<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047</id><updated>2009-11-28T08:04:19.897-08:00</updated><title type='text'>UNIVERSAL ISKCON</title><subtitle type='html'>The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly known as the Hare Krsna movement, is a worldwide association of devotees of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The movement's main purpose is to promote the wellbeing of human society by teaching the science of God conciousness (Krsna conciousness) accourding to the timeless Vedic scriptures of India</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>299</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-5455882419916759499</id><published>2009-11-28T08:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-28T08:04:19.908-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gita Jayanthi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SxFJyO2VbnI/AAAAAAAACns/KaKT2rwh2-Q/s1600/BG.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SxFJyO2VbnI/AAAAAAAACns/KaKT2rwh2-Q/s400/BG.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409185754776956530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Toda is Gita Jayanthi- the day of advent of Bhagavad Gita. I came across this very interesting story on glories of reading Bhagavad-gita, which is quite deep in its meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson.  Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading His  Bhagavad  Geetha.  His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavath Geetha  just like you but I don't understand it,  and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book.  What good does reading the Bhagavath Geetha do?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and  replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The randfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it  was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead. The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"So you think it is useless?"  The old man said, "Look at the basket."  The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bhagavath Gita. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Krishna in our lives."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After you cleaned, now you can able to understand the meaning and know your loopholes(bad habits - impurity) inside us and we try to fill(close) that holes after that we become fulfilled for lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-5455882419916759499?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/5455882419916759499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=5455882419916759499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5455882419916759499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5455882419916759499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/11/gita-jayanthi.html' title='Gita Jayanthi'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SxFJyO2VbnI/AAAAAAAACns/KaKT2rwh2-Q/s72-c/BG.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-4363999927611237574</id><published>2009-10-12T17:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T17:47:30.148-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Orleans Ratha Yatra 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/StPN2AUnsZI/AAAAAAAACnk/tKebAeDShsw/s1600-h/Ratha-yatra-NO.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/StPN2AUnsZI/AAAAAAAACnk/tKebAeDShsw/s400/Ratha-yatra-NO.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391879506575733138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For detail contact:&lt;br /&gt;Subarata Das @ 504-343-8492&lt;br /&gt;                                      Divyagopal Das @ 504-338-6775&lt;br /&gt;                           Sarvatarak Das @ 504-975-9960&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-4363999927611237574?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/4363999927611237574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=4363999927611237574' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/4363999927611237574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/4363999927611237574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-orleans-ratha-yatra-2009.html' title='New Orleans Ratha Yatra 2009'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/StPN2AUnsZI/AAAAAAAACnk/tKebAeDShsw/s72-c/Ratha-yatra-NO.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-8047907754277910127</id><published>2009-10-10T16:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T17:04:23.366-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gaura Purnima 2010 – Festival Schedule.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/StEg8E9Y3ZI/AAAAAAAACnc/o8pwTDWG9X0/s1600-h/gaura-purnima.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/StEg8E9Y3ZI/AAAAAAAACnc/o8pwTDWG9X0/s400/gaura-purnima.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391126445434658194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Posted below is the Mayapur Gaura Purnima 2010 festival schedule. The festival begins with inauguration on 14 February and continues upto 1 st March. Gaura Purnima falls on 28th February. To commemorate the 500 years of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Sannyasa anniversary, devotees will visit Katwa- the place where Mahaprabhu took Sannyas on 27th February.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;3  Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati’s apperance day. HH Gour Govinda Maharaja’s disappearance day.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="30%"&gt;6 -17 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;GBC meetings&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;13 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Devotees Arrival&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;14 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Festival Inauguration&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;15 - 17 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Panca-tattva Abhisheka of the Holy Name Cultural programs,  Sponsored Sat-sanga Seminars&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;15 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;HH Tamal Krishna Goswami’s Disappearance Congregational Preaching Night&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;16 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Book Distribution Awards&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;17 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Parikrama Adhivasa, afternoon visiting Yogapitha&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;18-24 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;24 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Sri Sri Radha-Madhava Boat Festival&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;24 - 27 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Festivities and Cultural programs&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;25 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ganga Puja&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;26 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Santipur festival&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;27 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Visit Katwa to commemorate 500 years of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sannyas, Immersion of Ashes of Departed Souls, Elephant Procession&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;28 Feb&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ratha Yatra Gaura Purnima&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;1  Mar&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Jagannath Mishra’s Feast&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2  Mar&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Devotees Depart&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;      &lt;div class="links"&gt;    &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-8047907754277910127?