All India Padayatra Joins The Vraja Mandala Parikrama (Album with photos)
Every year the ‘All India Padayatra’ joins the Vraja Mandala Parikrama during the auspicious month of kartikka, and this year was no different. Our party joined the parikrama on October 16th. Along with hundreds of other devotees we followed the beloved forms of Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar through the streets of Vraja Bhumi. Our team of padayatris, by the mercy of the Lord, was able to do a little service for the parikrama devotees by serving them prasadam and water. ...

‘Looking For My Life’
“Looking for My Life” recounts Prapujaka’s adventures as he visited Vrindavan, staying in the austere Fogal ashram as there was no ISKCON temple at the time. Attending Prabhupada’s lectures in a pandal, he saw the ISKCON Founder-Acharya only from a distance, and struggled to understand his strong Bengali accent. But when Giriraja Swami took Prapujaka on as his assistant and brought him up to see Srila Prabhupada, the young man knew he had found his guru.
Prapujaka might be an ordinary guy, ...

Devotees Take Srila Prabhupada on Historic Trip to Antarctica.
In a unique offering for ISKCON’s 50th anniversary, two devotees have made a preaching trip to Antarctica, the southernmost and coldest continent in the world.
The two held the first kirtan in Antarctica and distributed Prabhupada’s books there for the first time, placing the Bhagavad-gita As It Is in several Antarctic research stations.
What’s more, in bringing a murti of Srila Prabhupada himself with them, they have ensured that the ISKCON Founder-Acharya has now...

ROOFTOP MONKS (4 min video)
A recent video we did in New York. Transcendental sound for our friends!
Srila Prabhupada: His [the Supreme Lord’s] existence can be realized by one who has the single qualification of submissiveness and who thereby becomes a surrendered soul. The development of submissiveness is the cause of proportionate spiritual realization, by which one can ultimately meet the Supreme Lord in person, as a man meets another man face to face. [Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 1.55 purport]
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Kartik Nabadvip Mandal Parikram 2016
“A full twelve hours of pure unalloyed Krsna Consciousness.” – (Shatadhanya Prabhu)
“How can I ever have a favourite part? The kirtans are fantastic, there is so much senior association, all the devotees want to serve, the management is par excellent, the prasad is delicious, and the Dham is so beautiful! Still hearing from the disciples of Srila Prabhupada is my favourite part.” – (Nimai Sundar Prabhu)
“The parikram brings the pastimes of Lord Chaitanya to life in ou...

What I love about ISKCON Mayapur.
Urmila Devi Dasi: What I love about ISKCON Mayapur (among many other things) is that there are three–THREE–3–schools here for elementary and high school (primary and secondary). And, and, and, the students in those schools are very prominent, valued members of the community. Every morning it’s the kids who recite the Siksastaka after Tulasi worship. The elephant (hati) procession is almost entirely a program done by the youth. It’s kids and teenagers on the elephants, worshipping the Deitie...

Harinama in a cold Arbat street, a pedestrian street about one kilometer long in the historical center of Moscow (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the beginning, a conditioned soul is bereft of Krsna consciousness and is always morose in his material activities. Later, by associating with a pure devotee, one becomes inquisitive to know the Absolute Truth. In this way one begins to engage in the transcendental service of the Lord. Next, by the Lord’s grace all misconceptions are vanquished and the heart is cleansed of all material dirt. It i...

Updates from Bhaktivedanta Research Center.
We’ve decided to implement a new method to keep you up to date. Our new blog, BRC Bulletin, will be continually updated as we make a commitment to keep you more informed and connected to our service developments.
This edition’s topics include:
An index of selected scanned texts in English that have recently been added to online catalog
A University of Oxford scholar explains how his research at BRC library benefited his latest publication
Highlights from our adaptation of ...

Parikrama in Vrindavana: the best medicine! (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Not feeling well for a couple of weeks I had not journeyed outside.Yesterday I took a short walk for some fresh air and brought my camera along with me. It’s amazing what variety of culture one capture in Vrindavan in 90 minutes!
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Yesterday was the 39th disappearance day of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Here are some pictures from His room in......

ISKCON Aruppukottai - Mandap Program Nov 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati: The Supreme Lord is saying, “I have arranged so much misery, so much pain, so much trouble and danger, not to make you suffer, but to teach you that all this misery is unnecessary; so you will search for the happiness that is eternally desirable, the joy that is eternally adorable.“
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Festival of The Holy Name in Alachua (2016) (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: My Guru Maharaja used to say, prana ache yara sei hetu pracara. A person can become a preacher if he has got life. A dead man cannot become a preacher. So you must be very enthusiastic that “I shall preach the glories of the Lord to my best capacity.” It is not that one has to become very learned scholar to become a preacher. Simply it requires enthusiasm, “My Lord is so great, so kind, so beautiful, so wonderful. So I must speak something about my Lord....

WALL ART. Harinama’s striking mural art.
Mandakini devi dasi: Harinama and his wife, Laksmi Priya devi dasi, with their three children – Caitanya five years, Nityananda four years and Bhakti aged one – recently moved onto New Govardhana Farm, Australia. The Perth couple had visited the farm several times and was keen to provide their children with a Krishna conscious education. At present the couple are busily engaged in renovating the Lily Pond house and cultivating the surrounding land. Harinama took to spiritual life 20 years ago s...

The Sound of Krishna’s Flute.
Last month artist Dhanesvara dasa produced a series of works at a Murwillumbah studio (Studio 88) focusing on Krishna’s pastimes, calling the exhibition ‘The Sound of Krishna’s Flute’. He used traditional images with a contemporary twist. Dhanesvara hopes that these images reflect the devotional rasa’s that inspire our continual journey of bhakti-yoga, perfecting our love for Krishna and His devotees. The launch for the exhibition will be held Friday, 2 December at 6pm. Talented musician...

Lismore High Religious Studies School Students Visit Iskcon’s New Govardhana Farm Community, Australia.
Damodara Pandit dasa: Lismore has always been a great place to visit and tell people about Krishna, so it was no surprise when the local Lismore High School contacted us requesting a visit. On Wednesday, 26 October, myself and Ambarish dasa made the journey down south. It was a pleasant surprise to be greeted by Paul Von Bratt, the Chaplain and Religious Studies teacher, who was extremely happy to see us. He then introduced us to the senior Rel...

Melbourne’s First Rathayatra Festival, Monday, 17 July 1972.
“Prabhupada was convinced that the festival was an important part of Krsna consciousness culture, and had personally told Madhudvisa that the Rathayatra parade was so spiritually potent that just by following the chariot of Lord Jagannatha as it passed down the road, one would be liberated from repeated birth and death.
Madhudvisa also had his own, special, personal experience of the potency of the Ratha-yatra festival - it had first attracted him to become a devotee, and late...

The new Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, Phill Coff, bathing Srila Prabhupada’s murti.
Kalasamvara Das: He also promised to join us for Rathyatra in Queen street on the 10 December.

A Visitor’s Reflections.
Vrindavani Briant: My two-month visit from 21 July to 26 September 2016 to New Govardhana dhama wasn’t a trip I originally planned to make. After I visited New Govardhana briefly in April of this year – also an unplanned trip! – the sweetness of the New Govardhana temple and community made me feel compelled to return. With this in mind, I made inquiries into staying at the New Govardhana brahmacharini ashrama and received such a welcoming and encouraging response that I returned to New Govardhana in July ...

Awaking Devotion.
Vaisesika das: In the backyard of my home, I recently set up a bird feeder that I inherited from my father several years ago. For the past few weeks, I have been regularly filling it with Nyger seeds, much liked by Finches. Today, as I watched a group of happy Finches devouring these seeds, I mused at how they have no idea where the seeds come from, or how the feeder magically fills up every few days. They only merrily eat without considering the source of their food. This is true of most living entities. As the soul transmigrates ...

The effects of the Holy Name (1 min video)
Sometimes the holy name is not discernable as we know it. Sometimes it’s a secret language sung from a sweetheart to her sweetheart.
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Festival of the Holy Name 2016 in Alachua, Florida (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Who God is” can be summed up in only five words. Krsna is the Supreme controller. If you become convinced of this, and preach it enthusiastically, success is assured, and you will be doing the greatest service for all living entities. So you continue more and more to serve Krsna, and He will help you. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Danavir — Honolulu 5 May, 1972
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Whoever you meet (Album with photos)
The sankirtan strategy of the Supreme Lord is simple and sublime… whoever you meet, tell them about Krishna! Every day we meet people… at work, at university, while shopping, on the train, in the surgery. Why not share something spiritual with them? What’s the worst that could happen? Imagine how many people would be touched. Try it today, and Gauranga Mahaprabhu may well orchestrate a few transcendental miracles. We don’t need a special time for sankirtan, just make it part of your daily l...

Vrindavan pilgrims (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
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47th Anniversary of the Installation Of Radha Londonisvara (2 videos)
This was our biggest ISKCON50 event of 2016 in a big thea......