The desire to see God, to touch God, to talk to God is in itself probably the strongest argument for His existence; besides the logic and evidences from the scriptures, this direct experience is very significant indeed. Bringing Deity Worship from the insiders circle of elderly pujari-priests and making it part of the congregational development is probably the only way it may become part of the positive future for many places in ISKCON

The 526 annual observance of the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was celebrated by thousands of pious members of the public at ISKCON Baroda on Thursday, March 8, 2012

The Monthly Sankirtana Festival (MSF) of Abundant Bhajans, which was conducted over the last 2 weekends to honor Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was concluded yesterday (March 7th) on Gaura Purnima, and the final MSF results were offered on this auspicious occasion to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Prabhupada and their Lordships at the ISKCON of Silicon Valley (ISV) temple in San Jose

The 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM) for ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) continued from February 10 through February 21 in Sridham Mayapur, West Bengal. As previously reported, from February 10-17 all GBC members participated in ISKCON’s first International Leadership Sanga (ILS)—an assembly of ISKCON leaders from around the world invited to participate in portions of the GBC’s Annual General Meeting, attend and discuss presentations on the last several years of GBC strategic planning efforts, and to spend time with one another in devotional sanga

Sri Sri Jagannath Temple (ISKCON, LUDHIANA) celebrated today Gaura Purnima festival. A large number of people enthusiastically participated in this mega festival. People have to wait to have the glimpse of Their Lordship

His Grace Nitai Prasad Dasa received sannyasa initiation on 8 March 2012 from His Holiness Jayapataka Swami on the auspicious occasion of Gaura Purnima. His sannyasa name is Bhakti Nityananda Swami

Tamohara Dasa and Mukhya Dasi recently attended International Leader Sangha (conference) in Mayapur India. Listen to their report on this conference given on March 4, 2012, at the Hare Krishna temple in Alachua, Florida

May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Srimati Saci-devi be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant mellow of devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love

The situation in Navadvip and the whole of India that time was that people were religious but they were not spiritual. They were religious just to show on the outside but actually they did not know the purpose of religion. People spent a lot to marry off their daughter, to put on a big show to show that they were very religious. One such wealthy had no more daughters to marry off then he married a female cat or a female dog or some demigod. So this was not even in scripture. Marriage is for human beings. Like that they were doing all sorts of bogus religious activities just to show off

I know that you are all very busy in your respective services and I don't want to take too much of your time, but kindly take to notice a humble request l have to make. Recently we purchased a piece of land right in the center of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, for which we were raising the funds. The next phase we are planning is the construction of a temple

Those who attended ILS (ISKCON Leadership Sangha) could never miss it! It was right in the middle, large and beautiful! Birds of the same feather (people interested in cultural presentation of Krisna Conscious living) also flocked there! It brought color to the whole program and the aroma of rich culture of Bhagavat dharma and Varnasrama dharma. "Nandagram" set up right in the middle was indeed cynosure of all eyes at ILS!

On 15th February Sutapa das brahmacari had the opportunity to meet Her Majesty The Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury. A multi-faith reception was held at Lambeth Palace in London; one of the first public engagements to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada has, once or maybe more, clearly mentionedthat ISKCON brainwashes its members, he says “We are brainwashing from bad to good” This is true.He also stated that everybody is also being brainwashed by advertising and material education etc.,what a simple but profound statement that is

Dear followers of Srila Prabhupada, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here is our second reminder for you to submit your homages to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa-puja book by April 15

Now that our dear Godsister, Chandi, has brought the Yamuna back to Keshi Ghata, there is a beautiful lake in front of the palace. So again Keshi Ghata will be the venue of this year's Yamuna Boat Festival on Saturday afternoon March 17th. She worked tirelessly to bring the Yamuna back to the ghatas and it is so glorious, so now we will return our annual festival to this lovely place

On the auspicious occasion of Srila Madhvendra Puri’s Disappareance, March 5th, 2012, ISKCON Vrindavan unveiled the ‘Bhaktivedanta Book Trust House’ located between the Sri Sri Krishna Balarama Temple and Srila Prabhupada’s House. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) is the world's largest publisher of literature on Krishna consciousness and Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy

We would like to invite you to be part of an exciting brand new handicrafts project that is opening up at the goshala in the coming week or so - the opening of the farm shop. We want to make products directly from the Manor's land and the fantastic things it offers, so most of what we are selling will be Manor produce. I want to hear your wonderful ideas

When I was teaching in gurukulas, the students would occasionally find out that another child didn't like one sort of food or another and would tease them: “Eww—you don't like mangoes? That means you don't like Prabhupada and Krishna!” These eight- or nine-year-olds were probably joking, or half joking, to the extent that kids are capable. But when adults insist in the rudest language that other devotees who don't share their opinions on one detail or another regarding devotional practice or association are faithless, or even demons, they are not joking. And it's not funny

By now you must be familiar with the recent ruling by the City court in Tomsk, Siberia, in favor of ISKCON. Some ill informed elements have escalated this matter further to the upper Court and it is imperative that the authenticity of Bhagavad Gita As It Is, be established in Russia

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura also notes that the word druta-cittah or "with a melted heart," indicates that one's heart, melted by the fire of anxiety to see the Lord, becomes like Jambunadi, a river of roseapple juice. The acarya further points out, nama-kirtanasya sarvotkarsam: the present and previous verse clearly distinguish the exalted position of sravanam kirtanam visnoh [SB 7.5.23], chanting and hearing the name and glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead