Author Archives: David Haslam, UK

One thing we’re aware of is that it’s an offence not to have faith in the chanting of the holy names of the lord, indeed as initiated or aspiring devotees a minimum of 16 rounds is required and the like…

Official Opening of Krishna’s Castle, in the City of London Representatives from 10 banks and businesses attended the official opening of Krishna’s Castle on the 1st March 2019.Since 14 months Krishna’s Castle, situated in the heart of the banking world, has…

It is with sadness of the devotee community at Bhaktivadanta Manor to hear of the departure of Smita Mataji from the material body. An inspirational personality who put service and her love of the devotees foremost in her life, assisting…

Over the past few days I’ve been reading an interesting book from Steve Roger Phillips who is a lovely devotee based here in Wales It’s an interesting book as it charts his own personal journey of self realization how each…

Hare Krishna, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada, It will soon be two years since our friend BhajaHari Prabhu left us.  He asked me to look after the Gokula Cafe, we planed the New Year’s Maha…

Prabhupāda: We have taken so much trouble for understanding English language. And simply for our transcendental understanding… Allen Ginsberg: It’s next to Santa Claus in the dictionary. Lady: Yes, Kṛṣṇa is Santa Claus. He is everything. He gives everything. Prabhupāda:…

Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day Hare Krishna, Jai Srila Prabhupada,we are distributing 40,000 books , the teachings of Lord Caitanya, and Prasad, I am in my element here but I look forward to getting back in to UK stuff, we are…

In every adversity there is something to learn not only about ourselves but also about material nature and our progression in Krishna Consciousness; sometimes we share these thoughts other times we keep them to ourselves. Last month I was diagnosed…

As I sat talking to an old friend of mine the discussion turned to the old faith we both grew up in and it always becomes lively and interesting. One thing that was mentioned was that the Lord Jesus Christ…

Dear Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Here is the new Food for All website. We are presently operating out of Krishna’s Castle in the City of London, cooking 2,000 delicious plates of Prasad daily….

Hari Bol Jai Srila Prabhupada, Have you ever wondered what it takes to feed all the visitors who attend London Rathayatra; enjoy the video and find out all amazing organization and volunteers that make the prasadam everyone enjoys. We start…

Sometimes you get an interesting question that means rather than giving a simple answer it makes you pause and ponder, explore and indeed ask yourself a number of questions before putting down an answer. I like these sort of questions…

An appointment to assist in preparing the Prasadam for London Rathayatra, times and directions

All are welcome

One of the things I had the opportunity to be a part of was the Volvo Ocean Race as one of the boat operators had been approached to assist the camera crew, so early Monday morning we went out into…

Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. This year the feast for Lord Jagganath’s Rathayatra will be cooked at Krishna’s Castle,in the City of London. We recently built the kitchen, and are daily cooking and…

Haribol dear devotee’s. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Free food Monday was another great success this week, 26th March, with over thirty people coming along and having a hot nutritious meal. Free food Monday (FFM)…

Dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances Aill glories to Srila Prabhupada There is now a wonderful regular Thursday Harinam Festival in central London. It starts at 10.30am from the Radha Krishna Temple in Soho street. Then up and down…

Hari Bol Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada, St Patrick’s Day parade happens this Sunday. Walking from Hyde Park to Trafalga square. Same route as the London Rathayatra. Over 150,000 people will line the streets…

Haribol dear devotees. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Free Food Mondays ~ Gokula Cafe. Monday 5th March was a great success! Easily the best day so far since we started in January ,with over fifty…

Dear Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Here is the latest snowy movie from The City of London’s new initiative. There was a great Beast from the East, With blizzards which never ceased. But Krishna’s…

Hari Bol prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I took some photos two minutes ago. There is Margaret, serving Prasad. Come all the way from Gloucester. I made a hot tea also. All my team…

Dear devotees. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Great news! The spring time program “Here Comes The Sun ” is happening! This is a fundraising event, primarily to help FFA (food for all). Also twenty five…

Dear Devotees Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Today was a historic day in Prasad Distribution, it was the first day cooking at “Krishna’s Castle”, the new Prasad Distribution kitchen/Temple in the City of London. The…

Hari Bol, Please accept my humble obeisance All glories to Srila Prabhupada Here is the latest pictures from inside the castle: The last cookers arrive tomorrow and the builder is coming to connect up the gas (they are not charging…

One wonders if I should start blog with how one is a big numpty, instead today I’m going to share my realizations on the event as each situation gives us an opportunity to learn and develop in Krishna Consciousness. So…

The Krishna Castle London is not the oldest city but certainly the most important city in the world. The Romans founded London about 50 AD. Its name is derived from the Celtic word Londinios, which means the place of the…

New Year’s Eve Harinam in Central London. The great thing about London on New Year’s Eve is the whole of central London becomes pedestrianised, millions of people come to celebrate on the streets, but there is no entertainment to focus…

At 7 foot 1 inch tall, with a shoe size 19, our Bhima prabhu comes in as number 1, the biggest devotee in the world !!! Bhima was working at “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” in London, when our Harinam…

Over the past few months I’ve been looking at UK legislation in regards to health care provisions and one of the acts is the Equality Act 2010 an interesting piece of legislation I had to write about on how to…

it has been a while since I’ve written anything for my blog although I’ve been approached on a number of occasions to write about some of the activities I’ve been up to; so here goes. I had been pondering for…

It was with sadness and also joy hearing of the passing away of Mother Kulangara: Sadness because she touched so many people’s hearts and inspired us all and the Manor will not be the same; and how by her actions…

Dear Prabhus Pamho agtsp, This Friday is a historical day , the first Rathayatra ever in York, and the beginning of the annual Northern Tour which will go on for the next 10,000 years. We are renting a mini bus…

The summer here in Wales has been unseasonably wet, with rain more accustomed to April than August; until today when Sri Sri Jagganatha blessed the Welsh capital spreading his mercy and joy as Cardiff celebrated its 12 rathayatra The rathayatra…

Just ending a run of school and community visits, they always inspire especially some of the interactions and some very thoughtful questions. One of the things I cover is the four regulative principles, however one never refers to them as…

Summer Solstice Festival at Stonehenge UK Each year on the longest day of the year, a great festival takes place at the ancient Stonehenge site. The “English Heritage” invite us to perform the Midnight Rathayatra and to do the mass…

Hare Krishna Rathayatra is one of the greatest opportunities to share the holy name’s of Sri Krishna, to see Sri Jagannath the lord of the universe and take amazing prasadam Sadly Sheffield is not happening there a possibility of Leeds…

This is a beautiful short documentary on the Hare Krishna Food For All feeding the local university students, enjoy

YS Parsharam Das

One amazing devotee whenever he sees me asks what I believe to be one of the perfect questions and always leads to an interesting discussion, it simply goes “So what’s your latest realisations?” This is the science of self realisation…

Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada Here is a video of the powerful Harinam in Central London for Lord Nrsimhadev 9th May 2017. Lord Caitanya organised His Harinam parties in a very exact way….