Author Archives: H.H. Indradyumna Swami

The police estimated 500,000 people came to Woodstock. No doubt every single one of them came in contact with Krsna consciousness either by hearing the holy names, dancing with us, taking prasadam, visiting our village … or just seeing blissfull devotees everywhere!

As Woodstock began it was as if we dove into a ocean of bliss; Ratha Yatra, harinama, prasad distribution and thousands upon thousands of people coming to our village.

Yesterday we went out with harinam to greet the first wave of people coming to Woodstock. If the reception we got is any indication of what’s ahead there’s going to be a lot of nectar flowing the next few days!

Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted His followers to move all over the world to preach in every town and village. In the Caitanya-sampradāya those who strictly follow the principles of Lord Caitanya must travel all over the world to preach the message of Lord Caitanya.

“Hearing the Vaisnavas loudly chanting Lord Hari’s holy names in sankirtana, the people think a host of roaring lions have come to Navadvipa. “The great maharathi warrior Lord Gauracandra and the great sarathi warriors Lord Nityananda and Lord Advaita now charge into battle. Throwing the noose of ecstatic spiritual love, They capture many enemy soldiers […]

This afternoon we unloaded 21 tons of foodstuffs from several semi-trailer trucks for cooking at Woodstock. The transcendental breakdown was as follows: 2.2 tons of sugar, 6.5 tons of peas, 2 tons of semolina, 2.2 tons of butter, 1 ton of oil, 4.2 tons…

Forty-eight hours before Woodstock a huge storm front has descended on the region. With so much at stake we pray that Lord Nrsimhadeva will protect our humble efforts to share Krsna consciousness with hundreds of thousands of conditioned souls this com…

Cooking for 50,000 people a day at Woodstock? No problem. With our two pots – Big Boy and Little Boy – it’s a cinch. We’ll also be engaging 200 devotees in 5 large professional kitchens around town 24 hours a day for 4 days. Come and get it!

The vast infrastructure for the Polish Woodstock Festival is slowly coming together. It’s no small thing to set up an event for 450,000 people! Our boys are also busy building Krsna’s Village of Peace. With only days to go our village will soon look like heaven on earth …

Kostrzyn nad Odra is over 1,000 years old and has a population of 27,000 inhabitants. But next week over 400,000 people will descend on the town for this year’s Polish Woodstock Festival. Krsna’s Village of Peace will be right in the center of it all. For now the Woodstock field is relatively quiet, but it’s […]

We’re half way through our festival tour. Yesterday we did harinam and had another blissful festival attended by thousands. Today we leave for Kostrzyn-nad-Odra to begin setting up Krsna’s Village of Peace at Woodstock. The nectar is flowing like a raging river!

If you become intimate with someone through service, even though you may be different, they still let you live in their house. Selfless devotional service endears us to Krishna and He invites us to live in His home, Sri Vrindavan.

“There is no need to understand the language of the mantra, nor is there any need of mental speculation, nor any intellectual adjustment for chanting this maha-mantra. It springs automatically from the spiritual platform, and as such anyone can take part in this transcendental sound vibration without any previous qualification and dance in ecstasy. We […]

It’s an open secret that public chanting of the holy names brings all auspiciousness to the conditioned souls of this world. But the secret is now fully revealed as daily we loudly broadcast the Maha-Mantra in the many towns and villages along the Baltic Sea coast in Poland. So relishable is this service that we […]

“The extraordinary result derived from chanting the transcendentally empowered and eternal name of Krsna just a few times cannot be satisfactorily described, even by persons like Lord Siva or Lord Brahma. So marvelous is the holy name that immediately upon chanting, the chanter attains the supreme destination.” [Brhad Naradiya Purana]

“Only one who has worshipped the deity of the lord for at least a thousand lifetimes, and in each life having taken proper brahmanical initiation, is able to vibrate the holy name of Lord.” [Vaisnava Cintamani]

Day after day we serve the order of our spiritual master to preach boldly and have faith in the holy names. May he bless our humble efforts.

When material thoughts enter your mind, just say “No, thank you.” But you cannot give up something unless you have something better. So you can’t say no unless you chant the Hare Krsna maha mantra every day.

