Devotees Celebrate Srila Prabhupada’s “Summer in Montreal”.
Hundreds of devotees recently gathered at ISKCON Montreal, Canada to celebrate the 50thanniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s Summer in Montreal, when he spent three months from June to August of 1968 in the city.
The five-day festival ran from September 1stto 4thover the Labor Day Weekend, and included Janmastami and Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-Puja. Prabhupada disciples Malati Devi and Bharadraja Das were the guests of honor for the event.
The celebrations incl...

Sadhu Sanga festival by the Black Sea in Russia (Album of photos)
There were about 5000 devotees there!
Srila Prabhupada:......

Busy Family Man Teaches Maha-Mantra to Thousands!
Maha-Mantra Das is a busy family man and software developer in Washington D.C.
In his spare time, he and his wife and children have taught about 60,000 people how to chant the Hare Krishna mantra on beads over the last decade.
As local GBC Anuttama Das comments, “He is super empowered – an example of a congregation member taking outreach to heart.”
Originally from Tirupati, South India, Maha-Mantra moved to D.C. in 2007. Since 2008, when he first showed passersby how to ch...

Mangalananda das: My dear wife Yamini left this world today, Friday the 14th at 12:15 pm PST. She was surrounded by loving devotees chanting Hare Krishna. It was a very auspicious departure. The Krishna consciousness of our lives was intertwined in every aspect of the day. I will miss her tremendously. I pray to serve with you again in the future. Hare Krishna...

Harinama under the rain in Ljubljana, Slovenia (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Narada Muni, citing a practical example fro......

Appearance day of Sita Thakurani (Album of photos)
Today’s Darshan in Mayapur - Today is the appearance day of Sita Thakurani-the divine consort of Advaita Acarya.
Shri Sita Thakurani is to be worshiped just as much as Sachidevi herself, as the mother of the universe. She is the eternal wife of Shri Advaita Acharya. She was the daughter of Shri Nrishinga Baduri. She was married to Shri Advaita Acharya in Phuliya Nagara. After their wedding, Advaita Acharya went to Nadiya, to live in Shantipura. Sita Thakurani was always absorbed in vatsalya p...

How can one become a proper recipient of Radharani or Hladini shakti mercy? (3 min video)

Ecstasy in Iskcon Hong Kong (1 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: If we simply place ourselves at the lotus feet of Krishna by takin......

Janmastami in Novokuznetsk, central Siberia (Album of photos)
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: For Janmastami we were in Novokuznetsk, ......

World Holy Name Festival.
This is a link to a packet of information to fully equip devotees to celebrate World Holy Name Festi......

Article and video in glorification of Gunagrahi Maharaja - by Sankarsana das.
My eulogy along with a 30m. video (DC Krishnafest) featuring Gunagrahi Maharaja who just left us this past weekend.
From 1989 through 1993 Gunagrahi Maharaja led the Krishnafest Harinama party seasonally located in Washington D.C. During that time Maharaja recruited several notable ISKCON kirtan leaders to participate in the party, such as Danavir Maharaja, BB Govinda Swami, Mahatma, Gaura, Titiksava Karunika, Sakya Rasa from UK, and Sarvatma prabhus. Numbers of other s...

Integrating Krishna consciousness and Business - Interview with Coach Nick Pereira (Nakula Dasa)
What was the response to ......

The Glory of Kurukshetra - Sri Krishna Arjuna Iskcon Temple (3 min video)
A Short video showing the latest construction visuals of world’s first Sri Krishna Arjuna Temple coming rapidly for all of us in Jyotisar - The birthplace of Bhagavad Gita.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/JT6hgT

Iskcon Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, on Fire!! (photos and video)
These devotees by nature know how to express their joy......

First ever ISKCON College and Career Conferences in North America! (Album of photos)
ISKCON of New Jersey: Thank you to all vo......

Chanting and dancing for 50 Scouts (Album of photos)
Hare Krishna Festivals UK: Thanks to the Keynsham Scout Group (Somerset) for inviting us along to chant and dance with them.
Over 50 Scouts, and their parents, spent the evening learning about Krishna Consciousness and the Maha Hare Krishna Mantra.
Delicious vegetarian snacks (prasadam) were provided by Parasuram and the Food for All Team!
Every Scout was given a copy of ‘Chant and Be Happy’ to take home.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/Tz...

Giriraj Swami: Yesterday was Gunagrahi Maharaja’s memorial program in Vrindavan, and I wrote him the following letter:
My dear Gunagrahi das Goswami Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, to your lifelong service to him, and to your divine departure to his lotus feet.
When you were leaving Dallas to go to India in the face of your cancer, you gave me the opportunity to see you off.
When you were traveling in India and dealing with so many issues and developments, you gave me the opportunity to c...

Huge crowds for the Janmashtami - 2018 in Iskcon Silicon Valley (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If one renders even a small amount of sincere devotional service, Krishna becomes obliged to elevate such person; and what to speak of one whose entire life and soul has been dedicated to Krishna’s service. Letter to Harer Nama, November 6, 1969.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/A1BNZ8

Bhakti Sangama — Opening Night — 10 Sept 2018 (6 min video)
An incredible eight thousand devotees flocked to a small village on the Black Sea Coast near Odessa, Ukraine for the mega Bhakti Sangam festival.
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Photos from the 2018 Brighton Ratha Yatra (UK)
Srila Prabhupada: “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—these sixteen names composed of thirty-two syllables are the only means to counteract the evil effects of Kali-yuga. In all the Vedas it is seen that to cross the ocean of nescience there is no alternative to the chanting of the holy name.” (Kali-santarana Upanisad)
Please find below photos from the 2018 Brighton Ratha Yatra.
Slideshow (please turn on sound):
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Here We Go! (4 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: If the rest of our 6-week festival tour here in America is anything like our first show in Houston today, we’re in for a mighty fine time!
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Radha Kunda Seva: August 2018 Photos and Updates (Album of photos)
In this last month of August we expanded our daily cleaning efforts to include the maintainence of two new locations in Radha Kunda Town! Two ghats (landing stairs/ramp into water), one of them named Vallabha Ghat at Shyama Kunda, and another named Go Ghat at Radha Kunda proper, just across from Lord Nityananda’s Sitting Place. Both of these places are frequented by many people as well as the local dogs and monkeys, and as a result of this they have become quite polluted from the...

“I curse your children to become devotees of Krishna!”
Urmila Devi Dasi: We met with people who had taken up Krishna consciousness in 1980-82 when all religion was illegal in the then Soviet Union. We heard this story from one woman:
Her husband came home one day when she was cooking meat, and said he had become vegetarian. When she asked if he would eat dinner she had already cooked for that day, and start vegetarianism tomorrow, he refused. Within a year, she started chanting Hare Krishna also. Her husband was put into prison for bein...

Caitanya Caritamrita By Radha Padma (18 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: “Even while engaged in various activities, devotees whose minds are completely absorbed at Your lotus feet, and who constantly hear, chant, contemplate and cause others to remember Your transcendental names and forms, are always on the transcendental platform, and thus they can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 10.2.37).
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