Author Archives: Dandavats

Lisa Chastain I Found Krishna in Las Vegas A lifelong search for God ends in the most unexpected of places. Last year I found myself at the doorstep of Govinda’s Center of Vedic India and Radha-Govinda Mandir, Las Vegas. A dear friend of mine had invit…

The Lord is more anxious to take us back into His kingdom than we can desire. Most of us do not desire at all to go back to Godhead. Only a very few men want to go back to Godhead. But anyone who desires to go back to Godhead, Sri Krsna helps in all re…

Parasuram das Tomorrow we have a team traveling by van to our Prasad Distribution projects in Prague and Wroclaw, headed by Arjuna Prabhu, delivering essential supplies from London. Then they travel to Vilnius to buy a van for Ukraine Prasad Distributi…

As well as helping on the Hungarian border, the team made day-long journeys to the Polish and Romanian borders of Ukraine to deliver many tonnes of food provisions to Food for Life devotees operating in Kyiv and Kharhiv. A humanitarian adviser told BBC…

O Lord, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who have accepted the brahmanas as Your worshipable deity. Your knowledge and memory are never disturbed by anxiety. You are the chief of all famous persons within this world, and Your lotus feet are …

SB 9.10.53 TRANSLATION When Lord Ramacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was the King of this world, all bodily and mental suffering, disease, old age, bereavement, lamentation, distress, fear and fatigue were completely absent. There was even …

April 2. 2022 – Mayapur – Brhad Bhagavatamrita 3.5.32 – English (video) Watch it here: https://bit.ly/3uPIlPX (This post has been viewed 9 times so far)Read More…(This post has been viewed 9 times so far)

Wadad village ladies embrace one-day Vaishnavi walk April 3, 2022   By Jayabhadra devi dasi, IGF preacher On February 26, 2022, we had a one-day Vaishnavi padayatra at Wadad village 15km from Amravati. As a district Medical Officer, I am well acqu…

DEVOTEES AND REFUGEES NEED YOUR HELP – PLEASE DONATE! Members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) throughout the world are shocked and saddened by the ongoing terrifying situation in Ukraine. Please support the ongoing relie…

Weekly Report from Poland Gaurangi dasi Our tireless team in Warsaw, Rasikendra, Mathuranath, Karuna, Padma, Ksenya and Akincana continue with their amazing support. They had so many devotees coming in the last few days, 4 big groups from Mariupol, one…

With advance of Krishna Consciousness one is able to realize that Krishna is always with His devotees — not only with His devotees, also with the non-devotees, but the devotees can recognize His Presence and the non-devotees cannot. The more you make a…

Welcome to the first edition of our Vrindavan Garden in Mayapur Newsletter [Issue 1 March 2022] General Progress Report After four years of developing the concept and design of the Vrindavan Garden, our next goal is to begin shaping & developin…

ISKCON Canberra participated at this year’s Aus-India Fair by FINACT at Thoroughbred Park! Mouthwatering delicacies (Kachories, Batata Vada, Gulab Jamun) were served at the stall along with the transcendental literatures (Bhagavad-Gita & others) an…

My initial thought when I looked at Kevin Chung was: “He is rushing away after a haircut on a busy street and will never take a book.” I stopped him anyway. “Wwwait a minute!” he said. “Are these writings in Sanskrit?” He started reading the Sansk…

We went to apartments door to door distributing Sri Caitanya Caritamrita sets in the Bay area. We saw one middle aged lady at one apartment, we greeted her by saying “Hare Krishna” and she replied with “Hare Krishna.” She studied in Vara…

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This is a large collection of Srila Prabhupada’s known quotes relating to the Mayapur project and the TOVP taken from lectures, conversations, morning walks, his books and other books. It covers a wide range of topics and illustrates how important and …

Padayatra resumes in Nepal’s hill country April 2, 2022 By Dayal Gopal dasa, Nepal sankirtan preacher After a break of a few months to regroup and make minor personnel changes, by the mercy of Sri Guru and Gauranga and by the pure desire of pure devote…

