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The best time of the day for connecting with transcendence.
“What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.” BG 2.6
It could be said that any time of the day is the best time of the day for connecting with transcendence – remembering you are not this body, and meditating on the sweet love of the soul that is the essence of Krishna consciousness. However, when Prabhupada was asked what is the best time for chanting japa, meditating on Krishna’s name, he replied, “The hours before Mangal Arati.”
When I heard Prabhupada’s ‘best time’ response, I decided to try it. Mangal Arati is the first worship ceremony and kirtan that happens at the temple at 4.30am everyday. So the best japa time would be the hours before then, say between 2.30am to 4.30am.

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Srila Prabhupada: We must rise early in the morning, bathe, attend mangala-arati, worship the Deities, chant the Hare Krishna mantra, study the Vedic literatures and follow all the rules prescribed by the acaryas and the spiritual master. If we deviate from this process, we may fall down, even though we may be very highly advanced. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.8.8 Purport)
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Oprah & Hare Krishna!
August 12, 2016. Dear Friends, Hare Krsna. I thought you might be interested to see this page from the August 2016 issue of Oprah Magazine. The article references the studies on the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra that I conducted in the 1990s. Hare Krsna.
Sincerely, Dhira Govinda das
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adyāpi durnivāraṁ stuti-kanyā bhajati kaumāram

sadbhyo na rocate sā ‘santo ‘py asyai na rocante

adyāpi — even to this day; durnivāram — unavoidable; stuti-kanyā — the girl named stuti (praise); bhajati — remains;  kaumāram— unmarried; sadbhyaḥ — by the saintly souls; na — not; rocate — liked; sā — she is; asantaḥ — the non-saintly; api — and;  asyai — by her; na — are not; rocante — liked;
“Even to this day, the girl named stuti (praise) remains unavoidably unmarried because the saintly don’t find her attractive and she doesn’t find the non-saintly attractive.”

— Subhāṣita-ratna-bhāṇḍāgāra, Sajjana-praśaṁsā, Verse 123

This verse features a beautiful personification for conveying an important truth. By personifying praise as a nubile damsel who becomes a spinster, it graphically illustrates how the saintly and the non-saintly have opposite attitudes towards it.

In a prospective marriage, if either of the partners doesn’t consent, the marriage can’t take place. Similarly, the marriage of the human heart with praise never materializes – that is, the human heart never finds enduring fulfillment in praise. Why? Because one of the two partners doesn’t consent, as this verse conveys.

Why does praise not like the non-saintly? Because they are ignorant – they don’t know who is actually worthy of praise.

Why do the saintly not like praise? Because they are wise – they know who is truly worthy of praise, Krishna, and also know how praise can divert them from him.

Let’s expand this.

Those who truly love something love it irrespective of the praise they may or may not get for it. In contrast are those who see that thing as a tool to something else such as wealth and prestige. This instrumental view of things can even extend to God wherein religious materialists see him as a tool to worldly good things. And such religious materialists, though better than nonreligious materialists, pale in comparison to the saintly who seek God for God’s sake, for the sake of loving and serving him.

The saintly do not like to be praised because they are aware that whatever praiseworthy ability they have comes from Krishna – it is he who deserves to be praised. When they themselves are praised, they pass on the credit to him and to their spiritual guides by whose mercy they have been able to render some service. They know that praise can infatuate them, thereby distracting them from their life’s ultimate purpose: Krishna. So, though they are eminently praiseworthy, they cultivate humility and stay away from praise as much as possible.

The non-saintly love to be praised because they consider praise life’s greatest success. Being maddened by the craving for praise, they frequently demand or at least expect credit for far more than what is due to them. Often, they consider themselves the sole cause of their success, overlooking the many factors beyond their control that contributed to that success. Even if they sometimes give credit to others, they frequently do so to get further praise for their team spirit.

A question may rise: “This verse says that praise doesn’t like the non-saintly. But such people often receive lavish praise – some movie stars or sports stars have millions of fans.” Yes, but that praise is not actually directed towards them – it is directed towards what they have: their beauty, physique, athleticism or other such external attributes. When they lose those externals with the inexorable passage of time, that praise deserts them. This verse focuses on character development. The praise that the non-saintly receive rarely reflects their core character and it hardly ever improves that character either.

