Brahmananda Prabhu ki jaya!
Deena Bandhu Das: One of the great pillars of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON, Sriman Brahmananda Prabhu, left this world one year ago on June 7 that corresponds in the Vaisnava calendar to the 6th (sasti) day of the dark half of the month of Vamana. This year that tithi comes today on the 26th of June. I was extremely fortunate and honored last year to light his funeral pyre at the Yamuna, since his younger brother Gargamuni was too devastated to do it.
We can’t begin to do justice to his glories. He was one of Sri...

It’s raining a lot during this Jagannath Ratha-yatra (1 min video)
But still, devotees are amazing at Bangkok Thailand!
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/yqiWfh

Giriraj Swami: Today Hema Malini, the famed performer from India, visited the ISKCON Los Angeles temple, and I was reminded of when she and I were together on the stage of the ISKCON auditorium in Juhu, Mumbai. It was December, during the book-distribution marathon, and after the performance I asked the audience to come forward to purchase sets of Srila Prabhupada’s Srimad-Bhagavatam and Sri Caitanya-caritamra, for concessional rates. The response was slow, so I leaned over and asked her if I could announce that she would autograph one book from each ...

June 27. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: Remembering the Early Exchanges with Swamiji.
If the spiritual world is the real goal, then why do I keep going back to that infinitesimal span of time – the 1966 days? Prabhupada’s lila was so sweet then, and it was also a special time for me, the time when he lifted me out of the cycle of birth and death. I cannot help remembering it now. That remembrance reinforces my conviction not to fall back into material life. I am not clear yet, I am surrounded b...

Three stories from distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books.
Tulasi Devi Dasi: I tried to speak to one man who quickly said, “No. No time! I said, "No time? What’s your job”? “Drug salesman”. “Really, what’s the biggest selling product”? “Maalox (for ulcers). "No time? You better take time to read this book or you’ll gave to take Maalox like everyone else”. He then said, “You’re right”. And quickly took a book and gave a donation.
I was speaking to a simple farmer...

Mathura: Police lays out plan to prevent cow smuggling.
Mathura district administration today chalked out a plan to foil cow smuggling, a day after a truck was set ablaze and the National Highway 2 blocked by residents of Chaumuhan area here after the vehicle was found carrying carcasses of 30 cows.
“The district has been divided into four sectors. Thorough checking would be done at every entry point,” district police chief Babloo Kumar said.
Asked about yesterday’s incident, he said police will soon find out who had brought t...

ISKCON Auckland New Zealand: Harinam sankirtana (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “If one only chants, with some slight faith, the holy names of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, then very quickly he is cleansed of all offences. Thus as soon as he chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, he feels the ecstasy of love for God.” (Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 8.31)
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Traveling Kirtan Experience.
Photos from the Traveling Kirtan Experience bus tour in North America, May 21-June 27, 2016.
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Why the millennial craze for chanting is the new clubbing.
As Glastonbury comes to a close, festivals now are all about returning to their spiritual roots.
As you read this, Glastonbury-goers will be raising themselves from their tents, fuzzy from too many ciders after watching Adele last night. But forget the hangover bacon butty — the twenty-something hedonist crowd will be heading instead to the West Holts field to do some kirtan, call-and-response chanting based on ancient Indian texts, to clear their heads.
Friday night in London, a...

Rathayatra in Poland (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “As a result of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, one makes such great advancement in spiritual life that simultaneously his material existence terminates and he receives love of Godhead. The holy name of Krishna is so powerful that by chanting even one name, one very easily achieves these transcendental riches.” (Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 8.28)
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Lord Gauranga’s Mercy Flows in Yaddugudem Village.
Yaddugudem in Telugu has an interesting meaning. Yaddu implies bull and gudem is village, therefore the village of bull. Within two hours the devotees entered the village. One 61-years old Sri Ram temple appeared right at the entrance of the village. It also marked the center of all village activities! It was interesting to know that the villagers still followed the practice of assembling in the temple to sing the glories of Sri Ram in padyams every Ekadasi. The village could be considered as one...

