On September 15th, brahmacharis from the Radha Krishna Temple in London celebrated the 50th anniversary of ISKCON UK by recreating The Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road album cover and sharing the photos throughout social media.
“After we celebrated ISKCON’s global 50th anniversary in 2016, I was keen to capture the mood of something quintessentially British for our own UK Golden Anniversary in 2019,” says UK communications director Mina Sharma. “And what is more British than
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The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is celebrating its annual Mega Youth Fest ‘UDGAAR – An Expression of Goodness and Joy’, on October 6th at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. The theme for this festival is ‘Anti-Addiction: Making India Addiction Free’. The new world record for “ Largest Drug Awareness Lesson” will be established at the festival which will be delivered by Dr. Vivek Bindra, famous motivational speaker and Business Coach. T
Traditions across the world have stories similar to the Western classic about Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. In such stories, the same person acts sometimes like a principled, selfless benefactor and sometimes like an opportunistic, self-centered malefactor.
And similar is our own story too. What makes us behave like this? Our mind, or more precisely, the way we respond to our mind. Our mind reacts impulsively to external perceptions and internal recollections; it becomes infatuated with some things and
In our times, equality is considered one of the most cherished values. Few things provoke as much indignation as incidents of discrimination – or even allegations of discrimination. Such outrage is healthy, for it helps create a world where everyone has equal opportunities.
Still, what is the basis for our longing for equality? Intuition, we might say – we innately feel that everyone should be treated equally. Yes, but what is the basis of that intuition? In other words, what is the worldview t
Thousands of devotees from all over Ukraine and Moldova flocked to Koblevo, a Black Sea resort near Odessa, to attend Ukraine’s Bhakti Sangam festival from September 12th to 16th.
Launched in 1996 by Niranjana Swami and starting with an attendance of only 400, it grew to become one of ISKCON’s biggest festivals, with an unbelievable 12,000 devotees participating at one point.
With less devotees having the funds to travel since the Russo-Ukranian war began in 2014, and fo
Question: Whose mercy is more important, Guru or Krsna?
There is no difference between the mercy of Guru and Krsna, no difference whatsoever. The Guru is the direct representative of Krsna in each of our lives. In the beginning, we naturally see that the Guru is more accessible because he is here in our world and he speaks to us directly. Sometimes he would chastise us, and sometimes he would encourage us. So the Guru has the power to correct us.
Krsna on the other hand is silent. Now, He may
D Magazine of Dallas, Texas has published a ten-page feature article about the Dallas Radha Kalachandji temple in its September 2019 issue, exploring Deity worship in-depth, pujaris’ relationships with Krishna and what makes the Dallas ISKCON community special.
D Magazine is available at every grocery store in Dallas, and is one of the best-selling magazines per capita in the U.S. on local newsstands. Devotees are saying that its piece – entitled “The Wild Pursuit of Bl
Äkāśamuṣṭihanana nyāyaḥ (striking sky with fist)
A man was threatening to strike the sky with his fist, because he was angry at it. But sky remained calm and silent as always, leaving the angry man bellow.
Atheists are proud of their meager powers, which are tiny compared with the vastness of thy sky, power of the nature, not to say the might of the Supreme Lord, under whose order the material nature works. Their performance of arrogance and intimidation result in anger, all that shorten their l
By Chaitanya Charan Das
Suppose we accidentally take a drink that acts like poison for us in our particular health condition. As soon as we realize what we are doing, we will immediately stop drinking it and take some antidote.
When we gain spiritual knowledge, we understand that sensual indulgence acts like poison, even if it tastes initially like nectar (Bhagavad-gita 18.38). Despite understanding this, we still succumb to sensuality because our conditions or conditionings highlight the initi
In Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science (1981) (MNMS), Richard L. Thompson presents a nonmechanistic theory of consciousness drawn from the Bhagavad-gita, a summary of Indian’s ancient wisdom.
He reveals his motivation:
It [science] tells us that the individual person is nothing more than a machine composed of material elements. This machine has come into being only because it and the other machines in its ancestral line happened to be effective at self-duplication in their particular environ
While devotees are often focused on caring for their spiritual health, our bodies are temples that we use to serve Krishna, and must not be neglected – especially as more ISKCON members become advanced in age.
“It is important to keep the body fit and healthy so that we will not meet the obstacle of ill health while serving Krishna,” Srila Prabhupada wrote in a letter dated June 19th, 1975. “Ill health may hinder one’s service, so, we want to avoid it as much as possible
SRI KRISHNAR PERUMAL , OUR SOLE COSMIC HEAD OF THE ALL THE WORLDS
(Perumal in Tamil means Parmaatman/Brahman, the sole creator Lord Sriman Narayana
AT THE VERY OUTSET, COUNTLESS PROSTRATION TO OUR MOST BELOVED SRI NANDA GOPA APPA, SRI YASHODA AMMA AND OUR MOST BELOVED REVERENTIAL AZHWAR SRI VISHNUCHITTAR ( SRI PERIA AZHWAR), OUR MOST LOVING SRI ANDAL AMMAS FATHER , WHOM NONE IN THE ENTIRE COSMOS CAN COMPETE IN VAATSALYAM BHAVAM (SUPERLATIVE MATCHLESS MOTHERLY LOVE)
On the very auspicious occ
WELCOME TO SRI KSHETRA PARIKRAMA
PURI DHAMA
14-17TH NOVEMBER 2019
On behalf of ISKCON Mayapur, we would like to welcome you to celebrate our 15th anniversary of Sri Kshetra Parikrama. This parikrama dates back to the time of Vidyapati, who was one of Lord Jagannatha’s most intimate worshippers, serving under the great King Indradyumna. Following the footsteps of our previous Acharyas, ISKCON Mayapur has been organizing this parikrama for the last 14 years. Honoring this tradition ISKCON Mayapur
