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Mayapur shine by night! (Album 16 photos)
Random photos from walking around Mayapur today (Album 27 photos)
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What would you see and who would you meet if you went for a little stroll today in Mayapur… Read more ›
Deep and blissful Kirtan Mela in Mayapur (Album 94 photos)
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Fortunate devotees in Mayapur “breath” the transcendental atmosphere generated by thousands of vaishnava hearts, all beating harmoniously in the melody of Krishna bhakti! Read more ›
Vyasapuja celebrations of His Holiness Bhakti Vrajendra Nandana Swami (Album 98 photos)
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ISKCON Malaysia celebrated 75th Vyasapuja of His Holiness Bhakti Vrajendra Nandana Swami at its head quarters Sri Jagannatha Mandir, Kuala Lumpur on 27 February, 2014. It was the second consecutive year that Maharaja was personally present at the temple for his vyasapuja. Maharaja has been the president for ISCKON Malaysia since 1980 and has been the pillar of ISKCON Malaysia throughout. Read more ›
Krsna consciousness is expanding rapidly in the ‘long white cloud’ (Album 100 photos)
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Indradyumna Swami: In the afternoon we went on harinam in the city with all the devotees. Krsna consciousness is expanding rapidly in the country known as the ‘long white cloud’ by the indigenous Maori people. Read more ›
Crying Crying Crying… (Album 87 photos)
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Indradyumna Swami: ” By association with devotees, dirty things within the heart of a materialistic man are gradually washed away by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As silver becomes shiny by being polished, the heart of a materialistic person is cleansed of lusty desires by the good association of devotees.” [ from Srila Prabhupada’s purport to SB 3.25.25] Read more ›
Bollywood director “Bhakta” Krishna Mishra’s birthday party with the devotees of Krishna (Album 65 photos)
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Pictures taken at the home of Sri Krishna Mishra, near ISKCON Juhu, Bombay, last night at the celebration of his 46th birthday. Read more ›
Lord Nityananda theatrical play by 3rd generation devotees in Mayapur (Album 83 photos)
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Little devotees play Lord Nityananda in this lovely play from Chaitanya Bhagavat. This was their very first public performance. Read more ›
Festival of Kirtanas by the ISKCON Temple in Bangalore
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In order to please our most beloved Lordships Sri Sri Gandharvika Giridhari and His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the ISKCON Temple in Bangalore organizes a grand “Festival of Kirtanas” every month providing an opportunity to all the souls in hearing and chanting the holy names of Lord.
The “Festival of Kirtanas” is conducted on the fourth Sunday of the every month. Please do come, join us and participate in this wonderful festival. Read more ›
Little market in Mayapur during the festival (Album 28 photos)
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Young entrepreneurs 🙂 Read more ›
Iskcon devotees mix with the local population in a Jaganath Puri Maha Yajna (Album 33 photos)
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The Jagannath Temple in Puri is a famous temple dedicated to Lord Jagannath and located on the eastern coast of India, at Puri in the state of Orissa. The name Jagannath comes from the word Jagat-Nath which means ‘Lord of the Universe’ Read more ›
Historical Pics ISKCON Toronto Part 2 (Album 44 photos)
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Developing good habits & relinquishing bad habits – Brajabihari prabhu (51 min video)
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Braja Bihari prabhu gives a fantastic talk about habits at ILS (ISKCON Leadership Sanga – 2014). Braja Bihari dasa is the director of ISKCON Resolve. He is a mediator and ombudsman. He’s presently pursuing an MA in Conflict Transformation. He lives in Vrindavan, India. Read more ›
Acharya – Feature film by Yadubara prabhu (6 min video)
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ISKCON Cinema will produce the Documentary Feature Film, ACHARYA—One Who Teaches by Example. This is a 90 minute, broadcast quality, HDTV production depicting the life and teachings of Srila Prabhupada. The film will depict the incredible story of one devoted soul’s mission to re-spiritualize humanity. The movement he started in 1965 continues to thrive worldwide 36 years after his disappearance. In a short period of 12 years, what Srila Prabhupada accomplished was superhuman. This film should prove to be a real eye opener for moviegoers and audiences around the world. Read more ›
Five steps to outreach follow up – Pancharatna prabhu (52 min video)
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Pancharatna prabhu speaks about most important steps for effective outreach and cultivation of Krishna consciousness at ILS (ISKCON Leadership Sanga – 2014). Read more ›
Krishna-lila KALINGA NARTANAM (Indian classical dance) in Konark Dance Festival (Album 7 photos)
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Konark Dance Festival is a dance festival held every year in December in backdrop of the Sun temple in Konark, Odisha in India. Read more ›
