Latest FOLK Issue Now Available

Our 2017 Gaura Purnima FOLK News Magazine is now out! Soft copies are freely available for all to download on our Members Page. Highlights of this issue include:

• An article by our Founder Acarya His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami
• Lord Nityananda's Vision
• A report on the upcoming festival of colours
• A little-known pastime from the Ramayana 
• And much much more!

Do check it out!

New ISKCON Disciple Course Starting Soon

Dates for the next ISKCON Disciple Course facilitated by Aniruddha Dasa are now available:

Schedule:

Sat Dec 31 2016 - Mon Jan 2 2017

10am-5pm 

Please send an email to kundalata@iskcon.net.au to register.

There will be a $20 fee per person to cover the costs of the course.

Each group of participants will include:

• 50% devotees who are aspiring for shelter, or are sheltered

• 50% initiated devotees

Please note that acceptance of your registration is on a first-come-first-served basis.

Thank you!

Superior training, not artificial renunciation.

No one should suddenly give up his prescribed duties and become a so-called yogi or transcendentalist artificially. It is better to be situated in one's position and to try to attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness under superior training. Thus one may be freed from the clutches of Kṛṣṇa's maya.

Bg 3.33

How is Arjuna a devotee?

Now people may say that "He was not chanting. He was fighting. How he became a great devotee?" But Kṛṣṇa says, bhakto 'si priyo 'si me: "You are My dear friend. You are My devotee. Because you are utilizing your energy for Me." So bhakti means you utilize your energy for Kṛṣṇa. Then your life is perfect.

Śrīla Prabhupāda Lecture – Bhagavad-gītā 1.15 – July 15, 1973, London

Higher intelligence.

But if anyone even goes to the church and temple for asking something to God, he is pious. At least, he has approached God. So one day, when he will be advanced devotee, he will not ask anymore. He knows that "Why shall I bother God? He is supplying everyone food, so why shall I ask Him food? My food is also there. Let me serve Him." That is his higher intelligence.

Bhagavad-gītā 1.15 - July 15, 1973, London

Maṇigrīva at work today!

These are seriously big auctions.

Shopping fof a new tractor.

Maṇigrīva, our farm manager, is going to Ritchies Industrial Machinery auction today in Geelong. He and Doug Armistead, our neighbour and local mechanic, have done a lot of research on equipment suitable for our needs. They’ve contacted owners and researched remedial measures for issues in each of the items we might bid on. If we get a good break and price we could have a new (used) tractor by the end of today.