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Sacinandana Swami: Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu requested them all to return home and begin chanting the holy name congregationally. He also requested them to worship Krishna, chant His holy name and discuss His holy pastimes Read more ›

Kecskemét Animation Film Festival is an animated film festival held biennially in Kecskemét, Hungary. Although the bulk of the festival is oriented toward efforts in Hungarian animation, the associated KAFF-sponsored Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials (Hungarian: Európai Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál) has opened the festival to international works as well Read more ›

The ISKCON Temple under the International Society for Krishna Consciousness is a famous temple situated at Ashoka Enclave in Faridabad. The temple is more popularly known as Sri Sri Radha Govind Temple and is one of the many ISKCON temples in India. Like most of the other ISKCON temples, this shrine is also dedicated to Lord Krishna and his beloved Radha. Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: Yesterday was a very sad day for the Russian Yatra. Moscow authorities evicted ISKCON from the land they had been allocated several years ago for a temporary temple, while devotees applied for permission to build a permanent centre just outside the city. Permission for that centre has also been denied, so for the time being there is no temple in Moscow. Read more ›

For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada this page
contains the following results for the month of August 2013 Read more ›

Fortunately no devotee has been harmed but there is a very high tension in the whole Kenya. Your prayers are requested! Read more ›

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked, “Where should the living entity live, abandoning all other places?”
Ramananda Raya replied, “The holy place known as Vrndavana or Vrajabhumi, where the Lord performed His rasa dance.” Read more ›

New Vraja Mandala is located in Brihuega, dist. Guadalara, central Spain at a distance of about 85km. from the Madrid airport. The property consists of ancient aristocratic buildings and about 300 hectares of land. It has been acquired by ISKCON in 1979 and houses the temple of Sri Sri Radha Govinda Chandra – See more at: http://www.iskconcenters.com/brihuega-new-vraja-mandala/#sthash.1OPcpBnX.dpuf Read more ›

“Temple means free Prasadam distribution! No one should go hungry within ten miles from the temple. Start free food distribution for these people!”

Since then, free Prasad distribution has been going on at every ISKCON temple worldwide, especially at Vrindavan and Mayapur. Read more ›

Please write your well-wishes and your prayers and send them via email. I will deliver your offerings a.s.a.p. Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: At the Bhakti Sangam Festival in Ukraine 11,000 devotees had breakfast and lunch each day. The 22,000 plates were prepared by dedicated teams of devotees, sometimes working even in the rain Read more ›

In 1966, Srila Prabhupada began chanting the Hare Krsna mahamantra under a tree in New York’s Tompkins Square Park, thereby inaugurating the western advance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s glorious Sankirtana movement. Read more ›

The long-running feud over Moscow’s ISKCON temple shows the suspicion and hostility that the Hare Krishna movement, legalised in Russia in 1988, still evokes in that country Read more ›

Bhaktivedanta Swami met Mr. Agarwal, a Mathura businessman, and mentioned to him in passing, as he did to almost everyone he met, that he wanted to go to the West. Although Mr. Agarwal had known Bhaktivedanta Swami for only a few minutes, he volunteered to try to get him a sponsor in America. It was something Mr. Agarwal had done a number of times; when he met a sadhu who mentioned something about going abroad to teach Hindu culture, he would ask his son Gopal, an engineer in Pennsylvania, to send back a sponsorship form. When Mr. Agarwal volunteered to help in this way, Bhaktivedanta Swami urged him please to do so. Read more ›

The temple has 50 ropanies of land including temple, guest house, garden, gausala, restaurant etc. The temple is about a ten-minute walk from the Budhanilkantha Temple, in a beautiful rural setting. Buses to Budhanilkantha (8 km) depart from Rani Pokhari and Kalanki in Kathmandu, every half-hour Read more ›

Talavan is one of the twelve forests around Vrndavana, a city in India where Krishna incarnated 5,000 years ago. Krishna and His cowherd friends would go there and play, rest, eat and watch their cows as they grazed. Read more ›

We even remember Radhapati prabhu as the sole man down in the BBT Mail Order “cave”, we used to call it, in the garage under the green bldg of New Dwaraka. EVERYDAY…rain or shine…ALL BY HIMSELF, he would fill the orders from all over the world for PRABHUPADA’s BOOKs and send them out to the respective Temples Read more ›

Our religious tradition centers on a mood of bhakti, or service of the divine. Wedding guests are considered the Lord’s representatives sent to grace our marriage, and our desired atmosphere was one of grateful service to these representatives. Read more ›

“As I began to spend more time with the brahmacaris, I noticed an unusual trait. They seemed to be always joyful, beyond the moody ups and downs that had plagued my spiritual quest.”

