Govardhan puja kirtan
We had about 20 Occupy Dallas kids and 20 more college students, pretty fun. Started off rough, all the drummers were upstairs getting ready for the awesome play but then it got pretty ecstatic.
Last Sunday we had our 8 foot x 4 foot mountain of cake celebrating Sri Krishna's lifting of Govardhan Hill. It was a great event that drew in a large crowd. One week earlier I had given a several classes on Bhagavad Gita to a total of about 150 students of Brookhaven college, thanks to our great friend Dr. Trish Dodd. She had informed them that if they come to the festival they would earn extra credit. About 20 students showed up from Brookhaven. Another person that I met at my yoga class brought eight of their friends and we had over another 20 that showed up from Occupy Dallas, thanks to Lavanga and the prasadam distribution crew.
Each year we make a carob cake mountain and here you can see Chef Giovanni expertly frosting the mountain of Mother Laxmipriya's cakes. Radha Kunda, Mita, Randy, Sri Rupa, Vrinda, Mother Sucharya & others were also a great help.
Making 8ft cake hill Govardhan
02/11/2011
Carob cake yum. It is was so good. Thanks to Mother Lakxmipriya and family. Bhakta Giovanni the expert chef, Radha Kunda for all her kind help. Mother Mita and well as Randy, Sri Rupa, Vrinda and everyone else that I forgot.
Hare Krishna
Your humble servant,
Nityananda Chandra Das
From my good friend and fellow community member Yadunath Das
Did you just experience the same sinking feeling in your heart upon reading this headline that I did upon writing it?
A few months back, I wrote you all asking for monthly financial support to help keep Prabhupada's 1st western temple up, running and under ISKCON care. My reasoning was that this temple is of global concern and surely the worldwide ISKCON community has a stake in whether or not its bills can be paid.
I may have been wrong.
Since posting my plea (titled "Seeking Matchless Gifts"), only one devotee has stepped forward to make a monthly donation (I thank you again, prabhu). I know when I read a worthy solicitation like this I often think that many others will come save the day, so the small donation that I would be able to give will probably be rendered moot. Please know that that is not the case. And as for the above headline, it is not true.
Yet.
It's a distinct possibility, though. Once again, I reach out to you—Prabhupada's disciples, grand-disciples and followers—to save this historic place for the legions of future followers who will marvel at being able to actually visit the exact spot where Prabhupada started his movement; the "small storefront" that they read about in the Prabhupada-Lilamrita; the place where it all began.
A lot of people are talking about HH Mukunda Maharaja's new book, Miracle on 2nd Avenue. Well, another miracle is needed now, 45 years later—one that preserves a big part of ISKCON's heritage, and you can be a part of it. Our total expenses are under $2,000 a month. Won't you please consider becoming a regular monthly sponsor to save 26 2nd Avenue?
Please contact me at yadunath@bhakticenter.org or go to krishnanyc.com/giving.html to create a secure subscription via PayPal. All donations are tax deductible.
Yours in the service of ISKCON,
Yadunath das
Treasurer, 26 2nd Avenue
Starting tomorrow, Friday, November 4th, the Toronto Hare Krishna temple will be facilitating weekly classes on one of our most beautiful and essential books, The Nectar of Instruction. The concept of instruction being sweet like nectar can be seen when it melts your heart, lights your path, and bring tears of love for God to your eyes.
Let this Nectar pour forth into your being! These eleven short verses give essential instructions on how to clean your heart and prepare it for loving devotion to Krishna, God. The classes are part of the wider Bhakti-Sastri Certification program and will be conducted every Friday from 6:30pm to 9pm over the next few weeks in the classroom in the temple basement.
The classes will take place every Friday evening for the next three months and will cover the following major themes:
- Mind and Sense Control
- Attitude
- Guru and Disciple
- ISKCON's Purpose
- Sadhu-sanga
- Devotees
- Bhakti
If you have any questions regarding the Nectar of Instruction classes, please email
Vrndavana das.
By Sri Krishna Murti Das for ISKCON News on 3 Nov 2011
| Between November 11th and 15th, taking advantage of a national holiday, Nova Gokula, the biggest Hare Krsna rural community of Latin America, will have the honor to host a 48 hours Kirtana, the biggest one ever done in the continent.
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What are we devotees doing about it to protect ourselves and help others?
