By Mayapur Sasi dasaFor the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada the attached file contains the following results for the month of September: World Totals, Monthly Congregation and Weekend Warriors, Monthly Top Temples and Individuals, Monthly Continents, Monthly Top Ten Countries, Monthly Top Ten Temples Worldwide, Monthly Top Ten Temples by Size, Monthly Top Ten Temples by Continent and much more...
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- 29 Oct 2006
By Giriraj SwamiLike others, I wish that I had done more for you while you were here--and had more of your association. But knowing that you are with Srila Prabhupada, and that we have been left here to serve you both, gives solace.
...- 29 Oct 2006
By Phalini devi dasiDear Vaisnavas around the world, I offer my humble obeisances to all of you. I hope and pray that those of you who are married or planning to marry will be determined to keep your vows and that you will experience ever-increasing realizations in Krsna consciousness as you help each other along on your paths back to Godhead.
...- 29 Oct 2006
By Vrindavan Lila DasiHere you can see a video of Govardhan abhishek and building the hill of rice. Apologies for sending it late - due to some engagements that we have to attend these days, we hope to catch up with postings by the end of next week.
...- 29 Oct 2006
By Kavicandra SwamiEvery year for 20 years the Vraja Mandala Parikrama has celebrated GOVARDHAN PUJA at Varsana. The festival is always very sweet. The devotees bulid a beautiful duplicate of GOVARDHAN HILL and a sublime cow dung murti of GIRIRAJ KRSNA.
...- 25 Oct 2006
By Payonidhi dasToday is such a sad day to remember as Srila Prabhupada disappeared from our external vision, one of the things that mitigates separation from Srila Prabhupada is reading his letters. I recall in Vrindavan every day devotees put a letter on Srila Prabhupadas desk, and devotees after mongal artik would come to Srila Prabhupadas house and pay obaisences and chant there, it is such beautiful rooms.
...- 25 Oct 2006
By Hari-kirtana dasaI would like to thank all of the devotees who kindly wrote to Caitanya Rupini while she was in prison. I have been told that those letters meant a great deal to her. I will forward any correspondence I receive directly from her about your letters upon receipt.
...- 23 Oct 2006
By Rachel SauerThe movement, said Vineet Chander, an ISKCON spokesman, has grown up. Like the devotees themselves. Now, Chander said, the children of the original devotees are raising their own children in “Krishna consciousness.” They’re integrating their beliefs, he says, with daily life.
...- 23 Oct 2006
By The High Springs HeraldWith a live band in the background, Mohini Chacon, 16, dances in front of the temple’s shrine to Krishna. “My main goal,” she said, “is to meet new people. What we follow is what we believe in, and I never want to be anything else.”
...- 21 Oct 2006
By CHANDRIMA S. BHATTA-CHARYAA man of God is in town to challenge Darwin. Researcher Michael A. Cremo, like many of Darwin’s critics, doesn’t believe that man descended from monkeys. But unlike most of them, he turns Darwinian theory on its head, using the Vedas, believe him or not. “We haven’t evolved from monkeys. We have devolved from pure consciousness,” he says.
...- 21 Oct 2006
By Tejagaurangi Devi DasiNow I have 170 names, and every year I go to visit at least 50 of them. Every year the month of January is dedicated to follow-up. After the Christmas marathon I relax for one week and then I start to prepare follow-up, making the phone calls to the busiest ones. Then I start to prepare all the sweets. My wife is helping me with that.
...- 20 Oct 2006
By Srila Svarupa Damodara GoswamiAll glory to the ecstatic waves of devotion produced by the ocean of Krishna prema. All glory to the Sri Krishna Sankirtan movement started by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His followers.
...- 20 Oct 2006
By Payonidhi dasWith great concern I have been informed that some temples do not follow the calculated times of fasting in their time zone and this may well cause many persons to fast on dasami instead of ekadasi, some devotees follow the Mayapure calendar still, but this may be many hours ahead like here in US and cause one to start fasting on Dasami.
