When we understand scripture according to our level of realization, is that our false ego at work?
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When scripture contains so much wisdom, why does most of India not follow scripture?
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Karma & Reincarnation radio show – English with Tamil translation
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(Radio show at Toronto, Canada)

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His Holiness Lokanath Swami Dedicates Vyasa Puja to TOVP
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On the auspicious Sayana Ekadasi day of July 4th, over two thousand of His Holiness Lokanath Maharaja’s disciples and well-wishers celebrated his Vyasa Puja in Pandharpur, India, home of Sri Vithalnath Who on that same day observed His Darshan Day.

Most significantly was the presence of Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Sitari from Mayapur along with His Grace Sriman Jananivas and Vraja Vilas prabhus representing the TOVP. Maharaja dedicated over three hours of prime-time to the TOVP presentation and fundraising showing by his own example the importance of the project. Due to his inspiration over $1 million U.S. was raised in pledges.

In a moving speech about the historic and spiritual significance of the TOVP Maharaja explained that, as it was the desire of our acharyas, especially Srila Prabhupada, to build this magnificent temple and monument of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s glory, so it was also his desire. And similarly it should be the deepest desire of his disciples to also see it built. He encouraged one and all to give their might to help fund the construction so that the completion date of 2022 could be realized.

The TOVP presentation consisted of an abhishek for the Padukas and Sitari accompanied by kirtan, speeches from Jananivas, Vraja Vilas and temple leaders, the fundraising event and finally prasadam. Everyone participated in the fundraiser and received gifts from the TOVP in loving reciprocation for their pledge.

The entire TOVP Team is grateful to His Holiness Lokanath Maharaja and all his disciples and followers for their inspiring example and service attitude towards this most important ISKCON project and especially to Istadeva prabhu who organized the entire event.

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Monday, July 10th, 2017
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Toronto, Ontario

With the Interfaithers

I just love it when Brian Carwana brings his group of interfaith people to visit the temple, every year.  Of the fifty he included, one person was from Missouri, one from Nebraska, another from Boston and the rest were mostly from Ontario.  Did I hear anyone came from la belle province, Quebec?  Yes, indeed, it was represented as well.

I was fortunate to have a musical expert with me, Hari Bhakti, a second generation Hare Krishna.  I asked him to do a demo on the mrdunga drum and the harmonium, both of which are used amply in Krishna Conscious music.

Hari also accompanied me when I taught our visitors what Brian usually wants featured, the chants and the dance.  That, they liked.  It’s rather unusual for the group.  In the numerous visits they make to faith groups around the city, getting everyone to move mouth and limbs is special.  I would say they were quite impressed with the deities of Krishna as well.

Then, it was meal time.  I went around the tables.  One man introduced himself as a minister.  “I’m Paul,” he said.
“Do I address you as Father?” I asked.
“No!”
“As brother?”
“No!”
“Bro?”
“Yes!”

I also sat with three sisters; most likely in their early sixties.  They came from Kitchener—farm country.  It was hard for them to fathom everyone becoming vegetarian. “Then what becomes of the cattle?  Do you just let them go?”

I believe I convinced them it could be done.  It would be a gradual phasing out.  The day will come when we’ll all be looking at the meat industry as a dying one.

May the Source be with you!

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True friendship
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 28 May 2017, Holy Name Festival, Slovenia, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.2.7)

I like one of the plays done by the Germans. In the play, there is a wife who is ironing endless dhotis, piles of them. She has got a cloth around her hair. She looks totally un-charming (laughter). I mean, that is how it is after marriage. Before marriage, they never look like that but after, they do. She is ironing endless piles of laundry. He is sitting in front of the TV watching football.

She is lamenting, “And I thought that he was going to deliver me!”
And he goes, “Shut up, shut up. I cannot hear, the commentator.”
He says, “Where is my coffee?”
She brings him his coffee with an expression on her face that says, “You fallen wretch! Here is your intoxication.”
So he sees that face and he says, “Look. I am not any less Krsna conscious, you know. I mean, I’ll prove it to you. You know, the coffee – black – Krsna. The milk – white – Radharani. And when you stir it – Gauranga!”

Okay, it is just a play but it has a realistic element to it. I mean, what can we say, such things do happen in life. Ultimately, these relationships will only work when partners become friends and engage in Krsna consciousness together. When everything is over, that is all you really get out of it – friendship.

