Iskcon - Edinburgh Nama Hatta

04/06/2026

Do not miss it. On June 14th Lord Jagannatha is coming in streets of Edinburgh.

02/06/2026

June 2, 1972 : Mexico City
Satsvarupa: Accompanied by his secretary, Syamasundara, and his servant, Nanda-kumara, Srila Prabhupada flew into Mexico City. After they arrived at the temple, Citsukhananda showed Srila Prabhupada to a room on the second floor, where on an altar small Deities of Jagannatha, Subhadra, and Baladeva stood. The freshly painted floor hadn't dried, and a devotee spread a cloth for Prabhupada so he could stand before the Deities. Although the paint was tacky, Prabhupada pushed the cloth away and paid obeisances on the floor, which retained the faint imprint of his soles and body.

Returning to the main room, Prabhupada sat on his decorated vyasasana and spoke to the waiting guests and devotees. After a short lecture, Prabhupada retired to his room. It was about 6:00 p.m. While Prabhupada rested, the devotees and guests, now numbering several hundred, gathered in the main hall below Srila Prabhupada's room and began a mighty kirtana. After an hour they were still going strong. After two hours Prabhupada's servant came out on the balcony and shouted down, "Stop the kirtana!" The chanting subsided, and the servant went back into Prabhupada's room.

Srila Prabhupada asked from his bed, "Why have they stopped the kirtana?"

"I thought it was keeping you awake, Prabhupada," Nanda-kumara said.

"I can rest with kirtana," Prabhupada said pleasantly. "It doesn't bother me. It is transcendental. Tell them to go on."

Nanda-kumara then reappeared on the balcony above the crowd and called down, "Prabhupada wants to know why the kirtana stopped. So start it up again."

The crowd cheered and again began chanting, creating waves of blissful sound vibration that rang through the building. Even in the privacy of his room, Prabhupada was enjoying a unique reciprocation with the people of Mexico on his first evening in their country - through the medium of the holy name.
Reference: Prabhupada-lila - Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

01/06/2026

Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 14 Verse 4

28/05/2026

May 28, 1976 : Honolulu
Hari Sauri: The morning walks are lively, Sukadeva Prabhu raised a common complaint against the mood of humble service and dependence that a religionist seeks to cultivate. "Those persons who are atheistic, they say that God is created out of a necessity, that people have a necessity to have their father image, so therefore they create religion. Man needs a father image, so therefore he creates the idea of God. They say that because people are feeling this necessity, it is a crutch."

Prabhupada turned the argument on its head, offering a simple but practical example as to why the feeling of necessity is actually a symptom of advanced life. "No, no. Necessity means there is. Otherwise why necessity? When you feel hungry, the necessity of food, food is there. The necessity of light, the sun is there." He told us, the feeling of necessity is the difference between the intelligent and the dull. The dull have no necessity and the intelligent have necessity. He said, "First of all we have to understand that one who has no necessity, he's in the lowest status. One who has got necessity, he is in higher status."

He continued, "Then higher, higher, higher, higher - where's the higher status? When you necessitate Krishna. This is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. That necessity, that without Govinda I'm feeling everything vacant. That is necessity. That makes it finer... If somebody whom you love very much, he dies, you think, 'I don't want anything. World is vacant.' 'I've no necessity but Krishna.' This is also necessity. So we have to see first of all necessity, then quality of necessity... A Vaishnava says that, 'I have no more necessity.' But he has no more necessity of this false necessities, material world."
Reference: A Transcendental Diary Volume 2 - Hari Sauri Dasa

28/05/2026

Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 14 Verse 3

19/05/2026

May 19, 1975 : Melbourne
Kurma: Father Frank Wallace SJ was the Acting Provincial of the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus, an order of monks in the Roman Catholic Church. As well as being effectively the "second in command" of the Jesuits in Australia. Prabhupada was, as usual, the cordial host. The priest inquired about the daily spiritual routine of the devotees, and in response, Srila Prabhupada described the nine processes of devotional service, beginning with hearing. Father Wallace wondered whether everyone was able to take to the nine processes.

"Yes," Prabhupada replied. "It is not difficult."

"Do you have what I call a training in contemplation?" asked the priest.

"That is smaranam," Prabhupada replied. "Memorising. Thinking of God's activities."

Father Wallace was of the opinion that passive mystic contemplation on the greatness of God was perhaps higher than active service. Prabhupada did not agree. Such contemplation on God's greatness, he said, was called "neutrality" - a stage which he defined as "the marginal stage between material life and spiritual life." Real devotion, Prabhupada explained, began after this neutral stage. After realizing the greatness of God, one would realize that all his activities in the world were more or less a useless waste of time, then one would naturally desire to actively render service to God.
Reference: The Great Transcendental Adventure - Kurma Dasa

18/05/2026

Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 13 Verse 26

13/05/2026

12/05/2026

May 12, 1971 : Sydney
Srila Prabhupada writes preface to Bhagavad-gita As It Is (Macmillan Edition).

People in general, especially in this age of Kali, are enamored by the external energy of Krishna, and they wrongly think that by advancement of material comforts every man will be happy. They have no knowledge that the material or external nature is very strong, for everyone is strongly bound by the stringent laws of material nature.

A living entity is happily the part and parcel of the Lord, and thus his natural function is to render immediate service to the Lord. By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord. That is the highest perfection of life. The Lord wants this, and He demands it. One has to understand this central point of Bhagavad-gita.

Our Krishna consciousness movement is teaching the whole world this central point, and because we are not polluting the theme of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, anyone seriously interested in deriving benefit by studying the Bhagavad-gita must take help from the Krishna consciousness movement for practical understanding of Bhagavad-gita under the direct guidance of the Lord. We hope, therefore, that people will derive the greatest benefit by studying Bhagavad-gita As It Is as we have presented it here, and if even one man becomes a pure devotee of the Lord, we shall consider our attempt a success.
Reference: Bhagavad-gita As It Is, preface

11/05/2026

Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 13 Verse 23