HH Bhakti Charu Swami’s Vyasa Puja 2012 offering to Srila Prabhupada. "One day you asked me not to cook for you, saying, ";You can see that I can't eat anything. Still, why are you cooking? You have so many things to do. Why are you wasting your time cooking for me?". I told you, "I cook, hoping that someday you will feel better and would like to eat something."
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- 5 Jul 2020
Yet what is even more disturbing than all the unrest, turmoil and lawlessness that has dominated the news is the fact that the world lost a very great soul last night that many don't even know about. His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami is one of the few who actually had both the proper spiritual training and the compassionate demeanor to bring light into the darkest corners of this historically pivotal moment in time. He was my friend, my Godbrother, my spiritual inspiration, and I, along with thousands of his disciples and other Godbrothers, not only mourn his departu...
- 5 Jul 2020
And Bhakti Charu Maharaj said to Prabhupada “Srila Prabhupada if you want to chastise me I deserve it but I still ask you please take this orange juice because it’s good for you. Prabhupada then said “alright give the orange juice”. Srila Prabhupada drank the orange juice and said “what to do I am an old man, old man are sometimes a little grumpy”.
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- 5 Jul 2020
Memories by HH Bhakti Charu Swami (video)
A Tribute to HH Bhakti Charu Swami as he remembers Srila Prabhupada
- 5 Jul 2020
Choices That Bring Us Closer To God
HH Bhakti Charu Swami: Direct your actions to seek the pleasure of the Supreme. This is the secret of real success
- 4 Jul 2020
Sri Sanatana Goswami appeared in 1488, five years before Sri Rupa Goswami, in a Sarasvata brahmana family in Bengal. Sanatana and his two brothers, Rupa and Anupama, were always absorbed in bhava bhakti from early childhood. Remembering Vrndavana, they named the forests in which they played after Vraja’s twelve forests (Talavana, Madhuvana, Kamyavana, Mahavana).
...- 4 Jul 2020
While everyone is staying at home and our day-to-day activities put to a halt, devotees around the world have found a way to still preach and spread the transcendental chanting online. Our love of kirtan continues and in these difficult times, we can still come together to chant, dance, and open our hearts to the Holy Name.
...- 4 Jul 2020
After driving himself home from dialysis he collapsed in his car. He has been hospitalized. Please keep him in your prayers! Hare Krishna!
...- 4 Jul 2020
Food For Life Wales.
Tarakanatha Dasa, from Cardiff, leads ‘Food for Life Wales’, a team of Hare Krishna monks and nuns alongside volunteers of all faiths, which distributes free, plant-based meals to vulnerable people and frontline workers in Wales.
- 4 Jul 2020
When lockdown started, I was sad, and I missed the temple so much. I don't like online stuff, or using Zoom. I kept chanting all day because I like chanting, and it made me feel a little better about not being in college. I do play mrdunga and sing very loudly in my loft with the windows open every day, and my neighbours say they enjoy it.
...- 4 Jul 2020
Maharaj is now established on dialysis to support his kidneys temporarily till kidneys start working on their own. His heart remains stable and is working well.
...- 3 Jul 2020
Hare Krishna! Welcome to the ashram, please freshen up and take your prasad! Harinam bus is leaving in 30min!
...- 3 Jul 2020
What is faith and why does it sometimes wax and wane? What can we do to enhance it and make it steady even in the midst of a society that often doesn’t value faith?
...- 3 Jul 2020
“When the lockdown started, nobody thought we could distribute books, and everybody was worried about what would happen,” says Shyama Mohini Dasi, co-sankirtan leader at ISKCON Toronto, Canada. “But Vaisesika Prabhu encouraged us to think differently, and innovate.”
...- 3 Jul 2020
- 3 Jul 2020
3 month lockdown. That is a looooong time at home. Have a glimpse in our lockdown days.
...- 2 Jul 2020
Glories to all the blessed Arabic book distribution temples and individual distributors, with some Special Glories to the European Yatras, especially the German Yatra, for somehow finding ways to distribute practically the same (mid-year) quantities of Arabic books during this global pandemic as they did before it arrived!
...- 2 Jul 2020
At this farm cows are taken care of by the attendants from their birth till death. When they stop giving milk, they are moved to Goshala and taken care of by the carers and fully protected for their whole lives.
...- 2 Jul 2020
Once-in-a-lifetime event marking the commencement of the grand ISKCON Temple of Parsippany. One of the first Vedic-style ISKCON temples in Northeast. Our Chief Guest Mayor Soriano and our Committee Chairman Mr. Piyush Patel headlined this wonderful event. All the attendees enjoyed it thoroughly and auspiciousness was seen throughout.
...- 1 Jul 2020
Recent Events - June 2020 - Vaishnava Seva - The Global Devotee Care Directorate is happy to share the next interview of a weekly Devotee Care webinar series called "Vaishnava Seva" - an effort to emphasize a culture of devote...
- 1 Jul 2020
- 1 Jul 2020
Maharaj remains in intensive care, on the ventilator and requiring support for his blood pressure and kidneys.
...- 1 Jul 2020
Krishna’s quality of detachment - Although Krishna is everywhere behind the scenes maintaining this world, Krishna is neutral and never interferes with our freedom to choose and to pursue our journey through life. (Bhagavad Gita chapter 9 verse 9)
...- 1 Jul 2020