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By Desh Deepak Das

Chandigarh, August 13.

Thousands of residents marched together in the city of Chandigarh, capital of Punjab and Haryana, while loudly performing kirtan and chanting the Hare Krishna mantra to usher in the year long celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

The Founder of ISKCON, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, boarded a ship called Jaladuta on 13th August 1965 to begin a prophetic jou

By Indradyumna Swami

Today is our 40th harinam of the summer. With two weeks still to go, we have distributed 280,000 invitations to our 35 festivals. Not including the great Woodstock Festival, more than 150,000 people have attended our events. Throughout the summer several thousand books have been sold and prasadam has been distributed like a river flowing to the sea. Srila Prabhupada, we are your servants awaiting your next instructions!

By Gaura Krishna das

Hare Krishna dear Maharajas, prabhus and matajis
Please accept our most humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

On the 24th of July 1965 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada embarked on his epic journey to New york by boarding the Calcutta mail via Nagpur in Mumbai. Srila Prabhupad wrote in his diary, ”To start for Calcutta by the Calcutta Mail via Nagpur. Starting from Bori-Banrer at 19 hours in the evening. Vide Ticket Dt 24/7/65. Luggage boo

Q: Well, we will start with your name

Sankarsan Prabhu: Hare Krsna, my name is Sankarsan Das. I am a disciple of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and I joined ISKCON in 1970, and I took initiation in 1972 at Sridham Mayapur. From that time, I am serving in this movement. I used to serve in Calcutta temple as the public relations director.

Q: What does that mean?

S: The public relations director means that I had to go to all the newspapers. I used to cultivate all the newspapermen, all the

The Scriptures call us “nitya badha” or eternally bound.

In a state of perceived embodiment we as individuals possess under 15% control on these bodies or metaphysical terminals of the metaphysical network. With little clue as to who are the Individuals who possess the balance 85% control on all bodies and from where and what is the control mechanism or technology, we exist in this colossal drift perceiving ourselves to be independent.

Bodily there is little doubt of dependence but at least 15% in

Brahmananda: In 1971 Prabhupada was having big public programs in India, and one evening an Arya Samajist challenged Prabhupada. He said, “Oh, Swamiji, you have come to India with your western chelas, but we know all these things. This is our culture. Better you go to the other places and do your work there. All right, you have been to the West, but what about the Muslim countries? What about Pakistan?

You should go to Pakistan and preach there. Make them devotees.” This was in a public panda

Seerojnie: The devotees of Queens invite all to come and celebrate our 7th annual Rath Yatra parade. It begins at 12 noon from the corner of Liberty Avenue and 123rd Street, and will continue all the way to our Mandir at 111-14 101 Avenue at 3:00 pm, followed by the festival’s stage show until 7:00 pm. There will be hours of melodious kirtan as well as a delicious vegetarian feast! Plus a full afternoon packed with dances, bhajans, devotional talks and fun for the entire family.

Saturday – Augu

By Jahnavi Harrison
Submitted by Radha Mohan Das

After 30 glorious years of performance, including almost 20 international tours, UK’s Bhaktivedanta Players marked their outstanding contribution to devotional art with a gala performance of The Mahabharata. This was a brand new production conceived and directed by Jaya Krishna das, and acted by a cast of more than 20.

With the soundtrack arranged by actor and musician, Kishor Murti das, and new props and costumes, the stage was set for a rivetin

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Dear Devotees, Friends and Supporters,In celebration of the glorious 50th Anniversary of ISKCON, we are holding the first ever UK National Convention. This will be a free one day event on Saturday the 22nd August 2015 and the main theme will be glorification of Srila Prabhupada. The venue will be Granby Street ISKCON Leicester.

We see this as a great opportunity to bring devotees tog

These are the words of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who also said, “Vrindaban is my home and Bombay is my office”.

The TOVP Team has published a book by the above name with selected excerpts about the spiritual power of this holiest of sacred places and the manifestation of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.

E-book version can be downloaded by clicking the button below.

MayapurIsMyPlaceOfWorship

real freedom is to get liberation by mercy of lord krishna ! for mercy of lord krishna there are many ways but greatest ways in kaliyuga are reading/listening shrimad bhagwatam,hare krishna mahamantra japa ,hari-kirtana,sant-seva,lord's bhakt seva like shri mahadeva,shri hanuman..... by doing seva of this deities we get faster bhakti of shri krishna,also readling lila-katha from other puranas like brahma vaivarta ,vishnu purana,etc.

one who regularly reads shrimad bhagwatam,he gets liberation and

Hare Krishna.

15th August, 2015. Gurgaon.

 Today is the last in the three series of  glorification of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental qualities and the events leading to his departure to USA.

Lineage: Srila Prabhupada was an authorised spiritual teacher in an unbroken succession that can be traced back to God Himself – and his appearance was predicted. Sages in this line have learned and taught the pure wisdom of God’s original instructions for millennia, and include Vyasa, the author of the sacr