Having now studied the Srimad Bhagavad – Gita for well nigh over twenty five years, and striving to draw out every nuance of meaning and content from it, I refuse to believe that Lord Krishna was so ignorant or short sighted or not intelligent enough to have been directly responsible for creating the disparities and social injustices of traditional Indian society, based on the caste system
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- 18 May 2011
A memoir of our trip to Jaggnath Puri Dham and Mayapur Nawadeep Dham. It was March 25 when I reached HARE KRISHNA CENTER by a city bus in Jaipur at 5:30 PM. The Prabhu who was in charge of the whole trip gave us a brief idea of the whole trip...
...- 18 May 2011
By Pariksit DasaDevotees of the Harrisburg, PA nama hatta (Institute of Higher Understanding, IoHU, under His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada) cordially invite you to the third annual Ratha Yatra along South Front street in downtown Harrisburg. Please come and join in the festivities highlighted by the procession of Their Most Merciful Lordships, Jagannatha, Baladeva, and Subhadra
...- 13 May 2011
By Shyamsunder- Priya dasI am 14 and I rarely go to a temple except of course before exams, to pray to get good marks. Well it all started like this, I was as usual busy playing game on my Computer and my Mom was in the kitchen cooking, my father came in saying he came across this Bhakti Yoga Residential summer camp pamphlet at the RTC Complex and both my parents buried themselves into it, I was unaffected until they told me they have decided I will be going there. I immediately protested ” I am not going anywhere”
...- 12 May 2011
By Bh.DemianSanskrit poetry is enriched with a great variety of metrical patterns, figures of expression, and innumerable other features. The mere combination of short and long syllables in verses that have from one to twenty six syllables per quarter makes a total of 67.108,864 possibilities
...- 12 May 2011
By Yadunandana SwamiIn order to facilitate this training, Campakalata Devi Dasi, the Director of ISKCON Child Protection Office, is scheduled to provide training in Sweden (25 to 28 June) and at Bhaktivedanta College, Radhadesh (30 June to 2 of July). Please take the opportunity to send as many concerned representatives of your yatras as possible to one of these training seminars. Particularly, child protection team members, children and parents educators, community leaders, and some leading parents should be encouraged to attend, in order to get the most of Campakalata...
- 11 May 2011
By Kavicandra SwamiI had a hard time putting it down and was feeling lost when I findished rreading. I gave my copy to one devotee who had lost his enthusiasm for preaching. He got so excited and claimed it had changed his life. He is recommended it to his friends and is reading it again
...- 9 May 2011
By Bhakti Raghava SwamiBeing members of the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnavas sampradaya, devotees of ISKCON consider holding such an auspicious ceremony in this sacred and historical town of Udupi as most significant. Udupi is the revered abode of Srila Madhvacarya, the main acarya of the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya, who established the beautiful deity of Lord Krishna in the 13th century
...- 9 May 2011
We all hate to be humiliated. What is the best defence against humiliation? It is humility. But our self-defence can assume false guises of humility, to fit our self-centred identity. We may be disappointed to discover that there is actually a Supreme Being other than ourselves. We are not the centre of the universe
...- 9 May 2011
"When will that day come when a temple will be established in every house in every corner of the world?" Daily Herald Daily Herald: Krishna to close on purchase of Salt Lake temple site this month
...- 9 May 2011
HH Mahavishnu Swami and his team "The Salty Dogs" again embark on another adventure on the Jaladuta, this time starting 50km south of Yamunatri and ending up in Vrindavan
...- 7 May 2011
The TEMPLE OF THE VEDIC PLANETARIUM (TOVP) team thanks all our donors for their generous support. We are grateful for your commitment and spirit of giving. The capacity to donate online to the TOVP has been available for just a month, and already the response has been tremendous. Thank you for seizing upon this once-in-many-lifetime opportunity to construct such a magnificent and world changing temple
...- 6 May 2011
Srila Prabhupada said spreading Krsna consciousness means we are declaring war on the illusory energy. Well, many of the warriors in our sankirtan bases around the world had good results in March. Mayapur Dham did 138,601 book points, over six times more than the number two temple in the world, Tirupati, which did 20,948 points
...- 5 May 2011
By Saranagati dasi
Each year the Mayapur Vaisnava Youth organize the Jhulan Yatra festival for the pleasure of Sri Sri Radha Madhava under the guidance of H. G. Jananivas Prabhu and H. G. Pankajanghri Prabhu. The festival runs for five days and this year will herald the 25th Anniversary in Mayapur. It has become one of the highlight festivals of the year
...- 4 May 2011
By the GBC SecretaryIskcon Governing Body Commission Society. Minutes Of The Annual General Meeting. Sri Mayapur Dham, February 20 – March 3, 2011. 2011 Zonal Assignments. GBC Deputies. Sannyasa Waiting List. Reaffirmation of Ministries and Standing Committees. Memorial for Jayananda Prabhu. Kirtan Standards – Instruments. Statement Regarding Umapati Das. Letter of Censure to Bir Krishna Das Goswami
...- 2 May 2011
Eighteen items in culturing knowledge. One result is derived from the culture of knowledge and that a different result is obtained from the culture of nescience
...- 25 Apr 2011
By Sri Radharamana dasaAmerican Swami Startles 830 HSBC Bankers. Organised by the Vedic Society in HSBC, over 830 bankers congregated together at the globalheadquarters of HSBC in Canary Wharf UK to explore the message of Holi – ‘The Festival of Colours’ symbolising the message of universal equality despite being diverse materially
...- 22 Apr 2011
By Vrindavan- lila Devi DasiA few years ago, when I was bringing my friend’s dog to my place for a few days, I realized that he had no belongings save the feeding bowl and the leash! In a moment it made me feel inferior
...- 21 Apr 2011
By Bhakti Raghava Swami Hedonism, the path of unrestricted sense enjoyment, of ‘eat, drink and be merry’ and ‘beg, borrow or steal’, as advocated thousands of years ago by the Indian atheist philosopher Charbak, has now become a fashion in the Western countries
...- 21 Apr 2011
If you don't mind, I will take a few minutes of your precious time to address the issue of double- voice amplification kirtans in the Mayapur temple room. Mayapur is, after all, the "home base" temple for all members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness; it is our world-heardquarters. We should all feel concerned and connected to the Mayapur project, especially now that the new temple is under construction
...- 19 Apr 2011
On 12th of April 2011, Mombasa, Kenya celebrated a very special Ram Navami festival as a beautiful new ISKCON temple was opened and Their Lordships Sri Sri Sita Rama Laksman Hanuman were installed and welcomed to reside in Nyali to give Their blessings to all the residents of Mombasa
...- 19 Apr 2011
By Parasuram dasAnswer = The toxic river Yamuna in Noida Delhi. There is no river in the world as polluted as the most sacred river in the world. It is a long way from the crystal clear Yamuna river in the Himalayas, with the cool delicious water that can purify anyone of all sins and give pure bhakti
...- 19 Apr 2011
This article is in the form of a letter addressed to a male devotee, who has lost faith in the teachings of Srila Prabhupada, especially the effectiveness of chanting the Holy Names and has expressed his doubts about the validity of faith in the realization of truth
...- 17 Apr 2011
By Bhakti Raghava SwamiWe have but a few devotees serving in the Kingdom of Cambodia at their base camp in Siem Reap, the gateway to the former Khmer empire where some 200 intricately carved stone temples towered the skyline of this once most powerful Asian kingdom
...- 15 Apr 2011
