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ISKCON Silicon Valley Janmastami Vision/Mission/Schedule

Vision: Thousands of blissful devotees attend the Janmastami Festival at ISV and find the devotees to be friendly; the set up convenient and comfortable; and the festival entertaining and spiritually stimulating. All the Team ISV devotees feel happy working together in loving cooperative service to Srila Prabhupada, Gauranga Mahaprabhu, Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan and Sri Sri Laxmi Narasimhadeva – as well as all the Bhaktas that have come to serve Them. The Team ISV hosts treat the guests as extensions of the Lord Himself.

Mission: By planning in advance and by the Lord’s divine mercy, Team ISV members produce a Janmastami festival that includes a tasteful variety of worship services, well-planned KC entertainment, stimulating opportunities to learn more about ISV, and well-designed systems to enroll devotees/guests in our various programs. This year’s Janmastami includes non-stop hearing and chanting starting at Mangala aratrika and continuing at least until after the midnight aratrika.

Proposed Schedule

Mangala Aratrika 4:30 am

Tulasi Aratrika 5:00 am

Recite ten offences 5:15 am

Japa 5:15-7:00am
•Greeting of Deities 7:00am-7:15am

•Gurupuja 7:15am-7:30am

•Slokas/Srimad Bhagavatam class 7:30am –9:30am

•Begin bhajans and readings (in shifts) 9:30am-6:00pm

•Class (Remembering the Lord’s Divine Birth Leads to the Perfection of Life) 6:00pm – 7:15pm

• Kid’s Drama 7:15– 8:00 pm.[outside]
Simultaneously
•Bhajans 7:15-8:00 pm [in temple room]

•Swinging of Deities 8:pm-10:00pm [outside]
Simultaneously
•Lecture/bhajan/activities 8:00pm —10:00pm [in temple room]

•Abiseka 10:00pm—10:45 pm

•Class 10:45-11:45pm

•Announcements11:45pm 12 midnight

•Midnight: darshan (12:05am start prasadam service; simultaneous with aratrika)

Past Janmastami 2007

Balarama Festival - Video Darshan & Abhiseka
 
 
HH Hanumatpresaka Swami - Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1, Chapter 9 Text 18

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....Past Events
3 Videos - Los Angeles Festival of the Chariots 2008
The 32nd Annual Festival of the Chariots was roll into Venice Beach last Sunday, August 3, 2008. The festival commenced at 10:00 a.m. at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and proceeds south on Main St., with three fully decorated, four-story chariots leading a colorful parade toward the Ocean Front Walk Plaza.
Ajamila Play - Los Angeles Festival of the Chariots 2008
Ajamila, amazing drama performed by ISKCON Los Angeles devotees.

It should also be noted that Ajamila was not yet dead, for the Yamadutas were trying to snatch the soul from his heart. They could not take the soul, however, and therefore Ajamila was not yet dead. This will be revealed in later verses. Ajamila was simply in an unconscious state when the argument was in progress between the Yamadutas and the Visnudutas. The conclusion of the argument was to be a decision regarding who would claim the soul of Ajamila.

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The order carriers of Yamaraja said: Your eyes are just like the petals of lotus flowers. Dressed in yellow silken garments, decorated with garlands of lotuses, and wearing very attractive helmets on your heads and earrings on your ears, you all appear fresh and youthful. Your four long arms are decorated with bows and quivers of arrows and with swords, clubs, conchshells, discs and lotus flowers. Your effulgence has dissipated the darkness of this place with extraordinary illumination. Now, sirs, why are you obstructing us?

Being thus addressed by the messengers of Yamaraja, the servants of Vasudeva smiled and spoke the following words in voices as deep as the sound of rumbling clouds.

The blessed messengers of Lord Visnu, the Visnudutas, said: If you are actually servants of Yamaraja, you must explain to us the meaning of religious principles and the symptoms of irreligion.

The Yamadutas replied: That which is prescribed in the Vedas constitutes dharma, the religious principles, and the opposite of that is irreligion. The Vedas are directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana, and are self-born. This we have heard from Yamaraja.

In proportion to the extent of one's religious or irreligious actions in this life, one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of his karma in the next.
The foolish embodied living entity, inept at controlling his senses and mind, is forced to act according to the influence of the modes of material nature, against his desires. He is like a silkworm that uses its own saliva to create a cocoon and then becomes trapped in it, with no possibility of getting out. The living entity traps himself in a network of his own fruitive activities and then can find no way to release himself. Thus he is always bewildered, and repeatedly he dies.

Ratha Yatra San Francisco 2008
 
The Importance of Accepting a Guru in one's Spiritual Life (8 videos)

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Stanford University, Bhagavad Gita Class, Chapter 2 Texts 54 (6 Videos)
 
 
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Bhagavad Gita Class, Chapter 5 Texts 1 to 5 (7 Videos)
 

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Deities darshan
 

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