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/8047907754277910127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=8047907754277910127' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8047907754277910127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8047907754277910127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/10/gaura-purnima-2010-festival-schedule.html' title='Gaura Purnima 2010 – Festival Schedule.'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/StEg8E9Y3ZI/AAAAAAAACnc/o8pwTDWG9X0/s72-c/gaura-purnima.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-2648950381125015650</id><published>2009-10-09T15:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T15:18:50.593-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gopastami</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Ss-2eZBu3xI/AAAAAAAACnU/IuyQrkgha5g/s1600-h/Gopastami.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Ss-2eZBu3xI/AAAAAAAACnU/IuyQrkgha5g/s400/Gopastami.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390727912216256274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-2648950381125015650?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/2648950381125015650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=2648950381125015650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/2648950381125015650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/2648950381125015650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/10/gopastami.html' title='Gopastami'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Ss-2eZBu3xI/AAAAAAAACnU/IuyQrkgha5g/s72-c/Gopastami.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-5501474074224006550</id><published>2009-10-08T12:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T12:19:46.899-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Diwali and Govardhana Puja</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Festival Begins at 12:00 Noon circumambulate Lights on the altar, Govardana Hill, hear the transcendental pastimes of Giridhari and Lord Rama.  Our Sunday School will have a transcendental auction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A must to attent !!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Ss5FRV6C6EI/AAAAAAAACnM/flYG5hTm8eY/s1600-h/govardhana-puja1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Ss5FRV6C6EI/AAAAAAAACnM/flYG5hTm8eY/s400/govardhana-puja1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390321968249759810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.newtalavana.org/" target="_blank"&gt;More info...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-5501474074224006550?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/5501474074224006550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=5501474074224006550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5501474074224006550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5501474074224006550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/10/diwali-and-govardhana-puja.html' title='Diwali and Govardhana Puja'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Ss5FRV6C6EI/AAAAAAAACnM/flYG5hTm8eY/s72-c/govardhana-puja1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-109072958584819763</id><published>2009-10-05T15:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T16:09:09.367-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Go-Puja 2009‏ - New Talavan Farm Community</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;Date: Saturday,  November 7th 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SspyZZ0oaPI/AAAAAAAACm8/pQkhwZHFymM/s1600-h/nt.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SspyZZ0oaPI/AAAAAAAACm8/pQkhwZHFymM/s400/nt.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389245684856154354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;Click on the picture to expand it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nckCElOgdik&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nckCElOgdik&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SspyIt7I9YI/AAAAAAAACm0/uvMFMwmfceM/s1600-h/nt.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-109072958584819763?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/109072958584819763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=109072958584819763' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/109072958584819763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/109072958584819763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/10/go-puja-2009-new-talavan-farm-community.html' title='Go-Puja 2009‏ - New Talavan Farm Community'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SspyZZ0oaPI/AAAAAAAACm8/pQkhwZHFymM/s72-c/nt.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-2339236249745855492</id><published>2009-09-26T10:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-26T10:15:37.425-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Online Puja</title><content type='html'>By gopijana &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="maincol"&gt;&lt;div class="node"&gt;    &lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the launch of online facility for offering Seva Puja&lt;/strong&gt; to Sri Sri Radha-Madhava, Sri Nrsimhadeva and Sri Pancha-tattva in Mayapur, many devotees are benefited and have expressed their happiness that though miles far away from Sri dham Mayapur, they were able to do puja in Mayapur. We know that Mayapur is special in the hearts of devotees. The unshaking faith , everyone of you, have in the mercy of Their Lordships is amazing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sr5L7e4x1zI/AAAAAAAACms/YScEusoCMFA/s1600-h/ONLPUJA.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sr5L7e4x1zI/AAAAAAAACms/YScEusoCMFA/s400/ONLPUJA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385825689657268018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Once you book the online puja, we will be intimating the deity department to reserve the seva for you. We will print out all the heart pouring mails ,which carry all your prayers and offer it at the lotus feet of the Lord and puajris read out this offerings during puja. After the puja is performed, we send you few Tulasi leaves that has decorated the lotus feet of the Lord to you by post- the mercy of Mayapur dham all the way reaching to you at your doors. To facilitate the devotees, we have set up a separate gmail account &lt;a href="mailto:mayapuronlinepuja@gmail.com"&gt;mayapuronlinepuja@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; to send all your queires and reservation of pujas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For us, it is very enlivening service and spiritually uplifting experience as the blessings earned by the service to vasianvas service are much needed to keep us in the devotional track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To reach this mercy to many souls starving for it, we are placing this online puja at a prominent place in our site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To know the details of various pujas and sevas available, &lt;a href="http://mayapur.com/node/1189" target=""&gt;click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Book Online&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://mayapur.com/?q=civicrm/contribute/transact&amp;amp;reset=1&amp;amp;action=preview&amp;amp;id=38" target="_blank"&gt;Puja here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can also sponsor for monthly puja for Nrsimha deva on a specific date or on your wedding anniversary, birthday or some special occasion or in memory of any dear departed ones. After making the payment, kindly send us the following details by mail to &lt;a href="mailto:mayapuronlinepuja@gmail.com"&gt;mayapuronlinepuja@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;ul&gt; Name of the beneficiary:&lt;br /&gt;Gotra:&lt;br /&gt;Puja type:&lt;br /&gt;Date :&lt;br /&gt;Occasion:&lt;br /&gt;Your complete postal address:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;just add="" the="" below="" line="" in="" your="" mail="" and="" we="" will="" remind="" you="" a="" month="" before="" with="" puja=""&gt;&lt;/just&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;Yes, I would like to perform this puja every year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-2339236249745855492?