Real friendship means to give someone else something that is really beneficial. You know, I used to have bad friends before and they sort of clunk glasses and said, “Here you go!” You know, where do you go? To hell you go! (laughing) No one likes to go to hell alone so let us go together – this is not friendship. Friendship means we give something beneficial to others and therefore, let us just help each other to be devotees. That is what it is all about. Help each other to be devotees. No one can be a devotee all by himself or herself.

I Didn’t Write Them—Krishna Wrote Them
Giriraj Swami

Prabhupada with Nanda Kumar and bookNanda Kumar Prabhu, who on occasion was Srila Prabhupada’s personal servant, shared the following remembrance:

 Srila Prabhupada regularly took hot milk at night, just before taking rest. Occasionally he would have puffed rice along with it, but usually just hot milk without anything in it. One night when I took his milk in, there was a special energy in his room that I could feel right away. Srila Prabhupada was sitting at his desk reading Krsna book with His wire-rimmed glasses on.

When I set the milk down in front of him, he looked up with the most beautiful childlike innocent look on his face and said, “You know, when I read these books it’s hard to believe I wrote them. I learn something every time I read them. Actually, I didn’t write them—Krishna wrote them.” It was almost like he was a young boy, the way the energy felt—so pure and so innocent.

When I went back fifteen minutes later to take his glass and cleanse his desk, he was already getting up to go to bed. I was rarely if ever there when he finally took rest. My normal routine was to take his glass, cleanse his desk where the glass had been, then go into his bedroom and turn back the covers on his bed for whenever he was ready to take rest. Because he was already heading for bed, I postponed the glass-and-desk part and went right in to turn the covers back for him. The timing was perfect, and as I did it, he got right into bed, and I had the blessed opportunity to pull the covers up and actually tuck him in.

The innocent vibration was still permeating his whole quarters, and as I tucked him into bed, he looked up with pure unconditional love and said, “Oh, thank you very much!” It was all I could do to keep my composure as I paid my obeisances before going back to his desk to get his glass and clean his desk. It was such an amazing experience and a blessing that I’m so grateful for.

All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

Hear Krishna! Chant Krishna! See Krishna! Serve Krishna!
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Letters combine to form words. Words combine to form sentences. Combination of sentences express an idea. It is like music. Music is actually made up of fundamental notes (basic notes), combined we get myriad musical notes which invoke in us the emotion of happiness, sadness, anger, patriotism, love etc. The same is true when a speaker has a knack to combine words and sentences in such a way to invoke a certain emotion within our hearts.

Adolf Hitler had such sinister motives that merely through his speeches; he could sway his troops to follow his ideology. To this day, in America, if a layman utters the phrase “I have a dream…” immediately people will recall the famed speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. This is almost ubiquitous. His speech stirred the emotions of people so much that to this day, people remember him with those four initial words. When Neil Armstrong put his first step on the moon, his famous line “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” is a memory etched in the follower of modern science. “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” rocketed Kennedy to the White House. Words and combination of it, history has shown, can invoke such action that it can change a person or community or nation for the good or for the bad. Hence, the scriptures stress the importance of hearing followed by chanting.

When spiritual sound is combined in an artistic way to express an idea that will lead us to act spiritually, then such sound is powerful. Self-realized souls who are constantly in touch with the supersoul have the ability to speak and inspire just about anyone. It is important to hear from them. Srila Prabhupada although not a trained scientist, still engaged many scientists’ in a meaningful way because he spoke in an artistic way to capture the minds of the scientists at the same time delivering his spiritual message despite their unwillingness to do so. By hearing sincerely, one’s intelligence about the non-physical becomes more of a reality. If mundane words can invoke deep emotions of the past, present and future, certainly words glorifying Swayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna is supremely powerful that it can burn away all misgivings of the individual and set the individual on a journey with an emotion full of unending magic and joy!

