By Payonidhi dasSrila Prabhupada has clearly stated ekadasi prasadam is to be served on Gaura Purnima and Janmastami, but some devotees seem to either ignore these instructions to not know the proper standard.
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- 6 Dec 2007
By Sastra DanaDecember is the time of giving gifts. Are you wondering what to give to your friends, coleagues, business partners, relatives, and everyone else? Wonder no more. Give Srila Prabhupada's books to one and all.
...- 5 Dec 2007
By Karnamrita dasaNowadays devotees are often involved in some type of inter religious dialog where we try to connect with different groups to promote more religious understanding and acceptance.
...- 5 Dec 2007
By Candra dasaAfter having a substantial discourse with one of my favorite senior godbrothers, friend and disciple of Srila Prabhupada, Chandra Shekar das and I labored over the future prospects of IPM (ISKCON PRISON MINISTRY)
...- 4 Dec 2007
By Sankirtana Das (ACBSP)In October a group of about 25 students, along with their professors, visited New Vrindaban. For their fall project, the students broke into groups of three and each group was assigned a devotee to interview and to write a paper on their devotee’s Conversion Experience.
...- 4 Dec 2007
By Jatayu dasaOver the years I have found that women in ISKCON are more often taking leadership positions due to their strong preaching endeavors. Below are appreciations of just a few women I have met in the past few years that have inspired me in my own pursuit of Krsna consciousness.
...- 3 Dec 2007
By Kurma Rupa dasaThis month we present: 1. A report of our Govardhana Puja and Gopatami Festivals. 2. An appeal to preserve our Clinic. 3. Massage therapy for rehabilitating cows. 4. Cosmetic surgery for cows? 5. Four patients end their suffering. 5. New admissions. 6. And more...
...- 3 Dec 2007
By Gaurang prasad dasScientists taking part in a national seminar on the 'glory of gomatha' (cow) have claimed that the animal's urine could be used to treat cancer patients.
...- 3 Dec 2007
By Visnu Murti dasaI would like to thank all of the devotees who have offered their reflections into what are the most important subjects in Srila Prabhupada's teachings that need to be better understood. These reflections are helping us to set up the theme structure in Vaniquotes.
...- 3 Dec 2007
By Shyam Sunder Priya DasThree day program ISKCON UTSAV began on Grand note. There was homam, Gita Chanting, Exhorvant Hare Krishna Kirtan ,Dance, bhajan and beautiful Kuchipudi style Krishna and Rama Leela ballet.
...- 3 Dec 2007
By Kavicandra SwamiIt was a memorial to the work of HH Bhakti Swarupa Damodara Goswami in that field, on the 70th anniversary of his appearance. There were some interesting presentations. One, in which the limitations of “science” were described, I found quite interesting.
...- 30 Nov 2007
By Antony BrennanLaboratory tests reveal that many brands of ghee manufactured in India are adulterated with the body fat of animals. The lab report says the only way to guarantee the purity of your ghee is to make it yourself.
...- 29 Nov 2007
By Joanna LillisA year after authorities precipitously demolished their dwellings, members of Kazakhstan's Hare Krishna community still find themselves in legal limbo. The Krishnas insist they are victims of religious persecution, while authorities characterize the case as a property-rights matter.
...- 29 Nov 2007
By Padmapani dasToday my heart was broken because I heard the sad news of your departure from this world. For me and all those who know and love you, this is the worst of all sufferings.
...- 28 Nov 2007
By Tattvavit DasaAn airline stewardess who is vegetarian, an Australian girl working in London, a Swiss mother with a baby daughter (her third child), a Russian mother with a baby boy, a male teenager mixed-up by drugs, a couple of Indian ladies and a couple of curious English ladies were among the people who took home beads to chant on.
...- 26 Nov 2007
By Parvati devi dasiTo do the final brass casting for both panels in the next three or four months, we will only need around $12,000. Manu das and his daughter Meera has come forward to cover these costs.
...- 26 Nov 2007
By Hari-sauri dasaRecently I was involved in a conversation with several devotees regarding vaisnava clothes. Some of them were proponing the idea that sari and dhoti are actually not vaisnava clothes that devotees in spiritual world wear, giving as evidence pictures made by Sharma.
...- 26 Nov 2007
By Vijaya DasI couldn't help noticing that Baghdad Iraq did more book points last month than sixteen temples. They also recently had Ratha Yatra. I'm sure Prabhupada's mercy is pouring down on Partha-sarthi Prabhu.
...- 26 Nov 2007
By PAUL DAVIES NYTSCIENCE, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term “doubting Thomas” well illustrates the difference...But until science comes up with a testable theory of the laws of the universe, its claim to be free of faith is manifestly bogus.
...- 25 Nov 2007
By Janananda GosvamiWe have a considerable amount of data (from different sources, primarily found in the Bhaktivedanta Vedabase) re kirtan and standards and will now be analyzing it specifically in different categories.
...- 24 Nov 2007
By HH Bhakti Purusottama SwamiIn another two days, on 26th November, devotees from all parts of the world will arrive at Sri Kshetra (Puri) for performing Parikrama of Sankha Kshetra on the auspicious Panchami day.
...- 23 Nov 2007
By Sastra DanaI told them, "I'm a monk with the Hare Krishna temple. Would you please let me display these books in your store?" Then I added, "For your customers....to read."
...- 22 Nov 2007
By Caru DasRama and Sita are the ideals of a Perfect Man and a Perfect Woman; their truth under trials and temptations, their endurance under privations, and their devotion to duty under all vicissitudes of fortune, form the ideal of a Perfect Life.
...- 22 Nov 2007
By Ananta Purusottama dasSanjaya was part of the Radha Damodara party in the USA in the 1970's, he has distributed thousands of books for Srila Prabhupada and obviously has received Prabhupadas mercy, and the mercy of Lord Caitanya.
...- 22 Nov 2007