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Don’t Buy the Big Tube!
HG Vaisesika prabhu: I met a pathologist recently who works with cancer patients. She explained to me that there is a certain kind of pancreatic cancer that is most deadly and that one who contracts it can survive only a …

Srila Narottama dasa Thakura disappearance day in Vrindavana (Album of photos)
October 19th 2019
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Radhesyam, The Humble Vaisnava Shoeman.HG Srutakirti Prabhu: Radhesyam has been keeping our shoes safe at the Krishna Balaram Mandir for over a decade. He remembers just about everyone and their footwear.Read More…

The Most Sacred Mount (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Govardhan parikrama is a must for every devotee of Lord Krsna. The …Read More…

A very special darshan of merciful Balaji! How it happened.
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: Two days ago we visited the main temple of Balaji on top of the Tirumala Hill at Tirupati. The local devotees arranged very special darsana for us, so we were able to…

Mexico City Ratha Yatra Festival (Album of photos)
Lord Jagannatha is an ocean of mercy and as beautifull as a row of blackish…Read More…

KARTIK INSPIRATIONS 2019 – DAY 4. 16 OCTOBER, 2019.
By HH Sacinandana Swami.
When you give your full attention to your spiritual practices, a profound shift in consciousness takes place!

To help you establish a divine connection I will recite an anci…

GBC getting Balaji Ashirvadam (3 min. video)
Aniruddha Dasa: We got the good fortune of seeing Balaji this morning. I was one …Read More…

Sri Venkata Narayana Acharya, the head priest of Tirupathi Balaji, meets with HH Jayapataka Swami. They are friends for many years …Read More…

Ramdas update.
After physical therapy in the morning, the doctor said Ram das is much more responsive and present. We make sure to spend time with Ram das doing some movements with him and massaging his arms and legs. He also seems to enjoy and respon…

Kartik Inspirations 2019 by HH Sacinandana Swami.
Reach out to Krishna’s heart by intensely longing for his mercy, so much so, that it blends out all other projects.
DAY 2 . 14 OCTOBER, 2019. The Great Longing. Read More…

Deity worship by Vaishnavis.
Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Amsu das on 13 August 1974:
“Regarding the worship of our Gaura Nitai by women pujaris, we worship Lord Chaitanya in His householder life when He was with His wife, and not as a sa…

Srila Prabhupada: There is a nice story. You’ll appreciate it. In India, especially in Bengal, there are many rivers. The land is full of rivers. Because it is on the bank of the Bay of Bengal, all rivers are falling. Therefore Bengal, the land of, e…

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is having a year-long exhibition on Ramayana.
The collection features 29 paintings an…Read More…

Perhaps George Harrison’s greatest influence on popular culture was in the field of spirituality – in particular his promotion of the Hare Krishna movement. Richard Williams introduces an extraordinary conversation between the late musician and…

Historical photos from New Mayapura, France, 1976. Photos were taken by Muralivadana Dasa on assignment for the BBT. Courtesy of th…Read More…

Celebrating Srila Prabhupada’s 54th arrival anniversary to the United States with great news!!
On August 28th 2019, Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the West Virginia State H…

Visiting and preaching in Iskcon Barnaul, Russia (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Live with the minimum necessities. Don’t increase your necessities unnecessarily. This is Vedic civilization. And the modern civilization is ever increase your n…

THE ECSTATIC KISUMU (KENYA) RATHA YATRA 2019 (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: You are working as a medical practitioner. So you earn lakhs of rupees. Give to Krsna. That is tam abhyarcya. Then you become perfect. That is also confirmed in Bhagavata…

*Time Bombs*In the late 1980s a man called Terence had picked up a few books from our early-days as brahmacharis in Sydney, and he left them on the shelf over his TV. He was a regular, working, tax-paying Aussie family man. Got lost in the mesh of the …

