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From the ISKCON Communications Ministry
September 7, 2022

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) today released its decision regarding the status of Lokanatha Swami. That resolution is attached below along with other relevant documents.

The GBC also released two other documents. One is the 73+ page report and recommendations of the 5-member Panel appointed by the GBC to review Lokanath Swami’s situation.

The

By Nandeep VJ   

Have you ever heard of a Bhakti Convocation? Or heard of a graduation ceremony where the students met their teachers face to face for the first time since their teacher-student relationship?

It so happened at ISKCON Coimbatore, on the 24th of June 2022,  the Bhaktivedanta Academy awarded 125 Bhakti Shastri certificates to students who had successfully completed the graduation in the last two years of its operations. Approximately 250 candidates attended the course and exams, an

Oleg Prabhu is a vaishnava from Melitopol. The city has been occupied by the Russian army since March. He needs our help to evacuate his family.

Oleg Prabhu tells us:

“Since the war broke out, the city has been occupied, there are a lot of military men on the streets and right in front of our house. The city is shelled all the time, something explodes almost every night. Because of this, my wife often has panic attacks and, in general, she is depressed, all the side effects following (sleep dis

Hare Krishna,

Welcome to Sri Kshetra Parikrama 2022.

We would like to welcome you to our 19th anniversary celebration of Sri Ksetra parikrama which will be celebrated from the 10th to 13th of November 2022.

Throughout the year various groups of devotees from different parts of the world visit Puri Dham in the name of Puri parikrama or Yatra. During their visit they go to different temples while performing Harinama Sankirtan and engage in hearing the different pastimes of The Lord. Parikrama lite

Kushal Mehra is host to a regular podcast from India who found out about me as a Canadian monastic and marathon walker. It was this morning that he arranged for a recording on the Charvaka Project.

Our guru, Prabhupada, used to bring to our attention a person by the name of Charvaka Muni, whos philosophy propounded that you beg, borrow or steal ghee and enjoy life. Ghee, clarified butter, was a symbol of wealth, so the message was to be the mundane enjoyer. Nothing else matters too much. There’

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By Jaya Govinda dasa

ISKCON Vancouver hosted the inaugural Sage the Earth (not a typo!) event on June 25, 2022. The five simultaneous fire sacrifices, complete with kirtan yajna of the holy names and prescribed mantras, were offered to reverse global incongruities: climate disturbances, wars, and racial violence. 

The presence of sages such as Bhaktimarga Swami, GBC for North American Zone 1, the North; Gauranga Das, director of Govardhan Eco-Village, India; and Ananda Gauranga Das, specialized

By Nandeep VJ   

Srila Prabhupada had said that he feels like an “emperor” every time one of his books gets published in a new language. Crowning him once again, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) of Kerala, India, publicly released The Malayalam Chaitanya Charitamrita on the 26th of June 2022 in the Holy Land of Guruvayur in a lavish setting with famed dignitaries.

Mr. V Muraleedharan, Central Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, released the nine volume, opulently finished Chaitanya Charitamrit

This is the first year of a Chariot Fest, on more of a grand scale, in Canada’s Nation Capital. The chariot, so well constructed and conserved by competent craftsman from Montreal, Abhuy Charan, came in on the scene in this residential student area of Ottawa University. The route of the procession also took us along the Rideau River, where you have many embassies situated from around the world.

Starting from Templeton Street, the chariot and its people-power procession made its way in a counter

With great joy in the heart I would like to announce our this year's

HOLY NAME RETREAT at EKACHAKRA DHAMA....!

Please come and join this transformational journey....
Deepen your relationship with the holy name - in japa as well as in kirtan!

When..........? From this Sat, the 24th to Wedn, 28th of December 2022

We will leave Mayapur by bus on 24th at 5am and will return on the 28th by lunch time.

THIS RETREAT WILL BE OPEN TO ONE AND ALL - MEN AS WELL AS LADIES!

* PRICE: The only price to pay

Every year on the Labor Day weekend, the devotees from Seattle organize a Rathayatra parade and festival for Lord Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra in the Redmond area of the city. I was asked to start off the kirtan and after a while my god-brother, Hari Vilasa prabhu took over.

All Rathayatras are blissful and the Seattle devotees were ecstatic chanting and dancing before Their Lordships. I met one devotee who came all the way from Calgary, Canada to attend. The numbers grew as the parade wen

A gift that the Lord has given to everyone is the opportunity to choose, and especially to make enlightened choices that bring us out of the dark periods of our lives back to a life of enthusiastic Krsna consciousness. It is never appropriate to say “I am a victim of circumstances.” I have seen in my life: no matter the circumstance we can always take shelter in Krsna. You may not always find relief, but you can always find shelter. What do I mean by that? When we are tired we find relief by sle

Last week Janmastami & Prabhupada Vyasa Puja was celebrated all over the world. At Bhaktivedanta Manor, it was extra special with British Politician Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy joining the celebrations.

In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a written message to ISKCON on the occasion of Janmastami, quoting Bhagavad Gita & glorifying Srila Prabhupada’s mission.

Janmastami Day was also special as Narayani devi dasi, ISKCON’s first Vaishnavi (female devotee) diksa guru formally a

I liked our discussion this morning at the Bhagavatam class, from Canto one, wherein two questions were posed by the last of the Yadus, King Pariksit. Question one lodged towards the sage, Sukadev: What should I be doing with my life despite any circumstances? The Second question gets more specific: What is the best way to spend the remaining days knowing I will die soon?

With our usual younger temple members, the Bhakti Academy, on a few days outing, I was in the company of a smaller mature gr

Krsna divided Himself into "two" so He could experience loving exchanges with a women.

For even Krsna, loving exchanges can never exist when there is just "one", there must be "two."

Srimati Radharani and Krsna are exactly the same but exist as two.

As said above, when Krsna wanted to experience loving emotions, affection and exchanges, He knew such love could never happen with just "one", or Him alone, so He created Srimati Radharani.

Krsna divided Himself into "two" just so He could experience tho

By Rasa Krida Parayana dasa

We dedicate and offer to your lotus feet a newly formed Bhaktivedanta Consulting Group. We are committed to work with ISKCON leaders in a totally confidential, objective, and transparent manner challenging boundaries and thoughts.

We are grateful for the talented devotees you have already sent to work with us. We pray you bestow the Bhaktivedanta Consulting Group with more of your dedicated servants so we may serve ISKCON better.

Srila Prabhupada, we seek your endles

Question: I have heard that Bhakti Yoga helps us to give up bad habits. But how exactly does it work?
Radhanath Swami: My dear godbrother, Shyamsundar, he is an example of how bhakti can transform a heart, to help us give up very difficult habits.
In 1967, Srila Prabhupada asked Shyamsundar to carve the deities of Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadra from the little model that they had. He was in his room working, very, very hard. One day, Srila Prabhupada came into the room to examine how the

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Translation
As the spider very easily creates the network of its cobweb and manifests its power of creation without being defeated by others, so also you yourself, by employment of your self-sufficient energy, create without any other’s help.

Purport
The best example of self-sufficiency is the sun. The sun does not require to be illuminated by any other body. Rather, it is the sun which helps all other illuminating agents, for in the presence of the sun no other illuminating a

I do not know all my trees but I can pretty well identify the white pine on my walks and here in the near north, there are plenty of them. In Bracebridge you have awesome trees and in the greater Muskoka area in general, people love their trees. If you’re caught cutting down trees on your property or even what seems like an attempt at deforesting, the town authorities get on your case. I think that’s good.

In walking along Manitoba Rd, Vyasacharya, Jaya Gopal as well as Nimai and I noticed the