And again, another miracleā¦.. Goura Prema dasi, aspiring disciple of Lokanath Swami and performing Kathak classical dance for Maharajās Festivals since she was 3 yrs old, stunned the audience with her swirling and twirling!
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- 18 Feb 2009
In another FIVE days, devotees from all over the world will arrive in holy dhama to celebrate Gaura Purnima festival in this spiritual center. Festival Committee has carefully planned many festivities so that the visiting devotees get more spiritually uplifting experiences and carry the same mood in their preaching fields.
...- 18 Feb 2009
By Ananda Tirtha dasThe second day of the GBC meetings opened with a presentation by the Law Book Committee. Aniruddha Prabhu presented the progress of the committee in revising the current law book which contains constitutional principles, action orders, rules of order, administrative guidelines and governing law.
...- 16 Feb 2009
By Ananda Tirtha dasThe 2009 Annual General Meeting of ISKCON's Governing Body Commission commenced with arati and guru-puja kirtana to Srila Prabhupada, who is present in murti form in the meeting hall. Apart from the large murti, this year there is a small murti of Srila Prabhupada fixed on a beautiful altar near the Chairman's seat.
...- 13 Feb 2009
There is something called ātreadmillā yoga. One can walk and run for miles on a treadmill and sweat until one drops, but one is going nowhere in particular. Is there any wonder why the path of devotion appears to be an immense slog?
...- 12 Feb 2009
By Deena Bandhu dasaThis is one of the best times of the year as the weather is very pleasant and it is not so hot like after Mayapur Festival. Since our festival ends on the 22nd, then everyone has time to reach Mayapur for the Maha-abhisheka on Feb. 25th.
...- 12 Feb 2009
Only he who is free inside, by the application of abstinence (yama) and prescriptions (nyama), can think independently and freely decide, acting with emotional detachment and with no interest for the result of his actions but only constructively in favor of all creatures
...- 12 Feb 2009
By Radhaprema Devi DasiThe official opening of the temple in Aravade is set to turn the usually quiet bucolic village into a buzzing, spiritual wonderland, with thousands of cosmopolitan devotees from all over the world descending to engage in the festival, unarguably a first for this pastoral land.
...- 9 Feb 2009
40 years ago this June, Srila Prabhupada personally installed the beautiful deities of Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakanatha with his own hands. He would often teach his disciples the process of Deity worship, by lovingly worshiping these small Radha Krishna deities himself.
...- 7 Feb 2009
This year, as always, we request you to submit your homages to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa Puja book by April 15. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF E-MAIL ADDRESS.
...- 5 Feb 2009
We hope this compilation will preserve for posterity Srila Prabhupadaās legacy of exchanges with his women disciples and will illumine still more facets of his glories ā how his reciprocation with them endeared his women disciples to him and gave them life-long inspiration and guidance.
...- 5 Feb 2009
By Idaho StatesmanIt's like watering the roots of a tree. When you water the roots, the leaves and branches automatically get watered
...- 4 Feb 2009
As you probably know 2009 is a double Darwin anniversary: the British naturalist was born 200 years ago and his 'The Origin of Species' was published 150 years ago.
...- 4 Feb 2009
By Hrimati dasiMAP (Mayapur Animal protection team) attends and presents a paper at National Symposium for Elephant Health care and Management Practices
...- 3 Feb 2009
One of the worldās longest floating bridges, set over the Demerara River, was out-of-bounds for pedestrians due to repairs on the walkway. Somehow, with a monkās humble persuasion, passage was granted for Rupa and myself. It was 5:30AM.
...- 2 Feb 2009
By The Institute on Religion and Public Policy On January 27, 2009, the religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, US citizen B. B. Govinda Swami, was deported from the airport of Almaty while attempting to enter Kazakhstan. The officials have given no explanation.
...- 31 Jan 2009
Distorted mental representations, not only generate heavy unbalances and serious pathologies on the psycho-physical level, but also impair our access to Reality.
...- 28 Jan 2009
By Nisha ChopadaEveryone knows about Srila Prabhupada book distribution Marathon around holidays, however, what is this Japa-tha-on? Well. Japathon started at Boise, Idaho, USA temple.
...- 28 Jan 2009
By Champaka - lata dasiAdorned in rainbow colored summer attires, Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Radhanath were beautifully anointed with chandan paste and taken out that evening to enjoy boating pastimes in the temple's famous moat.
...- 27 Jan 2009
By a DasaWhat do yoga, spiritual music, and Hare Krishna have to do with Barack Obama? At first blush, not a whole lot. Sure, Obama carried around a Hanuman trinket for some time, as indicated by Time Magazine.
...- 26 Jan 2009
By Abhijit ToleyApplause. The kind that bursts out from the hearts of the audience after a moment of stunned silence. The kind that seems to last forever...
...- 26 Jan 2009
Padayatra was first launched by His Holiness Agrani Swami in Guyana in 1989 from the easternmost Village of Crabwood Creek, near the Suriname border, with a five mile walk daily followed by massive evening sankirtan and other Krishna consciousness presentations.
...- 23 Jan 2009
Kesihanta dasa: He was born and grew up in New York. He joined the Army and after his service to his country, eventually he ended up in New Orleans. There, around 1980, he met the Krishna devotees and felt touched by this religious calling....
- 22 Jan 2009