Please accept my blessings. Now you must arrange in each temple there must be sufficient stock of prasadam for distribution. You can keep first-class cooks, two or three, and they should be always engaged. Whenever any guest comes, he must get prasad. This arrangement must be made, that the cooksContinue Reading
Brahmananda das: Prabhupada designed the Krishna and Balarama Deities, the mudra. He made a drawing and gave it to Baradraj to have it made in Jaipur. There is no Krishna Balarama Deity like this with Balarama resting His arm on Krishna’s shoulders. There is no Deity like that, Prabhupada madeContinue Reading
The Śrī Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya has two major sects, one is called Vaḍagalai and the other Teṅkalai, and the two have existed for almost 400 years and arose on account of a bitter schism. The foundation of this schism is based on eighteen ideological differences on the topic of mokṣa-dharma propounded by post Rāmānujācārya-era ācāryas Pillailokācārya and Vedānta Deśika during the 1200-1300 AD period.[i] During this period Vedānta Deśika was the first one to detect or disagree with certain works of Pillailokācārya. Maṇavāla Mamuni (Mahāmuni), who appeared right after Vedānta Deśika, primarily subscribed to the doctrines of Pillailokācārya.Continue Reading
[Translation from Hindi]Republic Hindi Desk, By Loknath Tiwari | Publish Date: 10/3/2019 12:20:16 PM Republic Hindi Desk: The trend of making a pandal like the design of Chandrodaya Temple of Vedic Planetarium under construction of ISKCON Mayapur, the world’s largest Vedic temple in Bengal, is not new. Kalyani’s Rathtala Ward 20 Sarvajanin DurgaContinue Reading
Barrier: Balancing the Visual Connection Now that the building is manifest into its glorious form, several intriguing deliberations are stemming up. Balancing the building mass and volume with balustrades (decorative railing supports) has been one of the exercises on the drawing board. We are undertaking some mock-ups of appropriate sizeContinue Reading
It is very nice to learn that both you and Satsvarupa have highly praised Tamala Krishna. Similarly, Tamala Krishna has also highly praised you and Satsvarupa. This attitude should be maintained amongst your Godbrothers. That will elevate us more and more to the top of devotional service. This is calledContinue Reading
As you come up the main staircase of the TOVP towards the temple room you will be greeted by two gigantic elephant sculptures standing side by side in front of an immense, 30’ tall, four column entranceway pillar. There are two such pillars, each with two accompanying elephants and fourContinue Reading
Everyone of us in life has different facilities and comforts based on our past Karma but there is one asset that is equally distributed to all souls with material bodies: TIME & CONTEMPLATION. Although each individual has different lifespans, the freedom to use the time and contemplation is equally givenContinue Reading
The human life is so valuable, and I shall waste it simply by sleeping? Therefore the Gosvamis, our predecessor gurus, they have shown. They conquered over these things, Nidra, sleeping… Nidra is very dangerous according to Vedic civilization. It is simply waste of time. If one is not serious aboutContinue Reading
Guru does not mean anything extraordinary. Any damn rascal like me can become guru. You cannot question, “You are a damn rascal. How you have become guru?” (Bhagavad-gita 4.3 — February 10, 1974, Vrndavana) You become guru. No qualification required. Simply you repeat what Krsna has said.” Just see howContinue Reading