The Myth of Old Age
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Not long ago, someone in our community passed along to me a magazine pitch she’d received in the mail. On the front of the oversize envelope, a headline announced—blue type on a bright green background—”Old Age Isn’t Natural.”

‘The Art of Teaching’ Is Available As E-book
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This book by Bhurijana Das contains the essence of his years of teaching experience and his study of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions on education. Included are such topics as the importance of the mode of goodness in teachers and students, how to become self-disciplined, principles of organization and management, ideas for setting and achieving objectives, how to lead discussions, ask effective questions, listen, and counsel.

Kalindi and her Boyfriends (5 min video)Chayadevi: Kalindi was…
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Kalindi and her Boyfriends (5 min video)
Chayadevi: Kalindi was only 3 years old and had produced
23.096 pounds of milk but she couldn’t get pregnant again and her milk production had fallen below 60 pounds a day when the dairy farmer who owned her was about to sell her for meat. ISCOWP members purchased her and saved her from becoming meat on someone’s dinner plate. This video is about her life and the life of 2 of her friends (also saved from slaughter) 2 years later.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/BBxv3w

The ecstatic experience of Love as a key to unseal the treasure of Authentic Happiness
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By Matsyavatara das

Modern civilization achieved great results in countless fields, nevertheless it produced a shadow culture inclined to obsessive identification with the body, and the need to acquire richness in order to satisfy ambitions of power and exorcise fear, even knowing that, by definition, richness is like the sea water: the more you drink it the more thirsty you are. The fake myth of an easy life based on sense pleasures is the heaviest of calamities, the most painful and dreadful of all. Richness, aging, youth, beauty do not guarantee happiness, otherwise addictions to drugs, violence, alcohol or tobacco would not be wide spread problems. Continue reading "The ecstatic experience of Love as a key to unseal the treasure of Authentic Happiness
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The Art of Teaching – A Guide for Training Our Children in…
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The Art of Teaching – A Guide for Training Our Children in Krishna Consciousness by His Grace Bhurijana prabhu, is now available as an eBook on Amazon Kindle.
eBook link: http://a.co/acbiOzv
A valuable resource for parents, teachers, preachers, and anyone else who wants to teach. Bhurijana Dasa began his teaching career in 1976, working with students and developing curriculum. This book contains the essence of his years of teaching experience and his study of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions on education. Included are such topics as the importance of the mode of goodness in teachers and students, how to become self-disciplined, principles of organization and management, ideas for setting and achieving objectives, how to lead discussions, ask effective questions, listen, and counsel. Also, contains Srila Prabhupada’s quotes on gurukula and a section on child protection.

Devotees may also avail of the hardback from the same above link.

For bulk orders of the hardback book, please write to info@vihepublications.com

Website: http://www.vihepublications.com

Kalindi Vijaya and Her Boyfriends
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Kalindi was only three years old and had produced 23, 096 pounds of milk but  she couldn't get pregnant again and her milk production had fallen below 60 pounds a day when the dairy farmer who owned her was about to sell her for meat. ISCOWP members purchased her and saved her from becoming meat on someone's dinner plate. This video is about her life and the life of two of her friends (also saved from slaughter) two years later. 

Why didn’t the Pandavas think that the Kauravas were simply instruments of their own past karma?
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If everything in the Mahabharata is arranged by Krishna’s plan, why do we blame Duryodhana or Karna?
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Why is Arjuna considered the greatest archer when all his power came from Krishna?
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If Dhritarashtra had stopped Duryodhana from fighting, how would the Gita have been spoken?
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When Dhritarashtra was forced by the modes to support Duryodhana, why is he blamed?
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Did the celestial voice stopping Duryodhana from committing suicide interfere with his free will?
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Shoes made for walking: Monk walks through Craig, Colorado,…
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Shoes made for walking: Monk walks through Craig, Colorado, USA.
Marathon walker Bhaktimarga Swami — The Walking Monk — is passing through Craig and Moffat County this weekend. Swami, formerly John Peter Vis, a 64-year-old Canadian, has been taking long walks since he was about 5 years old. He adopted the monastic lifestyle of the Hare Krishna order in 1973 and incorporated marathon walking into his spiritual practice. In 1996 he walked across the entire length of Canada which was documented in the Canadian film “The Longest Road.” This year he is walking across America in honor of his guru, Swami Prabhupada, and in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the incorporation of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in America.

