By the GBCEstablishing the Spiritual Advisors Bhagavata Assembly, or SABHA, has manifold functions. It aims at strengthening unity among ISKCON’s global spiritual leaders. It facilitates their cooperation, communication and working relation for the progress of Srila Prabhupada’s movement. The SABHA provides checks and balances on the authority of the GBC and course-correction for its decisions. More consultation, more dialogue and more interaction can be conducive to better, wise...
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- 29 Mar 2018
By the GBCThe ISKCON Initiated Devotees Global Database is hereby established; all ISKCON initiating spiritual masters (and others who might be managing databases of departed diksa-gurus) shall share their disciple database with this repository upon request and on a regular basis. The ISKCON Initiated Devotees Global Database will provide a secure platform for storage, collation, information processing and management reporting, and should regularly update the database for meaningful data analysis...
- 29 Mar 2018
By Dr. Ausra MaldeikieneWhen I'm really happy, I cry: happiness is somewhere deep in the throat and it is excited by hope and light-carrying tears. The next time I was crying was on Vilnius Street when I first saw the dancing people of the Krishna consciousness movement. I saw how the Soviets fed them into psychiatrists simply because they read "no" books and did not want to turn into a Soviet monstrous communist man. And when I first saw on the street the colourful white, saffron-tone...
- 28 Mar 2018
By Chaitanya Charana DasaAfter teaching a university seminar, I was asked questions I had myself raised when I first encountered the philosophy of Krishna consciousness: “Why is the Vedic philosophy so pessimistic? When the world offers both pleasures and pains, why does the Bhagavad-gita call the world a place of misery?” Over my decade and a half of practicing and sharing Krishna consciousness, I have been preparing and refining the answer to these questions. Here's my short fou...
- 28 Mar 2018
By Taru Das“And when the spiritual master sees the devotees are taking bhagavat prasadam, he is satisfied” - Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur. If there is any other instruction which the devotees of New Vrindaban have taken up more seriously than the one above, I have yet to run across it. In their undaunted endeavors to obtain bhagavat prasadam, devotees have crossed over the difficult ocean of contraptions, locks, chains and booby traps grouped together under the heading of ma...
- 28 Mar 2018
By Vijaya DasaThings are looking really good in the world. Last year, we again increased the book distribution worldwide, and now for the first time we received book scores from Havana. You read that right: Havana, Cuba. Not only did the Havana devotees send their score but they were the No. 1 temple in Latin America, with 1,791 book points. A government official in Russia once said, before the fall of communism in Russia that three things would cause the downfall of communism: Wester...
- 27 Mar 2018
By Liubomir TurcanuMy name is Liubomir and I'm a videographer from Chisinau, Moldova. I'm also practicing Krishna Consciousness for 4 years.. This documentary presents views of Hare Krishna spiritual leaders on the topic of realizations in spiritual practice. Interviews are made in the background of Festival in the Ukraine "Bhakti-Sangama 2017" with more than 10.000 participants from all over the world. Complete morning program is shown: mangala-aratik, Tulasi puja, mantra meditation, ...
- 26 Mar 2018
By Bhakti Charu SwamiVeda Foundation is a public charitable trust whose mission is to spread the glories of Sri Krishna Chaitanya based headquarters in Deland, South Orlando, FL, USA. Veda Foundation is a public charitable trust whose mission is the worldwide propagation of Vedic culture and wisdom, primarily through developing farm communities and visual media. The Foundation has branches in the United States, India and representatives in UK, South Africa, Australia and many other cou...
- 26 Mar 2018
By AdminTwo recent interviews of Drutakarma prabhu on a known TV channel about the nature of a human being, the mind and consciousness and a Vedic alternative to Darwin's theory. Very articulate and precise explanations in a way that can be understood by everybody. Very well accepted and completely parampara. 2 videos of 30 minutes each.
...- 26 Mar 2018
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila PrabhupadaRamachandra’s Appearance Day Lecture, December 27, 1966 New York. When Lord Ramachandra appeared, He made a bridge between India and Ceylon. There is no history in the world that one has made bridge over the ocean, Indian Ocean. And how the bridge was made? Not in the present, modern way, that making concrete on the ground and then pillars and then… No. The stones were floating. The Ramachandra assistants, all the monkeys...
- 25 Mar 2018
By Radha-Krishna DasStarting March 23rd, 17:00, Pacific Time for 24 hours, the wiki page of the Bhagavad-gita Diorama-museum was featured on Wikipedia first page “Did You Know” section. The museum was established in 1977 as the First American Transcendental Exhibition (FATE) in Los Angeles, but has been inactive for most of its 40-year history. The Bhagavad-gita museum was renovated and has been in display daily since June 2016. It has been received by the public and media with ...
- 25 Mar 2018
By Hari Narayana DasIn the evening the parade of ogoh-ogoh was opened by the local authority and the one by one the people passed their ogoh-ogoh in front of the stage. Lord Jagannath chariot was pulled by devotees on the last line and people actually waited for the chariot to pass by. The people already familiar with the Ratha yatra that they waited for the darshan and get prasadam. They were happy to get maha prasadam. The kirtan was lear by Sesa prabhu filled the entire atmosphere w...
