We are happy to announce that ISKCON Mayapur has produced full HD DVD of the most spectacular Maha Abhisheka of Sri Pancha Tattva 2009 with enlivening kirtans of HH Radhanath Swami, HH Loknath Swami and HH BB Govinda Swami.

I'd like to personally invite you to attend an important conference called "Building Bridges" This conference focuses on the question: How can we best share the timeless wisdom of Krishna consciousness with increasingly diverse audiences?

This year HG Brhat-mrdanga Prabhu has been approved for sannyasa initiation. Brhat-mrdanga Prabhu joined Iskcon in Durban, South Africa in around 1980's. He was previously a school teacher and also has a Masters degree.

One may ask: “Why not charge for yoga classes?” My strategy has been: to advertise and teach for free, because, from my experience, if I widely advertise the classes as free,vastly more people seem to come through the doors.

Gaura Purnima in London! Such good quality you'll think you're there! Devotees worldwide are welcome to celebrate Gaura Purnima with Iskcon London devotees and take darsana of Sri Sri Radha Londonisvara & Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

Mayapur Worldwide with the Krishna Conscious Society have launched their first “9 Island University Tour “for Gaura Purnima. The tour starts on 28th July until 3rd August 2009.

I am happy to offer you an invitation to the Level 1 & 2 Japa Retreats in New Vrindavan this April. For the first time they will be held in the most sacred place in North America - Srila Prabhupada's Pushpa Samadhi Mandir at the Palace of Gold !

In the last week of February 2009, Gopal Agarwal (who resides in USA) along with his son Brij spend a couple of days in Mumbai and one of their first trips in the city of Mumbai was to ISKCON Juhu to take darshan of Sri Sri Radha Rasabihari.

Even if you are not physically present in Mayapur, watch our Gaura Purnima festival videos and join with the devotees assembled in Mayapur. Devotees interviews, Gaura Purnima Festival inauguration, Jala Yatra (procession to Ganga for fetching water for Maha abhisheka) are added now to the festival videos collection.

The GBC meetings ended yesterday, I am posting also a historical pic of all the GBC members including HH Jayapataka Swami sitting on his wheel chair in the middle. The Chairman elected of this year is His Holiness Romapada Swami.

Watch Sri Sri Pancha-Tattva Maha Abhisheka LIVE from Sri Mayapur. Maha Abhisheka will begin at 8am (IST) on 25th February and will continue till noon.

To the vibrant chanting of Garuda Dandakam prayers by Balaji Swami of Tirumala Tirupati, ecstactic harinam and blowing of conch shell & ‘ulu’dvani , the garuda flag was hoisted by HH Jayapataka Swami announcing the inauguration of Gaura Purnima festival 2009.

We are very happy to announce that ISKCON's GBC body approved the sannyasa initiation of Yadunandana prabhu (the principal of Bhaktivedanta College)

In the early ‘70’s, when Srila Prabhupada was arriving at the New York airport, a reporter asked, “Why have you come to the West?” “I have come”, Prabhupada replied, “to give you a brain. Your society”, he continued, “is headless.”

And again, another miracle….. Goura Prema dasi, aspiring disciple of Lokanath Swami and performing Kathak classical dance for Maharaj’s Festivals since she was 3 yrs old, stunned the audience with her swirling and twirling!

In another FIVE days, devotees from all over the world will arrive in holy dhama to celebrate Gaura Purnima festival in this spiritual center. Festival Committee has carefully planned many festivities so that the visiting devotees get more spiritually uplifting experiences and carry the same mood in their preaching fields.

The official opening of the temple in Aravade is set to turn the usually quiet bucolic village into a buzzing, spiritual wonderland, with thousands of cosmopolitan devotees from all over the world descending to engage in the festival, unarguably a first for this pastoral land.

40 years ago this June, Srila Prabhupada personally installed the beautiful deities of Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakanatha with his own hands. He would often teach his disciples the process of Deity worship, by lovingly worshiping these small Radha Krishna deities himself.

This year, as always, we request you to submit your homages to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa Puja book by April 15. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF E-MAIL ADDRESS.

We hope this compilation will preserve for posterity Srila Prabhupada’s legacy of exchanges with his women disciples and will illumine still more facets of his glories – how his reciprocation with them endeared his women disciples to him and gave them life-long inspiration and guidance.

Padayatra was first launched by His Holiness Agrani Swami in Guyana in 1989 from the easternmost Village of Crabwood Creek, near the Suriname border, with a five mile walk daily followed by massive evening sankirtan and other Krishna consciousness presentations.