Harinama in Arbat Street, Moscow (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the Adi Purana Krishna tells Arjuna: “Anyone who is engaged in chanting My transcendental name must be considered to be always associating with Me. And I may tell you frankly that for such a devotee I become easily purchased.” (Nectar of Devotion, 12)
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Touch of the Brajabasi: The Mendicant.
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Bhakti-lata Dasi: One day, three women set off to perform pilgrimage of Varsana – the holy land of Sri Radha. These women would journey through villages, mountaintop temples, and forests, and along the way, they would encounter an array of people – from temple guardians to beggars. Each woman would walk away transformed at the end of the day in unexpected ways.
One of...

Harinama Sankirtana at Time Square subway station, New York City, Tuesday, September 19th ! (Album with photos)
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All-Attractive! (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Our program in the Dublin Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ohio was another big success. Many people came, including Niraj Antani, the Ohio State congressman. Krishna truly is, “all-attractive.”
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How Sumati Morarji fulfilled her father-in-law’s promise.
By giving Srila Prabhupada a free ticket to New York on the “Jaladuta” Sumati Morarji also fulfilled a promise that was given by her father-in-law some 40 years before. Narottam Morarji, the founder of The Scindia Steam Navigation Company and a prominent Indian businessman, promised to give his support and help to the Gaudiya Math preaching in the West. Unfortunately, he died in a car accident on November 5, 1929, a few years before the first Gaudiya Math preachers went to Lond...

Touch of the Brajabasi: The Musician.
Bhakti lata dasi: In Vrindavan, I had a policy: don’t give to beggars. I envisioned that if I gave to one, I would be swarmed with beggars from the entire street demanding their share.
So I just didn’t give. I had lived in Vrindavan for over a month and I had not given a single rupee to a single beggar. I had planned to keep it that way.
One amber afternoon, I climbed off the rickshaw and turned down the side alley of the Krishna Balaram Temple, on a mission to visit Srila Prabhupad’s roo...

Churning of Butter.
Giriraj Dasa: Gaudiya Vaishnavas, are supposed to follow the mood of Vrajavasis. Among the Vrajavasis the mood and service of gopis is considered the highest. During the day gopis are always busy in one main activity – churning butter. How can we follow this practice in the modern age of Kali-yuga?
We can very easily follow gopis by churning the verses of bhakti scriptures, especially Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. If we sincerely try to churn these verses with love and devotion then by the mercy of Supreme Lord we ma...

Iskcon Nigdi - Sri Govind Dham WORLD HOLY NAME WEEK– NAGAR SANKIRTAN (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “It is the nature of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra that anyone who chants it immediately develops his loving ecstasy for Krishna. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.83)
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Australian Parliamentarians celebrate Diwali (Album with photos)
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The Misuse of Yoga and Everything Else.
According to Yoga Journal, approximately fifteen million people in the United States practice yoga, usually of a type that consists of controlled breathing and various poses that stretch and align the body. While many people do yoga as a spiritual practice, it is gaining in popularity especially for its health benefits, becoming a genuine contender in the fitness industry.
We bhakti-yogis tend to cringe when we see how yoga has broken free from its spiritual moorings. You’re supposed to practice yoga fo...

Krishna conscious presentation at PMI India (Album with photos)
On 17th September 2017, Gaur Gopal das spoke at PMI India Natio......

Veda Foundation presents: A thoughtful Srimad Bhagavatam class given 12-9-2017 at Ujjain, India, by Bhakti Charu Swami (video)
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Conquering Narcissism.
Vaisesika Dasa: Psychologist, Earnest Becker writes in his book Denial of Death: “Freud discovered that each of us repeats the tragedy of the mythical Greek Narcissus: we are hopelessly absorbed with ourselves. If we care about anyone it is usually ourselves first of all. As Aristotle somewhere put it: luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow … Man does not seem able to ‘help’ his selfishness; it seems to come from his animal nature.”(Becker; Denial of Death pp. 2-3, 9)
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TOVP: Brackets painted in an “eternal” gold paint (Album with photos)
Sadbhuja Das: Dear Devotees,
This is a continuation report regarding Germany gold paint on the brackets.
This paint looks very nice both from a distance and in close proximity as well.
Hare Krsna
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Harinama in New York (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Hare Krishna movement is also an incarnation of Krishna in the f......

Harinama in Liverpool, sharing quotes from one of Srila Prabhupada’s books and notes on two of his lectures, one with comments by senior devotees and much more in the latest report of the “Travel Adventures of a Krishna Monk”.
Krishna-kripa das: I share two verses from Raghunatha Dasa Goswami’s Manah-siksa. I share excerpts from Japa Transformations and the soon-to-be-published Looking Back, Volume 2, by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, as well as several of his poems. I share notes on the lecture by Sacinandana Swami at the Berlin Rath...

Harinama in Argentina (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Hare Krishna movement is present in every millennium of Lord Brahma’s life, and the holy name is chanted in all the higher planetary systems, including Brahmaloka and Candraloka, not to speak of Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka. The sankirtana movement that was started in this world five hundred years ago by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is therefore not a new movement. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2.7.15 Purport)
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Questions for the Sages - Interviewing Anuttama dasa (video)
Anuttama dasa the Director of Communications for the International......

Color Galore (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Yesterday, before leaving New Vrindavan, all the members of our Discover India tour participated in a Festival of Colors near the famous Palace of Gold. Thousands of young people came throughout the day from all over the region to throw colored dyes and chant and dance in ecstasy as our bhajan band performed live on stage. Titiksava Karunika’s band also gave an amazing performance. A memorable experience on our tour through the United States of America.
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Harinama in Barnaul, Russia (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “As a result of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, one makes such great advancement in spiritual life that simultaneously his material existence terminates and he receives love of Godhead. The holy name of Krishna is so powerful that by chanting even one name, one very easily achieves these transcendental riches.” (Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 8.28)
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10th European Farm Conference (Album with photos)
A glimpse of the Conference at New Vraja Dhama (Krishna Valley), Hungary....

Mayapur Academy’s 2017-18 semester.
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The international diploma in arcana course at the Mayapur Academy begins on October 6th in Sridham Mayapur!
Each year, Mayapur Academy trains pujaris from all over the world in the various arts and aspects of deity worship. From dressing and cooking for the deity, to the daily services of worship in the temple, to a deep study in the culture and lifestyle of brahmana, the Mayapur Academy covers the whole spectrum of what it means to...

Gold Coast, Australia, Bhakti Centre Rathayatra (Album with photos)
Srimati Devi Dasi: Yesterday we went to the Toowoomba Flower festival parade in which the Gold Coast Bhakti Centre Rathayatra cart was part of. It was wonderful sharing the Holy Name with over 50,000 people and the mood was really nice and happy. Lots of lovely devotees and kirtan and lots of beautifully decorated other carts around. Lord Jagannatha’s cart won first prize for the third year running for the best visiting float!
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