What are the characteristics of those who are spiritually healed?
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​Is the Gita’s statement that all endeavors are covered by faults applicable to a butcher’s profession?
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In bhakti, how do we decide which aspects are matters of principle and which, matters of preference?
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​How do we explain the concept of achintya to scientific people?
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Mahabharata 2 – Draupadi – Dishonored yet honorable
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​Learning to change our rasa from the world to Krishna
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First Arkansas Rathayatra
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Hare KrishnaBy Sri Rangavati devi dasi

Little Rock is the state capital of Arkansas so it was appropriate that the first Rathayatra should take place there. Alongside the Arkansas River is a very cosmopolitan area called River Market. Families enjoy walking and cycling along the river, the Clinton Presidential Library is located there and there are restaurants, bars, museums. It is popular with locals and tourists. In Little Rock is an international manufacturing company from India called Welspun. The company has a Radha Krsna Temple on their property. The pujaris and the senior vice president were very excited at having a Rathayatra in the city. They immediately mobilized their employees and we had the help we needed to put on the festival and parade. One employee came from Jagannath Puri and he had his father arrange for carving of the deities. He then had Them flown over. Continue reading "First Arkansas Rathayatra
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Future saints (Every saint has a past and every sinner has a…
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Future saints (Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future)
Srila Prabhupada: Whenever there is unwanted population these three things will naturally, by nature’s course, appear- famine, pestilence, and war- and the population will be finished. There was some unwanted population at that time also for which Krishna arranged the war. If we want very good population, very good generation, then we have to follow the principles of Bhagavad-gita. New York, May 30, 1966.

When does “food” become…
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When does “food” become “prasadam?”
Sivarama Swami: The phenomenon of something changing from material to spiritual is an extraordinary one, but it is something we as devotees are involved in daily—often several times a day. It happens when prasadam (unoffered food) becoming prasadam, or food sanctified by the Lord.

Prasada: The Power of Sacred Food
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Prasada: The Power of Sacred Food.
On the spiritual path those that are most inclined to lead a peaceful existence that respects the value of all life often adopts the vegetarian lifestyle. It is in accordance with the yogic principle of ahimsa, which is to observe nonviolence and abstain from injuring any being in any way. However, in the process of bhakti-yoga, devotion goes beyond simple vegetarianism, and food becomes a method of spiritual progress. In the Krishna temples, food is offered to the Deities in a special sacrament, after which it becomes prasada or prasadam. This means the mercy of the Lord. Thus, the food we eat after it is offered to the Lord becomes a means for our purification and spiritual development.

Early Miracles Of Caitanya Mahaprabhu
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Hare KrishnaBy Amala Bhakta Dasa

When Sarvabauma denounced himself as an offender and took shelter of Lord Caitanya, the Lord wanted to show him His mercy, so He manifested His four armed Visnu form. Then, just after this, He manifested His original two-armed Krsna form, with a blackish complexion and a flute near His lips. When Sarvabauma Bhattacarya saw this, he prostrated himself before the Lord. Then he arose and with folded palms offered Lord Caitanya prayers of glorification. By the Lord's mercy, all truths were revealed to him, and he could understand the importance of chanting God's holy names and distributing love of God everywhere. Continue reading "Early Miracles Of Caitanya Mahaprabhu
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New Sydney Temple Project
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The fourth Sydney Temple fund raising dinner for the year was attended by about 150 devotees and guests.

Special speakers were HH Bir Krsna Maharaja, Gaura Gopal from Mumbai and myself.

The evening went well with kirtan, dance, progress report and construction commencement dates. Many gave generous donations for the new project.

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Recordings: August 2016
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Please find below recordings of lectures and kirtans by Kadamba Kanana Swami captured during August. 

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Slovenia

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Croatia

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Prabhupada, “You can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined
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Prabhupada, “You can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined.”
Narada Muni: I was selling books from a book cart at the 1971 Ratha-yatra when I asked someone to take my place for a minute so I could run to see Srila Prabhupada on the Ratha-yatra cart before it left.
When I saw him, I felt that Srila Prabhupada looked at me, and everybody probably felt the same thing.

​How do we address the conflict between the mind and the heart?
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​How could omniscient Krishna not locate his abducted son Pradyumna for many years?
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​Does science offer real knowledge – can we live today without scientific knowledge?
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​Why do scientists criticize spirituality and spiritualists criticize science?
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​Does bhakti cause increase in our problems or does increase in problems intensify our bhakti?
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​If Bhagavan and Brahman are non-different, are a gulab jamun and its fragrance non-different?
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​Mahabharata 1 – Bhishma – Misunderstood by the world, understood by Krishna
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Hidden History of Kusakratha prabhu
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Puskar das: In 1956, I moved from one area of Brooklyn (near the temple) to the Benson Hurst area, where I entered fifth grade. Peter Viggiani (a.k.a. Kusakratha) was in my class for the next two years. He also attended the same junior high as I, and we shared some of the same classes. For approximately 5 years we were good friends. He was always quite eccentric and didn’t appear to have many other friends.

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Durga Puja Pandals Resembling Temple of Vedic Planetaurium
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A Durga Puja Pandal in Howrah, West Bengal resembling Temple of Vedic Planetaurium.

After Howrah now a Durga Puja Pandal in Durgapur, West Bengal resembling the architecture of Temple of Vedic Planetarium can be seen below…

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Photos are courtesy of Goutam Mukherjee.

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