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Nelson’s Hare Krishna community celebrated the Ratha Yatra festival last week, the first time the event has been held in Nelson.
Ratha Yatra marks the journey of Lord Jagannatha across India.
It is celebrated worldwide besides its spiritual home Puri, a city in eastern India.
Nelson’s Hare Khrishna community is based in Motueka. — Read more ›
Haripuja devi dasi attended the Art College of Pittsburgh in 1970-71, where she learned to hand-design advertisements. Being the age before computers, this art form would later allow her to hand-correct Srila Prabhupada’s book negatives. Her real desire was to learn fashion design. Haripuja prabhu tried many things before coming to Krishna Consciousness such as modeling, traveling, and yoga. She was searching for answers about God and this world. Upon meeting the devotees, satisfying answers convinced her to join the temple in Pittsburgh in 1971. Within a year, she took initiation. — Read more ›
As ISKCON’s flagship project The Temple of the Vedic Planetarium’s representatives put it: “The day has come. The suspense is over. After over a year of correspondence, negotiations and near failure, the blue marble has finally been ordered.”
On behalf of the ToVP Sadbhuja Das is in charge of carefully and personally selecting only the best materials from around the world in order to build a temple that will last for “much more than a life time.” — Read more ›
Kavicandra Swami: Serving prasadam to the dham vasis on this auspicious day at this sacred place is very special. The festival has a long description in the Caitanya Bhagavata, about when Caitanya Mahaprabhu himself was there. — Read more ›
ISKCON’s Grihastha Vision Team is offering “Strengthening the Bonds That Free Us” in Mayapur, India on Feb 13-15th, 2014.
This is an interactive skill building seminar for grihastha couples and those wishing to enter grhastha ashram. — Read more ›
Harinama ki jaya! — Read more ›
This year’s annual ISKCON North American Leadership Conference, held at Hare Krishna Dham in Houston, Texas from January 9th to 12th, presented many developments that inspired both new and seasoned devotees alike.
Members of ISKCON’s highest ecclesiastical authority, the Governing Body Commission, met before the official conference, on January 7th and 8th.
The Leadership Conference proper was then held for the following three-and-a-half days. Seventy-five devotees, both senior and new, attended and were housed at ISKCON Houston’s recently built residential apartments. — Read more ›
Sutapa das: Imagine we played a movie showing our public, personal and private life side-by-side. Would everything match up? Would it look like the same person? Maybe not. Some may call it hypocrisy, duplicity and pretence, but there could be more to the story. Often times it’s not deliberate or devious, but simply the result of human weakness. — Read more ›
…and around. — Read more ›
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement opened a centre in the heart of Sandton, the commercial hub of Southern Africa. Since opening in August the centre has hosted several seminars and festivals with the famous Sunday Love Feast program a weekly feature. Several construction and renovations projects have been undertaken the foremost of which is the Food for Life (vegetarian food relief program) kitchen. — Read more ›
Mayapur Dhama ki Jaya! — Read more ›
International Society for Krishna Consciousness Latvian — Read more ›
Srila Prabhupada and his followers have exported one of
India’s greatest religious festivals to cities around the world.
The Rathayatra (“chariot festival”) of Lord Jagannatha has been held in Puri, Orissa, and in other places in India for thousands of years. In the West the first Rathayatra of Lord Jagannatha (a form of Krsna) took place thirty-six years ago, in 1967, in San Francisco. Srila Prabhupada then introduced Jagannatha worship and the Rathayatra in many cities around the world. — Read more ›
His Holiness Jayapataka Swami accepted 40 disciples and initiated them @ ISKCON Chennai temple. — Read more ›
Parasuram das: The Bhagavad Gita being honoured at London’s Houses of Parliament The appearance day of the Bhagavad Gita is to be celebrated every year from this time forth at the House of Commons. Can you imagine just 100 years ago the topic would have been “how to turn India away from it’s primitive books”, and last year in Russia there was the concept of banning the Bhagavad Gita. — Read more ›
Bhaktivedanta Manor is a Gaudiya Vaishnava temple set in the Hertfordshire countryside of England in the village of Aldenham near Watford. — Read more ›
I am vegetarian and i have lived in India and been to other Hare Krishna restaurants around the world but this is special! First of all the hall where the round tables are(you eat with other people)looks so luminous and you feel instantly relaxed.I chose the menu (salad, vegetable rice, mixed veggies and a dessert) and you can help yourself forfree with another portion.
You are served with a smile and there is soft Indian music while you eat.at the entrance
A very nice and advisable experience…and the location is central (not far from Duomo)!.
You neeed to pay a membership fee at the entrace but it is valid for 1 yr.and they give you the choice of a book for free.
Visited June 2013 — Read more ›
32 Ways Not To Chant Japa in 2014! Although Srila Prabhupada has told us if we cannot accomplish anything else in a day, the most important thing is to chant at least chant 16 rounds of Hare Krishna mantra japa. The quality of our chanting can become compromised in various ways, if we are not attentive. — Read more ›
Every weekend we hold a Sunday feast. Come and join us for an evening of chanting, dancing, music, talks and a delicious vegetarian feast. — Read more ›
Preaching that is so dear to our spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada — Read more ›
We distribute prasadam two days a week to more than 2000 poor and needy villagers from the area in and around Mayapur — Read more ›
On December 22nd, 2013, Radhanath Swami addressed a gathering of over three thousand guests at Pune’s New Vedic Cultural Centre (NVCC) including visitors from all over the State of Maharashtra.
