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The age of Kali is very dangerous for the human being. Human life is simply meant for self-realization, but due to this dangerous age, men have completely forgotten the aim of life.
Digesting the False Ego.
Sacinandana Swami: “When an intelligent person engages constantly in worshiping Me through loving devotional service as described by Me, his heart becomes firmly situated in Me. Thus all material desires within the heart are destroyed. The knot in the heart is pierced, all misgivings are cut to pieces and the chain of fruitive actions is terminated when I am seen as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.20.29-30)
Visiting Iskcon Melbourne, Australia (2018) (Album of photos)
Arjun Bhattacharyya: Melbourne is located at the head of Port Phillip Bay, and it is Australia’s second largest city and the capital of the south-eastern state of Victoria. Serving as Australia’s undisputed cultural capital, Melbourne is bursting with Victorian-era architecture, museums, galleries, theaters, street arts, large parks and gardens. Srila Prabhupada visited Melbourne many times. In 1973, he installed Melbourne’s presiding Deities, Sri Sri Radha Ballabha. And in May 1975 he attended the opening of the current temple at 197 Danks Street, Albert Park, installing the Deities of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and naming the temple Melbourne Mahaprabhu Mandir. We were surcharged by the wonderful enthusiastic spirit of the devotees. We had huge program attendance for all temple and house programs. We saw beautiful parrots flying around in huge numbers just outside the temple. Please relish the pictures of our visit to one of the most amazing Krishna conscious temples.
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Secrets to Living COMPLETE Life of Krsna Consciousness - New Year GOALS (20 min video)
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Jaladuta 1- travel between Kolkata and Sri Dham Mayapur on the sacred Ganges river (11 min video)
Speedy catamaran transportation between Sri Dham Mayapur and Kolkata, West Bengal. See the experience of the travelers, and maybe book yourself a voyage of a lifetime next time you visit Sri Dham Mayapur
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Meet Devotee Baker Nitaipriya Dasi and her fantastic creations!
Nitaipriya rises to the challenges that stereotypical cake ingredients present to those following Vaishnava principles. She uses yoghurt and baking soda, lemon juice with soda, flax seeds, or banana instead of egg, depending on the flavor and style of cake. She can even make royal icing without eggs, using chickpea water to surprisingly delicious results. To make flowers and figurines she uses candy clay instead of chocolate, as well as gum paste and fondant. One of Nitaipriya’s most impressive feats is making grain-free Ekadasi cakes that are still incredibly sumptuous offerings. “It’s tricky because you can’t even use icing sugar on Ekadasi,” she says. “For a recent Ekadasi I made a tiered cake with Rajgira flour, which comes from the seeds of the Amaranth plant and follows Ekadasi. The filling was berries and banana, and the ‘frosting’ was made from caramel mixed with Rajgira flour so that it applies like real icing.”
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Emerson, Merton, and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta.
Madhavananda Das: I find it very interesting how similar the thinking is in the following excerpts of these three famous philosophers.
The Vaishnava Guru Vs Bankrupt Rationalism by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada.
Tradition Vs Convention by Thomas Merton from “No Man is an Island”
Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds by Ralph Waldo Emerson from “Self-reliance”.
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Srila Prabhupada MARATHON 2018 in Slovenia (4th week) Devotees on the battlefield (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Once cannot capture the blowing wind. And it is even more difficult to capture the turbulent mind. One must engage one’s mind fully in Krishna. Only then will there remain no other engagements to agitate the mind. (Bhagavad-gita 6.34, purport).
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Nitaipriya Dasi has to balance many responsibilities in life: she’s a mother of two, serves on the board of the ISKCON Philadelphia temple, and works as vice president of a reputed bank. However she’s found yet another sweet service to offer – making astonishingly beautiful and delicious cakes for Sri Sri Radha-Saradbihari and Their devotees.
Ratha-Yatra in New Orleans (Album of videos)
Drumila Dasa: Our last Rathayatra was rained out last month, so today we tried again. It was supposed to rain, 100% chance the weather station said. But by the grace of the prayers of all the Devotee’s, and the Lord himself, for the better duration of the parade, we had no rain. Only at the near the very end did it rain, and that is after we had gone by the most populated sections of the French Quarter. I was busy handing out tons of fruit in the form of oranges tangerines and apples(Prasadam of course), books, and pralines which were offering to the Lord. But I managed to stop a few times just to film some of the nectar scenes. So here they are from the beginning of the parade to towards the end love of it.
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Harinama in Kuta beach, Bali (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: We are not afraid of maya because Krishna is there. Krishna says, “My devotee will never be vanquished by maya.” Maya cannot do anything if we become strong. And what is that strength? Chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare loudly. (Lecture on Bhagavad-gita, 3.6.10, Los Angeles 1968).
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In The Land of Confucius (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Our program in Qufu, China concluded last night with a lecture on the “Nature of the Soul.” Afterward, the audience chanted Hare Krishna and danced with us in great ecstasy. My experience is that Lord Caitanya’s formula for awakening love for God works in each and every country of the world.