11th Kalash Yatra In Vrindakund 2014, Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh (Album 185 photos)
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The Anniversary of Vrinda devi’s Installation at Vrinda Kund! Read more ›
Preaching progam in Brisbane, Australia (Album 56 photos)
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Home programs, with their simple formats of kirtan, class and prasadam, are a wonderful way for devotees of the Lord to associate. Read more ›
Best Practices for developing your ISKCON website (65 min video)
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Educational tutorial video by Gopinath prabhu about refining and using properly a website as a tool for your temple’s reach to the congregation Read more ›
Vaishnava dress fashion by second generation vaishnavis in Mayapur (Album 19 photos)
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The devotees like to dress properly not for their own pleasure but for the pleasure of the Lord! Srila Prabhupada: You remain the beautiful maid servant of Krishna. That is your business, and you should dress yourself always very nicely so that Krishna by seeing you will be pleased. Don’t try to be ugly before Krishna. Krishna does not like ugly gopis. We are transcendental artists, musicians, writers, so everything should be beautiful for Krishna. After all we are members of Krishna’s family, just like Krishna had 16,000 wives and each wife has thousands of servants and maid-servants and all of them are very beautiful for serving Krishna and His Queens. Read more ›
Sesa Prabhu of the ministry of Education about the need to establish Krishna conscious education institutes (8 min video)
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Sesa Prabhu describes at ILS (ISKCON Leadership Sanga – 2014) the need for our temples to establish Krishna conscious education institutes for better development of ISKCON. Read more ›
Kavicandra Swami and other Iskcon devotees distribute prasadam and the Holy Name in Navadwip (Album 97 photos)
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Externally may appear like food distrbution to the needy but in reality consists of purification of the body by taking prasadam, (food cooked with love and devotion, offered first to the Lord), and purification of the soul by the trascendental vibrations of the Holy Names chanted by those that are conscious of the transcendental Supreme Entity, like the devotees of Krishna. Read more ›
Badrinarayan prabhu describes in brief his wonderful experience of ISKCON Leadership Sanga – 2014 (11 min video)
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Hear what HG Badrinarayan Prabhu has to say about how members of the strategic planning network are “using their intelligence” to plan and organize for a better ISKCON of today and the future Read more ›
The central dome is rising! Aerial shots of the Temple of Vedic Planetarium from a drone (Album 9 photos)
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The central dome is coming up, like the devotion of all these devotees worldwide that are engaged whole-heartedly for the realization of such unique and huge project for the pleasure of their beloved Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Read more ›
ISKCON Leadership Sanga Last Plenary Kirtan, Seminars & Prasadam (Album 39 photos)
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Blissful devotees making plans for the benefit of the whole society under the direction of the Paramahamsa Acarya His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila prabhupada. Read more ›
ISKCON Leadership Sanga Day five – Fantastic Kirtan Seminar (Album 34 photos)
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A fantastic seminar on Kirtan, with all very appropriate quotes and stories about how Srila Prabhupada wanted Kirtan conducted. Read more ›
New Varshana Community – Balta, Ukraine (Album 10 photos)
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These devotees all live in or near the developing community of New Varshana, near Balta, about 100 km north of Odessa Read more ›
Bir Krishna Swami unveiles the “Sphere”! (360 degree photo of the TOVP)
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Yesterday, HH Birkrishna Goswami maharaj visited the TOVP and unveiled the Sphere – a very cool gadget that attaches to your iPhone and takes a 360 degree photo of any location! Wait for the embeding below to load and use your mouse to click and drag through the 360 degree experience of the TOVP! Read more ›
Mayapur Scenes (Album 45 photos)
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Saturday night is elephant procession night in Mayapur, where we are right now. Little Radha Madhava go out for a tour of the ISKCON campus. Read more ›
Blissful kirtan in Mayaur (Album 38 photos)
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ISKCON Leadership Sanga Day Seven – Maha Kirtan Read more ›
Vaishnava marriage with Govinda Dasa and Madhavi Ori (Album 69 photos)
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In Vrindavana Dham Read more ›
Radhapati prabhu’s Samadhi Inauguration (Album 50 photos)
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H. G. Radhapati Prabhu Disciple of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Radhapati Prabhu loined in Hawaii and who volunteered to go to Brazil to start the first temple. He then served in LA protecting the sankirtana devotees distributing books in LAX.