1968 November 3: "We know very well what is the world situation. It is my personal opinion that except for a few persons, practically there is no man in the world who is strictly religionist, either Hindu, Moslem, Christian, or Buddhist."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1968 November 3: "Officially they claim some sectarian identification but practically the whole world is without religion. A man without religion is nothing but an animal and being every man is irreligious, therefore, the whole human society is certainly animalistic."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1968 November 3: "We do not mind that we could not get any place in the Church Center and there is no cause for your being sorry for this. We do not calculate the so-called success or failure we are simply to discharge our duties and chant HARE KRISHNA loudly. Now as you are free you can come and join me here."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
1970 November 3: "Your ability to present Bengal Gaudiya Vaisnavism in its proper perspective is very much welcome. We are trying to present Krishna Consciousness all over the world in a very scientific and philosophical way, and your help will be greatly valued. Immediately we can start a Bengali edition of Back to Godhead magazine under your expert editorship."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970
1972 November 3: "You are one of my older disciples and I see that you are sincerely applying your knowledge to expand Krishna Consciousness movement with good result. That is very much appreciated by me. Now go on in this way, distributing my books profusely and preaching and making devotees, and that activity will be the perfection of your life."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972
1974 November 3: "Krishna is so kind that although he is unconquerable, He can be possessed by the devotee. From love He allows this. Every morning I go to the temple and see the Deity and offer obeisances, so I expect each and every one of my disciples should also follow."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974
1974 November 3: "Our mission is to put Krishna as first, and others may take it or not. It is from Krishna that one has the faith by which one can worship the demigods. 'Nobody is greater than Me.' Is Krishna speaking a lie? Should we reject Krishna's statement?"
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974
1974 November 3: "To an animal in the modes of ignorance, how can we preach? Then we are helpless. Our fundamental principle is the teaching of the Bhagavad-gita. Those persons who cannot understand this on account of particular modes of nature, such persons require further education, and until such time is fulfilled, we are helpless."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974
The bird of my heart does not know what past sinful activities it has committed to cause this inability to chant Hare Krsna properly.
O forest bird! I have kept something for you very carefully within the cottage of my heart – the holy name of Hari, which is overflowing with puresweet honey. O bird, you could learn the chanting of this name if you were taught.
A bird is easily able to speak all names; why then does this bird of my heart refuse to chant Hare Krsna? Oh, why does my heart not weep from chanting the holy names HareKrsna?
keno hare krsna nam hari bole mano pran kande na
Prabhupada:
(excerpt)
So we, our… One of the items of this mission, Krishna consciousness, is to establish real varna ashram by qualification. We have to pick up brahmanas from everywhere, throughout the whole world, not that we have to pick up brahmanas in India in some class. No. There are brahmanas jn every part of the world. We have to pick up.
Just see. None of these boys are born in India or a brahman family, but they have got the symptom. They have got the brahminical… They have either acquired willingly or by some way. So we have to pick up. Anyone who is truthful, who is controlling the senses, no illicit sex life… That is controlling senses. There are many other things. This is the most important thing.
Samo dama tattiksa They are tolerant. To these American boys, to take up another culture, which they are not accustomed from the birth, that is tolerance. This is tolerance. But it is not painful, but it is tolerance. I am asking the American boys, “Don’t smoke. Don’t take intoxication.” They are accustomed to this habit from the very childhood, but they are doing this. This is tolerance.
So these are brahminical qualification, tolerance, truthful. And sauca, sauca, this Sauca. Anyone who is chanting Hare Krishna, he is pure, bahyabhyantaram, inside and outside. So in this way, in this age, the chance should be given. Not that when the Satyakam spoke the truth of his life… So he was accepted. So you are being accepted as qualified brahmana, but keep your qualification. Then your life will be sublime. Keep your life. Yes.
So this is a chance given by the Pañcaratrika system. It doesn’t matter how he is born. Nobody is responsible for his birth, but everyone is responsible for his work. So you work like a brahmana, like a Vaisnava, and chant Hare Krishna, and chant this gayatri mantra, and your life will be sublime. So don’t neglect it.
You are being initiated according to the order of our predecessors, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama. We should have to preach this Krishna consciousness movement in every village, in every town of this planet. Therefore we have come to your country. You are kindly cooperating. You also spread.
I am old man. I may not live very long. Any moment I can be finished. But try. That is actually feeling. That is actually fellow feeling, that people are simply… Anadi bahirmukha krsna bhuli gela. They have forgotten Krishna from time immemorial. Athaeva krsna veda purana karila. Therefore this propaganda, this literature, Vedic literature, is there to remind them. Aham eva sarva-yajñana blokta ca prabhur eva ca. Krishna says, “I am the Lord of everything.” So we have to capture Krishna. So this is the… Namo apavitrah pavitro va sarvavastham gato ‘pi va. This is explanation of this verse. And now we begin our ceremony.
