One late Friday afternoon we received a call from Reverend Ntombe, the leader of one of the Methodist churches in Pretoria. He said, "I was told you are from a society that is giving books to libraries. Could you donate some books for our church library?"
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- 11 Oct 2010
By Indradyumna SwamiLife on the festival tour in Poland this summer was austere - the cramped living facilities, the long hours, and the hotter-than-normal weather - but our three hundred devotees kept their spirits up all the way through. Many said that it had been our best tour, as proved by the largest crowds ever
...- 11 Oct 2010
By Braja-Raja-Suta Dasa
After many years of regular participation in Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON Hare Krishna movement, the devotees of middle Tennessee were able to celebrate the first ever Ratha Yatra in Nashville on October 2nd, 2010
...- 10 Oct 2010
By Parijata devi dasiThe four ISKCON temples in Mumbai celebrated the World Holy Name Week from 26 September to 10 October. ISKCON Juhu hosted the first and the biggest event of World Holy Name Week in Mumbai
...- 10 Oct 2010
Many devotees are convinced that by buying shop milk and then offering that milk to Krishna with love and devotion, this will benefit the abused cows whose milk has merged together. Yet other devotees would appreciate some scriptural evidence to support this claim
...- 10 Oct 2010
I am jubilant to offer the annual issue (Sridhar Mas) of THE EIGHT PETALS to you. We have covered a distance of one year together, only because of the mercy of Sri Guru
...- 10 Oct 2010
Perhaps you may not agree with the premise that the question alludes to. Perhaps you think Cow protection is alive and well and living in Iskcon. My answer is that you would be wrong. Cow protection in Iskcon is more akin to a Cow protection show or Cow protection zoo
...- 6 Oct 2010
By Deena Bandhu DasGiriraj Swami presented the project to Radhanath Swami and leaders of Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Bombay, and they also jumped at the chance to serve the Vaisnavas in this most significant way. Meanwhile, Giriraj Swami, along with Sangita Dasi, the foremost authority in ISKCON on hospice care, found a most excellent facility in San Diego upon which to model the project
...- 6 Oct 2010
By Lakshman dasSri Jagganath Baladev Subdhra came to Agresen Seva Sadan in a procession on 16th Sept. Pandal program was start on Sep 16. H. G. Devaki Nandan Prabhu was speaker in that Program. Bhajan snadhya , Nandotstav and a drama on Rukimini Haran was played be ISKCON Vrindavan Gurukul students on same day
...- 6 Oct 2010
By Vrsabha dasI am sure you would like my latest PowerPoint presentation (converted to PDF) on Cow protection. The presentation is in plain English.
...- 5 Oct 2010
By Hari-sauri dasaWelcome to our first annual report and newsletter. It's just over a year since the inauguration of the BRC. We have made good progress, some exciting acquisitions have been donated, and we are full of plans for the coming year
...- 5 Oct 2010
This is the video from Brighton Rathayatra. September 2010. Brighton is the only Rathayatra in England which takes place on the seaside. Coaches came from Soho Street Temple, Birmingham Temple, and Bhaktivedanta Manor. Kirtan singers include: Gaurahari, and Kripamaya prabhus
...- 2 Oct 2010
I was just listening to a Prabhupada lecture today and he was reiterating that if one spend one hour rendering devotional service, his life is a success, but that even if one spends millions of lifetimes in material life, there is no gain
...- 30 Sep 2010
By Madhavendu dasISKCON Kanpur and thousands of the surrounding villages are affected by flood it has brought damage and suffering to ISKCON Kanpur. Prasadam is being cooked last three days in great inconvenience
...- 30 Sep 2010
This year, Yamuna wanted to kiss Vrindavan with no miss. She swelled and swelled and expanded her reaches to embrace Vraja as much as she could. When alarm bells rang, those graced her ways dwelling on her sides moved on to safe elevations fearing her overflowing tears of love
...- 30 Sep 2010
By Abhaya Mudra DasiLet us glance at the astro-data of Raghava das Brahmachary and Ratnavali devi dasi. From the correlations between them, we will see that these two are in fact the same person who has transmigrated from one body to the next
...- 30 Sep 2010
By Patita Pavana dasI have remembrance of my last past life as a brahmachary named Raghava das. This has come about through a sequence of dreams that were later found to be real of events in the life and death of Raghava, as confirmed by those that knew him. His post mortem injuries and my birth marks, scars and illnesses all correlate
...- 30 Sep 2010
By Dhanesvara dasChristopher Lasch, a well-known American social and cultural critic, argued in his last book that democracy was withering in the hands of professional and managerial elites who lack a sense of social and civic values.
...- 29 Sep 2010
I used to take care of Srila Prabhupada's garden in Sri Vrindavan Dhama in the summer of 1977. Srila Prabhupada used to come into the garden every morning and chant japa or listen to some devotees chant Bhajans or read his books outloud
...- 29 Sep 2010
By New Vrindaban Communi - cationsSunday, October 3, is the anniversary of the day on which Hladini devi dasi was brutally gunned down by an extra-judicial firing squad in war-torn Liberia in western Africa. The death squad arrived at the Hare Krishna temple in the capital city of Monrovia in the early morning hours, and ordered the devotees to come out
...- 29 Sep 2010
By Mohana dasThis year we had the largest and "crazyest" Harinam tour so far. Such a venture in this area no one has even tried to do and we also thought at the beginning that we started „to bite too much of a cake“, but somehow we all managed with Krishnas grace ...
...- 27 Sep 2010
By Parasurama DasaTo train the leaders on the importance and urgency of establishing varnasrama dharma, both within our own ISKCON society as well as within society at large, forms an important part of Srila Prabhupada’s mission
...- 27 Sep 2010
On this page of our web site are two videos of the recent Festival of India in Spanish Fork, Utah. An estimated 3,000 - 4,000 people visited the 5 hour event
...- 25 Sep 2010
In this Age of Kali, people who are endowed with sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord, who is accompanied by His associates, by performance of sankirtana-yajna. Other yajnas prescribed in the Vedic literatures are not easy to perform in this Age of Kali, but the sankirtana-yajna is easy and sublime for all purposes, as recommended in Bhagavad-gita also (9.14).
...- 24 Sep 2010