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Sri Panca-tattva Abhisheka is around the corner! Just two days to go for Sri Panca-tattva Maha Abhisheka. Worldwide devotees have started arriving at Sri Mayapur to take part in the most exciting event of the year. Sanyasis, GBC’s, Srila Prabhupada disciples, senior leaders have also assembled in Mayapur. The entire mood is one of the […]

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Dhruva Maharaja, by HH Niranjana Swami.
SB 4.9.11: Dhruva Maharaja continued: O unlimited Lord, kindly bless me so that I may associate with great devotees who engage in Your transcendental loving service constantly, as the waves of a river constantly flow. Such transcendental devotees are completely situated in an uncontaminated state of life. By the process of devotional service I shall surely be able to cross the nescient ocean of material existence, which is filled with the waves of blazing, firelike dangers. It will be very easy for me, for I am becoming mad to hear about Your transcendental qualities and pastimes, which are eternally existent.

Cutting the Knots of Material Attachment.
Srila Prabhupada: One time, Indra, the king of heaven, was cursed to become a hog, and he became a hog. He had a wife and many kiddies and was living in a filthy place, eating stool. Brahma came to him because in his absence the management in the heavenly kingdom was not going nicely.

Meditation and Chanting Go Together.
In the Gaudiya way of bhakti, you offer everything to Krsna, the good, the bad – your life. You share everything with someone you are close to, the barriers are low, close friends are intimate. In bhakti this is called mamata, a strong sense of ownership, or relation to the Lord, that “He is mine and I’m His”. This type of love can be attained by two types of devotional service, as it is stated by Narada Muni in Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta: “One develops that love by practicing the devotional service whose main ways are meditation on and singing about the many Vraja pastimes of the Lord.” (3.5.218) A devotee who wants to reach Vrndavana focuses on these two aspects of bhakti: meditating on and singing about Vraja-lila.

‘Kevala ananda kanda’ The path to happiness.
Ananda Vrindavaneswari Devi Dasi: Unless we are on a total media fast, we have likely heard of the notion of tidying our home with the KonMari method of asking the question of our belongings - ‘does this spark joy for me?’. If not, we thank it for being in our life and bid it farewell.

“That other is Krishna”
Srila Prabhupada: From the very beginning, the body was given by father and mother. In the childhood, as the father and mother say, “Sit down here, eat this, don’t go there,” everything is controlled by the father and mother, and originally given by the father and mother. So how we can claim, “This is my body”? From the very beginning. Then, somebody else maintains you. Suppose you are working in an office, in a factory. So actually that body belongs to him, the maintainer. In this way, up to the point of death, and after death also, the body belongs to others.

Unity in Diversity (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Pancharatna Das at Iskcon Mayapur, Feb 25, 2019.

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One Vision Cafe - Grand Opening (Watford) (Album of photos)
We were at the Grand Opening of the new One Vision Cafe in Watford today. A new multi-faith community project that will serve FREE food (Prasadam) to anyone on Mondays, and ‘pay as you can’ for the rest of the week. A very strong new partnership between ISKCON (Food for All/Hare Krishna), the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Watford Council and other groups! Well done to Parasurama das (Peter O’Grady) for being such an inspiration behind this project.

Kalash Yatra - Vrinda Kunda Festival (2019) (Album of photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: On 25 Feb, in honor of the 16th Anniversary of...

Ever since becoming a devotee of Lord Krishna in 1970, I have been fascinated with the Kumbha Mela festival. This year I decided to join millions of other pilgrims in the journey to the Ardha Kumbha Mela where, from January 15th to March 4th, ISKCON devotees were to follow in Srila Prabhupada’s footsteps by bringing his books, the Holy Names and prasadam to the festival. Kumbha Mela is the largest religious gathering in the world. Estimates anticipated that 120 million pilgrims—nearly double the population of England and France combined—would visit the Mela over seven weeks. The Mela takes place four times within a twelve-year period on the banks of four of India’s most holy rivers: the Godavari River in Nashik, the Shipra River in Ujjain, the Ganges River in Haridwar and the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati Rivers in Prayagraj (formerly known as Prayaga ). Continue reading "May Mother Ganges Bless You Today
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Contradictory views in scriptures about Lord’s nature & the way to understand it! (video)
Lecture by HH Bhanu Swami at Iskcon Chennai.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday boarded a metro train from Khan Market station on way to attend an event at ISKCON temple in south Delhi's East of Kailash, officials said. Modi unveiled a giant Bhagavad Gita, running into 670 pages and weighing 800 kg, at the temple, located near Kailash Colony metro station. Dubbed the 'Astounding Bhagavad Gita', and measuring 2.8 m by 2 m, it is billed as the "largest principle sacred text ever to be printed," according to ISCKON. Continue reading "PM Modi Unveils 800kg Bhagavad Gita at ISKCON Temple
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Srila Prabhupada: In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Krsna consciousness.
Morning Walk – March 10, 1976, Mayapur:

George Harrison Remembers Srila Prabhupada.
“I liked Prabhupada’s humbleness. I always liked his humility and his simplicity The servant of the servant of the servant is really what it is, you know. None of us are God—just His servants. He just made me feel so comfortable. I always felt very relaxed with him, and I felt more like a friend. I felt that he was a good friend. Even though he was at the time seventy-nine years old, working practically all through the night, day after day, with very little sleep, he still didn’t come through to me as though he was a very highly educated intellectual being, because he had a sort of childlike simplicity. Which is great, fantastic. Even though he was the greatest Sanskrit scholar and a saint, I appreciated the fact that he never made me feel uncomfortable. In fact, he always went out of his way to make me feel comfortable. I always thought of him as sort of a lovely friend, really, and now he’s still a lovely friend.”

