The KB Mela team are proud and super excited to announce that his holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami will be joining us this at KB Mela 2011! Maharaj has taken the time out of his busy schedule to spend the entire duration of the Mela with us to share in Krishna’s pastimes, to impart experiences from his travel around the…
Hare Krishna Hour Weekly Podcast – 25 Sep 11- Listen Now
HARE KRISHNA!!! and welcome to the HARE KRISHNA HOUR, your weekly Krishna Conscious Radio Show brought to you every Sunday mornings between 8am & 9am . HARE KRISHNA HOUR 25 09 2011 Another amazing show this week with special guest HG Adharamrita Devi dasi, a disciple of Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj who,has been serving ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada for more than 20 years….
Sustained, Concentrated Effort
After taking advice from an elderly neighbor, a man began to dig a well in his field. After much effort he had gone down about twenty feet. Then another villager passed by. “What are you doing?” the villager asked incredulously. “Why on earth are you digging there? You´re digging in the wrong place. You should…
The Power of Kirtan – More Than Mere Stress Relief
[vodpod id=Video.15443071&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] There are numerous meditation techniques. Amongst these, mantra meditation is particularly prominent amongst practitioners of devotional yoga or bhakti-yoga. The Sanskrit wordman means mind, while tra means to free. Mantra meditation frees your mind of fear and anxiety. But, it does even more than this, it opens your heart to reveal your spiritual nature of eternity and bliss. Increased complexity in today’s…
Learning Nescience and Knowledge Side by Side – Srila Prabhupada
The following is taken from SrilaPrabhupada’s commentary on the eleventh mantra in the book called Sri Isopanisad. The miseries of this material world serve to indirectly remind us of our incompatibility with dead matter. Intelligent living entities generally take note of these reminders and engage themselves in the culture of transcendental knowledge. Since the creation of…
The Power of Reading Sacred Scripture
An old farmer lived on his farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning he got up early, sat at the kitchen table, and read His Bhagavad-gita. His grandson wanted to be just like his grandfather, so tried to emulate him in every way he could. One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa, I try…
Hare Krishna Hour Weekly Podcast – 11 Sep 11- Listen Now
HARE KRISHNA!!! and welcome to the HARE KRISHNA HOUR, your weekly Krishna Conscious Radio Show brought to you every Sunday mornings between 8am & 9am . •Head boy at Sacred Heart College; matriculated with 5 distinctions; played for provincial basketball team. •Recipient of Oppenheimer Memorial trust scholarship & bursary from the National Aerospace Centre of Excellence. •Dean’s merit list. •Degree: BSC Aeronautical engineering •Chairperson of…
World Holy Name Week 2011 – Sep 10 to Sep 20
Srila Prabhupada arrived in US to spread the Holy Name,now let us try and continue the work of our Saviour. Yes! Its the World Holy Name Week.. Its our time to pay gratitude to the His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and work for his motive- spread Harinaam as far and as wide as one can,…
My Outer Limits Upma Story – a Humorous Tale by Kesava Krsna Das
I had been a Bhakta for about two weeks. Up until that fateful morning, in early 1980 at Chaitanya College, I had relished whatever prasada lay on my plate – except my first taste of upma. Upma seems to be one of those dishes we either love or loathe, except of course when it is…
Pretoria Ratha Yatra – 17 Sep 2011 , Union Buildings Lower Gardens , Parade from cnr Church and Prinsloo
It is with great pleasure that ISKCON Pretoria presents the “Festival of Chariots” . ISKCON Pretoria will be hosting the most exalted delegation from the spiritual world in the first annual “Festival of Chariots” in Pretoria, to be hosted at the Union Buildings lower gardens, beginning with the parade starting at the coner of Church and Prinsloo street. So…