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e would like to welcome you to our 13th anniversary celebration of Sri kñetra parikrama. This year the parikrama day falls on 9th November. On this day, devotees will circumambulate the entire Sri Ksetra dhama, a distance of around 19 Km. This parikrama has been performed since the time Vidyapati visited Sri Ksetra. ISKCON has been organizing this parikrama for the last twelve years, on the specific day prescribed for parikrama as per the scriptures. Last year we had ten thousand devotees parti

Srimad Bhagavatam Class Notes: 10.02.23-24

HG Abhishek Prabhu
North Sydney temple
15.07.2017

Kamsa was stricken with fear. He waited so many years for the 8th child to be born. All his moments were taken up, anticipating the arrival of Krishna. His fear had gone to that extent where he thought of killing his own sister instead of waiting. It was his natural option but he completely refrained from it. He felt the consequences would be too severe. In the pages of history, we see such carnage where

Love must be one of the most over used and perhaps undervalued words in the dictionary. I’m just as guilty as anyone else, declaring my love for cheese on toast, lying in the sun, or, confession time, Raymond Chandler.

In the true sense of the word I wouldn’t say I really love any of those things. For me love means an awful lot more than just liking something rather a lot. Actually in the language of my scriptures, Sanskrit, the word love is only used in connection with God. These texts, known

By ISKCON Coimbatore

The year 2016 marked the Golden Jubilee (1966-2016) of the incorporation of ISKCON ( International Society for Krishna Consciousness) in New York by its Founder Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In continuance with the Golden Jubilee celebration, ISKCON Coimbatore is now presenting a series of inspirational life-changing talks titled “Saaram”.

The first of its kind was held on 12th July 2017, at Nani Phalkiwala Auditorium, Mani’s High School, Co

Everything was seemingly normal before VERTIGO struck his life. BPPV is a type of vertigo which has no medicinal cure. English medicine can atmost try to control the condition but no cure is possible. Google also confirms this.

VERTIGO - is a sensation of losing body balance and in severe cases require assistance while walking. 

This devotee from Bangalore had his parents, wife and his small child dependent on him.

As he tried to get it treated through different doctors, physicians, a strong se

Two weeks ago at Bhaktivedanta Manor, a new garden was dedicated to Srila Prabhupada and his disciples. Since it was the week in which we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formal establishment of ISKCON, I gave the following speech:

If you would please look up and cast your eyes behind me towards this sequoia tree. It’s at least 100 feet high. It was planted here in the 1880s by a gardener who never got to see it the way we can see it today. This tree is one of 183 trees here at the

Canto One, Chapter One

Questions By the Sages 

Srila Vyasadeva offers his obeisances to Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and immediately glorifies the Srimad Bhagavatam as completely pure, free from materially motivated activities, and especially nectarean having emamated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva Goswami. (1-3) The narration of the ”Bhagavatam• begins in the holy place of Naimisaranya, where great sages first glorify Srila Suta Goswami, the speaker of the Bhagavatam, and

A nice South Indian gentleman, Suresh, and his family approached my book table a couple of months ago and bought Krishna Dharma's thick 
Mahabharata from me. We exchanged numbers. I send favorable people some Krishna conscious quotes.

Recently, to my surprise, I received a text from Suresh saying that his 12-year-old son Sreyas is on a school break for the summer and has 
read the Mahabharata three times cover to cover. Sreyas kept asking Suresh for more books about Krishna. Suresh suggested t

The devotees from the TOVP team are developing a project called FullDome. This project will be located on a small piece of land near Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi.

Operation FullDome is a way to give any visiting guest to Sri Dham Mayapur an opportunity to experience the most unique immersive spiritual experience in a spiritual town. The visitors will relax in comfort and watch high-quality presentations of professionally made FullDome films, using only top grade technology – the same technolo

Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held his first ever Ratha-yatra festival at home. Many years later, ISKCON’s first ever Ratha-yatra was held in Los Angeles, San Francisco on July 9, 1967, and tens

When sites for Sunday temple feasts become dining destinations

For many Americans, the common perception of the Hare Krishna faith is young men with shaved heads and saffron robes professing their faith in airports and city centers. Founded in the 1960s by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Hare Krishnas, or International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), formed to encourage the spread of bhakti yoga, a Hindu spiritual practice in which followers devote all actions and intenti

Mumbai: Actress-politician Hema Malini, who is currently in Russia as part of a parliamentary delegation, visited the Iskcon temple in Moscow.

Hema Malini on Monday night took to Twitter to share a string of images of herself from the temple where she did aarti.

"At the Iskcon Temple, Moscow, where we were given a warm welcome and served a tasty lunch," she added.

Source:http://zeenews.india.com/spirituality/hema-malini-visits-iskcon-temple-in-moscow-2022884.html

Siddha-svarupa: McDonald's, they are very proud. They announce how many hamburgers they have sold. They have branches everywhere in the world.

Prabhupada: Hamburger means?

Siddha-svarupa: Uh, that's beef. They kill the cows at an unbelievable rate, the number of cows they're killing for their meat.

Manasvi: I think up to now they have sold 200,000,000 hamburgers, or something like that.

Prabhupada: You also keep account? [laughs]

Manasvi: No, they put that ad in every day.

Siddha-svarupa: They

In the book The Seventh Goswami, a biography of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura , it is stated that Thakura Bhaktivinoda prayerfully invoked the Lord, and expressed his heartfelt desire,  “When will that day come when the fair-skinned foreigners will come to Sri Mayapur-dhama and join with the Bengali Vaisnavas to chant ‘Jaya Sacinandana, Jaya Sacinandana!’ … Very soon the chanting of Harinama sankirtana will be spread all over the world. Oh, when will that day come when people from America, England,

There was arranged the Rathyatra festival on 25 June'17 Sunday, on the auspicious day of Ashadh dwitiya in the city of Surat, Gujarat. Since Surat is one of the major cities of Gujarat, many thousand faithful people took part in it with a great enthusiasm. It was one of the best chance for the devotees to please Srila Prabhupada by distributing his books as Rathyatra is a festival in which totally new beginners wh

Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held his first ever Ratha-yatra festival at home. Many years later, ISKCON's first ever Ratha-yatra was held in Los Angeles, San Francisco on July 9, 1967, and tens of