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CC Adi 1.87, Translation: The appearance of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Prabhu Nityānanda has surcharged the world with happiness.
The purpose of the appearance of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda is to dispel the darkness of the soul Read more ›

ISKCON of San Diego
The Hare Krishna Temple in San Diego Read more ›

Pictures taken on February 13, 2014. Special attention in the pictures to the flower decorations for the Jagannath Rathayatra festival to be observed later today. Read more ›

Pictures taken at the Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi temple, ISKCON New Delhi, on February 12 – Sri Nityananda Trayodashi – and Feb 13 Read more ›

Bhaktivedanta Manor is the UK headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Read more ›

Nityananda Trayodasi: Appearance of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Nityananda Prabhu appeared as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s principal associate for spreading the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord. He appeared in 1474 in the village of Ekachakra, now in West Bengal. He especially spread the holy name of Krishna throughout Bengal. His beauty was so enchanting and He was so full of ecstatic love for Krishna that, wherever He moved, crowds of people would follow and become lovers of God. He is considered an incarnation of Krishna’s principal expansion, Balarama. Read more ›

Parasuram das: The following video clip was taken from last Friday’s Feast at Matchless Gifts,UK. The singer’s name is “Youth” from one of my favourite bands “Killing Joke” Read more ›

Parasuram das: HG Saksi Gopal lights up Leicester Square with the Holy Name. There is nothing like an old fashion Hari Nam. There are about eight direct disciples of Srila Prabhupada going out regularly on this Hari Nam, in the old days these devotees would perform this sacrifice daily for eight hours. That was the norm. Please come out on the streets as it’s “susukham kartum avyayam”, great fun. Read more ›

International group of devotees perform Sankirtana in the Surat city of Gujarat Read more ›

Basu Ghosh Das: Pictures taken at the inauguration of the Sri Sri Radha Govinda temple by myself, Natavara Krishna Das, Premabhakti Das, Haridas Iskcon Coventry, and others with the Canon E0S 6D camera and the Canon 28-300 lens Read more ›

With Jayapataka Swami Read more ›

During the 1970s, Srila Prabhupada regularly visited ISKCON Melbourne to give lectures and inspire his many followers who would eagerly await his arrival. On very special occasions he came to install the Deity forms of Lord Krishna so that his devoted students could learn to worship the Lord in His archa-vigraha (Deity form). In 1973, when the temple was still located in Burnett Street, St Kilda (our first location), Srila Prabhupada installed Melbourne’s presiding Deities, Sri Sri Radha Ballabha. Much to everyone’s delight, in May 1975 Srila Prabhupada attended the opening of our current temple at 197 Danks Street, Albert Park, simultaneously installing Deities of Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda, Sri-Sri Gaura Nitai. Read more ›

Yudhisthira inquired, “What produces the highest merit?”

Bhisma replied, “Self-restraint surpasses all other activities in this regard and is therefore considered to be the highest virtue. Because self-restraint purifies and controls every aspect of one’s life, it is more important than giving in charity and the study of the Vedas. By self-restraint alone one can achieve liberation from the material world.
Self-restraint comprises sense-control, freedom from anger, non-enviousness, impartiality, truthfulness, steadiness and contentment. However, the essential quality of self-restraint is austerity. Thus no good can be achieved without austerity.” Read more ›

Nityānanda Chandra Dās: The Darshan Room is weekly event that taps into the essence of the Krishna Consciousness experience. Uplifting kirtan, dynamic discussions, and an absolutely amazing vegetarian feast. Read more ›

Jayapataka Swami: So, today is a good day to follow in the footsteps of Krishna Das Kaviraj and take shelter of Advita Gosai who was incarnation of a devotee. Lord Caitanya is devotee, Nityananda is expansion as his devotee, Advaita Acharya is the incarnation of devotee. When Lord comes, he is always supreme personality of God Head. In this Lila He is supreme personality of Godhead, and simunteously He is supreme personality of devotee. He is combined form of Radha and Krishna. He has special power which even Advita Acharya did not have, Advita Acharya could give liberation but to give love of Godhead is bit more difficult which only can Lord Chaitanya can offer. Read more ›

On the 25th of January, the Radha Gopinath temple in Mumbai resounded with excitement as Radhanath Swami lead an enthusiastic team of volunteers to pluck over 3000 pounds of flowers for the annual flower festival. The flowers – red, pink and dark pink roses; orange, yellow and brown marigolds; yellow and white Chrysanthemums – were first showered on the forms of Radha and Krishna (Radha Gopinath) in the evening, and then showered upon all the guests amidst ecstatic and melodious chanting and dancing. Read more ›

