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Have a look in the “battlefield”! Read more ›

Gaura Purnima is a Gaudiya Vaishanva festival that celebrates the divine appearance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Navadwipa, India. Gaura Purnima means “Golden Full Moon”. The name signifies that Lord Caitanya took birth at time of full moon and He blesses everyone with the moonlike rays of His teachings. Festivities at ISKCON Delhi include a shobha-yatra (parade) with utsava murti of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai on Juhu beach followed by Sringar-arati and lecture on the glories of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprasad. The evening festivities consist of maha-abhishek of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Gaura arati followed by dinner prasada for all. Read more ›

Mahaprabhu was a beautiful child, and the ladies of the town came to see Him with presents. His mother’s father, Pandita Nilambara Cakravarti, a renowned astrologer, foretold that the child would be a great personage in time; and he, therefore, gave him the name Visvambhara. The ladies of the neighbourhood styled him Gaurahari on account of His golden complexion, and His mother called Him Nimai on account of the ‘nimba’ tree near which He was born. Beautiful as the lad was, everyone heartily loved to see Him every day. As He grew up He became a whimsical and frolicsome lad. After His fifth year, He was admitted into a pathasala where He picked up Bengali in a very short time. Read more ›

With Keshava Bharati Goswami Read more ›

Photography by Ananta Vrindavan dasa Read more ›

With Madhava & Sri Prahlada. Freshwater is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Read more ›

A very auspicious festival is held 4 days before Gaura-purnima on the day of Govinda Dwadasi in the house of Sri Advaita Acarya at Shantipur, known as Shantipur festival. Supreme Lord Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu visited the house of SriAdvaita Acarya and took prasadam with the devotees on the appearance day of Sripad Madhavendra Puri and blessed with Krsna prema to all those who come and take prasadam at this place on this specific day.

22 quintals of rice, 12 quintals of dhal, enormous amount of vegetables like cabbage, spinach, tomatoes, cauliflower, beans and spices were used to cook non-stop delicious kitchuri. Read more ›

His Holiness Badrinarayan Dasa Goswami speaks about how he became a devotee in USA. Read more ›

Spectacular parade in the already mystical atmosfere of Mayapur! Read more ›

The small Sri Sri Radha Madhava deities (uttsava-murti) are brought in a procession amidst kirtana to the lake at Srila Prabhupada’s Pushpa Samadhi Mandir. Their Lordships are placed on a boat and taken on a boat ride during a boat festival evening. The festivities intend to engage everyone in Krishna’s service, thereby giving us a chance to perfect our lives.

The pujaris apply sandalwood to Their sacred bodies. After the boat ride, Their Lordships are seated on a swing decorated with colorful and fragrant flowers and fruits. Devotees then have the wonderful opportunity to swing Them while singing bhajanas for Their pleasure. They also grab the opportunity to cook and offer bhoga to Their Lordships and distribute them to other devotees! Read more ›

The annual Mayapur Festival is full of blissful events so that devotees can “recharge their spiritual batteries” and return to their respective countries to continue the spreading of Lord Chaitanya’s movement. Read more ›

Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Mandir (Hindi: श्री श्री राधा पर्थसरथि मन्दिर ) or generally called as ISKCON Delhi temple is a famous Vaishnav temple of Lord Krishna and Radharani in the form of Radha Parthasarathi, Opened in 1998, it is located at Hare Krishna Hills, in the East of Kailash area of New Delhi, India. Read more ›

Vishnujana Prabhu from Slovakia, Gaura Karuna Prabhu and Nrsimha Caitanya Prabhu from Czech Republic, Syama Ras Prabhu from Croatia, and Harinamananda Prabhu from Australia travel all over the world doing harinama. Read more ›

By Nirantara prabhu’s preaching tour. Read more ›

Gopal and Sally Agarwal, an elderly couple who played a significant role in ISKCON’s origins. They are forever etched in the devotees’ collective memory as two of the Western world’s earliest recipients of Srila Prabhupada’s mercy. It was the Agarwals who hosted him in the fall of 1965, before ISKCON was even nominally born, giving him shelter, hospitality, friendship, and love. Indeed, for one month their home served as Prabhupada’s earliest refuge outside India. Read more ›

In our temples we have no capacity to give shelter to all the people. House holder devotees have so many possessions, like their old father, mother, young children, land, cows and bulls. They cannot join the temple with all of these things. If they stay in their homes and do business or whatever, householder devotees can follow the rules and regulations, chanting Hare Krishna and a couple of times in a week gather together for a Nama-hatta program. Every day they will do their activities in their own house and in the evening they join together and do evening program where they can do aroti, Bhagavad-gita class, chanting harinama and prasada distribution. This is called maha milan. Read more ›

At the 15th annual International Yoga Festival, held from the 1st to the 7th of March, 2014, Radhanath Swami addressed over 600 participants from about 50 countries. Invited as one of the leading speakers for the event, held in Rishikesh in the Himalayas, Radhanath Swami gave three talks: “Yoga of Love”; “My Experiences with the Himalayan Yogis”; and “In giving we Receive.” Read more ›

It was powerful to be singing about Lord Caitanya with eight other devotees who were performing the austerity of taking a 33-hour train ride from Mumbai to Howrah, enroute to His glorious birthplace. I was happy that the Lord had brought us all together to sing for Him, and also to benefit everyone else in the carriage with the transcendental sound. Read more ›