“What would happen to me if I wanted to become a Hare Krsna devotee?” a young man recently asked me. The first step, I told him, would be to enter the brahmacari asrama, the status of life for single men serious about spiritual advancement. Though I am now happily married, the conversation reminded me of the years I spent as a brahmacari. Read more ›

New Raman Reti is an ocean of devotional service…Situated on a rural 127-acre property surrounding a tranquil, marble-floored temple, New Raman Reti is a devotional refuge from the material world.The temple deities are the most merciful Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara, Sri Sri Krishna Balarama, and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. Read more ›

Rama Raya Prabhu is hosting daily (EVERY SINGLE DAY) harinamas in Union Square/Washington Square Park just like the Golden days with His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada! If you want to know more, please contact Rama Raya Prabhu @ 617 304 7061 Read more ›

After Srila Prabhupada left his body in 1977, many of the devotee members of the famous Radha-Damodara Sankirtana Party came to stay in Dallas and Houston. Today, more than 15,000 followers now live in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. There are presently 25 temple-owned homes in the immediate neighborhood which have became models of community redevelopment Read more ›

Nagar-Sankirtana Mayapur Dham (Mayapur Daily Harinama) Read more ›

Prasad was prepared by our kitchen staff for distribution at the Gotri Talao (lake) on the occasion of Ganapati visarjan (immersion of the idols of Ganesh) yesterday, September 18, 2013. ISKCON Baroda is grateful to Sri Shivlal and Smt. Kantadevi Goyal for supporting this program, and for their personal participation in the program as well Read more ›

Vaiyasaki Das: This morning we were featured at the program “Elementos” at Channel 7 Jalisco, in Guadalajara Mexico. I spoke about Srila Prabhupada, Lord Chaitanya and how the Maha-mantra gives peace to the mind and brings love to the heart Read more ›

Various Guadiya Math’s gathered at the house of Bhaktivinoda Thakur to glorify the acharya. Bhaktivinoda was an exemplary personality in our disciplic succession. Decotees in the grihasta ashram especially can take example from him and strive to follow in his footsteps Read more ›

In Vrindavan, on the holy Krishna Janmabhoomi, lies the temple that is a “must visit” destination for devotees completing the 84 kosh Vraj Parikrama Yatra. The temple is centuries old and is the first Indian temple that is dedicated to the divine couple and their Ashta Sakhi’s – the eight “friends” of Radha who were intimately involved in her love play with the Lord Krishna. Mention of the Ashta Sakhis are found in the ancient texts of Ramayan and the Srimad Bhagvat. Read more ›

Ernst & Young (re-branded as EY) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was the third largest professional services firm in the world by aggregated revenue in 2012 and is one of the “Big Four” accounting firms Read more ›

You can watch LIVE Broadcasting from the huge gathering of the Vaishnavas -THE BHAKTI SANGAM FESTIVAL IN UKRAINE 2013 – that is taking place right now and for the next few days here: http://www.kathamrita.info/ Read more ›

Indradyumna Swami: The Bhakti Sangam Festival in Ukraine is giving 11,000 devotees the chance to relish the nectar of chanting the holy names in each other’s blissful association 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 ›

What is Nama-hatta?

Nama-hatta is the most traditional of the congregational programs and mirrors the organization of a regular ISKCON temple with the leader and his assistants in the center. There is no membership limit and some groups become quite large. Groups function under the direct supervision of ISKCON preachers responsible for the area. Minimally experienced devotees can serve as group leaders. Training of existing members and recruitment of new ones depend largely on the group leader’s initiative and inspiration by visiting preachers. Read more ›

The Boston Freedom Rally is an annual event in Boston, in the U.S. states of Massachusetts. Held on the third Saturday in September, it is traditionally the second largest annual gathering Read more ›

Parikrama refers to circumambulation of sacred places. Parikrama means “the path surrounding something” in Sanskrit, and is also known as Pradakshina (“to the right”), representing circumambulation Read more ›

Today marks the 175th anniversary of the birth—the appearance—of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, “the pioneer of the program for benedicting the entire world with Krishna consciousness Read more ›

Two day kirtan mela for the pleasure of Srimati Radharani Read more ›

The Mahabharata is the longest Sanskrit epic. Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana… Read more ›