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WVA Meeting Mayapur 2010
To the Founding members or their representatives, Sannyasis and Acharyas, respective secretaries and representatives of the member missions to attend our 2010 WVA managerial meeting.
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Faith confirms the Absolute
In his illumination on the eighth verse of Sri Upadesamrta, Srila Sridhara Maharaja discusses faith in relation to what faith is and what it is not. This is the Vedic process of learning. When you learn about something...
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Vrindavan Kumbha Mela
Many people are not aware that from the 30th January there is Kumbha Mela in Vrindavan also before the Haridwar Kumbha. Many years ago the Shivites attacked the Vaisnavas at the Haridwar Kumbha Mela...
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Consumption - The Goal of Modern Society
"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction..."
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Modern Education or Mass Execution
In today’s world, education can be defined as the systematic distribution or the reception of knowledge in society, which is viewed from various perspectives based upon cultural values, language, people and religion.
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Stop Construction of Bridge in Vrindavan
The central government of India is building a big bridge around Keshi Gath. It is against the will of all the local residents in Vrindavan. The new bridge threatens Vrindavan’s heritage ghat. The governor of the state...
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Streams Of Filth
In a fantasy India, a cinematic, a fictitious one, the River always flows with serene timelessness. Wherever it goes – icy crags, dusty, thirsty plains or through heavy, damp air – the River contains spiritual depth...
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Little Krishna Charms The World
Produced by Big Animation and ISKCON’s India Heritage Foundation, Little Krishna is the first Indian animation content Nick and Evergreen Entertainment have ever bought. Big Animation has...
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Definition of Faith
How can one define faith? Is it a feeling or a function of the brain? Or is it just unfounded belief? The English word ‘Faith’ is associated with many things. The word is used to define a trust or belief...
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Religion and Philosophy
Re-li-gion: The belief in, and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Phi-los-o-phy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence.
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The Gift
In his Viveka-cudamani, Sri Sankaracarya says, "These three are difficult to obtain in this world, and depend on the mercy of God – the human birth, the desire for salvation, and the company of great-souls."
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Henry David Thoreau
"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world..."
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The Literalist
A literal understanding of sastra, as it seems to be regarded in some sections of the greater Vaishnava community, is looked down upon as being neophyte or simply not intellectually satisfying.
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Appearance of Radha-kunda
Thousands of devotees from across India and from around the world recently gathered in Vrndavana for Karttika and on the evening of October 11th the appearance of Radha-kunda was celebrated.
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Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yathra
108 day long ‘Vishwa Mangala Gou Grama Yathra’ has commenced on 30 September 2009 at Kurukshetra and will visit a total of 60 cities in India. The hope and goal of this journey is rejuvenation of the cow...
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Who Ruled India
“Who Ruled India?” is an interesting question. The history of rule in India goes back to great antiquity, back and back to the days of the Mahabharata (emperors such as Yudhisthira and Pariksit Maharaja) and...
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Me Alone!
In Bhagavad-gita Krishna says: “ And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body remembering Me alone at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.” I used to think of the word 'Alone.'...
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Timingila - Myth or Fact?
References to the Timingila fish of antiquity are to be found in numerous places. In Srimad Bhagavatam, Markandeya Rsi encounters the Timingila in his fantastic experience in the waters of devastation...
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Video: The Cactus of Sectarianism
Sectarianism is just like a cactus. It is a mentality which does not allow anybody to get close, because in a sectarian mentality you are always defensive, you are always afraid that somebody may imagine that...
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New Website: Harmonist.us
We live in times—human times—best characterized by the need to define the spiritual, times which are, in terms of our century, ripe for the resurgence of metaphysics. Not only has science failed...
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5th European WVA-meeting in Vienna
WVA invites for the 5th European WVA-meeting in Vienna. During these two days we will put the following topics for discussion: Exploring the common ground, Where do we need each other...
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Nandafalva Turns 30 Years Old
On the 30th anniversary of its founding, the Nandafalva Hindu Community is presenting visitors a special festival. Beginning at 4:00 pm on August 1, 2009, the Open House aims to exhibit the valuable gifts...
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Kankan Kunda Revealed!
Yesterday we got a call from Radha Kunda that Kankan Kunda has finally been revealed. The cleaning of Radha Kunda had recently been started as Shyama Kunda cleaning is complete. Everyone was anticipating...
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Intellectual Terrorism in India
I've been asked to speak upon intellectual terrorism. I will modify it slightly and speak on intellectual subversion, of which intellectual terrorism is one important dimension. When we say intellectual subversion...
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Hindus Upset Over Hanuman Videogame
Hindus upset over Sony’s “Hanuman: Boy Warrior” videogame and further frustrated by the callous handling by Sony officials, might give a boycott call of all Sony products world over. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed...
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8 Years and 200 Issues of KK Bindu
Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu, the free e-magazine from ISKCON Gopaljiu Publications, has just entered its ninth year of circulation, and has reached 200 issues distributed to its ever-growing list of subscribers.
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Crimes Against India
This is an extremely revealing and important book for protecting, preserving, and promoting the profound and ancient Vedic tradition of India. India is a most resilient country, and is presently becoming a great...
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Adjust with the environment
Everybody has different natures in this world. Inspite of being disciples of the same Guru, all do not have the same qualities. But we should adjust to the envoirnment around us. The father of Prahlad was not devotee...
