As the kirtan came to a close, devotees started prasadam distribution. Waves of people rolled in to receive the mercy of Krsna. A total of 800 prasadam plates were served. It was truly an amazing sight to behold; the mercy of Mahaprabhu was so clearly evident.

The present-day town of Navadvipa on the banks of the Ganges, which was formerly known as Kuliya, was basically what we would call today, a “University Town” 500 years ago.

Bhakti Raghava Swami, originally from Canada, was here at New Talavana, MS, USA for the weekend of Sep 12-14th, 2008 to convey the urgency of implementing varnasrama dharma as envisioned by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

The nearby town of Krishnanagar was the venue for the third day of the Holy Name week in Mayapur. Krishnanagar is the municipal and administrative headquarters for the district of Nadia in West Bengal. Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur worked here as a magistrate when he first started exploring the Holy Dhama to re-discover the lost Holy places.

3,000 attendees showed up and had the time of their lives. The festival execution was flawless with the help of many many volunteers

Devotees of ISKCON, Ludhiana visited Central Jail in city on Saturday September 13th, in boy's jail aging between 18-25 years for preaching. Prisoners took part in the Kirtan very interestingly by dancing with mahamantra.

Devotees in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, literally swam in an ocean of nectar during the past two weeks. After resoundingly successful Janmastami programmes, devotees had a 3 day break to catch their breaths before they dived into an ocean of bliss with H.H. Lokanath Swami.

Yesterday I received an email from Anuttama Prabhu (not Rukmini’s husband the GBC, but the other D. C. Anuttama), with some photos of a huge display in an airport in Thailand of the devas and asuras churning the milk ocean, very beautifully done in Thai style.

I'm attaching a beautiful picture of Vamana Deva that is just near Kameshvara Mahadeva in Kamyavan. This is in front of the Panca Pandava temple on the way to Dharma Kunda where the Yaksa Prashna pastime of Mahabharat took place.

If you follow the road up from the kimchi pots in Haebangchon, just past Phillies bar, you will discover a Krishna temple right in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the business area.

The combination of the two Yoga classes was a rare and unique experience. The students in their respective Yoga traditions were able to experience Gaura Arati (evening worship) and put Bhakti Yoga in practice.

Under extreme wind and rain (and tornado threats) our community which is only one hr away from New Orleans, devotees came together and took shelter of the Lord.

This year for the first time, the devotees organized a wonderful Vyasa Puja Celebration in the evening, inviting may leading citizens of Vrindavan to come and offer their homage to Srila Prabhupada on his appearance day.

This year the Supreme Lord adorned outfits designed by none other than fashion icon and designer Manish Malhotra. Manish is reputed as the King of Indian Fashion.

For the third year in a row, Bhaktin Janet (Napolitano)- as His Holiness Ganapati Swami Maharaja says- the Governor of Arizona, U S A - issued another Proclamation for Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Saturday August 23, 2008.

Recently we started to discover also new places. One day we went to Navadvipa, but instead of going on our standard way – to Parama-tala, Dhamesvara Mahaprabhu’s temple, Jagannatha Babaji’s Samadhi or some street around, we turned left and walked along many new streets.

In Ghana, one Reverend Minister of the Catholic Church made a comment when we took the students of Lord Krishna’s Academy for harinam that ended in a beach picnic. He told me, “I have heard your members singing and dancing many times but the way the children sing is more penetrating and touchy to the heart.”

The kitchens of the Temple will be working 24 hours to prepare free vegetarian meals of everyone who comes the festival. From organic to vegan, from 'happy cow milk' to self-sufficiency, the festival will appeal to the whole family.

I'll never forget how the crowd applauded the Lord that day. They went on and on, and some even looked towards the heavens. As we were all loudly acknowledging His mercy, I took it to be as good as sankirtan, the congregational chanting of the holy names. Such is the effect of just one of our festivals

Passing through the 'Little India of Paris' - La Chapelle, the cart had to stop often because of special offerings made to the Deities by the shopkeepers. The arrival of the 4 hour parade was finally in the best spot we could imagine right in the center of Paris, Forum des Halles.

Mr. Sarorn is our official Tuk-Tuk Driver here in Cambodia. For those not familiar with the term Tuk-Tuk, well, it’s the local means of transportation for most people in the towns and cities.

The Board, Staff and Students of Sri Mayapur International School (SMIS) organised a memorable farewell for their outgoing principal, Lalita Mataji on Friday 25 July 2008.

The first two festivals of the Polish tour went exceptionally well, with thousands of people attending. Throughout both of them, however, devotees were meditating on the third festival - in the town where the deputy mayor had almost succeeded in canceling the event. It would be our biggest and most prestigious festival of the summer.

