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By bathecho.co.uk

On Saturday 23rd April, Bath Spa University will be hosting a conference to mark the first fifty years of the Hare Krishna Movement. One of the movement’s leading gurus, His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami, will be in attendance and there will be an opportunity to experience the arati ceremony where worship is offered, enjoy Indian dance and join in chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra. A panel chaired by Suzanne Newcombe (INFORM), bringing together academics and devotees, will debate what happens when a New Religious Movement is no longer so new. The keynote lecture will be given by Prof. Kim Knott (Lancaster University) who will focus on the movement’s achievements and challenges in a British setting. Other papers consider the role of the movement in education (Rasamandala Das) and its place within the wider Vaishnava context (Dermot Killingley).

By the U.S. TOVP Team

The U.S. TOVP Team announces the Grand Opening of their new office in Alachua, Florida on the auspicious occasion of Rama-navami. (April 15th) The U.S. TOVP Team will be opening a new office in Alachua, Florida to manage their fundraising and promotional operations in America. The office is a house donated for this purpose by Ambarisa Prabhu. Along with the office, a newly formed Foundation, TOVP Foundation, Inc. has been set up with Sesa prabhu as its Chairman. Sesa is also the 2016 appointed GBC Chairman, as well as the ISKCON Minister of Education. Prior to the Grand Opening of the new office, Ambarisa and Braja Vilas Prabhus will be visiting a number of U.S. temples, including Dallas, Houston and New Jersey, to assure devotees that the TOVP construction and overall progress is moving full steam ahead. Please contact these temples for the scheduled date of their visit and presentation if you live in that area.

Today is the disappearance day of Govinda ghosh, an eternal associate of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Gopinath jiu (Govinda Ghosh’s beloved deity) held Kusa grass in His fingers to perform Shraddha ceremony of Govinda ghosh. This was as per His promise to Govinda Ghosh and this practice is continued till today.   Gopinath jiu (Govinda Ghosh’s beloved […]

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Friday 8th April: Maha Harinam on Queen St @ 5:00pm Saturday 9th April: Kirtan at the Temple @ 5:30pm Sunday 10th April: Sunday Feast Kirtan & Katha by Madhava Prabhu & Radhika Mataji

Above are the photos of special darshan and abhishek of Srivas Thakura on his appearance day.   Srivas Thakura Ki Jay!!

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Sri Srivasa Thakur is incarnation of Narada muni. He appeared in Shrihatta and lived there along with his 3 brothers Sripati, Srinidhi and Srirama. The four brothers after sometime came to live in Mayapur – at the house of Srivasa Thakur – Srivas Angan, located next to Yogapitha. Every day they used to go to […]

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Gaura Purnima Festival has been very busy and ecstatic this year. It all started with the festival inauguration March 5th and blissfully went on until Gaura Purnima day. Let’s not forget Jaganath Misra’s feast on 24th and 25th of March which provided a sumptuous feast for thousands of devotees and pilgrims who left completely satisfied. […]

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We would like to express our appreciation for Krsna Kumar prabhu and his family, who have left for some time, back to Europe for health and family reasons.

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After the ecstatic Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama, devotees have returned to Mayapur. Today is Amalaki Ekadasi Vrata Mahotsav. We had a packed Mangla arthi and Darshan Arthi. There was special book distribution awards ceremony at 8 am where HH Jayapataka Swami encouraged our Sankirtan devotees and handed over the awards. Golden Jubilee Mela has been inaugurated […]

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Dear devotees, this morning with a heavy heart we left the temple of Madana Gopal in Belpukur. The beautiful Madan Gopal was worshipped by Sachimata’s father. The worship has been going on for about 1.700 years. From there we entered Simantadvipa which corresponds to the process of hearing sravanam. Soon enough the first katha of […]

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Early in the morning we left the beautiful Pratapnagar towards the Ganges shore (only 2 km walk).  We boarded the boats and ship to Sankarpur. You can’t imagine how it is to get all these boats on the right time and cross the Ganga with more than one thousand people. How much managerial work is […]

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Dear devotees today Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama moved from the wonderful island of Jahnudvipa to Modadrumadvipa which corresponds to the process of dasyam, servitorship. Before introducing today’s events we’d like to share how last evening H.G. Rajendranandana Prabhu enlightened everybody. The topic of the lecture was: Lord Caitanya gives his mercy to the most fallen. He […]

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Maha Vishnu Swami joined the Parikrama Party on the 4th day. He is the ‘kirtan man’ .The devotees love him. He doesn’t stop kirtan for anything. Despite of the walking, so much energy is coming from the kirtan. The mrdangas vibrating very far in the fields attracting the mind of the villagers that come with […]

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Before sunrise the International Party moved slowly from Svarupa Ganj (Godrumadvipa) to Hamsa Vahana (Madhyadvipa) . Lord Shiva appeared in this place just to hear Gauranga Lila, so this is very auspicious island. From there we went to the manifestation of Kuruksetra in Navadvipa dhama where the devotees heard about the glorious of the Bhagavad […]

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In a very nice and beautiful morning the devotees left the campsite at Hari Hara Ksetra and headed to Gauradaha. Gauradaha is a very special place and the pastime which took place there is described by Jagadananda Pandita in his book Prema Vivarta. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda prabhu, Jagadananda Pandita and other associates of the […]

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After 4 days of wonderful Sravana Utsava festival, blissful and an amazing 5 days of Kirtan Mela, the devotees finally left the temple room and the boundaries of ISKCON Mayapur campus. For what? To make connections with the old Kalpa Vrikshas trees, the birds, the land, the dhamvasis, having prasada in a open air and […]

