Author Archives: Dandavats

By Matsya Avatara Das Marriage is a samskara; one of the ten sacraments that serve to elevate a person’s consciousness from the human level to the spiritual experience. Such elevation and transformation of consciousness is the purpose of human life. …

By Indradyumna Swami Ever since becoming a devotee of Lord Krishna in 1970, I have been fascinated with the Kumbha Mela festival. This year I decided to join millions of other pilgrims in the journey to the Ardha Kumbha Mela where, from January 15th …

By Administrator New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday boarded a metro train from Khan Market station on way to attend an event at ISKCON temple in south Delhi’s East of Kailash, officials said. Modi unveiled a giant Bhagavad Gita, runni…

By Dusyanta dasa One of the main problems with today’s modernity is the usage of machinery. And why so many Bulls are slaughtered is because there is no work for them to do. If we can understand the nature of today’s farming activities it is apparent…

Chasing Rhinos with the Swami-Vol. 2, the fantastic story of ISKCON’s birth by Prabhupada’s secretary Shyamasundar prabhu will be going to press in April.Read More…

Please find below photos from H.D.G. Bhaktisiddhanta Saravati Thakur’s Appearance Day London Saturday Night Harinama Sankirtan.Read More…

The Sri Saraswat Gaudiya Vaishnav Sangha that includes all the important Gaudiya Mutts of Nabadwip, Swarupgunj , Mayapur along with International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON) celebrated the 146th divine appearance day of Srila Bhakt…

Nityananda Trayodashi 2019 – Abhishek – ISKCON KathwadaRead More…

By Hari Narayana Das As one of the participants of the festival devotees prepared the chariot nicely. the preparation was held at parking area in front of stores area. Devotees from Bali came earlier and made flower garland and the chariot team reasse…

By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura In his book of essays, entitled Upakhyane Upadesa, “Instructions in Stories” (Gaudiya Mission 1936), Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura gives the following commentary on the story of Ekalavya: The transla…

By Srila Sarasvati Thakura He said that previously the upavita was not used, only the dhoti and upper cloth, but later it became acceptable for brahmanas to wear an upavita instead of an upper cloth. When the Bengali devotees expressed surprise that So…

By Jayabhadra Devi Dasi This was the second rathayatra organized by ISKCON Amravati. First one was organized in the year 2017. The New Year in Maharashtra starts with rathayatra. We can say that ISKCON Pune is the opening batman in the series of rath…

By Chandan Yatra Das Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura called this place “Vrindavana Pattan”, which means the place where the forest of Vrindavana is manifest. By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s spiritual potency, Syama-Kunda, Radha-Ku…

By Mayapur Sasi dasa For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada this report contains the following North American results of book distribution for the month of January 2019. North American Totals, Monthly Temples, Monthly Weekend Warriors. Monthly Top 100 …

By Praghosa dasa Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK with over 2 million jivas residing in human bodies. It is the most multicultural city in the western world, as only half of those human jivas are in white bodies. So it is a wonderful cit…

By Bhakti Caitanya Swami Narottama Dasa Thakura appeared in Kheturi which I believe is in current day Bangaldesh. Eventually in his late youth or so he went to Vrindavan and in Vrindavan he met Srila Jiva Goswami and took shelter of him. Then he met S…

By Sri Nandanandana dasa Sometimes I hear devotees say that they have been chanting Hare Krishna for thirty or forty years or more, and are still waiting to feel the taste for it, or the ecstasy from chanting, or from doing devotional service. I even…

By bhakta Ankit Srila Prabhupada wanted Krishna Consciousness to be preached in Bangladesh. Preaching there is really risky, however, pure devotees take the risk. HH Subhag Swami has been continuously preaching in Bangladesh for the past 45 years. In …

Sacinandana Swami: Once there was a lady in India called Kamabai. She lived in a small straw hut and materially speaking she was very poor. However, she had strong love for our Lord, Jagannatha, in her heart. Every morning before the Lord received His …

By Subroto Das Spread over 700 acre ISKCON has decided to set up a 3000 crore (420 million US dollars) World Heritage centre at Mayapur , Nadia, birth place of Sri Chaitanya MahaPrabhu and spiritual headquarter of the institution. The construction …

By Siddhanta Das Hawaii’s State Senator Mike Gabbard, father to Tulsi Gabbard, presents the Senate Proclamation honoring the 50th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s establishment of ISKCON Hawaii.Read More…

