namahatta.org - Congregational Development Ministry

A multimedia website containing audio- and video-files, deities' darshan, book distribution, lectures, whole seminars from ISV, News agregator, Hare Krishna News, events, etc., etc.

Hare Krishna!

Currently I do preaching via a YouTube Channel, here is the link: YouTube-link

With subscriptions to over seven-hundred devotees who use youtube to post mostly remarkable Krishna conscious videos. You can subscribe to my Favorites and you will be able to see my picks of the best videos posted by them (updated daily). I currently also have eighteen playlists for chanting japa and am adding more. They are listed as: 1 Chanting with God through 18 Chanting with God.

This is another BBT-related webiste, offering guidance, resources, and news about book distribution. The mission statement:

We serve the devotee community by sharing inspiration, resources, and support for the distribution of transcendental literature in service to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

Documentation for CiviCRM, in the form of a Wiki. It's under active development and while some topics aren't up-to-date yet, you find most questions about using CiviCRM answered here.

User-forum of the CiviCRM user- and developer community. Here you find many questions answered already, and, after registering an account, you can ask questioins yourself.

The web site of ISKCON's Ministry for Cow Protection, providing essential information like the present minimum cow protection standards (ISKCON Law 507), a regular newsletter, and educational material. Read on for a description of ISCOWP, it's mission statement, etc. (about-page).

This site offers many articles aiming to help devotees in their struggle for spiritual advancement and realization. HG Sankarshan das adhikari, one of ISKCON's initiating spiritual masters, offers a free online-course, "Ultimate Self Realization." This is particularly useful for devotees who don't live in or near an ISKCON temple and don't have the opportunity to regularly associate with experienced vaisnvavs.

This website offers Srila Prabhupada's most important books for online reading. The site doesn't contain pictures or technical frills and works very fast. There's no internal search, but you can use Google-search by specifying "site:vedabase.net" in front of the search term—this wil cause Google to search within the vedabase site only. Read on to see the table of contents of the whole site.

"At ISKCON News, our mission is to be one of the most reliable, balanced, and timely sources of news about, and of interest to the devotees, friends and people interested in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

To that end, we provide visitors with insightful and thought-provoking news and opinion via quality writing, photographic, audio, and video media.

It is our conviction that a such a resource will help to create a more well-informed and connected citizenry within ISKCON, and thus positively impact ISKCON's ability to carry out its mission."

Mission Statement

A web site dedicated to ISKCON's Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Among many other articles and sections facilitating understanding of and meditation on Srila Prabhupada, you'll find:

• A brief biography of His Divine Grace;
• Selected writings, including an explanation of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and of Srimati Radharani's identity, and Markine Bhagavata Dharma, a poem he wrote upon his arrival in Boston;
• Editorial notes by the publisher

This web site is a vast storehouse of knowledge: devotional, spiritual, philosophical, or scientific—presented from the devotees' point of view. Not everything is as well organized or presented as one could wish, but you can find information on practically anything you might want to learn about.

Vedas and Vedic culture: what you won't learn in school

In school we can learn many things but unfortunately not the important, existential ones. These are elaborated on in Vedas, a sort of manuals how to use this world and how to live in it. Obviously, they should be available to everyone.

We just wanted to inform you that we launched our new site pariprashnena.com.

Pariprashnena.com was developed to have an online resource where devotees can ask questions and get fast and intelligent answers. Hence the name Pariprashnena (to inquire submissively).

Devotees can ask questions that go from the Krishna conscious philosophy to health advice, temple standards, and sadhana practices.

Without complex registration procedures pariprashnena.com allows anyone to start participating immediately.

A web site for Vaishnava Families providing resources and useful information for North American married Krishna devotees and prospective couples.

This is a site created by the Grihastha Vision Team. The GVT is a grass roots volunteer group of Krishna devotees who are mental health or educational professionals. We hope to remain non-political, and independent in our thinking. We are not an official ISKCON group, though we are working with it.

