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By Prishni devi dasi

Krishna-kripa dasa is known for his blissful engagement traversing the planet singing the glories of the Holy Name. But three decades ago he began what may appear to be a very different kind service with the Bhaktivedanta Institute: In 1988 he visited the San Diego branch and offered to engage his BA in Computer Science from Brown University, in its scientific preaching mission. The San Diego BI team – Sadaputa, Drutakarma, and Madhavendra Puri Prabhus – invited him in. He

Agnideva Das leads kirtan

By Kadamba Kanana Swami

Vaisnava Seva was the first ever studio album by Kadamba Kanana Swami. It was recorded, mixed and produced in Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa in April 2000. It remains, as of today, one of the greatest albums that Kadamba Kanana Swami has made.

Here is your chance to get the Vaisnava Seva album or the individual tracks of your favorite platform. We have launched this album on all major platforms like iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and many others so you won’t miss ou

Kartik is an auspicious month to go deeper into our spiritual practice. This month is particularly dear to Krishna and those that perform spiritual activities, including chanting and hearing, will see the benefits compounded.

A great way to receive special mercy of the Lord is to chant and dance together for as many hours as possible in a day. For that reason we are inviting every one of you to join for this 12 hour kirtan. Come, chant and dance with your family and friends with all your hear

By Ramai Swami

The GBC Body met at ISKCON Ujjain on the invitation of HH Bhakti Caru Maharaja, this year’s GBC Chairman. The mid-term meeting is held at a different location every year and next year it will be at ISKCON Kanpur.

The meeting is usually a strategic planning session with discussions on constitution, outreach preaching, communication etc. The GBC also spent two days with the Indian Bureau members who are responsible for overseeing ISKCON’s activities in India.

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Roles of zonal supervisors should meet standards set by Srila Prabhupada, assert members

About three dozen Governing Body Commission members, including the senior sanyasi and sadhu of the ISKCON, went on a sight-seeing tour of Ujjain, under the guidance of chairman Bhakticharu Maharaj. They first paid a visit to the Mahakaleshwar Temple and then visited Narsing Ghat, Ram Ghat, Sandipani Ashram. They were briefe on the importance of these places.

Ujjain : The Governing Body Commission (GBC), to

By Bhaktivedanta Vidyapitha

The compassion exhibited by Parikshit Maharaj is indeed exemplary. Although he had a few days to live, still he inter

From Back to Godhead

Prayer is the universal language by which the human heart communes with the divine heart. Poetry is an artistic means for verbalizing the heart’s deep emotions. Singing is a popular method to express one’s emotions.

The integration of these three – prayers composed poetically and sung individually or collectively – is a powerful and joyful way to channel human emotions

By Chirag Dangarwala

In Bhagavad-Gita 14th Chapter, Lord Krishna explains the three modes of natures that are controlling the activities of all the living entities in the material world. Lord Krishna says,

sattvaḿ rajas tama iti
guṇāḥ prakṛti-sambhavāḥ
nibadhnanti mahā-bāho
dehe dehinam avyayam [ B.g 14.5]

“Material nature consists of three modes — goodness, passion and ignorance. When the eternal living entity comes in contact with nature, O mighty-armed Arjuna, he becomes conditioned by

By Ishvara Krishna Das

I would like this work to be considered a contribution not only to the study of the Bhagavad Gita, but to the emerging field of Comparative Theology, as once the structures of great theological works could be articulated, these could be compared, contrasted and grouped together, thereby offering a unified sense of pluralistic spirituality which may serve as an alternative to materialism. Originally, Greek philosophy was inseparable from Greek religion, and only gradually

By Bhakta Mukesh

Brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva, guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja (CC Madhya 19.151). True to this revelation by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the lives of Wellington Vaiṣṇava community blossomed with good fortune when HH Vedavyasapriya Swami Maharaj recently graced Wellington. A disciple of Srila Prabhupada and one of the initiating gurus of ISKCON, Maharaj visited Wellington from 27th Sep (Wed) to 2nd Oct (Mon) to reunite with Wellington community and created an env

By Srila Vyasadeva

The Bhagavata Purana, commonly referred to as the Srimad-Bhagavatam, is considered the ripened fruit of all Vedic knowledge. Sri Vyasa Muni, the compiler of the Vedic texts, advises us as follows:

nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam shuka-mukhad amrita-drava-samyutam nigama bhagavatam rasam alayam muhur aho rasika bhuvi bhavukah

“O expert and thoughtful men, relish Srimad-Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Sri Shuk

By Padmapani das

Our dear Godbrother, Tribhuvanatha das, departed from this world on October 16, 2001. A lot has been written about Tribhuvanatha Prabhu over the years — his dynamic preaching programs, his ecstatic harinamas, his fired up classes, etc. — but I simply remember him as my best friend.

Over the years there were so many special times that we shared together in England, India and the Middle East. Wherever we met the nectar always flowed with Prabhupada-katha. Sometimes due to flight

By Anand Caitanya das

ISKCON’s Govardhan Ecovillage (GEV, www.ecovillage.org.in) received the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) Green Platinum Ratings during the Green Building Congress 2017 which took place on October 4th – 7th in Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur, India. Shri Gauranga Das, Director of Govardhan Ecovillage, received this award from the hands of Mr. Gurmit Singh Arora, Co-Chair, IGBC Mumbai Chapter.

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has established Indian Green Building Council

By Narada Muni Das 

Rome - A seminar, held on September 26th, 2017, in Italy’s House of Parliament, at the Sala del Refettorio, and organized in co-operation with MP Lacquaniti, has discussed the problems of religious freedom in Russia, a cause of serious concern in Europe.

A case in question was the recent banishing of the Jehovah's Witnesses. In the meantime, Russian authorities have moved against other religious and spiritual movements, with the same accusations of "extremism" used to suppor

By Danae King

On a recent sunny morning, Dr. Piyush Gupta was gazing across a broad expanse of land just west of Hilliard.

Many might just see a dew-covered field dotted with groups of trees, but Gupta can imagine a large, white stone temple rising up from the ground.

The site, just off Walker Road, is the future home of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Columbus, of which Gupta is a council member. ISKCON is a society for Hare Krishnas, who believe meditation can purify one’s

By Cintamani Dhama-dasi

Many devotees undergo so much material tribulation in life. Despite the fact that we have given up the four sinful activities and we daily engage in Sri Krishna Sankirtan…still we suffer from financial problems, severe health problems, relationship problems, political persecution….Why? In this exchange between the imprisoned kings and Lord Krishna we get an amazing insight why this is all actually the mercy of the Lord on His devotees:

“The time element is so strong that

By BBT staff

A European division of BBT (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust) is in the process of printing the largest sacred text in the world! Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As t Is. It will be 2.8 meters high (9.18 feet) and 2 meters large (6.56 feet). It will weight 750 kgs. The idea is to make it travel all over the world as a big piece of religious art and people can take darshan and worship the Bhagavad-gita as a Deity. The Bhagavad-gita is also a Deity of Lord Krishna because His words are the