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Painting Srila Prabhupada’s murti (23 min. video)
This is an instructional video abou…Read More…

This is a current working video report on the temple room relief panels. There are four major relief panels in the TOVP temple room. Two are completed and two are in the process of being made. This is a video of the third-panel work over the course of …

HH Lokanath Swami was born in 1949 in the village of Aravade in Maharashtra, India. He became an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada in 1972. He then received Sannyasa from His Divine Grace in December 1975, at the age of 26 years.Read More…(This …

Sitala dasi moved into the ISKCON temple in Detroit, Michigan in 1970, and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1971. The first years of her devotional life, were spent in daily Harinams, book distribution, preaching programs, cooking, sewing and trans…

How he transformed the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the downtrodden and the elite all into beautiful Vaisnava devotees of the Lord. We’ll also hear how he empowered his disciples to fearlessly preach the message of Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahap…

What Srila Prabhupada said about the health issueRead More…(This post has been viewed 747 times so far)

A visionary and natural born leader with razor-sharp intelligence and cast-iron principles. These are some of the qualities that mark out Sutapa as truly a ‘chip off the old block’ and the mastermind behind the School of Bhakti.Read More…(This post h…

Krishna Kshetra Swami is, since 1972, a disciple of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. From 1973 to 1975 he distributed Shrila Prabhupada’s books and served as a pujari in Amsterdam and Schloss Rettershof, Germany. Between 1977 and …

Nirakula Devi joined ISKCON and got initiated in LA in 1973. In LA she served as pujari, worked at BBT and with her good friend, Bhadra Devi, co-authored the first Higher Taste cookbook. She has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her husba…

By Vaisesika Dasa. Vaisesika Dasa travels widely to teach the tenets of devotional service and the great art of distributing Srila Prabhupada’s booksRead More…(This post has been viewed 332 times so far)

By Vaisesika Dasa. Vaisesika Dasa travels widely to teach the tenets of devotional service and the great art of distributing Srila Prabhupada’s booksRead More…(This post has been viewed 332 times so far)

HH Giriraja Swami unveiling the inside insight of 1970s ecstatic era with Srila Prabhupada.Read More…

Fulfilling Srila Prabhupad’s instructions. No1 within 10miles of temple should go hungry….Read More…(This post has been viewed 1 times so far)

“Those friends who show affection but are self-absorbed at heart are not friends in the truest sense. They simply play a part in mutual self-interest. They would never show their love unless there was some profit they could take advantage of. Oh slend…

By the momentum of Advaita Acarya’s spiritual fervor, his loud cries pierced the coverings of the material universe and reached the ears of Sri Krishna in Goloka leading to the advent of Sri Krishna Caitanya, the Golden Avataar.Read More…(This post h…

We are showing you a small video clip of the embellishments some areas have been completed at the moment and also been worked on as well.
You will see the Nrisimhadev wing and Chatris. Some of the Chatris have been completed with balustrades and a …

Srila Prabhupada Memories by HG Srutakirti Prabhu in ISKCON VrindavanRead More…(This post has been viewed 444 times so far)

Srila Prabhupada Memories by HG Malati Devi DasiRead More…(This post has been viewed 507 times so far)

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: The Magic of Monthly Sankirtan Festival builds community spirit.Read More…(This post has been viewed 336 times so far)

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust: The Magic of Monthly Sankirtan Festival builds community spirit.Read More…(This post has been viewed 336 times so far)

One of the first pieces of Krishna conscious literature widely distributed in the western world, “Who Is Crazy?” inspired many people to investigate the spiritual dimension of their lives.Read More…(This post has been viewed 447 times so far)

“By reading daily the knowledge will be revealed to you and by this process your spiritual life will develop”
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Bahurupa – Bombay, 22 November 1974Read More…(This post has been viewed 334 times so far)

“By reading daily the knowledge will be revealed to you and by this process your spiritual life will develop”
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Bahurupa – Bombay, 22 November 1974Read More…(This post has been viewed 334 times so far)

The Story of Emil from DenmarkRead More…(This post has been viewed 338 times so far)

For hundreds of years, pilgrims have been doing Vrindavan Parikrama, especially on Ekadashi. Come along on this wonderful Parikrama around the town of Vrindavan with HG Deena Bandhu Das!Read More…(This post has been viewed 325 times so far)

Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HG Vijaya Dasa at ISKCON SanDiego.Read More…(This post has been viewed 335 times so far)

Srimad Bhagavatam Class 01-01-01 by HG Gauranga Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty on 24rd jan 2021Read More…

HH Radhanath Swami: When I was a little boy, my mother taught me a lesson. She always emphasized, more than anything else, the quality of gratitude. She told me, “If you are not grateful for whatever you have, you receive, you can never be happ…

We don’t want to be bothered by maha-maya but we want to be bothered by yoga-mayaRead More…

ISKCON Leadership Sanga, Sri Dham Mayapur. Gaurapurnima 2020, Day 2Read More…(This post has been viewed 333 times so far)

“Your guru is writing books. If you think, ‘There is no necessity of reading books,’ that is guror avajna”! Srila Prabhupada Lecture on Bhagavad Gita 17.1-3 – Honolulu, 4 July 1974Read More…(This post has been viewed 334 times so far)

Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Balabhadra Dasa, ISKCON PHILADELPHIARead More…(This post has been viewed 333 times so far)

Practice Krishna Consciousness with the Bhakta Program at Kansas CityRead More…(This post has been viewed 338 times so far)

Live to Give 2020 Celebrations! (video)
Devotees from all over the planet offer their r…Read More…(This post has been viewed 324 times so far)

A gurukula boy convinces his best friend to run away from school with him to meet his estranged father in the jungles of North India. But the adventure turns out to be much more than they bargained for when their train ride comes to an unexpected end a…

A gurukula boy convinces his best friend to run away from school with him to meet his estranged father in the jungles of North India. But the adventure turns out to be much more than they bargained for when their train ride comes to an unexpected end a…

Srimad Bhagavatam class by HH Badrinarayan Swami in ISKCON San Diego.Read More…

“Actually these books are the foundation stone of our movement. Whatever we are is resting on these books, so far reading them and distributing them. This should be our only motto”
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Hrdayananda — Bombay, 31 October 1974Read …

Sri Dham Mayapur is home to an international community. Some people come for a short time, some stay for decades. We asked Mayapur residents: “What is your reason nr.1, why you love to be in Mayapur?”Read More…(This post has been viewed 336 times so …

One of the greatest teachers of the past that continues to inform the teachings and spiritual practices of ISKCON today, Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur, envisioned inclusivity not alienation based on bodily identification.Read More…(This post has been vie…