
Damodar prabhu
Sumitra Krishna prabhu
Rama Murari prabhu
Rupesh prabhu

Phases 2 & 3 are scheduled for later this year when we will be visiting the Hyderabad and Chennai temples.

South India TOVP Tour Phase 1 – July, 2019

Andhra Pradesh
Date Day Place
13 & 14th July Sat & Sun Vizag
15th July Mon Rajahmundry
16th July Tue Guntur
17th July Wed Vijayawada
18th July Thu Nellore
19th July Fri Tirupati
Karnataka
Date Day Place
20th July Sat South Bangalore
21st July Sun (Morning) Jaganath Temple (Morning)
21st July Sun (Evening) Laxmi Narayan Temple (Evening)
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