The groundbreaking book is written by a mixture of influencial devotees and reputed scholars in the field of Religion, which examines the changes and developments which have shaped ISKCON in the past 40 years and explores a wide range of issues and themes.

One aspect of the Vedic culture - knowledge of the future - may seem at first glance to contradict free will, but this is not so. In fact, St. Augustine’s explanation of this phenomenon in relation to the omniscience of God parallels the Vedic understanding.

This has historically been one of the most successful places to meet spiritual seekers who are eager for spiritual life. We go armed with Krishna prasada, lots of it, and the holy names, and set up Krishna Camp.

I must inform all of you on a very sad note that Nirguna Prabhu a senior devotee and disciple of His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is undergoing treatment at the Bhaktivedanta hospital in Mumbai for a tumor in his chest.

North American Temple presidents and GBC (Governing Board Commission) meetings were held in Houston Thursday thru Saturday. The session was an eye opener for me, as there is a lot more going on than I thought.

I would like to offer a direct and personal comment to the young lady whose questions to HH Romapada Swami were used by him in the article entitled “Dealing with unexpected reversals in life”

It is a pleasure to inform you that ISKCON devotees have shifted to the gifted land of 5 Acres situated in a prime location of Kanpur City on 26 April 2007.

Managers have to deal with some unpleasant things like problems and financial crisis or whatever, and then if they get more in to spiritual life, they are generally losing inspiration for dealing with these things. Why is it happening?

Last summer, 75 youth from around the world gathered in New Vrindavan for three days to perform an extreme makeover of Srila Prabhupada's Palace of Gold. Watch the 10-minute video by clicking on one of the links below.

There is a last minute appeal to prevent the slaughter of a sacred bull which has tested positive for tuberculosis. The bull, Shambo, lives in a shrine in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire.

As we look forward and plan how to preach and live Krsna consciousness in the modern world, I would hope that these virtues - patience, prudence, chastity, forgiveness, humility, integrity, and sacrifice - will help forge a work ethic for Hare Krsna devotees: an ethic applicable to our material and spiritual duties.

This training will build strength, focus, confidence, balance, determination and character. This comprehensive four week teacher training is taught by master yoga teacher, Atmananda, founder of the Atma Yoga school.

Following our recent online survey, we have started an online blog. Devotees can listen to Online lectures, kirtans, articles and slideshows.

I would like to offer you all a good deal and item for your temple and congregation, please see if you like my offer and if it can be a some kind of a preaching tool as well as a Holy gift item or fund rising.

Sometimes the Krsna consciousness movement sends its representative sannyasis to foreign countries where the danda and kamandalu are not very much appreciated. We send our preachers in ordinary dress to introduce our books and philosophy. Our only concern is to attract people to Krsna consciousness.

Mars starts using animal products Some of the UK's best-selling chocolate bars, such as Mars and Twix, will no longer be suitable for vegetarians.

The North American Grihastha Vision Team (GVT) held their annual meeting in Prabhupada Village, North Carolina, the last week of April. The 12-person team reviewed their year’s accomplishments and planned for the coming year.

Please come to our Ratha-yatra Festival. Art, Music, Theater, Cultural Programs, Delicious Free Meal

Krishna Camp will bring to Burning Man a rich heritage of spiritual culture with amazing vegetarian food, astounding performances, fire yajnas, awe-inspiring dance and addicting music amidst unique and thought provoking art installations.

Prabhupada told us to "Chant Hare Krishna and Be Happy". I have been chanting the maha mantra since two years and I am following the rules and regulations but I am still very unhappy.

One needs to become acquainted with two contrasting social ideals, or models, transmitted to us by Srila Prabhupada. The first is that of a society of Vaisnavas, of transcendental, liberated devotees who conduct themselves spontaneously in accord with the principles called sanatana-dharma. The second is that of a society of materially conditioned human beings who strictly conduct themselves in obedience to the injunctions of the Vedas under the system called varnasrama-dharma.

Fox TV 13 News: How do we get to heaven? Max Roth interviews Caru Das at the Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. A segment of this interview aired on Mothers' Day, 2007.

Every year on the second day of the moon after Nrsimha Caturdasi there is a special parikrama of Vrindavan called Van Bihar Parikrama. All the Brajavasis do parikrama of Vrindavan at night.

