By Parijata Devi Dasi

On the occasion of Women’s Day on 8 March 2013, the Commissioner of Police, Mumbai and all ranks invited ladies from ISKCON Mumbai to participate in an awareness program to enhance the safety of women in Mumbai as representatives of Vedic culture

By Radha Govinda Swami

Caitanya Mahaprabhu preached Krishna consciousness and big big scholars accepted. It is very hard for common man to understand Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Because He is covered avatara, ‘channa’ avatara. But by the help of this description we can understand Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krishna Himself

By Anuttama Dasa

This GBC Statement on Prabhupada’s Preeminent Position is part of an ongoing effort to better educate ISKCON devotees about Srila Prabhupada’s unique stature and contributions

By the GBC Community Relations Office

Senior Srila Prabhupada disciple and longtime initiating guru HG Bhurijana Dasa shares Srila Prabhupada’s pastime and his thoughts about the SGGS 2013

By Nartaka Dasi

Our godbrother and great Vaishnava sankirtan devotee, Siddha Vidya das, left his body Monday, March 11, 4:58 PM, in Miami, Florida, in the presence of many devotees and well wishers, among those included were his godbrothers Dharma Prabhu, Visal Prabhu, Jayadhvaja Prabhu and god nephews and nieces

By Badrinarayan Das

Why, someone please explain to me the arrogance of the modern materialist, why everything is subordinate to my perception. If I can’t see it, if I can’t smell it, if I can’t chop it into tiny pieces, if I cannot control and manipulate it, then it doesn’t exist. Why? Please tell me why there can’t be higher beings

By Bhanu Swami

So our acaryas of course have said that though the 10th canto is actually the essence of the Bhagavatam, it’s about Krsna directly, and His pastimes and His qualities and therefore it’s ultimately the most attractive thing, still we cannot reject the subject matter of the other cantos

By the GBC Community Relations Office

Badrinarayana Prabhu gave the second presentation of the day addressing the paper produced by the GBC’s Lines of Authority committee. The paper addresses issues of multiple lines of authority existing in ISKCON, specifically the line between guru and disciple and the line between devotees and their local managing authorities

By Chaitanya Charan das

When I took darshan of the Deities, I offered my gratitude and my apology to Radha Vrindavanchandra. Gratitude because they had manifested themselves along with such a splendid temple. And apology because I had done nothing to help in the manifestation of the temple

By the GBC Community Relations Office

ISKCON GBC member HG Anuttama Dasa speaks on what the Sanga for GBCs, Gurus and Sannyasis (SGGS) was about

By Radhanath Swami

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu told that one cannot understand the truth or the essence of the religious principles by all sorts of argumentations and discussions, even by extensive study of the Vedas or any other means, except to follow in the footsteps on the progressive path of the great souls

By Bhurijana Das

I only desire that you all continue singing the deeds of Lord Visnu let my consciousness be absorbed in Krsna, and if you will do that, if you will pour the nectar of Krsna katha in my ears the externals of what is going on, whether it be a snake bird or whatever, I don’t care

By Bhakti Charu Swami

Today we are going to discuss about a person Bhagavata HDG Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur. Today is his divine appearance day that’s why we have selected a special verse to discuss about

By Giriraj Swami

Yesterday at 7:45 p.m. Rupa Sanatana dasa, a disciple of Romapada Swami and a former temple president of ISKCON St. Louis, left his body at Bhaktivedanta Hospice in Vrindavan, surrounded by devotees chanting Lord Krishna’s holy names

By Vaisesika Das

And because you are submissive, your spiritual masters have endowed you with all the favors bestowed upon a gentle disciple. Therefore you can tell us all that you have scientifically learned from them

By Mayapur Sasi dasa

For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada this page contains the following results for the month of January 2013

By Sacinandana Swami

When one is strongly fixed in devotional service and free from all material attachment, uncontaminated by the material modes of nature, he becomes fit to return home, back to Godhead

By Hindustan Times Correspondent

The decision came after a series of meetings over the last three days after Yamuna campaigners, mostly from the Braj area, kept on harping for release of more water for a cleaner Yamuna

By Kadamba Kanana Swami

This temple of the Vedic Planetarium it is not a planetarium, its not a planetarium, it is the fifth canto, its the Bhagavatam, it’s the Bhagavatam. It is actually, its not about the planetarium, its about the Bhagavatam. It is the temple which makes the Bhagavatam.

