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Thursday 29th August
@ 5.30pm
$40
10 spots only
7 Things you can do with Coconut ~~Thai Style
On this cooking class with Madhupana you will be making together
-buffalo wings
-thai curry
-coconut rice
-mango cheese cake
Class starts at 5:30pm please arrive five minutes early.
If you have any allergies, please advise us ASAP.
Book ASAP as spaces is limited.
Thursday 29th August
@ 5.30pm
$40
10 spots only
7 Things you can do with Coconut ~~Thai Style
On this cooking class with Madhupana you will be making together
-buffalo wings
-thai curry
-coconut rice
-mango cheese cake
Class starts at 5:30pm please arrive five minutes early.
If you have any allergies, please advise us ASAP.
Book ASAP as spaces is limited.
Aphorisms of Logic seminar by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami.
‘Srila Prabhupada’s Aphorisms of Logic’
HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami is known and respected for his exceptionally well structured and academic presentations on the Vedas. This special seminar ‘Srila Prabhupada’s Aphorisms of Logic’ was no exception to the high standard that he always delivers.
ISKCON Bangkok Rathyatra 2019 (Album of Photos)
A glimpse of Jagannath Rathyatra in Bangkok with HH BVV Narasimha Swami, HG Pr...
Thursday 29th August
@ 5.30pm
$35 students with ID
10 spots only
7 Things you can do with Coconut ~~Thai Style
On this cooking class with Madhupana you will be making together
-buffalo wings
-thai curry
-coconut rice
-mango cheese cake
Class starts at 5:30pm please arrive five minutes early.
If you have any allergies, please advise us ASAP.
Book ASAP as spaces is limited.
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Thursday 29th August
@ 5.30pm
$35 students with ID
10 spots only
7 Things you can do with Coconut ~~Thai Style
On this cooking class with Madhupana you will be making together
-buffalo wings
-thai curry
-coconut rice
-mango cheese cake
Class starts at 5:30pm please arrive five minutes early.
If you have any allergies, please advise us ASAP.
Book ASAP as spaces is limited.
Thursday 29th August
@ 5.30pm
$35 students with ID
10 spots only
7 Things you can do with Coconut ~~Thai Style
On this cooking class with Madhupana you will be making together
-buffalo wings
-thai curry
-coconut rice
-mango cheese cake
Class starts at 5:30pm please arrive five minutes early.
If you have any allergies, please advise us ASAP.
Book ASAP as spaces is limited.
Thursday 29th August
@ 5.30pm
$35 students with ID
10 spots only
7 Things you can do with Coconut ~~Thai Style
On this cooking class with Madhupana you will be making together
-buffalo wings
-thai curry
-coconut rice
-mango cheese cake
Class starts at 5:30pm please arrive five minutes early.
If you have any allergies, please advise us ASAP.
Book ASAP as spaces is limited.
Shree Krishna Haveli project update - Bhaktivedanta Manor - UK.
We are very pleased to say that construction is moving forward...
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 24 September 2014, Scottburgh, South Africa, Youth Programme)
Question: So how can we, the youth of the world, take on this great ideal where we say, “We are concerned with the happiness of all and not just our own happiness!”
Kadamba Kanana Swami: It can be done! It is definitely possible but only on one condition – that we work towards having a common goal. That is not hard to find, but it cannot be found on Earth because when we look at earthly things, we all have different goals in life. One wants a BMW, another a Mercedes and another an aeroplane!
Therefore, the only common goal is a spiritual one. That is what can bring us together. We all come from completely different backgrounds but behind these backgrounds, there is a concept of God. With a concept of God, it is possible for everyone to unite. With a concept of God, it is possible to find solutions for the world. When I see that a person, who is very different compared to me, is sincerely dedicated to God and is also trying to be a devotee like me, then we can appreciate each other even through our differences.
True brotherhood can be found when I see that a person, who is so different to me or so distant from me, is really trying to do something wonderful, something totally selfless; that is my brother! So we can see that such a union is only possible through a common spiritual goal.
The article " True brotherhood " was published on KKSBlog.
Karnamrita Das: A Christian asked me, incredulously, “Why would anyone take to Krishna consciousness?” He was satisfied with his religion and felt that not only could it—and should it—meet anyone’s needs, but if it failed to do so and one took up another religion, then that was the fast track to hell. Of course, it is not only Christians who curiously ask this question, but people trying to make sense of a path which seems foreign to them as Westerners, or Easterners, or wherever they are from. 
ISKCON Lombok (Album of photos)
Ramai Swami: It was great to go over to Lombok, which is the next island over from Bali, to vi...
