Naamhat- Vedic Cultural Center

'The principle of Sankirtan, as the future church of the world, invites all classes of men without distinction of caste, creed or clan to the highest cultivation of spirit.This church will extend all over the world and take place of all sectarian churches which exclude outsiders from the precincts of their mosque, church or temple'.  - Bhaktivinode Thakur, 1896. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Jay Sridham Mayapur. The land of the Golden Avatar. The place where the Supreme Lord’s inconceivable pastimes took place.  And the Global Headquarters of Srila Prabhupada’s International Society for Krishna Consciousness.  Festival season, and Kirtan Mela peaks in a frenzy of harinam sankirtan and ecstatic dancing – both in the temple and rocking on every street corner. Every few meters in this bustling Vedic city, we pay our obeisances to extremely elevated Vaishnava personalities.  Here, it was announced on 17th February 2015 that His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami ...

20-10-14, NL. In Brabant, zijn er drie Krishna bewustzijn beoefening centra's; in Eindhoven, Breda en in Boxtel. Altar in De Rots De Naamhat Boxtel trokken afgelopen zaterdag in een kleine optocht van het station naar Gemeenschapshuis de Rots. Daar werd vervolgens in een volle zaal de hele middag gezongen ter ere van Krishna. Er werden tv-opnames gemaakt door Villa Achterwerk van de VPRO. En het Brabants Dagblad deed verslag. Maandag stond de onderstaande artikel op de voorpagina van de krant: Verderop in de krant een uitgebreid verslag, waarvan we de tekst hieronder mogen publiceren. De krant had ook mooie foto's gemaakt, die vanwege copyrights helaas niet op deze blog mogen. Het filmpje en de foto hierover zijn van mede-toegewijden. Een enkel feit in onderstaand artikel klopt niet helemaal (de "god in een perkje van plastic bloemetjes" is in werkelijkheid  Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ), maar het artikel van journalist Joop van der Pol is geschreve...

16-8-14 . 'If you want to see the practice of love - the loving exchange between the people of all background, race and religion, without any tinge of lust and ego, you attened the retreat His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj organises in different parts of the world every year' said Yasoda Priya mataji, a Belgian devotess speaking with the participants of the Naamhat program in Boxtel, Holland. She is relating her observations of the retreat held in Malaga, Spain early this month.  Yasoda with her Guru maharaj 'In the retreat, one takes up the problems of the others, if any problems arises and everyone tries to see how to make the people nearby happy', she said, relating to many organisational work and arrangements for the participants more than two hundred of them. Really, if that type of disposition is adopted by everyone, there will be no problems in the families and the society at large. And, 'it is always practical' keeping the Lord Krishna in the ...

In the last canto of the Bhagavata Purana there is a list of predictions and prophecies about the dark times for the present age of Kali Yuga. The following 15 predictions, written 5,000 years ago by sage Vedavyasa, are amazing because they appear so accurate. Despite the negative tone of these prophecies, there is still one bright spot for all of us, which is mentioned at the end. Prediction 1: Religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will all diminish day by day becaus of the powerful influence of the age of Kali. Source: Srimad Bhagavatam 12.2.1 sri-suka uvaca tatas canu-dinam dharmah satyam saucam ksama daya kalena balina rajan nanksyaty ayur balam smrtih Prediction 2: In Kali Yuga, wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man's good birth, proper behaviour and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one's power. Source: Srimad Bhagavatam 12.2.2 vittam ev...

15/03/14 Kirtan Connect- a  congregational singing the holy name Maha mantra- Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare was overwhelmingly successful with more than a hundred participants and singers from different countries, see fotos 

  Lecture given by His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami  24/10/97 Switzerland ISKCON. Thank you very much for giving us this opportunity to get to know you all. Hare Krishna. Is everyone comfortably situated? Our movement is very small now but very soon there will be a time when we will have huge temples everywhere, where we can accommodate thousands of people. In Mayapur, we are building a temple where in one hall we can seat twenty five thousand people and that is just one section of the hall. That will be the largest temple in the world and we will start our construction in the year 2000. This movement is only about thirty, thirty-one years old in the West. Srila Prabhupada came to America in 1965 and he set up ISKCON in 1966. Within ten years time, Srila Prabhupada spread this movement all over the world. In that respect, we can remember that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu predicted that this Krishna consciousness movement will spread in every town and village. That Caitany...

Source: BCSistagosti, Volume 12, Chapter 1 By Indradyumna Swami          “Your Deep Compassion”      Dearest Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. Thirty four years ago today you departed from our material vision.  Although the departures of pure devotees are celebrated as glorious in  the vaisnava tradition, I honestly have never felt this to be a day of festivities. Instead of celebrating, I feel more comfortable spending time alone remembering your pastimes amongst us and reflecting on my service  to your divine mission. Of course, it was natural that you would leave one day. My godbrother Pita dasa relates in his memoirs how, a few days before your departure, he heard you ask a group of devotees at your bedside, “Why are you all crying?” “Because you are so sick, Srila Prabhupada,” one of the devotees replied. “We are afraid you may leave.” It was then that you made a...