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Sunday program, Feb 04, 2018, Krasnodar ISKCON, Russia (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Sri Krishna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramatma (Supersoul) in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.2.17).
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The gold-plating and assembling of the Main Dome Chakra is almost complete as we quickly approach their installation on February 7th.

The Main Chakra is 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter, weighs about 2 tons and has over 100 parts including the Nava Yogendras (flames) which have been gold-plated and attached one by one.

As a reminder, since most devotees cannot be personally present for this grand occasion, the entire event will be broadcast live via MayapurTV so you can watch in the comfort of your own home and with your whole family. Please go to the link below for more information:
https://tovp.org/construction/watch-live-broadcast-historic-tovp-chakra-installation-ceremony/

The Schedule of Events is also available at this link: https://tovp.org/construction/tovp-chakra-installation-schedule-events/

It’s also not too late to sponsor an abhisheka for one or both of the Chakras. For more information go to:
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ISKCON Vrindavan: Srimad Bhagavatam Class by H.H.Krishna Kshetra Swami, 03.02.2018 (video)

The First Day Of Iskcon Leadership Sanga In Mayapur. (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “For one who wants liberation from the fruitive reactions of material activities, the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra, or glorification of the name, fame and pastimes of the Lord, is recommended as the most perfect process of atonement because such chanting eradicates the dirt from one’s heart completely.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.2.12).
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Ambarisa Das: Preparations for the Chakra installation. Boys from Mayapur Gurukul under the supervision of Krishna Chaitanya das, as...

Ratha Yatra in Whangarei, New Zealand (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat: even a little devotional service can save one from the greatest danger. Devotional service, which begins with chanting of the holy name of the Lord, is so powerful that even if one falls down, he can be saved from all calamities if he somehow or other chants the holy name of the Lord. This is the extraordinary power of the Lord’s holy name. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.1.63 Purport).
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By Bhakti Chaitanya Swami

Yesterday the GBC meetings started. The Organizational Development made various presentations to the GBC Body of items for streamlining the functions of the Body, and making the Body's activities more effective for spreading Srila Prabhupada's movement. Many leading devotees from around the globe were there. Continue reading "The GBC meetings start
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By Press Trust of India

With a month left for 'Gour Purnima', the biggest festival for the Gaudiya Vaishnavs of Mayapur, devotees from across the world are arriving at the global headquarters of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) there. This is the centenary year of 'Nabadwip Mandala Parikrama', which was started by Bhakti Sidhanta Saraswati Prabhupad in 1918, an ISKCON Mayapur statement said today. More than 6000 foreign devotees from 50 countries and 4000 Indian devotees are expected to take part in the centenary celebrations of the eight-day 'Nabadwip Mandal Parikrama', which will be held from February 18, the statement said. During the 'Parikrama' devotees from Russia, China, Australia, Africa, US, Bangladesh and other European countries will walk almost 80 km covering all major spots where Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had visited, it said. Continue reading "Media coverage of Gour Purnima and ILS
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 August 2017, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.4.5-6)

I am remembering a lecture by Srila Prabhupada where he said, “There is a need to be hundred percent pure. We have to become cent per cent pure!” And the devotees were becoming a little anxious, a heavy mood began to affect the audience. They began to think, “Since Prabhupada has said cent per cent pure, we will never make it. There is no hope for us then.”  So the mood became a little serious. Then Prabhupada said, “Okay, ninety percent will do…” then he said, “Seventy percent but no less!” and he walked away.

 

By Vijaya Dasa

There were some pretty close transcendental competitions in 2017. Pune took third place in Asia, ahead of Punjabi Bagh (New Delhi) by only 87 book points. The Auckland Loft beat Sydney-North by only 111 points. For years and years, the Auckland Loft had to take the humble position of second place, after being No. 1 for years. Now it's back in first place. No North American temple has been so close to Los Angeles's first-place position in decades as ISKCON Silicon Valley. ISV was only 4,046 points behind L.A. Continue reading "WSN December 2017 – World Sankirtan Newsletter. ISV only a few points behind L.A. for 2017
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Hare Krishna. Talking about the Chariot & Bull issue at the Penang Thaipusam festival, there is more to abuse of animals than just bulls struggling to pull an overloaded chariot. What happens to animals beginning with breeding, growth, feeding, unnatural habitat, modification bodies, sardine packed transportation, brutal killings and murder just so that the parts of the animals viz flesh, bones, blood, marrow, heart, lungs, liver, etc to end in luxury plates, all simply for the satisfaction of the palate. One can understand the reason for Sir Paul McCartney to say that “ IF ONLY SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS EVERYONE WOULD BE A VEGETARIAN....”

Back to the issue of the Penang Thaipusam chariot blunder, no doubt it was a blunder but organizers should continue with bull for pulling but use their God given brains to calculate the weight and power needed and engage bulls properly while also having ropes for humans to pull while chanting hymns to supplement the load factor thus not torturing the bulls. It was the tractor which replaced bulls in straight and other services and when mankind or rather mancruel saw the redundancy of he bulls, this began the slaughterhouses in wide scale.

When we organised a 14 days Padayatra (walking on foot) festival in 1993 using bullock cart. We walked from Penang Island to Pelam Eatate in Kedah. The festival was so joyous and our bulls were constantly fed with lots of fruits, grass and jaggery and given ample rest. Children and even adults were just caught in rapt attention seeing the bulls and cart while devotees chanted and danced all the way along and many times we worked with the bulls in pulling the cart and at other times we even replaced ourselves with the bulls.

And appended below is text 3 from the Punishment and Reward in Kali Yuga chapter 17 of the Srimad Bhagavatam

TEXT 3
gāṁ ca dharma-dughāṁ dīnāṁ
bhṛśaṁ śūdra-padāhatām
vivatsām āśru-vadanāṁ
kṣāmāṁ yavasam icchatīm
SYNONYMS
gām—the cow; ca—also; dharma-dughām—beneficial because one can draw religion from her; dīnām—now rendered poor; bhṛśam—distressed; śūdra—the lower caste; pada-āhatām—beaten on the legs; vivatsām—without any calf; āśru-vadanām—with tears in her eyes; kṣāmām—very weak; yavasam—grass; icchatīm—as if desiring to have some grass to eat.
TRANSLATION
Although the cow is beneficial because one can draw religious principles from her, she was now rendered poor and calfless. Her legs were being beaten by a śūdra. There were tears in her eyes, and she was distressed and weak. She was hankering after some grass in the field.
PURPORT
The next symptom of the age of Kali is the distressed condition of the cow. Milking the cow means drawing the principles of religion in a liquid form. The great ṛṣis and munis would live only on milk. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī would go to a householder while he was milking a cow, and he would simply take a little quantity of it for subsistence. Even fifty years ago, no one would deprive a sādhu of a quart or two of milk, and every householder would give milk like water. For a Sanātanist (a follower of Vedic principles) it is the duty of every householder to have cows and bulls as household paraphernalia, not only for drinking milk, but also for deriving religious principles. The Sanātanist worships cows on religious principles and respects brāhmaṇas. The cow's milk is required for the sacrificial fire, and by performing sacrifices the householder can be happy. The cow's calf not only is beautiful to look at, but also gives satisfaction to the cow, and so she delivers as much milk as possible. But in the Kali-yuga, the calves are separated from the cows as early as possible for purposes which may not be mentioned in these pages of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The cow stands with tears in her eyes, the śūdra milkman draws milk from the cow artificially, and when there is no milk the cow is sent to be slaughtered. These greatly sinful acts are responsible for all the troubles in present society. People do not know what they are doing in the name of economic development. The influence of Kali will keep them in the darkness of ignorance. Despite all endeavors for peace and prosperity, they must try to see the cows and the bulls happy in all respects. Foolish people do not know how one earns happiness by making the cows and bulls happy, but it is a fact by the law of nature. Let us take it from the authority of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and adopt the principles for the total happiness of humanity.