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Narottam das Thakur Seva Yamuna Cleaning
The World Vaishnava Association has taken up the cleaning of the beautiful Yamuna beach from the Ponton bridge to the Devraha Baba Samadhi. This important stretch of land is the original Vansi-vata beach...
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Gautier on Religion, Marxism and Slumdog
Why did a film like Slumdog Millionaire, which conveys an utterly negative image of India's slums, exploitation, poverty, corruption, anti Muslim pogroms create so many waves in the West, pre and post Oscars?
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Vyasa Puja Festival
Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Sidhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur 136 Vyaspuja Festival was celebrated in Mayapur & Nabadwip. All of the Gaudia-Math celebrated his Vyaspuja in the morning time.
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Remembering P.L. Sethi
P.L. Sethi, a building contractor who assisted Srila Prabhupada in acquiring and building ISKCON's Juhu temple, passed away on February 16 in Mumbai, India. He was 88. Although he was never officially...
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Srila B.V. Puri Maharaja Samadhi ceremony
At 9pm IST on March 3, 2009, Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Goswami left this world at Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, where he had been brought for medical treatment. He had just reached his 96th year two months before.
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Srila B.V. Puri Maharaja leaves the world
This is very sad to write you that His Divine Grace Srila Gurudev Bhakti Vaibhav Puri Goswami Maharaj left this planet just 5 minutes before at Vishakhapatanam. Now they are bringing his body to Puri for His Samadhi.
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6th Annual Vrinda Kunda Festival
We would like to invite everyone to come and join the 6th Annual Festival of the opening of Vrinda Devi's new Temple from Feb. 9th to 22nd. This is the best time of year, the weather is perfect. Last year one of my godbrothers...
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Bengal to Save Ganga Bank at Mayapur
In january the Bengal government will start to save the holy banks of the Ganges river in Mayapur starting from Nandanacarya bhavan down to Hoola-ghat. Nandanacarya Bhavan is the original place where Sri Caitanya...
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Vyasa Puja Mahotsav Invitation
With due respect we like to inform you that the Vyasa Puja ceremony of Jagad Guru 108 Sri Srila Bhati Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada is going to be celebrated at the Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math...
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UN: Meat Eating Harms Our Environment
"Producing a pound of beef creates 11 times as much greenhouse gas emission as a pound of chicken and 100 times more than a pound of carrots, according to Lantmannen, the Swedish group. But any suggestion...
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Temple Saved From Demolition
A seven-hour protest in front of the Hyderabad collectorate in Abids on Wednesday won a temporary reprieve for the authorities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), Secunderabad, temple.
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Children Are Born Believers
Dr. Justin Barret says that young children have faith even when they have not been taught about it by family or at school, and argues that even those raised alone on a desert island would come to believe in God.
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About Mumbai Terror & Bodily Conceptions
Why express concern only for (hope) "that the dead and injured are not related to the more than 200 devotees of his Catonsville-based Iskcon Hare Krishna congregation?" Why not be concerned for all who are...
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Ten Points for Indira Gandhi
On August 22nd, 1975, Srila Prabhupada had an appointment with Indira Gandhi. In a pocket book he noted ten points to present to her. Unfortunately, Mrs. Gandhi was disturbed by rumours of a threat to her life...
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Krsna Consciousness: Love and Beauty
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Bengali poet Hemachandra wrote, "There are so many countries rising in prominence: this land, that land... Only India is under eternal slumber.
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Swastika and Cross
In popular western thinking, no two symbols could possibly be more at odds with each other than the swastika and the cross. The swastika is the symbol of Nazi war crimes against humanity and the cross is the symbol...
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WVA Meeting Kartik 2008
The President of WVA, Srila B.B. Tirtha Goswami Maharaja is inviting Devotees for the WVA Festival with speeches and prasadam in honor of His Gurudeva, Srila B.D. Madhava Goswami Maharaja.
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European WVA meeting in Pula, Croatia
This year the European WVA meeting took place on 3rd August, 2008 in Pula, Croatia. Devotees from various missions including Sri Chaitanya Math, Sree Chaitanya Gaudiya Math, Vrinda and Iskcon came to attend the meeting.
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The Worship of Sri-Murti and Idolatry
There is a great misunderstanding in the secular and religious world and especially within the Abrahamic traditions, (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) on the question of Deity worship. The English word 'idol'...
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The End of Doubt
Over the years I have come back to Krsna, each time learning progressively more; however, I never seem to be able to cross the threshold from intellectual understanding to actual belief.
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Veda Slovena
Bulgarian folk songs from pre-historical and pre-christian time, discovered in Thrace and Macedonia and published by Stefan I. Verkovich in 1874. The author has been collecting these songs for more than 10 years.
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Krishna Mayee d.d.
July 12th in the sacred land of Nabadwip has commemorated the 110th appearence day of a great Vaishnavi of our recent time, Srimati Krsnamayi Didi. Locals and foreigners filled up all the house...
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Death and Dharma
What is the Hindu stance on euthanasia? Is it murder to "unplug" someone who is simply being maintained by a machine, or is it torture to force a soul to remain in such a hellish condition?
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Max Müller (1823-1900)
A general concept which people hold for Max Müller is that he wrote about the Vedas, and because the Vedas and Upnishads are the prime Bhartiya scriptures, many of the Hindu scholars give him credit for his work.
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