He suffered several injuries in Viet Nam prior to his surrender to Srila Prabhupada. One of the injuries he received in Nam left him with a brain tumor that caused epileptic seizures. He came to Vrindavan about 16 years ago prepared to leave his body.
He is a devotee of Sri Yamuna Devi. He served in Food for Life and Care for Cows for many years and served many local Vrajabasis selflessly.
He is a person who is free from greed and is offenseless.
He is in the loving hands of Sri Krsna. Read more ›
Lord Nityananda’s appearence day joyous celebration in Botany, Russia (Album 207 photos)
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Lord Nityananda (also known as Nityananda Prabhu, Nitai, Nityananda Balarama) appeared as Lord Chaitanya’s principal associate for spreading the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord. He especially spread the holy name of the Lord throughout Bengal. He is considered an incarnation of Lord Balarama. Read more ›
Global Village Initiative Seminar @ ILS, Mayapur (Album 17 photos)
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A seminar on “Best Practices” relating to the promotion and application of the principles connected with “Simple Living and High Thinking”, namely self-sufficiency, sustainability,eco-friendly practices and practicality in different farm projects and temples across the globe. Read more ›
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Pushpanjali in Mayapur (Album 32 photos)
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Pushpanjali is an offering of flowers to elevated personalities. In Sanskrit, pushpam means “flower” and anjali means “offering with folded hands”. So Pushpanjali means offering of flowers with folded hands. Read more ›
Walking around beautiful Mayapur during festival time (Album 49 photos)
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Mayapur is located on the banks of the Ganges river, at the point of its confluence with the Jalangi, near Navadvip, West Bengal, India, 130 km north of Kolkata. Read more ›
ISKCON Leadership Sanga Parikrama to Yogapitha and Srivas Angan (Album 76 photos)
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Yogapitha The appearance place of the Lord is known as Yoga Pitha, and is situated at the very center of Mayapur. Read more ›
Kavicandra Swami: The future is here! (2 min video)
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Sweet and melodious bhajan by third generation “little great” devotees Read more ›
Wonderful Abhishek of Srila Bhaktisiddantha Sarasvati Thakur in Iskcon Delhi (Album 88 photos)
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Statements of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
1. We are put to test and trial in this world. Only those who attend the kirtana of the devotees can succeed.
2. Every spot on earth where discourses on God are held is a place of pilgrimage.
3. Possession of objects not related to Kṛṣṇa is our main malady.
4. Let me not desire anything but the highest good for my worst enemies.
5. As dalliance with the body in luxury increases, so wanes the spirit of service of the Lord.
6. Those favored by God find their paths set by thorns. Read more ›
Karuna Bhavan: ISKCON Scotland Temple – I couldn’t have asked for anything better!
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Non-stop ecstatic bhajans lead by multiple devotees giving short explanations to songs that were being sung for the pleasure of Sri Gaura Nitai. It was Sri Nityananda Triyodasi celebrations; what better time to have visited the temple than this. Read more ›