This year we are celebrating 100 years that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur started the Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama.Nowadays,  every year more than 8 thousand devotees from more than 50 countries come to Parikrama. It is a life changing experience for each one of them! Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur says: By performing Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama the whole […]

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My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains in his commentary that just as a legitimate son has to simply remain alive to gain an inheritance from his father, one who simply remains alive in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, following the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga, automatically becomes eligible to receive the mercy of the Personality of Godhead. In other words, he will be promoted to the kingdom of God.
The word su-samīkṣamāṇa indicates that a devotee earnestly awaits the mercy of the Supreme Lord even while suffering the painful effects of previous sinful activities. Lord Kṛṣṇa explains in the Bhagavad-gītā that a devotee who fully surrenders unto Him is no longer liable to suffer the reactions of his previous karma. However, because in his mind a devotee may still maintain the remnants of his previous sinful mentality, the Lord removes the last vestiges of the enjoying spirit by giving His devotee punishments that may sometimes resemble sinful reactions. The purpose of the entire creation of God is to rectify the living entity’s tendency to enjoy without the Lord, and therefore the particular punishment given for a sinful activity is specifically designed to curtail the mentality that produced the activity. Although a devotee has surrendered to the Lord’s devotional service, until he is completely perfect in Kṛṣṇa consciousness he may maintain a slight inclination to enjoy the false happiness of this world. The Lord therefore creates a particular situation to eradicate this remaining enjoying spirit. This unhappiness suffered by a sincere devotee is not technically a karmic reaction; it is rather the Lord’s special mercy for inducing His devotee to completely let go of the material world and return home, back to Godhead.
A sincere devotee earnestly desires to go back to the Lord’s abode. Therefore he willingly accepts the Lord’s merciful punishment and continues offering respects and obeisances to the Lord with his heart, words and body. Such a bona fide servant of the Lord, considering all hardship a small price to pay for gaining the personal association of the Lord, certainly becomes a legitimate son of God, as indicated here by the words dāya-bhāk. Just as one cannot approach the sun without becoming fire, one cannot approach the supreme pure, Lord Kṛṣṇa, without undergoing a rigid purificatory process, which may appear like suffering but which is in fact a curative treatment administered by the personal hand of the Lord.

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An Indian Union Minister of State recently triggered a furor by stating that evolution is unproven scientifically and shouldn’t be taught in schools.

Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word evolution. It refers to different things in different contexts.

In today’s public discourse, evolution is used in three broad senses:

1. Adaptation of species
2. Emergence of new species
3. All-explaining naturalistic ideology

 

Adaptation of species: Evolution can refer to the variation that happens within species as they adapt to their environment by developing certain features. For example, flora and fauna in deserts develop mechanisms to store water. Such adaptation is a well-documented phenomenon that doesn’t need to be doubted or disputed. Nature has endowed living beings with the capacity to adapt to their environment – in that sense, living beings do evolve. Almost all the hard evidence provided by science textbooks for evolution is for such biological adaptation, which can be termed as micro-evolution.

 

Emergence of new species: Evolution also refers to the mechanism by which one species changes into another – a phenomenon that can be termed macro-evolution. Whereas micro-evolution connotes a mechanism for the survival of the fittest, macro-evolution connotes a mechanism for the arrival of the fittest, or, in general, for the emergence of any entirely new species. The notion that incremental variation within a species can lead to the formation of another species – that such gradual change explains the origin of all species – is a gigantic leap in speculative inference that begs for evidence. This change is believed to happen so gradually that it can’t be observed, so proponents of macro-evolution turn to the fossil record as evidence. However, the fossil record doesn’t provide much help, as is admitted by prominent evolutionists themselves.

• “The curious thing is that there is a consistency about the fossil gaps; the fossils are missing in all the important places.” – Francis Hitching, The Neck of the Giraffe or Where Darwin Went Wrong
• “Paleontologists have paid an enormous price for Darwin’s argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life’s history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.” – Stephen J Gould, The Panda’s Thumb

Of course, being evolutionists by belief, they don’t let the paucity of evidence challenge their belief – instead, they come up with new theories. Whether those new theories actually address the problem remains debatable.

Nonetheless, evolution has many aggressive proponents who try to shut down any debate by labelling evolution’s critics as anti-scientific fanatics who want to take the world back to the Stone Age. Embarrassingly for such evolutionists, many of those who question evolution are credentialed scientists. And not just a handful, but several hundreds, as is evident from the list at dissentfromdarwin.org. It has over 800 scientists, with the number continuously increasing.