ISKCON had been invited to participate in a two days conference, "Faith in Action"- A Hindu Leaders caucus on HIV/AIDS, organized by UNAIDS and others. They were warmly received by the organizers, who upon seeing the devotees, exclaimed, "Oh! ISKCON sadhus have arrived!"

Most visited tourist city in the world and largest metropolis in Europe. Paris the city of romance, famed capital of France. Here is a great place to dance! People everywhere.

Releasing a book on ''oil-final countdown to a global crisis and its solutions'' by Sahadeva Dasa at an impressive function, he said the problem concerned more for oil importing countries including India.

It is a most wonderful experience to witness these merciful souls at work and really makes me proud of being a member of ISKCON. I just sit and watch this wonderful scene and it is difficult not to feel a warm sensation in the heart and eyes.

Here's an article on how the 'Art Of Living' movement have brought a WHOLE VILLAGE completely into their movement in 6 months !! We could implement it in our ISKCON way to get everyone into Krishna Consciousness.

For the first time, ISKCON Mayapur participated in 'Tourism Fair 2008' held at Swabhumi, Kolkata from 20th to 22nd June 2008.The big displays of scenic delights of Mayapur along with a video show attracted the visitors into the pavilion to know more about Mayapur.

Londoners are used to seeing juggernauts rumbling through their streets, but this was a very different kind of heavy traffic...

Not many people know about it, but every year on Ganga Dashera and Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi there are Phul Bangalas (Flower Palaces) and Kavi Sanmelans (Poetry Recitals) in Varsana and Nandagram respectively.

In France, the influential anti-cult bureau (funded by the French government) has successfully introduced laws and policies constricting the activities of minority religious organizations and in 1989, has unfairly and unlawfully branded the Hare Krishna movement a dangerous cult.

The directors of the Krishna Society have repeatedly expressed their willingness to cooperate with government authorities to resolve this conflict. But, they have expressed that they cannot accept an active garbage dump, which does not have drinking water or water for irrigation, as a satisfying resolve.

Teenagers Namisha Balagopal, and Surabhi Kasera prepare for a dance performance at the Himalayan Performing Arts Festival at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork on Saturday. Divya Narayanam of Salt Lake City performs at the event, which showcased Asian cuisine and Indian dance, drama, music and songs.

The holy ceremony of Bhumi Puja (ground-breaking) ceremony of the first ever state-funded Vaishnava-Hindu School in Britain took place on Saturday 7th June 2008 and marked the start of building works to be completed in August 2009

Yesterday Food For All won the 'Recycling Project of the Year Award 2008'. It was a nationwide award with hundreds of organizations involved.

The Krishna Avanti Primary School is the result of years of careful planning and discussion with the local authority and government. It will be UK's first faith-based Voluntary Aided state school of its kind (and as such will not charge fees).

Inside is the New York City headquarters of the Interfaith League, a Hare Krishna group. A visitor is greeted with a blast of sights and sounds: Thirteen men and one woman are twirling and dancing, playing cymbals and drums and chanting Hindu tunes.

Nineteen-year old Eric Paul came to India to attain moksha by following the path of Lord Krishna. His belief has now put the American Consulate officials and regional passport office authorities in a tight spot.

A “Harinam - Acrobatic Show”? What exactly is that? According to those devotees came to see it, it was a spectacular stage show, with nice kirtana and fun to watch.

If the Deity room is the heart of the temple then the kitchen must be one of the major organs. The kitchen is at the center of many of the activities undertaken at any of Krishna's temples.

Seven devotee children celebrated a special day of their own in Germany with twenty of their school friends and their friends' family members on a Sunday in May at Goloka-dhama, in Abentheuer. The event was organized so that the devotee children could have a Vedic version of their Catholic friends' First Communion ceremony.

Sometime last week, Pedalyatra passed the 2,000-mile mark. The solar anniversary of the beginning of our journey also came and went around the same time, although we are saving the modest celebrations for the tithi that the occasion falls upon 'Nrisimha Caturdasi.

For the past five years they've rented a booth at the Houston International Festival, selling vegetarian food, handing out literature, performing spiritual chants and inviting women to try on saris.

For one month His Holiness Nava Yogendra Maharaja and His Grace Sarvabhauma prabhu have been inundating Mauritius with Krsna Katha and the Holy name.

“All you have to do is chant, Prabhu!” But what about the real world? What if our kid is failing in school? What if we are struggling to make the monthly mortgage payment, or that our health is seriously challenged?

Mayapurvision channel has recieved another banner today! WHY are we getting excited? - because... people like to check out what's popular - and be popular on YouTube means that many more people than usual will get in contact with Mayapur.

To fulfill the initial desire of Srila Prabhupada who inaugurated the Food For Life programme, by instructing his disciples to distribute prasadam at least within 10 miles' radius from the Mayapur temple, the Nagara Sankirtan party stormed Krishnanagar.