The holy command of Shri Guru has been that we shall serve Godhead in association with one another. By the word ‘we’ he did not mean any one individual. There are many persons who are very selfish, indeed. They say, ‘I alone shall serve. It is incumbent on me alone. No one else has any claim to join me in my service of Godhead.’
We are very happy to inform you that H.H. Radhanath Swami Maharaja will be in Villa Vrindavana, Florence, from May 10th to May 17th. All the devotees that want to visit Villa Vrindavana during the above period should book contacting the Villa Vrindavana secretary
Saligrama Tulsi Jala Dana starts today. The Life of Tulasi Devi from Brahma Vaivraata Purana, on this auspicious observance of Tulasi and Shaligram Jala Dan.
Something compelled him to take that book out, and he opened it up and started reading it—the Krsna book—and he read the part where Vasudeva is preaching to Kamsa.
Finally we found Schermer - horn Street and our destination: The New York Hare Krishna Temple, a handsome, well-maintained building in the middle of a not-so-posh block. I got my usual thirty seconds of “Why am I doing this?” feelings as we walked up to the door.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura: Krishna’s Amorous Sports are not temporal like the lustful sports of dramatic heroes and heroines like Romeo-Juliet or even ideal spouses. Lust as prevalent in this world is only a mental passion, but the lust of the transcendental region has its own form. Here lust is always goaded by the enemy (one of the six passions); whereas in the transcendental region of Krishna, the loveliness of the spiritual Body of Krishna ever drives the Lust for Krishna, which takes form as sublimated love or the desire to gratify the immaculate senses of Krishna.
Say a devotee after getting initiated, is unable to do his 16 rounds of chanting on a day or few days, due to illness or anything of that sort, it is like breaking the vows, right? So how and what the devotee should do in such situation?
Moscow authorities have allocated two hectares for the construction of a Hare Krishna temple north of the city, Interfax reported Tuesday.
His Grace Garuda Prabhu (ACBSP ) gives a really insightful, yet entertaining, class at Harrow Jamming
This is to inform you about our upcoming summer camp at Simhachalam, Germany (near the city of Passau)
His Grace Ravindra Svarupa das, Krishna premavati’s spiritual master, sent this eulogy to be read at her funeral, which took place in Dublin earlier this afternoon. It very nicely sums up KPV’s personality, which we are all going to miss.
Often devotees think that book distribution is meant for tough devotees because sometimes a book distributor faces a challenging opposition and he may have to fight verbally to get his way out. A meek and humble devotee will hardly stand up to such challenges. Find out what happened when a simple soft-spoken devotee is publicly challenged by a hardened opponent.
Religious people should be free to propose public policy alternatives based on the ethics of their faith, provided that their position is rationally defensible, writes Michael Smith
He answered our questions and listened to our concerns with compassion. He did his best to alleviate our fears. My greatest concern was the idea I had of Iskcon being a cult and that my son would turn away from his family and become brainwashed.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to attain a level of realisation from which I can understand who this personality is. A part of me, however, doesn’t want to know. I will be happy in knowing, as Srila Prabhupada himself said many times, that he is simply our ever well wisher.
This all led us to our special Mother’s Day chant! Gopal explained to us that not only do people in India consider us to have many mothers (mother Earth etc), but also that there is a divine Mother, Radha. This mantra thus connects us to our divine mother, Radha (as well as our divine father, Krishna).
Vaisesika dasa: There is sufficient merit in our books that if you simply describe them sincerely to anyone, they will buy. Srila Prabhupada
I looked out the window and saw Muslim girls dressed in black burkas, with only their eyes showing, walking down the street holding hands with Hindu girls dressed in saris.
By Bhakta Corey
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Despite his sometimes troubled recent past, he did tremendous service for many years, was resident here in Mayapur for the last few years, he left his body here in Mayapur and therefore we can say without doubt that he got the full blessings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada.
The definition of good in a godless society is arbitrary or at best conventional — based on the current opinion of the majority, which simply means might is right, and what is right keeps changing with the changing whims of the public.
Doing my duty as event guy at New World Notes, I’ve been noticing that there are lots and lots of events being sponsored by a new Hare Krishna group in SL. Which has made me wonder, what are the limits of religious tolerance in Second Life?
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry.