By Divyanam DasI'm sure that you all had a busy but blissful Janamashtami and Vyaspuja; And now preparing for Radhashtami to please Srimati Radharani and Srila Prabhupada. There is yet another big opportunity coming up to please Srila Prabhupada. World Holy Name Week (WHNW) 2011 - September the 10th till the 20th
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- 31 Aug 2011
By Bhakti Raghava SwamiI must say it was a memorable event, spending 2 weeks at the Saranagati Eco Village community focusing primarily on compiling a document that will hopefully help further the cause of varnasrama dharma development
...- 27 Aug 2011
By Lakshman dasA huge 15-feet high silver ratha (made out of 4500kg of silver) was brought from the Perumal Temple and was initially meant to be used for the Ratha Yatra. However, owing to its height the Silver Ratha could not enter the Toa Payoh stadium
...- 27 Aug 2011
By Nandini Radha devi dasiLos Angeles ISKCON celebrated a very special festival during the weekend of August 20-22, 2011. The special occasion was the 40th installation anniversary celebrations of the presiding Deities of New Dvaraka, Sri Sri Rukmini -Dvarakadhisha
...- 27 Aug 2011
- 26 Aug 2011
By Siddhanta dasIt is with pleasure that I can present this latest collection of memories on this auspicious day of Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja. We hope you derive some inspiration in these remembrances of His Divine Grace
...- 25 Aug 2011
August 12, 2011 was Vara Maha-laksmi Puja, a very big festival in South India and other parts of India as well. It is especially important for the ladies of the family, who according to Manu and other sastras are representatives of Laksmidevi in the home
...- 25 Aug 2011
By Basu Ghosh DasThousands of faithful devotees thronged ISKCON Baroda for Sri Krishna Janmastami on Monday August 22, 2011 and again for Nandotsava and Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
...- 25 Aug 2011
He is drifting in and out of consciousness, but is mostly unconscious and cannot breathe at all on his own. One lung is completely collapsed, the other one full of mucous. They have moved him back to his home at the temple in Ulnasgar as the doctors said there is nothing more they can do at the hospital
...- 25 Aug 2011
By Krishna-mayi Devi DasiAppreciating the influence of ISKCON in preserving Indian spiritual culture and traditions, Friends of India, Las Vegas invited Govinda’s Center / ISKCON Las Vegas to participate in the festivities. We happily accepted this invitation as an opportunity to bestow Lord Caitanya’s mercy on the very needy souls in Las Vegas
...- 25 Aug 2011
By Indradyumna SwamiToday on the occasion of your Vyasa Puja it is with great pleasure I report to you that once again hundreds of thousands of people have received the great mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu on the Baltic Sea coast in Poland. That mercy has taken the form of your books, the holy names, prasadam distribution, and the blissful association of many wonderful devotees
...- 23 Aug 2011
By Rupanuga DasEven though Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam were spoken and recorded in 3,000 B.C., it wasn't until 1965 A.D., 5,000 years later, that these original sastras containing the Yuga Dharma were released from India by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Bhaktivinode Thakur had previously inaugurated the Hare Krsna Movement, the emblem of that Yuga Dharma, when he sent his Caitanya—His Life and Precepts to McGill University, Canada, in 1896
...- 23 Aug 2011
By Radha Mohan DasThe world’s largest Janmashtami festival outside of India at Bhaktivedanta Manor attracted more than 60,000 pilgrims on 21st and 22nd August. This year celebrated the launch of the Ahimsa Dairy Foundation, which sells milk from cows that will be retired when their milking days are over and uses bulls to work the land.
...- 22 Aug 2011
By Cody Clark
Sometimes being in the right place at the right time means being in the middle of Utah’s largest city in the throes of an economic recession. It’s an unlikely combination of factors that is helping Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork expand its worship and cultural offerings into Salt Lake County
...- 22 Aug 2011
October 21st - 6.00 pm. The end of the world when God will unleash no end of disasters in the form of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and whatever it takes to end everyone except His elect sect who will ascend to heaven. Actually it was supposed to be May 21st but somehow the Lord gave a little more time to the non-believers to repent and reform before doomsday
...- 21 Aug 2011
By Yudhistir Govinda DasHuddled amongst the thousands of buildings in one of the busiest Delhi markets, at end of one of the myriad narrow lanes, a rustic but palatial structure in Chippiwada would miss out any common man’s sight. But to the followers of Srila Prabhupada, this building housing the Deities of Sri Radha Krishna is where he had began his initial preaching of Krishna Consciousness years later which was to burgeon as a global movement spreading the message of Lord Chaitanya
...- 20 Aug 2011
By Indradyumna SwamiHe makes a song of the names 'Hare,' 'Krsna' and 'Rama,' and by giving it to the mass of people destroys all obstacles such as sorrow, delusion, greed, and suffering. He grants devotional service to the multitude of devotees who are eager for the shelter of Lord Krsna's lotus feet
...- 19 Aug 2011
- 14 Aug 2011
Through our Walk for Peace and our Rathayatras, we hope to show that we can put on a massive demonstration where there’s no violence of any kind, and all the participants are completely happy
...- 14 Aug 2011
Manchester is the third biggest city in England and it's even got two football teams. On the 6th of August we had the annual rathayatra festival. At one stage all these young kids got into the Kirtan. To my knowledge these kids are called "emos", the maharaj was calling them emus, we soon got over this misunderstanding. Enjoy the movie
...- 14 Aug 2011
By Nandini Radha devi dasiISKCON Los Angeles celebrated Lord Jagannath’s Ratha Yatra on July 31, 2011 with great pomp and fervor. This is the biggest and most exciting event organized by the temple. Their Lordships Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra gave unlimited mercy to countless people by coming out of Their temple and riding magnificently on Their gorgeous chariots
...- 14 Aug 2011
Twenty-one Krishna conscious souls made the pilgrimage from the Govinda's Center in Las Vegas, Nevada last weekend to celebrate the occasion of the 35th Annual Festival of the Chariots in Venice Beach, California and to visit A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's Temple, the house he built in which the whole world could live
...- 11 Aug 2011
This July 19 devotees from England travelled to Scandinavia "Of generals I am Scanda". The first Rathayatra was at Arhus in Denmark the devotees had arranged it to coincide with the with the opening of their first preaching centre there
...- 9 Aug 2011
For three hours last Saturday, 6th August 2011 two hundred devotees participated in a maha harinam in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. 4200 of Srila Prabhupada's books and 9500 packets of caramelized peanut prasad were distributed to Native African citizens
...- 9 Aug 2011