Община фермы Нью Говардхан в городе Мервилламба в Австралии известна своими многочисленными проповедническими проектами и, в особенности, программами по распространению прасада, которые проводятся круглый год.
В этом году команда преданных, руководящая распространением прасада, использовала пандал в стиле Храма ведического планетария на одном из крупнейших музыкальных фестивалей Австралии, «Великолепие в траве», который проводится рядом с городом Байрон-Бей, таким образом покорив тысячи зрителей красотой храма и замечательным прасадом.
Данный четырехдневный фестиваль музыки и искусства посещают 40 000+ человек, и, как всегда, распространение прасада было невероятно успешным. На фотографии запечатлен тот самый пандал в стиле Храма ведического планетария, который использовался в прошлые выходные, 18-21 июля.
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The New Govardhan ISKCON community in Murwillumbah, Australia is famous for the many preaching, and especially catering/prasadam distribution programs they organize all year round.
This year the prasadam distribution management team utilized a TOVP-like pandal at one of the largest festivals in Australia, Splendour in the Grass 2019 Music Festival, in Byron Bay, attracting thousands of festival-goers to the beauty of the TOVP and the wonderful prasadam offerings for sale.
This four-day music and arts festival attracts 40,000+ people, and as usual the prasadam distribution was an absolute success as it always is. Pictured is the TOVP pandal that was used this past weekend, July 18-21.
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Half-Way Mark (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Today, July 24, marks the half-way point of our summer festival tour along the Baltic Sea coast here in Poland. Tomorrow we pack up and head out to the site of this year’s Woodstock festival near the German border. It will take us a little over a week to build “Krsna’s Village Of Peace” at the festival site. We need to be ready to greet the tens of thousands of people who will visit us there during the event. We plan on distributing 160,000 plates of prasadam, with a full-scale Ratha Yatra every day and constant chanting of the holy names. Afterward, we come back to the coast for 3 more weeks of the festivals such as you see in this photo album. A summer of service. A summer of love.
On a quiet Tuesday evening…
Shastrakrit Das: On a quiet Tuesday evening, I’m sitting at my book table, chanting, praying to meet some sweet souls and then this sweet lady comes by and says “ I want to dedicate my life to the Supreme, you guys have facility where I can do that full time ?“ I said, yes we do but first you read the books.
2019 The Festival of Chariots/Michigan Rathyatra (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Oh, how glorious are they whose tongues a...
It was great to go over to Lombok, which is the next island over from Bali, to visit the devotees. There are two centres there, one being a nice facility in the city of Mataram and the other our temple about 30 minutes drive away.
I was able to attend two programs, one on Saturday night in the city and the other at Sunday midday at our temple. The devotees here are very enthusiastic and were eager to come for kirtan, lecture, arati and prasadam.
It was the great 18th-century philosopher Immanuel Kant who pointed out that, rather than consciousness being located inside of space and time, it is space and time that are themselves part of consciousness (1781).
Vaishnava Wedding in Iskcon Farm of Postupice, Czechia (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: You are mine and I am Krishna’s, therefore you are also Krishna’s. Letter to Gargamuni, June 18, 1968
LondonMellows’ 2019 (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If one wants success in practical yoga practice, it is advised that he take to the chanting of Hare Krishna and he will actually feel himself making progress. In Bhagavad-gita this practice of Krishna consciousness is prescribed as raja-vidya, or the king of all erudition. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 3.15.45 Purport)
So when you, the adult, spouse, parent, teacher, person in charge or whatever, make a mistake…apologize sincerely and you will have a profound effect on the recipient. You will also have set a wonderful example that they will remember for the rest of their lives! 
Gopal Krishna Goswami, then Gopal Krishna Khanna studied in France, and later studied Business Administration at McGill University in Montreal and worked as a marketing research analyst for Pepsi Cola in Toronto. He first met Srila Prabhupada in June 1968 and received initiation in May 1969, receiving the name Gopal Krishna Dasa. In 1975, Srila Prabhupada sent Gopal Krishna to India, giving him the responsibility of being a Governing Body Commissioner within the area, instructing him specifically to print and expand the distribution of his books in India and to translate and print books in Indian languages. In 1981 he took sannyasa and the name, Tridandi Swami Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaja. Since then Gopal Krishna Goswami has been traveling extensively all over the world preaching Gaudiya Vaishnavism, initiating disciples, delivering talks, and overseeing various philanthropic and devotional projects. 
Some photos from the Bhakti Rasa Festival near St Petersburg.
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: We got everyone to chant Hare Krishna lo...
