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.’
With this new Google option you can view the streets as if you were walking there so why not take advantage of it to pay a virtual visit to the New York temple?
Fox TV 13 News: How do we get to heaven? Max Roth interviews Caru Das at the Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. A segment of this interview aired on Mothers’ Day, 2007.
There was a bit of a surreal feeling as my mind tried to recall what I knew of the Hare Krishna’s. My image was of young men dress up in orange costumes, jumping up and down singing on the street corners and in airports asking for money. Not exactly, the life I had envisioned my son pursuing.
I learned that the devotees were accessing another dimension of reality. They taught me that beyond this temporary world of birth and death is an eternal world, where a person’s happiness is ever increasing in relationship with the Supreme Person, Krishna.
Prabhupada told us to “Chant Hare Krishna and Be Happy”. I have been chanting the maha mantra since two years and I am following the rules and regulations but I am still very unhappy.
A Response to Criticisms of Lord Krishna’s Rasa Lila. By Premananda dasa, a disciple of HH Niranjana Swami joined ISKCON in 1992. He has served in a number of capacities, including Congregational Director and Co-President of an ISKCON center. He has written extensively on the principles of Gaudiya missiology, Vaishnava prayer, and the avataras.
Managers have to deal with some unpleasant things like problems and financial crisis or whatever, and then if they get more in to spiritual life, they are generally losing inspiration for dealing with these things. Why is it happening?
By Mahatma Das: Dear Devotee, It is said that if you reach the top of a mountain alone, you didn’t climb a very high mountain. This is because we achieve much greater things working with a team than working by ourselves. Prabhupada knew this and wanted us to work together. But working with others is often difficult. Let’s look how we can better do this.
Is the choice of our spouse predestined by karma (are marriages made in “heaven”)? Is it predestined by God? Does my free-will have a role in such a choice?
“Our priority is the safety and well-being of the UF community,” said Kalakantha Dasa, director of the Krishna student center. “If that means taking an extra week to be absolutely certain that we’re doing all we can to help, it’s the right thing to do.”
Two years ago, Rajasana dasi began ‘Lifescape Magazine’, the only British vegetarian and cruelty-free publication. The magazine covers issues such as vegetarianism and the importance of cow protection.
Ravindra Svarupa Dasa: One needs to become acquainted with two contrasting social ideals, or models, transmitted to us by Srila Prabhupada. The first is that of a society of Vaisnavas, of transcendental, liberated devotees who conduct themselves spontaneously in accord with the principles called sanatana-dharma. The second is that of a society of materially conditioned human beings who strictly conduct themselves in obedience to the injunctions of the Vedas under the system called varnasrama-dharma.
Sesa Dasa: As we look forward and plan how to preach and live Krsna consciousness in the modern world, I would hope that these virtues — patience, prudence, chastity, forgiveness, humility, integrity, and sacrifice — will help forge a work ethic for Hare Krsna devotees: an ethic applicable to our material and spiritual duties.
Urmila Devi Dasi: Yes, we try to develop spiritual habits in the children. Of course, spiritual life and a love for Krsna’s name are natural for the soul, so these things are not externally imposed by habit. But developing habits in children brings them to take as natural what is actually natural
Mukunda Goswami:
We have so many poets and playwrights and songwriters talking about love-this and love-that but the actual concept of love is meant for prema or for giving oneself over wholly and surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I don’t have the realization of love for Krishna to motivate me to do a job that’s less satisfying. I do it as a responsibility towards my family. Could you please throw some light in this matter?
Niranjana Swami: We were having a discussion about the Sunday feast program and we discussed many philosophical and practical points about the Sunday feast. Before I go into my explanation about the Sunday feast, I thought I would read something relevant first and then we can talk about it.
Excerpt from a lecture by HH Radhanath Swami. “Patience is necessary for developing the confidence that “Krsna will certainly accept me because I am engaging in devotional service.”
Are human beings destined to follow a set course? Are we like children on an amusement park ride lets them steer right and left but inevitably takes them along a fixed track? Or are we free to desire and do as we like, our lives a blank slate upon which we may write anything and everything?
For the very first time, a world-class Bhakti Sastri Course will be offered in Sri New Vrindaban Dhama, USA. From June 11 to July 20, 2007, an unrivaled team of instructors will join together to present a six week, in-depth study of Bhagavad-gita.
On 3rd April the Mayor of Moscow signed a decree alloting 5 acres of land for a Hare Krishna temple in Moscow. Although the agreement was reached many months earlier, the signing of the official document brings to fruit several years of tireless efforts.
Three levels of devotion: Videoclip by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami
From Vaisnava Family Resources: Tips for leaders and the GBC resolution supporting the Grihastha Ashram
As a family therapist, I counsel people both within and outside the Hare Krishna movement. Humility and a healthy self-esteem are compatible on the path of spiritual progress.
Bhakti-tirtha Swami: Leadership has many pitfalls. One serious problem is the temptation for leaders to become autocratic or to act solely on the basis of their own desires, aspirations and perceptions.
“I have a violin recital next Wednesday” said my daughter excitedly. “Oh, No!” I thought. “I have to again sit through an hour of listening to boring music that makes no sense to me”.
Radha could not restrain herself anymore. She touched one eye of Baba with her lotus hand, Krishna touched the other. Immediately Baba’s eye-sight was restored. He saw both, Radha and Krishna, the twin divinities of his heart, standing before him in all their resplendent beauty and looking at him lovingly and mercifully.
By Parthasarathi Dasa: Documenting the life of a Hare Krishna solider in Iraq.”My Iraq tour ended unexpectedly. I was hurt from the blast of an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) that hit my truck. The concussion of the blast made me lose awareness of my surroundings.”
Our bodies are not ours, even our soul is not something we can claim to be ours, since the soul is directly an energy of Krishna. The only thing which we can claim to be ours is our relationship with Krishna
In seconds, I faced with the fact that global warming, climate change, kyoto protocol… - few of the countlessly named condition we have been hearing around us- HAD REALLY COME.