One Vision Cafe - Grand Opening (Watford) (Album of photos)
We were at the Grand Opening of the new One Vision Cafe in Watford today. A new multi-faith community project that will serve FREE food (Prasadam) to anyone on Mondays, and ‘pay as you can’ for the rest of the week. A very strong new partnership between ISKCON (Food for All/Hare Krishna), the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Watford Council and other groups! Well done to Parasurama das (Peter O’Grady) for being such an inspiration behind this project.
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Kalash Yatra - Vrinda Kunda Festival (2019) (Album of photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: On 25 Feb, in honor of the 16th Anniversary of......

Sell in bunches like bananas! (Album of photos)
Today we set up a new record(for the next few weeks) for Harinama Ashram, distributing 11 sets of 7 maha books per day! Sapta rsi, Srila Prabhupada ‘s Lilamrita and CC sets were taken by random people in the subway today. We started doing these sets from December Prabhupada’s Marathon and till now it became so successful like never before.
There is a third law of book distribution which says “The more you show the more you sell. The more you show the more you sell!” And from...

International Gita Mahotsava, Mauritius (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: These four principles: Always think of Krishna, become Krishna’s devotee, worship Krishna and offer your respect, obeisances to Krishna. That’s all. This is Krishna consciousness. Hyderabad, November 17, 1972
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More Krishna conscious books for Iskcon in Pakistan (Album of photos)
ISKCON Pakistan is pleased to inform that BBT Pakistan has printed One New small Book “Civilization and Transcendence”. And reprinted Two small books of Srila Prabhupada, (1) The Nectar of Instruction, and (2) Beyond the Birth and Death at 18 February 2019 on Nityananda Triodasi Festival 2019.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is (pocket size Urdu Edition) 1st time in Pakistan also Printed in Pakistan on the day of Sri Krishna Pusya Abhiseka festival 2019.
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Vrindavan Temples Parikrama (20 Feb, 2019) (Album of photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: On 20th Feb, our parikrama visited temples in Vrindavan. We walked to the ISKCON Gaushala and continued on to Kaliya Ghat, New Madan Mohan, Sanatan Goswami’s Samadhi, Old Madan Mohan, Sanatan Goswami’s Bhajan Kutir, Advaita Vat, and Astha Sakhi Mandir.
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Relationship with Matter & Spirit (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Rasaraj Prabhu at Iskcon Chennai, Feb 23, 2019.
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A visit to all the places in Calcutta related to Srila Prabhupada and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur (Album of photos)
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A new bookstall with Srila Prabhupada’s books in Salem’s main railway station (Album of photos)
Iskcon Salem has inaugurated a new bookstall in Salem main railway station. Maybe first in India. Devotees struggled three years to get the permission. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and vaishnavas.
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Adding Unicode Support to the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase.
Now, text you copy and paste text from the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase® can come out right — diacritics and all — for anyone you share it with. A simple, free plugin for the desktop VedaBase program makes your text come out in Unicode. That means you can paste your text in an email, on Facebook, or wherever and the diacritic marks will come out right: Kṛṣṇa, not Kåñëa.
The update comes in the form of a small file (a “plugin”) you can ...

Life of the devotee - Baladeva Das (26 min. video)
Srila Prabhupada: It is essential that one constantly associate with pure d......

Radha Kunda Parikrama (23 Feb, 2019) (Album of photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: By the mercy of Srimati Radharani, we entered Her Holy Dhama of Radha Kunda, the most sacred place of the universe. Not only did we offer our prayers and obeisances at Sri Radha Kunda and Sri Shyama Kunda, but we visited many sacred places around the banks, such as Sri Raghunatha Das Goswami’s Samadhi, Bhajan Kutir and Sri Krishna Das Kaviraja Goswami’s Bhajan Kutir where Sri Caitanya-Caritamrita was written. We were delighted to find renovation in full swing at Raghu...

Saturday procession at Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir and the Temple of the Temple of Vedic Planetarium (Album of photos and videos)...

Glories of Vedic Culture and Krishna Consciousness Movement (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam Class 11.17.22 by Navayogendra Swami Mah......

Preaching program in Istanbul, Turkey (Album of photos)
70 guests attended the Nityananda Trayodasi festival.
Srila Prabhupada: In the Adi Purana Krishna tells Arjuna: “Anyone who is engaged in chanting My transcendental name must be considered to be always associating with Me. And I may tell you frankly that for such a devotee I become easily purchased.” (Nectar of Devotion, 12)
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50 Years of Hare Krishna’s in the UK: Feature article in the latest edition of Back to Godhead (BTG) magazine

ALL-INDIA PADAYATRA ARRIVES IN BHANDARA DISTRICT
February 14, 2019
We had a great time in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. Wherever we went, we received grand welcomes with flowers and garlands. In fact, because we had never seen so many garlands in any welcome ceremony, at the end of our stay we felt as if we were leaving Mayapur dhama.

ISKCON Nepal: A Life Transformational and Motivational Seminar - Birgunj Live 2 (A journey towards self-discovering & developing) program was organized by Rel-Event Management Pvt. Ltd. on 16th February 2019 at Jain Terapanth Bhawan Birgunj.
Mr. Rupesh Joshi (Rupesvara Gaura Das), Ms. Nikita Chandak (Miss Nepal 2017), and Mr. Shaurab Lohani were the speakers motivating about 400 audience of Birgunj in the event.
We would like to congratulate Mr. Baliram Yadhav and team for the success of this event.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Anand Kesari on the beautiful mural just completed for his medical practice Gastro-Colon Clinic and Endoscopy Center in Ocala, Florida. Dr. Anand wanted to beautify the lobby in his waiting room, and when he saw the sign “Muralist” on the car in front of him, he had an idea. He called the artist, showed her the space, and gave her a picture to copy from. From that she created this 30’ x 12’ full-color mural. How lovely for his patients to gaze on Krishna’s form to calm their nerves as they wait for their...

Ratha Yatra 2019 at the St Kilda Festival, Melbourne (video)
The Festival of the Chariots, (Ratha-yatra), with Harinama Ruci H......

TOVP – Together Offer Victory to Prabhupada!
In addressing history itself, the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium stands to be one of the most important and iconic monuments to Gaudiya Vaisnavism and the mission of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. And in further consideration of the rarity of Mahaprabhu’s appearance to spread the Yuga Dharma, and the even rarer manifestation of His opening the flood gates of Krishna-prema to all souls, the TOVP embodies an opportunity over the next 10,000 years (literally a fraction in universal time) for all fortun...

Nityananda Trayodashi Celebration in ISKCON Kolkata and Adhivas Kirtan in Seal Mansion, Kolkata (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The devotee’s life’s mission is to please Krishna, and he can sacrifice everything for Krishna’s satisfaction, just as Arjuna did in the Battle of Kuruksetra. The process is very simple: one can devote himself in his occupation and engage at the same time in chanting Hare Krishna. Such transcendental chanting attracts the devotee to the Personality of Godhead. (Bhagavad-gita 12.6-7 Purport)
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Jaya and Vijaya Coming to the TOVP (Album of photos)
Our murti department is making much progress on the various deities being sculpted for the TOVP.
Sadbhuja Das: These pictures are just an upgrade of the beautiful work of the Bengali artist sculpturing Jay&Vijay.
It’s amazing the dimensions and the great skills that the local artists are able to display. They are masters when it comes to murtis.
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