By Hari Kumar

Tens of thousands of villagers are marching toward Delhi to pressure the central government to save the Yamuna River, in one of the biggest protests against river pollution in India

By Lokanath Swami

So even 5000 years ago and in fact history goes way back when this Sivaratri festival celebrations started

By Sakshi Gopal das

In a laudable effort to get ‘back to basics’ there may well be some among the international devotee community who now view any public appreciation of George Harrison as a deviation from the main thrust of Srila Prabhupada’s mission

By Gautam Saha

Post independence, India has come a long way in raising the standard of all backward classes of people in society by abolishing the caste system and by trying to implement the rights and privileges listed in the Constitution

By Ravi Monga

The organizers wholeheartedly invite everyone to take part in this historical event

By Dusyanta Dasa

The mode of goodness is the key stepping stone to the transcendental world. Unless the devotee has entered into the mode of goodness there is no chance of controlling the mind and senses, which means no advancement can be made

By the GBC Community Relations Office

Anuttama Prabhu presented on behalf of the second group discussing “Becoming a Guru in ISKCON.” In summary, the group suggested that the GBC’s involvement in endorsing initiating gurus be eliminated and instead, endorsement be limited to a local ten-person review committee for candidate gurus

By Bhaktivaibhava Swami

In Srila Prabhupada’s teachings, just like in this verse and specifically Srila Prabhupada’s purport again the importance is being emphasized ‘to cooperate’ but we have to do it! We have to learn how to do it. And it is so exciting that I think it is for the first time in history of ISKCON that leading senior members of this movement, GBC members, gurus, sannyasis, senior devotees they all came together

By Nartaka Gopala dasi

When they read the results for the Christmas, 2012 book distribution at Alachua temple, and I heard that Nandini Kishori devi distributed 750 Maha Big Bhagavad-gitas I was astounded

By Kalakantha Dasa

One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod

By Bhakti Caitanya Swami

We see here, as we said this is all the context of ultimately of strategic planning really, and the strategic planning endeavor of the GBC body, that we want to develop the Krishna consciousness movement in more strategic, systematic and intelligent Krishna conscious ways so that everything increases very positively including the preaching as such

By the GBC Community Relations Office

Material nature means dissension and disagreement, especially in this Kali-yuga. But, for this Krsna consciousness movement its success will depend on agreement, even though there are varieties of engagements

By Romapada Das

Please find enclosed some copies of news reports published so far in English

By the GBC Community Relations Office

HH Bhaktivinoda Swami sharing his thoughts during the SGGS 2013 in Mayapur, India

By Bhusaya dasa

After spending three days in jail with Siddha Vidya prabhu, he shaved me up and I moved into the small Houston Temple of 6 devotees with him. We had been thrown in jail when Guru Maharaji (boy Mayavadi guru) pressed “disturbing the peace” charges against the devotees

By Amala Caitanya das

Bhaktisiddhanta prabhu gave our art students and art teacher a deeper understanding of methods and how to apply important theoretical aspects of such a vast subject

By Akruranatha Dasa

From time to time we hear that a certain devotee is “mature”. We know it is a positive thing, but what does it really mean? How can we become the kind of devotee that others will call “mature”? What is the evidence regarding “maturity” in our revealed scriptures?

By the GBC

As the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and the preeminent teacher and ultimate authority within our society, Srila Prabhupada has a unique relationship with every ISKCON devotee

By Damodara Pandit das

Would you like to perform during the Mayapur Gaura-Purnima Festival? Now is the time to contact us

By Madhavendu das

The tour commenced by seeking blessings as well as shelter of Haridas Thakur Patbari at Benapole, just after crossing the India -Bangladesh border by road, which is the most sacred spot where Haridas Thakur delivered the prostitute Lakha Heera devi

By Lakshman das

The State of Gujarat was mesmerized by the blessings of HH Indradyumna Swami and group, in form of Krishna Fest - Festival based on Vedic Culture, held all over Gujarat from January 12th to February 5th, 2013

By Prahladananda Swami

One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, one should not become a guru, one should not become a husband, one should not become a worshipable demigod and one should not become a father and mother unless one is prepared to deliver one’s disciples or followers from the path of repeated birth and death

By the GBC Community Relations Office

HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami speaks on the 2013 Sanga for GBC’s, Gurus, and Sannyasis (SGGS) at Sridhama Mayapur

By the GBC Community Relations Office

The majority of the day was spent reviewing submitted proposals and casting straw votes. Several weeks before the GBC AGM begins, GBC Deputies organize and review all proposals sent to the GBC by ISKCON members

By Nartaka Gopala dasi

The devotees at ISKCON Miami would like to ask everyone to please say a prayer for the health of Siddha Vidya Prabhu. He is currently in very grave health at Baptist Hospital Intensive Care Unit in Miami, Florida. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease about 5 or 6 years ago, and has been taking both Alopathic and Ayurvedic medicine for that

By the GBC Community Relations Office

The second day of the Sanga for GBCs, Gurus, and Sannyasis (SGGS) in Sridham Mayapur began on February 27 with Laxmimoni Prabhu reading of a collection of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions on the importance of cooperation to successfully spread Krishna consciousness all over the world

By Sri Krishna Purusottama das

The Monthly Sankirtana Festival of Heart to Heart connections was officially conducted during the second weekend of February, was concluded today on the Nityananda Trayodashi

By Premanjana Das

If you sit down and write some article on Krsna, that means you have to concentrate on Krsna’s activities or Krsna’s devotees’ activities, and that very process will purify your heart. Therefore we always recommend to our students that you write articles, read our magazine, read our book

By Madayanti Dasi

Srila Prabhupada says Bathe in the Yamuna, chant the Hare Krishna mantra and then become perfect and return back to Godhead