Panihati Cida-dahi Festival. Wed. 2017-06-07.
Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, who later became famous for his renunciation, was previously a householder and wanted to join the personal association and service of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. However, his father prevented Raghunatha dasa from doing so. After several failed attempts, Raghunatha dasa heard that Nityananda Prabhu had arrived at Panihati. In order to receive the Lord’s causeless mercy, Raghunatha dasa went to see Him.
When Nityananda Prabhu saw Raghunatha dasa, He ordered him t...

Exciting Plans Afoot for Spain’s New Vrajamandala.
Yadunandana Swami’s first move is to invite capable devotees to build up the New Vrajamandala team. (“Without a good team, you can’t be successful,” he says.) Already, Sabda Brahma Das, who previously worked at a bank, has been named the new treasurer; while retired post office manager Rafael Vasco is the accountant and temple commander.
The team’s top priority is to improve Deity worship. For this, they have calculated the minimum cost to maintain a good standar...

Panama Ratha-yatra 2017 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Lord’s holy name is called sravana-mangala. This means that one receives everything auspicious simply by hearing the holy name. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 2.7.15 Purport)
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Preaching program at “Courage Bazaar” Kiev, Ukraine (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: We should not forget the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra under any circumstances. It will help us in the greatest danger, as we find in the life of Gajendra. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 8.3.1 Purport)
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The Time of The Sages Documentary-Trailer (5 min video)
The Oxford Center for Hindu Studies is host to the Bhagavata Purana Research Project. As key step in this project, we have organized an international conference in Chennai, in early 2017, with some 30 specialists from around the world presenting papers and discussing different aspects of the Bhagavata Purana. This is a perfect opportunity for us to interview and film these scholars for this documentary film. We are living in a world full of anxiety, fear and uncertainty. Bhagavata Purana can ac...

Croatia Harinama Tour (Album with photos)
By congregationally chanting the holy names you achieve everything, including the goal of life and the process for attaining it. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada: …Love of Krishna is the sadhya, and congregational chanting the names of Krishna is the sadhana. Any questions that may arise in this regard can be resolved only by chanting the names of Krishna.
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Srila Prabhupada’s book distribution (Album with photos)
At the Sadhu Sanga Kirtan Retreat we had a very successful BBT promo. Many devotees got their BBT pen and special bookmarks.
In addition we also distributed 76 sets of Sri Brhad Bhagavatamrta: 20 sets of Sri Chaitanya Caritamrta: 15 sets of Srimad Bhagavatam and 36 copies of Our Family Business
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Pure gold! (1 min video)
On this auspicious day of Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi, one Chakra for the small domes and all of the remaining pieces for the 2 small Kalashes have fully arrived.
You can see in this video how they will look and their size for the small domes.
The Chakras are made of solid stainless steel coated with pure gold. This gold will remain for many years and the chakras won’t need to be recoated for the next 100 years!
This Chakra will be placed very shortly on the domes, once the Kalash will be completed then the Chakra ...

Sanskrit for Scriptural Study (video)
ISKCON of New Jersey hosted His Grace Radhika Ramana Dasa for a wonderful seminar on Sanskrit for Scriptural Study. Please hear and share. This seminar will give students an appreciation for the beauty and utility of the Sanskrit language. The course will focus on those aspects of the language which are practically useful for the study of Srila Prabhupadas books. These include a basic familiarity with: The purpose of Sanskrit study The structure and scope of the language Proper pronunciation and recitat...

News story and audio interview about devotee musician from New Zealand.
Despite the high acclaim Denver received for his work as Micronism, Mechanism, and the music he released under his own name, he stopped producing a year later, pursuing a newfound interest in the Hare Krishna faith. Since then he’s spent time as a Krishna Devotee in Ashrams in NZ, Peru, and is now based in Brisbane with his wife and son.
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Harinama in Barnaul, Russia, 03.06.17 (Album with photos)
“When a person really devotes himself to Krsna consciousness and begins to derive pleasure in repeating the name of his beloved Lord, this repetition captures him entirely. Sometimes he sings the holy names very loudly and dances like a madman. However, he does not care that someone can take him for a madman. He does not care about the opinions of others. This is the perfect level of repetition of the holy name ”
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Bhaktivedanta Clinic (1 min video)
“Inauguration clip”
Registered as Bhaktivedanta Hospital & Research Institute, it is a non-profit, non-Governmental, non-sectarian organization. This will be the first of its kind in Nepal, serving with a Spiritual theme.
The Medical team at BVH are energetic, empathic and spiritually minded with a total of 20 members including Doctors/Consultants/ Physiotherapist & Paramedics.
BVH is serving with OPD/ Physiotherapy/ Ayurveda/ Naturopathy/ Spiritual Counselling/ Psychiatry Clinic/ Medita...

ISKCON - Panihati Chip Rice Festival (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Haraye namah krsna yadavaya namah, gopala govinda rama sri-mudhusudana. This is another way of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. The meaning is as follows: “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. He is the descendant of the Yadu family. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Gopala, Govinda, Rama and Sri Madhusudana.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 25.64 Purport)
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