Ratha Yatra in Lima, Peru (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Always think of Me and become My devotee”–should be taken as the final order of the Lord and should be followed. TLC 11: Service to the Lord
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Kartik Navadvip Mandal Parikrama 2016 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Vedic civilization is very strict. Because the whole aim was how to go back to home, back to Godhead, not sense gratification, eat, drink, be merry, enjoy. That is not the aim of human life. So everything was planned with that aim. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.3 – London, August 4, 1973
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ISKCON Moscow Lights Up Devotees’ Hearts at Diwali (Album with photos)
One thousand Russian devotees, friends of Krishna and Indian community members gathered to celebrate Diwali in spectacular style in Moscow on Saturday, October 29th. The crowd packed out a rented auditorium in ISKCON Moscow’s Kuusinena Street building, just ten minutes’ drive from the Kremlin. ...

Radharani’s Palace (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Varsana and the hills surrounding the home of Srimati Radharani are most dear to devotees of the Lord. Our parikrama party spent an entire day exploring that transcendental abode.
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Radha Kunda Seva: October 2016 Photos and Updates (Album with photos)
We pray that this update finds you all experiencing a very propitious and auspicious Kartika, dear friends. We began the month of October with a painting marathon in anticipation of the *millions* of pilgrims who would soon be inundating Radha Kunda to honor Srimati Radharani’s special Kartika month also known as the month of Damodara. As we hoped, construction on the kitchen has begun! Despite half the building crew coming down with chikungunya (similar to dengue fever only wo...

Archives of historic Leicestershire architect Joseph Goddard to be gifted to ISKCON.
Goddard family to present archives of Leicestershire architect Joseph Goddard to ISKCON...

Kamyavan Karttika 2016 (Album with photos)
Deena Bandhu Das: On the 29th, we visited the western petal of Braja, Kamyavan, where all our spiritual desires are fulfilled! We first saw Phisilini Shila, Krishna and Balaram’s slide. Then we visited Vyomasura’s Gupha, Cave, where Vyomasura hid all the cowherd boys! Paying our respects to Lord Balaram’s Footprint, we walked to Bhojan Sthali, where Krishna and the cowherd boys took their lunch and the rocks made thalis and katoras for them to eat. After visiting Vimal Kunda, we completed our...

BBT Far East / Middle East (Album with photos)
Latest blissful photos of Arabic book distribution to university students from Saudi Arabia. Two of them insisted on also getting the English Gita – to learn English from something they suddenly find captivating – after being amazed to receive books in their own language!
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Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books (Album with photos)
Mohanasini Devi Dasi (ACBSP): Ok, I admit it…. I’m hooked! Nothing gives me more pleasure, more satisfaction, more happiness, etc. than distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books! I meet fortunate souls every day who are eager to learn about this transcendental knowledge and I am so grateful to be an instrument in their spiritual journey! For a real treat….click on the pics to see what they think!
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Rod Smith’s visit to New Raman Reti (Album with photos)
Krsna Katha Dasi: Rod Smith, running for State Senate here in Florida, came to the New Raman Reti temple yesterday for the first time. These photos are of a discussion with concerned parents and teachers regarding continuation of Step Up scholarships for the families whose children attend the Bhaktivedanta Academy....

Gopastami celebration at ISKCON Ujjain (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Krsna says in the fourteenth verse, Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita: “It is very difficult to surmount the problems offered by the laws of material nature, but one who surrenders unto Me, he overcomes.” Therefore we are teaching this Krsna consciousness to solve the problems of life. It is not sentiment or fanaticism or any sectarian religion. It is a fact that if you want to solve the problems of life, you have to become Krsna conscious. There is no other alternat...

Initiation of new disciples in Vrindavana (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In order to change this materialistic society and prevent them from gliding to hell, first thing is to educate them. All decent men want to give service to humanity, only thing is they do not have information really what is that service. Hospitals, feeding the poor, Red Cross, these are service to the bodies only, not to the man. Service to humanity means jnana. By giving people knowledge, jnana, that is the highest service to humanity. So we are performing the actual welfar...