Padma Nabh Goswami: Mayapur’s upcoming biggest attraction is Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP). It was Srila Prabhupada’s dream project which he revealed to Ambarisa Prabhu (Alfred Ford) in Detroit. Srila Prabhupada had a vision to bui…

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “Though the hearts of the gopis are like high-standing hills, they are inundated by the waves of the nectarean ocean of Krsna’s beauty. His sweet voice enters their ears and gives them transcendental bliss, the…

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Radhadesh: Awesome pictures from our Spring Holi celebration by Caroline Berveling Thank you for coming and taking really beautiful pictures, Caroline! (This post has been viewed 11 times so far)Read More…(This post has been viewed 11 times so far)

Encouraged by the Youth I thoroughly enjoyed the article “Hare Krsna Youth on Tour,” in the January/February issue. Not having the good fortune of living near a temple, I have often wondered about children raised as devotees. Are they happy…

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Giriraja Swami Starting To See The Center Of Things A simple explanation convines a young man to dedicate himself to a life centred around chanting the names of and serving God.   “Ever since the Stone Age, people have come up with so many nonsens…

In the early 1980s, my father was a doctor working with the United Nations. He had some friends who were visiting the United States, and while there, they met a devotee in the airport who gave them a BTG. They were Buddists, so they weren’t very intere…

As we know from the “Teachings of Lord Caitanya,” there are no hard and fast rules for chanting Hare Krishna. Similarly, there are no hard and fast rules for distributing books. I was distributing books at a college, and I saw a security guard coming m…

Indradyumna Swami: The other day we went on pilgrimage to Batesvar, the maternal home of Nanda Maharaja, where he grew up before marrying Yasoda-mayi and moving to Gokul. It was far away, but worth every minute of the 3-hour drive. Batesvar is situated…

Yesterday we went to Mehrana, the maternal home of Mother Yasoda. It’s a very beautiful village, not far from Nandagram, where she spent her youth before marrying Nanda Maharaja. After a blissful kirtan, attended by many of the local villagers, w…

Yesterday we went to Mehrana, the maternal home of Mother Yasoda. It’s a very beautiful village, not far from Nandagram, where she spent her youth before marrying Nanda Maharaja. After a blissful kirtan, attended by many of the local villagers, w…

Devotee: Prabhupada, before this movement came here we were so caught up in sinful activities. How is it that we were so fortunate to be benedicted with this great Hare Krsna movement? Prabhupada: It is Krsna’s mercy. Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to give…

by Amala Bhakta Swami During His presence on earth about five hundred years ago, Lord Krsna’s most recent incarnation often displayed His divine powers. This is the second of three articles describing the mirac-ulous events in the life of Sri Cai…

I am reading sankirtan stories regularly. They are always inspiring. One day I received an email containing a link to “Vijay Prabhu’s Special Class on Book Distribution.” Before going out to distribute books, I listened to the lecture. A great lecture….

In 1989, I had just returned to Canada from a six-year term in New Delhi, serving there as the temple president. I would walk the halls of McGill University and distribute books to students. One Indian student named Arjun Singh was quite intrigued by m…

Jananivas Dasa Please Give Me A Sign A prayer in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque leads a young Christian to Lord Krishna. by Visakha Devi Dasi John, a slight, fair-complexioned traveler who’d left home to broaden his perspective on life, found himself stra…

By Rashi Singh Nurturing our faith helps ease the inevitable suffering of life in the material world. I’m groggy. It’s early. I’m way too tired to go to work today. After nearly shattering my alarm clock, I slowly drag myself out of b…

Deena Bandhu Das: One day, Nitai Madhav Prabhu invited me to give class at HH Pritivardhana Maharaja’s Gurukula in Mayapur. We were awestruck at the lush beauty and traditional engineering marvel of that place. We saw that students from all over …

ISKCON has temples, either rented or under construction, in 32 cities throughout Ukraine. There are eight cities where ISKCON is located that have seen significant military activity. These include Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Mariupol, Zhytomyr, a…