ISKCON Connection Newsletter, ISSUE 27, August 5, 2018

Leadership Crisis by HH Bhakti Raghava Swami - Question: ...is there any use of propagating Ayurveda, Yoga and things like that, to attract people or better we should represent pure devotional service? - Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold Named One of the Most Beautiful Places in the U.S. - Gopal Agarwal, Prabhupada's Initial Sponsor in the West, Passes Away - Adventures in Mail Order by HG Swarupa Das

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Prabhupada Nectar

Love and devotion to Krishna is the purifying agent and nullifies all the bad effects of this age of Kali yuga

"Just try to understand how much degraded this age is. One of the anomolies,- of this Kali yuga is that our foodstuffs have been grown with so many chemicals, etc. Actually nothing in this Kali yuga is pure. The soil is polluted, the air, so many things as well as man's motives, but by firmly establishing our Krishna Consciousness Movement all over the world, such unfavorable conditions can be terminated.

That is our program. So for the present we must tolerate such conditions. Actually, these are material considerations only. By offering our foodstuffs to Krishna with love and devotion, Krishna says he wiil accept and it becomes spiritually purified because he is the supreme pure. So love and devotion to Krishna is the purifying agent and nullifies all the bad effects of this age of Kali yuga. Simply let as offer to Krishna with love and devotion and chant the -Hare Krishna Mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare) and our very existence will become purified."

710128 - Letter to Edith written from Allahabad

ISKCON News

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Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold Named One of the Most Beautiful Places in the U.S.

The popular website INSIDER recently published a list of “The 30 Most Beautiful Places to See in the U.S.,” “from breathtaking natural wonders to architectural marvels built by...Read More

Gopal Agarwal, Prabhupada's Initial Sponsor in the West, Passes Away

On July 31st, Gopal Agarwal, husband of Sally and father of two daughters, Srila Prabhupada’s first sponsor in the West, left his body due to old age afflictions...Read More

Dandavats

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Leadership Crisis by HH Bhakti Raghava Swami

A few years ago, while pursuing my postgraduate studies at USM in Penang, I happen to glance over the front page of the local newspaper to read the following headlines in large capital letters: WANTED: LEADERS. Srila Prabhupada: “Ordinarily, the spiritual master, husband, father, mother or superior relative accepts worship from an inferior relative, but here Rshabhadeva forbids this. First the father, spiritual master or husband must be able to release the dependent from repeated birth and death... Read More

Adventures in Mail Order by HG Swarupa Das

Even if someone simply wrote that they were interested in Hare Krishna or Krishna Consciousness and only requested information I'd send them a personal reply inviting and encouraging them to read Prabhupada's books, chant Hare Krishna and write to me with any questions they might have. This personal touch was reinforced by Srila Prabhupada a few years later in L.A. We were giving him a tour of the BBT offices and warehouse facility and he was asking me how many letters we were getting every day... Read More

Question: ...is there any use of propagating Ayurveda, Yoga and things like that, to attract people or better we should represent pure devotional service?

Answer by His Holiness Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami... Read More

TOVP News

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Splendour in the Grass Festival and TOVP Share Something in Common

What do the Splendour in the Grass Music Festival in Australia and TOVP have in common? Remarkably, devotees from New Govardhana Farm have set up a Govinda’s prasadam stall there with a theme representing the TOVP itself as the shape of the stall...Read More