Batam is the largest island in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia and is mainly made up of Muslims. Just when the devotees were contemplating how they can push forward Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sankirtan movement in Batam, Krishna gave them an opportunity! Batam city was holding a Cultural Parade in commerartion of the anniversary of Batam city.

Last Saturday 13th December, devotees organized the very first Ratha Yatra festival in Taiwan’s capital Taipei. it was the first time devotees undertook such a major public event. The parade went around on of the main roads of the city with devotees ecstatically dancing and singing, appealing to all the passing by onlookers. The small but richly decorated chariot carrying their lordships mesmerized everyone.

While the name itself tells it all, this special day is to bring all devotees of sweet Lord Krsna together, to bind them closer than ever and to build them stronger as a family to do more and more service to the lotus feet of Lord Krsna. With Him playing around in the backdrop, it can only turn out to be completely spectacular as expected! On Sunday 14th December, the day begun with devotees gathering at the temple for Mangala Arathi and Guru Puja, and right after that, all devotees made their ...

One of the most important activities done in the farm is training devotees for taking up upcoming responsibilities in temples by giving them full day Srimad-Bhagavatam classes and there are about 40 devotees, who are on the verge of becoming Brahmacaris

The Rathayatra procession began at Pointe aux Cannoniers, on the Western side of the bay, and moved gradually Eastward – the entire procession went for more than three hours, from 4 PM until after 7 PM – on the main Grand Bay Beach Road, passing by shops, the business district, the large winding beach area on the bay, the South Indian Subramaniam Swami (Kartikeya) temple, until culminating at the Kamalnath Mahadev Mandir grounds, where prasad was distributed to all.

>During his present North America visit H.H Bhakti Raghava Swami has been talking about a theme which centers on – Land, Cows and Krishna. His Holiness talked about the importance of cow protection and traditional education. He said that unless we understand the essence of what education is, and the basics of what makes an ideal society (varnasrama), any attempt to develop effective, and meaningful educational system will fail. Likewise, our endeavors for a peaceful and harmonized society will also prove to no avail. It is of cru...

Out of curiosity, I looked around, only to notice the leader of the yatra seated inside: His Holiness Radhanath Swami. The sea of devotees present immediately paid their humble obeisance by bowing down to one of the most exalted Vaishnavas to have graced the planet.

On Dec. 14th a grand celebration was held in the premises of the ISKCON Jaipur Sri SriGiridhariDauji temple. The festival marked the opening of the Bhaktivedanta Bhawan, a fully mechanized kitchen, prasadam hall, library and teaching facility with 3 seminar Halls and two guest preaching offices. The Bhaktivedanta Bhawan was made possible by the generosity of Mr. Suresh Kumar Podddar of Mayur Unicoters. Mr. Poddar was inspired by the opportunity to establish Krishna prasadam distribution and to support India’s culture via the libr...

The South African Constitution enshrines the principle of equality as one of its core values. Addressing the injustices of inequality has been, arguably, this young democracy’s primary focus in its first 20 years. Jayadvaita Swami, however, explained how inequality cannot be denied when it is explicitly manifest before us. Some of us are strong and others weak. Some are endowed with certain qualities and others not. Inequality is, however, only superficial, for it is related only to the material body. The principle of true equality of ...