Home program in Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: I am very glad to learn also that you are feeling joy while chanting the mantra Hare Krishna. Yes, it is exactly like this. If anyone chants this mantra in good faith and in simple understanding, then surely this transcendental vibration will act immediately in spiritual bliss. Please therefore continue to chant this mantra as many times as possible throughout the day and night. I do not think there is any inconvenience or loss on your part if you do so all the time. Even when...

Seema Verna takes her oath of office on Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita.
Indian-American Seema Verma swears-in as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head, places hand on Bhagavad-Gita. NEW YORK: Seema Verma, President Donald Trumps choice for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was sworn-in by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, as she placed her hand on the holy Hindu text- Bhagwad Gita in the presence of her family. Verma was surrounded by her husband Sanjay, daughter Maya, son Sean, as well as her mother and...

Uttarakhand HC declares Ganga, Yamuna living entities, gives them legal rights!
The Uttarakhand high court on Monday declared the Ganga and Yamuna living entities, bestowing on them same legal rights as a person, a move that could help in efforts to clean the pollution-choked rivers.
The order also ends the five-day reign of New Zealand’s Whanganui River as the only one in the world to be granted living entity status.
The court’s order will allow complaints to be filed in the name of the two rivers, held sacred by millions of Hindus...

Highest Happiness in Sri Lanka (Album with photos)
Oh Hrsikesa, the world becomes joyful upon hearing Your name, and thus ever......

Beautiful Transcendental Boat Festival 2017 in Krishna-Balarama Mandir, Vrindavana (Album with photos)
When Prabhupada first came to India traveled with his disciples in a group from one home to another. When they arrived in one place, Acyutananda asked Prabhupada, “What will our program be here?” Prabhupada replied, “Our program is to cry for Krsna.” From Prabhupada Meditations by SDG
Find them here: https://goo.gl/IMgGKZ

Yamuna Boat Festival 2017! (Album with photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: We started off with a 100 country flag procession from the T......

Another devotee entered the renounced order of Sannyasa (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Yesterday, at Bhaktivedanta Asra......

Kolkata-Mayapur also by Ferry/Shuttle now!
This is the new Ferry/Shuttle on Mother Ganga at Prabhupada Ghat in Mayapur Dham. Th......

Gaura Purnima Celebration in Iskcon Detroit (2017) (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: My dear King, do not be agitated and ......

Theology Students of Nairobi “drink” the Vedic Scriptures (Album with photos)
We were invited to one of the famous university in Nairobi to speak about the Vedic culture. All the students were impressed with the knowledge.we distributed over 100 books in 20 minutes.
One professor commented “if you had gone on for another half an hour I would have converted to being a Hare Krishna”
A Muslim scholar commented, “in all my study I haven’t experienced such deep knowledge”.
Find them here:

New Bhaktivedanta Swami sign installed on a public road.
Srila Prabhupada: …a hellish civilization artificially increases the conditions of life, and existence becomes intolerable for everyone. The foolish leaders of a godless civilization try to devise various plans to bring about peace and prosperity in the godless world under a patent trademark of materialism, and because such attempts are illusory only, the people elect incompetent, blind leaders, one after another, who are incapable of offering solutions. If we want at all to end this anomal...

New Iskcon Temple Project for Mauritius launched (Album with photos)
Bhakti Caitanya Swami: Photos from our programme last night in Mauritius. We launched the new temple project there, along with Bhakti Caru Maharaja and Bhakti Brnga Govinda Maharaja. Chief guest was the Minister of Public Infrastructure for the government of Mauritius, Mr Nandkumar Bodha, a very nice man who has helped Srila Prabhupada’s movement greatly there.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/fheiDK

ISKCON-London’s Gaura Purnima 2017 celebrations (Album with photos)
Please find below photos from Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Appearance Day at ISKCON-London.
The Radha-Krishna Temple was joined by devotees from Bhaktivedanta Manor for maha harinama sankirtan along London’s famous Oxford Street.
Slideshow (please turn on sound):
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/gaura_purnima_2017/slideshow
Gallery:
h...

Maha Harinama in Tel Aviv, Israel (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If one does not know what is honesty, how can he be honest? But if you know what is honesty, then you can be honest. You must know the order of God. And if you follow that, then that is honesty. If I know that everything belongs to Krsna, I will not use anything without His permission. That is honesty. Even if you drink a glass of water without knowing to whom it belongs, you are a thief. So you may think, “I am honest,” but actually you are a thief. You must remember...

Yamuna Boat Festival 2017 by Iskcon Vrindavan (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In my books the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness is explained fully so if there is anything which you do not understand, then you simply have to read again and again. By reading daily the knowledge will be revealed to you and by this process your spiritual life will develop. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Bahurupa – Bombay 22 November, 1974
Find them here: https://goo.gl/mAZwWJ

Skill Development.
Personal development expert, Brian Tracy, writes: “Here is one of the greatest questions you will ever ask and answer: ‘What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?’”
One should ask the same question about one’s bhakti practice.
Asking this question is vital because, unlike regular career skills that become obsolete, bhakti skills are eternally relevant and potent. By seriously dedicating oneself to any one of the processe...

Guilt.
Question: Is guilt for past deeds a good thing? I feel guilty of past mistakes done when there was no knowledge of Krishna Consciousness; however, that guilt makes me sad and dejected. How to counteract feeling low out of guilt and rather use that realization to become more determined and enthusiastic for Krishna Consciousness.
Romapada Swami: Since Bhaktivinoda Thakur uses the term ‘regret’ instead of guilt, I am going to respond to your question using the term 'regret’ instead.
The connotation of 'regret’ for so...

Ratha Yatra in Vrindavan, 17.03.2017 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The preacher must love the people. Otherwise why he is taking? He can do it for himself at home. Why he is taking so much trouble? Why in eighty years old I have come here if I do not love? So who can love better than a preacher? Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk–May 17, 1975, Perth
Find them here: https://goo.gl/F39ug9

‘Do Religions Cause Peace or War?’
An interreligious dialog, held in ISKCON Germany/Austria’s headquarters near Frankfurt from April 21st to 23rd, will discuss the very topical question, ‘Religion: Peacemaker or Cause of War?”
This will be the third annual such event organized by ISKCON and Religions for Peace, the largest international coalition of world religion representatives dedicated to promoting peace.
About 100 people will attend this April’s event. Devotee speakers will include Dina Sharana Dasi, who ...

Iskcon of Silicon Valley - GauraPurnima 2017 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: I am very glad to learn also that you are feeling joy while chanting the mantra Hare Krishna. Yes, it is exactly like this. If anyone chants this mantra in good faith and in simple understanding, then surely this transcendental vibration will act immediately in spiritual bliss. Please therefore continue to chant this mantra as many times as possible throughout the day and night. I do not think there is any inconvenience or loss on your part if you do so all the time. Eve...

Devotees of Czech Republic celebrate Gaura Purnima (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna a......

I Pray I May Remain Among Them (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: “Even if I have the opportunity to bathe in the ocean of pure love of Krishna, and even if I have the pure devotees of the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead as my associates, I will not consent to live even for a moment, in any sacred place other than Vrajabhumi. Even if the residents of Vrindavan appear to be ordinary, and even if they fill my ears with useless gossip, I pray that I may remain among them, eternally residing here in Vraja.” Srila Raghunatha Dasa G...