By Muralidhara-priya DasRajan Jani prabhu, an ISKCON devotee from Kenya Africa, donates for a Golden Gratitude Coin ($108,000 U.S.) and promises another $400,000 before the finish of the project. He has been a great supporter of many ISKCON projects and now feels the ISKCON Mayapur temple is a crown that will decorate the body of ISKCON for the coming years. His message to the world is everyone should feel blessed to participate in building this temple. He has also encouraged his son to donate a large amount of m...
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- 5 Mar 2015
By Sunanda dasRecently an announcement by Pragosha das, the new GBC Chairman, celebrating 2015, the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's arrival in the Western world, as The Year of the TOVP was posted. A list of suggestions as to how to actively facilitate this concept by all ISKCON Temples and devotees is forthcoming, but the first is easily implementable immediately: a TOVP altar photo. Please copy and print this beautiful drawing of the TOVP for your Temple and/or home altars.
...- 27 Feb 2015
By Sridama DasSrila Prabhupada: "My idea is to attract people of the whole world to Mayapur". 2015 will be the official year of the TOVP whose purpose is to fulfill this desire of Srila Prabhupada. Watch this new video about the Temple of Vedic Planetarium in High Definition with the messages of GBC Chairman Praghosa prabhu and of TOVP Chairman Ambarisha prabhu.
...- 19 Feb 2015
By TOVPThe design of the TOVP is such that it will have three domes; one main dome in the center, flanked by two smaller domes on either side. The main dome is 58 meters (198 feet) in height and the two side domes are 30 meters (98 feet) and will be taller than Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi.
...- 24 Jan 2015
By Darpa-ha Krishna dasExcerpts from "Srila Prabhupada – The Founder-Acarya of ISKCON" by His Grace Ravindra Svarupa Das. "On a cosmological scale, it maps, models, and illustrates the realized truth of acintyabhedabheda-tattva: that nothing is different from Krsna, yet Krsna is different from everything. Within the main dome of the temple we see the cosmos displayed as it discloses itself to those who experience it with unoccluded perception: as pervaded by and connected to Krsna as the Lord’s own potencies...
- 21 Jan 2015
By Muralidhara-priya DasHere’s a temporary mock-up showing how the Deities and Altars will appear at the TOVP. As can be seen from the photographs, the Guru-Paramapara up to the six Gosvamis are placed on the left Altar, the Panca-tattva are on the middle Altar, and Sri Sri Radha Madhava and the Asta-sakhis are on the right Altar. All of these Deities are located within the main dome. Lord Nrsimhadeva is located in the eastern dome of the temple, and an image of His Altar is also provided.
...- 19 Jan 2015
By Sridama dasaThe Temple of Vedic Planetarium Exhibits Creative Department invites all qualified Graphic Designers as well as any seasoned Creative Professionals, to participate in a “one in a many lifetimes opportunity", to become the visionary responsible for the creation and execution of the Logo for our TOVP Exhibits department.
...- 9 Jan 2015
By Muralidhara-priya DasThe TOVP Fundraising Team announces yet another opportunity to help build the Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir: The Radha Madhava Brick. Sri Sri Radha Madhava and the Ashta Sakhis have been in their current “temporary” building since 1972, waiting now for 42 years for Their new temple to be built. With the progress of the TOVP steadily moving along Their new home and altar will be ready for Them by 2022.
...- 3 Jan 2015
By Ambarisa dasConstruction continued to outpace expectations, buoyed by a robust fundraising campaign. The construction of the main dome is nearing completion, and the auxiliary domes are now being constructed. The project has entered a new phase of construction beginning a new contract for laying the brick walls. The brickwork reveals a new dimension of progress as the construction site becomes gradually transformed into a recognizable and massive temple.
...- 3 Jan 2015
By Ajita Nimai DasaSrila Prabhupada writes in his purport that this knowledge has been extant in human society for at least two million years. The sacred system of parampara (disciplic succession) keeps the knowledge flowing from one generation to the next. But this current of spirituality must not be taken for granted. Its carriers at any time in history are always up against the opposing undercurrent of materialism that characterizes the material world. Time and again this untiring, sinister current sidelines the spiritual current and becomes prominent in ...
- 8 Dec 2014
By Muralidhara-priya DasJust as Srila Prabhupada had folded his hands with tears in his eyes and thanked his disciples in Mayapur for helping build the Mayapur Chandradoya Mandir, Sriman Ambarish Das and his wife Swaha Mataji this kartik month toured Vrindavan, Dubai, Bahrain and other Middle Eastern countries to raise awareness about the TOVP temple. Their humble and sincere appeal to the Hare Krishna congregation raised over 3 million dollars in pledges.
...- 4 Dec 2014
By Radha Jivan DasAn initiated devotee of ISKCON, who wishes to remain anonymous, approached his Guru Maharaj, His Holiness Devamrita Swami, that he wished to donate 1 million dollars to some project in ISKCON. Devamrita Swami maharaj immediately motivated his disciple to donate this money to the TOVP project, which is at the present the most important project of ISKCON, building the headquarters that Srila Prabhupada had been wanting for so long. When asked, Maharaj explained that he has many projects where he requires money, and he could have directed his...
- 26 Nov 2014
By Muralidhara-priya Das2016 marks the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration of ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada’s great movement to spread Krishna consciousness throughout the world and bring the teachings of Lord Caitanya and the yuga dharma, chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra, to all the conditioned souls on this planet (and perhaps beyond). We are extremely fortunate to be living at this most auspicious time in the history of this universe when the Lord appears on Earth to freely distribute love of God, the ultimate attainment in the soul’s spiritual journey, p...
- 20 Nov 2014
By Nitya-priya Devi DasiSrila Prabhupada envisioned a grand display of devotional service and Vedic science to attract the whole world to the Krsna Consciousness movement. While in Mayapur for the annual Gaura Purnima festival in 1976, he stated, “We shall show the Vedic conception of planetary system within this material world and above the material world. We are going to exhibit the Vedic culture throughout the whole world, and they'll come here.” In accordance with these stated desires, the planetary display for the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium has...
- 31 Oct 2014