Hear Krishna! Chant Krishna! See Krishna! Serve Krishna!
Hare Krishna

Book Distribution weekend of July 6-9. 2017 (Album with photos)…
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Book Distribution weekend of July 6-9. 2017 (Album with photos)
Mohanasini Devi Dasi: Although this couple didn’t take a book or get into the album, they sent me a friend request. Scot, “Nice meeting you today in New Orleans. Hare Krishna.” And his wife, Beth, “ We are the couple who has "read the book”! I am an Interfaith Minister in Jackson, MS. Always enjoy connecting with other light sharers. Blessings!“
Book totals for this weekend: 15 Perfection of Yoga, 23 Chant and Be Happy, 65 Higher Taste Cookbooks, 3 Science of Self Realization, 153 Bhagavad Gitas, and 9 Srimad Bhagavatams Total: 268 books
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Radhanath Swami speaks at Facebook Headquarters. On Thursday,…
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Radhanath Swami speaks at Facebook Headquarters.
On Thursday, June 15, 2017 Radhanath Swami spoke at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley, in California. Sixty employees attended a talk on the subject “Keys to Inner Fulfillment – Wisdom from Ancient Yoga Texts”.
He began the talk by saying how Facebook is offering the technology to connect billions of people around the world yet still there are so many disconnections. Real satisfaction comes when we connect to our inner roots. He spoke of his visit to Muir Woods where he learned that the strength of the mighty Redwood trees was passed on by how they all connect together on the root level.

Speaking of who we are and the nature of real life, he said that when we connect to our true self, we realize that we all have the potential to love. “When we water the root, it naturally extends to the branches, etc. Similarly connecting to our inner self, naturally extends to all beings. Everything comes from an origin. We all have forgotten that. In giving we receive and in giving we nourish our hearts. Great people in history have lived by this principle.”

He shared the idea that the real key to inner fulfillment is to connect to our real self and that this can be done through three essential principles of sadhana (regular spiritual practice), satsang (good association) and sadachar (good behavior). He explained the practical aspects of these principles. “However small we are, we can make a big difference – through our own way of living, we can be the change we want to see in the world. All the good changes in the world have come from sincere people who wanted to make the change.”
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The Boys’ Summer Trip 2017 (Album with photos) Manorama…
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The Boys’ Summer Trip 2017 (Album with photos)
Manorama Dasa: For the next five weeks I have the good fortune to serve the Boys’ Summer Trip, 30 boys ages 12-17 traveling across North America to visit temples, Ratha-yatra festivals, national parks… on a spiritual adventure summer camp on wheels. At the moment we are in Montreal for Ratha-yatra, and the boys are rehearsing a drama with Bhaktimarga Swami.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/RmZo5w

Upcoming Veda course in the UK.There is an upcoming men’s…
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Upcoming Veda course in the UK.
There is an upcoming men’s residential course coming up called the Veda course.
The next Veda course will start at the beginning of October 2017 and finish in December 2017.
I’ve attached a poster for the course. Please put this information (along with the poster) through to all your channels of communication. Thank you.
Niskincana dasa

A sweet Recollection of the Mayapur Ratha-yatra celebration
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Hare KrishnaBy Mayapur Internal Communications Team

Starting in the late 80’s with one small chariot, Ratha-yatra was celebrated just inside the Mayapur campus by the gurukula students. As time went on, Ratha-yatra grew, and the campus grounds could no longer hold the festival. We had to start thinking big. In 1997, the Mayapur management organized the first ever Ratha-yatra festival coming from Rajapur to ISKCON Mayapur with three grand chariots. It was only with their leadership and expertise that this festival continues today. Continue reading "A sweet Recollection of the Mayapur Ratha-yatra celebration
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The Abnormal Normal
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“I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I’m normal.”

–  Jules Feiffer

 

This paradoxical quote illustrates how abnormal mental conditions have become normal, how mental health problems have become mainstream, how though we have progressed technologically, we seemed to have regressed mentally. Indeed, sociologists sometimes refer to this alarming phenomenon as an anxiety epidemic.

Each person’s mental health issues can have complex specific causes. While addressing these individual causes, we can’t afford to lose sight of underlying generic causes. That universal cause is pointed to by psychologist William Sheldon of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons: “Deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human makeup. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction—for orientation.” We need a deeper meaning and larger purpose for our life. Without this, we feel as if the ground has been pulled from under us.

Such disorientation is an inevitable result of the materialistic worldview that is mainstream today – a worldview that most of us have adopted, consciously or subconsciously. This worldview reduces us to an aggregation of chemicals bungling around in this big blind world, which too is just a bigger aggregation of chemicals. Such a conception of life causes a profound existential angst which if contemplated unflinchingly would make life almost unbearable.

