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Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama Day1 ( Feb 18th)
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“By performing Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama the whole world will be liberated” -Bhaktivinod Thakur Hare Krishna! Dear Guarabhaktas , today it was the first day if the most auspicious Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama. After a wonderful vaishnava gathering in the Kirtan Mela, we were ready to leave the temple room and spread Krsna’s sweet names […]

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CM’s twitter message
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Twitter Message from Honorable Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee on her Mayapur visit: Today I visited ISKCON Mayapur.ISKCON is setting up a world tourism circuit center at Mayapur and have sought our assistance, We would be very happy to help them. This will definitely be a landmark in the religious tourism destination not […]

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News from the Manor: A small school with a big heart, Doctor in the House, Gitas for london Crematorium
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Hare KrishnaBy Radha Mohan das

The Manor School children participated in an inaugural ceremony to mark a new chapter in their school’s history. The primary school has been situated at Bhaktivedanta Manor for the past 35 years. Due to various challenges associated with the building of the new Haveli on the site and the required demolition of two of the classrooms, the school has been relocated into a new temporary premises not far away. The renovation of the existing buildings took over eight months to complete, and involved top architects, structural engineers, two major building contractors and a big investment from the temple. Kaushik Patel was hands on at every step and the Patrons Working Committee oversaw the entire development.

Chief Minister of West Bengal visits Mayapur!
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Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee visits ISKCON Mayapur today! ISKCON Mayapur extends a very warm welcome to the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee to Mayapur.This is the first time that the Chief Minister is visiting us, and our hope is that she will be inspired by our Mayapur international community and […]

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Where Do You Go When You Die? The Increasing Signs That Human Consciousness Remains After Death
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Hare KrishnaBy Newsweek Europe

“I don’t mean that people have their eyes open or that their brain’s working after they die,” Parnia said. “That petrifies people. I’m saying we have a consciousness that makes up who we are—our selves, thoughts, feelings, emotions—and that entity, it seems, does not become annihilated just because we’ve crossed the threshold of death; it appears to keep functioning and not dissipate. How long it lingers, we can’t say.” Clinically, we understand death to mean the state that takes hold after our hearts stop beating. Blood circulation comes to a halt, we don’t breathe, our brains shut down—and that’s what divides the states we occupy from one moment (alive) to the next (dead). Philosophically, though, our definition of death hinges on something else: the point past which we’re no longer able to return. Those two were more or less the same until about 50 years ago, when we saw the advent of CPR. Today, someone’s heart can stop and they can be dead, and then they can come back.

Today’s New York Times Article about the Brooklyn Temple
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Hare KrishnaBy Kaya Laterman

The poet Allen Ginsberg, an early devotee who attended some of the first outreach sessions in New York, told The Times in 1966 that the chanting “brings a state of ecstasy.” Swami Prabhupada, known to his followers as Srila Prabhupada, officially founded the Hare Krishna Society that same year. Its first temple was located in a former gift shop at 26 Second Avenue in Manhattan. Early devotees were mostly white Westerners, many of whom were disillusioned with American culture as the Vietnam War bore on.

Meet the Hare Krishna monk running one of the best vegetarian restaurants in Cardiff
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Hare KrishnaBy Carly Squires

Atma has won several food awards, including The Observer’s ‘Best ethical restaurant in Britain’ title, and it also provides space for healthy living activities such as yoga and meditation. “We are called the kitchen religion, because we place a lot of emphasis on food. Everything we see, tough and smells affects our consciousness and how we think and feel. Everybody’s got to eat. You know you have come to the right religion when you have got a big plate of food in front of you.” The cafe, which closed the doors at its previous Church Street location in April, advocates the principal of ahimsa – a belief, central to the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, that all living beings have a spark of divine energy and that to hurt others is ultimately the same as hurting oneself.

