MotelGita Team joins AAHOA 2019 Trade Show! (Album of photos)
MotelGita participates at the Annual AAHOA Convention in San Diego, CA

Celebration of the Holy Names (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: The second day of our visit to Ekaterinburg, Russia was spe......

Krishna conscious paintings by Chaitanya Chandra Carana Prabhu (Iskcon GBC and guru in Russia) (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhup......

Back In The Motherland (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Our first stop on this year’s Russian tour is Ekaterinburg, a city with a population of 2 million people. Devotees have come from other cities as well - some from as far as Kazakhstan a two-day train ride away. Everyone is eager for kirtan, Krsna katha and prasadam. We hope not to disappoint them!
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JAX Beach Parade 2019 - Festival of Chariots (Album of photos)
At Jacksonville Beach Parade, over 70 Alachua youth came together, dressed in all the brightest festive colors. Taking to the streets, everyone danced and chanted while interacting with the crowd and bringing smiles to thousands of faces. They distributed over 4,000 lollipops to excited children along the way. The Ratha Yatra cart trailed behind, spreading the Holy Name of ‘Hare Krishna’ to an estimated 30,000 attendees. The two-mile stretch in the city of Jacksonville is only ...

Ox Training Seminar, New Vraja Dhama, Hungary (10 min. video)
What is the role of the ox in cow protection? Attendees of the Ox Training Seminar in Vraja Dhama Hungary learned about training oxen and their valuable role in sustainable agriculture.

Preaching in South Korea (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: When a Vaisnava sees mismanagement in the government, he feels gr......

A visit to the beautiful Iskcon temple of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Caitanya Mahaprabhu says: “I have brought medicine to awaken very living being from perpetual sleep. Please receive the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, and awaken. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 5.13.9 Purport)
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Mayapur faces severe tropical cyclone threat, prayers required.
Fani to be second severe April cyclone to make landfall in India in 118 years.
Cyclone Fani is only the second severe cyclone in the last 118 years to form in the Bay of Bengal (BOB) in the month of April and cross over to the Indian mainland, according to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD). “The last severe cyclone, Nargis, devastated Myanmar in 2008,” said M Rajeevan, secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences on Twitter.
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Varuthini Ekadasi - Tulasi Jala Dan.
The Glories of Varuthini Ekadasi: Sri Yudhisthira Maharaj said, “Oh Vasudeva, I offer my most humble obeisances unto You. Please now describe to me the Ekadasi of the dark fortnight (krsna paksha) of the month of Vaisakha (April-May), including its specific merits and influence.”

Madhavas Rock Band at St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne Highlight (5 min. video)
Live sound: Krsnamrta Prabhu and Liam and Alex fr......

Harinama in Argentina (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord K......

Devotee Engagement Celebration (Album of photos)
Ramai Swami: Vedavyasapriya Maharaja and I were invited to Gokule and Natasha’s engagement celebration at Southport, Queensland. They are both from devotee families, one side from Fiji and the other side from India.
I have known them both since they were young children in school and watched them grow into wonderful devotee adults. Even from a young age, they participated in performing lila dramas, dance and leading kirtan.
The evening went well with everyone giving their blessing and best w...

Blissfull Festival at Rasamrita Kunj, Mayapur (6 min. video)
Srila Prabhupada: This chanting of Hare Krishna is welfare work f......

JAGANNATH RATH YATRA Trivandrum (Album of photos)
Sri Radha Nila Madhava Satsang
ISKCON - Trivandrum
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New Gokula, another amazing and beautiful Iskcon farm in Australia, just two hours away from Sydney (Album of photos)
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Evening Hall Program at Kolkata, India (Album of photos)
His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaja delivered a lecture with necta......

Kirtan London.
Kirtan London, a volunteer outreach project supported by Bhaktivedanta Manor and ISKCON-London, hosted their first six-hour kirtan of the year. Following the success over New Year’s Eve, the recent event was hosted in collaboration with the yoga studio, Tripspace, in Haggerston and Humble Warrior’s Charlie, a popular Jivamukti yoga teacher. Charlie led yoga for the first hour of the event, infusing it with devotional wisdom and kirtan. 34 guests attended the yoga and a total of 110 guests attended kirtan. They hope to see gue...

Sri Krishna Haveli progress, April 2019 (1 min. video)
Construction of the Shree Krishna Haveli is progressing steadily, and though the project is slightly behind schedule, the construction company, Vascroft, have re-assured us that the handover of the building will take place in August this year, just in time for the Janmashtami
festival.
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Arjun Singh.
In 1989, I had just returned to Canada from a six-year term in New Delhi, serving there as the temple president. I would walk the halls of McGill University and distribute books to students. One Indian student named Arjun Singh was quite intrigued by my activities and eventually got a book from me.