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Thankfully to the service of a few sincerely devotees we have transcriptions of some of the lectures given during the festival time here in Mayapur. Please check below for the list of recently added lectures. You can also visit the Lecture Transcription Archives for all past transcriptions. Srimad Bhagavatam 5.13.21 – HH Bhakti Asraya Vaisnava Swami Srimad […]

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Mayapur Gaura Purnima 2014 Cultural Events and Entertainment Main Pandal Schedule (near Vamsi Bhavan) Time 11  Tuesday 12 Wednesday   13  Thursday 14 Friday 15 Saturday 6. PM   Giri Govardhana and Band       6.30 Madhusudana – Singer Song writer (30min)         6.45       Giri Govardhana and Band SMIS […]

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Please view the full gallery here: Pada Yatra Returns Gallery The historical padayatra traveling san-kirtan party, which travels around India on only a simple bullock cart return to Mayapur last week. Once they neared the campus HH Lokanath Swami sat at the helm of the cart and ushered it into the campus. The party was […]

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We regretfully announce that an issue has come up between Mayapur.com and our photo host, Photobucket.com. All previous galleries will have to be updated over a period of the next couple of weeks, in the mean time they will not work and you will receive a blank page as we have to update them one […]

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Surya Dev personally heats Mayapur’s cold water, for free! Guests staying at Mayapur’s largest and new guest house, Ishodyan had the privilege of having their morning shower with hot water heated by Solar power. This was possible with the first ever solar heating system installed at ISKCON, Mayapur ,inaugurated on the 4th of March by […]

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Dear Devotees, The GBC requests all devotees and friends of ISKCON to give deep and careful attention to this work: Download the Founder-Acarya book here:

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 December 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.9.3) The brahma-jyotir is known to be the effulgence of Krsna but if we read a little more about the brahma-jyotir then we read that it is filled with cit-kaṇaḥ. The cit-kaṇaḥ are the endless infinitesimal souls that are in there. So the whole brahma-jyotir […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 25 December 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 5.9.3) How can we understand what is integrity? For example, different people have different levels of behaviour. A brahmana and a candala cannot be treated in the same way. If some local resident of Vrndavan just pushes you aside in the temple and you cannot just […]

Hope you are getting ready for your visit to Mayapur for the Gaura Purnima 2014 festival. Gauranga Travels, ISKCON Mayapur’s travel department is happy to welcome all the devotees worldwide to Sri Mayapur dhama for Gaura Purnima festival in Sri Mayapur dhama. Gauranga Travels is ISKCON Mayapur temple owned cab services. For your safety and […]

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ISKCON New York is now on Facebook!  Now you can take daily darshan of our beloved Sri Sri Radha Govinda from your computer or mobile device. Visit us @  https://www.facebook.com/radhagovindanyc (copy and paste into your browser)  

Click here to view Vasanta Panchami Darshan Celebrated on the onset of spring, Vasanta Pancami marks the beginning of new life with yellow mustard flowers starting to bloom, and nature displaying her majestic beauty. Thus the colour of the festival is yellow. The Deities in the temples, especially in Vrindavana wear yellow, or yellow-green on […]

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Calling for Volunteer Medical Service during upcoming festival at Mayapur. “ bhakata seva parama siddhi, premalatikara mula”                                                 ————Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur Service to the devotees is the ultimate perfection and it […]

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HG Devakimataji will be offering a seminar on “The False Ego- our Constant Companion and Trouble Maker” during the Gaura Purnima festival. Mother Devaki has served in various capacities for over 20 years and has in later years engaged in creating festivals and various meetings for devotees to listen about and glorify Krsna. She started […]

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Schedule Overview Thursday 27th Greeting at the temple. Friday 28th Harinama – Starting at 5:30pm Queen St. Saturday 1st Picnic in the morning/lunch (dependent on weather). Support & Donation The cost of the visit will be at least $1000.00 if devotees would like to offer their financial support they can do so using the information […]

As ISKCON’s flagship project The Temple of the Vedic Planetarium’s representatives put it: “The day has come. The suspense is over. After over a year of correspondence, negotiations and near failure, the blue marble has finally been ordered.”
On behalf of the ToVP Sadbhuja Das is in charge of carefully and personally selecting only the best materials from around the world in order to build a temple that will last for “much more than a life time.” — Read more ›

For the fourth successive year, the youth of the Radhadesh community in Belgium extends an invitation for the Radhadesh Mellows kirtan festival which takes place on the weekend of  25th & 26th January 2014. This event, purely dedicated to the chanting of the maha mantra, attracts both kirtaniyas and visitors from all over Europe and beyond, to gather […]

His Grace Bhimasena das (Mr. Roberto Fucaloro) passed away on October 9th, 2013 in New York City. He su  A dedicated disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhimasena prabhu lived in New York City for practically his whole life.  He became a full time member of ISKCON in 1975, and his primary […]