Toowoomba Rathayatra (Album of photos)
Ramai Swami: Every year, the city of Toowoomba, which is about 100 kilometres west of Brisbane, celebrates the “Flower Festival” at the beginning of Spring.Read More…

For those of you that think Srila Prabhupada never ventured off the path of a so-called ‘Vedic’ diet, think again…Read More…

ISKCON Rupanuga Vedic College – Kansas City: Last weekend we hosted 2 groups of High School-aged Christians sharing about with them…Read More…

Not Ebola but Haribola!
From His Holiness Maha Vishnu Swami. We wish him a speedy recovery so that he can go very soon on the streets on Harinam!
Maha Vishnu Swami: “Dear Concerned wellwishers,
Hare Krishna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
W…

The devotees from Radhadesh perform Harinama during the big manifestation “Strike for Climate” in Brussels (Album of photos)
This Harinama Sankirtana is actually the permanent solution to all problems of humanity. By glorifying the Lord, t…

Two Srimad Bhagavatam sets to one person at once!
Shastrakrit Das: Material desires are never satisfied no matter how hard we try and still we want more of the same. Spiritual desires, on the other hand, Krishna satisfies them more than we even desire…

Caste system is probably among the most talked and most misunderstood current social controversies; misunderstood because it is based on a false premise- caste determination by birthRead More…

Iskcon Tanzania – East Africa (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If we practice devotion of God, then next life is to become the associate of God. That cintamani-prakara-sadmasu – we are transferred to that planet. These are simple things. The …

Desserts served during BHAKTI SANGAMA festival in Ukraine, 12 September (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If we become pure devotee of Krsna, then my love will be extended to everyone. Not only my society, but to everyone. It is not that “This…

Nayima and a part of a higher plan!
Shastrakrit Das: Last week Rhonda brought her friend Nayima to our evening program and during the talk, she kept staring at the Srimad Bhagavatam set that we have displayed on the mantle. I noticed that and at the e…

Ananda Vrindavaneswari: When I was young we spent time at our aunt’s farm in the south of Ireland. She had 5 milking cows, all had names, and when she sat and milked them in the morning and evening, great conversations would be had. With the co…

Srila Prabhupada: People are running around–“Oh, I am the manager. I am the factory owner. I am this. I am that. We know his politics, we have to defeat our competitors.” All these things are created just like a man creates a situat…

Ukraine Bhakti Sangam Festival (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Many thousands of devotees showed up for this year’s annual Bhakti Sangam Festival in Ukraine. The theme for this year’s event was “boiling the milk.” In other…

Please pray for Lalita Swamini dd and bhaktin Ekaterina, who were killed last night in a car accident in Ukraine, while they were coming back from Bhakti Sangama festival. Bhaktin Ekaterina was 5 months pregnant, so this soul needs your prayers too! La…

Prayers required for HG Bahulasva Prabhu ACBSP (the one on the right of the photo with the white dhoti and kurta).
He had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and he didn’t have long in this body.
He served our Srila Prabhupada in most respon…

A visit to the hospital where several devotees were brought after a car accident in Russia (2min. video)
HH Indraduymna Swami …Read More…

Preaching program in Bologna, Italy (Album of photos)
(from Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta) Mr. Agarwal doubted whether Westerners would be able to stay with Krsna consciousness for very long. “Now in the radiance of your company,” he said, &#8…

24 Srimad Bhagavatam sets distributed by the Hare Krishna Pracara Kendram, Miyapur (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Our books are not for philosophical speculation but for practical solution of problems.
Ref. VedaBase => TKG: June 28
Read M…

ISKCON New Goloka, Hillsborough, NC distributed 24 Bhagavatam sets on Bhadra Purnima (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If you have got some knowledge, you distribute the knowledge for Krsna’s satisfaction. How you can do that? Whatever knowled…

Devotees of the Turkish Yatra (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Everywhere is Vrndavana. Wherever there is Krsna’s temple, Krsna’s sankirtana, that is Vrndavana. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that “My mind is always Vrndavana.” Be…