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Sri Jiva Goswami started from his residence at Candradvipa to Navadvipa & throughout this journey, streams of tears were flowing from his eyes. While crying he called out with a loud voice, “O life of the living entities, O Sri Gauranga, O Nityananda Prabhu, when will You bestow Your mercy upon me and give me […]

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Hare Krishna, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. As the waves of devotees raise their hands , with closed eyes and gently swaying their bodies, in ecstatic love loudly calling out the names, Gauranga! Gauranga, bestowing auspiciousness to the entire planet, I pray at the divine lotus feet of Sri Gauranga […]

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Today being the last day of Kirtan Mela in Mayapur, I thought I should write something to share with everyone. I just came back from the temple were the Pandav Sena (Mayapur kirtan group) just finished leading their Kirtan.  “Oh Thank you Krsna…that was some real amazing Kirtan” Although it was lunch time for most […]

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Today being the last day of Kirtan Mela in Mayapur, I thought I should write something to share with everyone. I just came back from the temple were the Pandav Sena (Mayapur kirtan group) just finished leading their Kirtan. “Oh Thank you Krsna…that was some real amazing Kirtan” Although it was lunch time for most […]

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The number of devotees arriving for the festival is increasing! Panca Tattva hall was packed and everyone were trying to get into the hall to take part of this eternal Sankirtan lila of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates! HH Lokanath Swami gave today’s lecture on the famous verse: Krishna varnam tvisa krsnam  – where […]

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After the ectastic Sri Radha-Madhava Elephant Procession & Adhivas ceremony of Kirtan mela on the first day of the festival , the day 2 of the Gaura Purnima began with packed Mangala arthi & Srngar arti darshan and HH Sivaram Swami ‘s lecture on glories on Holy name-a topic in line with Kirtan Mela! Maharaj […]

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  This morning in Sri Mayapur Dham devotees celebrated the flat lifting for the start of Gaura Purnima festival month. As a special offering to Srila Prabhupada to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of ISKCON, 50 National flags were put up in the park and 50 lamps were offered. Then as the flags reached the top […]

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Dear devotees, dandavats pranam! AGTSP! Hare Krsna!   We are very happy to invite devotees world wide to join the most merciful Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2016.   We kindly request you to publish our invitation and Promotional Movie. Please Click Here   thank you very much, Your servant,   Sri Gaura Sundara das   […]

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Great preaching opportunity for international devotee visitors & residents has come up on the occasion of 50th anniversary of ISKCON. We gladly invite international devotees to take part in preaching to Mayapur visitors during Gaura Purnima festival in Spiritual Nations Festival Arena. • Festival is organized by ISKCON Mayapur. Each country will have its own […]

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Speaker: HG Vaisesika Prabhu Venue: Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir Date: 27 Feb 2016   Reading from Srimad Bhagavatam Ninth Canto, Chapter 11, Text 25.   sri-badarayanir uvaca athadisad dig-vijaye bhratrms tri-bhuvanesvarah atmanam darsayan svanam purim aiksata sanugah   Translation “Sukadeva Gosvami replied: After accepting the throne of the government by the fervent request of His younger […]

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One of the attraction of our Saturday elephant procession is our beautiful big horned black bull Jagannath, majestically pulling the bullock cart of Gaura Nitai. It is a usual sight that the visitors would somehow sneak in to have a snap with him. He is a very gentle, very friendly bull, who has been doing […]

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By Anuradha dasi

When you listen to this audiobook you feel as if you are in his private room hearing him recount every detail of his often perilous and sometimes humorous—but never dull—journey across the earth. The intimate experience of hearing Radhanath Swami tell his story lasts for nineteen hours and is enhanced with thematic music and tasteful sound effects. The book itself touched the hearts of people around the globe. Ram Dass, teacher and author of Be Here Now, described it as “fascinating and spellbinding.” Francis Clooney, professor at Harvard Divinity School, described it as an invitation to “a time of grace and wonder.” Sharon Gannon, co-founder of Jiva Mukti Yoga, said the book could “cause a transformation of our whole being.” Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, said that he was, “convinced that the reader will love this book.”

By Madhava Smullen

Possibly the hottest topic at the Fall 2015 ISKCON New Vrindaban and Eco-Vrindaban Board Meetings, and certainly the one that drew the most interest, was the Community Dialog about a proposed new “Village Association.” For decades, New Vrindaban residents have felt a need to be heard more by the ISKCON management and to have more influence on how their community is run. So with a possible solution at hand, they were buzzing as they crowded into the Palace Lodge community hall after lunch on December 5th to learn more about it. Longtime residents Nityodita Das and Advaitacharya Das guided the session, beginning with a half-hour Power Point presentation on the history and plan for the proposed Village Association.

Dear devotees and well-wishers, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. With great happiness, we are happy to announce the Inauguration Festival of historical temple of Lord Nityananda Prabhu at Ekachakra Dham on 14th Feb. 2016 – a humble offering at the lotus feet of HDG AC Bhakivedanta Swami Prabhupada, on the […]

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By Sonup Sahadevan

Hema Malini will release Krsna mobile app on the occasion of International Society for Krishna Consciousness’ (ISKCON’s) Golden Jubilee celebrations in the first week of February. This mobile app Krsna will give darshans from all over the world and will also include music, chants and chapters of Bhagvad Gita. Veteran actress Hema Malini and her love for Lord Krishna is quite well-known. The legendary actress has paid her ode to the Krishna through many of her classical dance performances. Taking her love a step forward, the actress-danseuse will release Krsna mobile app on the occasion of International Society for Krishna Consciousness’ (ISKCON’s) Golden Jubilee celebrations in the first week of February.