The Bhagavad-gita (13.08) echoes the theme of non-covetousness towards pride by listing amanitvam (the absence of the craving for honor) as the first among the twenty characteristics of knowledge. Srila Prabhupada in his commentary aptly renders this as the freedom from the anxiety to be honored by others. Since Krishna specifies pridelessness as the first in the list of qualities that comprise knowledge, it may well be considered the doorway to the other qualities. If we seekers are consumed by the craving for honor, we can’t learn much – and we certainly can’t absorb ourselves in Krishna.

Of course, we don’t have to become campaigners against praise. We aspire to go beyond infatuation with praise and aversion to praise to absorption in Krishna. If while serving him praise comes of its own accord, we can accept it humbly and gratefully, seeing it as an encouragement for persevering in that area of contribution.

To conclude, people who are praiseworthy don’t like to be praised, whereas people who are not praiseworthy like to be praised.

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Namaste, I am delighted to send my best wishes to everyone at Bhaktivedanta Manor in what is a very special year for all those associated with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). For fifty years since its foundation by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the men and women behind ISKCON have dedicated their lives to the words of Lord Krishna to achieve peace and unity. ISKCON can be proud that in that time it has grown the world over, setting up over 500 centres and 50 schools. In celebration of the birth of Lord Krishna, it is wonderful to see so many in the Hindu community flock once again to Bhaktivedanta Manor to be part of the Janmashtami celebrations. I am delighted to see festivities on such a scale take place, reminding us all of the great number of people from diverse backgrounds throughout this country. As you gather to celebrate in the beauty of the Manor's surroundings, let me wish you all a spectacular Janmashtami festival , and of course, pay tribute to the thousand and more volunteers who have given their precious time to make this year's festival a memorable one. Continue reading "Message of UK Prime Minister for Janmashtami and ISKCON50
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The unity of the individual souls.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear sons of the King, I am very much pleased by the friendly relationships among you. All of you are engaged in one occupation—devotional service. I am so pleased with your mutual friendship that I wish you all good fortune. Now you may ask a benediction of Me.

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Srila Prabhupada: “My heart is always burning in the fire of material existence, and I have made no provisions for getting out of it. The only remedy is hari-nama-sankirtana, the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, which is imported from the spiritual world, Goloka-Vrndavana. How unfortunate I am that I have no attraction for this. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.1.22 Purport)
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50 years ago, our founder and acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada planted a seed. He brought into existence a society whose specific name he chose and whose specific shape he carefully formed. The original group of early followers might have been bemused to learn the name of the organisation typed up on the deeds of incorporation: the International Society for Krishna Consciousness – ISKCON. There were no assets to speak of and with only one room in a back street of New York there was no way it could be described as even the New York State Society for Krishna Consciousness, what to speak of the American Society for Krishna Consciousness. And international? What a preposterous and utopian idea! Continue reading "Learning from a Tree
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So this Ratha-yatra Festival is a mass movement for enlightening people to this Krsna consciousness movement. We have got many other festivities in Krsna consciousness movement. We have got Janmastami, Sri Rama-navami, Dola-yatra, Jhulana-yatra. So there are twelve months, but we have got twenty-four festivals as big as this Ratha-yatra Festival. So if you kindly take to them, then as advised by Lord Caitanya, kirtaniyah sada harih [Cc. Adi 17.31], you will always be in Krsna consciousness, and there will be no scope of your frustration and confusion. For this purpose especially, I came in this meeting, that you kindly accept this humble instruction that wherever you may be, in whatever position, in whatever condition, you kindly chant these sixteen names Continue reading "Festival Of India Tour
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The Red Beads

After a rather depressing day yesterday for reasons that we needn’t get into, I woke up this morning feeling much better, with the resolve that I would pray to Krishna from now on to either heal me, or kill me, physically speaking of course, since there is no death for the soul. In a way the status of my cancer, namely not getting worse or better, is a metaphor for how I see my life—mediocre, and that just isn’t acceptable any more. I am called to physically, mentally, and emotionally leave my comfort zone, and do what I must.

We are admonished in the Bible to be either hot or cold, but not half-baked. I have been half-baked, with some notable exceptions, about most things my whole life. If I am going to continue to write, speak, travel, minister and help others, than I have to really do it, and by the grace of my gurus and Gaura Nitai, excel at it, or make my best effort and prayers to that effect.

As a number of motivational speakers have discovered and shared, “Reasons come first, answers some second.” Thus I have to have the proper motivation to write, speak, and help others, and then Krishna and his agents will help me find the ways to practically manifest it. I don’t have to know how, just that I must.