Kalash Installation Begins
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After several weeks of assembling the titanium nitrate Kalashes, we have finally reached the final stage of commencing their installation on top of the TOVP Domes and Chatris.

This is a major achievement in the progress of the TOVP, and if the Lord allows us we are on schedule to complete the installation of both the Kalashes and Chakras by the end of 2017 with a grand installation ceremony.

In the video you can view the first piece being hoisted up by the immense crane on the premises and placed upon the first Chatri. It will be securely fastened down onto the Chatri, followed by the remaining pieces. This same sequence will continue for all the Domes and Chatris until all the Kalashes are mounted.

To donate for the completion of the main TOVP dome Chakra, please contact Braja Vilas prabhu at: *protected email*

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Marble Cladding and Window Installation Progress
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Marble cladding work on the temple exterior and the installation of Rajasthani style sandstone window frames on the higher levels of the structure continues throughout various areas of the TOVP and will soon cover all sections of the temple, floor by floor.

Marble Cladding and Window Installation Progress

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Time, the Winkless God
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Hare KrishnaBy Mathuresha Dasa

A look at what the Srimad-Bhagavatam has to say about time, a concept that has challenged philosophers for centuries. Time is a little difficult to define. Philosophers and theologians have tried for at least twenty-five centuries. Albert Einstein remarked, in the midst of slightly more esoteric statements regarding physics, that time was what his wristwatch measured. St. Augustine said that he knew what time was as long as no one asked him to explain it. And sounding a note of frustration in her book What, Then, Is Time (the title too is from St. Augustine), Eva Brann laments, “Why don’t I know what that is which I tell, save, spend, mark, waste, and even kill every day of my life with perfect aplomb?” Continue reading "Time, the Winkless God
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Saturday June 17, 2017
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Craig, Colorado

The Inner Cool

The fellow had a big grin on his face when he approached me at the corner of Yampa Avenue and 5th Street.

 “Yah know everyone’s facebookin’ yah. Could I get a selfie with us?” Meaning his cute little daughter was to be included.

“Of course!” Snap!

It was quite phenomenal at how much exposure our little team achieved out there, with merely two news articles plus photos, and simply walking westward along Highway 40 between the two communities of Steamboat Springs and Craig.

In downtown Craig, Whittle the Wood Fest is being held and folks are in a relaxed mood. Just about every other person on the street had spotted the saffron robes and let me know about it. It caused the same sensation with motorists and many pulled over.

“Hey, it’s great to meet you! I read about you! I saw you!” And naturally they wanted to congratulate me.

Luke and his wife stopped. “Do you have some advice?”
“Yes, as humans we have an obligation to take care of both the physical and the spiritual sides of life. We must achieve a balance.”

To Scott and friend, I said, “Let’s slow down the pace of existence and address the needs of the soul.”

At one point it was hard to move forward. One motorist after the other wanted a little piece of the action with The Walking Monk. It was so welcoming. Finally at Stylz 5th Avenue hair salon, the owner came out and offered moisturizer for my poor dried feet. I appreciated the display in her shop promoting ‘sexy hair gel’ but I really liked the caption “Find Your Inner Cool” with the image of James Dean.

May the Source be with you!
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Editor’s Note: The Walking Monk will be at the Sundance Studio, 385 Anglers drive, Suite D, in Steamboat Springs, Sunday June 18, 2017 from 6 to 8 p.m. Join him for an evening of stories, chanting and inspiring movement. 970-819-9275
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Friday June 16, 2017
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Hayden, Colorado

Others Have Done It

I’ve known that I am not the only one who has walked or is walking across the U.S., that others out there have pushed causes like myself. Toby Shaw from Denver, Colorado, sent me an article about a fellow who trekked and made it to Kansas City after four months on the road. He concluded his walk in 2015. Erick Brown is his name and he was spreading peace and love, accompanied by his goat named Deer; he was on his feet and his pet was on his hooves.

Another walker, Steve Wescott, started his walk in Seattle in 2012 with his first goat, Leroy Brown—until Leroy died—and then his second goat, Miles, with whom he made it to Times Square after several years. They were raising money for an orphanage in Kenya. Steve said sometimes they only walked four miles a day.

Meanwhile, progress is being made with my walk, albeit goat-less. I think it would be safe to say, we are approaching two-thirds of the way across the U.S. as we get nearer to the Utah border.

