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  4. Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group
  5. Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Predictions from 1972
  6. Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: New Year, New York, 1967
  7. Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Bhajan - Gopi Gita dasi - Hare Krishna
  8. David Haslam, UK: Removing the stones, a gardening thought
  9. Akrura das, Gita Coaching: CATCH A FISH
  10. Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Janmastami - Drama - Aghasura Demon - 2/7
  11. H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
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  41. ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Sankarsan Prabhu
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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Snana Yatra 2010

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Here is what you have all been waiting for:

last Sunday's Snana Yatra blissful slideshow of

happy souls,
smiling faces
and busy servants
going about their loving 'busyness' for Lord Jaganatha's enjoyment.

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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darsana

31/12/10
As the year 2010 winds up and as year 2011 unfolds by the hour,
we sincerely thank the presiding Deities of Melbourne for so kindly gracing us with Their merciful darsana every single day, without fail.

We pray that we may be as consistent in our service to Them for Their pleasure.

Just as Suryadeva rises dutifully every morning to provide the citizens of the world with life-giving light and warmth, may our hearts always radiate such light and warmth as to positively touch the lives of the people we meet on our sojourn.

Let it be our contribution to the Sankirtan movement of Srila Prabhupada to bring as many people as possible to relish the darsana of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Sri Radha Ballabha and Sri Jaganatha, Baladeva and Subhadra Mayi.

Here's the
slideshow for the closure of 2010; see you tomorrow for the auspicious beginning of 2011.

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Subhavilasa das ACBSP, Toronto, CA: Soothing indeed...

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Below is an excerpt of an article that appeared in yesterday's Montreal Gazette. Sriman George Harrison and this record introduced countless souls to Krishna and certainly made more than a few devotees. In the meantime there has been a new generation of devotees and a new era. Most of today's general youth population has never heard this record or the transcedental sound vibration. It would make for an amazing preaching tool to reintroduce this album on a grand scale and as part of ISKCON book distribution. Perhaps as a "bonus" CD with purchase of a Bhagavad Gita or Big book. Just an idea to harness some of the lustrous ISKCON legacy  and to re-introduce an album that Srila Prabhupada greatly appreciated.  

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Apple box set a fascinating snapshot of an era
Apple’s most unlikely hit single was Govinda, by the Radha Krishna Temple,  another Harrison project, featuring a group of followers of the Hare Krishna movement singing a hymn to Krishna as a youth. Open-minded listeners will find The Temple’s ensuing self-titled album (three stars) oddly soothing.


http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Apple+fascinating+snapshot/4038068/story.html#ixzz19ePUTwn1
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Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world...simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:

rasa108@gmail.com

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Rasa Rasika dasa

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Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Predictions from 1972

Syamasundara: I'll read you some of their predictions. They're very frightening. They say by 1980 -- that's eight years from now -- that they will be able to create synthetic life in the form of artificial viruses which will be used to cure some forms of genetic diseases. Artificial life. In eight years they say they will have artificial life. Prabhupada: And that artificial life? Syamasundara: Small viruses or living organisms, very small. But by the year 2000 they say they will be able to keep... Prabhupada: 2000! Syamasundara: Yes. That's twenty-eight years from now. They say that they will be able to deep-freeze embryos, that means unborn babies, as insurance against nuclear holocaust and for interplanetary colonization. In other words, they can send these unborn babies in frozen form to other planets and have an arrangement for them to be born and grow in the spaceship and then go out. Prabhupada: Don't waste your time with these rascals. Syamasundara: They'll have an artificial and mechanical baby factory, effective control of most human defects. Single-celled life will be created from chemicals off the shelf. They can make intelligent animals to do menial work. And then in seventy-eight years they say that they will be able to regenerate... Prabhupada: Just like there was Pan American, they were selling tickets for going to Candraloka. Reservation.

(From a discussion re Charles Darwin)

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Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: New Year, New York, 1967

“For us, every day is New Year’s,” Swamiji says. “Krishna is always new, always fresh, and we are always celebrating Him. Just see how these people in maya are celebrating, drinking poison to forget everything! Because they are frustrated, they want to forget. But for a devotee, it is just the opposite. The devotee wants to remember Krishna at all times.”

>From "The Hare Krishna Explosion" by Hayagriva Prabhu

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Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Bhajan - Gopi Gita dasi - Hare Krishna

Gopi Gita singing bhajans at the Dallas Conference Center for Radhanath Swami's book tour.

Gopi Gita (lead), Ratna Radhika (backup), Gopinath (drum), Sri Rupa (kartals) 

Dallas, TX
2010-10-08 

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David Haslam, UK: Removing the stones, a gardening thought

I’ve finally finished a job that was started some weeks ago, that of double digging my garden something that has been put off over the past few years although deep down I knew it needed to be done. It’s a small vegetable patch that has not done too well unless it’s strawberries or potatoes, after [...]

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Akrura das, Gita Coaching: CATCH A FISH

There is a Bengali proverb that states: “I’ll catch the fish, but I will not touch the water.” That type of intelligence is required.