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/2339236249745855492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=2339236249745855492' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/2339236249745855492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/2339236249745855492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/09/online-puja.html' title='Online Puja'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sr5L7e4x1zI/AAAAAAAACms/YScEusoCMFA/s72-c/ONLPUJA.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-6726485099277451633</id><published>2009-09-16T21:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T22:00:16.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pung Cholom Manipuri Drums</title><content type='html'>Brilliant "Pung Cholom" performance presented by artists of Manipur Jagoi Marup. " Pung" is a unique drum that is the soul of vaishnavite sankirtana music of Manipur. Usually performed by a group of male drummers, it demands a combination of dance, rythmn, acrobatics, and skilful coordination between the performing group-members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KRbS5lfJFjk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KRbS5lfJFjk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-6726485099277451633?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/6726485099277451633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=6726485099277451633' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6726485099277451633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6726485099277451633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/09/pung-cholom-manipuri-drums.html' title='Pung Cholom Manipuri Drums'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-1978953790598165071</id><published>2009-09-15T20:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T08:46:20.091-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Festival of India 2009 - Utah</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" &gt;by Amrita Gopal Das&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;“Breathtaking!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I’m speechless! Such a beautiful festival!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;    “Captivating.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.utahkrishnas.com/ppic/Image/Ravana%20Burns%20web%281%29.jpg" alt="" vspace="3" width="264" border="2" height="396" hspace="3" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;     These are a sample of the comments recorded in the guestbook signed by hundreds of visitors to the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. The Rajastani-style center—the only one of its kind in the state—held the annual Festival of India celebration on Saturday, September 12th. Welcoming a crowd of over three thousand, Caru dasa and Vaibhavi Devi Dasi (both disciples of Srila Prabhupada) along with one hundred local volunteers manifested the spirit of India: serve the people loads of prasadam, crank up the krsna-kirtana and encourage cheers and claps when Ravana’s giant body is scorched to bits by flaming arrows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.utahkrishnas.com/ppic/Image/Ram%20Sita%20Lakshmana%202%20web.jpg" alt="" vspace="3" width="396" align="absMiddle" border="2" height="233" hspace="3" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;     Situated in a gorgeous valley surrounded on all sides by picturesque mountains, the Krishna Temple is well-known as the “place to be” throughout the year, mainly because of the various festivals that are held here. This year’s Festival of India attracted all types: energetic college students, families spanning two or three generations, and many curious and open-minded Mormons. Utah has a strong link with the Mormon Church, and their theology and lifestyle shares some important elements with Krishna consciousness. Preaching was brisk and joyful, as the festival participants were eager to learn more about the cultural and spiritual origins of the festival. Distributing Bhagavad-gita to many of the philosophically-inclined visitors was easy, since the Mormons appreciate authoritative literature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.utahkrishnas.com/ppic/Image/Mantra%20Rock%20Band%20web.jpg" alt="" vspace="3" width="396" border="2" height="264" hspace="3" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;     And what to speak of the chanting! Kesava-Acarya dasa, a renowned kirtaneer from New York, along with Sri Ram on mrdanga sweetly sang the Lord’s Holy Name to the backdrop of a brilliantly setting sun. Later on in the evening a group of local devotees got everybody dancing to rock-style kirtana. Inside the temple room different groups of chanters led the packed crowds in non-stop harinama. “I thought the roof was going to cave in at one point because of all the dancing,” said Vaibhavi Devi Dasi. In addition to the all-auspicious chanting, young dancers from Abhinaya Company in San Jose, California, charmed the crowd with several styles of traditional dance. On the main stage devotees performed scenes from the Ramayana. Plus rows of booths offering such services as henna and Indian dress created an otherworldly atmosphere enjoyed by all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;     The festival’s finale was especially spectacular: a 20-foot effigy of Ravana disintegrated into fiery shards before the delighted crowd. A glittery fireworks display capped off the evening. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mercy and fun were the words of the day…all for $3 a head!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.utahkrishnas.com/ppic/Image/Deities%20web.jpg" alt="" vspace="3" width="360" border="2" height="240" hspace="3" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.utahkrishnas.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Utah Krishnas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://beattytown.blogspot.com/2008/10/india-fest.html" target="_blank"&gt;Beatty family Blog, India fest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y9WsP0BDwZQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y9WsP0BDwZQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w5_Li9OVNzE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w5_Li9OVNzE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-1978953790598165071?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/1978953790598165071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=1978953790598165071' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/1978953790598165071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/1978953790598165071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/09/festival-of-india-2009-utah.html' title='Festival of India 2009 - Utah'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-8583722260344076222</id><published>2009-09-14T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T08:46:07.621-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Varanasi x Benares x Kashi x India</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ta1cZYXMShI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ta1cZYXMShI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Varanasi, India aka Kashi aka Benares - The oldest inhabited city in the world. More than 5,000 years continuous history. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-8583722260344076222?