Devotees visiting the New Raman Reti community in Alachua, Florida this Janmastami are in for a special treat.
First introduced in 2007, the Village of Vrindavana is a miniature version of the real Indian holy place. It was created by second generation devotee Raghunatha Zaldivar and his friends, who set to work when they found themselves still buzzing with creative energy after last year’s youth festival, Alachua Kuli Mela.
read more [1]
When Ananta-Rupa Dasa and Arudha Dasi enrolled their five-year-old son Radhika Ramana in a private school, they expected impressive results. But sitting in on his math class, Arudha noticed that although he had finished his work, his teacher was too busy with her other students to challenge him further, and he was bored with nothing to do. Most schools, Arudha realized, cater to the needs of average students – above average children were bored, and below average children were frustrated.
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This year’s European Kuli Mela in Radhadesh, Belgium, was another storming success for the infectiously spreading ISKCON youth initiative.
With 400 gurukulis (youth and adults grown up in ISKCON) attending from over twenty countries including Russia, India, America, and most of the European nations, the event was nothing short of a global phenomenon.
read more [4]
The giant pink wedding cake of a building stands in bold contrast to nearby houses painted polite Northwest shades of beige and taupe.
Naresh Bhatt beams as he gives a tour of this new temple in Sammamish. He chose the colors. Happy, blissful colors, he says.
Inside, as the service begins, Bhatt joins his wife, two daughters and many others — most of Indian descent — who chant exuberantly: "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare."
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FOR WOMEN, BY WOMEN
A SATSANG HIGHLIGHTING THE HEART
Especially for followers and well-wishers of Srila Prabhupada
Dates: Fri. Oct. 10,t,h Sat. Oct. 11,th Sun. Oct. 12th
Place: New Vrindaban Community , West Virginia
(Located in the Appalachian foothills - nearest airport: Pittsburgh )
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Annual World Holy Name Day has blossomed into Annual World Holy Name Week.
This year, we are observing World Holy Name Week:
September 13 - 21, 2008.
This 9 period day features several exciting tithis. It starts from a Saturday (Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura — Appearance), and concludes on a Sunday - Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in the USA!
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The soul, or self (atma), is described as a separated, minute fragment of God, the Supersoul (paramatma). God is like a fire; the individual souls, sparks of the fire. As the analogy suggests, the self and the Superself are simultaneously one with and different from each other. They are the same in quality, for both the soul and the Supersoul are brahman, spirit. Yet they differ in quantity, since the Superself (param brahman—“supreme brahman”—in Bhagavad-gita 10.12) is infinitely great while the individual selves are infinitesimally small.
Read the entire article here. [12]
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Those of you (like myself) of "Anglo-Saxon" background, will perhaps be familiar with the cruel, non-vegetarian origins of this dish. It contains the cooked minced flesh of slaughtered baby sheep {called 'lamb', by the way} which is smothered in mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Here's my tender-hearted version.
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After a two-year hiatus, the Cleveland Nama Hatta Program, a multi-cultural group of “Hare Krsnas” and their well-wishers in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area, again hosted the Lord Have Mercy Festival. Servants of God from a variety of religious traditions were invited to sing, dance, recite poetry, enact dramas and more, to thank God for His mercy and act in a spirit of unity and harmony.
read more [15]
A new book entitled 'No Time to Slumber for the Hindu Tiger' by Mr Frank Ward, will be launched and blessed on Sunday 24th August during Bhaktivedanta Manor's famous Janmastami festival, in Aldenham near Watford, Herts.
The book is a personal and vivid account of the epic pioneering struggle against the persecution and intimidation of Bhaktivedanta Manor by its local Council, with support by the central government of the day.
read more [16]
Bhaktivedanta Manor Krishna Temple situated in the Hertfordshire countryside will attract over 65,000 people over two days during this Bank Holiday weekend to celebrate the 5000 year-old Indian festival of Janmashtami.
