Author Archives: Dandavats

Ramai Swami: Perth Temple has organized Harinama on Friday evenings for decades. Usually, the kirtan starts at Northbridge, near our restaurant, and then goes over the walk bridge and through the train terminal to the city. Perth has expanded over th…

Jagat-Prasu das: We’re having some ecstatic harinams before the end of the year in Ljubljana, Slovenia latelyRead More…(This post has been viewed 341 times so far)

Beautiful Vrndavana is filled with cintamani gems and many jewelled palaces and temples. Many regal swans play in the waters of the Yamuna, and in those waters a splendid golden lotus flower grows.Read More…(This post has been viewed 338 times so far)

Today is the disappearance day of Srila Jiva Gosvami, one of the Six Gosvamis of Vrndavana, direct disciples of Lord Chaitanya. Srila Prabhupada writes, “Srila Jiva Gosvami composed and edited at least twenty-five books. They are all very much celebrat…

Giridhari das: In July 1969 George Harrison produced the Radha Krishna Temple album with the first group of devotees in London. Fifty years later In December 2019 a group of devotees are back in the iconic Abbey Road Studios to record the Maha Mantra o…

By Ambarisa Das 2019 has been another wonderful year for the TOVP. And next year will mark another milestone on the march to the 2022 opening. On February 13, 2020, we will be inaugurating the Pujari Floor of the TOVP. It is the largest pujari space on…

By Gopal Bhatta das The ISKCON Leadership Sanga 2020 is almost here – only two months to away! Have you enrolled yet? Don’t worry there is still time to register for this wonderful event. ILS 2020 promises to be the largest gathering of ISKCON leade…

By Sri Nandanandana dasa When we talk about the planet’s earliest civilization, we are talking about the world’s earliest sophisticated society after the last ice age. This means that according to the Vedic time tables, various forms of civilization ha…

Visakha Priya Devi Dasi: Before I could think of anything, he had snapped the strap of my bead bag off my neck and was running away with the bag. I couldn’t bear it. I had chanted on them since the time they appeared in front of me, floating on the sac…

By Iskcon Washington ISKCON Communications Director and Governing Body Chairman Anuttama dasa offered his thoughts on lessons Vaishnavas can gain from the Christmas season during a Sunday Feast lecture at the Washington DC Temple. Is there something to…

By Visakha Devi Dasi “Sharing that’s the heart of Christmas!” chimes Better Homes and Gardens. “To celebrate, people share traditions from gift-giving to party-going with family, friends, and acquaintances too. And food plays a special part in these yu…

Subroto Das: Giving a fillip to the aspiration and vision of Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee, to develop spiritual tourism in the Ganga Sagar belt, ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) is ready to launch a permanent, semi-mechani…

KesavaGopal Das: Is there an evidence that the Holy Name is still powerful nowadays, in 2019? Being the doubtful person that I am, Krishna removed all doubts from my mind in the last few weeks.Read More…(This post has been viewed 336 times so far)

By Matt Richtel (For nytimes.com) You Can’t Take It With You, but You Still Want More! The study show that even when people know clear boundaries — that they absolutely can’t take the candy with them when they go — they still earn more than they can po…

By Yamuna Jivana dasa This is several questions made in the form of an article. I find them intriguing and aspire for answers. I beg kind insightful devotees to offer insights, and, if they find time, to evaluate or critique the answers which i have of…

By Isvara Krishna Dasa Open Letter to Greta Thunberg. Dear Greta! I am your fan, therefore I want you to know how we see and handle the problem of environment protection and climate change. Doctors say that healing is at its best when the cause of the …

Was Dylan empowered to sing of the coming of the Acharya of the Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu line of disciplic succession? As crazy as it sounds, at least to some disciples it makes perfect sense that he could be the prophetic voice of a minstrel who was …

By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaSo the Krishna consciousness movement is not for the persons who are envious. It is a movement to train people how to become non-envious. Yes, it is very first-class scientific movement not to beco…

By Guru dasAbout the Vrindavan days from my book “By his example”. The entourage included the Maharaja of Bharatpur, two queens, the prince, various relatives, zamindhars (landowners loyal to the king), agents, a doctor, and eight soldiers dressed in…

By Damodar Nityananda Dasa Nedzad was born in a family of practicing Muslims in the city of Tuzla in present day Bosnia in the year 1965. His father was from Tuzla, but his mother was born in Montenegro. His father was not very strict in his practices …

By Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies >When we started our OCHS journey twenty years ago, I was focused on the study of my own Hindu denomination. I thought it time for that tradition to engage in a critical assessment of itself. We should use the app…

By Kaunteya das Interviewing His Grace Kalakantha Prabhu (ACBSP), the director of ISKCON Gainesville on the approach of Krishna House, a replicable model for attracting youths. Kalakantha Prabhu is going to present a seminar on these topics at the ILS…

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaSo the conclusion is if Krishna saves, nobody can kill; and if Krishna wants to kill, nobody can save. Therefore our conclusion should be that we should always be under the protection of Krishna. …

By Gautam Saha Every civilized person is familiar with the concept of seva or service. Service can be of different types and of different qualities. At home, every member of the family is serving everyone else. Traditionally, the father traditionally e…

By Krishna Dharma Dasa I remember years ago my sister arguing with my mum and dad. “How can we eat animals? Isn’t it cruel?” Don’t be silly, she was told; they are meant to be our food. What else is the point of their existence? But the Vedas tell a…

Tapana Mishra dasa: The Ministry of Education is undertaking an educational census among the educators and leadership of ISKCON to determine our current scope of activities and future needs of the members. The output of the census would allow us to put…

Visvambhara das: Some years back Shailesh Vara (MP) received a Gita from Visvambhara some when they met at a service area on the M1 in England. When Boris Johnson recently visited Bhaktivedanta Manor in the UK, Shailesh introduced Visvambhara to him an…

By Purushottam Kumar Material attachment weakens our heart whilst spiritual affection strengthens it. Most of our material desires remain unfulfilled. And if somehow some gets fulfilled then soon we find that it does not give us same pleasure as we ha…

By Antardwip das Some people hold that, having been prophesied by scripture, by Lord Chaitanya and by the previous acharyas, if Srila Prabhupada had not spread Krishna Consciousness, some other devotee, or some group of devotees, would have been empowe…

By Akruranatha dasaSrila Prabhupada wanted us to set up ISKCON as an almost self-contained, devotional society, with our own schools, farms, economy, and social system. So far we have not completely realized that ambition, though there are some very go…

H.G. Jada Bharata dasa ACBSP left his body in Sri Dhama Mayapur yesterday.
Here is the video of the funeral pyre ceremony.Read More…(This post has been viewed 328 times so far)

By Nityananda Ram Das ISKCON farms have some great successes, and some great failures too, but with the money ISKCON now has, and the large congregation of young devotees, it has tremendous opportunity for self-sufficient farms. The idea that the moder…

By Kesava Krsna Dasa The famed Time Machine is now a serious inevitability, according to many. One scientist says that he wants to go back to the past to see his deceased father and possibly help him with present-day medicine.If Krishna says that He i…

By Varsana SwamiCow protection, as set forth by Srila Prabhupada was not merely that the cow and the bull lead a full and natural life, but that they also be jolly, as a member of a family would feel. Cows and bulls are happy to be fed and brushed. Whi…

My Guru Mahārāja, my spiritual master, used to say that you have to select a spiritual master not by seeing but by your ear, but by hearing. And you don’t select a spiritual master who has got a very good hair or beard or some very beautiful feature, ‘…

By Hari Caitanya ThamnineediGod has decided to give an offer to uplift ourselves from this miserable condition of life. How? By giving personal loans of His special mercy. God is our father, our best friend, and our ever well-wisher. He is supreme, so …

By Kadamba Kanana Swami Even when I joined, at that time, the Sunday feast was still fifteen incredible preparations. I mean absolutely incredible. Every single one of them was like, “Whew!” You know, I mean the rice was loaded up with cashews and pane…

By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada As far as Vedic religion is concerned, it is not for the Hindus; it is for all living entities. That is the first thing to be understood. Vedic religion is called sanatana-dharma, “the eternal occ…

Govinda’s – the popular vegan-vegetarian buffet restaurant in Tucson, Arizona – was gutted by fire in July and only reopened for business the weekend before Thanksgiving. For the occasion, Govinda’s brought in a special guest star: an actual live turke…

By Radha Mohan Das The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an impromptu visit to Bhaktivedanta Manor last Sunday, when worshipers at the Manor were surprised to see an entourage of MPs, including the Home Secretary Priti Patel and numerous security sh…