By Indradyumna Swami “Oh, I bought it some years ago at your festival in Rewal,” she said. “To tell you the truth I wasn’t really interested. It was my husband who insisted we get it. When we got home, we put it on the bookshelf and basically just forgot about it. Then nine months ago my husband passed away from cancer. I was devasted. I was ready to take my own life. Then I remembered the book we’d bought together at your festival. I remembered you saying in your lecture that the book could prepare one for death. So I went to our library and searched for the book until I found it. That night I sat down and read it until I fell asleep at 2:00 am. When I woke in the chair later that morning I just kept reading. That book, the Bhagavad Gita, gave me the solace I needed. It explained everything so clearly. Especially how the soul is eternal. I was so grateful.” Continue reading "“Summer of Love”
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By ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry Abhisekas in ISKCON centers may only be performed by suitably qualified brahmanas according to the same pancaratrika standards as Srila Prabhupada established for daily temple worship. The only exception, per Srila Prabhupada’s instructions, is bathing Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra annually for Snana Yatra. Supporting Information This applies to any deity in an ISKCON center, whether the understanding of some may be that the deities are installed or not. Temple worship standards apply in the temple; not that home worship standards are appropriate to be observed in ISKCON temples. Continue reading "ISKCON Temple Abhisekas Position Paper – ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry
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Indradyumna Swami: The surgery is not covered by travel insurance or the local public health service. I am appealing to the devotee community to donate towards his medical costs. 
On 20th July, in Sri Vrindavan Dham, His Holiness Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami Maharaja, the beloved disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja, launched his first book titled “Spiritual Connection: Understanding the Dynamics of Guru-disciple Relationship.” 
Krishna Katha Sacramento CA with Vaisesika Prabhu (video)
Srila Prabhupada: Krishna, He is the Lord, but He has nothing to do. He is simply enjoying with His friends, with Radharani, with cowherd boys, with gopis. He has nothing to think, “How to provide?” (chuckles) That is greatness. He is taking the cows as a sporting. And when He was called for killing Kamsa, He left everything, renounced everything in full, so much love. At once, in a moment, He left Vrindavan, and all these devotees, then began to cry for Krishna for the rest of life. And whenever Krishna was reminded, oh, He will say, “I am very soon coming, Don’t worry. I am very soon coming.” Boston, April 27, 1969
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Today is Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami Disappearance day! On this day, let us read his glories & meditate on his pastimes and get the blessings! In the holy land of Vṛndāvana, where the Divine Couple Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda are performing their eternal pastimes, resided a great devotee named Śrīla Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, one of the […]
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By ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry Srimati Radharani’s lotus feet should not be ever shown publicly at ISKCON temples, whether on a daily basis or particularly on festivals such as Radhastami and Gopastami. Srila Prabhupada wrote a clear written response in a letter to the head pujari of ISKCON Los Angeles in 1973, which was the western headquarters of ISKCON. ISKCON LA had one of, if not the most established deity worship programs whereby Prabhupada gave extensive instructions on the subject. Among other questions related to the deity worship in ISKCON LA, the head pujari’s first question was apparently whether Radharani’s feet can ever be shown. Srila Prabhupada’s response was, “Your first question, shall Srimati Radharani's feet be showing, the answer is no, they should never be seen. Krsna's feet, however, should be showing.” Continue reading "Showing Radharani’s Lotus Feet Position Paper – ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 18 March 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.9.8)
Question: When it comes to stumbling blocks in spiritual progress, with things like lust, pride and disturbances of the mind, I can clearly see them coming or even realise that they are there. Yet still they remain in my mind and I realise that by simple knowledge and awareness, they do not disappear. How do I deal with this, noting that we are conditioned and are aware of it, but we still continue to be conditioned by it?
Kadamba Kanana Swami: Krsna says:
sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
(Bhagavad-gita 18.66)
Krsna says that He will take away all the impurities! We cannot take them away ourselves. It means we have to surrender to Krsna’s system of devotional service as it is passed down by the disciplic succession, and then Krsna will take away our impurities gradually. That is how it works. So if we are confronted by our own impurities, and we cannot put them aside with our knowledge, then this means that Krsna wants us to increase the quality and quantity of our devotional service!
The article " A gradual progress " was published on KKSBlog.
Prayers required for Nrsimha Kavaca Prabhu, ISKCON’s Deity Worship Minister, Global. He is currently in a hospital in London under observation with a large tumor.
From his Twitter account: As many of you may know, I’m in hospital in London under observation with a large tumor.
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Ratha Yatra 2019 in Berlin, Germany (Album of photos)
What a wonderful festival! Happily singing and lively dancing, we have m...