Read full lecture here.
On Moscow eviction, Bhagavad-gita court case, reprint of Venu Gita and prayers for sankirtana. How to take brahmacaris’ preaching on renunciation and why are Lord Caitanya’s associates tired in kirtana. (Russian/English)
By Kesava Krsna Dasa
On the day of Govardhana-puja, one individual approached me. I knew he had shared loyalties. He asked me, "How is your bhajana?" I replied by saying that generally, devotees pursue sadhana Bhakti until, with mercy, they qualify themselves… "That is why you need a 'rasika' guru who can help you," he replied confidently
By Angela Saieva
If you think walking across Canada is an impossible feat, think again. Hare Krishna monk Bhaktimarga Swami has conquered that feat not once, not even twice, but three times over
Rohininandan das: ISKCON NEW OLREANS, Cordially invites you all for the "RATH YATRA FESTIVAL" Date: 12th and 13th Nov, 2011 Parade on 12th Nov, 2011, starts from Canal Street and Decatur Street at 12:00 noon. Parade ends at Washington Square Park
Sri Nandanandana dasa (Stephen Knapp): The Vedic culture and its philosophy is one of the most deeply spiritual and all encompassing traditions in the world, and has been a major contributor to philosophical thought and the development of civilization
Dhanvantari Swami: The young people are subjected to an accelerated developmental pace. Brazilians have really got into that pace. See, for example, how Bahia´s devotees decided to buy land and build a temple for Jagannatha. Yes, the overall pace is such that 17-year boys and girls go out of high school completely decided to go to university and to compete with an innumerable amount of contestants in the fight for an opportunity
Ekalavya Das: By the will of the Supreme Lord Krishna, my mother, Karen Lowens, passed from this world, 29 October 2011 at 3 pm @ Calvary Hospital, New York
This Saturday 5th November, Shabda will be playing at the LOFT in Auckland central, @7pm til 9ish. So come and experience a night of sacred sounds that will soothe the heart and energize the spirit. Kirtan is the most powerful form of meditation & yoga practise. It cures stress, worry, anxiety & sadness not to [...]
THE FOLLOWING LECTURE ON SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM CANTO 3 CHAPTER 24, THE RENUNCIATION OF KARDAMA MUNI, TEXT 40, WAS GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CARU SWAMI ON 8TH SEPTEMBER 2010 IN ISKCON UJJAIN, INDIA. Ttranscription : Her Grace Ranga Radhika Dasi Editing : Ramananda Raya Dasa The lecture can be read from www.bcswami.com Audio reference: click here [...]
By Nandini Radha devi dasi
For anyone who is planning on visiting the Los Angeles temple, a tour of Srila Prabhupada's quarters is a must as this holy place holds very precious memories and paraphernalia which has been very lovingly preserved with great care by the devotees. A guru-puja was offered to Srila Prabhupada's murti placed on his bed which was decorated beautifully with fresh and sweet-smelling flowers
Mr.Otto Cornelis Kaligis or known famously as O.C. Kaligis is one top Lawyer in Indonesia has bought Bhagavad-gita as it is (Indonesian) from Samudrasena das. Mr. O.C. Kaligis said "I know this Vedic scripture and i need this one to read."
Govardhana Puja 2011 celebrations at Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON Bangalore
“I have named this Temple Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, the Rising Moon of Mayapur. Now make it rise, bigger and bigger until it becomes the full moon. And this moonshine will be spread all over the world. All over India they will come to see. From all over the world they will come.” His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
Here is what you may experience when you enter the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium
As you climb the steps to the main entrance to the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, you first sense the power of the sheer devotion that has envisioned and built such a grand structure. Your sense of proportion expands; the ten-foot tall chakra atop the main dome appears tiny where it is, more than three hundred feet above where you stand.
Passing the ornate main doors, you enter the largest room you have ever seen—a completely open, circular space more than an acre in size, effulgent with splendid devotional art along its walls. Looking up, you see hanging from the central dome a scale model of the universe as described in the Vedas, twenty stories long and a hundred feet wide, its stars and planets rotating majestically above everything.
Set just back from the center of the room stands a white marble and gold altar that itself is a large building, 134 feet wide and 49 feet tall. Before the closed altar doors, a talented bhajana party perform devotional music, filling the massive dome with sweet, pleasantly
muted sound. As the intriguing fragrance of frankincense drifts from the altar, a conchshell sounds and the massive carved doors open.
