Good Time for Getting Mercy in Mayapur
If you are meditating on improving your spiritual life, increasing your contribution to Srila Prabhupada's movement, or are unsure how to pass the tests Krishna is giving you, then please consider taking Srila Prabhupada's powerful darshan in Sridham Mayapur.
Srila Prabhupada's darshan that we are referring to here is in his books and more specifically in his "personal ecstasies" within his Bhaktivedanta purports. The power of this darshan will be fully experienced in the sanga of advanced Vaisnavas this coming November when the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training will launch newly re-designed VTE Bhakti-sastri and VTE Bhaktivaibhava Courses. Senior ISKCON educators predict these courses will revolutionize sastric study in our movement.
A team of senior devotees will facilitate these courses sharing their realizations in an interactive format designed to empower devotees as preachers, leaders, and lifetime servants of ISKCON.
Maximizing Devotee Empowerment: Enhanced Bhakti-sastri Curriculum
The Mayapur Institute will launch a revised approach to the VTE Bhakti-sastri course on November 9, 2008 in Sridhama Mayapur. This new curriculum deals with the main subjects of Bhakti-sastri in seven distinct units. These seven units reflect the fundamental principles of learning presented in the VTE approach to education, wherein students progressively learn knowledge, skills and values in a systematic manner.
Experience the Highest Possible Taste
Srila Prabhupada promises us in the Nectar of Devotion that even a neophyte can experience transcendental ecstasy and make rapid advancement by engaging in these five potent forms of devotional service: studying the Srimad Bhagavatam in Vaisnava sanga, associating with advanced devotees, living in the holy dhama, chanting the holy name of the Lord, and worshipping the Deity with love and devotion. In the Caitanya-caritamrta, Krishna dasa Kaviraja Gosvami describes that even a slight performance of this panca-anga bhakti awakens love for Krishna.
The Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training (MIHET) will provide an environment conducive for devotees to practice these five potent forms of devotional service to their hearts content. Participants in our courses will have easy access to serene places to study, potent places of pilgrimage, great association, gorgeous Deities to worship, an enlivening morning program, nice accommodations, and great prasadam.
Mayapur: Exciting New Directions
There are now over 1900 ISKCON devotees throughout the world who have Bhakti-sastri degrees. This is undoubtedly very pleasing to Srila Prabhupada, who vigorously encouraged his leaders to establish the sastric degree program.
Now the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training (MIHET) has developed a unique facility for Bhakti-sastri graduates to easily take the next step up the systematic sastric study ladder with the Bhaktivaibhava Course by reducing time away from their prabhu-datta-desas by 50%.
(If you have not completed Bhakti-sastri, please click here for an enlivening opportunity.)
Seed of a Sage Vision
by Suresvara Dasa(Appeared in Back to Godhead Magazine - September/October 2004) By the shores of the Ganges in Mayapur, West Bengal, an educational institution is arising to fulfill a global prophesy of ISKCON's founder-acarya, Srila Prabhupada. ISKCON and Varnasrama-Dharma: A Mission Unfulfilled Fri, 18/05/2007 - 18:58
This is a paper presented at the Conference ‘30 Jahre ISKCON Deutschland’, Köln, Germany, 29 January 1999 by His Grace Ravindra Svarupa Dasa. Printed by permission of ISKCON Communication Journal.
Parikrama to Dhamesvara Mahaprabhu Temple in Navadvipa Sun, 28/01/2007 - 13:28
article by Krishna-kripa dasa, illustrations by Sarvabhauma dasa
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Ravindra Svarupa Dasa (Dr William H. Deadwyler, III), an early disciple of Srila Prabhupada, here looks at one of Prabhupada’s more controversial directives; the need to establish varnasrama-dharma (the organization of society according to the quality and work of the members of the society). He looks at the internal logic of the varnasrama system and then describes some of the understandings of that system, which have arisen in ISKCON. The question of how to establish varnasrama-dharma in a modern context has been the source of a longstanding debate within ISKCON, and in this paper Ravindra Svarupa contributes to the debate with his analysis of the situation. This analysis focuses on the need to encourage a brahminical (intellectual) class within society — a brain for the social body.