Rtadhvaja Swami: When I was dealing with the AT&T customer service representative, after answering my initial question my phone, she asked if I had any more questions. I said, “I do have a question that is troubling me. Now I have a 61 year old body, but I remember when I had a 6 year old body. I guess that means I am the consciousness that has experienced different bodies. There must be a supreme consciousness beyond this, and I am wondering how to connect with that.” She replied that is the most amazing thing that she had ever heard, but she agreed about the point of changing bodies, saying that it was also her experience. Read more ›

With chanting, dancing and engaging the local people and the tourists Read more ›

All Glories to the Harinam Sankirtan of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Harinam is the congregational street chanting of the holy names of Krishna or God, if anyone is interested in performing the Yuga Dharma Harinam Sankirtan, is cordially invited to join with us and assist in this effort to please His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. Your cooperation in any way will please the Lord as this was the desire of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to spread his name in every town and village.

Harinam Sankirtan ki!!! Jaya!!! Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: Pictured here is the Temple of the Vedic Planatarium, under construction. Before entering Sridham Mayapura we visited the sacred home of Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur, from where he had a vision of a magnificent temple appearing one day in the future just across the Jalangi river. By Srila Prabhupada’s strong desire that temple is now beginning to manifest as the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium. We also visited Nrsimha-pali, where Lord Nrsimha took bath on His way back to Vaikuntha, after killing the demon Hiranyakasipu. Purified of heart and in a mood of humility we finally arrived in ISKCON’s Mayapura Candrodaya Mandir. Good to be home again! Read more ›

These are photos mainly from the parikrama of Russian bhaktas. Just watch their bliss! Read more ›

This was our first hall festival of the year and was very successful!
We planned for 150 people to come, but around 230+ guests came!
There were a few hiccups such as audio issues and the dancer being late from stuck in traffic!
The feast at the end was very delicious!
We apologise to those who could get seating but next time we will try to book the hall next door with 300 seats. Read more ›

Jahnava Sundari Devi Dasi and Tom Jawel at Iskcon Mayapur Read more ›

Nabadwip and Nadia were great centres of learning and intellectual prowess. For five centuries, it was referred to as “Oxford of Bengal”. Read more ›

Super colorful and with much joy, remembering Lord Krishna’s pastimes! Read more ›

Harinama is the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord as shown to us by Srila Prabhupada. Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu introduced the sankirtan movement 500 years ago and it is the spiritual process recommended in the Vedas for the age of Kali, the age we now find ourselves in. From the beginning of the Krishna consciousness movement in the West, Srila Prabhupada directed the devotees to chant congregationally in the temple as well as in the parks and streets of the towns and cities. Read more ›

Like the Vatican and its shepherding of a disparate flock of many-hued sheep, we may end up with several dozen ‘orders’ within the Hare Krishna movement, but at least they will be working under the same name and style. Theologies have a tendency of variation according to the very genuine physical needs and faith-levels of their proponents. As such, they won’t always mesh together, and practices may not always conform to strict orthopraxis, but splintering might be prevented, and we may all be spared the debilitation of any further reduction in size and influence. Splintering diminishes the strength of collegiate effort and repeated division is a scourge that ultimately ends in a loss of power and increased apathy. If people can be united to do good in the world it is helpful for everyone concerned. Read more ›

Not just the typical Vrindavan pig story that describes the ugly, dirty fellows bowling people over, in the wee hours of the morning, in order to claim their pig breakfasts. Read more ›

Watch it as it happened… Read more ›

Where else can Harinama, the congregational chanting of the Holy Names of the All Attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan Lord Shri Krishna, can be performed better than here! Read more ›

“Why,” somebody asked me recently “do you want to build something new when there are already so many buildings in Vrindavan?” Of course, ISKCON has a wonderful temple in Vrindavan, with convenient living arrangements at the MVT and the surrounding area. But the town of Vrindavan has become a metropolis, and it has become difficult to find the peace required to enter one’s sacred space. Thus, we recognized the need for a retreat center, which would offer an ideal setting where students could go deep into their spiritual practice. This place would be used exclusively for group and individual retreats. Read more ›

The scene in the pandal with 5 of the 6 Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama parties assembled, celebrating the successful completion of the 25th parikrama. Several thousand devotees, but the Russian party of about 1500 had not arrived at this time. Read more ›

All glories to Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! All glories to Lord Nityānanda! All glories to Advaita Ācārya! And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! (CC Ādi 6.2) Read more ›

“Wherever we wander in the material universe under the influence of karma by the will of the Lord, may our auspicious activities cause our attraction to Lord Kṛṣṇa to increase.” (CC Ādi 6.61) Read more ›

The Pancatattva Maha Abhishek was so sublime and wonderful – I was privileged to be one of the cameramen by the kind mercy of Prananatha Das prabhu to witness this once in a lifetime event! Please watch this video again and again so you may be encouraged to buy the original DVD and thus contribute to the completion of the Temple of Vedic Planetarium. Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: The Laddu Mar festival takes place a day before the famous Holi festival at Varsana. The residents of Varsana have great fun throwing laddu sweets at each other from balconies, rooftops and inside the temples. Unknown to us, they also begin throwing coloured dyes and liquids in preparation for Holi. Thus while attending the Laddu Mar festival we unexpectedly met face to face with a variety of blue, green, yellow and red powders! Read more ›

Joy and bliss for the vaishnavas visiting the Holy Tirthas around Mayapur! Read more ›

ISKCON Leadership Sanga Booths Read more ›