By Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. People need to know the details of the transcedental reality and the only way to do this is by these Vedic literatures

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HH Giriraja Swami unveiling the inside insight of 1970s ecstatic era with Srila Prabhupada.

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One of them today, who I’m very happy to introduce to you is His Grace Ramesvar Prabhu, who was the head of the BBT. A confidant of Srila Prabhupada, especially in book publication and who was right there on the ground with all the proceedings that took place before, during and after this Chaitanya Caritamrita marathon. He is privy to many of the things Prabhupada said and expressed about the importance of the Chaitanya Caritamrita, so historically his presentation will be very important....

Nature, quality, characteristics of personalities in Caitanya-caritamrita-Their roles in Krishna Lila

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Inside and Out with Ramesvara Das

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Krishna Kshetra Swami is, since 1972, a disciple of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. From 1973 to 1975 he distributed Shrila Prabhupada’s books and served as a pujari in Amsterdam and Schloss Rettershof, Germany. Between 1977 and 1979 he traveled and preached with Bhakti Tirtha Swami, Harikesha Swami, Bhakti Sudhir Goswami, Dvarakesha Prabhu and Devamrita Swami throughout eastern Europe. From 1982 to 1985 he oversaw Lord Nrisimhadeva’s worship in Simhacalam, Germany

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Sunday Feast - SB 1.6 by HG Yogesvara Prabhu at ISKCON Chicago.

ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry’s live conference.

Taking shelter through chanting.
Kadamba Kanana Swami: The purpose of chanting is about taking shelter. Everyone needs shelter in this world; we know that very well. But where is our shelter other than at Krsna’s lotus feet? That is our situation, there is no other shelter! Everything else is illusory shelter. Real security and shelter is found in Krsna and that is the essence of spiritual life.

Interview with HG Soma Prabhu

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Duties [dharma] executed by men, regardless of occupation, are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction for the message of the Supreme Lord.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.2.8)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by H.H. Hanumat Presaka Swami at ISKCON Vrindavan.

The knowledge of the arrogant defeats the purpose of knowledge
Chaitanya Charan das: “The arrogance of the wicked increases on studying scripture, which is actually meant to remove arrogance, just as the darkness owls experience increases with the rising of the sun, which is actually meant to remove darkness.”

Losing our Chanting Beads
Since last few months I have come across devotees who have lost their chanting beads. If this in itself was not bad enough, then what was even more painful for them was that in all the cases, save one, their spiritual master declined to chant again on new chanting beads.

What is the greatest gift that can be given? (video)
Talk given my HH Devamrita Swami on what is the greatest gift that can be given? Including a discussion about Lord Chaitanya’s external potency.

In God’s Name: A Day in the Life of the Hare Krishnas (video)
Kurma Dasa: A time capsule of life in the Hare Krishna temple in Sydney, Australia in 1973. Classic footage by filmmaker William Kerr.

The Unique Proposal of Bhakti-yoga.
Krsna says, “This process is the supreme intelligence of the intelligent and the cleverness of the most clever, for by following it one can in this very life make use of the temporary and unreal to achieve Me, the eternal reality.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.29.22)

Panca Dravida Swami wanted to know how a person can attain perfection simply from one lava, one-eleventh of a second’s association with a pure devotee.

Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Deenabandhu Prabhu - Akshaya Tritiya (Chandan Yatra) in ISKCON Vrindavan

Overstimulated But Existentially Bored!
Visakha Dasi: “Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote over 170 years ago: ‘Boredom is the root of all evil.’”
“To Kierkegaard, boredom is not just feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one’s current activity; boredom is not just a sense of emptiness due to an absence of stimulation. Boredom, he wrote, is the result of an absence of meaning in one’s life. This understanding explains why people today are overstimulated but existential...

Jagannatha Kirtanananda Das speaks to HG Malati Devi Dasi on the ‘The Early Pioneering Days’ of the ISKCON Movement

Am I Ready for Marriage?
BY UTTAMA DEVI DASI
Checklist:
I know why I want to marry.
I am ready to give up being single and to commit to another person for life.

Is Krishna Really Merciful to Me?
HH Sacinandana Swami: Devotees often ask me, “If Krsna is really merciful towards His devotees, why do so many devotees seem to experience misery? I hear in all these lectures that Krsna is so merciful but I don’t experience it – I just had an accident!” Others tell me: “A good friend distanced himself from me,” or “This great devotee is dying from cancer, so how can we make a general statement that Krsna is merciful to His devotees? Maybe He is merciful to Srila Prabhupada, b...

Srimad Bhagavatam class by HH Badrinarayan Swami