Our harinama party has taken on new dimensions as people on the streets cannot resist the opportunity to chant and dance along with us. Such is the power of the holy names to melt the hearts of all those of come in touch in with them. We feel so blesse…

Harinam on the Baltic Sea coast takes on a special flavor as people love to sing and dance along with us. Nothing pleases the heart of a Vaisnava more than to see people enthusiactically embracing the samkirtan movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

“At the present moment there is nothing but calamity, but by injecting Krsna consciousness into the masses we can change the situation greatly.” [Srila Prabhupada, letter to Rupanuga dasa, December 18, 1974]

Despite bad weather our street samkirtan and evening festivals go on. Nothing can stop the rain of mercy coming from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu!

“Praise God in His sanctuary, praise Him in His mighty heavens, praise Him for his acts of power, praise Him for His surpassing greatness, praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise Him with the harp and lyre, praise Him with timbrel and dancing, praise Him with the strings and pipe, praise Him with […]

Samkirtan is the life and soul of all of Lord Caitanya’s devotees. We feel so fortunate to spend our summer chanting the holy names along the Baltic Sea Coast in Poland. We see the fruit of such chanting each evening when thousands of people attend our festivals. We offer all the results at the lotus […]

At the very end of every ocean there is a land. No matter how big the ocean is, there is always a shore on the other side. Similarly, in this ocean of material existence, there is a shore at the other side – the spiritual world.

“Sweeter than the sweetest; the greatest good amongst whatever is beneficial for the welfare of all; the most delicious fruit of the wish-fulfilling vine that is the Vedic literatures and their corollaries; the very form of inherent, spiritual cognition. O best of the Bhargavas! If a human being even once sings the name of Krsna, […]

Day after day we go out to distribute the holy names to those less fortunate than ourselves. When we see the people laugh, smile, wave and sometimes dance alongside us our bliss knows no bounds. Kirtan forever!

“It is more blessed to give than it is to receive” [ Holy Bible, Acts 20:35 ]

The spiritual master who is the representative of Krisna, he may also bestow blessings upon his disciple to do something quite amazing. He may empower that devotee to be very accomplished in performance of his service.

We have to be very attentive to avoiding any offenses to the Holy Name, which may slow our progress down or in some cases take away all the benefits that we have gained through chanting Hare Krishna. So we should hear attentively everyday, meditate on …

A photo album of 4 days of ecstatic bliss chanting the holy names with 700 devotees at the Sadhu Sanga Retreat in Austin, Texas. With some of ISKCON’s best kirtaneers the Maha Mantra was flowing like an endless river of nectar.

If people want any type of material and spiritual prosperity, they have to perform a yajna, a sacrifice, for God. It’s a must. You have to do it.

On the auspicious appearance day of Queen Rukmini we visited the temple of New Dwarka in Los Angeles, where the deities of Rukmini Dwarkadish reside. We had kirtan for 2 hours with the devotees and then started our journey to the Sadhu Sanga Retreat to…

Held in the desert of Southern California, Shaktifest draws thousands of spiritual seekers each year. Yoga classes, meditation workshops and hours of kirtan attract people from all over the USA. This year myself, BB Govinda Maharaja, Bada Haridas, Karn…

The final kirtan at Shaktifest was simply amazing! Pictured here leading the chanting of the maha mantra are Sri Sridhar ( the organizer the 3-day event ) BB Govinda Maharaja and Karnamrta dasi. Hundreds of people were singing and dancing in front of t…

One day, a reporter asked Srila Prabhupada, “What is you miracle Swamiji?” Srila Prabhupada just looked around and said, “This is my miracle. All these boys and girls have give up their sinful ways and have taken to chanting of the Hare Krishna.”

the causeless mercy of the holy name, sometimes even a neophyte devotee can experience deep spiritual emotions in the association of advanced devotees during congregational chanting. This gives us an impetus to go on in our devotional life and achieve …

Deep in the Urals, in the heartland of Russia, we sing and dance our way through each day with the extraordinary devotees from this part of the world.

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