As a society, we value freedom of expression. So, shouldn’t we value the freedom of expression of those scientists who question evolution’s scientific tenability?

 

All-explaining naturalistic ideology: Beyond macro-evolution, evolution is often used to refer to something much bigger: philosophical naturalism. Herein, evolution becomes like a magic wand that explains everything existing in nature: the emergence of human beings to the emergence of all pre-human species and even the emergence of consciousness. Evolution expands to go beyond biological evolution to chemical evolution that claims insentient chemicals gave rise to conscious life.

However, evolution of consciousness is an intractable problem. The 125th anniversary issue of Science listed 125 questions for which science had no answer. The second question was about the origin of consciousness. (The first pertained to the origin of the universe.) That question about consciousness remains unanswered even today, despite much high-sounding evolutionary psychobabble broadcast in the media.

• Nobel Prize winning neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles observed: “If you look at most modern texts on evolution you find nothing about mind and consciousness. They assume it just comes automatically with the development of the brain. But that’s not the answer. (International Herald Tribune, 31 March 1981)
• Physicist Nick Herbert underscores in his book Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics: “Science’s biggest mystery is the nature of consciousness. It is not that we possess bad or imperfect theories of human awareness; we simply have no such theories at all. About all we know about consciousness is that it has something to do with the head, rather than the foot.”

In fact, when evolution becomes an all-explaining truth-claim, it no longer remains a science, but becomes an ideology. Philosopher of science Wolfgang Smith points out, “Darwinism, in whatever form, is not in fact a scientific theory, but a pseudo-metaphysical hypothesis decked out in scientific garb.  In reality, the theory derives its support not from empirical data or logical deductions of a scientific kind but from the circumstance that it happens to be the only doctrine of biological origins that can be conceived with the constricted worldview to which a majority of scientists no doubt subscribe.” The doctrine Smith refers to is philosophical naturalism, which holds that everything in existence can be explained solely through natural mechanisms.

 

From what science explains to what explains science

Science presumes the existence of some natural order which it tries to understand. But it can’t explain the rationale for the existence of this natural order. Consider, for example, the scientific theory that fruits fall because of the force of gravity. But why does gravity exist in the first place? Even if it is attributed to some further scientific construct, such as the curvature of space-time, that only takes the question one step back: Why does space-time have such features? Ultimately, science requires the pre-existence of some natural order. Pertinently, physicist Paul Davies points out, “Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview …  even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.”

To better appreciate the implications of this founding presumption of science, we need to recognize that what science explains is different from what explains science. “What science explains” refers to the explanations in terms of natural laws or natural mechanisms, such as gravity, that science comes up with on observing the natural world. In contrast, “what explains science” raises the question why nature works according to the laws that science uncovers.

Let’s compare science with eyes. We may look with our eyes and explain what we see. But explaining what we see doesn’t explain why there exists something worth seeing and explaining. Similarly, explaining the mechanisms operating in nature doesn’t explain why nature has any mechanism at all. Actually, what science does is describe how nature operates; it doesn’t explain why nature operates that way. If Ajay hits Vijay, describing how Ajay’s fit smashed Vijay’s jaw doesn’t explain why Ajay did what he did. German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein puts it succinctly: “The great delusion of modernity is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.”

That’s why the truth-claim that evolution is a grand non-theistic alternative for explaining everything goes beyond the range of valid science. It becomes scientism, the ideological imperialism of science extended into all domains of knowledge.

 

Allowing such scientism to be taught in schools is a disservice to science because it gives a misleading picture of reality. People who use science to search for the deepest answers, for answers to question about the meaning and purpose of life, will find science falling short of their expectations. This is no fault of science, for no field of knowledge can be expected to answer questions outside that field. But when education sets up the expectation that science has the answer to all questions, the ensuing frustration only alienates people from science.

Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Medawar, despite being an atheist himself, cautions scientists in his book Advice to a Young Scientist: “There is no quicker way for a scientist to bring discredit upon himself and upon his profession than roundly to declare – particularly when no declaration of any kind is called for – that science knows, or soon will know, the answers to all questions worth asking, and that questions which do not admit a scientific answer are in some way non-questions or ‘pseudo-questions’ that only simpletons ask and only the gullible profess to be able to answer.”