The NVCC is a project initiated and completed under the guidance of Radhanath Swami’s student and disciple Radheyshyam das. It was inaugurated in February’ 2013 with the President of India, Mr Pranab Muinkherjee attending as a guest of honor. — Read more ›
Nityananda Chandra: Every we are visited a blissful group of young students from the ages of 7-13 along with their supportive parents and youth leaders. The students and parents always ask very nice and intriguing questions following by a lovely kirtan.
After the program we always get a lot of thanks about how they enjoyed the presentation and everything else. — Read more ›
The project has entered a new phase of construction beginning the new contract for laying the brick on the walls and on the floors. Maintaining the TOVP standards, only India’s finest brick was chosen. This layer will form a solid base upon which the marble and decorative cladding works will be added. Furthermore, the walls will serve as weather protection for all of the structural elements.
The brickwork reveals a new dimension of progress as the sterile construction site becomes gradually transformed into a recognizable temple. If looking closely, one could perhaps already see hundreds of devotees dancing in ecstasy as the sounds of mridangas echo triumphantly throughout the ether. — Read more ›
Gujarat Festival Tour:
Ahmedabad
Jan 10-17
Anand
Jan 18 – 19
Bhavnagar
Jan 21 – 22
Rajkot
Jan 23 – 24
Dwaraka
Jan 25 – 27
Jamnagar
Jan 28
Baroda
Jan 29 – Feb 2
Bharuch
Feb 3 – 4
Surat
Feb 5- 9 — Read more ›
There are many rivers in the world that evoke a sense of awareness in the person of God, but the Ganges – the foremost of these rivers. Ganga and the Bhagavad Gita are the main sources of transcendental happiness of mankind, and a reasonable soul can take refuge from them to return home, back to Godhead. — Read more ›
On the evening of 22nd of December’ 2013, at Gangadham ground chowk, Pune, both Radhanath Swami and Sindhutai Sapkal were honored as the chief guests at the performance of ‘Jaoo Devayacha gava’, a Marathi rendition of a drama on the life of Saint Tukaram (1577-1650), one of the most important and popular saints of bhakti tradition. Over five thousand people viewed the show directed by Sanjay Bhosle. — Read more ›
Fresh ideas for those who want to get in touch with the spiritual world. — Read more ›
Indradyumna Swami: People were fascinated to see so many western devotees along with their blissful Gujarati brothers and sisters chanting and dancing in great happiness through the streets of the city. Srila Prabhupada once called ISKCON the, “United Nations of the spiritual world.” — Read more ›
“No one within ten miles radius of ISKCON Mayapur temple should go hungry”. “Our temple should be the via media for feeding the poor with food and spiritual knowledge” – Srila Prabhupada.
To fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s desire, ISKCON Mayapur has formed a non profit, nonsectarian charitable food distribution program named FOOD FOR LIFE ISKCON MAYAPUR. Food For Life Iskcon Mayapur is working to conquer hunger in neighbouring villages throughout the holy dhama by engaging volunteers and qualified cooks to prepare and distribute sumptuous, nutritious, freshly-prepared vegetarian meals to all, regardless of cast, creed or religion. — Read more ›
Rameshwaram Temple is a famous temple located on the island of Rameswaram in the state of Tamil Nadu, India — Read more ›
Gadahara Pandit das: “What is prajalpa?” – a lecture at the Tuesday Night Sanga at the Bhakti Center New York. Jan 7, 2014 — Read more ›
A few snippets from the 2013-14 Recharge Festival hosted by HH Devamrita Swami at New Gupta Vraja. — Read more ›
Belo Horizonte is the capital city of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of the country. — Read more ›
More than 5000 people had participated in Rath Yatra — Read more ›
Kanpur, is the largest industrial city of Uttar Pradesh and one of the largest in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kanpur Nagar district and Kanpur division. — Read more ›
Promotion and dissemination of religious literature from ancient times were considered sacred and civic duty of every sincere believer — Read more ›
Vaishnava Society for Krishna Consciousness is always open to dialogue and cooperation with other religious organizations and traditions. An example of this dialogue serves famous acharya: six Gosvamis, Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, Srila Prabhupada. — Read more ›
I loved sitting down and just soaking in the sounds from the temple. The people singing, the ringing of the bells, the blow of the conch shell were some of the sounds that I remember the most. I saw people from all over the world, Australia, Europe and different parts of the US coming to the Vrindavan temple. — Read more ›
Due to unusually cold weather attendance was down at our first festival in Ahmedabad last night. But we made up for it with our preaching on a popular talk show the same evening. Several million people watched “G Television” as myself, Sri Prahlad das and Syama Premi dasi spoke for 40 minutes about Srila Prabhupada establishing Krsna consciousness in the west and how Lord Krsna’s teachings in Bhagavad Gita can solve the problems of modern society. We also went into great detail about the glories of chanting Hare Krsna and ended with a sweet kirtan. What bliss! — Read more ›