On 18th February ISKCON Gaya celebrated Lord Nityanand Appearance day. Program started with vaishnav bhajan and kirtan followed by Abhishek. More than 56 bhogas offered to Lord Nityanand. Prasad distributed after arati.. Jai Nityanand.Read More…

Haresh Govinda Das: On February 17th, more than 70 devotees of ISKCON Ahmedabad performed special harinam sankirtan on street of Ahmedabad in the morning for the soldiers who laid their lives in a horrible terrorist attack.Read More…

After meditating all morning to be able to distribute a Bhagavatam set as an offering to Nityananda, we took a Bhagavatam set with us and displayed it. It was an average day until this sweet Chinese lady shows up at our table from no where. We tried to…

Today we celebrated Nityananda’s Appearance day at the ISKCON Orlando temple. We were graced by guest speaker HG Adikarta Das who gave an uplifting class on the mercy and kindness of lord Nityananda. Lord Nityananda- who is lord Balaram himself, appear…

“If you are anxious to go back to home, back to Godhead, and become associate with Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, then the best policy is to take shelter of Nityānanda.”Read More…

Glimpse of HH Mahavishnu Swami Maharaj ji accompanied with us for our Food for Life Program at IIMSAM, Near Kisumu Airport. Organization taking care of Orphans and a few HIV/AIDs affected children backed by United Nations and World Health Organisation….

In the execution of religious principles we must observe so many formulas, but the ultimate end should be that we develop spontaneous attraction for hearing about God. This is actually wanted. We should not become showbottles of religious life. We shou…

Krsnanandini Devi Dasi,: A few years ago, my husband, Tariq and I presented a seminar on the concept of what we term “Magnanimous Marriage.” In such a marriage, husband and wife are actual benefactors for one another. Benefactor is defined as a kindly…

In Janmasthan Mandir there is a Deity of Nitai (Nityananda). Hadai Pandita Bhavan is the site of the original house of Nityananda’s father. There are two banyan trees by this temple that are said to have existed since the time of Nityananda. In the cen…

Iskcon Mayapur: “When our Lord Caitanya disappears, by His desire, the Ganges will swell. The Ganges water will almost cover Mayapur for a hundred years, and then the water will again recede. For some time only the place will remain, devoid of houses. …

By Giriraj Swami Pure devotees have no selfish desires. They have no desire even for liberation. Their only desire is to serve the Lord. Still, sometimes the Lord will give liberation to a pure devotee—though never the impersonal liberation of merging…

By Bhakti Sundar Goswami He saw there the all-powerful Personality of Godhead in His boar incarnation, bearing the earth upward on the ends of His tusks and robbing him of his splendor with His reddish eyes. The demon laughed: Oh, an amphibious beast!R…

Dasi: Gaurasundara gently said with a smile, “We are all very fortunate to have a great devotee like You among us. We consider that today our lives have become successful for we have seen Your flowing tears of prema.”Read More…

“We have not come for liberation. We have come to preach. Being in Krsna’s unalloyed devotional service, we are all ready liberated. We have come to preach devotional service.” Srila Prabhupada, Kumbha-mela 1971Read More…

The devotees of ISKCON Mayapur performed special Harinam Sankirtan today evening at the Bhajan Kutir of Srila Prabhupad, for the 44 soldiers who laid their lives in a gruesome terrorist attack in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, yesterday.Read More…

Materialistic society teaches us to be aggressive and calculating so we can push our way through. In Vaisnava culture it is opposite – we offer respect. The reason: when you give respect without expecting something in return, you open yourself up to th…

By Govindananda das Communication achievements within ISKCON Croatia – such us meeting the country presidents, government officials, city majors and other VIPs – significantly exceed the expectations which initially were put on such a small team of c…

By Jaya Gaursundar Dasa There are two forms of bhakti: cestā-rūpa and bhāva-rūpa bhakti, as distinguished by Rūpa Gosvāmī. Cestā-rūpa -bhakti is the external form of bhakti, the activity you perform with your body and senses. These are the 64 practice…

By ISKCON Ahmedabad The sankirtan fields bloomed brightly in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Vasanta Panchami, the first day of spring! Why? More than 100 devotees from ISKCON Ahmedabad joined our temple’s 4th Monthly Sankirtan Festival. What did they do? Read…