4th Ratha Yatra in Bhatkot, Uttarakhand

By Bhakta Nikhil

The 2nd of August commemorated the annual Ratha Yatra celebrations at, Bhatkot, a small village in the state of Uttara Khand in North India. August is known throughout India as the peak of the rainy season, with Uttara Khand being no exception. For 3 weeks prior to the festival, there washeavy rain every single day. The day of the Ratha included. The Ratha was scheduled to start at 1 o’clock. Rain still continued at 10 o’clock, half ten,

By Kripamoya Dasa

The other day I had to make a long train journey to Manchester, some three hours north of London, so I took the opportunity to read Navadwipa Mahatmya by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura. In this book, which is an account of Nityananda Prabhu taking Jiva Goswami on a pilgrimage around the holy land of Navadwipa, Bhaktivinode Thakura describes the simultaneous oneness and difference of Sri Vrindavan Dhama and Sri Navadwipa Dhama. In Vrindavan Krsna dances with the gopis, and in Navad

By James Cooper

The universe according to Egyptian philosophy was created from the primal waters, the universe according to the Vedas was created from the causal ocean. According to Egyptian scriptures a lotus flower emerges from the primal waters, according to the Vedas a lotus flower emerges from the causal ocean. From the lotus of Egyptian philosophy Ra the Sun God is born bringing life to this universe, the lotus of the Vedas produces Lord Brahma who engineers this universe. The Egyptians

मलेशिया दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया में स्थित १३ राज्यों से बनाया गया एक संघीय देश है । मलेशिया में चीनी, मलय और भारतीय जैसे विभिन्न जातीय समूह निवास करते हैं। यद्यपि देश का सरकारी धर्म इस्लाम है, लेकिन नागरिकों को अन्य धर्मों को मानने की स्वतंत्रता है।

अंतराष्ट्रीय कृष्णभावनामृत संघ का आधिकारिक तौर पर पंजीकरण श्रील प्रभुपाद द्वारा न्यूयॉर्क में ११ अगस्त, १९६६ को हुआ था। उस समय न्यूयॉर्क के "लोअर ईस्ट साइड" पर उनके पास छोटी सी जगह और कुछ गिने-चुने छात्र थे । आज पूरे विश्व भर में इस्कॉन के ४०० से अधिक केंद

Schedule for 13^th August, 2015   @ Netaji Indoor Stadium

Morning Session (9 am to 1 pm )

8.00am to 8.40am         :   Recorded kirtans and Video playing while devotees are filling

8.40am to 9.00am         :   Pre Program kirtan

9.00am                            :   Welcome Address by HG Atul Krishna Das / HG Ananga Mohan Das

9.05am to 9.30am         :    Kirtans by Mayapur Chandras

9.30am to 10.00 am       :  Lecture by  HH Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaj

10.00 am to 10.40 am     :    Srila Prabhupad

ISKCON is ramping up for its mega 50th anniversary celebrations, with events to be held all over the world throughout the year 2016. These will commemorate the day Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada officially registered the society in New York on July 11th, 1966.

But ISKCON will warm up for that by celebrating another 50th in 2015. They’ll commemorate both Prabhupada’s leaving Kolkata on the steamship Jaladuta on August 13th, 1965, and his arriving in Boston, USA on September 17th.

Hare Krishna.

9th August, 2015. Gurgaon.

Yesterday, 8^th August, was the day when ISKCON was incorporated ISKCON. I copying an article from Back To Godhead Magazine. Kindly read the same and get a sense of what Srila Prabhupada was about to do and from what humble begining, as a general of Mahaprabhu. We should all come together to nurture this Kalpataru, the ‘wish–fulfilling tree’ , called ISKCON and broadcast the teachings of Mahaprabhu in every single town and village of the world.

A brief histor

By Hari-sauri dasa

Dear Hari Sauri Prabhu

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Recently I was involved in a conversation with several devotees regarding vaisnava clothes. Some of them were proponing the idea that sari and dhoti are actually not vaisnava clothes that devotees in spiritual world wear, giving as evidence pictures made by Sharma. Others were saying that Srila Prabhupada didn’t insist on vaisnava clothes but his western disciples wanted to be like him

बंगाल के कुलीना ग्राम से पुरी आये भक्तों में से एक ने गत वर्ष किये प्रश्न को दोहराया :
वास्तव में वैष्णव कौन है और उसके लक्षण क्या होते हैं ?

श्री चैतन्य महाप्रभु ने कहा, “उत्तम श्रेणी का वैष्णव वो है जिसकी मात्र उपस्थिति ही अन्य लोगों को हरिनाम उच्चारण करने के लिए प्रेरित कर दे ।” – चै. च. मध्य १६.७४

अपनी उपस्थिति के माध्यम से प्रचार करने वाले वैष्णवों को अपनी वेशभूषा को लेकर सदैव यह स्मरण रहना चाहिए :

१. हमें वैष्णव वेशभूषा को धारण करने करने में कोई समझौता नहीं करना चाहिए। हम श्रील प्रभुपाद के प्र