Our intention is to provide resources to support married couples and prospective couples primarily in North American ISKCON communities. However, the broader community of Vaishnavas, and anyone who is interested in spiritual married life are welcome to take advantage of the knowledge that is shared here. We want to help spiritualize your married life so that it will be an asset for your Krishna (God) consciousness.

Apart from counseling and resources for married vaisnava couples (or those who are planning to get married), this web site provides a wealth of articles dealing with mental problems like depression, bipolar disorder, and excessive anger. These articles are presented in one huge HTML-file and I am planning to publish some of them here during the next few days.

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Dear devotees,

For all of you who read Croatian or Serbian, this is a must-visit link: http://portal.vvz.hr

More than 300 devotees (unique visitors) visit this website daily! It's a very content-rich site with hundreds of picture galleries, MP3-lectures (both English and Croatian), interesting polls, articles, and much much more...

"Vaishnava Connection is a magazine serving the UK ISKCON devotee community."

An online community-magazin with many great articles in an archive going back to Nov/Dec 2003. Authors include Jayadvaita and Sacinandana maharajas and Kripamoya prabhu, and many devotees probably not well known outside the UK. The articles are listed with a short introduction, telling you what to expect.

They even offer the opportunity to take part in an online morning-program: japa from 6 - 7:15 AM, followed by a class by Kripamoya prabhu (7:15 - 7:45 AM).

I'm glad Kaunteya prabhu brought this to my attention!

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About Us

ISKCON is meeting its need for increased systematic education. In 1995, devotees from VTE (Vaishnava Training and Education) and the European Communications Leadership Team began to discuss the creation of a Ministerial Programme to train devotees in teaching, preaching, and leadership. These ideas gradually evolved and were further considered in several educational and missionary forums in ISKCON. The devotees involved created the course structure, curriculum, and academic facilities of Bhaktivedanta College, which opened in September 2002 at Radhadesh (Belgium).

About Us

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Friends of the BBT is a nonprofit association established to support the work of The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT). Our mission is to:

• provide targeted funding to enhance and expand the work of the BBT and
  help build a solid foundation for its future.
• increase the scope and effectiveness of the BBT through communications
  and dialogue with its supporters.

It is our goal to provide the necessary support to ensure that The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust continues to grow as the world’s foremost publisher representing Gaudiya-Vaishnavism.

Related sections:

• History
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• People
• About the BBT
• Contacts

The latest incarnation of ISKCON's Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir's web site. Here you find contact- and travel-information, can book rooms in one of the guesthouses and taxi-transportation from airport or railway stations.

Kripamoya Prabhu's personal blog, which he "writes to give companionship
to his students and friends who have gladly accepted what Srila Prabhupada offered." (From the "about-page" of his blog.)

The personal web site of Sita-pati prabhu from Brisbane, Australia. He is an initiated grihastha disciple of HH Devamrita Maharaja, working 'outside' to maintain his family, and engaged in loft- and yoga-preaching.

Rasa-rasika Prabhu maintains this "open forum for discussion on all aspects of chanting". Apart from himself some thirty devotees have been posting tips & tricks how to keep the mind focused on the important task of chanting japa—from their own experience, and quotes from senior devotees and Srila Prabhupada.

Trisama Prabhu, coordinator for congregational development in Poland, informed that there are two new Nama-hatta web sites in Polish:

• www.harinam.pl
• www.waisznawa.pl

Of course, you might not read Polish, but you might know someone who does, and in any case on harinam.pl there are photos from various programs that you might enjoy seeing. (More photos inside.)

A web site that automatically aggregates RSS-feeds from blogs and web sites from ISKCON devotees, temples, and groups. (Updated every hour.)

A Vaisnava news web site that's independent of ISKCON's management, but fully supports our philosophy and the GBC's policies. Dandavats.com offers a wide range of topics and is read by many devotees all over the world.

Originally written in English, all articles can be automatically translated into several languages; this doesn't offer perfect translations, but one understands the main points.