The kitchens of the Temple will be working 24 hours to prepare free vegetarian meals of everyone who comes the festival.
read more [17]
PURI: Chief priest Sri Jagannath Temple Laxmi Narayan Patjoshi Mohapatra died of cardiac arrest here today triggering uncertainty over his successor as his son is a minor to be anointed to the hereditary post. Mohapatra, who was only 32, was ill for some time. He is survived by wife, daughter and son.
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Almaty regional Public Prosecutor's Office seems keen to seize property from religious communities, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Six property cases against Christian and Muslim religious organisations in the region are known to have been initiated since mid-June. Amongst them is Agafe Protestant Church, the regional Economic Court ruling – despite numerous violations of due process – that the Church's building and land should be confiscated. A defence lawyer has received anonymous death threats, and an appeal will take place on 27 August. The regions' Hare Krishna commune also continues to struggle to retain its property.
read more [19]
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On The Origin Of Species. The momentous occasion will be celebrated with new books, articles, documentaries and editorials. One commentator has called for a public holiday in Britain to honour Darwin - the "humble Shrewsbury family man who changed the world forever".
read more [20]
For people growing up in poor neighborhoods in the city, nature is usually something ugly, little more than the weeds smothering fields or sprouting from sidewalk cracks.
Eight years ago, Detroiter Tom Milano, 60, wanted to show his eastside neighbors a glimpse of the beautiful side of nature by creating a thick pond garden in the front yard of his old brick bungalow home. The display was so well received that creating gardens for others turned into his unusual job.
read more [21]
Brimming with lime-hued succulents and a lush collection of agaves, one shooting spiky leaves 10 feet into the air, it's a head-turning garden smack in the middle of Long Beach's asphalt jungle. But the gardener who designed it doesn't want you to know his last name, since his handiwork isn't exactly legit. It's on a traffic island he commandeered.
read more [22]
Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably.
read more [23]
When it comes to education, ISKCON has learned a lot.
In the sixties and seventies, when our society was but a tottering toddler itself, we had young children with an undeniable need: to be educated. Not even considering outside schools as an option, we began to teach them ourselves without first educating teachers.
read more [24]
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[2] http://www.iskcondc.org/aggregator/sources/1
[3] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1232/2008-08-23/homeschooling_krishna’s_children
[4] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1230/2008-08-23/kuli_mela_bug_spreads
[5] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1231/2008-08-23/new_hare_krishna_temple_opens_seattle
[6] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1229/2008-08-23/annual_fall_retreat_vaishnavis
[7] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1228/2008-08-23/world_holy_name_week
[8] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1226/2008-08-23/srila_prabhupada_-_gandhari_duryodhana_krsna
[9] http://www.iskcondc.org/
[10] http://news.iskcon.com/audio/download/1226/14_prabhupadacast_gandhari_duryodhana_krishna.mp3
[11] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1225/2008-08-23/sparks_god
[12] http://soithappens.com/2008/08/19/the-nature-of-the-self-a-gaudiya-vaisnava-understanding/
[13] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1224/2008-08-23/vegetarian_shepherds_pie
[14] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1223/2008-08-23/srila_prabhupada_london_1973
[15] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1222/2008-08-23/‘_lord_have_mercy’_festival_celebrates_interfaith_harmony
[16] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1221/2008-08-23/no_time_slumber_hindu_tiger
[17] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1220/2008-08-23/bhaktivedanta_manor_prepares_feed_65000_janmashtami
[18] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1219/2008-08-23/jagannath_puri_chief_priest_dies_uncertainty_over_successor
[19] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1218/2008-08-23/kazakhstan_nationwide_religious_property_seizures_continue
[20] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1217/2008-08-23/why_not_every_scientist_worships_darwins_feet
[21] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1216/2008-08-23/detroits_inner-city_sanctuary
[22] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1215/2008-08-23/guerrilla_gardener_movement_takes_root_la_area
[23] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1214/2008-08-23/do_subatomic_particles_have_free_will
[24] http://news.iskcon.com/node/1212/2008-08-16/learning_curve_educational_options_iskcon_children
[25] http://www.iskcondc.org/aggregator?page=1
[26] http://www.iskcondc.org/aggregator?page=2
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