By Radhapadma Devi Dasi
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, Gaura Nitai, Sri Jagannath, Baldev and Shubhadra and Sri Sri Radha Giridhari.
If one googles and finds what ‘spiritual retreat’ means it would rather be taken as a quiet place where meditation and self is given importance to. The self these days seem to be more important than anything else in this world, but there definitely is somebody who is the creator of this self – the most important and the connection with this Supreme is of utmost
By Satya Medha Gauranga dasa
50 years ago, an enthusiastic young man dedicated his life in the service of Srila Prabhupada to fulfil the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
On 30th of June 1968, 19-year-old Jay shaved up his head, dressed in dhoti and chadar, singing Hare Krishna with joy, was pulling the chariot of Lord Jagannatha on the streets of San Francisco, the chariot that he had been helping to build with His Grace Jayananda Prabhu.
No one had imagined that this 19-year-old Jay, late
By Prishni Shutton
On June 16, organized by the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies, Murali Gopal Das presented a lively seminar at New York City’s Bhakti Center titled “Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, based on Sadaputa’s book of the same name.
Murali Gopal holds a Ph.D. in physics from Ohio University, has served an internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, completed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University, and has taught Sanskrit at the University of Florida. As
By Bhaktimarga Swami
Lecture by HH Niranjana Swami
Gauranga Festival (Ukraine), June 8, 2016
The following is a partially-edited transcription of a lecture given on June 8, 2016 in Gauranga Festival (Ukraine) – First Time Seeing Srila Prabhupada
I oftentimes say, when devotees ask me to speak about Prabhupāda, that I can say my only qualification is that I happened to be on the planet at the same time that Prabhupāda was spreading the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement. I took part in his mission, but I didn’t really hav
Shastrakrit Das: It was a hot and quiet evening and we were just sitting there praying for some mercy. Out of nowhere, this really pious lady approaches the book table with her family. She points to Srimad Bhagavatam first canto and Krishna book asking, ‘how much?’
I said, “for Krishna book, you can give some donation, but the Bhagavatam is $200.”
She was surprised, ‘why this one book Bhagavatam costs so much?’
I told her, ‘Because it’s not just one book it’s an 18 volume set.’
She insisted
ISKCON Panihati celebrated Panihati festival week this year from 22nd – 26th June, 2018 for the first time. His Holiness Bhakti Prema Maharaj was the chief guest for the entire event.
On the day of Ganga-puja i.e. 22nd June we went on Ganga safari via a hired boat from Panihati to Bagh Bazaar Gaudiya Math. About 400 devotees participated in the wonderful kirtans, eye opening lectures by Maharaj and other senior devotees and sumptuous prasadam.
The second day 23rd June was food festival wherein
By Madhava Smullen
Care for Cows Vrindavana held a special event to celebrate Kurma Rupa Dasa’s life and service on June 28th, the third anniversary of his passing.
The founder and director of Care for Cows expired due to cancer in 2015 at the age of 67. But the organization he started continues to support and care for destitute and abandoned cows in Lord Krishna’s holy land of Vrindavana, India.
The commemorative event in Kurma Rupa’s honor took place at the Care for Cows Goshala on the Foo
By Madhava Smullen
ISKCON Fiji held its first ever Kirtan Mela in the island nation’s capital, Suva, from June 8thto 10th, to a rapturous reception.
The event was organized by Braja Govinda Das, a Sydney-based disciple of Tamal Krishna Goswami, who wanted to give Fijian devotees the kind of international kirtan experience they hadn’t had before.
About sixty international devotees – mainly from Australia and New Zealand – attended, along with several hundred from Fiji.
The festivities kicked o
Lilasuka dasi: In gratitude to His Grace Yamaraja das, cent percent servant of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, to whom the depth of debt that I owe I may never fully know.
Recently I heard that scheduled visits to be with you before your departure were being organized. My eyes widened at the opportunity but I hesitated for too long… primarily due to bodily identification and with doubts such as, “Who am I, with essentially no external connection to you to be so bold
By Madhava Smullen
The ISKCON Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture (IMCPA) is busy bringing Krishna conscious farm projects around the world together to share best practices in a series of regional conferences. They hope to hold gatherings in six continents by 2020, culminating in a global summit.
But first, the longest running conference – the European Farm Conference – will hold its eleventh annual meeting in Karuna Bhavan, Scotland, on the weekend of September 7thto 9th.
“We are qui
Gopi Gita: This weekend was the 5th Annual Education Conference in Alachua. To work with fellow educators across ISKCON; to complete endorsement standards in collaborative settings; to identify resources and struggles in many areas; to learn so much and feel so connected with dear friends; to be able to help put it together; A total dream come true. Thank you Sesa prabhu, Ramanan Ram Giridhari Prabhu and David Visvambara Prabhu for an amazing opportunity.
Are you an ISKCON educator? Do you serv
Two days after my birthday was my fathers’, or June 24th. This year I wanted to share some snapshots in my relationship with him, in the hope that it might be useful to you in your journey of self-exploration, making peace with your past (if required), or in general, having a balanced psychology so favorable for spiritual practice. Dear reader, I am indebted to you for taking the time to read this, and to think about your own relationship with your parents. What does it tell you about the natur
By Giriraj Swami
we were blessed with the association of seven stalwart brahmachari book distributors who are following the Warped music tour. They arrived the night before, attended our entire morning program, and then, after breakfast, we discussed various aspects of the practice and preaching of Krishna consciousness. These devotees are extending Srila Prabhupada and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s mercy to many, many fortunate fallen souls.
Hare Krishna.
By Krishna-kripa Das
Yamaraja Dasa, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who served BTG for decades and left his body a few days back, was a great soul. I wrote a letter thanking him for how he benefited me and our ISKCON society in general. Shri-Ram Poddar gave the letter to Punya Kirti Prabhu, who read it to Yamaraja the day before he left. Punya Kirti said upon hearing it, Yamaraja Prabhu smiled. I shared the letter with my Facebook friends to glorify him, and because many people liked it, I decid
Hare Krishna, everyone! I’m BB Govinda Swami and I’m visiting Bhaktivedanta Manor and I was requested to give a brief interview for Kirtan Space. I was requested to speak on important points, points that I feel are important about kirtan.
Naturally I feel that since it’s the process of Mantra meditation, or meditation upon Krishna, we should really be focused when we are participating in kirtan. Whether one is leading the kirtan, whether one is playing the karatals, whether one is playing the m
