St. Petersburg: It’s Charm and It’s Devotees (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: St. Petersburg is without exception the most beautiful city in Russia. With a rich cultural heritage, it proudly represents the history of Russia going back hundreds of years. Our photographer, Ananta Vrindavan dasa, did an excellent job in catching the charm of the city, as well as the blissful programs we held with all the wonderful devotees in St. Petersburg. We have one last stop on our journey through Russia: Moscow!
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S.M.A.R.T Parenting.
Romapada Swami: Parenting is an integral part of Krishna conscious householder life (gṛhastha āśrama). Genuinely Krishna conscious parents, together with their happy well-rounded children, provide a huge impetus within the broader society at large to develop an appreciation and a deeper interest in Krishna consciousness. Moreover, when the family unit is strong, the members of such a family naturally become effective preachers. The foundation of a strong family unit rests upon and derives strength from transcenden...

Vaisesika Dasa: Talk on “Beyond Birth and Death” @ San Jose State University.
The very pleasant professor you see in the front row is using Srila Prabhupada book, Beyond Birth and Death, as the textbook for this class.

Preaching program with Bhakti Chaitanya Swami in Barnaul, Russia (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Love of God is not an ordinary commodity. Caitanya Mahaprabhu was worshiped by Rupa Gosvami because He distributed love of God, krsna-prema, to everyone. Rupa Gosvami praised Him as maha-vadanya, a greatly munificent personality because He was freely distributing to everyone love of Godhead, which is achieved by wise men only after many, many births. Krsna-prema, Krsna consciousness, is the highest gift which can be bestowed on anyone whom we presume ...

A lecture of HH Indradyumna Swami about his first meetings with the Hare Krishna devotees and HDG Srila Prabhupada, given in ISKCON......

‘People power’: Hare Krishna faithful pull four-tonne chariot through Brisbane streets.
A four-tonne rainbow wooden chariot was pulled through the heart of Brisbane on Saturday, as a celebration of joy and peace organized by the Hare Krishna community.
Thousands flocked to King George Square following the loud and lively parade through the city streets to celebrate the Festival of Chariots, which began in India 5000 years ago.
The day is a spiritual event that involves pulling giant statues of deities through the city and is symboli...

Bhakti Charu Swami presents his plans for the Deland, Florida project. These include organic farming, cow protection, an Ayurvedic clinic, eco-friendly homes, and a Vedic temple, as well as regular retreats.
Over the past few years, the ISKCON Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture (IMCPA) has been bringing ISKCON farms together for biannual continental conferences. Now, the Ministry is beginning strategic planning meetings every other year, to foster team building. The first will see delegates from farm communities all over North America come ...

Minister of Science & Earth Technology of India launches a Krishna conscious book.
Vrajendranandan Das: Today morning, May 4th, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Science and Technology, Government of India, launched the book, “Values of life” (volume 4) at his residence. This children book is written and compiled by Ajita Govinda Das from ISKCON Delhi. This series of books (Values of life) is already introduced as a Moral science subject in some of the public schools across India. These books wonderfully explain the teachings of Srila Pra...

Memories of Srila Prabhupada (13 min video)
Kishor das, Jayasri devi dasi, Brajendranandana das, Sri Kama devi dasi and Mahady......

New Govardhana Goshala under construction (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: The example is set by the Supreme Personality of Godhead that human civilization will advance only on the basis of brahminical culture and cow protection. As soon as there is fall down from brahminical culture, and as soon as there is discrepancy in the protection of cows, there will be no more peace in the world. Therefore He specifically said, go-brahmana-hitaya ca. This Krsna consciousness movement is for the protection of brahminical culture and cows. Then automatically...

Sucitra & Rasaraja’s Vedic Wedding (Album of photos)
On the beautiful afternoon of April 14th, two very sweet devotees gathered together with friends and family to observe a very auspicious Vedic Wedding together. All blessings upon this couple in their life of service together.
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A visit to Iskcon Sochi, Russia (9 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: The city of Sochi in southern Russia was a milestone in our t......