The Goshalla is situated next to the temple of ISKCON Tirupati. Read more ›

Over forty years ago, Hare Krishna devotees brought this tradition to the streets of big and small cities around the world. The last time Melbourne hosted the Festival of the Chariots was in the 1970s. Now, over 30 years later we are excited to announce that this ancient celebration has returned to Melbourne as part of the famous St Kilda Festival. Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: The other day we visited the house where Srila Prabhupada stayed with his Western disciples during a visit to Surat in 1970. Many of the local people vividly remembered His Divine Grace. To celebrate our visit we chanted in the same streets that Srila Prabhupada sent his disciples out to do harinam in 44 years ago. In this album I also include never-before seen black and white photos of Srila Prabhupada’s visit to Surat.
[ Majority of Photos by Ananta Vrindavan das ] Read more ›

Pure, vegetarian, wood-fired pizza prepared according to traditional Italian recipes right inside of Mayapur’s Iskcon temple. Read more ›

Coolangatta is the southernmost suburb of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Read more ›

Jayapataka Swami invited all the Sri Mayapur GBCom Members and deputies for afternoon lunch prasadam feast (Lotus Roof Top) at his residence. Read more ›

PIZZERIA Home Delivery service, in and around Mayapur? Read more ›

The bliss continues for one and all! Read more ›

The UK is experiencing massive floods even here at Bhaktivedanta Manor, no real damage was done except to Arjuna Prabhu’s caravan. It is scary to wake up in a flood. Read more ›

Sriman Revati Raman Prabhu, ISKCON Tirupati temple president’s younger daughter, Sowbhagyavati Krishnacharanpriya to Sriman Chiranjivi Praneet Read more ›

Lam Tsuen is an area in Tai Po. It is famous for Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees. Read more ›

Lord Kṛṣṇa In the Dvārakā-māhātmya states as follows: “A person who is in a jubilant spirit, who feels profound devotional ecstasy while dancing before Me, and who manifests different features of bodily expression can burn away all the accumulated sinful reactions he has stocked up for many, many thousands of years.” Read more ›

The chips are still hot and spicy and there are the workers, “Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!” Eating the chips! I saw 🙂 — Read more ›

The wedding of Sriman Revati Raman Prabhu, ISKCON Tirupati temple president’s younger daughter, Kumari soon to be Sowbhagyavati Krishnacharanpriya to Sriman Chiranjivi Praneet. — Read more ›

On this earth, the place known as Vrndavan in the district of Mathura, ninety miles southeast of Delhi, is a replica of that supreme Goloka Vrndavana in the spiritual sky. In all of India, that eighty-four-square-mile tract of land is considered to be the most sacred place of pilgrimage because Krishna sported in it, and many devotees still linger there in ecstasy in search of Krishna and His childhood associates. — Read more ›

Christmas Marathon is famous for book distribution. However, in Malaysia, the best time for book distribution
is during the annual Thaipusam Festival for Lord Skanda. The world famous Batu Caves Temple for Lord Karthikeya,
is the best place because hundreds of thousands of Hindus and tourists gather to pay homage to the Commander-in-Chief
of the Army of the Devas. The festival goes on for about 10 days. — Read more ›

Last week devotees visited the Tihar Jail to conduct pastoral care programs for the inmates. Tihar Prisons is the largest complex of prisons in South Asia. The prison is styled a correctional institution. Its main objective is to convert its inmates into ordinary members of society by providing them with useful skills, education, and respect for the law. It aims to improve the inmates’ self-esteem and strengthen their desire to improve. — Read more ›

The last shipment of pure white marble has arrived from Vietnam.

The standard is incomparable with a pristine finish lacking any dark markings. Girigovardhan Prabhu is supervising the unloading and quality check of the marble. His attention to detail guarantees only a superior product will be accepted. — Read more ›

If we look to the wisdom of the ancient text, Bhagavad Gita, we find that anger arises from attachment – attachment to either an object, or a position, a concept or an opinion. In general, when we are very obsessive about something, we can get angry. — Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: These are Ananta Vrindavan’s excellent photos of our festival program in Bharuch, a town of 400,000 people on the banks of the sacred Narmada river in Gujarat. The people of Bharuch were mesmerized by the show, reminding me of Srila Prabhupada’s statement that the Krsna consciousness movement would, “take the world over by culture.” — Read more ›

St Kilda Beach is a beach located in St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 kilometres south from the Melbourne city centre. It is Melbourne’s most famous beach. Mantra choir Harinama with Jayadev Prabhu warming up before Ratha Yatra — Read more ›

Season 1 episode 17 , Here’s Lucy. Amazing where Lord Jaganatha shows up to purify the conditioned souls! — Read more ›

The cleaning, restoration, beautification, and now care of local widows is expanding. Please deeply consider becoming a regular part of this program and feel the satisfaction expand in your heart. — Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: In December, 1970 Srila Prabhupada visited Surat, Gujarat for two weeks with 25 of his western disciples. Following in their illustrious footsteps we went on Ratha Yatra the very day we arrived in Surat. We could feel Srila Prabupada’s mercy as we chanted and danced through the streets. We will have 5 festival programs in Surat; two in the same place Srila Prabhupada held his public lectures during his visit there. Our hearts are beating in great expectation! Srila Prabhupada ki jaya! [ Photos by Ananta Vrindavan dasa ] — Read more ›