San Diego Ratha Yatra 2017 (Album with 78 photos)
Lord Jagannatha at world’s largest Earth Day celebration; Balboa Park, April 23, 2017
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Blessed by Srila Rupa Goswami’s japa beads.
Nanda Kumara Das: one of my duties as Srila Prabhupada’s servant was to wash all His cloth, including His beadbag once a week… that required touching His beads to transfer them into a new beadbag, and every time, it felt like they were charged with spiritual electricity… one day I asked His Divine Grace if they were the same beads His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur had chanted on, and He said… “No, this is my second set… the original beads my G...

New Temple Project - Grand Opening & Deity Installation Ceremony.
You are invited to come and participate in Grand Opening of New Temple Project & Deity installation of Sri Sri Radha Madhavji at ISKCON Baltimore.
Friday 28th April 2017
Vastu Puja & Kirtan
Saturday 29th April 2017
Netraunmilan & Adhivas
Sunday 30th April 2017
Nyas Homa, Prana Pratishtha & Maha Abhishek
Ecstatic Kirtan Everyday | Cultural Program | Special Guests | Free Feast
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Newspaper article The India Times.
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A world beyond.
Vaisesika das: Human beings are naturally attracted to reading books, watching movies, and attending live dramas that transport them to other worlds. And in practically every society people use drugs to experience altered states of consciousness.
These tendencies indicate that the spirit soul desires to see and experience more than just the three-dimensional material world.
However, to know real freedom and satisfaction, one must transcend the body and mind and engage in service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. Che...

Five Nights of Wisdom.
The Pancharatra is a group of texts as old as the four Vedas and has the same transcendental origin. They were ancient even in the time of the Lord Krishna’s appearance in this world, and are mentioned in the Shanti-parva section of the Mahabharata.
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Preaching program in Germany (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: This is Indian attitude. They do not care for the modern, civilized way of life, wasting time reading some nonsense book or going to the bars, the cinema, talking unnecessarily. They do not like. Those who are old style, they do not. They have no time to waste time in that way. They must be inclined that “I must prepare something nice so that my husband, my children or my, all friends will be very pleased.” That is their policy. I wanted that all our girls, they should be ex...

How is Life Lived?
A small bird lay on the ground in front of me, without life. It was still and beautiful and empty. It returned me to a question I was reflecting on earlier - how is life lived?...

Even for Cutting a Mango, One Requires a Guru …
Giriraj Swami: Srila Prabhupada’s disciple Amogha came to India from Australia and did service in Juhu for some time. Later, he narrated one incident with Prabhupada that especially struck him:
“Prabhupada would go on the roof in the evening and give darshan. One evening I went up and there were five or ten devotees and a few Indian guests, including a famous movie star and his wife. Somebody brought mangoes for Prabhupada, and then at one point he told a devotee to cut a mango and...

“Unity in Diversity” lecture at the International Law Firm Norton Rose Fulbright, London (Album with photos)
On 20th March 2017, Radhanath Swami addressed a lunchtime crowd at Norton Rose Fulbright’s London office – a global firm that has over 3500 lawyers and legal staff across more than 50 cities in the world. Given Radhanath Swami’s unique life experiences, highlighted in his bestselling memoir, The Journey Home, the firm was curious to hear his thoughts on how to build a culture of collaboration, build genuine relations...

Harinam Eva Kevalam in Germany, Cologne (Album with photos)
Harinama sankirtana and book distribution are 2 sides of one arrow to hit the target of making people Krishna conscious. Srila Prabhupada had such an ambitious plan to change the world, because harer nam harer nama harer nama eva kevalam: “Harinama is the only way for spiritual perfection in this age.” This simple life is very conducive for spiritual advancement.
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23 April - WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has so far translated Bhagavad Gita As It Is into 58 languag......

Offering to Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaja on the occasion of His tirobhava (Album with photos)
Jayapataka Swami: My dea......

Harinama under police surveillance in Russia (Album with photos) Find them here: https://goo.gl/Yu4KXF
And a Russian Court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses As Extremist (To read the entire article click here: https://goo.gl/Yq6xl8) They must disband and hand over all property to the state.

Rathayatra festival at Ahmedabad (Album with photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: At the beginning of the month, we went to Ahmedabad, for......

Initiation ceremony at the Hare Krishna temple in Auckland (Album with photos)
6 Devotees took initiation today, 23rd April 201......

Harinam in Northampton, UK - 22nd April 2017 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Nityananda Prabhu approached Jagai and Madhai at the risk of being personally injured and still He definitely delivered them. The world is full of Jagais and Madhais; namely drunkards, women-hunters, meat eaters and gamblers, and we will have to approach them at the risk of insult, injury and similar other rewards. To face such reverse conditions of life and to suffer thereby the results of actions is considered as the greatest penance and austerity in the matter of spir...

Avanti Court School officially opens in Redbridge, UK.
The official opening of Avanti Court Primary School in Redbridge was mar......

ISKCON Auckland NZ: Harinam (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Dancing is very good. The more you dance, the more you become light; means the burden of material contamination becomes reduced. Dancing is so nice. Even if you don’t feel ecstasy, if you dance by force, that will also help us. Krsnot-kirtana-gana-nartanau-parau premamrtambho-nidhi. By dancing, dancing, we shall develop our dormant Krsna consciousness, love for Krsna. This is a nice process. Krsnot-kirtana-gana-nartana-parau premamrtambho-nidhi. Then you will merge into the ocean ...

Nikhil and Nikhil’s sister get the mercy.
Shastrakrit Das: I was at my book table. This Indian lady walked by my book table along with her teenage son. I called them over to give them some prasadam. I gave them a spoon of Maha halava each. The mother’s response was “oh we have all these books” but her teenage son was attracted to HH Devamrita Swami’s book “Hiding in unnatural happiness”.
So his mother bought it for him, her son, named Nikhil.
A couple of weeks later this teenage boy walked up to my book ...

Gopal Krishna Maharaj giving the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, a beautiful deluxe TOVP picture book.