By Govardhana Seva dasa
Recently we were privileged to have Hari Sauri visiting New Govardhana and sharing his knowledge with us.
After spending many years as Srila Prabhupada’s personal secretary, Hari Sauri became motivated to start a research centre and preserve everything possible pertaining to the Gaudiya Vaishnava past.
In 2008, an Indian devotee named Sharma Suka donated a run-down six unit apartment block in Calcutta an
By Madhava Smullen
Archival Research by Chaitanya Mangala.
June 21st, 1976 was a normal day at the Pittsburgh International airport until a group of Krishna devotees from New Vrindaban, dressed in an odd combination of dhotis or saris with large rubber farm boots, appeared. Commuters stared open-mouthed as the fifty-strong crew exploded into a cacophonous burst of chanting, mridanga drums, and gongs in front of the arrival gat
Madhuvan and Talavan Visit by HG Deenabandhu Prabhu on July 6, 2015
Sunday Feast Lecture on About we get do excited by HH Rtadhvaja Swami on 28 Jun 2015 at ISKCON Alachua
(HH Rtadhvaja Swami Maharaja was born and raised in a rural farming community in North Dakota, U.S.A. His first encounter with the devotees was in 1972. It was a few years later, in 1975, that he first came upon Srila Prabhupada's books, started chanting, visited a temple.)
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Lecture on Real Service Gives Permanent Satisfaction by HH Giriraj Swami on 06 Jun 2015 at Towaco
(Giriraj Swami was born Glenn Phillip Teton in the home of a respected Chicago lawyer. He met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)
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Lecture on Difference between Humans and Animals-Christian Scientific and Bhagavatam Understandings by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on Jun 2015
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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Special Invitation:
When: Thursday 9th July 2015.
Where: Archbishop Lanfranc Academy.
Mitcham Rd. Croydon
Time: 7.30 pm
Dear Friends As you may have heard, Krishna Avanti Primary School Croydon was finally approved to open in September 2016 by the Department for Education. With the support of the DfE and Croydon Council, the project is now well and truly underway and now we need your full support more than ever to see the school through to opening and many years beyond for the children of our c
On Saturday, June 20th, we left Delaware after breakfast at the home of Krishna Mohan and Amala Sundari prabhus for the nearby Philadelphia Temple (where we had previously visited in March) for the Bhumi puja yajna of the new temple on the property.
By the grace of Lord Nityananda, only three weeks after we had visited for the TOVP fundraising presentation, they raised almost $900,000, enough to complete their entire project! The Padukas and Sitari were served with attention, and Radha Jivana a
On Friday, June 19th, after arriving at the home of Temple President Krishna Kirtan and his wife Shyamala and their children Gauranga and Vasudeva, we made our way over to the temple of this small but dedicated and growing community of devotees for the TOVP presentation.
During arati the Padukas and Sitari received Their abhisheka and puspanjali from the hands of all the devotees. Our presentation took place outside in a grassy area on the temple grounds and was attended by about 60 devotees a
New York Rathayatra New York is considered the most important city in the world. Therefore, it’s not surprising that it was the first city where Srila Prabhupada preached and established his first center. It was also in New York that he incorporated ISKCON, that the first Harinama samkirtana went out, that Back to Godhead magazine started, that the BBT (originally ISKCON Press) was established, and much, much more. Sri Sri Radha Govinda, the presiding Deities, were installed in 1972.
On Saturda
We spent the following four days in Toronto visiting different devotees’ homes and other nearby temples and devotee communities:
Monday, June
1 Brunch at the home of Shasank and Satyabhama prabhus in Toronto Travel to Muskoka for a TOVP presentation to 50 devotees and Indian congregation members organized by Jaya Gopal and Vyasacarya prabhus: $34,000 pledged
Night spent in Muskoka
Tuesday, June 2
Return to Toronto for lunch at the home of Rupa and Sanatan prabhus Evening sanga with Jananivas at
We had to take an extremely early flight on Saturday morning, May 30th, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to get to Toronto, Canada. We were picked up by Subha Vilas prabhu (his wife’s name is Ashalata), a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and father of one of the TOVP Canada Team, Indresh prabhu, in whose home we were staying for two nights. As a young child he had the extreme good fortune of sitting in Srila Prabhupada’s lap and offering his piggy bank of coins to him.
That evening Indresh and his wi
ISKCON Brampton is a suburb in the Toronto area that has a small temple and congregation of devotees. On Sunday, May 31st we made our way there for a special mid-day Sunday Feast TOVP program which was also attended by His Holiness Bhaktimarg Swami who had come especially for the TOVP presentations in Brampton and Toronto that day.
After an abhisheka of the Padukas and Sitari, puspanjali and kirtan, Bhaktimarg Swami, Radha Jivan and Jananivas all spoke and inspired the devotees with the greatn
We departed from Toronto, Canada and arrived in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, June 5th for the weekend of the Rathayatra and Panihati Festival. The Atlanta Yatra is also one of the original temples opened during Srila Prabhupada’s physical presence, and he visited a number of times, exhibiting various pastimes, including going into a deep trance of devotional love for several minutes before the main Deities, Gaur Nitai.
We initially intended on doing the TOVP presentation on Sunday, but felt the
Absolutely incredible Harinama by HH Bhakti Anugraha Maharaj at Moscow, Russia
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Lismore Lantern Festival - 20 June 2015 (Album with 103 photos)
ISKCON New Govardhana - Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari
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Auckland New Zealand: Friday night harinam (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the material world everyone is envious of his fellow man. Animalistic envy exists in human society as long as there is no performance of sankirtana-yajna, the chanting of the holy names – Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.30.35 Purport)
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Harinam party in Los Angeles, California
If you’ve been reading ISKCON News regularly, you’ll know that there’s been a very successful effort in North America over the past three years to keep increasing distribution of ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada’s books.
And now, the same innovator behind that idea has a plan to give the same boost to street chanting of Krishna’s Holy Names, ano
In order to fill a long felt lacuna for those who wish to start reading Samskritam, a new edition of theMula-ramayana has just been released by Bhakta Demian Martins, an ISKCON brahmacari who holds a Ph.D. in Samskrita from the Benares Hindu University. Bhakta Demian joined ISKCON at Brazil, and spent ten years studying Samskritam at Benares. He now resides at Vrindavan, where he has undertaken research into the works of the great Gaudiya Vaishnav scholar, Baladev Vidyabhushana. His aim is obta