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/8583722260344076222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=8583722260344076222' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8583722260344076222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8583722260344076222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/09/varanasi-x-benares-x-kashi-x-india.html' title='Varanasi x Benares x Kashi x India'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-3818938828041393641</id><published>2009-09-11T09:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T09:08:28.101-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mongolian Vedic Temple Construction Fund Raising Campaign Appeal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SqvHbC2qfFI/AAAAAAAACmc/gDhCL-GdB4I/s1600-h/mongolia2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SqvHbC2qfFI/AAAAAAAACmc/gDhCL-GdB4I/s400/mongolia2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380613447260732498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Radha Vinoda dasa: Dear devotees,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pamho! AgtSP!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am forwarding you the letter of the GBC secretary for Mongolia with the request that you kindly announce the Mongolian Temple Construction fund raising campaign on your site. Please, contact me if you’d require any further information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the GBC’s letter:&lt;br /&gt;———&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear devotees,&lt;br /&gt;Pamho! AgtSP!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you might know, there is a growing congregation of devotees, working hard to create facilities for practicing Krishna Consciousness in Mongolia. After having translated and printed thirteen titles of Srila Prabhupada’s books, including Bhagavad-gita and Krishna Book, and recently opened the first Govinda’s restaurant, the government granted the permission to register our society in Mongolia. The condition is that this can only be done if we build a temple first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On one hand a pleasant request, on the other hand a serious challenge for the Mongolian congregation. Although difficult, the congregation wants to cover the purchase of the land. However, for the construction of the temple they reach out for your help and support. I strongly feel that the devotees in Mongolia deserve our heartfelt encouragement and contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All donations are needed and appreciated, regardless of size. Kindly consider how important the work of the Mongolian congregation really is, and what positive impact a larger facility will have on those Mongolian devotees, who live presently with less than the bare necessities of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sqp1arquh2I/AAAAAAAACmU/yxng6Ttb3Gk/s1600-h/Mongolia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sqp1arquh2I/AAAAAAAACmU/yxng6Ttb3Gk/s400/Mongolia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380241806106462050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Please visit: http://www.mongolianvedictemple.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for your kind donation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your servant, AC. Bhaktivaibhava Swami&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-3818938828041393641?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/3818938828041393641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=3818938828041393641' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/3818938828041393641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/3818938828041393641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/09/mongolian-vedic-temple-construction.html' title='Mongolian Vedic Temple Construction Fund Raising Campaign Appeal'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SqvHbC2qfFI/AAAAAAAACmc/gDhCL-GdB4I/s72-c/mongolia2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-5019452204937217019</id><published>2009-09-05T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T11:51:58.731-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Video Sri Krishna</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pKpHenN7YWg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pKpHenN7YWg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-5019452204937217019?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/5019452204937217019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=5019452204937217019' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5019452204937217019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5019452204937217019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/09/video-sri-krishna.html' title='Video Sri Krishna'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-6969222204537897389</id><published>2009-08-29T08:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T14:23:10.528-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poem &amp; Video - Krsna‏</title><content type='html'>By: Subuddhi Krishna das&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my young students - Amrita from Wisconsin - has written a beautiful poem on Janmastami. She is just 11 years old. We have made a movie based on this poem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AGxk31GE2Ng&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AGxk31GE2Ng&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;______________________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another student - Apurva from North Carolina - has made a movie on Krishna. She is also 11 years old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vt-aLrHfduc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vt-aLrHfduc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Watch the majesty of Krishna - the Supreme Lord. It just gives you a small introduction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;I would like to thank Bhaktin Apurva Chopade for all the help. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your servant,&lt;br /&gt;Subuddhi Krishna das&lt;br /&gt;Greensboro - North Carolina&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-6969222204537897389?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/6969222204537897389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=6969222204537897389' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6969222204537897389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6969222204537897389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/08/poem-video-krsna.html' title='Poem &amp; Video - Krsna‏'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-1428284615761056266</id><published>2009-08-28T18:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-28T18:30:43.518-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Festival of India 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SpiDrf4bKwI/AAAAAAAACl8/S4Y3PyH4Ob0/s1600-h/247.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 360px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SpiDrf4bKwI/AAAAAAAACl8/S4Y3PyH4Ob0/s400/247.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375190938582461186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Utah Valley's  Krishna Temple, located on South Main St. in Spanish Fork, will host the 23rd Annual Festival of India on Saturday, September 12th from 4 pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 22 increasingly successful editions of the India Fest, few people in Utah County are ignorant of the fact  that, once a year, you can go to India without spending a lot of money. You can have India right in the middle, of all places, ... Spanish Fork!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 4,000 people attended last year's celebration, and India Fest 2009 could be the biggest one yet, thanks to the enthusiastic increase of promotional efforts on the part of the organizers, the majestic, overlooking presence of the Krishna temple at the festival site, and a natural amphitheater which can accommodate thousands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set around the Rajastani style, multi domed temple, the eight acre festival site will feature world class entertainment, cuisine, a gift shop, art, photography, cultural exhibits on India, a gala pageant of the epic Ramayana, the burning of a 20' high ten-headed demon named Ravana, and spectacular fireworks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.utahkrishnas.com/main/home.asp" target="_blank"&gt;More info...