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Recently I was talking to Braja Gauranga Prabhu who does a lot of catering in Australia. Australian devotees do massive catering and prasadam distribution in general but Braja Gauranga has ratcheted the program up and has a fleet of commercial trucks that go to various concerts and festivals throughout the year and distribute thousands of…

This Krsna consciousness movement is an art of living by which you will feel your senses are fully satisfied, but you are going to be free next life. This is the nice process. And artificially if you want to stop your senses, you will fail. Srila Prabhupada, Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 3.6-10 — Los Angeles, December…

From time to time I'm confronted with this question by devotees who've been hurt with their experience in ISKCON. I'm not minimising the need for growth and maturity – not at all. Because the individuals involved are not perfect and still subject to the influence of the modes of material nature some unsavory stuff happens…

Oooh. This is a reality every school teacher faces …. "HUNDREDS of popular Australian children's snack foods and sweets are laced with suspect additives which international researchers have linked to adverse behavioural reactions. Food companies are using children's characters, including the new Bee Movie produced by Jerry Seinfeld, to push the additive-laden products in supermarkets.…

Interesting article here:  "In 2005, at the height of the controversy over the site's accuracy, Mr Wales told the BBC that students who copied information from Wikipedia "deserved to get an F grade". Mr Wales said the website still lacked the authority to be used as a citeable source for college-aged and university students. But…

Nick Hall sent a message using the contact form at http://news.iskcon.com/contact. Please make all of your readers aware of these sites that explain your rights when dealing with the RSPCA and the many criticisms of their behaviour. RSPCA-Animadversion http://cheetah.webtribe.net/~animadversion/ SHG http://the-shg.org

In Bombay a man approached Srila Prabhupada, offered pranama, and said, “Oh Swamiji, you will save me.” Srila Prabhupada replied, “No, I cannot save you; I can teach you how to save yourself, but you must do the work.” Told by Kausalya d.d.

“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth… And to the maximum of power, exhort all others to do the same.” – Plato

There are two classes of men always. One is called devata, godly, and the other is called demon, asura. Or satanic. Whatever you call, the two classes. So those who are God conscious, they are godly. And those who have no God consciousness, they are demonic, or satanic. So these two classes of men are…

Svarupa Damodara: We should take knowledge from Krsna. Prabhupada: Yes. Svarupa Damodara: And Prabhupada. Prabhupada: Yes. Prabhupada is giving you the same knowledge, that’s all. There is no question of cheating. I have received this knowledge from Krsna, and you take this. That’s all. My business is finished. Kirtanananda: Things equal to the same thing…

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada was traveling trough Orissa with his disciples, one day as he was coming back from the Saksi Gopal temple, some people on the way asked for alms from the married men who accompanied Srila Prabhupada, but none of them gave anything. Seeing this, Srila Prabhupada (Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati) stopped, sat down, and…

This is reposted from Gauranga Kishore Prabhu's blog.  Look at the picture below and you can see where this guy broke through the guardrail, right side where the people are standing on the road. The pick-up was traveling from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail. It flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet,…