 

Summary

Thus, by recognizing the multiple connotations of the word evolution, we can address the question of teaching evolution in an appropriately sophisticated, multi-faceted way.

• Evolution as adaptation of species can be taught.
• Evolution as a mechanism for the emergence of new species, indeed all species, is debatable. This debate exists for real in the scientific world, and its existence needs to be acknowledged in educational curricula.
• Evolution as an all-explaining ideology – where it becomes a convenient tool of atheists to arrogate the prestige of science to themselves and to brand anyone who opposes atheism as unscientific or even anti-scientific – is a misrepresentation of reality and a misappropriation of science. It needs to be strongly contested and corrected.

 

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By Ravindra-svarupa dasa

Harold S. Kushner, a Massachusetts rabbi's best-selling book proposes a radical solution to the problem of evil. Does it work? Kushner is still hostile. Because God did not satisfy his demands, Kushner must think of Him as ineffectual and weak. Kushner once thought of God as a parent who always gratifies our desires. But now Kushner views Him as needing our forgiveness—for having failed as a parent: “Are you capable of forgiving and loving God even when you have found out that He is not perfect, even when He has let you down and disappointed you by permitting bad luck and sickness and cruelty in His world, and permitting some of those things to happen to you? Can you learn to love and forgive Him despite His limitations ... as you once learned to forgive and love your parents even though they were not as wise, as strong, or as perfect as you needed them to be?” Continue reading "Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
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New Vrindaban will celebrate Mother’s Day weekend in our Jubilee year (2018) with a new format

• The spiritual master takes over some of the karma of the disciple
• There are many ways in which we become free of karma
• Offence also creates karma and effects the spiritual master
• An offensive disciple is an embarrasment to the spiritual master
• Accumulative effect of disciples’ offenses may cause a guru to fall down

Sadbhuja Das: We have commenced fixing the stars on the domes and we are working our way down from the Kalash, sealing the Blue Tile...

This collection of TOVP photos was taken recently by His Grace Kalasamvara prabhu, President of the Auckland, New Zealand temple who is now in Sridhama Mayapur for the grand Chakra installation ceremony and Gaur Purnima festival.

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A tremendous loss for Srila Prabhupada’s movement.
Bir Krishna Goswami: We are greatly saddened to hear of the sudden departure of Gargamuni Prabhu.
Gargamuni is the initiated disciple of His Holiness Sridhara Maharaj, as dear disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Sridhara Maharaj was instrumental in assisting Srila Prabhupada in establishing the Bombay temple at Juhu and other projects in India.
I have known Gargamuni for many years, first in my capacity as GBC of his home country Slovenia, and then as a dear friend and siksa disciple. Gargamuni was in line to take sannyasa from me in the near future.
Knowing of Gargamuni’s strict adherence to the Krishna conscious process, his exemplary Vaisnava qualities, and his high level of knowledge of the Vaisnava scriptures I requested him to come to Fiji to assist in establishing high standards of Vaisnava behavior and education.
While in Fiji he inspired many devotees, and won the heart of all the Vaisnavas. Everyone who met him loved him and felt inspired by him.
He was very very close to me, and I was depending on his assistance in carrying out Srila Prabhupada’s society in Fiji and elsewhere.
It is a tremendous loss for myself, and Srila Prabhupada’s movement.
Krishna has decided to take him elsewhere to render service in Lord Caitanya’s sankirtana movement.
His departure from the planet was exemplary and something that we should all aspire for. Surrounded by loving devotees chanting the Holy Name, he left this world to rejoin his spiritual master and Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to His grace Gargamuni Prabhu!
Yours in Srila Prabhupada’s service,
Bir Krishna Goswami

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Marriage vow according to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur!
“The cardinal principle of gṛhastha āśrama is that no one may be the owner of any property or service of another.
Everyone is only a servant whose activities are ever in the service of the Lord.
Similarly, the sole object of everyone’s service as the only master, only friend, only son and only consort is Krishna.

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