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-1428284615761056266?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/1428284615761056266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=1428284615761056266' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/1428284615761056266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/1428284615761056266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/08/festival-of-india-2009.html' title='Festival of India 2009'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SpiDrf4bKwI/AAAAAAAACl8/S4Y3PyH4Ob0/s72-c/247.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-3333561659041468749</id><published>2009-08-13T18:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T18:09:51.228-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sri Krishna Janmastami 2009</title><content type='html'>Janmastami festival is dedicated to Lord Sri Krishna. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g7BHG0odxeM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g7BHG0odxeM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-3333561659041468749?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/3333561659041468749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=3333561659041468749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/3333561659041468749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/3333561659041468749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/08/sri-krishna-janmastami-2009.html' title='Sri Krishna Janmastami 2009'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-8726655150208719216</id><published>2009-07-29T15:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T15:33:53.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mridanga girls</title><content type='html'>From the villages of Bengal, during a lila kirtan performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZIPJj2IqjdA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZIPJj2IqjdA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-8726655150208719216?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/8726655150208719216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=8726655150208719216' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8726655150208719216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8726655150208719216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/07/mridanga-girls.html' title='Mridanga girls'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-6142807175432463803</id><published>2009-07-16T21:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-16T21:56:55.038-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thailand Temple Video 3-D</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oqnPu9LL0ks&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oqnPu9LL0ks&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I now live here in Bangkok Thailand with my wife and children. Thailand is an amazing place, just two hours flight from India. People here are sensitive, cultured, kind and humble and un-like India, where greed is so rampant, most people look to serve and help you out from the kindness of their hearts. All worship our Param Guru Lord Brahma and are followers of Lord Buddhadeva and recognize Him as an incarnation of Vishnu. The remnants of Vedic culture are everywhere. I’ve spent the last two years designing a Temple complex here at a cost of half a million dollars. The project itself will cost an estimated one hundred million dollars. We hope to attract the world with this Temple Complex sitting of 250 acres of land and make it the center for Asia preaching operations. A self-sufficient, sustainable farm included. We want to create the world’s most beautiful gardens with Bhagavad Gita sculptures, hotels, world-class restaurants, Vedic Planetarium and more. Please down load the file to see the Temple 3-D, not completed with detail). There’s so much preaching to do here in Asia. There is Laos, Burma( where the government wants to give land for a Krishna Temple) Vietnam and Great China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-6142807175432463803?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/6142807175432463803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=6142807175432463803' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6142807175432463803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6142807175432463803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/07/thailand-temple-video-3-d.html' title='Thailand Temple Video 3-D'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-5592093500721376623</id><published>2009-07-13T21:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-16T21:41:10.729-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael Jackson Received Vaishnava Books</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SmAAn-XC-ZI/AAAAAAAAClc/Y8JYANJov94/s1600-h/MJ-Satya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SmAAn-XC-ZI/AAAAAAAAClc/Y8JYANJov94/s320/MJ-Satya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359284243325450642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In 1999 Satya devi dasi, of Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir in Brooklyn, New York, twice catered prasadam for the late Michael Jackson at private dinners for two with a man we know in New York City. &lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="flush"&gt; When she offered the singer a copy of the &lt;i&gt;Bhagavad-gita&lt;/i&gt; he said he already had the book. The host then asked if the book Jackson had was Srila Prabhupada's &lt;i&gt;Bhagavad-gita As It Is;&lt;/i&gt; Jackson confirmed that it was. When presented with a first-edition &lt;i&gt;Krishna Art&lt;/i&gt; book, he looked through the illustrations and said he liked the paintings. He took that &lt;i&gt;Krishna Art&lt;/i&gt; book home. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="flush"&gt; He was one of the fortunate persons in this world to honor Sri Sri Radha Govindadeva's &lt;i&gt;Maha-prasdam&lt;/i&gt;, enjoying Radha Govinda Temple's world famous Burfi and other &lt;i&gt;Mangal-arati&lt;/i&gt; sweets. He got Satya's gourmet prasadam cooking for dinner on two consecutive evenings, discussing reincarnation and karma at the dinner table with the host. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="flush"&gt; Satya reported that Jackson was very nice, soft-spoken and friendly. At that time he was staying in a luxury suite at the Waldorf Astoria with his daughter Paris Katherine and first son Prince Michael; his third child was not yet born. Jackson had been in New York to receive the Bollywood Outstanding Humanitarian Award. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-5592093500721376623?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/5592093500721376623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=5592093500721376623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5592093500721376623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/5592093500721376623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-jackson-received-vaishnava.html' title='Michael Jackson Received Vaishnava Books'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SmAAn-XC-ZI/AAAAAAAAClc/Y8JYANJov94/s72-c/MJ-Satya.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-6294473819175469041</id><published>2009-07-12T08:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-16T21:41:45.462-07:00</updated><title type='text'>San Francisco Ratha Yatra 2009</title><content type='html'>Saturday July 25th&lt;br /&gt;11am - 6pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SlynQlAKPJI/AAAAAAAAClU/xyijJ5LHhsM/s1600-h/SFRY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SlynQlAKPJI/AAAAAAAAClU/xyijJ5LHhsM/s320/SFRY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358341559916575890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Slym_WQDAkI/AAAAAAAAClM/fauU0lX8foQ/s1600-h/SFRYdown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Slym_WQDAkI/AAAAAAAAClM/fauU0lX8foQ/s320/SFRYdown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358341263898903106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-6294473819175469041?