Naamhat- Vedic Cultural Center

By: HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj, Gitanagari Hare Kåñëa It is always very enlivening to come to New Dvarika dham and be with you’ll. This temple has a very beautiful flavour which is very unique. Çréla Prabhupäda used to consider this temple to be the head quarters of ISKCON and in a way it is the head quarters of ISKCON. BBT used to be here, faith used to be here and all the wonderful devotees are already here. Prabhu is such a wonderful example and there are so many Prabhupada disciples here which are also very rare nowadays so it’s always very enlivening to be here. So today I have selected two verses from Çré Caitanya-caritämåta .  This is from the Ädi-lélä third chapter. The few verses not just these two but few more verses from this chapter actually describes who Kåñëa is, what is the purpose of Kåñëa’s coming as Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu and also through these verses we can see that Çréla Prabhupäda gave us everything. Sometimes some individuals claim that Prabhupa...

oà ajïäna-timirändhasya jïänäïjana-çaläkayä cakñur unmélitaà yena tasmai çré-gurave namaù Srila Prabhupada came to this world to fulfill the prediction of Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krishna Himself. Krishna appeared again, soon after His Vrindavan pastimes on this planet, in order to make us understand the secret of Krishna’s Vrindavan pastimes. He came to give us the rare gift of Krishna prema or Vraja prema. So this is how Krishna made this arrangement so that we can experience this loving relationship with Krishna and the residents of Vrindavan. Appearing as a devotee and assuming the loving devotional mood and complexion of Srimati Radharani, Krishna appears as Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu and distributed Krishna prema.   namo maha-vadanyaya krishna-prema-pradaya te Krishna prema, which is rare for Lord Brahma and even rare for Lord Shiva, was distributed by Krishna as Sr...

By:  Vallabha Chaitan ya. Nepal Vedic texts say there is life on moon and scientists say they have reached and found it barren.. An analysis: ****************** Veda says men can never reach moon at divine level but scientists have claimed to have reached there and found it barren. How to accept these two controversies? Instead of accepting one and to disregard another, dont we have a common agreeable point? Modern science sees the moon as a lifeless satellite, whereas Vedic science sees it as Chandraloka, a higher-dimensional planet inhabited by higher beings. What could be the reason? Imagine two transparent glass beakers, one containing white chalk powder and the other, black charcoal powder. If we mix the two powders, we will get a grey mixture. But if we see the same mixture under a microscope, the grey particles will disappear; we will see only white and black particles. Which is the reality? What we see varies with our scale of observation. What ...

9th June '17, Medolago, Italy, On the auspicious Snan Yatra of the Lord Sri Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra, His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada bestowed His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj the renounced/ sanyasa order of life 40 years earlier. On this auspicious occassion this year Sri Guru Maharaj HH Bhakti Charu Swami addressing a gathering of devotees at Medolago, Italy, a place known as the Oasis of Srila Prabhupadadesh  spoke so beautifully over his feelings on receiving  sannyasa  and shared the most important instructions that Srila Prabhupada imparted on him. Below is the essence of the address. Guru Maharaja started off by sharing how certain GBC members were opposed to his  sannyasa  initiation, because he had been in the movement for just a little while.  Sri Guru Maharaja said: “ I was cooking in the kitchen,  Tamal Krishna Maharaja and Bhavananda Maharaja came to me.  Tamal Krishna Maharaja’s expres...

From Back to Godhead By Sivarama Swami What is the effect of chanting Hare Krishna? The names of the Lord in the maha-mantra Hare, Krishna, and rama are invested with His full potencies. Singing God’s names, therefore, is to contact Him through the medium of transcendental sound. Thus, the effect of chanting is the same as the effect of directly associating with the Lord. The following beautiful verse, written by Lord caitanya, describes the seven effects the Hare Krishna mantra has on chanters. A Film poster of Hare Krishna 50 year celebrations ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam sreyan-kairava-candrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri-Krishna-sankirtanam “Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon ...