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[During a lecture Srila Prabhupada interrupts his discourse on the Srimad-Bhagavatam verse when he notices some of his disciples leaving the
lecture, apparently to attend to other services]
Srila Prabhupada: Why they are going? They are busy in some other work? Eh? Ugra-karma.
Without hearing, what will he do?
Sankirtana Yajna - the sacrifice for this age (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam (SB 9.16.29-31) in Mayapur by HG Anuttama Das, Mar 15,...
Auckland, New Zealand devotees pay tribute to victims (Album of photos)
A moving, sincere tribute full of humility and genuine...
Sri Sri Radha Madhava’s Boat Festival takes place over the course of one week during the summer, but devotees from around the world get to participate in the festival for one day during the annual Gaura-purnima festival. This year, the festival took place on the 16th of March. Sri Sri Radha Madhava are taken from […]
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His Grace Bhima Prabhu left his body.
A very sweet Aussie devotee from a family of devotees left his body today.
By Louise Guthrie My intrepid Mystic India 2019 tour companions and I have, in recent days, been reciting that self-same mantra in the holy town of Vrindavan, where Krishna spend his childhood. We chanted it in the pilgrimage city of Mayapur, home to world ISKCON-Headquarters, and while passing through Delhi and Kolkata, in airports and aeroplanes, busses and rickshaws. Upon arrival here in Rishikesh, we spontaneously took the maha mantra to the streets in musical format as a merry band of minstrels complete with Indian percussion instruments. Continue reading "All You Need Is Love!
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By Bhakta dasa The horrific massacre that unfolded in Christchurch New Zealand on Friday 15th March, in which to date 50 human beings have lost their lives, is truly a very dark moment in history, not only for Muslims but for all who treasure the gift of life. On behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Hare Krishna Movement, I wish to convey that ISKCON members all over the world offer their sincere prayers to all who are suffering due to this insane act of evil madness. Our deepest sympathy goes to those who lost family members, friends and fellow members of the Christchurch Muslim community, as well as to those who survived but will bear the scars of their physical and emotional wounds for life. An atrocity perpetrated in the name of promoting the supremacy of one nationality, religion or race over another is by all accounts a pernicious lie. Instead we find in all of the world’s sacred scriptures that we share a universal kinship in that we are all children of the same God. Continue reading "New Zealand massacre ISKCON response
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Apart from the meetings and presentations at Mayapur, there was, of course, the regular festival going on, that is, kirtan mela, parikrama and various activities like the elephant procession.
This all continued culminating in the grand festival of Gaura Purnima. Thousands upon thousand of people came every day of the week. We were told that nearly seven million people visited Mayapur last year.
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By Praghosa Dasa Today we express our heartfelt sorrow to the senseless and horrific atrocities that took place in New Zealand. Defenceless, peaceful people praying in a sacred place taken away in a cowardly act of terrorism. We stand united with the Muslim community against such evil terror. Continue reading "ISKCON UK Chairman’s statement
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Maha Milan day in Mayapur (Album of photos)
Thousands of devotees from 4 different parikrama groups meet together for a final ...
Transcendental competition (Album of photos)
All the devotees in each parikrama party very eagerly planned and decorated their Gaura Nitai deities with all heart and devotion. Each group wanted their deities to look the best. Each group planned different team and used different types of decorative material. Some used spices, some, grains , some flowers, some fruits and some dolls.
All the deities arrived leading their parties from different directions of the Mayapur campus. It was very beautiful and mesmerizing to watch then arrive and meet each other. All the daisies are arranged next to each other in the pandal and then began the competition. All the deities looked most beautiful.
The first place went to Gita course party’s deities who were dressed in the theme Jharikanda kirtan pastime and rasa lila is nin different.
2nd place want to Russian party’s deities who were on vaikuntha mood riding on Garuda Dev’s back and decorated with corn, kala jeera and fruits.
3rd place went to International party’s deities Sri Nitaipadakamal who sported eyelashes and their theme was the prophecy by Bhaktivinoda Thakur that one day Europeans, Americans and people from different parts of the world will come to Mayapur and chant Jai Sacinandana Gaurahari.
Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2019 Day 7 (Album of photos)
The last two days of Parikrama are just wonderful.. it seems when the kirtan gets really fired up! As I told yesterday we were going to the King’s land situated in Simantadvipa where the process is Sravanam, what is really exciting. ISKCON Rajapur is so beautiful with our Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra deities plus Sri Gauranga and Simantini, the lake and Shiva’s banyam tree. Chand kazi’s samadhi is just about 2 km from the temple, a very sacred place where Lord’s pastimes took place. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu got really angry when the Kazi broke the mrdanga, he got thousand of devotees and marched to the Kazi’s house. It is described in Caitanya Bhagavata that the whole garden of the Kazi’s house was destroyed by the devotees, king’s security ran in fear and even the Kazi hid himself. When Mahaprabhu entered the house, Chandi Kazi was not there to greet him, so the Lord sent somebody to call the Kazi, when the Kazi finally came, in a friendly way the Lord said: “Sir, I have come to your house as your guest, but upon seeing Me you hid yourself in your room. What kind of etiquette is this?” How sweet are the Lord’s words! HG Pancharatna prabhu and Parikrama devotees put up a drama for the pleasure of everyone, after the drama they went to Sridhara’s house, a very poor brahmana who was blessed by Lord’s darshan and had an important role and example in His childhood pastimes. A sumptuous prasada was served and then we had quiz, kirtan, and the auspicious presence of HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj, he came for hearing the realisation sessions of have in International group every year. HH Bhakti Purushottama Swami also arrived in the camp to give his wonderful association and he praised the devotees who did the sweet sacrifice of walking in Sri Navadvipa dham. Parikrama finished today in the morning with the gathering of all parties at ISKCON Mayapur campus. Such a beautiful sight an amazing spiritual experience, so many devotees were crying, the deities were beautifully decorated. We were 6 parties with a total of almost 8 thousand pilgrims. All of them walking in Navadvipa doing kirtan, can you imagine the power of such kirtan. The whole nine islands were trembling with the power of the Holy Name! Now we can understand the statement: the whole world will be liberated when the devotees perform Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama. Please watch the videos at Mayapur TV, to have a glimpse of this incredible spiritual activity! Gauranga! Nityananda! Your servant, Nitya Kishore dasi
HH Satsvarupa Das Goswami: Amith, an Indian devotee who lives in Albany, recently came back from a pilgrimage to Kumbha-mela in India. In the ISKCON tent he saw a murti of Laddu-Gopal, and he was very attracted to it. He thought of buying it and giving it to me as a gift. When the devotee-sellers heard that it was coming to me as a gift, they donated two sets of clothes. Laddu-Gopal is very beautiful. He is crawling, and in His right hand He is holding forth a laddu. 
This year, the festival took place on the 16th of March. Sri Sri Radha Madhava are taken from the temple on procession, riding atop a carved wooden palanquin. They are brought to the pukur, or ornamental pond, that sits beside Srila Prabhupada’s Puspa-samadhi Mandir. The pond is ringed by walkways and steps leading down to the water, and within the water sits a decorated boat created especially for the use of Radha Madhava. The whole area is decorated with lights and flowers. 
TOVP models of the Disciplic Succession also in Ujain (Album of photos)
HH Bhakti Charu Swami’s visit to the TOVP. Besides looking at all the work that has been done, Maharaj also came to see our models of the Disciplic Succession in order to have them done in Ujain. He’s taking up the task himself to oversee this work in Ujain.
GBC college 2019 event in Mayapur (15 min. video)
Srila Prabhupada: If one renders even a small amount of sincere devotional service, Krishna becomes obliged to elevate such person; and what to speak of one whose entire life and soul has been dedicated to Krishna’s service. Letter to Harer Nama, November 6, 1969
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While chanting japa th
is morning, I thought of Srila Rupa Gosvami’s verse about the holy name:
tunde tandavini ratim vitanute tundavali-labdhaye
karna-kroda-kadambini ghatayate karnarbudebhyah sprham
cetah-prangana-sangini vijayate sarvendriyanam krtim
no jane janita kiyadbhir amrtaih krsneti varna-dvayi
“I do not know how much nectar the two syllables ‘Krs-na’ have produced. When the holy name of Krsna is chanted, it appears to dance within the mouth. We then desire many, many mouths. When that name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind, and therefore all the senses become inert.” (Cc Antya 1.99)
Although I have not experienced that level of chanting, it is a stage to which I can aspire.
Hare Krishna.
Yours in service,
Giriraj Swami
Some “rock and roll” mahamantra in Mayapur (video)
The NAM ROCK BAND performs at Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi in Mayapur with a concert in the park.
