Celebrate Janmasthami & Vyasa Puja with Joy of Devotion Film Screening.
In honor of ISKCON’s 50thanniversary, two award-winning film were produced. While Yadubara Das’ film the Hare Krishna! presents Prabhupada’s extraordinary life, an ISKCON Communications Ministry documentary The Joy of Devotion directed by Krisztina Danka (Krishna Lila Dasi) of Karuna Productions picks up where the other film leaves off and captures Prabhupada’s worldwide impact, and gives an overview about what ISKCON is today, featuring dramatic, person...
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- 19 Aug 2018
“Live Consciously” retreat connects hearts and souls
Jayshree devi dasi: Last weekend (11 and 12 August 2018) around 80 devotees from Brisbane participated in a spiritual retreat facilitated by HG Chaitanya Charan das at Camp Warrawee. Located in beautiful natural bushland, on the North Pine river only 35 minutes from Brisbane Camp Warrawee served as a contemporary banyan tree in which devotees of all age groups, toddlers, teenagers and adults, took shelter to learn the art of applying scriptures in real life. An entire weekend was spent i...
- 19 Aug 2018
From a recent seminar on Kirtan Standards.
Bhaktimarga Swami: “I am going to Montreal on Monday, June 3rd, and if I find Montreal quite suitable, I shall call you and some other students to assemble there to practice Sankirtana in a systematic way. Of course, chanting Hare Krishna does not require any artificial artistic sense, but still, if the procedure is presented rhythmically, then the people may be attracted more by the transcendental music.” (Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Upendra, June 1, 1968)
- 18 Aug 2018
Devotees chant, bring the rain during a draught and the Mayor of Cincinnati gave the key to the city, the highest award the city gives out!
Candramauli Swami: In the U.S.A. there has been a 25% increase in suicides over the last 25 years.
- 18 Aug 2018
“Bhakta” Patrick (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: This is a guest who came to our festival yesterday. His name is Patrick. He came a little late and only caught one minute of my lecture from the stage. But somehow the philosophy of Bhavagad Gita had a profound effect on him. He immediately went to the book table and purchased 12 books. When I met him there I said, “You must be an avid reader!” He replied, “Actually, no. In my entire life I’ve only read 3 or 4 books. But what you shared with us from the stage real...
- 18 Aug 2018
TOVP columns of the Main Temple area (Album of photos)
Sadbhuja Das: We just completed redoing in 3D the columns of the Main T......
- 18 Aug 2018
The Bhadra scene in Toronto (Album of photos)
Team Toronto set a goal for 54 sets of which they’ve distributed 40 during the successful launch with HHGopal Krishna Goswami! Since then the teams been heading out door to door, and at festivals and through personal contacts - distributing more sets!
Find them here: https://is.gd/tlCHfT
- 18 Aug 2018
Srila Prabhupada: “I just want to go back to the spiritual world and eat kachoris and laddus with Krishna.”
Srutakirti Prabhu: Srila Prabhupada was not just performing wonderful activities, but he teaching us by his activities how to be a pure devotee of the Lord.
- 18 Aug 2018
Bhakti Rasamrita Maharaja + Harinama Ruci + London crowds = Bliss (3 min video)
If the surface of the globe is overflooded with the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra, the people of the world will be very, very happy. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.24.10 Purport)...
- 17 Aug 2018
Prabhupada, “It’s very easy to be critical, but to find the good is rare.”
Aniruddha: I had an ecstatic experience at the wonderful San Francisco Ratha-yatra, and I wrote Prabhupada a letter about what I felt.
Prabhupada answered, “The car festival was very simple. After all, it is a car with four wheels, but it attracted the people so enthusiastically because there was His Lordship, Jagannatha.
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- 17 Aug 2018
Srimati Radharani: a mirror which reflects the qualities of Krsna.
Kadamba Kanana Swami: I like the comparison, of the love of Srimati Radharani to a mirror which reflects the qualities of Krsna – as she discovers more and more qualities of Krsna, her love is just responding to those qualities. In this way, the love of Srimati Radharani is eternally growing. This explains the nature of love in the spiritual world and how one is increasing in one’s devotional service and one’s devotional experience eternally. Krsna becomes captured by...
