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"Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity.Without books, our preaching has no solid basis"- Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Cyavana 26-12-71.
Embracing these divine words of Srila Prabhupada in their hearts and acting accordingly, The devotees from Surat has once again emerged victorious in their 4 hours combat against Maya during a fabulous Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra in the Vesu area of Surat city on 30-7-17.
Troops of devotees entered the residential buildings of t
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – A loud toot from a conch shell kicked off the 51st annual Rath Yatra here July 30 morning, as more than 6,000 Indian Americans and members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness pulled chariots bearing replicas of Hindu deities on the mile-long pilgrimage down John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park.
“This is the one day of the year I can fully celebrate my Indian heritage,” Nikhil Swapan of Cupertino, Calif., who attended the day-long festival with his
ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS) is the foremost gathering of leaders and devotees from around the world. The ILS is eight wonderful days of seminars on leadership and related topics within the sacred atmosphere of Sri Dhama Mayapur. Importantly, the ILS is an exclusive and unique opportunity to associate with members of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC), Zonal and Regional Leaders, Temple Presidents and Project Leaders throughout the world.
This will be the fourth ILS. Each ILS has exceede
Dear Devotees,
I am writing to you on behalf of Food for Life Vrindavan.
Every year at FFLV we celebrate Srila Prabhupada's Appearance day by hosting a special feast for 1500 children at our schools. The feast includes Rice Pulao, Poori, Sabzi, Choley & Gulab Jamun (Srila Prabhupada’s Favourite).
This would cost Rs 60/- per person which is equivalent to Rs 90,000 (approx $1400 USD)
This year the feast will be hosted on 16th of August, 2017 at the Sandipani Muni School, Vrindavan. 1500 Brajwasi ki
The Volunteer Care Council at Bhaktivedanta Manor annually organizes a spiritual retreat at Buckland Hall in the heart of the beautiful rural Brecon Beacons mountains of Wales. This year’s edition in late March saw a record number of attendees, including the management team and residents. There was a total of 170 attendees who were all enthusiastic to immerse themselves in topics about Krishna for the weekend. The theme was ‘Looking back, to move forward’, centered around our meditation for 201
Radharani Priya devi dasi Tuesday nights at the Griffith University Student Village are ‘Krishna Supper Night’, where we serve out free, hot nutritious vegetarian meals and have kirtana. This project was started through the University Chaplaincy department. The Cardamom Pod Restaurant sponsors the prasadam, and well-known cook Garuda dasa also brings an equal amount of prasadam from New Govardhana.
The Village houses 500 students, who are mainly from interstate and overseas. The students line u
The students and staff of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Mission School flagged off the Janmashtami Celebrations with a grand Jhulan festival at the school at Andheri, Mumbai. Besides the students and teachers the festival was enthusiastically attended by the parents as well.
The Janmashtami celebrations will be held on Fri, 11th August with abhishekha performed by the students followed by a boat festival in the temple hall. The 121st appearance day celebrations of Srila Prabhupada will be held on Mon
By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON New Vrindaban Communications
Neither Filippo Paonessa nor his wife-to-be Sukhayanti Dasi had any previous experience in cow protection or agriculture when they met at the Toronto ISKCON temple. But they found that they were both inspired by Srila Prabhupada’s words on simple living and shared a desire to follow them practically.
Sukhayanti had grown up in Israel and traveled the world in her twenties, meeting devotees at a Rainbow Gathering in Germany in 2005. Attr
A new format for Padayatra
Padayatra is one of the biggest preaching programs of the year in Slovenia. For the past fourteen years Slovenian devotees have been organising a walk every summer. By walking in different sections each year they have covered the entire country, which is not a difficult task since Slovenia is a small coutry of 2 million people (less than 1/6 of Moscow’s population) with a superficy of 20 000 square kms, the size of Costa Rica or Macedonia, and 1/32 the superficy of Fr
The Turkish Pavilion at Tower Grove Park was the place to be last Sunday, July 30th, 2017! It was buzzing with excitement the whole day! The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) chapter in St. Louis, Missouri was excitingly preparing for celebrating The Chariot Festival for the third year in a row. The organizers and volunteers arrived at the site at 8 am and immediately began to set up and decorate the very colorful, tall,and impressive chariot cart. Other volunteers began
TEXT 26
patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah
SYNONYMS
patram—a leaf; puspam—a flower; phalam—a fruit; toyam—water; yah—whoever; me—unto Me; bhaktya—with devotion; prayacchati—offers; tat—that; aham—I; bhakti-upahrtam—offered in devotion; asnami—accept; prayata-atmanah—of one in pure consciousness.
TRANSLATION
If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit a water, I will accept it.
PURPORT
Here Lord Krsna, having established th
After viewing the installed Kalashes and Chakras, Sadbhuja and Rangavati prabhus have decided that the Dome brackets which hold the Kalashes in place need a color adjustment to match the gold color of the titanium nitrate Kalashes and Chakras. They have created a new design which includes painting sections of the Dome brackets gold.
To fulfill the need for a durable, weather-resistant and long-lasting paint they have turned to a German based company named Keim known for its high quality paints.
Many artists are only recognised for their greatness once they are dead but Beethoven was famous during his life but then, he went deaf. Can you imagine that!? It was practically the worse thing that could have affected him. For a musician, the ear is essential. People who cannot sing, it is not that they cannot sing – they cannot listen! Music begins with listening. It is all about the ear, really!
Beethoven, with the perfect ears, who he could perfectly hear different tones and notes, went de
By Tara Duggan
Troupes of neon-vested Segway riders and strolling tourist families exploring Golden Gate Park on Sunday made way for an especially vibrant interruption: the Festival of Chariots, an annual Hindu parade and celebration with roots going back millennia in India.
Held since 1967 in San Francisco, the festival drew hundreds of smiling worshipers who helped pull three large chariots along John F. Kennedy Drive that carried likenesses of Lord Jagannath — who to many Hindus is known as
By GBC Brooklyn Temple Sale Committee
August 1, 2017
The former president of the ISKCON temple in Brooklyn, New York, Ramabhadra Dasa, has kept the temple locked shut for the last ten days, and this past Sunday he had the “ISKCON” sign removed from the face of the building. The sign had announced the temple’s identity for years.
“Hare Krishna Temple in Brooklyn with ISKCON sign prior to it being removed from the face of the building.”
“The congregation has no idea if and when the temple doors
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