Tuesday 20th March 2007 - 13:57
The biography of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami was recently released. We have created a mini-site for the book, including a summary, downloadable chapters, reader's reviews, ordering information, and more. You can visit the subsite using the link above, or visit direct to: www.btswami.com/blacklotus
...Thursday 22nd February 2007 - 23:54
A searchable database of the disciples of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami is now available on the site. If you are a disciple and are not listed, or your inoformation is incorrect, please contact the maintainer of the database - Mother Indrani, and you will be added. More information and contact details are on the database page.
Monday 10th July 2006 - 01:20
Talks by Giriraj Swami and Amoghalila dasa
July 20, 2005
Carpinteria
We have gathered on the most sacred and auspicious day of Sri Guru Purnima, which is the appearance day of Srila Vyasadeva, the literary incarnation of Lord Krsna. By Krsna's will, Srila Vyasadeva compiled the Vedic literatures, which form the basis of the expansion ...
Friday 23rd June 2006 - 01:41
18 June 2006
Gita Nagari
H.H. Radhanath Swami:
By his very loving, personal relationship with us, Bhakti-tirtha Swami has left us with an eternal debt. Real love is reciprocation. In exchanges of true love, there is an eternal debt. Bhakti-tirtha Swami Maharaj accepted Prabhupada's lo...
Friday 16th June 2006 - 08:11
"H.H. B.T. Swami's final lesson as told by H.H. Radhanath Swami"
This also includes "Spiritual Warrior Tribute" bonus footage that captures the mood of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami.
By popular demand, this highly devotional offering to HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami is available for the benefit of all to see, hear, and relish. Special f...
Friday 16th June 2006 - 07:49
The following is the tour report from HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami's final tour of West Africa. This report had not yet been shared, so we are presenting it here now.
Our respectful obeisances unto H.H. Bhakti Tirtha Swami who is ver...
Sunday 21st May 2006 - 04:48
The dates and schedule for the puspa samadhi inauguration at Gita Nagari have now been confirmed. The festival has been moved to 18th June to avoid clashing with the Kulimela festival in New Vrindavan.
Confirmed special guests include: HH Radana...
Tuesday 14th March 2006 - 04:15
What follows is the first part of the memories given by senior Prabhupada disciples at Sridham Mayapur on 25th February. Many thanks to the Mayapur-live team for the transcriptions (which were done live on on the day) and to Jagannath Pandit Prabhu for the recordings. Apologies for not making this available sooner, t...
Tuesday 28th February 2006 - 08:46
by Purusa Sukta dasa
On the most blessed day of the appearance and Samadhi installation of Sripad Bhakti-tirtha Maharaj, in Sridhama Mayapur, after Tulasi puja it was announced that throughout the day they would be celebrated. Already the mood in Mayapur was reaching a peak of anticipation, as the ann...
Sunday 5th February 2006 - 01:36
By Tirtha Dasa
I sadly and sincerely regret that I am neither spiritually qualified nor otherwise capable in any sense to properly describe the exalted character and innumerable good qualities of such a great Vaisnava saint as His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami. Any attempt on my part to do so would be akin to the mud trying to describe the glori...
Tuesday 17th January 2006 - 09:18
By Steven J. Rosen
(The following is promotional copy for the official biography of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami, it is to be used on the book's back cover or for media and advertising purposes. The book is nearing completion and is due for public release some time in April.... We will post more information about it her...
Tuesday 10th January 2006 - 04:03
The B.T.Swami Health Grants requires the following information to be submitted with a request for funds. Devotees who have submitted applications previously need not resubmit applications unless an update or completion of information is required. The selection process has begun as of Jan 1, 2006 and will conclu...
Wednesday 7th December 2005 - 10:49
The Institute for Applied Spiritual Technology of Washington, DC/Maryland announces the memorial tribute to His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami on January 21, 2006, at the Blackburn University Center at Howard University from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Our goal is to capture the esse...
Wednesday 30th November 2005 - 01:47
The 3 days of festivities at the Rathayatra and grand memorial for Gurudeva were very overwhelming. Last years festival was hosted by the Ghana yatra, and the next was billed for Lagos, Nigeria. The organizing committee consisting of HH Bhakti-dhira Damodara Swami, Canakya Prabhu, Salika Prabhu,...
Thursday 27th October 2005 - 10:52
The following is an article on the life of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami that is featured in this month's (November/December) Back to Godhead Magazine. It is written by Satyaraja Dasa (Steven Rosen). Satyaraja Prabhu is currently writing the official biography of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami, and this article is a prelude to the full book, whi...
Tuesday 11th October 2005 - 12:24
A Political Activist becomes a monk in the Hare Krsna Movement - by Melvin R. McCray
Reprinted with permission from The Princeton Alumni Weekly (from BTG Nov. 1983)
I saw John Favors for the first time in the fall of 1970, at the introductory meeting of Princeton's Association of Black Collegians. As ABC's pr...
Sunday 9th October 2005 - 14:53
A funny thing would happen when I would go to India. Many local people would laugh at me because they would try to speak to me in the local languages and not understand why I could not respond. They assumed that I would understand the languages due to my dark complexion. (BT Swami laughs).
Once...
Wednesday 5th October - 00:53
In the same mood that devotees offered their kind support to HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami during his final days, we are humbly requesting you to consider supporting the Vrindavan Hospice fund. To leave your body in Vrindavan is certainly an immense blessing, the hospice is trying to make it easier for those who are doing so to have more support and comfort...
Thursday 15th September - 13:34
The next issue of Back to Godhead (the magazine of the Hare Krishna Movement) will be featuring a beautiful 12-page article with many full-color pictures, clearly illustrating HH Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja's life and times. This article written by HG Satyaraja Prabhu, the author of "The Hidden Glory of India" as wel...
Thursday 15th September - 13:26
We would like to apologise for the lack of new updates on the website in the past weeks. We will strive to update the website with new classes and other updates at least once a week. To sign up to receive notice of new updates in your email, please join our mailing list: www.btswami.com/subscribe.php
The...
Wednesday 3rd August - 11:31
If anyone can help with the following please contact Satyaraja Prabhu: satchmo868@aol.com
(1) Ancestry. I know the family was in Cleveland and before that, Alabama. But further back...? Where in Africa? I had read that Maharaja, when in Africa, d...
Friday 29th July - 14:48
by Gaurangi dasi
On Sunday July 3rd, I organized a ceremony in New Mayapur to honour my very dear siksa-guru, His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja. A few days before, Jahnava dasi, who just came from Gita Nagari, had showed us the video of one of the last classes given by Maharaja in Gita Na...
Thursday 28th July - 23:26
The departure of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami to join Srila Prabhupada's eternal pastimes has left ISKCON devotees worldwide with deep feelings of separation.
Today we reflect on his many extraordinary accomplishments in Srila Prabhupada's service and recall with deep gratitude the immeasurable ways, both great and small, th...
Saturday 23rd July - 03:31
Devotees in Nigeria gathered in Benin-City to honor His Holiness Bhakti-Tirtha swami on the 2nd – 4th July 2005.
After the glorious departure of our dearly beloved Gurudeva, H.H.Bhakti-Dhira Damodara Swami (the first Sannyas disciple of H.H. Bhakti Tirtha Swami) sent messages round to disciples, admirers and well-wishers...
Saturday 16th July - 12:37
Download the mp3 recordings of the seminar: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
On Sunday, July 3, Vrajalila Prabhu gave the morning class, beginning with the bhajan 'je anlio prema dana,' prayers to the departed Vaisnava...
