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The series will be broadcast on their Facebook page, Youtube Channel and Mayapur TV from the 18th of February to the 29th of March. 

In celebration of the holy month of Kartika, the Bhaktivedanta Players drama group of Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK, have made a seasonal audio play for children and families to enjoy.

In the search for a deeper connection and inner calm, WILLOW and Jahnavi have combined their musical influences to create a spiritual, meditative and uplifting collection of art.

Topics include “Vaishnava Masculinity,”  “Men, Marriage and Myth,” “Fatherhood,”  “Pornography, Pernicious and Prevalent,” “Empowerment,” “Brahmacari Ashrama—The Spirit Still Matters, and So Does the Form,” and more.

The spiritual world is not an impersonal place – it’s a place of wonderful exchanges, deep friendships and loving interactions.

Often times we start on our spiritual journey with great enthusiasm, excitement and cheer. Yet, somewhere in the middle we come to a point where everything becomes known, monotonous and obvious. How do we steer back?

In the past two weeks, he has been recovering very nicely,  now he is back serving on the altar and started to take small speaking engagements.

ISKCON Ujjain devotees express their gratitude to the worldwide Vaishnava community for the support they have been receiving to help cope with the passing of their beloved spiritual master Bhakti Charu Swami. 

Justin Connor (Yasodanandana dasa) just released an award-winning feature film that he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in entitled, THE GOLDEN AGE, which features archival footage of Srila Prabhupada. 

Vyasa-puja is an annual celebration by devotees of Krishna to offer homage to their guru, or spiritual teacher. 

The GBC’s Strategic Planning Team have compiled a celebrate-at-home Janmastami portfolio, which consists of resources to make devotees’ Janmastami experience delightful and filled with personal loving service to the Lord.

The GBC’s Strategic Planning Team have compiled a celebrate-at-home Janmastami portfolio, which consists of resources to make devotees’ Janmastami experience delightful and filled with personal loving service to the Lord.

Earth, humanity and nature are inextricably interconnected. To restore us all back to health, we need to “rewild” the world, says environmental activist Kristine Tompkins.

ISKCON Strategic Planning Support Team, which is a unit of the GBC Strategic Planning Team is extending their support to help devotee communities worldwide to survive, maintain and grow

Harvard plans to focus promoting plant-based food as part of a commitment to reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.

The Parliament of the World’s Religions, the largest global interfaith gathering, will be held in Toronto from November 1 – 7  in Toronto, Canada. The gathering will welcome close to 10,000 delegates from 80 countries, repres…

Several members of the Hindu Forum of Europe (HFE) met with leaders of the Hindu Community of Portugal on 23rd of June 2017 at a hall offered by the City of Lisbon. Mahaprabhu dasa, General Secretary made a presentation of the work of HFE and…

The UK’s first “slaughter-free” dairy farm, Ahimsa dairy, is hoping its model will be picked up upon by other farms. Dairy cows are usually culled when they get older and cannot produce as much milk. But for Ahimsa dairy, the older cows …

Another reason to keep smartphones off the table.

Russia’s yoga lovers can sigh in relief today, following a judge’s decision in St. Petersburg to throw out the case against Dmitry Ugai, a man tied to a Krishna group charged with illegal missionary work for lecturing on the spiri…

“The sign above the book store says: one book will change your life,” commented Pancharatna Das. “All of us know that Srila Prabhupada’s books have transformed the hearts and minds of millions of people around the worl…

Muslims across France have attended Catholic Mass in a gesture of solidarity after the murder of a priest on Tuesday. Fr Jacques Hamel was killed in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray by two men who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic S…

George Harrison embraced Hinduism in 1969 after a meeting with Swami Prabhupada.. He recalled that the impact of the meeting was similar to a door opening in his sub-conscious.

There may be many Hindu temples in Malaysia, but the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple of Devotion and Understanding in Seberang Jaya, Penang, is in a class of its own in terms of building design and function. The temple is now receiving the …

The International Society For Krishna Consciousness – in partnership with Muvi LLC has launched its Video-on-Demand (VOD) service www.iskcontelevisionindia.com with an aim to bring its library of spiritual and devotional conte…

Your sleep position can influence your health, help in keeping your skin look young, and improve your digestive health.

Teak wood is a naturally grown wood from Myanmar (previously Burma). This wood is known for its superb stability, good strength, easy workability, resistance to bugs – and most of all, its outstanding resistance to decay. It basically w…

When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior.

Modern science also supports this Ayurvedic claim that water stored in copper vessel up to 16 hours is able to considerably reduce the presence of harmful bacteria.

“Let us be a gift to the World.”

Hidden from view, the heads are attached to bodies that extend meters underground.

“Yoga is about the development from the physical to the spiritual. Let us say I have started with the spiritual,” Putin said at a news conference.

The ban stems from a decision by the city’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) that determined polystyrene foam cannot be recycled.

Today the network of affiliates expands the globe and now includes projects all over Asia, the former soviet union and many parts of Africa and South and Central America. “We are pretty much everywhere these days, although some projects…

Since Prabhupada set foot on New York soil, “Hare Krishna” has become a household word. What many don’t know, however, is that he wanted, too, that “Mayapur” become similarly known to the world. The beauty, …

A 5,000-year-old underground city discovered in central Turkey in December 2014 is thought to be the largest in the world!