Election Day Blues and the Leadership Vacuum by Sankirtana Das

Pontifical Council For Interreligious Dialogue.
Message To Hindus For The Feast Of Deepavali 2016
On behalf of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, we offer our best wishes as you celebrate Deepavali on 30 October 2016. May your celebrations around the world deepen your familial bonds, and bring joy and peace to your homes and communities. ...

Govardhan puja festival just for children in Iskcon Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia 11/06/16 (Album with photos)

Moments of bhakti and momentum in bhakti – Weekday bhakti and weekend bhakti.
Chaitanya Charan Das: Each Sunday feast program would have on an average an audience of several hundred with the number ranging from hundred to four hundred.
Typically, the audience comprised both Indians and Westerners of various levels of spiritual understanding and seriousness. The challenge would be to connect with all of them and give everyone something that they could carry home. This challenge is like that of a teacher, who usually teaches students at a parti...

Saubhari Muni’s Asrama (Album with photos)
Indradyumna Swami: The other day our parikrama party visited the ancient asrama of Saubhari Muni in a small village on the banks of the Yamuna River. Bada Haridas prabhu gave an enlightening talk and Madhava prabhu melted our hearts with his bhajan. Once again, Ananta Vrindavan das captured the special day in photos.
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Devotees bring a Jaladuta boat model with them in a Saturday evening Harinama in London (slide show with musical background)
The London Saturday Night Harinama Sankirtan Party’s ranks also were boosted this weekend as many Srila Prabhupada disciples came along to celebrate Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day, which had fallen earlier in the week....

Govardhana Puja celebration in Iskcon New Govardhana, Australia (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Don’t try to see Krsna. You cannot see Krsna with your material eyes. Neither you can hear about Him with your material ears. Neither you can touch. But if you engage your tongue in the service of the Lord, then He’ll reveal Himself to you: “Here I am.” That is wanted. So feel separation of Krsna just like Radharani, as Lord Caitanya teaches us, and engage your tongue in the service of the Lord; then, one day, when you are mature...

Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance day observed in Vrindavana’s Iskcon Krishna Balaram Mandir.
Many disciples of His Divine Grace attended and each one of them offered his homage and realizations for the glorification of Srila Prabhupada. Many concluded that although Srila Prabhupada was no longer physically present on the earth he is still very much present in this world in the form of his books and his instructions given to his followers.
Many programs were held at the Krishna Balaram temple in his honor like an Abhisek, performed to hi...

The beautiful Iskcon Farm Simhacalam in Germany (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: …article on the subject of “Krsna, the supreme scientist,” and let us publish it. That article is very nice. If he writes such articles, the conclusion, if Krsna, the supreme scientist, Krsna, the supreme economist, Krsna, the supreme philosopher, Krsna, the supreme chemist, Krsna -everything, the conclusion is Supreme, Krsna – then his activity is fulfilled. He becomes successful. The conclusion should be Krsna. That’s it. Whatever he ma...

The Purifying Waters of Door-To-Door Book Distribution.
After our taking a swim in the river along the gorge between Otaki and Napier in NZ, Ameyatma bathed me in the purifying waters of his door-to-door book distribution mission just before the sun went down. We knocked on about twenty doors and took turns doing the presentation of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
It is a bit inconceivable how sweet and gracious the people of Napier were. One lady, whose name is Storm, raced to beat us to the door and had it open before we got there. She was eager ...

Interrupt Anxiety with Gratitude.
As we were driving through West Bengal, I spotted a newly built house, with two words painted in large black letters across the entry portico – God Gift (written as spelled :). I imagined how every day the family would get this message as they arrived home and could not help but smile.

Lord Jagannath Ratha Yatra, 05-11-2016 ISKCON-Delhi (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: So this process of hari-kirtana is very simple: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Actually there are only three words: Hare, Krsna, and Rama. But they are very nicely arranged for chanting so that everyone can take the mantra and chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. Since we have started this movement in the Western countries, Europeans, Americans, Africans, Egyptians, and Japanese are all ...