Every year the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA puts on the biggest Holi celebration in the Western Hemisphere. In 2011 the Spanish Fork Police department estimated that over 40,000 people attended in the first day alone of the two-day festival, starting on the 27th of March. Organizers carefully rationed their stash of approximately 120,000 bags of colored powder.

Attendees come from all over the country (and some from abroad), but the majority of attendees are students from Brigh

Last year ISKCON Secunderabad started a namahatta center in Kukatpally area which is a part of the city’s IT neighborhood. The center has grown by leaps and bounds. A grand Ratha-yatra in the area was held within two months of the center's opening.

The area is inhabited by a large number of DINK couples (double income no kids) but of course there are others who have kids.

When the center started the children programs, many parents approached the center and expressed their inability to attend due

 The Moscow National Book Fair "Books of Russia 2011" took place on March 16-21 at the Russian Exhibition Center. For the third time in the last two years, Vaisnavas of Moscow Yatra participated in the event.

Srila Prabhupada encouraged his followers to "let there be systematic propaganda for popularizing reading of the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam", and that is why devotees could not miss a chance like this to present Prabhupada's books to the public.

This time the participation of Sri

 The Bhakti Center of New York City is in East Village, within a three block radius of a funeral home, a nail salon, two housing projects, a cemetery, three gay bars, and a Jewish deli. Their ashram, or spiritual place of residence, is tucked away in a quiet five-story walk-up on First Avenue, above The Bhakti Cafe, a vegetarian and raw food luncheonette run by the center’s practitioners. It is almost 10 a.m. when Dave buzzes me into the building.

As I walk up the stairs, I pass a framed print of

 An incredible 25,000 devotees attended the opening of a brand new temple in Ravet on the outskirts of Pune, India this March 21st through 22nd—including Gopal Krishna Goswami, Lokanath Swami, Radhanath Swami, Chandramauli Swami, Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, and many other senior devotees from ISKCON temples across Maharastra.

On the first day of the festival a fire ceremony was performed by Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, followed by an “Abhisekha” in which the local devotees bathed the Sri Sri Gaura Nita

A Krishna conscious person follows the following principles; Krishna consciousness, No Intoxication, No Meat eating, No elicit sex, No gambling, Accepting the law of karma and reincarnation:

1. Krishna (God) consciousness.

Do you follow a God with no name, unknown address, unknown description, and u

"Just as the sunshine is spread all over the universe, the energy of the lord is spread all over the creation, and everything is resting in that energy."

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura movingly describes the precariousness such person experiences:

"alas, how unfortunate i am. having ffallen into this insurmountable ocean of material existence, i am being thrown here and there by the violent waves of my wicked desires.... i cry miserably at my helpless condition.

but i do not see any hope of being saved. what should i do? how will i be delivered? i do not see any solution to my dilemma. oh Lord, take me to You. take me up to the shade of the cool dust o

when the soul slowly awakens from the dream of material life, it can understand that it has long served ungrateful masters- the mind and the body. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes....

"At that time the aakened soul says in effect to the mind and body: i am not identical with you. i do not want what you require. i have long believed that i was identical with both of you and we shared the same interest . but now i find categorically i am different from you. i am made wholly from the

Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his Golden Avatar

We will celebrate the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu on March 19th. Since this is weekend day, everyone should have free time to participate in our festival. We want to spend the day chanting the Holy Name and hearing about Lord Chaitanya’s lila.

Guest Lodge will be open for Gaur Purnima. Please call 304-843-1600 Ext. 111 for reservation.

1. om sri-krsnaya namah

2. om kamala-nathaya namah

3. om vasudevaya namah

4. om sanatanaya namah

5. om vasudevatmajaya namah

6. om punyaya namah

7. om lila-manusa-vigrahaya namah

8. om srivatsa-kaustubha-dharaya namah

9. om yasoda-vatsalaya namah

10. om haraye namah

11. om caturbhujatta-cakrasi-gada-sankhambujayudhaya namah

12. om devaki-nandanaya namah

13. om srisaya namah

14. om nanda-gopa-priyatmajaya namah

15. om yamuna-vega-samharine namah

16. om balabhadra-priyanujaya namah

17. om putana-jivita-haraya nam

108 Names of Lord Sri Rama

OM SHRI RAMAYA NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, the Giver of happiness

OM RAMABHADRAYA NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, the Auspicious One

OM RAMACHANDRAYA NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, who is as lustrous as the moon

OM SHASHVATAYA NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, to the ever-lasting one

OM RAJIVALOCHANAYA NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, the Lotus-eyed

OM SHRIMATE NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, the Abode of Lakshmi

OM RAJENDRAYA NAMAHA

Obeisances to Sri Rama, the King of kings

OM RA