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WelcomeLast August, Kolkata's 15,000-seat Netaji Indoor Stadium was filled beyond capacity–twice–to commemorate Srila Prabhupada's departure for America in 1965. In this issue, "Celebrating Prabhupada's Historic Journey" reportLettersFinding My Role in Life Many of my family members are devotees of Lord Krsna. I am always told that this world is not real and that we all are playing a role in life. I have lost myself. Can you please help me? Pronab ViFounder's Lecture - Take Shelter of DevotionNovember 23, 1966, New York City To enter a true loving relationship with Krsna, we have stop seeing Him as our order-supplier. kabhu svarge uṭhāya, kabhu narake ḍubāya daṅḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya "In the materiaLearn to Love the Natural Mode of LifeThis conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place at New Vrindaban, West Virginia, on June 24, 1976. Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, once you said, "The tracA Pause for PrayerLet me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-auspicious Lord Sri Krsna, about whom glorification, remembrances, audience, prayers, hearing, and worship can at once cleanse the effects of all sins of the performer. The Soul, Its Condition, and Its Path to FreedomBy Akshay Gupta Self-realization entails knowing not only who we are, but also how to free ourselves from our state of bondage. From birth to death we constantly change our body. The body we have now is different from thAkshay Gupta is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Kirtan Course: A Transformative Experience by Cintamani Madhavi Devi Dasi A young devotee from Chile travels to Belgium to increase her enthusiasm for chanting the holy names. In 2012 I had to move from the town where I Vaishnaviministry.orgWebsites come in all shapes and sizes. Some are encyclopedic and contain large amounts of information. Others are called "landing pages" and contain just enough information to whet your appetite and point you elsewhere fBBC Meditation 3by Krsna Dharma Dasa The author has been a regular British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) contributor since 1998. BBC Radio 2, where these meditations are aired, attracts from one million to eight million listeners, depeVaisnava CompassionBy Mayapura-sasi Dasa Vaisnava acts of compassion are valuable even when apparently not on the level of transcendence. Pure Vaisnavas care deeply. They feel the suffering of others in the core of their hearts. Their greaNot Your Everyday Godby Navina Syama Dasa Krsna is far more colorful and captivating than what most people expect of God. God. Perhaps no word in the English language is laden with more emotional baggage. For some it conjures reveries of graCelebrating Prabhupada's Historic Journeyby Radharamana Dasa On the morning of 13 August 1965, at the Khidirpur dock in Kolkata, Srila Prabhupada boarded the cargo ship Jaladuta to embark on a long and difficult voyage across the Indian and Atlantic oceans. OnlA Facelift for Prabhupada's Palace of GoldBy Satyaraja Dasa (Archival research by Chaitanya Mangala Dasa) In the 1970s a dedicated group of devotees cooperated to build it; now a new group is determined to restore it to its former glory. In the summer of 1965 HiBook ExcerptHow to Mess Up Your Life with Astrology by Sri Radha Govinda Dasi Astrology is a tool that can help us materially and spiritually, provided we know how to use it. [Footnote on first page: Adapted from How to Mess Up YourSrila Prabhupada: Our Founder-AcaryaHis Varnasrama Challenge By Suresvara Dasa While spreading Krsna consciousness worldwide, Srila Prabhupada used the Sanskrit term varnasrama at least four ways, and applied it differently to ISKCON over three time periodFrom the EditorSrila Prabhupada the Preacher At the time Srila Prabhupada left India for America, a superstition among the religious in India held that a sannyasi should never cross the ocean. The rationale apparently was that the decaVedic ThoughtsIn ignorance, people are imagining the form of the Lord; sometimes He has no form and sometimes He has form, according to their different imaginations. But the presentation of Krsna in the Brahma-saṁhitā is vijnana–scien