Room Conversation with Lord Brockway – July 23, 1973, London:
Lord Brockway: And my childhood was spent at Berhampur (Brahmapur).
Prabhupāda: Berhampur?
Lord Brockway: Yes.
Prabhupāda: I see.
Lord Brockway: My parents were missionaries there.
Prabhupāda: Hm. I was also a student of missionary college, Scottish Churches’ College.
Lord Brockway: Oh yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes. We had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman.
Lord Brockway: Yes, yes. Was that in Cal...

Sunday 4/29/2018 Lecture by Devamrita Swami (video)
Srila Prabhupada: …here we are having Bhagavata class. This is not ordinary Bhagavata class, not jumping over Krsna’s rasa-lila. It is not like that. It is step by step studying what is Krsna, what is this material world, what is the sambandha, or relationship with Krsna – so many things – how this body has developed, how we have forgotten Krsna, how to revive our Krsna consciousness. These things must be studied first of all. Then we can understand what is Krsna’s past...

Nrsimha Caturdasi Harinama in Radhadesh and King’s birthday in Amsterdam (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Preya means immediately palatable, and sreya means ultimately beneficial. That is called sreya. Just like for a child, playing is priya, preya. He likes to play. But he is by force, by the parents, he is studied books. That is called preya. But because without education his future life will be dark, so parents know it. Therefore, although the child likes to play – that is preya – the parents engages them into sreya, into educ...

New Mayapur, Iskcon France: The reconstruction of the small tower at the castle is finished! Hariiiboool!
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ISKCON of Las Vegas - Temple Opening (Album of photos)
This past weekend, one of the most glorious ISKCON temples in our move......

A Day Of Celebration! (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: On May 1st, when the people of Krasnodar, Russia, came out in mass to celebrate Worker’s Day, we stayed home and celebrated the Lord in our local temple with kirtan, classes and Sri Krsna prasadam. The city was bursting with celebrations!
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Narasimha Jayanthi at Durga temple, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (Album with photos)
1st May 18 Hare Krishna! Many people know Lord Narasimha because of the movies, but if you want to actually know why the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared in such form, of half man and half lion and killed the demon Hiranyakashipu, then you would surely need to attend ISKCON festivals. We tell you the truth nothing but the truth! Yesterday at Dewi Sri Thurkai Amman temple, Taman Medan, about 75 people attended the Narasimha Caturdasi festival, we had the most attractiv...

Japa Retreat in central Siberia, Russia (Album with photos)
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: We spent the last few days with a couple o......

My Service.
Kadamba Kanana Swami: Only in Vrndavana is Krsna fully manifesting his pure transcendental nature which is based only on loving exchange and nothing else. It is not based on any sense of duty. Krsna is only purchased by pure and unalloyed love. To follow a sense of duty is the lower platform of devotional service. Vaidhi-bhakti – it is the platform where one is still materially conditioned and then one takes shelter of rules and regulations.
The higher manifestation of devotional service is devotional service based on pure love, w...

Here’s a couple of more amazing stories & photos of Arabic Gita distribution, starting to come in daily now. There’s an exquisite phrase that seems to fit here: “An embarassment of riches.” Isn’t that nice? An overall atmosphere of sweet spiritual prosperity without end… a knowing, growing Benevolence just pouring down upon us all, gifts that are certainly given in abundance due to the daily sevice of these truly sincere book distributors..
1) Georgia Tech University. It’s a beautiful day. Shastrakrit Prab...

Narasimha Chaturdasi Eve Harinam (Album of photos)
Bhakti Caru Maharaja and Trivikrama Maharaja joined the sweet Orlando devo......

Ratha Yatra at Brisbane - 28 April 2018 (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: This is Krsna consciousness. You have to act by the desires of Krsna. That is the proper use of your senses. You cannot use for your purpose. Anything… Just like you are working in some establishment. Anything in that establishment, you can use for the proprietor’s business. You cannot use it. Just like in hospital there are blankets. It is written there, “Hospital Property.” So long you are in the hospital, you can use it. But you cannot take it outs...