Photos from the 2019 Glastonbury Ratha Yatra.
Please find below the links for HR photos from the 2019 Glastonbury Ratha Yatra.
Bhakta David: Glastonbury has long been a place of pilgrimage for spiritual seekers and the nearby famous music festival is also named after the town.

Meeting Boris Johnson.
Anand Jatania, who serves in a communications role at Bhaktivedanta Manor, met Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a Hindu Temple in Uxbridge. Boris recalled the many times he had eaten vegetarian meals at the ISKCON London temple and looked forward to visiting Bhaktivedanta Manor and Avanti Schools one day. As a token, Anand presented the Prime Minister with a copy of ‘In Essence’.

Bhaktivedanta Manor’s Shree Krishna Haveli project update: We are very pleased to say that construction is moving forward with great momentum. Any time lost due to unforeseeable conditions is being made up by working late and over the weekends. Works now completed include - kitchens and bakery, prasadam seva hall, ramps and stairwell to temple and paving. Gas and water utilities have been connected just leaving the new electric power station to be connected. Works are in progress on the landscaping, chakra garden, painting and finishing, light fittin...

Vaishnavi Retreat 2019 (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Just as a student in a law class is to be understood to have alread......

Kedarnath - The Abode Of Lord Siva (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Kedarnath was the third stop of our pilgrimage to the ......

TOVP progress report (Album of photos)
Sadbhuja Das: Here is a further progress report of what has been going on here at the T......

Gathering of sadhus in Ireland (video)
Kurma Dasa: Yesterday’s Pre-Kartik Sadhu Sanga in Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland. It was a blast!
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FUN WITH FIBRE
By Krishnarupa devi dasi: Recently, the Conch team visited Gita Govinda devi dasi in her wonderful spinning studio, a hive of activity which houses multiple handlooms and a beautiful selection of delicately woven products. Here is Gita Govinda at one of her beloved looms.
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Of Mountains I Am The Himalayas (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: Our small group of devotees visited the Char Dhamas; the ......

Chanting on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles (Album of photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s transcendental mission is to distribute love of Godhead to everyone. Anyone who accepts God as the Supreme can take to the process of chanting Hare Krishna and become a lover of God. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 4.41 Purport)
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Mexico City Subway Harinama (video)
Only in Mexico you can chant and dance *inside the train*, with an amplified sound system ......

In Focus: Tulasi Manjari Dasi.
By Anasuya Dasi
Q: Please tell us a little bit about yourself....

Blessings For The Hsc Graduates!
By Krishnarupa devi dasi.
For the second time in its history, students from the Bhaktivedanta Swami Gurukula here on New Govardhana will be sitting for their HSC (Higher School Certificate) 2019 exams. The HSC is a credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete senior high school level studies in New South Wales, Australia. It is an objective highly sought after and its success requires hard, consistent work.

Extensive improvements have been made to the cows’ pasture land at New Govardhana.
Karunamayi dasi: There are many different attributes to cow protection. It covers so much more than the hands-on care for cows. A large part is managing the environment that the cows are in to make sure they are safe and healthy.

Meet Bhaktin Elsa, a young artist at ISKCON Sweeden (9 min. video)
Srila Prabhupada: Lord Krishna stresses the importance of remembering Him. One‘s memory of Krishna is revived by chanting the maha-mantra, Hare Krishna. By this practice of chanting and hearing the sound vibration of the Supreme Lord, one’s ear, tongue and mind are engaged. This mystic meditation is very easy to practice, and it helps one attain the Supreme Lord. (Bhagavad-Gita 8.8 Purport)
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Michael Cremo Princeton lecture.
Lavanya-mangala-devi dasi: Michael Cremo (aka Drutakarma dasa) spoke on Human Origins and Antiquity: A Vedic Perspective at a meeting of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) at the Princeton University D&R Johnson Education Center on September 28. The work of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research pioneers Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne is featured in Cremo's Human Devolution book. Members of the Gainesville Bhaktivedanta Institute and area devotee scholars, including Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja of the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute, and Krishna Ksetra ...

Krishna fulfills all desires!
Shastrakrit Das: I wanted to distribute one set of Bhagavatam on the occasion of my Gurudev’s Vyasa-puja but I got a call from 2 individuals asking for Bhagavatam sets. This really nice older gentleman, took a Krishna book the other day and I casually left him my card and told him we have the full Bhagavatam available in Hindi. This afternoon he called me and asking me to bring the Hindi set to my book table. He showed up on time with some much enthusiasm to get the books. He told me how his son said he will take h...

A visit to Locana Das’s workshop in Hillsborough.
He is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada famous for his devotional art, especially for the making the murtis of His Divine Grace which are now present in every Iskcon temple.
Mitra das: He’s now making a statue of Prabhupada for the TOVP Mayapur temple.

TOVP will answer “Who am I?” and “Where am I?” according to Srila Prabhupada’s teachings.

Rare photos from Puri. The album is having rare pictures inside Gambhira and rare darshan of the Deities like Nilamadhava, Ananta V......

Lucid Restaurant.
Ramai Swami: About one and half years ago, Deva Gaura Hari, whom I have known for many years, worked hard to set up a restaurant at the mall in Murwillumbah. He named it, “Lucid.”
Since then, many people have come in to sample the fine vegetarian prasadam cuisine.
Although Deva Gaura Hari had invited me to come for lunch a few times, until now I hadn’t done so. However, I was so impressed by the layout, decor and menu that I instantly fell in love with it. Needless to say that Deva Gaura Hari very gracious...

Varsana Swami Palace Construction Pastime (12 min. video)
Varsana Swami recounting a harrowing encounter with local law enforcement that involved a truckload of marble for the palace during the 40th anniversary of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold opening. (clip taken from live-stream)
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100 DAYS OF LOVE FOR COWS
Each year there is a 100-day project aimed at people expressing their different arts. We decided to jump onto the popular craze, but with a twist on it.
For 100 days we did a drive to increase the amount of sponsored cows we have at New Govardhana and also spread ‘Love for Cows’.

Harinam In the Land of the Rishis (Album of photos)
Indradyumna Swami: We had a blissful day doing harinam through Rishikesh, ......