Founder Acharya of ISKCON 4pm, 5th January 2014, Temple Prasadam Hall Join us for a very special seminar on the importance of understanding the unique position of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada as the Founder Acharya of ISKCON. Presented by: H.G. Suresvara Prabhu About Suresvara Prabhu In 1970 Suresvara Prabhu joined the […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.20.13) We see only the tip of the iceberg and never really know what is going on all levels. We cannot see and that is the whole problem. I may look at the person sitting opposite of me. I may know his name. I […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.2-7) We should never think that somebody is not a devotee. We should think that everybody is a devotee! The uttama-adhikari sees everyone as a devotee. We should find the devotee in other people. The devotee is there; we should just find it! We treat […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.20.12) We can come up with a hundred excuses to justify why we do not have to surrender. Part of surrender is that we place our faith in Krsna and that he will make adjustments. ‘Yes but I put my faith in Krsna and he is […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 November 2012, Cape Town, South Africa, Evening Talk) One maybe, or may not be, a great philosopher like Uddhava. Uddhava was a great devotee from Dwarka and Uddhava was a disciple of Brihaspati who is the spiritual master of the demigods. Uddhava was very, very learned and he was also a […]

 Mayapur, ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS) Gaura Purnima Festival Entertainment Feb 16 – March 18, 2014 From February 16 – 20, ISKCON Mayapur will host the ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS). Over 800 temple presidents, GBC members and sanyasis are expected to attend. Following the ILS is the annual Mayapur Gaura Purnima Festival which will run from […]

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.2-7) Through celibacy, can we get love of God? You can be celibate for a hundred lifetimes, do you think that will give you love of God? No, it is devotional service that will give us love of God! “I am married to a devotee!” […]

ISKCON’s Food For Life continues to feed victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines on November 7th with winds of 195 mph.

One of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history, Haiyan has claimed nearly 6,000 lives in the Philippines, and thousands more are missing. Around 4 million have been displaced from their homes.

ISKCON’s Food For Life is one of the many aid organizations doing what it can to help in the wake of the disaster.

Between November 15th and 20th, the Nagar Sankirtan Party from Manila, headed by Balarama Das distributed 8,200 plates of hot sanctified vegetarian food in barangays or villages in Tacloban, the capital of Leyte Province. Read more ›

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.2.36) How can we always remain appreciative in association of devotees? Sometimes we lose it so how can we stay always in the correct mood? By thinking that we are not appreciating devotees enough and that we are always falling short in appreciation. As soon as we start […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 8 September 2013, Lenasia, South Africa, Sunday Feast Lecture) We have temples where we can associate of devotees and get new inspiration because after all, this is a movement. Srila Bhakisiddhanta said, “It’s not an addendum in life.” It is not that Krsna consciousness is something we add on. “You know, I really […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2008, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture) We have to always be strict with our lazy mind because our mind says, “Well, you know, you can’t be fanatic!” which translates to, “Oh well, let’s just be lazy,” actually. So the tendency to be a little lazy about standards and rules is very […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.20.13) It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, ‘One who does good will never be overcome by evil.’ That is a very important point because it sometimes seems that one who does good gets overcome by evil. But it actually means is that if a person has done […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 17 November 2013, Mayapur, India, Rasapurnima, Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.19) Question:  It is pretty clear to me, from studying Srila Prabhupada’s books, that the way we access Krsna lilas is – as sometimes Prabhupada would say in his purports – to give our lives to the mission. But, as the times goes on, […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 02 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.2-7) Even though we do not look for austerity, we do not spend the whole day trying to avoid austerity. We must take some austerity – that is bhakti yoga and we use our time, as much as possible, in devotional service. Therefore this chapter […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 12 September 2013, Durban, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 8.20.13) Satsvarup Maharaja raised that question in one of his books which had the title, “Am I a demon or a vaishnav?”  That is a very good question, really. It is like a perennial question for all of us because we are in this […]

Unfortunately the Kumeu Ratha Yatra that had been scheduled for Friday the 6th of December has been cancelled. Please join us for Snana Yatra on the 8th (see more info here) and the Auckland Ratha Yatra on the 21st (more info about Auckland Ratha Yatra and Mission Bay Festival here »)

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, BYS Lecture) I’m thinking about Carl Jung who in an interview was asked, “Mr Jung, would you say that you believe in God?” That’s a basic question when you interview Carl Jung because everybody knows that Jung was very religious. But Jung said, “No, I don’t believe […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 21 December 2011, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.14.2) The internal energy is the activity or the energy that pleases Krsna. It is the pleasure potency that has the power to please Krsna. Nothing else can please Krsna. In the interaction with devotees, there is that energy that can please Krsna, […]

On Saturday, 23 November, Kadamba Kanana Swami took devotees on parikrama to Mamgachi. This village is located on the island of Modadrumadvipa and is the birth place of Srila Vrndavana Das Thakur and Srila Vasudeva Datta, two very close associates of Lord Caitanya. The parikrama party included disciples, students from MIHE, well-wishers and special guest, HG […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 10 February 2013, Simhachalam, Germany, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.1.34) It is very interesting how Vrindavan is the abode which can offer pure devotional service. Both qualitatively and quantitatively, Krsna consciousness is established (in Srimad Bhagavatam) and therefore Srila Prabhupada wanted us especially to distribute Srimad Bhagavatam. He said that Srimad Bhagavatam should be […]

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2008, South Africa, Ratha Yatra Lecture) Once, one of our book distributors in Holland was distributing books in the offices of a business. The authorities didn’t like it and called the police so the devotee ran into the street with his books. As the police chased him, he turned the corner […]