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/6294473819175469041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=6294473819175469041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6294473819175469041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6294473819175469041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/07/san-francisco-ratha-yatra-2009.html' title='San Francisco Ratha Yatra 2009'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SlynQlAKPJI/AAAAAAAAClU/xyijJ5LHhsM/s72-c/SFRY.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-8587217394368021307</id><published>2009-06-16T15:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-16T15:51:21.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ratha Yatra Chicago 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;International Society for Krishna Consciousness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1716 West Lunt Avenue.Chicago, Illinois 60626. USA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Phone: (773) 973-0900 – Fax: (773) 973-0526&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Email: chicagoiskcon@yahoo.com  -  Website: www.chicagoiskcon.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;_______________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;On &lt;/span&gt;behalf of Sri Sri Kishor Kishore Mandir, ISKCON Chicago, we cordially invite you to come and celebrate with us the Ratha Yatra Festival to be held on Sunday, June 28, 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SjghiYMgzOI/AAAAAAAACko/2_2bB3mZX0k/s1600-h/rathachicago.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SjghiYMgzOI/AAAAAAAACko/2_2bB3mZX0k/s320/rathachicago.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348061431996665058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Assembly begins at 10:00 AM at 6600 North Western Avenue, Chicago IL  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Ratha Yatra will start=2 0at 11:00 AM. and proceed South on Western to Devon Avenue, turn right on Devon and proceed Westward to Mozart Avenue, and turn left on Mozart into the parking lot of Croatian Cultural Center located at 2845 West Devon Avenue. Chicago IL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The Festival of India will be here with its ecstatic kirtans, exhibitions, devotional art, books, live music, and cultural programs and of course, delicious prasadam and more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratha_Yatra" title="Ratha Yatra" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;Ratha Yatra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; festival has become a common sight in most major cities of the world since 1968 through the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISKCON" title="ISKCON" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;ISKCON&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a title="Hare Krishna" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;Hare  Krishna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; movement. The founder-Achraya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada successfully transplanted the festival which now happens on an annual basis in places all over the world, in over 100 cities including &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;Montreal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, Chicago,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_CA" title="Venice, CA" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"&gt;Toronto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;, San Francesco and Many cities of world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="EC_MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;All that is needed at this point to make the festival a success is your confirmation to attend!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Hoping to see you at the Chicago Sri Jagannatha Ratha Yatra this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Hare Krsna!&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Vaishanava dasanudas,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="EC_MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Bhailal Patel&lt;br /&gt;  on Behalf of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; Hare Krishna Temple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Chicago,IL                                                                     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;hr size="2" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:20;color:red;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;RATHA YATRA SCHEDULE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helv  etica, sans-serif;"&gt;Sunday June 28,  2009 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;PARADE   Assemble at 6600 N. Western Avenue.Chicago.IL    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;ASSEMBLY TIME……………&lt;span style=""&gt;                                                                                    &lt;/span&gt;10:00 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;START TIME                  &lt;span style=""&gt;                              &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                                        &lt;/span&gt;11:00 AM Sharp &lt;span style=""&gt;                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                                                                                             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;PARADE ENDS at Croatian Cultural Center a( Devon/Mozart Avenue)&lt;span style=""&gt;       ;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;1:00 PM&lt;span style=""&gt;         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;PRASADAM…………………………………….&lt;span style=""&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;1:30 PM to 3:30 PM  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;SOUL CONNECTION&lt;span style=""&gt;                               ;        &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;                &lt;/span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;2:00 PM to 3:00PM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;BHAJANS    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;JAGANNATH ASHTAKAM…………………..&lt;span style=""&gt;                       &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;                 &lt;/span&gt;3:00 PM to 3:20 PM &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Performed by Nirantara Das                         &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;amp;nb sp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;LECTURES &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;on &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;“The Glories of Ratha Yatra Festival”&lt;span style=""&gt;                             &lt;/span&gt;3:30 PM to 4:30 PM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;H.H. Romapada Swami,&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;H.H. Bhaktimarga Swami,   H.H. Candramauli Swami   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;KRISHNA FESTIVAL BUS TOUR , YOUTH DRAMA GROUP&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;       &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4:30 PM to 6:00PM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="EC_MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;B HAJANS…………… ………………&lt;span style=""&gt;                                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;              &lt;span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;6:00 PM to 6:30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;        &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Performed by Bhajan Band Ensemble                       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-8587217394368021307?