Naamhat- Vedic Cultural Center

Despite The Beatles incredible fame and fortune, due to the pressures of touring and the constant attention from public and media, peace of mind and happiness had escaped them. So, in 1967 they travelled to Rishikesh. This trip to India was part of a sudden fascination of everything Indian by the vibrant and searching youth of the late 1960s.' Srila Prabhupad, George Harrison and his wife Soon, however, The Beatles returned to London, developing a taste for the Vedic cultural spirituality, but not finding full satisfaction. George continued his search and meanwhile Shyamasundar das, Mukunda das and other disciples of Srila Prabhupada moved to London in order to establish a temple. In 1969, both George and Shyamasundar das had their wishes fulfilled when they met at a function at Apple Records. After spending some time together, George invited Shyamasundar das to his house and the relationship began from there. When Srila Prabhupada arrived in Britain both George and John w...

March 17/12.   'Yes, come to me! I can do anything and everything for you'. ''These are the words of assurance  I got the Lord speaking within me and are realized practically'' , said Nomita a Pakisthani lady whose prayers are fulfilled by their Lordship Sri Jaganath Baladev and Subhadra and Sri Radhamadanamohan, the deities of Naamhat Boxtel. Nomita with her husband, reunited by the Lord A few months earlier Nomita came to this Vedic cultural program with her sister and her two daughters. She was feeble and appear frustrated. She told that she has been trying to get her husband Ramesh reunited in The Netherlands. But eight years of efforts did not result to anything. She borrowed loan of about three thousand Euro and paid the lawyer who is pursuing the family reunion. The answer she gets is that; 'you have to have a job, good income and a large house to have your husband reunited with you'. This was next to impossible since Nomita has little child...

If you ask me for the talisman that can make you happy, healthy and rich, I will recommend the divine talisman, the touchstone for your soul and that is the Mahamantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. This mantra is the concluding essence of the Vedas. This mantra is the real Gyan or knowledge. This mantra opens up your divine eye. Chant this mantra and you feel the reaity. When I first landed in Holland from a remote country, the Kingdom of Bhutan, I found myself in hell. I had no one, no money, no more cloth than what I was wearing- a trouser with holes at my back, a shirt and a jacket given by someone in the street. I was bereaved from my families and countrymen and dropped in the strange place that is totally opposite to where I was grown up. By fortune and also thorough my own efforts and enthusiasm to Vedic culture, one day I met a devotee of ISKCON.  Then onwards my life began to change to better. My overall ...

Gaur Purnima is celebrated as the most auspicious day by Vaisnava tradition of Sanatan Dharan. This year Gaura Purnima is on 8th March, Thursday. In some parts, it is also observed as the Holi festival. This festival is observed with joy and pomt with color in reverence to the past times of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna in one of His past times in Vrindavan. The most significance behind this celebrations is the appearance day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He is Sri Krishna Himself appeared more than five hundered years ago in Mayapur, India in the mood of Radharani, the queen of supreme devotion. Sri Caitanya appeared to teach the application of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is that was retold to Arjun more than five thousand years ago. He is accomanied by Nitya Nanda, non other than Sri Balaram or Ananta Sesa. Naamhat Boxtel organises on 8th March cultural program to obeserve this auspicuous day along with you. You are warmly wecome at Naamhat Boxtel, The Netherlands. The Program bwgins at ...

'At times of frustation and difficulties I like to do Japa and then I experiance peace in my mind ', says Karna Hamal a regular visitor of the Naamhat Boxtel. He says, ' when I chant Hare Krishna Mahamantra, I feel that my problems are insignificant ones and won't devastate my life;. This realization is indeed the begining of self realization- that one need to purify and spiritualize ones' existence by reciting the Holy name; the dharma of this modern age of quarrel, the kali yuga.  Karna Hamal In my line of duty at the Home Ministry, I met Karna Hamal few years ago going back to his camp after his asylum hearing. Knowing by appearance that he is a Nepali, I spoke with him and inquired if he likes to visit a temple. He agreed and came to Naamhat Boxtel together. Getting along for few days gave the understanding that among the millions of Nepalese spread all over the world, Karna appeared to me terribly simple person. So simple that he can't express his own ...

The books that imparts the  trancendental wisdom has the power of protection to entire living entities . Such books are those rendered by Srila Prabhupada into more than eighty languages, the truthful understanding of the Vedic literature.His books has been protecting people of all races who read with posetive attitude, from dwindling into materialistic hedodenism and securing them to the path of divine trancendental acquisition that qualifies one to attain the liberation from repeated birth, aging, diseases and death that modern education and scientific manouver faild to give the right answer. In short, it is protecting one from sin and turn one's life to divine and trancendental happiness over the years. Yet few could really analyse the difference and put them into record. A Phd student of Michigan Technological University, Ankit Vora felt the divine protection from falling into difficulties during one of his  recent flight from India to USA. He wrote recently on Istagho...