BHAGAVAD GITA seminar 2018 at Iskcon Nola On Esplanade, New Orleans, USA (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Lord Caitanya Mah......

Devotees of ISKCON Kurukshetra called for Maha Harinam in Jodhpur, Rajasthan (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: O Hari-nama! ......

The Peace Garden.
Faith representatives and well-wishers from the local area joined the former Mayor of Watford, UK, Dorothy ......

Auckland NZ: Giving out the mercy!! (Album of photos)
Kalasamvara Das: This process given by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is like the perfect transcendental storm.
Or transcendental net that catches everyone,
By books, prasadam, the holy names, and Association with devotees.
It’s so attractive and brings smiles to all
Bringing them BTG!
Find them here: https://goo.gl/XZVQct

Vaishnava Summer Festival Baltic 2018 (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Of the nine processes of devotional service, the mos......

Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold Named One of the Most Beautiful Places in the U.S.
ISKCON devotees will be pleased to note that amidst such attractions as the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the headline “Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold - New Vrindaban, West Virginia.”
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Mahadyuti Swami’s great performance during the Vaishnava Baltic Festival 2018 (6 min video)
Mahadyuti Swami sang a song about how he likes to take prasadam at Govinda’s. Maharaj wrote this song 25 years ago when he was a manager there.
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ISKCON UK and NHS in joint care initiative.
A joint initiative between ISKCON UK and the SWAN end of life scheme was launched at a conference in the ISKCON Temple in Leicester. SWAN offers dedicated support to patients in the last days of life and to their families into bereavement and beyond. The SWAN scheme is a national programme which is present in 47 Trusts across the country. It was set up by Fiona Murphy MBE, the assistant director of Nursing at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The conference was attended by around fifty nurses and doctors...

Iskcon representative in Narendra Modi event at London.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Indian diaspora in L......

PadaYatra walking festival in Czech Republic (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Of the nine processes of devotional service, ......

Lord Jagannath At Woodstock (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Lord Jagannath gave His first blessings at Polish Woodstock [......

HH Subhag Swami in stable condition after an angiogram operation.
Srivasa Pandit Das: Good news. I just had a conversation wit......

Hare Krishna Festival Team on non-stop tour across the UK.
So far this year, members of the Hare Krishna UK Festival Team hav......

Kirtan London’s summer of success!
This year, Kirtan London is reaching out even wider than ever before with many more outreach kirtan (music) events in London: 1. Mantra Lounge – Kirtan evenings in Covent Garden have become weekly in frequency since the beginning of the year, with 40-50 people attending every session. 2. Pop-up Temple at the Wellbeing Festival (Mind Body Spirit) in May: - over 700 people participated in kirtan and japa meditation sessions; - over 900 prasadam sweets distributed; - 340 medium and 90 big books on spiritua...

Bulls Massage Mother Earth (video)
“Spending a day with the bulls is very satisfying work, and Mother Bhumi (Mother Earth) likes it. She is not so happy to have the tractor pounding her around. When the bulls are working, they’re walking on ...

Polish Woodstock Festival: Sneak Preview (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: The actual Polish Woodstock Festival [ Pol'and'......

Erecting a great wall versus character-building.
Laksmi Nrsimha Das: When the ancient Chinese decided to live in peace, they made the great wall of China.
They thought no one could climb it due to its height.
During the first 100 years of its existence, the Chinese were invaded three times. And everytime, the hordes of enemy infantry had no need of penetrating or climbing over the wall…
because each time they bribed the guards and came through the doors.
The Chinese built the wall but forgot the character-building of the wall-gua...

Pop-up Temple at Kensington Olympia, UK.
This year’s “Wellbeing Mind Body Spirit Expo” took place at Kensington Olympia last May. Kirtan London devotees organized a pop-up temple and Ananda Monet led kirtan on the main festival stage. The chorus comprised a talented team of Manor School alumni. As well as hosting kirtans, the pop-up Temple ran mantra meditation workshops, and no less than 400 of Srila Prabhupada’s books were distributed.

‘Superb’ Open Day in the Manor!
The annual Open Day held on Saturday 7th July was described as ‘superb’. In the middle of a heatwave, Bhaktivedanta Manor received a steady stream of guests throughout the day, many of them for the first time. Devotees from across the entire community teamed together to ensure the best experience for everyone. Guests enjoyed tours, ox-cart rides, ‘Meet the Monks’, a free veggie lunch and kirtans. Inside were ongoing hatha yoga sessions, reflexology and ‘drumfullness’ worksh...

On Saturday, approximately twenty-four devotees & seven children participated in our MSF in honor of Bhaktivinoda Thakur in Kingsbury, UK. Five of the devotees and the children went door to door and the rest of the devotees engaged in street distribution and kirtan. 137 doors were knocked!The first photo is of a Muslim gentleman who was very interested in our philosophy and took this book on our presentation. He explained he didn’t have any money to offer a donation but, driven by a desire to not miss an opportunity of taking a book, he asked a g...

Birmingham youth enjoy dancing happily with devotees as Agnideva Prabhu leads the Hare Krishna chanting at the Ratha-yatra parade (......

INDIA IN GREECE Or, Truth in Mythology (Free pdf)
Edward Pococke: Where did the Aryans come from originally? Did they invade India? Or were they actually Indian invaders who colonized Greece?
In India in Greece, E. Pococke explores the theory that the Aryans may have originally traveled from India to Greece, colonized the latter and influenced the culture there. Centuries later, they came back to India. Covering topics as diverse as the sources of the Hellenic Race, the colonization of Egypt and Palestine, the wars of the Grand Lama and the Bud&rsq...

The Sanga Initiative 2018: Matchless Gifts (4 min video)
A video compiled by Avig Pointi, Anandarupa Kundu, and Gaura Klein! A......

Devotee awarded British Empire Medal.
Acyuta Charan das, based in South London, manages a vegetarian food charity for homeless people, and was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New Year’s Honours list. The award category was for voluntary and charitable services to homeless people in the area. For ten years he has been heading up food distribution for the charity Food For Life while also working as a Home Office accountant at Lunar House in Croydon. “I wasn’t expecting it at all!” responded Acyuta, “We serve all ...