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/8587217394368021307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=8587217394368021307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8587217394368021307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8587217394368021307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/06/ratha-yatra-chicago-2009.html' title='Ratha Yatra Chicago 2009'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SjghiYMgzOI/AAAAAAAACko/2_2bB3mZX0k/s72-c/rathachicago.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-6572013975985582085</id><published>2009-06-12T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T15:13:41.551-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Great Rath Yatra of Puri</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;More than 10 million people will attend the Great Rath Yatra in Puri &lt;/span&gt;      &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;font-size:100%;"  &gt;and many Million in Other cities of India on Wednesday June 24, 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsPcz0ZFRSo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IsPcz0ZFRSo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Ratha Yatra (Car Festival) of Lord Jagannatha (Krishna) at Puri is the most important festival of Orissa, which attracts pilgrims from all over India. Annually, on the second day of the bright fortnight of Asadha, the images of Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra are dragged forth in a grand procession on three separate chariots along the broad street from the Sri Mandir to the Gundica temple. For its profound religious fervor, magnificence and display of colour, the car festival of Lord Jagannath is perhaps the most spectacular religious ceremony in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2008 more than 10 million people attended the Rath Yatra in Puri. During the festival, devotees from all over the World go to Puri with an earnest desire to touch the rope of the chariot. They consider this a pious deed and risk their lives in the huge crowd. The huge processions accompanying the chariots play devotional songs with drums, tambourines, etc. Children line the streets through which the chariot will pass and add to the mass chorus. The Rath carts themselves are some approximately 45 feet (14 m) high and are pulled by the thousands of pilgrims who turn up for the event. Millions of devotees congregate at Puri for this annual event from all over the country and abroad. It is also telecasted live on many Indian channels and International channels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rath Yatra Festival in Gujarat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Puri Rath Yatra and the Ratha Yatras in Gujarat take place on the same day. In many cities of Gujarat like Ahmedabad, Baroda, Surat, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Gandhinagar etc, many major cities and towns of Gujarat. Amongst the 150 Rath Yatra are being taken out in the state with glorious processions are carried out annually with devotional favor and joy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Rath Yatra of Ahmedabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 20 lakh people witnessed the grand journey of Chariot Festival. (2008)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Rath Yatra of Ahmedabad stands next to the Puri festival in grandeur and crowd-pulling. Nowadays, there are not just the thousands of people who participate in the Ahmedabad event; there are also communication satellites which the police use under the GPS (global positioning system) to chart the course of the chariots on a map on the computer screen to monitor them from a control room. With deployment of over 15,000 police personnel en route, the Yatra is expected to be trouble free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ahmedabad Rath Yatra has been taking place for more than 130 years. It starts from the Jagannath temple in Jamalpur locality in Ahmedabad city and passes through a 14 kilometers  one way route. One of the main attractions during Ahmedabad Rath Yatra is the procession of caparisoned elephants. This year 2009, the procession will include 16 elephants, 98 trucks, 30 Akhadas or local gyms, 18 Bhajan groups, Music bands and devotees on foot. Around 2,000 Sadhus from across the country too are expected to join.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 20 lakh people witnessed the grand journey of Chariot Festival. Gujarat Chief Minister (Narendra Modi) performed the traditional ritual of "Pahind" by sweeping the path with a golden broom, paving way for the Yatra to begin and pulled the chariot till the temple entrance, from where it would traverse nearly 28 kilometers through the walled city and return back in the evening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over 20,000 kgs of cereal and other fruits would be distributed as "prasad" to devotees during the procession. The prajajan (people), prashasan (administration) and mahajan (business community) are working together for Successful Yatra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-6572013975985582085?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/6572013975985582085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=6572013975985582085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6572013975985582085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/6572013975985582085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/06/great-rath-yatra-of-puri.html' title='The Great Rath Yatra of Puri'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-8832997754516938730</id><published>2009-05-29T07:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T08:05:16.783-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ratha Yatra Amsterdam</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Hare Krishna in Amsterdam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hare Krishna has been a part of Amsterdam since 1971. The first temple was situated in the bijlmer and later in the middle of the Red Light District. From that place we evolved into a bigger place at the Herengracht, then to Keizersgracht and even later to the Hobbemakade. Now we have a place at the Van Hilligaertstraat 17, but that is going to change soon. Our new and bigger temple will be opened in a few months on the Wittenburgergracht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It has been quite a history and the Hare Krishna people are a well known phenomena by now. Our yearly festival like Ratha Yatra, our appearance on Queensday and our weekly singing and dancing through the Kalverstraat have aided to this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sh_4vqJNXSI/AAAAAAAACcY/JsidE7L2zmI/s1600-h/RYAMST.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sh_4vqJNXSI/AAAAAAAACcY/JsidE7L2zmI/s400/RYAMST.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341261180735151394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For ratha yatra details and the  updates please visit www.amsterdhama.nl &lt;p&gt;Sri Sri Karuna Nitai Gauracandra Dhama&lt;br /&gt;Van Hilligaertstraat 17 HS&lt;br /&gt;1072 JX  Amsterdam, The Netherlands&lt;br /&gt;0031-(0)20-6751404&lt;br /&gt;amsterdam@pamho.net &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-8832997754516938730?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/8832997754516938730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=8832997754516938730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8832997754516938730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/8832997754516938730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/05/ratha-yatra-amsterdam.html' title='Ratha Yatra Amsterdam'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/Sh_4vqJNXSI/AAAAAAAACcY/JsidE7L2zmI/s72-c/RYAMST.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-1530913270750573803</id><published>2009-05-27T07:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T07:18:28.618-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Child Needs Your Attention For A Better World‏</title><content type='html'>Respected Global Citizen,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.iskconhelpsmile.org/charity/images/kaushalia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 192px;" src="http://www.iskconhelpsmile.org/charity/images/kaushalia.