By Madan Mohan DasaMy thoughts on this are partly in response to seeing (on this site) the model of the proposed temple to be built in Mayapura. I'd like to see the setting for the temple be as moving as the structure itself, or more so. Perhaps there could be a botanical garden/arboretum incorporated into the plan.
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- 17 Feb 2007
By Shyamagopika Devi DasiHis Divine Grace desired to have Gaura Purnima festival year after year in a grand way and as a result, in 1973 or 74, over 300 devotees attended. It grew to more than 2000 devotees in 1996 during Srila Prabhupad centennial year and now it has reached to the point of more than 5000 devotees coming to Mayapur to take the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with them.
...- 17 Feb 2007
By Deena Bandhu dasaEverywhere there were South Indian brahamanas mostly with their distinctive sikhas where they shave about two inches back from the forhead and around the ears and tie all their hair in a bun at the back.
...- 15 Feb 2007
By Caru DasIn this temple visitors purchase a ticket for a pot of jaggery, sweet water with cardamon and pepper, to be offered through a brass mask of Narasingha placed over a hole in the mountain.
...- 14 Feb 2007
By the GBC ChairmanThe GBC will be available for all ISKCON devotees by scheduling an Open Door Day. The Open Door day will be in Sri Mayapura Dhama during the Annual GBC Meetings on Tuesday, February 13th from 10.00am until 12.15pm in the GBC room on the top of the Conch building.
...- 10 Feb 2007
By Payonidhi dasWe have just found these prayers to Lord Narasimha on the Acaraya folio, they are prayers offered by Saturn Personified, Sri Sani deva, who is so much feared in India. Actually he is great devotee of Lord Narasimhadeva.
...- 10 Feb 2007
By Caru DasLast Monday from my office window I noticed a sole Indian gentleman circling the temple verandah on foot. He had apparently tried entering from the upstairs, but that door is often stuck in winter due to cold expansion.
...- 10 Feb 2007
By bhakta MartinFor several years I suffered from almost suicidal pains in my head and tried different doctors and therapies, ate many chemical pills but nothing helped. Then I tried to search for the cause through astrology and I found the website of Shyamasundara Prabhu, disciple of Srila Prabhupada
...- 9 Feb 2007
By Sri Nanda - nandana dasa If we are going to succeed in becoming free from the influence of Kali-yuga and use the Golden Age within the first 10,000 years of Kali-yuga in the best way possible, then we must cooperate in allowing for a new species of humanity to enter this world.
...- 8 Feb 2007
By Bhurijana dasaThe Yamuna River bank calms the mind and offers peace and shelter to all, including those souls in the attached photo who are sitting peacefully at the bank of the Yamuna as the sun begins to set.
...- 7 Feb 2007
By Jesse OlsenI am among the hundreds of devotee dishwashers in North America. It has become painfully aware to me the need for good dishwashing gloves. I recently discovered what I consider to be the best dishwashing gloves on the market.
...- 6 Feb 2007
By Dharmatma dasI felt very safe being wheeled into the operating theater hearing Srila Prabhupada chanting from speakers in every room and space in the hospital. Imagine our amazement when during recovery there was a knock on our door and Lord Jagannath appeared on a beautiful throne before us.
...- 6 Feb 2007
By Bhakta ChrisSo, how did I, a peanut butter and jelly Nintendo kid from America, the land of plenty and plenty more, choose to enter as a brahmacari into the tradition of Gaudiya Vaisnavism as brought to the West by His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada?
...- 30 Jan 2007
By Kaunteya DasA journalist pretended to be a normal Christian follower asking the confessors for absolution from his sins, or rather asking if what he claimed to be doing was sinful.
...- 30 Jan 2007
By Jaya Govinda Caran DasTo be honest, I did not know what to do, write to my spiritual master asking for advice, or run into the first chocolate shop I find, because I have to recognize, I was a chocolate addicted and the only idea of eating chocolates without any feeling of guiltiness made me so glad.
...- 27 Jan 2007
By Gokulananda dasOur mercilful God has offered us this perfect revelation about our real spiritual identities and our inate enduring loving relation to Him; and He has preserved its integrity within an unbroken disciplic succession "evam parampara praptam" of His empowered servants, the authentic Vedic teachers
...- 25 Jan 2007
By Kesava Krsna DasaDo we see all the obeisances and reverences accorded to the renounced order and secretly think “That position really has some power! Advanced supremacy! Without so much as lifting a finger, devotees fall like adoring uprooted trees without a storm in their presence. It is tempting to say, I wouldn’t mind having a danda.”
...- 25 Jan 2007
By Deenanath DasaSrila Prabhupada encouraged repetition of the sastra as a principle of disciplic succession and at the same time he condemned it as artificial and unscientific. Let’s examine the two positions with quotes from him.
...- 24 Jan 2007
By Krishna-kirti dasI offer my obeisances to my spiritual master, Hridayananda das Goswami. In presenting these essays, I have meant you no malice. But please understand: I would rather be an outcast and have my arguments given a thoughtful hearing instead of an insider whose arguments are never heard. I offer my obeisances at your feet. And finally, I offer my obeisances at the feet of my param-guru, Srila Prabhupada. Without you, where would we all be? Please have mercy on me.
...- 24 Jan 2007
By Deena Bandhu dasaThe Brahma-vaivarta Purana explains why Sarasvati no longer exists in her full glory: When Ganga-devi cursed Sarasvati-devi to become a river here on Mrtyuloka, one of the conditions was that she would only remain on earth as long as rishis and other great sages performed tapasya on her banks.
...- 22 Jan 2007
By Karuna Purna dasiAlthough, the subject of devotees' consumption of commercial milk speeding the moment of cows' slaughter has already been discussed years ago, I think that it is a good idea to revisit it from time to time.
...- 22 Jan 2007
By Lilasuka dasiI am so happy to see some environmental issues being discussed amongst the devotee community. It is an issue for everyone in the world wherever you are. The saying "Think Globally, Act Locally" is particularly applicable at this time in history. We all affect each other and we each make a difference, everyday.
...- 19 Jan 2007
By Indradyumna SwamiI offer my respectful obeisances to Das Goswami, who helped pioneer the mission of Srila Prabhupada in the southernmost tip of the world. He is devoted to bhajan and is caring and affectionate to all those who take shelter of his lotus feet
...- 17 Jan 2007
By Madhava GoshFor years we have been kicking around the idea of vicarious cow protection. Facing the reality that most will have to, for the time being, purchase milk from cows that will be slaughtered, what is a sincere devotee of the Supreme Cowherd Boy, Krishna, to do?
...- 17 Jan 2007