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David Lewis: After eating a vegetarian burrito given to me by a Hare Krishna on the Ave, I ventured out to Sammamish for a Love Feast.
I usually can’t remember something I ate more than seven years ago (unless it made me throw up or something). But I still remember that burrito wrapped in tinfoil. A Hare Krishna handed it to me on the Ave back when I was in college. “For you,” was all he said, silently waving away my offers to give it back. He went back to chant...

Photos from ISKCON-London’s Gita Jayanti 2019 and SNHS.

Please find below photos from ISKCON-London’s Gita Jayanti 2019 festival and the Saturday Night Harinama Sankirtan where copies of the Gita were also distributed.

24-ISKCON Online-Chant Now Project-Pancharatna Prabhu (audio)
One of the problems with book distribution is that devotees who distribute books, they’re really focused in giving the books out, but often there’s not much follow-up.
Even devotees that put in the effort to follow up find it hard because the focus is on distributing books and getting as many books out there as possible. It takes time and a different focus to cultivate those who are interested…
So what is the solution…?
Listen to the interview with P...

Reading Srila Prabhupada’s books (video)
Srimad Bhagavatam Class by H.H.Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami at ISKCON Vrindavan
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Blissful celebration of Gita Jayanti in Sri Dham Mayapur (Album of photos)
Over 1000 devotees and pilgrims came specially to attend this powerful event....

Lord Krishna answers the prayers.
Shastrakrit Das: Initially It was difficult to give out even a Gita. We were praying like anything. Especially I wanted to distribute a Srimad Bhagavatam set on behalf of my friend Pavana Gour Gopal. Then this nice gentleman came over to our book table and grabbed an old broken volume of the Bhagavatam on display (he is holding the old book in his hand) and asked what the whole new set looks like? My wife and me we looked at each other in disbelief and I was like “give me 2...

Photos from the visit of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson this afternoon to Bhaktivedanta Manor!...

Sanket & Prem Sarovar (2019) (Album of photos)
Come visit some of the most enchanting Deities in Sanket and Prem Sarovar! Sanket means signal and lies between Barsana and Nandagaon. The gopis sent signals back and forth between the two villages as to where the pastimes would be in the evening. Prem Sarovar is nearby Barsana and made of the most ecstatic tears of prema of Radha and Krishna.
In the photo: Prem Sarovar, an eight petaled lotus beautifully renovated by the government!
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Book distribution in the Czech Republic (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Anyone who carries Krishna within himself, constantly, can go anywhere and turn the place into a sacred pilgrimage. Letter to Rupanuga, July 3, 1968...

A beautiful temple in Fiji with amazing transcendental displays (Album of photos)
Mohanasini Dasi: Here you will get a glimpse of the beautiful Sigatoka Radha Damodar Temple on a hill! This was built by two matajis, Gita Kirti Dasi and one other god sister and they both run the Temple as well. They started this 6 years ago! Every picture that is here is a 3D diorama!...

A UPS driver comes to the door of a devotee to get a Krishna conscious book! (1 min. video)...

Preaching program in Mauritius (Album of photos)
Bhakti Chaitanya Swami: On Thursday night we did a program in our ISKCON preaching center in Camp de Masques in Mauritius...

Celebrating Finland’s independence day (Album of photos)
Mangalavati Citra Devi Dasi: Today we (my fiancé Tattvavada Prabhu and myself) celebrated the Finish independence day in Domkyrkan in Helsinki. We were invited amongst the VIPs. It’s a very beautiful church which was constructed 1824-1852. We even found some Vedic symbols decorated in the ceiling like the sun and swastica. The construction itself is in the shape of a yantra, according to the Vastu principles. The Finish government was tod...

ISKCON Auckland NewZealand annual Rathyatra parade 2019 (Album of photos)
Mayor Phil Goff receiving Srila Prabhupada’s books,
Specking nicely about Rathyatra and Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON Society,
And enjoying the Association of the devotees while pulling Lord Jagannatha’s Ratha cart.
With special guest HH Devamrita Swami and HH Mahavishnu Swami.
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*MARATHON MEDICINE*
By Janananda Gosvami. Well, feeling a bit slow and down in old age. Digestion problems, sleep probs, things ain’t what they used to be in ISKCON either and I got no taste for chanting and hearing. Where’s the movement going so many ask.

Surya Kund (Nov 2019) (Album of photos)
Our last parikrama of Karttika was to the very serene Surya Kunda where Krishna and Madhumangala disguised as strict brahmacaris engage Radharani in the worship of Surya Narayana (actually Krishna!) We also saw the mark of Radharani’s chandrika where She placed it on a stone to take bath before puja! Very calm spiritual atmosphere and a huge kunda that the government is going to fix up very nicely.
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Yesterday, the 2nd of December, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of Sri Sri Radha-Londonisvara’s installation (which originally took place at 7 Bury Place). (Album of photos)
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Radha Kunja Bihari Anniversary (Album of photos)
A couple of days after the 20th anniversary of the installation of Sri Radha Rasesvara, I attended the 10th anniversary of the installation of Sri Radha Kunja Bihari, in Klungkung, Bali....

Rathayatra in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on November 29th 2019. A wonderful festival in beautiful weather (Album of photos)...

Beautiful Rathayatra at Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand (2 min. video)
Srila Prabhupada: Kirtan means sometimes chanting with music, and sometimes speaking. Both of them are kirtan. Kirtayati iti kirtanam. Whenever we glorify the Lord, that is called kirtan. The Srimad-Bhagavatam reading is also kirtan. (Janmastami, Montreal, August 16, 1968)...

Please keep Ratnabhusana Prabhu in your prayers! Hare Krishna!
Arcita Dasa: I visited him this morning. He was in good spirits and joking as usual. The first surgery (to repair neck ligaments and a shattered disk) seems to have been successful. However, he is scheduled for a second surgery this afternoon to fix his broken nose!...

Kirtan Rasa 2019 in Dubai (video)
When that name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many millions of ears. And when the holy name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind, and therefore all the senses become inert. (Caitanya-caritamrta, Antya-lila, 4.71 purport, Vidagdha-Madhava 1.12)...

17th Annual Vrinda Kunda Festival.
6th February, Varaha Dvadasi, will be 17 years since the opening of our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate, we will do special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja with buses leaving every morning from Krishna Balarama Mandir and returning for lunch. The program will culminate on Sunday 16 February with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan Procession with the ladies carrying waterpots with coconuts on their heads.

Urgent prayers and blessings needed for a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, Ratna Bhusana Prabhu. He is in surgery right now. HG Ratna Bhusana Prabhu was in a serious accident this morning. Ratna has been serving at ISKCON Los Angeles since the mid-seventies. Most devotees have at least heard of the super-human amount of service Ratna Bhusana performs. He is a major force behind the Los Angeles Ratha-yatra and many Ratha-yatras around the world, and this is just a small drop of his accomplishments. Everyone loves Ratn...