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hunger kills 9 million people every year and 24,000 people every day and out of them 18,000 are children. 60% of the children in India go to sleep hungry every night. Half the children in the age group of 6 to 14 years do not have access to primary education. We feel, by subjecting children to hunger, we rob them of their God given potential.. India's progress in reducing child malnutrition is very slow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proven path to helping the poor is by educating them. Providing food works as an important factor that encourages education; this in turn enables overall development transforming lives and communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hungry child cannot be expected to have an urge for education. We provide nutritious meals to children - with a vision to encourage education amongst the poor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit us at www.iskconhelpsmile.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Law for Action  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.iskconhelpsmile.org/charity/images/42-16617542.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 218px;" src="http://www.iskconhelpsmile.org/charity/images/42-16617542.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Many impoverished children performed poorly in school due to short attention spans associated with extreme hunger. Other children either did not enroll in school, or dropped out at a young age choosing to seek work during the school day to earn money to feed themselves and their families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Education can empower a child to explore his potentials, earn a decent living and build a better future. The Government of India has made education for children in the age group of 6 to 14 years compulsory, but poverty restricts the under privileged children from getting the full value of the educational experience. Hunger obstructs education in yet another way. It affects clear thinking and productive working in children. Also medical science has proved the most of the cognitive developments occur in the age group of 6 and 12 years. Hunger and malnutrition during these years impair cognitive developments thus permanently crippling child for life time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier, school meals was irregular and in many places non-existent. Responding to pressure from the people, the Supreme Court of India passed an order on November 28, 2001 which mandated: "Cooked midday meal is to be provided in all the government and government-aided primary schools in all the states."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISKCON FOOD RELEIF FOUNDATION partakes this responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;The Birth of ISKCON FOOD RELEIF FOUNDATION&lt;br /&gt;Thus evolved ISKCON FOOD RELEIF FOUNDATION a not-for-profit organization .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bringing smiles back into the lives of so many young children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit us at www.iskconhelpsmile.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-1530913270750573803?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/1530913270750573803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=1530913270750573803' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/1530913270750573803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/1530913270750573803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/05/child-needs-your-attention-for-better.html' title='A Child Needs Your Attention For A Better World‏'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-3297503871500139556</id><published>2009-05-11T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-11T15:10:43.756-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Major Newspaper Ranks ISKCON Vrindavana's School as Best</title><content type='html'>The Amar Ujala, a daily Indian newspaper ranked 34th in the world in circulation, has selected ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and International School in Vrindavan (BGIS) as the top school in the Mathura district and the second best school in the State of Uttar Pradesh. &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The selection was released in the Newspapers’ Education and Career section on 6th May.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihSl5_ijI/AAAAAAAACbc/ZOtT4ewEGig/s1600-h/1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihSl5_ijI/AAAAAAAACbc/ZOtT4ewEGig/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334691099405421106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The Director of BGIS, Ananda Vrindavanesvari Devi Dasi, was overjoyed upon receiving the news. “This is a tribute to Srila Prabhupada who opened this school in 1976. I take this as recognition of his genius in wanting schools that not only taught academics, but also focused on the moral and Krishna conscious needs of students.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihKpo0GJI/AAAAAAAACbM/e84_hKu-yOc/s1600-h/3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihKpo0GJI/AAAAAAAACbM/e84_hKu-yOc/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334690962968156306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;BGIS is two schools in one: the primary level Gurukula, classes 1-8 and the International School, classes 9-12. Currently, there are 200 students, primarily residential with some local day scholars. The small numbers contribute to a personal and caring atmosphere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The students in the International School take their final exams with the ICSE Board of Education, an internationally recognised board located in New Delhi. BGIS is also linking with The Learning Community International, which offers students opportunities to get US-based high school diplomas in a wide variety of subject choices and independent learning plans that includes obtaining credit for their spiritual practices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihOx-EfXI/AAAAAAAACbU/bY2AjYbli2w/s1600-h/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihOx-EfXI/AAAAAAAACbU/bY2AjYbli2w/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334691033924271474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;For more information about the school and admissions please visit http://www.bgis.org or contact the school at info@bgis.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2039901312279523047-3297503871500139556?l=universal-iskcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/feeds/3297503871500139556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2039901312279523047&amp;postID=3297503871500139556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/3297503871500139556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2039901312279523047/posts/default/3297503871500139556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://universal-iskcon.blogspot.com/2009/05/major-newspaper-ranks-iskcon.html' title='Major Newspaper Ranks ISKCON Vrindavana&apos;s School as Best'/><author><name>CLD - SMDD</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07540083887504911232'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgihSl5_ijI/AAAAAAAACbc/ZOtT4ewEGig/s72-c/1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2039901312279523047.post-3943841974367914546</id><published>2009-05-07T07:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T07:36:24.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Appearance of Lord Nrsimhadeva - ISV</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_alx8npOTqlk/SgLvqeTtryI/AAAAAAAACZM/VW5v7xzjJHc/s1600-h/DSC09552.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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