- 17 Aug 2018
2 years old kirtaniya (3 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: In this age human beings only live for sixty or eighty years, and even t......
- 17 Aug 2018
The Art of Krishna Conscious Parenting (video)
By Aruddha devi dasi and Gopal Hari dasa, Aug 14, 2018 at ISKCON St. Louis....
- 17 Aug 2018
Ex Prime Minister’s Inaugural Speech.
Speech by Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Honorable Prime Minister of India, at the inauguration of the Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Temple and Glory of India Vedic Cultural Center. Rama Navami, April 5, 1998.
- 17 Aug 2018
Newbury Rathayatra, UK (Album of photos and videos)
Vishal Gauranga dasa: On the 11th of August we once again had our colorful 3rd Annual Jagannath Rathayatra in Newbury with great pomp and reverence. Deputy mayor of the town joyfully engaged in the inauguration ceremony with other senior delegates from ISKCON. People from all walks of life took part in this colorful festival. On a mild cloudy day the Rathyatra began at the marketplace famous in the UK for it’s corn exchange in yesteryears Food For All - our food distribution charity headed by...
- 17 Aug 2018
Bhaktivedanta Academy (Iskcon Alachua) Authorized by International Baccalaureate!
Dear Friends,
I am very happy to announce that Bhaktivedanta Academy is now an authorized International Baccalaureate World School for the Middle Years Programme!
This means that our Krishna Sharanam Middle Years Programme, serving 7th - 10th grades, is recognized as providing a holistic educational experience that emphasis connecting what a student learns with real-world experiences that emphasis being service-minded global citizens. We are now part of a selec...
- 16 Aug 2018
Why We Hear.
Sacinandana Swami: “There is no death” wrote Herman Hesse, “only fear of death. But that can be cured.”
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, King Pariksit who was cursed to die within seven days asked his exalted spiritual master Sukadeva Goswami about overcoming the fear of death. Sukadeva gave a very practical answer in which he explained how one can transcend material consciousness and become fixed in god consciousness.
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- 16 Aug 2018
Ratha Yatra Zagreb 2018 (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Instead of actively taking part in politics, saintly persons shoul......
- 16 Aug 2018
I would like to finish the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium along with the devotees, see the Navadvīpa parikrama expand, see the unification of the Caitanya disciplic succession, and see the distribution of your transcendental literature increase exponentially. ...
- 16 Aug 2018
How I Met the Cowherd Lord, Krishna.
Suraiya Ali: I grew up going to many types of religious houses, but I had never been to a temple sanctioned by ISKCON. I had met the cowherd Lord in books and in my relationships, but now I was going to His house, for the very first time. So we dressed up, as my best friend said that evening, “there is no such thing as being overdressed to the temple, as you’re dressing for the pleasure of Krishna.”
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- 16 Aug 2018
Death, a reminder of eternal life.
Caitanya Caran das: This ultimate defeat in the form of death is just not acceptable for ou......
- 16 Aug 2018
The Myth of Empirical Objectivity (video)
Sadaputa prabhu (Dr Thompson) discusses the faulty theories proposed by modern scient......
- 16 Aug 2018
Parasuram das: Everybody has heard how wonderful the New York Rathayatra Festival is, with the giant carts rolling down 5th Avenue, but what about the original York? Yesterday the ancient streets of York resounded with the transcendental vibrations of the Holy Name, the Maha Mantra. ...
- 15 Aug 2018
Relating to Srimad-Bhagavatam as a Person.
“O Srimad-Bhagavatam, O my only friend, O my companion, O my teacher, O my great wealth, O my deliverer, O my good fortune, O my bliss, I offer respectful obeisances unto You. O Srimad-Bhagavatam, O giver of saintliness to the unsaintly, O uplifter of the very fallen, please do not ever leave me. Please become manifested upon my heart and my throat, accompanied by pure love of Krishna.” 1
Krishna Premarupa Dasa: This prayer written by Srila Sanatana Goswami reveals the relationship of an advanc...
- 15 Aug 2018