Vaishnava wedding in Mayapur.
The wedding of 2nd gen Sahki Caran and 3rd gen Madhavi Lata in Mayapur 20/11/16.

Krishna-kshetra Swami: I am happy to report that Prof. Ravi M. Gupta, Radhika Ramana Prabhu, my longtime colleague who teaches at Utah State University, has received the annual DANAM Best Book 2016 for his edited volume, Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy: Tradition, Reason, and Devotion (Ashgate, 2014). (DANAM = Dharma Association of North America, a practitioner-friendly academic initiative with an annual conference linked to the annual American Academy of Religion meeting). Ravi’s book contains five essays (including an introductory essay by yours truly)...

What subjects have I subjected myself to today?
The word, subject, is both a noun and a verb.

14th Annual Vrinda Kunda Festival.
This coming February will be the auspicious 14th Anniversary of Vrinda Kunda Temple opening! To celebrate we are organizing special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The Festival will culminate with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads. Parikramas will be taken out from 8 Feb - 21 Feb with the main festival day on Sunday 19 Feb. Even after that there will still be some parikramas....

Members of the Rotary club help Iskcon Food for Life Nepal (Album with photos)
(Rotary International is an international servic......

Bhajans in the Balboa Park, San Diego - Nov. 19, 2016 (Album with photos)
Yesterday, Syamali and I had the great privilege to take part in ISKCON San Diego’s weekly “Bhajans in the Park”, at Balboa Park. Srila Prabhupada spoke and walked this 100+ year old park several times, and this chanting endeavor has been going on since the early days of our San Diego yatra.
Harinam Sankirtan Yajna KI JAYA!
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Srila Prabhupada On The Srimad-Bhagavatam As The Natural Commentary On Vedanta-sutra

A letter of appreciation from a satisfied receiver of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
Jiva Doya das is a book distributor from the Bhaktivedanta Manor. He travels around England with three other devotees.
Dear Jiva,
thank you very much for contacting me. It was nice to speak to you in town when I saw you. I had had a rather uninspiring day and it was eye opening to talk to someone who seems to have a real passion for what they believe in. At the moment I am at a point in my life where I am happily floating on a cloud of contentment for who I am...

Chanting on the biggest ever japa beads? (Album with photos)
Bhakti Caitanya Swami: This morning we visited the peaceful and be......

Rectify! The word, rectify, means, “to put something right.”
Devotee: “I asked Prabhupada the other day: ‘Because Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, ‘Forget the past that sleeps, and of the future never dream at all. Live in times that are with thee, and progress thee shall call’; does this mean that it’s possible to forget the past?
“Srila Prabhupada answered, ‘No, that would not be possible, but we can think like this: ‘I have done so many foolish things,’ and then rectify them. Not that we...

Radharani’s Appearance Place (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Five thousand years ago, Srimati Radharani appeared in a small village in greater Vrindavan called Raval. To this very day, it retains it’s simplicity and charm. During the month of Kartika our parikrama group visited Raval and recounted many pastimes of Srimati Radharani. Kartika is over now and I am missing those days
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ISKCON Auckland NZ: Rathyatra 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: You cannot survive without my mercy and I cannot surv......

New Orleans RathYatra (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: I am very much pleased that you have opened a very nice center in Madison, Wisconsin. Thank you very much. Now develop it very nicely, and especially make certain that the daily routine program is held nicely and to the regular highest ISKCON standard, that is, you should see that our rising early, holding mangala arati, chanting 16 rounds, reading books, having classes, street sankirtana, etc., go on just to the highest standard and are never for any reason neglected. In this way your success...

TOVP: Winter Adventures In Moscow (Album with photos)
Sadbhuja Prabhu, the TOVP Managing Director, safely arrived in Moscow, Russia and the trip has been a great success!
He has gone to visit the Production Company where all of the TOVP’s Kalashes and Charkras are being manufactured. He will also preach about the magnificence of the TOVP to the Russian devotees.
Despite the extremity of the temperature being a chilling 1 degree Celsius /33 degree Farenheit, Sadbhuja Prabhu is fully satisfied with his visit to the manufacturer’s work...

Conference for the 50 years of ISCKON at the Facultat de Geografía i Història de la Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The whole world is running on a false theory that life is born out of matter. But that is not a fact. So how to defeat this theory? That is our business. We have to defeat this rascal theory. We have to challenge all these rascals and defeat them. How it is possible? By logic, by science. Anyway, that we have to make program. Because this is most misleading. The whole human society is a...

A special birthday poem, for Guru das

Harinam Sankirtan in Santiago de Chile (Album with photos)
This hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana, that is not any vibration of this material world. That is spiritual. If you want to get out of this viṣānala, the blazing fire of poison or forest fire, then we have to take shelter of this hari-saṅkīrtana.
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Mansarovar in Braja (Album with photos)
Once in while you come across a hidden place of such stunning beauty that you wonder how it has remained `undiscovered’ for so long…...

Index of Names in Bhagavad-gita
This index lists, explains and provides verse locations for 237 names occurring in the texts a......

MotelGita Report, Nov 17, 2016

Nandagram Karttika 2016 (Album with photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: Our visit to Nandagram begins with Uddhava Kyari, the place where Sri Uddhavaji delivered Krishna’s message to the gopis. This the place of Srimati Radharani’s conversation with the bumble bee! Next we visited Pavana Sarovara and the Bhajan Kutir of Srila Sanatana Goswami. After taking darshan in Nanda Bhavan, we concluded at my lovely Vrinda Kunda! Relish these photos of Vittalrukmini Das!
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A Damsel of Vraj, Nadia Weds the Gentle Cowherd, Krishna premi (Album with photos)
In the milk soaked land of Vraj, where honey drips from the trees, the beautiful damsel Nadia married the gentle cowherd man, Krishna premi of 24 hour kirtan at KiKi Nagala amongst the well love cows of “Care for Cows”!...

ISKCON Auckland NZ: Friday night Harinam! (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: You are asking what should your preaching work be now that you are attending the university. So the first preaching work is that yourself should become an ideal devotee. Lord Caitanya said that one should first make himself perfect and then attempt to instruct others. There is no point in telling another man to stop smoking if you yourself are smoking cigarettes. Even though you are mixing with all kinds of the student class at the university, you must strictly refrain from ...

Cooperation is Higher Than Integrity.
Mahatma das: Today I heard a wonderful story. A devotee wrote Srila Prabhupada because his disagreed with the tactics devotees were using to raise donations, tactics supported by the Temple President. He expressed his specific concerns in his letter to Srila Prabhupada. In Srila Prabhupadas reply, he did not address the issue. He did not say he favored one idea over the other. All he said was, I just want you to work well together. Some argue that it is not right to cooperate when we believe that something wrong ...