Your feet are soft like lotus body black like monsoon cloud Your form sweet sugar candy that can melt hearts of the proud Your feet tinged soft and pink marked with all auspicious signs oh when will You reveal them to attract this wretched mind? Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! Gopala! You gave such…

Today Gopala arrived at Sri Gopinatha Dham, geographically located in in Perth, Western Australia where there are lots of nice flowers to offer to Him:

Today Krishnagarja Prabhu from Melbourne here instructed me in the art of face painting which resulted in this combined effort. We need some more practice but hopefully Gopala will be pleased with our attempts to paint his face artistically. And here is Sri Laxmi-Narasimha:

Gopala is still enjoying giving His darsan to all of the devotees and guests here in Melbourne: Today a yet to be identified devotee here made Gopala this beautiful garland: I better be careful or Gopala might want to stay here. Hopefully I can think of something nice to please Him so that He doesn’t…

Last night Sri Bala Gopala arived in Melbourne, Australia where He opted to take a place alongside Sri Sri Radha-Vallabha and all of the other Saligram Silas here. Can you find Him in the picture above? Sri Trivikrama (above) is the principal Saligram worshiped at ISKCON Melbourne with great dedication, inspiration and enthusiasm by Krishnagraja…

from Sankarshan Das Adhikari If we simply stick to the process of Krishna consciousness through thick and thin, this perseverance will further us along the path of spiritual enlightenment. There are so many distractions to divert our minds from Krishna. We simply have to master the art of seeing Krishna within everything, even the distractions.…

From Kurma’s blog: nama-cintamani-krishna caitanya-rasa-vigrahah purno suddho nitya-mukto ‘bhinnatvan nama-naminoh This means that the name of God is as powerful as God is Himself. It is called purna. Purna means complete. And suddha means without any material contamination. ‘Purna suddha nitya‘. Nitya means eternal. Abhinnatvan nama-naminoh means without being different from the person whose name…

# Verbs has to agree with their subjects. # Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. # And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. # It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. # Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.) # Also, always avoid annoying alliteration. # Be more or less…

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. I have to admit that this has been the most interesting teaching practice to date. It was not at all as difficult as I thought it would be. There were some kids with some serious behavior management issues but the policies at this…

School officials in Victoria, Australia, say it’s too hard for students to calculate equations using the constant 9.8 meters/second/second — the acceleration of gravity at Earth’s surface — so it’s changing the Year 12 physics exam for the Victorian Certificate of Education to use a rounded-off figure of 10 m/s/s. Close enough? No: “The difference…

The authentic scriptures are compiled by personalities like Vyasadeva, Narada, Asita and Parasara, who are not ordinary men. All the followers of the Vedic way of life have accepted these famous personalities, whose authentic scriptures conform to the Vedic literature. Nevertheless, the demoniac do not believe their statements, and they purposely oppose the Supreme Personality…