Nayima and a part of a higher plan!
Shastrakrit Das: Last week Rhonda brought her friend Nayima to our evening program and during the talk, she kept staring at the Srimad Bhagavatam set that we have displayed on the mantle. I noticed that and at the end of the program I said to Nyima, “ those books are for you to take home.“ Nayima got startled and asked me, “what do you mean? All the books? Are you trying to find a home for them? How much do they cost? Those books are beautiful and I couldn’t stop staring at them.“
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Ukraine Bhakti Sangam Festival (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Many thousands of devotees showed up for this year’s annual Bhakti Sangam Festival in Ukraine. The theme for this year’s event was “boiling the milk.” In other words, taking care of devotees. The kirtans were out of this world, as were the many seminars and cultural performances.
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Please pray for Lalita Swamini dd and bhaktin Ekaterina, who were killed last night in a car accident in Ukraine, while they were coming back from Bhakti Sangama festival. Bhaktin Ekaterina was 5 months pregnant, so this soul needs your prayers too! Lalita Swamini’s daughter Gopali is in ICU right now fighting for her life. And their husbands and children suffer now the most. Please let us pray for all of them for those who left and for those who survived, but suffering!
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Prayers required for HG Bahulasva Prabhu ACBSP (the one on the right of the photo with the white dhoti and kurta).
He had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and he didn’t have long in this body.
He served our Srila Prabhupada in most responsible and pleasing ways! He was a wonderful temple president in both Chicago and Berkeley and created the legendary college preaching program with Dharmadyaksha prabhu (with the yellow dhoti).
Gurudas: His grace Bahulasva Das Prabhu is bravely leaving his body today September 17th at 12:00 noon P...

A visit to the hospital where several devotees were brought after a car accident in Ukraine (2min. video)
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Preaching program in Bologna, Italy (Album of photos)
(from Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta) Mr. Agarwal doubted whether Westerners would be able to stay with Krsna consciousness for very long. “Now in the radiance of your company,” he said, “as long as you are here bodily and physically, they may continue to observe all these restrictions. But when your physical influence will not be there, one day when you will have to leave this world, then all these people that have come in contact with you, will they go bad?” “No,” P...

24 Srimad Bhagavatam sets distributed by the Hare Krishna Pracara Kendram, Miyapur (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Our books are not for philosophical speculation but for practical solution of problems.
Ref. VedaBase => TKG: June 28
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ISKCON New Goloka, Hillsborough, NC distributed 24 Bhagavatam sets on Bhadra Purnima (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If you have got some knowledge, you distribute the knowledge for Krsna’s satisfaction. How you can do that? Whatever knowledge you have got, you try to describe Krsna. Kavibhir nirupitah yad uttama-sloka-gunanuvarnanam [SB 1.5.22]. This is the first-class distribution of knowledge. Whatever you know, you try to explain Krsna by that knowledge. Just like our Dr. Svarupa Damodara. He’s a scientist, and now he is trying to ...

Devotees of the Turkish Yatra (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Everywhere is Vrndavana. Wherever there is Krsna’s temple, Krsna’s sankirtana, that is Vrndavana. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that “My mind is always Vrndavana.” Because He’s always thinking of Krsna. Krsna is there -He’s Krsna Himself – just to teach us. So similarly, anywhere you live, if you are actually follower of the instruction of Krsna, as Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [Bg. 18.65], then that is Vrndavana. Wher...

ISKCON Naperville distributed 57 sets of Srimad Bhagavatam on the auspicious occasion of Bhadra Purnima (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Srimad-Bhagavatam is the philosophy of devotional service and the scientific presentation of man’s relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Prior to the age of Kali there was no need for such a book of knowledge to know the Lord and His potential energies, but with the beginning of the age of Kali human society gradually became influenced by four sinful principles, namely illegitimate connectio...

ISKCON UK’s 50th anniversary at Bhaktivedanta Manor (Album of photos)
A wonderful celebration of ISKCON UK’s 50th anniversary at Bhaktivedanta Manor this morning, with a class by UK GBC HG Praghosa Dasa, video presentation, cake cutting and pushpanjali to Srila Prabhupada.
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ISKCON UK 50 - Monks celebrate at Abbey Road! (1 min. video)
Srila Prabhupada: Happiness is meant for the devotees, not for the karmis, the jnanis or the yogis. It is the property of the devotees. Just like these devotees are chanting very happily. They are not expecting anything. They are happy by chanting. That’s all. Srila Prabhupada – June 22, 1975, Los Angeles
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Team Iskcon Silicon Valley distributed a total of 284 Bhagavatam sets on Bhadra Purnima! (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The bhaktivedantas are impartial in distributing the transcendental knowledge of devotional service. To them no one is enemy or friend; no one is educated or uneducated. No one is especially favorable, and no one is unfavorable. The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish their lost relationship with the Personal...

DC Temple distributed 151 Bhagavatam sets on Bhadra Purnima (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: This is the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that you go and preach and make propaganda about krsna-upadesa. This is Krsna consciousness movement. We are teaching all our men how to spread krsna-upadesa, how to spread Krsna consciousness. Then anartha upasamam saksat. Then all the unwanted things he has contaminated will be finished. Then pure consciousness… Pure consciousness is Krsna consciousness. Pure consciousness means to understand that &ld...

The discovery of a pristine area of Vrindavana! (Album of photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: The Vrindavan of our dreams!!
One day me and Arjun were roaming around in Vraj and we found a place that made us feel that we went back hundreds of years in time. If Vrindavan were left untouched from modern urban development, the place would be just like that. We both explored with so much excitement and disbelief that such a place still exists. The Vrindavan of our dream. The place had so many Tamal trees it looked like a Tamal forest. Then there were huge Kadam...

Four SB installations by Charlotte Sankirtan Team during Bhadra Purnima (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Here we have got attraction, material, so we have to withdraw this attraction. How it will be possible? If we become more attracted to Krsna, then this attraction will go away. Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat [SB 11.2.42]. Bhakti means the more you realize Krsna, the more you will become detestful: “Ah, nonsense.” This is test. One side increasing taste, the other side decreasing. This is the test. If we think that &ldq...

Alachua Temple distributed 55 Bhagavatam sets on the occasion of Bhadra Purnima! (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If the su......

First yoga/kirtan program ever held in Lebanon!
At the first yoga/kirtan program ever held in Lebanon, the Arabic-speaking attendees all seemed to be reaching out for Srila Prabhupada’s Arabic books with an intense hunger. One woman could be seen hugging our translator mataji with tears in her eyes. Our Arabic translation coordinator, Premadhan Prabhu, stood with the books resting in his open palms as everyone grabbed for them while giving nice donations. He said that the happiness he felt from this experience was unlike anything he encountered b...

Srila Prabhupada’s Pushpa Samadhi in Mayapur Kalash Abhishek (2 min. video)
The new, shining Kalash is finished, installed and looks beautiful!
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Prasadam preparation for the Russian Sadhu Sanga Festival (Album of photos)
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: About 5500 devotees assem......