Radhastami 2017 Festival Schedule
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Radhastami festival begins today at Mayapur! From 10 am onwards, Radha Prem Dhan kirtan  will continue for two days- 28th & 29th August. In the evening, there will be Adhivas ceremony. For the past four days. we are having everyday morning Srimad Bhagavatam classess on the glories of Srimati Radharani. You can listen to the lectures […]

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HH Gour Govinda Swami Vyasapuja
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Today is the auspicious appearance day festival of one of the most dearmost disciple of Srila Prabhupada, His Holiness Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja. At Mayapur, the disciples and devotees of Mayapur community came together to offer glorification & pushpanjali  at his puspha Samadhi mandir. In the morning, video class of Gour Govinda Maharaj was played in the temple […]

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Namahatta Sammelan in Mayapur
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ISKCON Mayapur Nama-hatta, under the leadership of  HH Jayapataka Swami and HH Gauranga Prem Swami, developed several Nama-hatta  preaching centers in & aroud West Bengal. Nama-hatta is the most traditional of the congregational programs and mirrors the organization of a regular ISKCON temple with the leader and his assistants in the center. When HH Jayapataka Swami […]

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Tungavidya Sakhi Appearance day
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Today in Sri Mayapur Dham, Tungavidya Sakhi gave her special appearance day Darshan, adorned with nice garlands, flower crown, ornaments & special decorations. Lalita, Visakha, Citra, Campakalata, Tungavidya, Indulekha, Rangadevi and Sudevi are the parama-prestha-sakhis. These eight gopis are chief amongst all the gopis. The exalted qualities of Tungavidya are described in Sri Sri Radha-Krishna […]

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Janmastami: Submit your offerings now!
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Just one day to go! Tomorrow is Janamstami ( 15th Aug). Preparing our consciousness to receive the Lord on His appearance day, to establish Lord’s lotus feet in our hearts, is a special ceremony called Adhivas, which will be celebrated today evening. Best day to submit your loving seva offerings to Sri Radha-Madhava! There are […]

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ToVP Chakra Installation Pictures
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Thursday 10th of August, was the auspicious installation of the Planetarium Wing Chakra. The whole of Mayapur community came to the ToVP site to witness and visually see this monumental event.The devotees in Mayapur haven’t seen the Chakra before in a close proximity. Everybody was blown out and Mayapur is still buzzing today with this […]

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Mayapur Institute launches Online Bhakti-sastri Course
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Now, study Bhakti-sastri from the comfort of your home. Mayapur Institute offers a dynamic, convenient way to study Srila Prabhupada’s books through this online program. Enrol Now :- http://mayapurinstitute.org/course/online-bhakti-sastri-course/ This course comprises an in-depth study of Bhagavad-gītā, Śrī Īśopanisad, Nectar of Devotion and Nectar of Instruction. It has been designed for devotees who have been seriously […]

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Jhulan Yatra 3rd-7th August, 7:00am & 7:00pm
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Jhulan Yatra has been inspired from the swing pastimes of Krishna and his consort Radha during their romance in the idyllic pastoral groves of Vrindavan, where the divine lovers along with their cowherd friends and ‘gopis’ took part in joyful swinging in the cool monsoon season. Everyday at 7:00am and 7:o0am between the 3rd and 7th […]

A Sweet recollection of Mayapur Ratha Yatra Celebrations
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Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held […]

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Hare Krishna Film Review
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Hare KrishnaBy Sam Slovick

If Hare Krishna! film director John Griesser’s goal was to reintroduce the world to the magic of Prabhupada, he hit his mark. Hare Krishna! is the second coming of Prabhupada. Griesser (Yadubara Das) draws the viewer into to the magic of the Hare Krishna movement through an artfully crafted, seamless, multimedia medley, drawing from a wealth of existing archival elements including photographs, film, and video interviews combined with recreations, reenactments, and graphics to achieve a cinematic flow that takes you out of the theatre and into the moment.

Inauguration of the Rupanuga Institute for Spiritual Education
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Inauguration Day Programme 21 May 2017 1pm – 2.00pm 1 – 1.10pm Kirtans 1.10pm – 1.20pm Address by Kalasamvara Prabhu- Rupa Goswami and Prabhupada on Spiritual education 1.20pm – 1.30pm Address by Krsnananda Prabhu – Relevance of spiritual education in Soc today 1.35pm – 1.40pm – lighting of the lamp, unveil the Institute banner/poster 1.40pm […]