Welcome to September’s edition of the Krishna.com “What’s New Newsletter”. Here at Krishna.com, we had a most joyous Janmashtami celebration. We hope you also enjoyed all of the wonderful new content and material we featured all about Krishna. And, just as the month of August was all about Krishna, September focuses on the appearance anniversary of Krishna’s eternal counterpart and loving consort - Srimati Radharani. Take some time to learn about Radharani. She is Krishna’s most beloved devotee, and it is only through Her mercy that we can ever hope to reach Lord Krishna.
So, open your eyes, ears, and mind to everything we are offering here at Krishna.com - the site all about Krishna.
Your servants,
The Krishna.com Team
Srimati Radharani is the eternal consort of Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Together, they are known as the divine couple, and are the full manifestation of God. Embodying perfect love for Krishna, Radha is known as the personification of Bhakti, or loving devotion to God. Loving God is our natural state, now dormant. By Her pure example, Radha is the beacon calling everyone to re-awaken full love for Krishna. She also dispenses mercy to help us achieve that goal. On this special occasion known as Radhashtami, all devotees of Krishna should take advantage of that mercy and become absorbed in the glories of Srimati Radharani.
When you visit our 2008 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja page, you will have the opportunity to thank Srila Prabhupada, as well as write your very own offering and share your thoughts, respects, and realizations. Also available is this year’s Vyasa-puja book. Every year, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust releases this annual collection of homages to Srila Prabhupada from devotees and temples around the world. Krishna.com has made this wonderful book available online for you to view, as well as download.
This past summer, the second annual 24 Hour Kirtan Festival was held once again in New Vrindaban, West Virginia. Hundreds of devotees gathered to participate in twenty-four hours of non-stop chanting of the Lord’s Holy Names. Lovers of kirtan will certainly enjoy hearing many vastly expanded versions of familiar kirtan melodies, recorded in a uniquely powerful and focused devotional environment. Krishna.com is very happy to be able to present all of these recordings for your listening pleasure. Make sure to also check out The 25th Hour - Remarks from the 24 Hour Kirtan, a video of the realizations and recaps from the 2008 New Vrindaban 24 Hour Kirtan Festival.
We recently were very happy to be able to make this new collection of artwork available! Visit our Galleries section and feast your eyes and hearts on the beautiful new gallery by Nitya Tarangini which depicts so many of Krishna’s wonderful childhood pastimes. Enjoy!
In this latest edition of “Acharyas”, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur explains how the only way to approach The Supreme Lord is through His own will and mercy. But, to obtain His mercy, we must hanker and crave for Him. This is devotion. It is only possible to understand the Absolute in this way, not through any sort of intellectual endeavor or other means.
In Episode 11 of Lives of the Vaishnava Saints, Chaturatama Dasa talks about the pastimes of four exalted devotees - Advaita Acharya, his wife - Sita Thakurani, Bhugarbha Goswami and Lokanatha Goswami. All of these associates appeared before Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Chaturatma Dasa discusses their impact, the stage they set, as well as their pastimes up to the point of where they intersect with Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Don’t forget to tune into Krishna.com Live and watch Mondays: 8:00 p.m. EST / 1:00 a.m. GMT - Stories about Lives of the Vaishnava Saints with Chaturatma Das.
Watch previous episodes: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Krishna.com has recently been blessed with so many of her new recordings that we decided to created a whole new section entitled “Harinama Dasi Narrations”. We are all very thankful to Harinam Dasi for narrating these wonderful tales. For Janmastami alone, she completed four new narrations about Sri Krishna and also released a narration about the wonderful appearance of Srimati Radharani. In honor of Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja, she also narrated pastimes of Srila Prabhupada as given in the book “Our Srila Prabhupada: A Friend to All”. So, take this opportunity and let your ears and mind become enchanted by these beautiful stories.
For Janmashtami, we created a brand new “Kid’s Playground”. This new section has coloring pages, games, recipes, online e-cards, songs, and many more things for kids to enjoy! This is a great new way to get the whole family involved with Krishna. (For much of this material, your computer will need a printer.)
Krishna.com is proud to be associated with Friends of the BBT, a new organization established to help devotees of Krishna throughout the world become more directly involved in the work of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.