HG Mahatma Prabhu: “Our business is to raise ourselves to the highest status of life as preachers of Krsna’s message, and one should behave himself rigidly, then he should instruct others. Two things: Be himself exemplary, then teach others to be exemplary. If one has not come to that high standard, he cannot judge or criticize others. There is one saying from the Bible: ‘Judge not, lest ye be judged.’ So how we can preach unless we are able to make judgments? That will not be possible. Only those who are above suspicion can judge others. One must himself act in such a way that he is always above suspicion. Then he can judge, then he can preach. But now you have no power to instruct. One who is not following himself, how he can instruct others? Srila Prabhupada Letter December 1972.
Parabhakti Das, President of ISKCON’s Villa Vrindavana community near Florence, Italy, presented at a panel discussion on preserving authenticity in yoga during the European Academy of Religion’s annual conference this spring.
Kirtan is now available for all. But it wasn’t always like this. Before the 15thcentury, the chanting of God’s own holy names was a sacred activity reserved for the highest of ecclesiastic society in the inner sanctums of temples.
The New York Times Style Magazine’s first digital cover story, published on February 14th, features Hare Krishna devotees from ISKCON’s Radha-Krishna Temple chanting on the streets of London.
Srila Prabhupada’s expertise to preach and engage everyone according to time, place and circumstances (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Rukmini Devi Dasi in Iskcon Mayapur, Mar 14, 2019.
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People who appreciate proper standards of Deity worship tend to look to ISKCON as an example. Over the years, ISKCON has established a reputation of having high standards of Deity worship. However, the Deity Worship Ministry warned the GBC that if proper care is not taken to maintain and improve standards of worship, this reputation could slip.
Panca Dravida Swami wanted to know how a person can attain perfection simply from one lava, one-eleventh of a second’s association with a pure devotee.
Visiting and preaching in Bali (Album of photos)
Bali is a province of Indonesia and it’s most tourist destination. It is located east of Java and west of Lombok. Balinese culture was strongly influenced by Indian, Chinese, and particularly Vedic culture, beginning around the 1st century AD. The name Bali dwipa (“Bali island”) has been discovered from various inscriptions. The largest city is the provincial capital, Denpasar, near the southern coast, where we have astoundingly beautiful Sri Sri Jagannatha Gauranga Temple. The beauty of the Deities and the altar is out of the world. Among many other ISKCON temples in that island, this one is one of the most prominent. For Deena Bandhu Prabhu’s Vraja-Katha programs, huge number of devotees showed up. Their simplicity and devotion amazed us. We were also invited to a Russian Yoga studio where we were stunned by the natural scenic beauty of the place. Finally we visited the mesmerizing Balinese temple known as Tanah Lot. It is one of the important directional temples and cultural icon for photography in Bali. The temple sits on a large offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide. Tanah Lot is claimed to be the work of the 16th-century Dang Hyang Nirartha and forms an important element of Balinese spiritualism and history. The temple is one of seven sea temples around the Balinese coast. It is an extremely popular tourist destination and we were caught there by heavy rain, which increased the beauty three fold.
A Change of Heart (6 min. video)
HH Devamrta Swami talks about what happens when people meet the cows in Gita Nagari. “People want to be re-enchanted by nature.” He recorded this video for the North American Farm Delegates Meeting.
By Nitya Kishore dasi Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left His house (where the Yoga Pitha is situated) in the early morning heading to the Ganga. He crossed the river by swimming on His way to Katva to take sannyasa. When Saci mata understood that He was not in the house, she left looking for him, asking the villagers " Did you see Nimai?" In their hearts, the eternal associates of the Lord in the form of villagers, just remained silent. By seeing their behaviour mother Saci said:" You are just merciless." Continue reading "Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2019 Day 6
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On the 6h day of Parikrama, we are wondering in the island of Rudradvipa where Nidaya Gat (border) is situated. Early morning all the pilgrims left Pratapnagar by boat.. it is always a great time crossing the merciful waters of Mother Ganga with so many devotees, such an unique experience! Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left His […]
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Today we visited Modadrumadvipa. As you already know, each of the nine islands correspond to one of the nine processes of devotional service according to our previous acharyas. Modadrumadvipa corresponds to dasyam (service in the mood of servant). Our speakers explained that in the same way that the celibacy pervades all the four ashrams, dasya […]
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On March 10, International Women’s Day, the Amravati, Maharashtra, ISKCON Girls’ Forum successfully completed the movement’s inaugural vaisnavi one-day padayatra. 
Full speech by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ISKCON Delhi on February 26, 2019, at the occassion of unveiling the largest Bhagavad-gita in the world.
Meet Australia’s oldest initiated Prabhupada disciple Bhutanath dasa.
Gauragopala Dasa ACBSP: Australia’s oldest initiated Prabhupada disciple 77 year old Bhutanath dasa ACBSP.
