Watch the story of ISKCON Mayapur as it opens to the congregation and public. After six months of lockdowns, the ISKCON world HQ opens its doors once more

Krsna sat on an upside-down wooden grinding mortar and distributed yogurt and butter to the monkeys as He liked. Because of having stolen the milk products, He glanced all around with great anxiety, suspecting that He might be chastised by His mother.

George Harrison’s number one single My Sweet Lord has topped a chart of the most played songs this century that were released on The Beatles’ Apple Records label.
The single has received more public airplay since 2000 than Imagine by John Lennon and the Liverpool band’s Hey Jude, which was the first single released on the label in the UK 50 years ago.
My Sweet Lord went to number one upon its original release in 1970 and again in 2002 when it was re-issued following Harrison’s death.

How we should cultivate our relationship with Srila Prabhupada. Iskcon is a vehicle to spread Prabhupada’s instructions. How we should be tolerant to other organizations that have the same mission as to spread Prabhupada’s instructions.

A demon named Bakasura once came to Vrndavana in the form of a huge crane with a very sharp beak. As soon as he arrived in Vrndavana, he swallowed Krsna. When Balarama and the other boys saw that Krsna had been devoured by the gigantic crane, they became almost unconscious, like senses without life.

One day Krsna entered the forest with Balarama while tending the calves. When the cows who were pasturing atop Govardhana Hill looked down to find some green grass and saw their calves pasturing at the bottom of the hill, they forgot themselves and their caretakers because of intense affection. Although the path was very rough, the cows ran down the hill toward their calves with great anxiety. With their full udders spilling milk, their heads and tails raised, and their humps moving with their necks, they ran force...

We are in war with the material energy! A lecture by HG Vaisesika Dasa - ISKCON of Silicon Valley

Krsna wore yellow garments, Balarama blue, and Their eyes resembled autumnal lotuses. One of those two mighty-armed youths had a dark blue complexion, and the other’s was white.
With Their fine-featured faces, They were the most beautiful of all persons.

Srimad Bhagavatam Class 11.16.31-32 by Jananivas Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty

The cowherd boys allowed the calves to drink water from the river and then tied them to trees where there was green, tender grass. Then the boys opened their baskets of food and began eating with Krsna in great transcendental pleasure. Like the whorl of a lotus flower surrounded by its petals and leaves, Krsna sat in the center, encircled by His friends, who all looked very beautiful. Every one of them was looking at Krsna, hoping that Krsna might look at him. In this way, they all enjoyed their lunch in the forest...

Within the Yamuna river was a lake inhabited by the serpent Kaliya, whose fiery poison constantly heated and boiled its waters. Indeed, the vapors thus created were so poisonous that birds flying over the contaminated lake would fall down into it. The wind blowing over that deadly lake carried droplets of water to the shore. Simply by coming in contact with that poisonous breeze, all vegetation and creatures on the shore died.

Once, surrounded by His boyfriends, Krsna went without Balarama to the Yamuna River. At that time the cows and cowherd boys were feeling acute distress from the glaring summer sun. Afflicted by thirst, they drank the river water. But it had been contaminated with poison, and as soon as the cows and boys touched the poisoned water, they all lost consciousness and fell lifeless at the water’s edge.

Nanda Maharaja was naturally very magnanimous, and when Lord Sri Krsna appeared as his son, he was overwhelmed with jubilation. He first bathed and purified himself and dressed himself properly, and then he invited brahmanas who knew how to recite Vedic mantras. After having these qualified brahmanas recite auspicious Vedic hymns, he arranged to have the Vedic birth ceremony celebrated for his newborn child according to the rules and regulations, and he also arranged for worship of the demigods and forefathers.

All the gopi friends of Yasoda and Rohini enjoyed the naughty childish activities of Krsna and Balarama in Vrndavana. In order to enjoy further transcendental bliss, they all assembled and went to mother Yasoda to lodge complaints against the restless boys. They said, “Dear Yasoda, why don’t you restrict your naughty Krsna?

An Opportunity to Worship Supremely Merciful Lord Gauranga in Supremely Merciful Abode Navadvipa Dhama, in the Supremely Powerful Purusottama Month by performing the Supreme Spiritual activity- Navadvipa Dhama Parikrama!

By HH Sacinandana Swami

In any situation, Krsna is always the infinitely powerful Supreme Personality of Godhead. But just to increase the ecstatic emotion of His intimate, loving devotees like mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja, Krsna agrees to come under their control.

Once a woman selling fruit in Vrndavana called out, “O inhabitants of Vrajabhumi, if you want to purchase some fruit, come here!” Upon hearing this, Krsna immediately took some grains and went to barter as if He needed some fruit

By ISKCON Harinam Sankirtan Ministry

>One day mother Yasoda called to Krsna, “My dear son, because You have been playing all day, Your body has become covered with dust and sand. Therefore come back, take Your bath, and cleanse Yourself. Today the moon is conjoined with the auspicious star of Your birth. Therefore be pure and give cows in charity to the brahmanas.

The demon Aghasura assumed the form of a huge python as thick as a mountain and as long as eight miles. Having assumed this wonderful python’s body, he spread his mouth like a big mountain cave and lay down on the road, expecting to swallow Krsna and His cowherd boyfriends

Srimad Bhagavatam class by HG Aniruddha Prabhu at ISKCON Melbourne

After killing Aghasura, Krsna took the cowherd boys to the forest for a picnic. As the boys enjoyed eating lunch in one another’s company, the calves were allured by green grass and gradually wandered off. Krsna’s friends became a little agitated and wanted to bring the calves back, but the Lord departed. Then, just to examine the potency of Krsna, Lord Brahma took away all the calves and cowherd boys and kept them in a secluded place.

We would like to invite you to meet the founder and the servant leader of one of the most vibrant community of Kirtan lovers in the New York City.
Rama Raya Das joined ISKCON at the famous 55th st Temple NYC in 1979. He has remained a Brahmachari since that time and spent decades doing Sankirtan all over the planet before settling back in NYC where he reinvigorated daily harinama in the city streets