Each day, I note the mileage marker, and Marshall, who does most of the navigation and driving, jumps ahead at three miles, so after an hour, we meet. At other times, errands have to be run and in those circumstances, I’m on the road, seemingly alone, for hours. Actually, I’m never really by myself. There are enough motorists who greet me with a smile or wave a hand, and now that the weather is fine, people are out and about offering their thumbs up.

It always excites me when a journalist like Audrey Dwyer of “Steamboat Today” out of Steamboat Springs, famous for its hot springs and skiing, and Sasha Nelson from the “Craig Daily Press” from the city of Craig—home of the “Whittle the Wood Rendevouz” happening this weekend—come out to ask questions.

http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/the-walking-monk-passes-through-steamboat-springs-on-his-journey-across-the-u-s/

http://www.craigdailypress.com/photos/shoes-made-for-walking-monk-walks-through-craig/

One, or maybe two, of my pet peeves along the road are trash, especially broken beer bottles, as well as roadkill. Today, it was dead snakes.

A question I asked the boys, as our day ended, was, “What are your realizations about the Creator today?”

Answers were: “Conquered by Love.” “Reciprocities.” “Is multi-dimensional?”

May the Source be with you!

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HG Rohinipriya das prabhu will be at ISKCON Scarborough coming Friday- June 23rd 2017
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Hare Krishna!
Please accept our humble obeisances!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!


We are pleased to inform you that HG Rohinipriya das prabhu will be at ISKCON Scarborough coming Friday (23rd June 2017) to give a special class.

Program starts at 6:45 pm.

Biodata of HG Rohinipriya das prabhu:
HG Rohini Priya Das prabhu graduated as a doctor of Medicine from Mumbai university but decided to dedicate his life in the service of Lord Krishna.

Prabhu, is a senior Brahmachari at ISKCON's Sri Radha Gopinath mandir at Chowpatty,Mumbai,India.

He is currently serving as the Vice President at ISKCON Chowpatty in Mumbai.

For the last 25 years he has not only been practising Krishna Consciousness but has been actively distributing the message of Bhagavad Gita to thousands of Engineering , Medical students and other professionals all over India.

He also travels widely to USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal and Canada and delivers various classes/ seminars on Krsna Consciousness.

We welcome you, your family and friends to ISKCON Scarborough coming Friday

ISKCON Scarborough
3500 McNicoll Avenue, Unit #3,
Scarborough,Ontario,
Canada,M1V4C7

Email Address:
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On the altar
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 April 2017, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.15.68)

Worshiping the deity is a way to regulate our lives but this is not the real thing about worshiping the deity. In worshiping the deity, when you step onto the altar, you step into the spiritual world. Whoever is on the altar is actually in the spiritual world.

Although devotees are in the spiritual world while on the altar, they do not just walk around. They do everything according to prescribed rules and regulations. Everything is done according to the directions of scripture and in the mode of goodness because although we are elevated to the spiritual world by the mercy of the guru-parampara and by the mercy of Krsna who agrees to this whole system still we are not suitable to be in the spiritual world. We are like outsiders in the spiritual world. We do not really belong there but still, we are put on the altar when we are engaged in deity worship. All the arrangements on the altar are like the arrangements in the spiritual world – very opulent seating arrangements, thrones for Radha and Krsna, beautiful decoration, beautiful clothing and delicious foodstuff – the best of the best are being offered just as it is going on in the spiritual world.

In this material world, you cannot leave your house without a phone but in the spiritual world, you cannot leave the house without an aarti tray! You have to have one with you at any time because there is always someone to worship. Aarti is something like, “Hi, how are you?” You start to worship, this is a spiritual culture. It is quite amazing, everyone worships everyone, everyone glorifies everyone. In this way, there are loving exchanges, deeply respectful exchanges.

Respect comes from recognising good qualities in people, not only to recognise these good qualities but actually to deeply appreciate them, when we truly think a person is absolutely wonderful because the person has amazing qualities, it is actually very nice. In the spiritual world, everybody is like that! Everybody is full of wonderful qualities and everyone is appreciating everyone!

Are some people utterly incapable of understanding God’s form – are some religion’s revelations customized for such people?
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Will Christians in the kingdom of God see Christ as described in the Bible or as sages described in the Vedic literature?
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If we feel more devotionally connected with Krishna while hearing than while taking darshan, what should we do?
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Why can’t the soul be seen with microscopes – where is it located in organisms that have no heart?
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