To make such a pointless life bearable, we divert ourselves from reality by a frenetic immersion in matter. We seek our self-worth by piling up degrees in front of our names, figures in our bank accounts and gizmos in our houses. Or we lose ourselves in the myriad forms of entertainment that swamp us from all directions. While such achievement or enjoyment gives us some titillation, it too triggers further anxiety because none of these externals are really in our control. Life’s vicissitudes can take any and all of these away at any moment. The possibility and indeed the inevitability of such dispossession of the things that shore up our self-worth causes us further anxiety. Ironically, the very things we seek for decreasing our anxiety end up subjecting us to greater anxiety. Thus, both these factors – the fundamental spiritual alienation and the subsequent material infatuation – contribute to our increasing anxiety. These two causes are actually one because spiritual alienation leads to material infatuation, though both fuel each other.

This fundamental cause of anxiety is like the seismic disturbance point below the surface of the earth. From that point originate the vibrations that wreak havoc on the earth’s surface. Similarly, from our spiritual alienation originate the many vulnerabilities that lead to our being afflicted by myriad mental health issues.

Unfortunately, our spiritual alienation is only being aggravated by the onward march of progress in today’s world. As our world has progressed from the modern to the post-modern times, the mainstream intellectual ethos has relativized all knowledges and indeed all knowledge-systems. Consequently, spirituality, despite being a much-bandied word, has been reduced to a feel-good laissez-faire. In this spiritual free-for-all, people frantically try out various ways to feel good without knowing any process to realize the good that exists at their spiritual core. Thus, intellectual confusion exacerbates our spiritual alienation, thereby increasing further our anxieties.

And our material infatuation too has worsened with the advent of technology. With the extensive and intensive use of technology for marketing lifestyle products and even addictive indulgences, people find a whole universe of enjoyment alluring them. Hoping desperately to find pleasure somewhere in this techno-fuelled super-bazaar, they get increasingly obsessed with the materialism that indentures them to anxiety.

To address our anxiety by tackling our spiritual alienation and material infatuation, the Bhagavad-gita stands ready with coherent and cogent spiritual knowledge. It helps us understand that we are at our core spiritual beings and are meant for a life of loving  harmony with our source, the whole whose parts we are.

To regain our spiritual wholeness, we can begin by challenging the status quo that has deemed abnormal mental health issues normal. For those intrepid enough to explore the possibility that we are meant for a better life, the Gita’s yogic knowledge shows the way out of the ocean of anxiety to the shore of security and serenity.

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Hare Krishna ‘Festival Of Chariots’ Parades Through Boston
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Hare KrishnaBy Greg Cook

Around noon on Saturday, men wrapped in white robes gathered just off Boston’s Boylston Street in the middle of a festive crowd of women dressed in bright colored saris and men in dhoti kurtas, with gopi dots and lines of color painted on their faces. The robed men lined up before the tall yellow chariot wagon, garlanded with flowers, that resembled a temple on wheels. One man raised a coconut above his head, then smashed it on the pavement for an auspicious beginning to the annual Festival of Chariots — or Ratha Yatra (a Sanskrit phrase that roughly translates as “chariot procession”) — by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Boston or ISKCON Boston or more generally known as the Hare Krishnas. Continue reading "Hare Krishna ‘Festival Of Chariots’ Parades Through Boston
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Recordings – May 2017
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Please find below recordings from “A short UK haul“.

Download all (zip file, 1.3 GB)

 

Retreat 

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KKS_UK_Wales_Retreat_Part6_ExecutingOrders_Friendship_CompleteSurrender

Other

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KKS_UK_11May2017_DisciplesMeeting_Kirtan

KKS_UK_11May2017_DisciplesMeeting_Lecture

KKS_UK_May2017_HouseProgram_Kirtan

KKS_UK_May2017_HouseProgram_Lecture

TOVP FullDome Mayapur Project
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Hare KrishnaBy TOVP

Operation FullDome is a way to give any visiting guest to Sri Dham Mayapur an opportunity to experience the most unique immersive spiritual experience in a spiritual town. The visitors will relax in comfort and watch high-quality presentations of professionally made FullDome films, using only top grade technology – the same technology that Disney, NASA, and many Fortune 500 companies use. This place will become the pivot point of interactive educational and spiritually riveting audio-visual experience. The proceedings from this project will go towards the TOVP Exhibits. Continue reading "TOVP FullDome Mayapur Project
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Vaisesika dasa: How to trick one to say the name of Krishna
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Vaisesika dasa: How to trick one to say the name of Krishna?
Just tell them to repeat the word “sneakers”! :-) Try it!
Lecture by HG Vaisesika Dasa Prabhu Recorded on July 9th 2017 at ISKCON Silicon Valley (video)
Narada said, “I will give you a mantra that will make you the richest man in the world, if only you will repeat it constantly, day in and day out.” Narada told Valmiki to repeat the word mara over and over again, and Valmiki agreed. Holy men like Narada could not lie, and Valmiki knew that mara was an evil word, which agreed all too well with his greedy personality. Valmiki sat beneath a tree and began to chant, “Mara mara mara mara…” However, Valmiki did not realize that he had been tricked - as the syllables of “Mara mara mara” began to run together, Valmiki instead found himself chanting “Rama, rama, rama”!
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Grand Inauguration of the Mayapur Institute Campus
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Since the time of Lord Chaitanya, Navadvip has been a place of scriptural learning. It is evident from Chaitanya-bhagavata (Adi 2.60-61), nana-desa haite loka navadvipe yaya navadvipe padile se ‘vidya-rasa’ paya “Many people came from various provinces to study in Navadvipa because by studying there one achieved a taste for education.” ataeva paduyara nahi samuccaya […]

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Most past-life memories involve people who lived sinfully in their previous lives – shouldn’t such people have gone to animal bodies, not human bodies?
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A Sweet recollection of Mayapur Ratha Yatra Celebrations
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Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held […]

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If the natures of a husband and a wife are not complementary, but contradictory, how can they function?
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Answer Podcast

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Spiritualizing our relationships 3 – Learning to separate people from their behavior
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[Phone talk to everydaychant.com online sanga]

 
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Podcast Summary

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Sunday, July 9th, 2017
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Montreal, Quebec

Peaceful Situation

A very pleasant 23° Celsius / 76° Fahrenheit blessed the city of Montreal, and Day 2 of the Festival went on with packed attendance, once again.  Summer in Canada is all about outdoor events.  From late May to the end of September, expect a lot more events than just little picnics.

On top of the staging of a world-class jazz festival, last night as I walked from Centre Ville in Montreal, to our ashram on Pie IX Boulevard, I witnessed a migration of multitudes of people moving toward the St. Lawrence River for an international fireworks competition.  The volume of people moving made me think of some kind of exodus, like the Jews from Egypt during Biblical times, or the partisan era in India when thousands of Hindus and Muslims had to leave their homes.

Well, by 10:00 p.m. the marvelous ‘explosion-of-light show’ went off with a bang, a louder sound than snap, crackle, and pop, and these folks—the spectators—were a happy lot.

And so, with another festival—ours—that lit up Jeanne Mance Park, we all served to bring together thousands of eager seekers.  As I mentioned to a couple from Sherbrooke, Fabian and Genevieve, who brought their kirtan to the stage, “We may have different Vedic beliefs, and our mantras may vary, but most importantly, we join together and sing songs and break into dance, and create a peaceful situation.”

I’ll be travelling with a group of thirty young men, in their early teens, throughout Canada to share a higher consciousness through song and dance.  Of course, I’ll walk a bit every day.

May the Source be with you!

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Indonesia AGM
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Leaders from all of over Indonesia, including, Java, Sulawesi, Lombok, Sumatra and Bali, came together for the annual general meeting of the National Council. Kavicandra Maharaja and I also attended in our role as GBCs for the area.

Each leader represented a temple or preaching centre and gave a report of their preaching activities over the last year. One notable report was that of the Rathayatra committee, which stated that there were 29 Rathayatras celebrated in Indonesia over the last year.

leadership style
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How to be a diplomat and at the same time not duplicitous? I think this is the art of ambassadorship. It is also the art of negotiating and leadership. A leader especially a Kshatriya type leader is trained to cultivate this art of diplomacy without duplicity. I believe today we have more duplicity than diplomacy. Unfortunately, it is very hard to tell the difference. Henceforth, people in general do not trust their leaders anymore or at the least have a dubious outlook. If we want a leader to be respected and trustworthy, then the leader should establish his or her agenda clearly, follow up on it periodically in a transparent manner with verifiable statements. To me, this type of leadership invokes trust. So when such a leader is behaving diplomatically and may seem duplicitous, still it will not create doubt as we are aware of their leadership style.

I think Srila Prabhupada was like this. He always was clear in his speeches, letters, projects, and his day-to-day dealings with people (big, small, disciples, non-disciples). Such straightforward and consistent dealings puts people at ease and any doubt that may exist will soon dissipate. People may not agree or even understand fully our philosophy but if they see our dealings as simple and straight, then they will certainly value our words. Everyone is a leader, i think, and should take it upon themselves to practice simplicity and straightforwardness (not rude) with everyone.

Hare Krishna