Hare Krsna Mantra – meaning of the mantra
Meaning as explained by Gopala Guru Gosvami, disciple of Svarupa Damodara of Puri:
The word “hare”:
hari harati papani dusta cittair api smrtah
anicchayapi samsprsto dahaty eva hi pavakah
vijnapya bhagavat tattvam cid ghanananda vigraham
haraty avidyam tat karyam ato harir iti smrtah
“Just as the fire, on contacting an object, automatically burns it, so the name of Hari takes away (harati) or burns up all ht esins of the people with materialistic hearts. It r...

Newbury Rathayatra - 13th August 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In this Age of Kali, the process of worshiping Kri......

Vaishnava Gadget (2 min video)
Vaishnava Gadget is presenting you conceptually new magnetic counters for japa. Now we put them ......

“How to become a good Vaishnavi wife” course in Kiev (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: We must rise early in the morning, bathe, attend mangala-arati, worship the Deities, chant the Hare Krishna mantra, study the Vedic literatures and follow all the rules prescribed by the acaryas and the spiritual master. If we deviate from this process, we may fall down, even though we may be very highly advanced. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.8.8 Purport)
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Oprah & Hare Krishna!
August 12, 2016. Dear Friends, Hare Krsna. I thought you might be interested to see this page from the August 2016 issue of Oprah Magazine. The article references the studies on the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra that I conducted in the 1990s. Hare Krsna.
Sincerely, Dhira Govinda das
To read the entire article click here: http://goo.gl/62JUs5

Fortunate People is privileged to present! First ever!! (2 min video)
~:-) TOP 15 MANTRA MUSIC CHART (-:~
Srila Prabhupada: “My heart is always burning in the fire of material existence, and I have made no provisions for getting out of it. The only remedy is hari-nama-sankirtana, the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, which is imported from the spiritual world, Goloka-Vrndavana. How unfortunate I am that I have no attraction for this. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.1.22 Purport)
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First South American Farm Conference at Goura Vrindavana (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Anything fresh, that is full of......

Volume One (San Francisco/London) of Shyamasundar’s long-awaited three-volume “Chasing Rhinos With The Swami” is about to go to press!
To find out more about the book, to read exciting excerpts, and to pre-order your copies at a heavily discounted price, go to chasingrhinos.com
Here’s what das (Steven Rosen) has to say about “Chasing Rhinos”:
“In ‘Chasing Rhinos with the Swami,’ Shyamasundara Das has accomplished something truly remarkable. He successfully takes his readers back in t...

Dr. Kenneth R. Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami): Book endorsement: I am grateful to Prof. Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and my former doctoral supervisor, who has written a very nice endorsement for our (Ravi M. Gupta & my) soon to appear *The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Selected Readings*:
“The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important theological and devotional texts of Hinduism. Yet, given its great length and complexity, it has rarely been read even by the wider audience of scholars and...

Vaishnava summer festival - BALTIC 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: All glories to the all-blissful holy name of Sri......

Pilgrimage to New Vraja Dhāma (Album with photos)
Here are some photos of the wonderful New Vraja Dhama as we wondered here and there loudly chanting, glorifying Rādhe Śyāma and Vraja with 20 Bhakti College students in theology. There was sweet kīrtana, lots of kṛṣṇa-kathā, spontaneous dramas of pastimes, drawing of demons, swimming in the Yamunā. One evening after a full day of parikrama the students requested us to teach them how to make flower garlands and 14 of them were patiently stringing flow...

9th EU Farm Conference in Villa Vrindavana, Florence, Italy.
The farm conferences are bringing together empowered citizens and ......

ISKCON Pakistan JAGANNATH RATH YATRA 2016 & Celebrations of ISKCON GOLDEN JUBILEE (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Chanting the holy name is the chief means of attaining love of Godhead. This chanting or devotional service does not depend on any paraphernalia, nor on ones having taken birth in a good family. By humility and meekness one attracts the attention of Krishna. That is the verdict of all the Vedas. (Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 4.71 purport).
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Bliss Along The Baltic Sea (14 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: Summer 2016 has been just like the spiritual world for the 300 members of our festival tour in Poland. From Vedic scriptures we learn that in the spiritual sky, every step is a dance, every word is a song and there’s a festival every day. While sharing such good fortune with others our bliss knows no bounds!
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Los Angeles Rathayatra 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Although Kali-yuga is full of faults, there is still one good quality about this age. It is that simply by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 12.3.51 Purport)
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Toronto Rathayatra Inspires Second Gen Leadership.
Madhava Smullen: Growing every year in size and popularity under a second generation team, Toronto Rathayatra has inspired younger devotees to take on more and more leadership in their community, and senior devotees to hand more and more to them.
Seventeen years ago, when he was only eighteen, just one second generation devotee, Kevala Bhakti Das, became part of the Rathayatra organization team. Today, the festival is put on by thirty-two younger devotees from high school kids to thirty-somethings,...

Rathyatra in Bern, Switzerland (2016) (Album with photos)
Ecstatic Rathyatra festival in Bern, the capital of Switzerland.
Srila Prabhupada: If one chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra without offences, all of one’s sinful actions are surely atoned for immediately, but one should not commit such deeds again, for that is an offence. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.16.14 Purport)
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness!
Krishna-kripa Das: Dhirashanta Goswami, as part of his japa workshop at the Vaishnava Summer Festival (Baltic), graded devotees’ bead bags on a scale of 1 to 10. Cleanliness counts for a lot. He advises to wash them a minimum of once a week. Mine was not washed since the Czech Padayatra and Polish Festival tour and thus I only got 4 of 10. I shall try to keep the standard of washing once a week from now on. :-)

A Most Amazing Transformation!
I’ve been encouraged by Vijaya Prabhu, Bhrgupati Prabhu, and the Los Angeles Temple President, Svavasa Prabhu, to write this story. I would like to include a name and picture of the main person in the story, but considering the situation, it could be a bit risky. For now I’ll call my friend “Al”.
After the 2016 Orlando shootings due to religious violence, I was having a lot of doubts in my mind. I wasn’t too sure about Islam, and I was considering whether this was truly a bona fide religi...

Harinam bliss in Prague, Czech Republic (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The Absolute Truth is Sri Krsna, and loving devotion to Sri Krsna in pure love is achieved through congregational chanting of the holy name, which is the essence of all bliss.” (CC Adi-lila 1.96)
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Tenerife - VII Festival de la India en las Américas (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Haridasa Thakura was born in a Mohammedan family. From the very beginning of his life he was never trained in the karma-kanda system, but because he was always chanting the holy name of the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted him as namacarya, the authority in chanting the holy name. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.9.4 Purport)
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ISKCON Vancouver celebration 50 years of success and happy chanting (5 min video)
July 13th, 2016 is the 50th Anniversary of th......

Iskcon New Govardhana - Harinama at Coolangatta - 07 August 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: We must rise early in t......

Gracious Devotee family (Album with photos)
Ramai Swami: When I was in Seattle I had the privilege of staying in the home of S......