June 26. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: Signing In the Incorporation.
Prabhupada is lecturing.
Mr. Goldsmith, wearing slacks and a shirt and tie, sits on the floor near the door, listening earnestly to the lecture, despite the distracting noises from the neighbourhood. Prabhupada has been explaining how scholars mislead innocent people with nondevotional interpretations of the Bhagavad-gita, and now, in recognition of the attorney’s respectable presence, and as if to catch Mr. Goldsmith’s a...

Yoga for the New Millennium (4 min video)
Radha Padma devi dasi and her brother Nama prabhu from Brisbane, Australia will tell......

A monk’s advice: look inward and connect with the spiritual!
Swami says life is so busy for people these days, they’ve forgotten the ways of their ancestors. He says people need to connect with the spiritual side.
Swami says the walk with nature along the Illinois and Michigan Canal has been wonderful, even though it has been very hot at times this week. Thunderstorms gave him a different challenge Wednesday. It’s harder work to walk on a soggy trail, so he got a few blisters. But he used a pair of dry socks to wipe off some space...

From a subway to the Temple on Wheels!
I was on my way to an evening talk by Radhanatha Swami, and when I got off the subway, I saw a young man and offered him Srila Prabhupada’s books. He found them interesting and gave a donation for them.
Then I asked whether he would like to go to the evening program and learn something about the ancient Vedic wisdom of India from a very interesting and wise devotee of Krsna.
He said that he was a little busy, but that he may be able to make it. So I gave him the address.
During the lecture, to my...

“You win a few, you lose a few!”
The world is oversexed basically; they make too much of it. There is a place for sexual activity but they make too much of it. Whatever place it has in your life do not give it too much energy.
Even after so much sexual activities still something is missing, still we are not beaming with happiness, still not effulgent, still not ecstatic… So let us not make too much of it.
People are looking for romance and then relationships break… new ones start… all these things are going on. O...

Gargamuni prabhu speaking to Srila Prabhupada about his books distributed to scholars: Some of them are shocked. We went to the National Library in Calcutta. That’s the largest library. They saw your books and they said, “Oh, he is doing this work?” They were so impressed. They had never seen Sanskrit or Bengali printed in foreign countries the way you have done in your books. They said, “This is fantastic” There’s no one else who is doing this in India, no one. Very impressed. And these men themselves are Sanskrit schola...

June 25. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami: Plans for Incorporation.
“We shall call our society ISKCON.” Prabhupada had laughed playfully when he first coined the acronym.
He had initiated the legal work of incorporation that spring, while still living on the Bowery. But even before its legal beginning, he had been talking about his “International Society for Krishna Consciousness,” and so it had appeared in letters to India and in The Village Voice. A friend had suggested a title t...

New Releases from the Bhaktivedanta Archives.
June 24th, 2016
Vakreśvara Paṇḍita Appearance Day
The Bhaktivedanta Archives is pleased to offer two new releases: The VedaBase™ 2016 update and the original unedited audio of Śrīla Prabhupāda for the year 1971.
The 2016 VedaBase™ update includes:
1) Updated audio transcripts for the year 1971
2) Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā 2011–2015 (5 books)
3) Life’s Final Exam by Giriraj Swami
To read the entire article cl...

Harinama in France (Album with photos)
Harinam Sankirtan in Tours during the France Music Day….and visit to New Mayapur….this year is the 40th anniversary of Sri Sri Krishna Balarama deities installed personally by ISKCON’s Founder Acarya Srila Prabhupada.
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What is the root of devotional service to Lord Krishna?
“The root cause of devotional service to Lord Krsna is association with advanced devotees (sadhu sanga). Even when one’s dormant love for Krsna awakens, association with devotees (sadhu sanga) is still most essential.” CC Madhya 22.83
You may be familiar with Rupa Goswami‘s explanation of the development of pure devotional service. It starts with a little attraction or faith (sraddha) which brings us to the temple or sanga gatherings. Then we need to engage in sadhu sa...

What happens when you chant Hare Krishna in the streets of Paris? (1 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is de......

Blissful Kirtan in Istanbul - ISKCON TURKIYE (1 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, we gradually ......

Hare Krishna Festivals UK: Glastonbury, Day 4 (Album with photos)
Hare Krishna,
Over 3,000 plates of delicious prasadam (sanctified spiritual food) were served during the first full day of this year’s Glastonbury Festival :) … Oh, and we went on a Harinam :)
Find them here: https://goo.gl/s6d97o