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Mahamantra controversy: Hare Krishna or Hare Rama first ?
By editor - 27.9 2019
Many people from other sampradayas raise concern over the order of usage of word Krishna and Rama in the Hare Krishna Mahamantra based on an advaitin edition of Kali Santarana Upanishad in the...Read more...
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Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Leads Kirtan at New York Rathayatra
By: Madhava Smullen - 18.6 2019
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard leads kirtan at New York Rathayatra - photo by Hari Kirtan Kaufmann
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Congresswoman from Hawaii, took a break from politics to...Read more...
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By Madhudvisa dasa - 2.6 2023
By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them. (Bhagavad-gita 9.4)
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not perceivable through the gross material senses. It is said that Lord Sri...Read more...
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By Thomas Haribol - 2.6 2023
After nearly 25 years of preaching and service in California’s Sacramento and Folsom areas, devotees are delighted to announce the imminent arrival of a new temple building to meet the needs of their growing community and outreach. Sacramento, California,...Read more...
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Parasuram das - 2.6 2023
There are two main prasad distribution teams in the Dombas region since Krishna Tattva Prabhu and Madan Gopal Prabhu sadly left their bodies.
One team is headed by Arjuna Prabhu, a young devotee who survived a rocket attack after being buried in the rubble. The...Read more...
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By Bhakta-vaikuntha - 1.6 2023
I will concentrate on the nature of mantras and how they were used in ancient times or in ‘Vedic’ civilizations that go back more than 5,000 years and were employed not only for spiritual emancipation but in military applications as well. In other...Read more...
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By Bhakta-vaikuntha - 1.5 2023
Now that we are ready to invade Iran and with the looming threat of a possible nuclear war with North Korea notwithstanding the nuclear threats posed by Pakistan and India, it seems the whole world is poised on the brink of a world war holocaust. But the big...Read more...
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By Madhudvisa dasa - 1.6 2023
We have all heard it at school in the science class… In the beginning there was nothing… and from that nothing came a big bang, caused by no one coming from nowhere… It created all the mass of the universe completely by chance [...Read more...
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By Visakha-devi-dasi - 1.6 2023
The first step in spiritual understanding is to transcend the bodily concept of life. To think I am a man or I am a woman is to be in illusion. The body is a material dress for the soul, a dress that’s changing from moment to moment, as the body develops...Read more...
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By editor - 31.5 2023
Mantras are a complex feature of the Hindu tradition that people sometimes do not understand all that well. Different mantras are used for different things. “For India, Mantras are real, palpable, mental artifacts to be revered and mastered, to be used...Read more...
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By Sankirtana Das (ACBSP) - 31.5 2023
If the Hare Krishna movement wants to be relevant and if they are serious in establishing varnashrama in one way or other, than it is imperative for devotees to offer Vedic solutions according to time, place, and circumstance. It’s time...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 31.5 2023
Mamaki with Vajra on Lotus
Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript
Pala School, late 11th c.
A serial presentation of India's artistic legacy in devotional paintings, sculpture and temple architecture.
Today we begin a summary study of the broad...Read more...
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By Christina Kelly - 30.5 2023
Nearly 100 fresh-faced devotees in their late teens and twenties flocked to New Vrindaban on Mother’s Day weekend for the Vaishnava Arts Festival on May 12-14. The largely Western-raised crowd enthusiastically attended mangala arati, performed kitchen and...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 30.5 2023
Page twenty-nine
SREYAS OR PREYAS
When Srila Prabhupada departed from this mortal world, his last days contained emotional requests to his disciples.
"There is nothing new to be said. Whatever I had to say, I have already said in my books. I have...Read more...
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By Satyaraja Dasa - 30.5 2023
The influential Beat poet assisted Srila Prabhupada in significant ways during ISKCON’s earliest years.
A noted award-wining poet and icon of the 1960s counterculture was one of Srila Prabhupada’s earliest followers.
While many people know that...Read more...
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By Steven J. Rosen - 30.5 2023
Among the earliest reincarnation narratives found in India’s Puranic texts, we find the stories of Jaya and Vijaya, the two gatekeepers of the spiritual world. Though there is little in these stories to explain reincarnation in a philosophical sense...Read more...
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By Sesa Dasa - 30.5 2023
Lord Caitanya launched His mission of mercy in
West Bengal. Five hundred years later, Srila Prabhupada
took that mission to heart and to the entire world.
The flat, verdant ricelands of West Bengal’s district of Nadia appear timeless and remote....Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 29.5 2023
The river frontage at Benares with the Panchganga Ghat in the centre and Aurangzeb's mosque rising above it
Painting by Seeta Ram, c. 1814
British Library Collection
A serial presentation of the extraordinary collection of Sita Ram's early 1800's...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 29.5 2023
The Appearance Day of Srimati Gangamata Gosvamini is observed on May 29th.
The Appearance day of Srimati Ganga Ma is celebrated beginning on the Amavasya (dark moon night) and lasting through to the dasami tithi (tenth phase of the Moon, the day before Pandava...Read more...
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By editor - 29.5 2023
The Disappearance day of Sri Baladeva Vidyabhushana and the Appearance Day of Sri Gangamata Gosvamini are observed on May 29th.
Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana
The exact time and place of Sri Baladeva Vidyabhushana’s birth are unknown. Perhaps one day historians...Read more...
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By Sadaputa Dasa - 29.5 2023
The ancient Greek writer Aratos tells the following story about the constellation Virgo, or the virgin. Virgo, he says, may have belonged to the star race, the forefathers of the ancient stars. In primeval times, in the golden age, she lived among mankind as...Read more...
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By Ranacora Dasa - 29.5 2023
An answer to the question:
“Why is a good Christian like you worshiping a Hindu god?”
People often ask me why I changed my faith from Christianity to worship of Krsna. They ask what made me give up Christianity. I am always quick to answer...Read more...
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By editor - 27. 5 2023
Conspiracy theories – The Monk’s Podcast with Madhavananda Prabhu
Succinctly summarised by Chaitanya Charan Prabhu from 1.30.59:
So, we discussed today broadly on the topic of going beyond conspiracy theories. We may blame people individually when we...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 27.5 2023
The ghats at Benares: Dasasvamedh Ghat and the temples just downstream
Painting by Seeta Ram, c. 1814
British Library Collection
A serial presentation of the extraordinary collection of Sita Ram's early 1800's watercolors depicting Indian temples and...Read more...
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BY: ROCANA DASA - 27.5 2023
Modified reprise of a 2012 Gaura Purnima article.
As devotees and conditioned souls, one of the main confusions we deal with is whether or not we are properly utilizing our time so as to advance our own Krsna Consciousness. Towards this end, the Sampradaya...Read more...
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