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2011 / #45-03
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WelcomeIn this issue, Mohini Radha Devi Dasi's article "Our Hidden Treasure" describes how Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, using an allegory, revealed that the ultimate goal of life is bhakti, or pure love for God, Krsna. Sometimes peLettersKirtana Practice In response to "Tone Deaf Bhakta's" letter in the March/April issue, I would like to let him know that when I was a young devotee in Hamburg, Germany, in the early days of the movement, I was once requesFounder's Lecture - Everything Is Not OneNairobi, Kenya, November 1, 1975 In describing His two categories of energy, Lord Krsna refutes the ideas of Mayavada philosophers and modern scientists. apareyam itas tv anyam prakrtim viddhi me param jiva-bhutam maha-bSrila Prabhupada Speaks OutNo Spiritual Pleasure by Merging This conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, one of his disciples, and a lawyer took place in August 1976 on an early-morning walk in Hyderabad, India.In Your Own WordsWhat can we do to reciprocate with Srila Prabhupada for what he has given us? Srila Prabhupada taught us how to connect to Sri Krsna by calling out His name in japa, and we should reciprocate by being eager to connect toe-KrishnaThe ISKCON News TV Channel—www.dandavats.com/haribol—presents videos and news stories by and for devotees of Krsna. The use of video by devotees to share news of programs and festivals is on the increase as the technologHow I Came to Krsna ConsciousnessThank God I Am Not God God unable to help himself? A banker realizes the folly of impersonalism. By Kalanidhi Dasa I came to know about ISKCON as a serious spiritual movement in the year 2002. A senior executive in the SVaisnava Family Love and AffectionBy Krsna Nandini Devi Dasi Focusing our love on Krsna doesn't mean indifference to those around us, especially our families. Picture this: Srimati Devi comes home from school one afternoon so quietly that her mother, SudIn Vrindavan with a Hundred ForeignersBy Meera Khurana They came for yoga and discovered bhakti. India is known as punya bhumi, "the land of spiritual merit," because of its many holy places. Among them, Vrindavan, the land of Krsna in the Mathura district oOur Hidden TreasureSri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s parable of the astrologer and the poor man shows us how to uncover the ultimate treasure hidden within our hearts. By Mohini Radha Devi Dasi Do you know that you are the heir to an immense fortuPrabhupada at the Avalon BallroomBy Mukunda Goswami In January 1967, Srila Prabhupada, along with counterculture icon Allen Ginsberg, introduced hundreds of San Francisco hippies to the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra. Our publicity worked. At 7:45 onDoctors of HappinessBy Ravindra Svarupa Dasa A Harvard professor discovers something about happiness that Vedic sages knew long ago. Derived from assiduous research into human happiness, the findings of Dr. Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psycholVedic ObserverTrue Heroism By Suvarna Radhika Devi Dasi A Hollywood super-couple breaks up. Monetary negotiations, the division of property, and even the division of children follow, in a blatant display of egoism and unfaithfulness. Mother Earth: Holder and Giver of WealthBy Visakha Devi Dasi A life that allows us to reunite with mother earth and offer her products to Krsna favors our spiritual growth. Srila Prabhupada writes, "Whatever is taken from the earth—either from the mines, from Just to Embrace a TreeBy Yugavatara Dasa A sole tree in New York City inspires a young Indian medical student to travel to the USA. When I was studying in medical school, like many Indians I developed the desire to visit the USA, just to see Hare Krishna TreeThis text appears on a plaque under the tree where Prabhupada held the first public kirtanas in the West. One of Tompkins Square Park’s most prominent features is its collection of venerable American elm (Ulmus americana