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Dear Devotees,
 
Jaya Srila Prabhupada. On the last day of 2010, I wish you all a wonderful Krishna conscious 2011. For me, the greatest and most inspiring challenge in the coming year is to strengthen ISKCON in the western world.
 
When I joined the movement in 1969, ISKCON seemed like a North American movement with branches in Europe, Australia and East Asia.
 
In 1970 Srila Prabhupada dramatically established ISKCON in India. The movement also spread throughout East and Southeast Asia.
 
Prabhupada planted a transcendental seed in the Soviet Union which blossomed into a huge, powerful mission throughout Russia and other CIS countries.
 

Contentment personified, Ishmael stood before me like a warm fire. The rain sodden door step on which he stood began to dry out, so intense was this man’s satisfaction. Alternately I experienced all the warmth of a penguin’s bottom before the onset of global warming. “God cannot have a form” he said “If God had … Read more

  No trace of exploitation should be traced in us. We should not run after any type of enjoyment including even the enjoyment of‚ God-association. We must be fully purged of the enjoying spirit. If a trace of enjoyment remains in us, we shall have to remain in one of the planes of this brahmanda, … Read more

  Today we’ll begin to address the ongoing Gulf oil situation. Of course, everyone is following the news each day, although a surprising number of people still get all their news from main stream media (MSM). The community of devotees is often better informed on social and political issues because we aren’t blind to the … Read more

  In Indian philosophy, the Sanskrit term naya-samgraha generally refers to a summary of political wisdom. The term samgraha-naya is likewise used to describe ‘looking at things in a general way’, or from a common sense point of view. Samgraha means ‘bringing together, assembling, grasping’, as in closing one’s hand around a group of things, … Read more