Bhagavad-gita in poetry format (video)
Sunday Feast Class by Kalakanta Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty on 24th February 2019

Sell in bunches like bananas! (Album of photos)
Today we set up a new record(for the next few weeks) for Harinama Ashram, distributing 11 sets of 7 maha books per day! Sapta rsi, Srila Prabhupada ‘s Lilamrita and CC sets were taken by random people in the subway today. We started doing these sets from December Prabhupada’s Marathon and till now it became so successful like never before.
There is a third law of book distribution which says “The more you show the more you sell. The more you show the more you sell!” And from my own experience, I would say it works a lot! In my case, this law is only one thing which works.
It is truly unbelievable and I personally feel very fortunate to be the smallest part of this.
Remember I read in OFB how devotees would go out and try to distribute Krishna book, and how if they did at least one(!) they felt great ecstasy. What would Srila Prabhupada say right now seeing this extremely dedicated devotees to Krishna and to Him…If they can do it, this means that He is very much pleased and empowers us to do more and more every day.
Thank you dearest Srila Prabhupada for unlimited mercy and inspiration! All glories to You! All glories to Gurudeva!
May everyone gets inspired by these photos and go out on the streets to preach about Krishna!

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[Bhagavatam class on 4.20.32 at ISKCON, Melbourne, Australia]

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International Gita Mahotsava, Mauritius (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: These four principles: Always think of Krishna, become Krishna’s devotee, worship Krishna and offer your respect, obeisances to Krishna. That’s all. This is Krishna consciousness. Hyderabad, November 17, 1972

More Krishna conscious books for Iskcon in Pakistan (Album of photos)
ISKCON Pakistan is pleased to inform that BBT Pakistan has printed One New small Book “Civilization and Transcendence”. And reprinted Two small books of Srila Prabhupada, (1) The Nectar of Instruction, and (2) Beyond the Birth and Death at 18 February 2019 on Nityananda Triodasi Festival 2019.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is (pocket size Urdu Edition) 1st time in Pakistan also Printed in Pakistan on the day of Sri Krishna Pusya Abhiseka festival 2019.

Vrindavan Temples Parikrama (20 Feb, 2019) (Album of photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: On 20th Feb, our parikrama visited temples in Vrindavan. We walked to the ISKCON Gaushala and continued on to Kaliya Ghat, New Madan Mohan, Sanatan Goswami’s Samadhi, Old Madan Mohan, Sanatan Goswami’s Bhajan Kutir, Advaita Vat, and Astha Sakhi Mandir.

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead is so kind to the conditioned souls that if they call upon Him by speaking His holy name, even unintentionally or unwillingly, the Lord is inclined to destroy innumerable sinful reactions in their hearts. Therefore, when a devotee who has taken shelter of the Lord’s lotus feet chants the holy name of Krsna with genuine love, the Lord can never give up the heart of such a devotee. One who has thus bound the Supreme Lord within his heart with the ropes of love is to be known as bhagavata-pradhana, the most exalted devotee of the Lord.”

[ Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.2.55 ]

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Relationship with Matter & Spirit (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Rasaraj Prabhu at Iskcon Chennai, Feb 23, 2019.

One of the main problems with today's modernity is the usage of machinery. And why so many Bulls are slaughtered is because there is no work for them to do. If we can understand the nature of today's farming activities it is apparent that we all follow and support an industrialized farming model. This means we support the use of tractors, the diesel they need to be powered, and we support the use of pharmaceutical artificial fertilizers to grow all the food. Once we have become fully integrated into this agricultural model and system it means as Srila Prabhupada is so eloquently pointing out, …" Bulls have to be killed." Continue reading "Tractor-machine, means kill the Bulls
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A visit to all the places in Calcutta related to Srila Prabhupada and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur (Album of photos)
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A new bookstall with Srila Prabhupada’s books in Salem’s main railway station (Album of photos)
Iskcon Salem has inaugurated a new bookstall in Salem main railway station. Maybe first in India. Devotees struggled three years to get the permission. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and vaishnavas.

Adding Unicode Support to the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase.
Now, text you copy and paste text from the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase® can come out right — diacritics and all — for anyone you share it with. A simple, free plugin for the desktop VedaBase program makes your text come out in Unicode. That means you can paste your text in an email, on Facebook, or wherever and the diacritic marks will come out right: Kṛṣṇa, not Kåñëa.
The update comes in the form of a small file (a “plugin”) you can easily download and install. Simple instructions come with it.
The plugin gives you three ways to copy text:
Copy with Unicode
Copy as plain text (no diacritics)
Copy with diacritics the old way (no longer recommended)
For each of these three ways, you also have the option to include a reference.
You can download the file here: https://goo.gl/puQ8kB