Therefore I am going to spend every day chanting, praying, and doing self-healing. I have studied for years in the past and spent thousands of dollars studying healing methods, and even practicing them, but never feeling strong enough about them to really pursue them. So now I have to use them or lose my current physical self.

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The Jhulan Festival is celebrated in July – August commemorating the pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna enjoying His childhood pastimes with His friends – the young cowherd boys and girls, swinging underneath the trees.

It is a festival to celebrate Radha Krishna’s pastime of swinging on a golden swing every day until Balarama-purnima.

All over the world the devotees enjoy coming to the temple or swinging Their Lordships in their own homes.

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 August 2016, New Vraja Mandala, Spain, Srimad Bhagavatam 12.13.23)

The two bhagavats

This is the last verse of the Srimad Bhagavatam (12.13.23) and the final message of the Bhagavatam is that harinama sankirtan, the chanting of the holy name, is ultimately the process to be followed. This is an important point and it was introduced by Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

In the Adi Lila, chapter one, Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda drove out ignorance by the two bhagavats – the book bhagavat and the person bhagavat. Mahaprabhu said that telling everyone about Krsna would liberate the world. However, this was theoretical until Prabhupada actually did it!

Srila Prabhupada always tried to benefit a person with transcendental knowledge. For example, instead of O’Hare airport in Chicago, he wanted it to be called O’Hare Krsna airport and he was not joking. Prabhupada tried at EVERY opportunity to spread the name of Krsna. Through the person bhagavat, Krsna consciousness is spread throughout the whole world!

The Panca Tattva

Amongst all incarnations, Krsna is the Supreme Lord. There are different manifestations, some plenary and others are partial. In the Caitanya Caritamrta, the Panca Tattva are described.

Lord Caitanya is Bhagavan, Krsna. Lord Nityananda is non-different from Lord Caitanya but in a different mood. Lord Caitanya is sevya bhagavan – the Lord in the mood of being served; and Lord Nityananda is sevak bhagavan – the Lord in the mood of a servant. This is the difference!

Advaita Acharya is an avatar (incarnation). He was worshipping another form of Lord, the Salagram Sila, to make the Lord appear. So the Lord was worshipping the Lord to make the Lord appear… How could that be?

In the Caitanya Bhagavat it says that before Mahaprabhu appeared, kirtan was already going on in the house of Srivas Thakur. The neighbours were afraid that the Muslims would be disturbed by kirtan. They planned to chop down Srivas Thakur’s house. Advaita Acharya became very upset and said, “If now the Lord does not appear, I will appear in a form with a sudarshan chakra and cut off the heads of these atheists!”

The Supreme Lord comes to establish the principles of religion and drive out the demons. This is the dharma (inherent duty) of the incarnations of the Lord. Only the Lord himself can give Krsna prema. If we offer water, a flower or a leaf then Krsna has nothing to repay in return and will give himself. In this way, Advaita Acharya wanted to make the Lord appear by offering tulasi and water. Krsna was “forced” to appear

The Lord appeared in every home of Navadvipa in the form of the holy name and from there, it spread all over whole the world by the grace of Srila Prabhupada.

The story of Radha Kund

Krsna killed Aristhasura (the bull demon) and then had to take bath in all the holy places to purify himself of the sin of killing a bull otherwise the gopis would not associate with him anymore. So Krsna made a hole in the ground where all the holy waters of the world appeared.

Then Krsna said to the gopis that actually Aristhasura was a demon and they were protecting a demon therefore they were contaminated and he could not associate with the gopis anymore, so they must bathe in all the holy places. Then the gopis scratched the ground with their bangles and made a hole. Krsna was impatient and offered water from his own pond but the gopis refused. The gopis wanted to make a human chain from Manasi Ganga and fill the hole with its waters but Krsna was thinking that this would take too long. So, he ordered all the holy waters to enter into the new pond  and thus in Vrindavan, we have Syama Kund and Radha Kund, the divine lakes of Krsna and Srimati Radharani. Such eternal places that exist in the spiritual world are manifested within the material universe by the divine arrangement of the Supreme Lord in order to make his mercy widely available.

Krsna can do everything very easily. He could make the whole world Krsna conscious without a problem if he would only desire it! The gopis had to dig with their bangles; it was so much work. Similarly to make EVERYONE Krsna conscious is SO much work!

