Harinaam sankirtan at Gandhi Maidan, Gaya
ISKCON Gaya devotees performed a harinaam sankirtan at Magadh book fare, Gandhi Maida......

ISKCON Parsippany Temple, New Jersey (Album with photos)
A beautiful celebration was held at the site of our new upcoming ISKCON Parsippany Temple. The new 3.25 acre plot sits at the heart of Parsippany NJ (rated by Forbes this year as one of the top 5 best places to live in the US) and will be the new home of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai currently presiding at the Towaco temple. Dozens of enthusiastic devotees participated with great zeal and energetic kirtan.
The weather was amazing for this time of year and we feel very confident that this grand project ...

Christmas Eve Harinama at Surfers Paradise, Australia (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Nobody should think that “Now I have learned everything. I can surpass everyone. I have become above all rules and regulation. Now I have become paramahamsa.” This is rascaldom. Everyone should always think, “I am fool number one.” Therefore the endeavor will go on, to become perfect. If we think that “Now I have become perfect, paramahamsa,” then the spiritual regulative principles will never be followed, and you will fall do...

Kolkata TV Station hosts the devotees for a popular show (Album with photos)
We were shooting for a TV program in Kolkata yesterday. Wonderful devotees, awesome studio, great experience and opportunity to spread Krsna’s divine names through TV channel. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hare Krsna!
Find them here: https://goo.gl/h42aDx

UK marathon reaches 110,000 books distributed so far while 52,500 more books have been distributed in Hungary!
Initial count shows the Hungarian congregation and full-time distributors distributed around 52,500 books for the marathon.
Sutapa Das: The 200k effort ended yesterday. Today is the day of rest. We have now reached 110,000 registered books… but fear not, there are many scores still to come in.
Thank you to everyone. It is amazing… how these books travel to every corner of the country, touching people’s hearts and ch...

You are *hear*! (4 min video)
On the map that tracks your spiritual progress, there is a marker labeled: “You are hear.”
According to Jiva Goswami, our desire to hear about Krsna is exactly equal to our level of spiritual advancement.
The first Sunday in December Rama Raya Prabhu chanted Hare Krishna so exuberantly at the Union Square subway station that several people danced in a very lively way. December 4, 2016.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/3UoHA8

Harinam and book distribution @ Sindhu beach, Bali, 24.12.2016 (Album with photos)
Kavicandra Swami: Books are the best Christm......

Harinam Bliss, Hare Krishna Taipei, Taiwan, ISKCON (Album with photos)
Amazing eyes: A tender serious heart is reaching to Krishna closer and closer!
This little girl stared at our Harinama amazingly focused, incredibly sober and attentively listening to our singing Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra.
She was so incredibly focused that her eyes didn’t move at all.
I suddenly noticed her being firmly standing there, I went to pass the flyer to her father, telling him that we are singing (chanting) the Hare-Krishna Maha-Mantra. And he immediatel...

Official update about the mega-movie “Acharya”
Dec. 20, 2016
Dear Devotees and Friends,
Greetings and Hare Krishna!
Our team is in the final completion stage of the 90 minute documentary film Acharya on the life of Srila Prabhupada. By Krishna’s grace, we have the funds to finish the film. Thanks to those donors who came forward with their support and especially the anonymous donor who matched donations up to $60,000!
The big news is, we have a distributor who wants to represent our film for distribution in mov...

ISKCON Auckland NZ: Harinama Sankirtana (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: I am very glad to learn also that you are feeling joy while chanting the mantra Hare Krishna. Yes, it is exactly like this. If anyone chants this mantra in good faith and in simple understanding, then surely this transcendental vibration will act immediately in spiritual bliss. Please therefore continue to chant this mantra as many times as possible throughout the day and night. I do not think there is any inconvenience or loss on your part if you do so all the time. Even when...

Vrindavan 2016 (Album with photos)
Vedavyasapriya Swami: Day trip to Ter Kadamba, Nandagaon, the Bhajan Sthali of Srila Rupa Go......

TOVP: Flag test.
Sadbhuja Das: We are testing the light flag to see the effect. Because the Chakra will be coated by gold plating.
We want to see how it will work by the constant wind up there. And today’s test was very successful. Because there is no wind at the bottom (ground level), but on the top there is some wind affect. So this flag won’t affect the gold.

Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu Issue 390.
Srila Prabhupada’s Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru, 20 January 1952: In the old days, life was not so much conditional and encumbered. The simple problems were then the problems of bread, clothing and shelter, which were solved by the simplest process. By agriculture they used to solve the bread, clothing and shelter problems, and industrialization was unknown to them. Thus they had no idea of living in big palatial buildings at the cost of sacrificing the boon of humanity. They were satisfied to live in cotta...

Food for Life distribution in Tompkins Square Park, New York City (Album with photos)
“We are satisfied living in the forest of Vrindavan….” today’s Food for Life - Tompkins Square Park program with special guest help from family members visiting for the holidays and Bhakti Center devotees.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/0fxPKu

Congregational members in UK distribute almost 40.000 of Srila Prabhupada’s books for the marathon (Album with photos)
Sutapa Das: Planting the Seeds
“Don’t judge each day simply by the harvests that you reap, but also by the seeds that you plant”
Bhakti Vriksa Manor are going from strength to strength… they’re empowered gardeners in the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu! They have distributed nearly 40,000 books in this marathon so far, and still have some transcendental tricks lined up Reaching out on the...

The Best Exercise is Walking.
Lots of walking is good for your health.
Walk away from maya when she invites you to play wi......

Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s chief disciples, the Six Goswamis, set goals!
About this, Srinivasa Acarya writes:
Sankhya-purvaka-nama-gana-natibhih … “The Six Goswamis performed their daily sadhana in a scheduled manner, carefully counting their chanting, bowing down, and so on.”
Srila Prabhupada calls the Goswami’s measured approach: “Maintaining a numerical strength.”
Those who are serious about spiritual advancement may take advantage of this technique by setting daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals ...

Blissful Arabic book distribution in the subways of New York City! (Album with photos)
From the streets of London, to the beaches of California, to the subways of NYC – more specifically, throughout the USA, Canada, UK, eight countries in Europe, Australia, and even in India – book distributors worldwide are relishing the truly unique nectar of Arabic book distribution. They are directly tasting the very special mercy that Srila Prabhupada specifically declared just for Arabic book distribution, and once tasting it they don’t seem to ...