In America we see many old men on the beach who have retired from their business to waste their time trying to catch fish. They are not very cautious, and they touch the water.

However, we have to live in this material world in such a way that we do everything for Kṛṣṇa but do not touch the water of the material world. In this way, we will have no attachment to things of this material world.

We may have many great temples, but we should not be attached to them. It is for Kṛṣṇa’s sake that we construct temples, but we must understand that the temples are Kṛṣṇa’s property. Our mission is to teach people that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Only a thief will occupy something belonging to another and claim it to be his.

The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement preaches that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa and that everything should be utilized for Kṛṣṇa’s benefit. He is the beneficiary of everything, and it is to our benefit that we come to this knowledge.

Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam. If one realizes that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, one becomes the greatest mahātmā. Being a mahātmā does not mean that one wears a big beard and a particular type of dress. No, this awareness must be there. Whatever we have should be offered to Kṛṣṇa.

- Srila Prabhupada

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Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Janmastami - Drama - Aghasura Demon - 2/7

The children from the Sunday Summer School presented a drama on the Aghasura Demon for Janmastami.

Dallas, TX
2010-09-01 

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H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

How Much Can We Take

Toronto, Ontario

We all have trouble with people as much as we share joy with them. There is a person who comes around to the temple ashram whom everyone is rather tolerant of. I would describe this person as having eccentricities and speaks in such a way as it goes over top of your heads, or sideways or something or other. He’s amiable for sure, and there’s an incredible gentleness to him. He has been a walking partner for me at spontaneous moments for short jaunts. In that regards he’s a friend. It’s just the platform from which he appears to come from. It just seems that he sometimes comes from another planetary system with all due respect.

I was just about to take my daily trek when the person asked if I had a minute to spare. That moment turned into a Brahma’s moment which in a vedic context lasts thoudands of years. Before speaking I asked if it could be a subject matter relevant to the 21st century, but in my assessment it was not. I left for my walk fairly abruptly.

While descending some stairs to leave I had to ask myself if I was justified in being intolerant by not hearing the person out. A supportive tap on my back came from my peer suggested, “don’t worry I can handle the situation, go for your walk!” My analysis brought me to this point, as long as minor disturbances is balanced by positive engagement then we will tolerate. As long as a person speaks favorably of the process of the spiritual path and others there is a heart-warming voice that says, “yes we will share space with you but I have limited time and time is precious.”

I would also add that one such person in the space of thirty could be accommodated but more than that I don’t believe so.

I wish our friend the best. Life for him is a struggle like anyone else. He needs encouragement but also needs reminding of how much people can bear. We just need to be polite about it.

3KM

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Srila Prabhupada's Letters

1967 December 30: "You will be glad to know that yesterday I have signed the agreement with MacMillan for publishing Gitopanisad. So far my health is concerned, Gaurasundara is keeping me fit by massaging and Govinda dasi is supplying me upma."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

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1970 December 30 : "Enclosed is one letter to the editor of the Times replying the several letters you sent me. Hand it in personally so it is published immediately. We invite all kinds of men to discuss on this high philosophy of life."
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1970 December 30 : "On the 4th we are all going to Bombay and from there my party of about 25 men will go to Allahabad for Ardhakumbla mela. I am reaching Calcutta on the 5th and shall attend an important meeting & then come back to Allahabad & then to Gorakhpur, etc."
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1971 December 30 : "Increase our preaching programs by using all the mass media which are available. We are modern day Vaisnavas and we must preach vigorously using all the means available."
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1971 December 30 : "The success of our Movement is due to my books and BTG being distributed throughout the world. So I hope you will see that the magazine comes out regularly and that my books can be published in Hindi."
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1971 December 30 : "Please see that we acquire land in Vrindaban immediately. We are ready to begin construction of a large Temple there. So do whatever is required, but somehow secure the land."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1971

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1972 December 30 : "There is no question that he is only pure devotee and no one else is pure devotee. All of my disciples, as soon as they surrender themselves to Krsna, they become pure devotees."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1972 December 30 : "If you simply do as I am doing, then without doubt you will remain always fresh and enthusiastic for working very energetically on Krsna's behalf, without any falldown."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1972 December 30 : "That is wanted, that all of you take upon yourselves the responsibility of preaching widely everywhere the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu without any compromise or deviation."
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1972 December 30 : "If you yourself remain always pure, then your preaching will have effect. As soon as there is little impurity, the whole thing will deteriorate and go to hell."
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1967 December 29: "Krishna has sent you to help me. As you are my sincere spiritual son, Krishna speaks within your heart so I have full faith in you. I give you full power of attorney."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

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1968 December 29: "Regarding questions on yoga, explain the principles of yoga from Bhagavad-gita, preceded and followed by Krishna kirtana. If they want to know about hatha yoga explain that it cannot be successfully practiced in this present age of Kali."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

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1971 December 29: "Restriction on reading Tenth Canto pastimes is only for those who do not know what is Krishna. But you are initiated, so you can read. Still our Krishna Book is so nice that even an ordinary man can read it and derive benefit."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1971