Krsna’s arrangement

ISKCON is now 50 years in existence. Still there are so many problems. When will everyone be chanting? We think it is so much work but Prabhupada never thought like that! He took on big work. Even though he left this world, his books still make people devotees. We cannot change the world but Krsna can. If we attract Krsna then miracles can happen like how in the Soviet Union when the devotees were freed from labour camps and psychiatric clinics. Now we have so many Russian devotees. It is all Krsna’s arrangement!

*Notes taken by Nimai during the lecture

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Volume One (San Francisco/London) of Shyamasundar’s long-awaited three-volume “Chasing Rhinos With The Swami” is about to go to press!
To find out more about the book, to read exciting excerpts, and to pre-order your copies at a heavily discounted price, go to chasingrhinos.com
Here’s what Satyaraj das (Steven Rosen) has to say about “Chasing Rhinos”:
“In ‘Chasing Rhinos with the Swami,’ Shyamasundara Das has accomplished something truly remarkable. He successfully takes his readers back in time, with descriptive language and storytelling expertise, and gives them – fully– the association of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. There have been other memoirs involving His Divine Grace, to be sure, but the attention to detail and visceral manifestation of time and place found in Shyamasundara’s book is something new. It has never before been accomplished in quite this way. His street savvy, intelligence, common sense, and love for Prabhupada all come through with a tangible freshness, allowing readers entrance into the narrative in a very real way. He seems to remember it all, and he shares it with exacting specificity. He was there! And you know it by the way he writes about it. He lived it, and now, through him, you will live it too! A must read for all students of philosophy, the 60s counterculture, cosmic consciousness, eastern thought, and life itself.”
– Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa), author of 30 books on eastern spirituality; senior editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies; and associate editor of Back to Godhead magazine

Dr. Kenneth R. Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami): Book endorsement: I am grateful to Prof. Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and my former doctoral supervisor, who has written a very nice endorsement for our (Ravi M. Gupta & my) soon to appear *The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Selected Readings*:
“The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important theological and devotional texts of Hinduism. Yet, given its great length and complexity, it has rarely been read even by the wider audience of scholars and students, beyond the justly famous narratives of Krishna found in its tenth book. Most readers remain unfamiliar with the rich range of its philosophical and religious narratives, its fascinating and entertaining narrative of cosmology and myth, its teachings on religious practice and devotion, and its important articulation of a fundamental Vaishnava theology. Gupta and Valpey have put their Indological and theological skills to good use in their excellent translations of key texts judiciously selected from all twelve books, thus making the Purana truly accessible for the first time. It is also a welcome companion to the scholarly essays found in their The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (2013). Together, these volumes will quickly find a place in the classroom and on the shelves of every library collection attuned to the greater Hindu traditions.”

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We are pleased to inform you that we have received a very encouraging and inspirational message from the President's office personally signed by Sri Pranab Mukherjee - President of India, Congratulating ISKCON for 50th Anniversary celebration 2016 being observed worldwide. Continue reading "Message of President of India for ISKCON 50
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We are pleased to inform you that we have received a very encouraging and inspirational message from the Smt. Hema Malini famous Film Actress and Member of Parliament Lok Sabha New Delhi, Congratulating ISKCON for 50th Anniversary celebration 2016 being observed worldwide. Continue reading "Message of Smt. Hema Malini famous Film Actress and MP of India
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BUTTERWORTH - Sanskrit is Greek to most people but for Bhanu Swami Maharaj (pic) the ancient language is a cinch to master.

The Canadian of Japanese descent said the sacred language of Hinduism may seem complicated but it was easier than most languages because it was phonetic-based.

“There are vowels and consonants but you only have to memorise 60. Reading it is easy. It is unlike the character-based Chinese or Japanese languages where you have to remember 6,000 to 10,000 characters,” said the scholar, 67.

However, he said that while Sanskrit words were pronounced exactly as they were written, “it can also be difficult as there are many conjugation and declension of nouns and verbs”.

He has translated 29 books from Sanskrit into English. His significant works involve the Brahma Sutras, Bhaktirasanrta Sindu, Brahma Samhita and the Srimad Bhagavatam from Volume One to 12.

Bhanu Swami, a scholar in Sanskrit and Bengali, spoke of the difficulties in translating the books due to the meaning of certain words.

