Neera Haria Sankirtan

04/01/2026

WHAT IS ISKCON? SRILA PRABHUPADA SAYS: IT’S WHERE YOU ARE CHANTING THE HOLY NAMES OF KRSNA. THAT IS ISKCON

Yamuna: Srila Prabhupada, although we are very happy where we are, we are prepared to go wherever you would like to send us in order to have your blessings.

Srila Prabhupada: You westerners are always so restless. Why can’t you stay where you are?

Yamuna: But we have been told that because we don’t have the association of devotees, we cannot make any advancement.

Srila Prabhupada: Association can be two or two hundred. But you must be compatible. If you are two and are compatible, you can go back to Godhead. But if you are two hundred and not compatible [his eyes open widely], then no one will make any advancement.

Yamuna: But Srila Prabhupada, some of the leaders are saying that we have lost your mercy because we left ISKCON and without your mercy there is no meaning to our lives.

Srila Prabhupada: ISKCON is where you are chanting the Holy Names of Krsna. That is ISKCON. (Yamuna Devi, A Life of Unalloyed Devotion).

04/01/2026

KRISHNA IS THE REAL WORKER AND WE ARE SIMPLY THE INSTRUMENT

Lecture on BG 10.4-5 -- New York, January 4, 1967:

And what is this prakṛti? That prakṛti is mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg. 9.10]. Oh. Kṛṣṇa says, "Under My direction this prakṛti is working." The prakṛti, nature, is the agent. The real worker is Kṛṣṇa. We are simply instrument. That is our position. If you have got intelligence, then you have to understand that you are simply an instrument. Just like my hand. What is this hand? This is an instrument. I can pick up. So I am working, not this hand is working. I am working. So people do not understand it. Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā. By false ego he is thinking, "Oh, I am scientist. I am philosopher. I am Rockefeller. I am businessman, I am swami. I am this." Sometimes we think, "I am poor. I am this. I am that." No. You are simply instrument in the hands of Kṛṣṇa. That is intelligence. Therefore you should work as Kṛṣṇa desires. That is real intelligence. If you work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is real intelligence.

Source: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Real_worker_is_Krsna._We_are_simply_instrument

02/01/2026

02/01/2026

ASSOCIATE DIRECTLY WITH THE LORD BY HEARING ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES:

Srimad Bhagavatam 2.8.17 purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
..one should know that the activities of the Lord and the Lord Himself are identical due to being on the absolute plane. Thus to hear the activities of the Lord means to associate with the Lord directly, and association with the Lord directly means purification from material contamination.

02/01/2026

01/01/2026

Found this NEW YEAR note in Jan 2016:

Srila Prabhupada - morning walk 3rd Jan 1974

Our every day is a new year. Our Krishna Consciousness is so nice, the more you advance you see new year, new year. That's all. Nothing is old. People are seeing that they are simply chanting the old slogan Hare Krishna. But we are feeling new pleasure in every moment. Take any other chanting you cannot chant for more than few hours. But the Hare Krishna mantra we chant perpetually. So unless there is new enlightenment how can we do that?
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

01/01/2026

31/12/2025

Letter to Mahavisnu written from Bombay

December 31, 1975

Even a great devotee like Bhisma met his end by being pierced with hundreds of arrows, but he was so powerful that he waited in that condition to see Lord Krishna before he passed away.

Source: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/Even_a_great_devotee_like_Bhisma_met_his_end_by_being_pierced_with_hundreds_of_arrows,_but_he_was_so_powerful_that_he_waited_in_that_condition_to_see_Lord_Krishna_before_he_passed_away