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1972 December 29: "Do not bother yourself by so many speculative thoughts. Remember always that you have now got this golden opportunity. It is not by accident that you have met your Spiritual Master and have become involved in Krsna's work."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1972 December 29: "So you have lost your enthusiasm due to irregular habits. Unless the determination to become successful in Krsna consciousness is there, any occupation, any place will simply become a source of restlessness and trouble for your mind."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1972 December 29: "One fixed-up devotee, he can manage everything nicely, even in huge temple with many students. The problem is not the facility itself, rather the problem is the ability of the manager."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1972 December 29: "Let them gradually develop the surrendering attitude and accept voluntarily the life of tapasya which must be practiced in the temple. We should not be over anxious just to recruit men if they will not be of the best quality."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1972 December 29: "Arrange programs immediately at the Bar Association, the Stock Exchange, the Royal Asiatic Society, Ramakrishna Cultural Institute, Gaudiya Math, YMCA, Govinda Bhavan, like that. I will speak in Bengali, Hindi, or English."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1973 December 29: "Almost all Indians have ignored the injunction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. But now I have brought this message to the West and now you are helping me to bring it back to the people of India. It is a fact that all of humanity's suffering is due only to a lack of Krsna Consciousness."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

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1968 December 28: "Such practices are against the principles of Krishna Consciousness. I want that all my students should always be ideal in character and not discredit our Society. For Krishna we can execute any activity, but this is not free license to act whimsically."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

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1970 December 28: "In India everyone is a devotee. They have simply been mislead by politicians. By Lord Caitanya's mercy we are again reviving their dormant Krishna Consciousness, just as we are doing in our centers all over the world."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

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1971 December 28: "I wanted we should print such leaflets, but they have not done - simply trying for equaling Dai Nippon, consuming money like Dai Nippon, and producing nothing. Our Society means books, if there are no books, how can we preach?"
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1971 December 28: "We have been there for so many years, only now you are printing the first book? Produce profuse books, spend all your time translating, organizing, printing and distributing, then you will be able to improve the situation."
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1971 December 28: "Wherever there is preaching strength there is success, pandal, making members, traveling Sankirtana, whatever it may be - just maintain our strong position of purity and preach and distribute literature, that's all."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1971

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1972 December 28: "If you want to make progress in kicking out maya from your life, then help me to push on this Krishna Consciousness movement all over the world. You have got now the golden opportunity and it is no accident that you have got now your Spiritual Master. Now the rest is up to you."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1974 December 28: "I am always praying to Krsna that my disciples will not fall away from the path of Krsna Consciousness. Always pray to Krsna so that He may keep you engaged in His transcendental service. Avoid the service of Maya like poison."
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1974 December 28: "Simply with mrdanga and karatala, traveling and chanting Hare Krsna, preaching simply Srimad Bhagavatam philosophy, this is the process. Don't add anything. It will only be a distraction."
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H.H. Sivarama Swami: The opening of our Educational and Cultural Centre in Budapest and offering respects on the disappearance of H.H. Narayana Maharaja


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Japa Group: Your Inner Level Of Inspiration


Hare Krsna dear devotees, below is an interview with H.H. Sacinandana Swami for a Magazine, in the following question he talks about chanting as a technique to access the stream of love inside the heart.

Can you give our readers an ancient spiritual technique which helps them quickly to energize themselves?

Yes, I would like to teach you the simple technique of living in a spiritual circle. We all know how a strong immune system protects our health. When the immune system is not so strong diseases can easily come and make us ill. So there is an ancient technique called establishing a spiritual circle which helps you to develop your spiritual immune system. This spiritual immune system acts like a protective circle which fulfils two functions. It helps you not to be disturbed by outside influences but it also builds up your inner blissfulness and energy. You could compare it almost with a tire, which you can blow up so that it is very strong. Building the spiritual circle can be done by having good, encouraging and inspiring association with spiritually-minded people.
It can be also made by reading daily sacred scriptures which will expand your inner level of inspiration.
The spiritual circle can be established by chanting daily sacred mantras which will increase the spiritual vibrations in your existence. All these techniques will quickly help you to access that stream of love inside your heart. With these simple practices you can easily access that unlimited reservoir of love. Just don’t allow that the false ego comes and blocks it again.
Thank you very much.
Interview for the magazine 108 in Moscow - March 21, 2008

I wish you a very Happy 2011, full of great realisations in chanting and that you can be able to love the Lord more and more through this chanting and serving.

your servant,

Aruna devi
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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Sankarsan Prabhu

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.28.28 - If one has repeated relapses into material attachment, he has failed to eradicate the darkness of ignorance from his heart.

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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu


Bhagavatam class given on Wednesday, 29th December 2010

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.28.27 -One must have firm and steady engagement in the loving service of the Lord, under the direction of higher authorities; then advancement in Krsna consciousness will be easy and sublime.

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Gouranga TV: Bhajan – Surya Summer Tour – Prayers to Lord Jagannath

Bhajan – Surya Summer Tour – Prayers to Lord Jagannath

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