“One word can have the opposite meaning sometimes. And there is scripture like Brahma Sutras which is particularly difficult because the words are in a condensed form,” he explained.

He said he was deeply influenced by the teachings of Srila A.C. Bhaktidedanta Swami Prahhupad, who came from a long line of spiritual masters in India.

Bhanu Swami, who joined the Hare Krishna movement in India in 1970, has travelled extensively in Europe, Russia, Australia, Malaysia and Japan.

He was a speaker at the Hindu Civilisation and Heritage Exhibition at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Kanhaiya Temple of Devotion and Under­standing in Seberang Jaya yesterday.

Talks and the exhibition will go on at the temple until Aug 14.

The exhibition highlights historical records of the Bujang Valley, Kedah Tua, Gangga Negara and Langkasuka; the Hindu history of Angkor Wat (Cambodia), Prambanan (Indonesia), and places in China, Korea, Japan, Australia, North America, South America, Russia, the Vatican and Egypt.

It is organised by the Bhaktivedanta Science Unit of International Society for Krishna Consciousness Malaysia.

The public is welcome to view the exhibition from 9am to 9.30pm on weekdays and from 8.30am to 11pm on weekends. Admission is free.

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PETALING JAYA - A “Hindu Civilisation & Heritage Exhibition” organised by the Bhaktivedanta Science Unit of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness will showcase the history of Hinduism in Malaysia and around the world.

The exhibition aims to promote an appreciation for Hindu scientific contributions in various fields of study including archaeology besides putting the spotlight on Hindu culture.

Among the attractions at the exhibition will be historical Hindu records of the Bujang Valley, Kedah Tua, Gangga Nagara and Langkasuka in Malaysia as well as that of the world famous Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Prambanan in Indonesia. There will also be exhibits from China, Korea, Japan and Australia as well as those further away in North America, South America, Russia, the Vatican and Egypt. 

Also on display will be exhibits of the various religious teachings that Hindus have professed and practiced through the ages.

A rather enlightening part of the exhibition centres around the many contributions and discoveries of Hindu sages as well as their scriptures in the fields of mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, metallurgy, astronomy, linguistics, architecture and culture.

Part and parcel of the “Hindu Civilisation & Heritage Exhibition” will be a series of talks by experts in various fields, held on the weekends of August 6-7 and 13-14.

Among the speakers will be Japanese Monk and Sanskrit scholar His Holiness Srila Bhanu Swami, who will talk about ‘Science & Vedas’ (Unlocking Secrets of Left Brain-Right Brain); ‘Discovering Soul – The Last Frontier of Science’; and ‘Soul – The Last Frontier of Science.’

Meanwhile Malaysia-born author, V Nadarajan will talk about the Bujang Valley.

Others speakers include Professor Dr Surabala (USM); Dr Sridevi Sriniwass (UM); Dr Suhanya Parthasarathy (UM); Dr Ranjev Hari (UM); His Grace Simheswara Prabhu (ISKCON Regional Secretary); JK Wicky (Cinematographer & Motivator).

The exhibition will be held from 6 to 14 Aug at the Janaky Ramamirtham Hall of Sri Radha Krishna Kanhaiya Temple of Devotion and Understanding, Lorong Jelawat 4, at Bandar Seberang Jaya. Admission is free.
Those wishing for more information can contact Kalesa @ Lim Kok Chye (019 – 4411 008) or Dr Surash Ramanathan (013 – 435 7649).

Would you care to know a long-forgotten secret, not even guessed at by the greatest thinkers of the modern era? It’s a simple truth that’s been continuously shrouded by the relentless, disquieting whirlwind of madness presently sweeping over the entire world. It’s this: there is no happier lifestyle than that of a celibate monk! Or, more broadly understood, accepting a simple life, beginning with a lifestyle of celibacy, for the purpose of increasing one’s love for God leads to greater happiness. This path can be taken up by any person in any walk of life. Here, however, we will examine some of the benefits of life as a monk. Monks aren’t all quiet and distant. The typical image is that of a person living alone in the forest, or away from the commoners, and having no excitement in his expression. That is one type of monk. But there are various traditions imbued with diverse moods. For example, the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, which is being carried forward by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, fosters a mood of joyful song and dance, and colorful festivity, even among its monastic order. Such a disposition reflects the basic understanding that spiritual life is vibrant and celebratory, not staid or stagnant. Continue reading "Be A Monk?
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