Here is the purpose of your visit: the opportunity to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Starting from the left altar, you offer your respects to the guru-parampara , murtis of the five great acaryas whose vision inspired the world wide sankirtan movement and the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.
Seeing these brilliant gurus opens your heart to the Pancha-tattva Deities on the central altar. As you proceed to your right, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His principal associates stand before you. Larger than life and radiant as molten gold, They strike graceful poses, inviting you to join in blissful dancing and chanting.
As the avatara of Krishna for the Age of Kali, Caitanya Mahäprabhu introduces us to the sublime darsana of Sri Sri Radha-Madhava. Standing before Their third and final altar, you see Sri Radha serving Her Lord with the help of eight principal gopis, all of whom embody the perfection of loving devotion to Lord Krishna.
Gazing at the incomparably beautiful Lord until His doors close, you offer respects and look around. Wonderfully decorated windows circling the main temple floor beckon you for darshan of the Ganga and the vistas of Srédhama Mayapur. To your right is the towering white and black marble altar in the adjoining domed temple dedicated to Lord Nrsimhadeva. To your left is the dome housing the Vedic Science Center and Planetarium. Spiraling above you are three terraced display floors, depicting the Brihad-bhagavatamrita's description of the universe.
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A daily broadcast of the Ultimate Self Realization Course Thursday 3 November 2011 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger image.) Our Mission: To help everyone awaken their original Krishna consciousness, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. Such a global awakening will, in one stroke, solve all the problems of the world society bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and prosperity for all. May that day, which the world so desperately needs, come very soon. We request you to participate in this mission by reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and assisting us in spreading this science all over the world. Dedicated with love to ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and to you, our dear readers. For Transcendental Association Connect With Other Members of this Course. Join this Conference: http://groups.google.com/group/sda_students Help Popularize Our Message By Liking Today's Thought on Facebook: Today's Thought: Bliss on the Yamuna River uploaded from Sri Vrindavan Dhama, India On 2 November 2011 we experienced the wonderful mercy of having class and a kirtan on the Yamuna River. Yamuna is the holiest of all holy rivers, the site of many of Lord Sri Krishna's transcendental pastimes. Just to be there at the Yamuna is a wonderfully enlivening and purifying experience. I gave a class on the bank, and it attracted the attention of a local holy men as pictured below. After class we cruised the Yamuna in one of the local hand-rowed boats. We purified our hearts by singing bhajans and Hare Krishna kirtan as we were refreshed by the pleasing gentle breeze blowing over the Yamuna. There is a video of that kirtan below. Sankarshan Das Adhikari 2 November 2011--Sri Vrindavan Dhama, India: Bhagavatam Class on the Yamuna River Bank http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Fall/Vrindavan_Yamuna_SB.JPG Ecstatic Kirtan on a Yamuna River Cruise l http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Fall/Vrindavan_Yamuna_Kirtan.JPG Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: Question: Qualification for Becoming a Disciple? I was just wondering what qualifications I should have in order to be able to accept a spiritual master? Thank you, Your servant, Priyesh Answer: Sincerity The number one qualification for a becoming a disciple is to have a sincere desire to surrender yourself fully to Lord Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Transcendental Resources: Receive the Special Blessings of Krishna Now you too can render the greatest service to the suffering humanity and attract the all-auspicious blessings of Lord Sri Krishna upon yourself and your family by assisting our mission. Lectures and Kirtans in Audio and Video: Link to High Definition Videos Link to Over 1,000 Lecture Audios Lecture-Travel Schedule for 2011 http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com/schedule Have Questions or Need Further Guidance? Check out the resources at: http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com or write Sankarshan Das Adhikari at: sda@backtohome.com Get your copy today of the world's greatest self-realization guide book, Bhagavad-gita As It Is available at:http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com/store Know someone who could benefit from this? Forward it to them. Searchable archives of all of course material: http://www.sda-archives.com Receive Thought for the Day as an RSS feed: http://www.backtohome.com/rss.htm Unsubscribe or change your email address Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Daily_Thought Thought for the Day on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ultimate.Self.Realization Copyright 2005-2011 by Ultimate Self Realization.Com Distribution of this material is encouraged. Simply we request you to acknowledge where it is coming from with a link to our sign up page: http://www.backtohome.com Our records indicate that at requested to be enrolled to receive e-mails from the Ultimate Self Realization Course at: This request was made on: From the following IP address: 21
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