Planet ISKCON

By Hari Parsada Dasa

A confidential thought gets exposed as soon as it reaches six ears. (This means that the confidential thought should stay always between the two ears of the speaking friend and the two ears of the listening friend. As soon at the thought reaches a third person, it has reached six ears and is now exposed). As a good friend, we should know how to keep secrets. These secrets are something which can cause immense public embarrassment to our friends if revealed. These are weaknesses that have been confidentially confided in us. Continue reading "The Art of Meaningful Friendship
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Temple opening ceremony, Seoul, South Korea (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Caitanya Mahaprabhu says: “I have brought medicine to awaken very living being from perpetual sleep. Please receive the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, and awaken. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.13.9 Purport)
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By Karnamrita Das

In the lives of great persons there is always opposition and apparent road blocks in accomplishing their goals or mission in life. Whether through another person, an accident, their own body or mind, or some natural disturbance, what appears on the surface to be an impediment is passed through and the glory of the person is revealed. Practically we can see that great success in any undertaking or field is not accomplished without passing through many setbacks and even failure. In the personal growth or success literature such perseverance and determination in the face of what seem insurmountable odds are part of any great person’s story. Continue reading "The Importance Of Opposition And Life Reverses
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In The Beginning Was The Word (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Our 2017 summer festival tour has begun. As always, our focus is on delivering the holy names to one and all through the medium of harinama, attractive cultural shows on our festival stage, numerous booths and tents depicting India’s spiritual culture, our restaurant and many other attractions. Though rain canceled one day of festivities, the sun broke out enough the next day for us to share the wonderful world of Krsna consciousness with many fortunate souls.
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[Phone class to everydaychant.com online sanga]

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Festival of the Holy Name (video)
The journey back to Godhead need not be a lonely one. We can make it with each other’s inspiration.
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa, Youth Group Lecture)

Srila Prabhupada described how one corner of the spiritual world becomes covered, just as how a corner of the sky becomes covered by a cloud. So this corner of the spiritual sky that is covered, is the material world! And in the material world, people think that they have fallen into material life whereas the truth of the matter is that they are still in the spiritual world. So, therefore, it doesn’t take much – one simply has to come to the point of really getting rid of the cloud, to the point that you really believe that we are still in the spiritual world! I know you all have heard it before and everyone goes, “Yeah, yeah, yeah that’s right but we don’t believe it.”  But one day we may believe it.

 A 2-minute short film entitled “Transit Point” featuring Hungarian ISKCON devotees taking care of refugees arriving from war-torn Syria is among the best ten in the video contest run by Faith Counts, an American multi-faith organization with mission is to promote the value of faith.

Ratha Yatra Paris, France (Album with photos) Srila Prabhupada: One is understood to be an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead...

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[Bhagavatam class at ISKCON, Nasik, India]

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More success for the movie about His Divine Grace!
Giriraj Swami: Today we took Rajani Priya Dasi (Rose Forkash) to see “Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement, and the Swami Who Started It All” in Pasadena. At ninety-six years of age, she may be the oldest person to have seen the film, but she enjoyed it with the enthusiasm and verve of a young girl. Such is the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and his society. Hare Krishna!
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Becoming Addicted … Today, after seeing the film *Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement, and the Swami Who Started It All* for the third time in ten days, I at once began thinking of when and where I could see it again. But then I became concerned: “Maybe I’m becoming addicted.” Yet when I recalled Srila Prabhupada’s words in Juhu, “Instead of thinking, ‘Unless I have a drink, I will go mad,’ one should think, ‘Unless I associate with a sadhu, I will go mad,’ ” I concluded that this addiction—for a sadhu, for Srila Prabhupada—may be desirable, by his divine grace.
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Documentary Review: ‘HARE KRISHNA! The Mantra, The Movement And The Swami Who Started It All’
Review by LC Cragg
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A humorous compilation of monkey pranks. Some of them might look very familiar to those who ever visited Vrindavan.

Rain Rain Go Away! (4 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: There’s a saying, “Rain or shine the show must go on.” Unfortunately, one day our show didn’t go on. The driving rain simply wouldn’t let up. We were obliged to cancel our festival. Praying for sunny weather so we may share our good fortune with others.
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New App for ISKCON Temples
As we continue to be connected with mobile devices, we have a tremendous opportunity to engage with people like never before. Mobile is where people are connecting with friends and engaging with businesses. It has thus, become the most effective way to reach people anywhere at anytime. We envision our ISKCON family taking advantage of this technological trend and utilizing it to connect and communicate with their community.
We took this to heart and came up with a fantastic mobile app design. With this framework, we will work with each temple’s unique needs and create their app with features like:

Events
Media
Darshan
Donations (via Apple Pay, Android Pay and credit cards).
Temple info
And more

If you are interested in engaging your community with this flexible and affordable app, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Venu Madhava Das at info@110digitallabs.com. Phone (830)-255-7684

On Tuesday 27th June, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Netherlands of his three-nation tour after concluding his visit to the United States. During the visit, Prime Minister Modi was meeting the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, King Willem-Alexander and the Indian Diaspora in The Netherlands.

New home for ‘slaughter-free’ Ahimsa Dairy farm.
BBC: The UK’s first “slaughter-free” dairy farm has moved to a new permanent home - where it hopes to provide a model for other farms to copy.
Dairy cows are usually culled when they get older and cannot produce as much milk, and their male calves are normally killed or sold for meat.
At the Ahimsa dairy in Rutland, oxen are put to work and cows can “retire”.
The farm was previously on rented land in Leicestershire but has secured its future with land bought in Manton.
Nicola Pazdzierska said that while their milk was more expensive, many people were willing to spend the extra.
“We charge a lot more for the product but part of that money is going into our cows’ pension fund, and at the same time, we don’t think milk should be a cheap product,” she said.
“In London a pint of craft beer can sell for £6.20, so we don’t think it’s unsustainable for our milk to sell for £4.50 a litre at a farmers’ market, or £3.50 for members.
"We want to make the model replicable so other farms can follow.”
Dairy cows are normally slaughtered after about five years when they stop producing as much milk, but Ahimsa cows go into retirement.
Male calves are normally killed shortly after birth or sold for meat, but the Ahimsa dairy puts them to work on the farm.
Newborn calves are normally separated from their mothers, but they stay together as grazing partners at the Ahimsa dairy.
Cows are usually artificially inseminated, but Ahimsa cows are impregnated by bulls.
Ahimsa cows are milked by hand rather than by machine.
Ahimsa cows can choose between sheltering in a barn or grazing freely on organic pasture.
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Interview with Manorama dasa (audio) Today I spoke with Manorama dasa, who is from Alachua Florida. He works at the website Krishna.com, and as p...

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By Danavir Goswami

Driving an automobile in the service of the Lord (dasyam) is equal to performing any other service in bhakti-yoga such as sravanam, kirtanam, distributing books, offering arati to the deities, managing a temple, etc. Sri Daruka, Sri Hanuman, Sri Garuda and other devotees are famous for rendering the service of transporting the Lord from one place to another. Srila Prabhupada wanted devotees to drive carefully and he censured careless driving on several occasions. If we ignore his request and the laws governing safe driving, we are spiritually and materially at fault. Continue reading "Driving for Krishna
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