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“Because Bhagavad Gita is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one need not read any other Vedic literature. One need only attentively and regularly hear and read Bhagavad Gita.” – Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavad Gita Introduction Since 1994, the Bhaktivedanta Gita Academy (Mayapur) has been enriching the lives of many with the teachings of the […]
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Photos from London Boxing Day Harinama Sankirtan.
Please find below photos from the London Boxing Day Harinama Sankirtan, which was also Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s Disappearance Day.
Srila Prabhupada: All glories to the chanting of Hare Krishna mantra or Krishna sankirtana movement. All glories. All victory. How it is victory, all victory? If you chant this Hare Krishna mantra, then the dirty things which have accumulated in your heart due to material contamination will be cleared off. (Purport to Siksastakam).
Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad Bhagavatam 3.15.25.
“On the auspicious occasion of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s disappearance day, we were pleased to officially connect Vishal Amarnani and his wife, Shweta, to Srila Prabhupada and the guru-parampara through hari-nama initiation. Their new names are Vraja Bihari dasa and Sveta-manjari dasi. Please bless them and support them in their service to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and their mission.”
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Reading prayers from Srimad Bhagavatam (video)
Seminar with HG Dravida Das at Iskcon Chicago, 23 December 2018.
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Who we are and who we are not.
Prahladananda Swami: We have to remind ourselves again and again who we are and who we are not.
Home program near Hartford (video)
Niranjana Swami: Srila Prabhupada explains in many places that the human form of life is a juncture at which one can elevate or degrade himself.
Written by: Sundara Govinda das (Stepan Plotnikov), performed by Nilambari Anastasia Ilenda. Mastering: Steve Kitch.
Yogesvara Prabhu’s thoughts and realizations in a morning class at the Bhakti Center in New York (compiled by Krishna Kripa Prabhu): The Bhakti Center is transcendental once you walk in the door, but the further you go up the more transcendental it is.
Harinam Sankirtan Time in the Pancha Tattva Temple in Sri Dhama Mayapur (1 min video)
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On the day of Gita Jayanti, the devotees from the Mayapur community, Brahmacari asrama and department and Sankirtana department recited the entire Bhagavad-gita along with the hundreds of visiting pilgrims. This recitation was headed by His Holiness Bhakti Caru Maharaja, His Holiness Candramauli Maharaja, His Holiness Bhakti Purusottama Maharaja, His Grace Jananivas Prabhu and His Grace Pankajanghri Prabhu, and when they got to the concluding chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, oblations were offered into a fire yajna following each sloka or verse from the 18th chapter of the Bhagavad-gita. 
A Bullet Train To Transcendence (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Today we took a bullet train from Beijing to Qufu, the village where Confucius was born 2,500 years ago. In Qufu there is a community of people who revere Confucius and his teachings. I visited them 2 years ago and they invited me back this year for a special gathering. This evening I spoke to 500 people on the similarity of the teachings of Confucius and Chanyaka Pandit of India. I concluded by saying that both teachings are meant to bring us to the mode of goodness, but beyond goodness is transcendence. And transcendence means going back Home to the spiritual world. I received a loud applause. It was all Srila Prabhupada’s mercy. Tomorrow I will speak in the evening on the nature of the soul. They have specifically asked for a long kirtan at the end. So happy to be on the road again!
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On the auspicious occasion of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s disappearance day, we were pleased to officially connect Vishal Amarnani and his wife, Shweta, to Srila Prabhupada and the guru-parampara through hari-nama initiation. Their new names are Vraja Bihari dasa and Sveta-manjari dasi. Please bless them and support them in their service to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and their mission.
Thank you very much.
Hare Krishna.
Yours in service,
Giriraj Swami
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Serving the Deities at ISKCON-London Radha-Krishna Temple (20 min video)
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2015, Vrindavan, India, Video Interview)
We chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra because it is said that by chanting these sixteen syllables all the influence of the Kali will be destroyed. Under the influence of Kali, we are becoming totally degraded. Illicit activities such as meat eating, gambling, intoxication and illicit sex are rampant in the world. Day-by-day, we become pulled down more and more, and degraded more and more and we sink deeper into the swamp of suffering. But, the chanting of Hare Krsna can liberate us from all this suffering. Therefore we must chant that name of Krsna as recommended in Kali-santarana Upanisad: Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
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Krishna will always accept you, no matter what!
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Gopi Gita Devi Dasi: There are times in all of our lives, as progressing spiritualists, where no matter how hard we work/surrender/strive for the highest level of purity and love, we fall flat and feel not enough; unable to be enough; ready to give up.
We may feel the challenges we face outwardly and inside our hearts to be insurmountable. We may feel that we are making no progress as to the lessening of material desire, attachments, lust, anger, greed and so much more.
Sri Harinama Sankirtan in Sydney, Australia (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: O my Lord! Persons who chant the holy names of...
Disappearance Day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur (video)
Lecture by HH Bhakti Charu Swami at ISKCON Mayapur.
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Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HG Bhima Prabhu at Iskcon Juhu
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