...- 20 Oct 2006
By Kavicandra SwamiAfter a very nice GBC meeting in Italy I finally made it to Vrndavana to join the VRAJA MANDALA PARIKRAMA. The first morning we were delayed by a car accident on the way to Govardhana parikrama. I was not hurt but HH Lokanatha Swami was injured and I went with him to the the hospital. He was bandaged and sent home and I was able to join the parikrama party at Govinda Kund.
...- 19 Oct 2006
By Sita-pati dasThere is a growing sense of unease about the effectiveness of our current preaching paradigms in Western cities. The rising number of ads calling for pujaris, cooks, and preachers to reinforce existing ISKCON temples is a visible indicator that recruitment from the general public has slowed down drastically.
...- 19 Oct 2006
By Caitanya Nitai dasa The whole point of our movement is to try to maintain and increase our consciousness of Krishna, and simultaneously avoid anything that may decrease it. His consciousness of Krishna is by far the most precious asset of a devotee, and he / she should be constantly vigilant not to loose it.
...- 18 Oct 2006
By HDG Srila PrabhupadaThey’re vultures, and their civilization is vulture-eater. The animal-eaters, they’re like jackals, vultures, dogs. They’re similar to these animals, the animal-eaters. It is not human food. Here is human food. Here is civilized food, human food. Let them learn it. Uncivilized, rudes, vultures, raksasas, and they’re leaders!
...- 18 Oct 2006
By Jon LandThe event at the Bhaktivedanta Manor ISKCON Temple, in Aldenham, has been organised by the Hindu Forum of Britain and forms part of a series of community outreach dinners with leaders from different political parties.
...- 18 Oct 2006
By Forum 18This official attitude fuels social intolerance of religious freedom. Kamaliddin Saidov, a Khorezm resident and Krishna devotee, was imprisoned with his wife by his father for fifteen days in a separate room. His father demanded that he renounce his faith and forced Saidov and his wife to eat meat and drink vodka (Krishna devotees do not eat meat or drink alcohol). When they would not deny their beliefs, Saidov's father expelled them from the house after seizing all their documents.
...- 17 Oct 2006
From Mayapur.infoIt is said in the Vedic scriptures that the Holy Dhama of Sri Ksetra or Jagannatha Puri is eternally manifest in this holy place and that all the benefits one can attain by visiting Jagannatha Puri may be achieved visiting the Sri Jagannatha Mandir in Sri Navadvipa Dhama. One of these many benefits is the opportunity to partake of Lord Jagannatha’s famous Maha-prasad.
...- 16 Oct 2006
From Bala Gopala's mridanga I have noticed within myself a tendency to oscillate between intense self-abnegation to almost complete languor in regards to monitoring my attachment to material sense pleasure. I never noticed this until I started to write this paper so I think that perhaps I am being shown an area I need to improve in based on the impetus of this essay.
...- 16 Oct 2006
By HDG Srila PrabhupadaISKCON’s primary mission is thus to encourage all members of human society to devote at least some portion of their time and energies to this process of hearing and chanting about God. In this way they will gradually come to realize that all living beings are spirit souls, eternally related to the Supreme Lord in service and in love.
...- 15 Oct 2006
By Nitai DasaThe core crew of Kuva and Rasikananda assembled on Monday August 28th, having survived flat tires and cross country trekking. Without stopping to sleep we sketched up a new site plan to fit our equipment and went stright into building Lord Jagannatha's temple. We spent the first two days getting our tents and stage, sound system, and temple put together
...- 15 Oct 2006
By Premanjana das As part of the Vraja Mandala Parikrama, Lokanatha Maharaja was going to participate in the Govardhana Parikrama. A tree had fallen down on the road. The driver tried his best to avoid the tree in the darkness, but the car started to skid and turned over. Maharaja’s left hand got stuck under the car.
...- 15 Oct 2006