Specifically the protection of cows is not solely driven by economic consideration but is performed as a central religious theme that permeates all four social orders. Protection of cows is, therefore, an indisposable aspect of varnasrama life. To try to implement a concept of varnasrama without this essential aspect is, again, surreal.

Alachua Mela is a Krishna Conscious gathering of spiritual empowerment, sharing of diverse interests and talents, inspiring us to a purposeful balanced spiritual life, and creating a powerfully unified community. Join us in creating this event, our lives, and our community.

A new line of tasty treats is making its way to vending machines all over the world, and this time, as the advertisers promise, it really will do wonders for your health!

Kazakhstan's small Hare Krishna community faces imminent expulsion from its property after the country's highest court backed local authorities in a land dispute, the group said Thursday, claiming religious persecution.

A beautiful ashram located near the road and the Mayapur ferry ghat is for sale. It is on a large plot (more than one acre of land) with several residential buildings plus a mandira.

Come to Sridham Mayapur and study the Bhagavad-gita with the purports of Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana and Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura. Learn basic Sanskrit using the text of the Bhagavad-gita and Srila Jiva Gosvami's system of Sanskrit grammar.

Just to inform those who are interested, that under the direction of H.H.Lokanath Swami I am creating a website to allow devotees and people in general to keep up to date with Maharaja's activities.

"Bummed out on all the negative news?!?! Try laughing. I was told that Krishna consciousness was joyfully performed.

Probably the only stage play of it's kind in the world, Bhakta Wallace's monodrama presents six electrifying monologues that takes in the time period before and after the famed Battle of Kuruksetra.

New Release of a special DVD on the only Narasimha Temple outside of India. It shows with 5 different clips lots of pujas, Homas and different activities Devotees performed over the 25 years on this place.

As mentioned in recent postings from BB Govinda Swami, ISKCON Kazakhstan is about to lose everything. They are being evicted from the land and their property confiscated.

The IHF and Human Rights Without Frontiers are concerned by the 8 May judgment by the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan against the Society for Krishna Consciousness regarding ownership of 116 acres of land in the Karasai district which is home to this Hare Krishna community.

PRESS RELEASE Of the RO Society for Krishna Consciousness, Kazakhstan

“Namaste.” I said tentatively to the tall, white-robed man who had been sent to greet me and who knew more about my religion than my entire family put together.

There is no point in wishfully talking of peace and mercy until one first agrees to change one's actions. Therefore one should learn how the material world works and what one is supposed to do.

Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gita 9.30:"For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me." Seeing Krsna everywhere is certainly easier in Vraja dhama.

This happened to me in a very dramatic and conclusive way in Honolulu, Hawaii a few months ago. For the last few years I've only worn a dhoti and I shave up every day. I was boarding a bus downtown and the bus driver said those magic words.

So far we have seen that the combination of studies and spiritual activities that our students engage in at the College and the Radhadesh community have an immensely positive impact upon them.

The 32th Annual Jagannath Ratha Yatra Parade & Festival of India will be celebrated on SATURDAY, JUNE 09, 2006, from 11:00 AM onwards. Please mark this date on your calendars.

I am writing this letter to beg of the devotees to help me fulfill Srila Prabhupada's desire to have Ratha Yatra all over this planet. My name is Partha-sarathi dasa, I am a Sergeant First Class in the active duty US Army. I have been preaching in Iraq since 2003.

Dear Prabhus, Today I am very happy to report to you that your overwhelming love and undying faith have enabled a miracle to occur.

Have we ever embellished a telling of a lie with an assortment of trivial details to disguise the actual truth? Have we ever pretended to be someone we never were, by exuding a persona larger than ourselves?

More than 450 years ago on the day of Nrsimha Caturdasi, one wealthy merchant came and was giving dresses and jewelry to the different Goswamis in Vrindavana to use in the service of their Deities.

As the saying goes: “history is but a set of lies commonly agreed on by historians” In relation to religious historians this issue is even more acute, primarily because of the almost blanket ban on accepting any religious history that is not based on sense perception. The so-called 'enlightenment consensus' strictly adhere to their rule that nothing beyond gross matter and three dimensional space can be recorded. In reality this means that the enlightenment consensus lobby generally dismiss every other source of information and in the case of the vedic version it is dismissed as mythology.

At 10 a.m. bailiffs of the Karasai district confirmed by telephone to the leaders of the Society for Krishna Consciousness that they are coming to execute the court ruling. After a little while electricity was disconnected from the community housing area.