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Ekadasi Recipe: Apricot-Ginger Cake

As my Ekadasi cake recipe always seems to get lots of hits on Ekadasis, I thought I would add another recipe, this time [...]

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Raganuga-bhakti Made Easy

Raganuga-bhakti Made Easy

by Radhakanta das | To further qualify Srila Rupa Goswami’s statement, it is true that no amount of ‘material piety’ is required to obtain transcendental greed, but a certain amount of bhakti-sukriti, or transcendental ‘piety’ [...]

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New Book Project – The Bhakti Yoga Diet

New Book Project – The Bhakti Yoga Diet

With all the devotion that goes into the shopping, preparation, cooking and offering to Krishna, we are bound to have a wonderful experience. The outcome of these rituals is that all meals become soul nourishing [...]

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Submit to Me – The Source of All Existence

Submit to Me – The Source of All Existence

The Lord says, “If you take the initiative to concoct your own path, then you are liable to receive instructions from sources that will prove to be ineffective in the long run, for I am immanent in the universe and there is no possibility of avoiding Me. I am the source of all existence, I am full of knowledge, and I am endowed with the infinity of bliss.”

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Submit Your Story or Article to BtB News

Submit Your Story or Article to BtB News

BtB News — the official News, Views and Events Site of the International Pure Bhakti Yoga Society. Back to Bhakti (BtB News) keeps devotees and bhakti-yoga lovers around the world informed about the news, views and events taking place in and around the sanga or congregation inspired by the worldwide preaching mission of His Divine [...]

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Book Distribution: First Days in Shimla

Book Distribution: First Days in Shimla

May 31 – June 2, 2010 Book distribution report by Anita dasi With half the books we started with, we packed up and moved on to Shimla. When we were in Haridwar for Kumbha mela we met one family from Shimla. They invited us to stay with them. For weeks I have been talking to [...]

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Nagar Sankirtan With Uma Didi

Nagar Sankirtan With Uma Didi

Re-posted from Shukasari.blogspot.com by Ashalata devi dasi (Malaysia). First published on Dec 19, 2009. I’ve always wanted to do a nagar-sankirtan seva (congregational chanting of the holy names). But having to acquire a police permit is a little daunting. The law here requires any public display of religious sentiments to have a permit so as [...]

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Final Day of Book Distribution in Manali

Final Day of Book Distribution in Manali

Submitted by Anita dasi.
… “We set our mat with books near the temple and began signing bhajans. A small crowd gathered to watch up, but we also caught the attention of the temple authorities. They told us we could not sell anything there and needed to move to the mela grounds just outside the entrance…”

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Auspicious Beginning

Auspicious Beginning

by Anita dasi Aksaya Tritiya is an auspicious day to begin something. We didn’t exactly leave on this day, but we did make the rounds to many deities in Vrndavan on Chandan-yatra and offered prayers that we could be instruments of Srila Gurudeva and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu on our three week long book distribution trip.

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Balinese Cooking Suggestions From Downunder

Balinese Cooking Suggestions From Downunder

Here are some wonderful cooking seva suggestions for offering to your beloved Thakur. These were submitted by our godsister Anupama dasi from Bali, living in Perth with her husband Gokuldas das and their two children Yasomatinandan and Krishna-priya ji. These have been tried and tested and proven to put big smiles on the face of [...]

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Haribol, All You Cooking Fans Out There!

Haribol, All You Cooking Fans Out There!

Submitted by Abhiram das Brahmachari
I’ve got great news. One of our students at the cooking class here in Houston recently took Harinama initiation while Srila Gurudeva was last here in Houston. I’ve got a great Veggie Burger recipe that is simple, quick, cheap and delicious.

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