- 24 Mar 2018
By Vaisesika DasaThe presentation about book distribution done during the first day of the GBC meetings in Mayapur. Amazing facts and figures. What other organizations do for their book printing and distribution, be dissatisfied, book distribution means high sadhana, One Word Team, Success is not mystery - is a recipe, "Glocal", plans and strategies and much more.
...- 21 Mar 2018
By GBC College StaffRussian-speaking ISKCON leaders from all over the country (and beyond) assembled in Moscow, in January 2018, for continuing their Zonal Supervisor course, an offering of the GBC College for Leadership Development. The group, which included among others Russian GBC Acyutatma Prabhu and three Russian sannyasis, had already gathered in Sochi, in the south of Russia, in June 2017, and now again came together to continue the training.
...- 20 Mar 2018
By Indradyumna Swami“The funeral ceremony of a sage who has died in the forest, a fight between two goats, a thunder clap in the morning, a quarrel between husband and wife, all begin in grand style but the outcome is insignificant.” [ Canakya Pandit, Niti Sastra ] A devotee’s life is characterized by unshakable faith in the Lord, the spiritual master and the devotees. Because in marriage a husband sees his wife as Krsna’s devotee and a wife sees her husband as Krsna’s property, their faith in each other is strong and no adverse material circumstances can break their relationship...
- 19 Mar 2018
By Mayapur Sasi dasaFor the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada this report contains the following North American results of book distribution for the month of February 2018. North American Totals, Monthly Temples, Monthly Weekend Warriors. Monthly Top 100 Individuals, Monthly Top 5, Cumulative Countries, Cumulative Temples, Cumulative Top 100 Individuals, Cumulative Top 5
...- 18 Mar 2018
By Acarya DasaKoramangala is a small preaching center. In big temple celebrations usually we do not get any seva -we have to be mostly guests- so this time we were delighted to get the opportunity to serve.. Expecting a huge number of people, the devotees of Koramangala booked the Laxmi Devi Stadium, 6th Block Playground for the event. They printed colourful invitation pamphlets and invited the devotees and the public with the help of modern social media such as facebook and WhatsApp. ...
- 17 Mar 2018
By ISKCON MayapurThe opulent outfits offered to the Deities are all designed, stitched, and embroidered by a team of 28 local devotees who work year-round to create the Lord’s beautiful clothing. Resident devotees also hand make most of the jewelry worn by the Mayapur Deities. Approximately 35 devotees are engaged in caring for the Deities’ paraphernalia rooms and paraphernalia. These devotees clean, polish, organize, and in other ways ensure that the Lord’s belongings are mai...
- 17 Mar 2018
By Visnuswami DasaCommunity members are providing accommodations for devotees and supplying grass for the oxen, contrary to my expectations. I thought that getting accommodations and grass would have been difficult in the cities but by Caitanya MahaPrabhu mercy we are getting these easily. The difference between villages and cities is that in cities we have to purchase grass. We get plenty of vegetables in vegetables markets, but only after 8.30 pm, when people go home with what was no...
- 16 Mar 2018
By Gauri dasOver the next weeks and months, Sruti Dharma will undergo both radiotherapy and chemotherapy supported by a host of holistic treatments. He has a superb team of health care professionals who are evaluating further treatments available outside of the UK. During this time of treatment he requires to rest and recuperate. He is at home with family and still very much keeping up with temple matters and the construction plans for the Shree Krishna Haveli community facility. The f...
- 16 Mar 2018
By Taru DasYou see, the horrible truth to the matter is that every devotee is a potential maha thief. It is hard to trust anyone, save and except the self-realized souls, to be alone in the same room with maha prasadam. That is why the maha cabinet is necessary. Without it, none of the maha prasadam would ever live to see the sun rise. I believe that the situation is much more acute at New Vrindaban than in other temples around the world. I remember that in the first temple I stayed, ...
- 15 Mar 2018
By Acarya DasaI tried to explain to him that we were not promoting any sectarian religion, we are just servants of the Lord and we don’t believe in any caste system either. But he turned a deaf ear and on top of that he raised his voice and called 10 to 12 young boys from somewhere. All of them started yelling at us, “Go away! Leave this place!” They were about to beat us so we moved towards the hotel where we were staying. Somehow the hotel owner got news of the incident. Withi...
- 15 Mar 2018
By BBT Marketing, Communications and Innovations DepartmentSince 2012, when ISKCON North America’s leaders unanimously agreed to work as one book distribution team with a collective goal, sales of Srila Prabhupada’s books have seen a dramatic increase. Remittance to the BBT grew 20% in 2012 and 2013, and 10% each year after that, from $700,000 in 2012 to around $2.1 million in 2016. The 2017 marathon was yet another major success, with nearly $2 million again remitted to the BBT i...
- 15 Mar 2018
By the BBTFaithful followers of the BBT have adopted March 14th as “BBT Only Day” in recognition of a significant instruction Srila Prabhupada issued to all temples and members of the Society on March 14th 1974 in the included letter. As is evident from this letter: Srila Prabhupada was concerned that devotees (“centres”) producing his books independently was undermining and potentially threatening the viability of the BBT. ? “This must not go on” illustrates an unambiguou...
- 14 Mar 2018