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Hare Krishna respected Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila
Prabhupada.

Gadeigiri is a beautiful village situated amidst the tranquil solitude of
rural Orissa surrounded by lotus-filled ponds and green paddy fields.
Gadeigiri has a most interesting history. The village is named after its
founder, Gadai Giri, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This
village is extremely special as Lord Gopal Jiu came here especially from
Sri Vrindavana Dha

We pray that this update finds you all experiencing a very propitious and auspicious Kartika, dear friends. We began the month of October with a painting marathon in anticipation of the *millions* of pilgrims who would soon be inundating Radha Kunda to honor Srimati Radharani’s special Kartika month also known as the month of Damodara. As we hoped, construction on the kitchen has begun! Despite half the building crew coming down with chikungunya (similar to dengue fever only worse), they manage

Latest blissful photos of Arabic book distribution to university students from Saudi Arabia. Two of them insisted on also getting the English Gita -- to learn English from something they suddenly found fascinating -- after being amazed to receive books in their own language! (feel free to share this :))

** Make this bliss happen every single day at the universities and tourist spots in your own area! It's not only easy and ecstatic to do, but it increases your local language book sales at the

Lord Damodar with his wooden mortar enters Bollywood!

On the evening of the 27th of Oct 2016, Bollywood fashion designer Rohit Verma invited Guru Maharaja to have a Damodar program at his fashion studio in Mumbai. It was a short and well organized program where Rohit Verma had invited about 50 of his close friends. Guru Maharaja gave an excellent 15 min class on the Damodar Lila pastime. He especially stressed how Prabhupada wrote him a letter that this Kartik month was a special opportunity li

Diary of a Traveling Monk
By Indradyumna Swami
Volume 14, Chapter 11
November 7, 2016
O Resident of Kailash!

My fascination with Tibet began in the 1960s. I was fifteen, and the hippie movement, with its unconventional philosophies and ways of life, had just taken hold in America. I often visited alternative bookstores in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, and one day I found The Tibetan Book of the Dead in the Eastern Spirituality section. I read it for years until I found a deeper

Radha Mohan das delivered a thought-provoking presentation and answered questions at a public seminar on the subject of science and religion. Other panellists included Revd Prof Nick Goulding PhD, Prof Polina Bayvel FREng FRS and Barney Leith OBE and the event was organised by the Revd Canon Dr Tim Bull from the famous St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire, UK.

“Like most youth of my generation and many previous on the whole I was brought up to believe in God” explained Radha Mohan das in his pr

One thousand Russian devotees, friends of Krishna and Indian community members gathered to celebrate Diwali in spectacular style in Moscow on Saturday October 29th.

The crowd packed out a rented auditorium in ISKCON Moscow’s Kuusinena Street building, just ten minutes’ drive from the Kremlin.

The afternoon was a cultural event to commemorate welcoming Lord Rama and his wife Sita Devi, the heroes of the epic Ramayana, back to their capital Ayodhya.

As guests arrived at 3pm, they entered a foyer

When I was around 17 or 18 years old, I had a desire to join the army and represent India in that way. I wanted to be a Jawan and fight for India. I don’t think I would have been selected in the Army since I have flat feet and wear glasses.

My fledgling Indianism or one can call it patriotism gradually changed after I read Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As it Is. Because, for Srila Prabhupada India was not just a boundary on a map. He transcended sectarian India and made the real Bharata Kand

Goddard family to present archives of Leicestershire architect Joseph Goddard to ISKCON

When: Monday 14th November 2016

Where: ISKCON Leicester, 31 Granby Street, Leicester (Entrance on Bishop St)

Time: 10.30am-11.30am

The archives of famed Leicestershire architect Joseph Goddard are to be handed over to ISKCON in a ceremony on Monday 14th November, at 10.30am.

Tony and Joe Goddard, the great grandchildren of Joseph Goddard, the architect of Leicester’s Clock Tower and the grade 2* listed forme

On this day lord Sri Krishna became a qualified cowherd. Before this day, he was a keeper of the calves.

The Killing of Dhenukasura:

“Thus Sri Krishna, along with His elder brother Balarama, passed the childhood age known as kaumara and stepped into the age of pauganda, from the sixth year up to the tenth. At that time, all the cowherd men conferred and agreed to give those boys who had passed their fifth year charge of the cows in the pasturing ground. Given charge of the cows, Krishna and Bal

The idea that we should not try to see God but act in such a way that he feels pleased to look our way is one of the main philosophical contributions of Srila Prabhupada’s guru, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur. He always made it clear that we are not the seers (that we cannot see God) but that we are the seen (that we can be seen by God). 

Imagine an ant crawling over your book while you read. It cannot see you from its position – you’re something the ant cannot understand because it is t

The day before the start of a three day festival native to India, Clifford Chance LLP hosted their very first employee Diwali celebration; probably the first across any global Law firm. Over 75 top lawyers and business services staff congregated at the Headquarters in Canary Wharf, London on 27th October to understand and extract spiritual wisdom from the pastimes of Lord Rama.

Clifford Chance LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, and a member of the “Magic Circle” of leadin

On the sacred day of Govardhan Puja, Bhaktivedanta Manor hosted a gathering at London’s House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of ISKCON.

The House of Lords is the upper house of the UK Parliament and was built to advise the Crown Imperial since 1295. With the kind permission of the Lord Speaker, the event was hosted in the Principal State Room for an incredible yet intimate gathering of profiled guests renowned in their own discipli

Youth Engagement- Interview with Daru Brahman Das (Social Worker, Care and Assistance, Mayapur)
The thing about young people teenagers, in my experience, they won’t go anywhere they don’t feel wanted so we have to somehow convey that we really want and value young people. And has to be real because they can suss. You know, they are going through so many changes in their bodies, in their minds, relationships, their roles, their thinking, they need a place where they can just be and be real and b

Devotees bring a Jaladuta boat model with them in a Saturday evening Harinama in London (slide show with musical background)

The London Saturday Night Harinama Sankirtan Party’s ranks also were boosted this weekend as many Srila Prabhupada disciples came along to celebrate Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day, which had fallen earlier in the week.
Please find slideshow with sound here:
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/maha_harinama_sankirtan_05112016/slideshow

His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj gave wonderful class on Srimad Bhagvatam Canto 6th, Chapter 17th on verse 36 at ISKCON Vrindavan temple on 6th November 2016. Maharaj initially described the whole pastime of King Chitraketu from Canto 6th of Srimad Bhagavatam and then Maharaj gave whole emphasis on importance of reading Srila Prabhupada books. 

Source:http://www.bhakticharuswami.com/2016/11/importance-reading-srila-prabhupada-books-bhakti-charu-swamis-recent-bhagavatam-class-vrindavan/

The major difference between ISKCON temples in India and in the West that struck me was the difference between weekday activity and weekend activity. As the Indian temples have vibrant monasteries associated with them, these temples are active throughout the week. But most temples in the West have no monasteries at all; so, the activity level there is vey low during weekdays and shoots up during weekends. The highlight in the weekend is the Sunday feast program, where a large part of the local

Wonderful holiday for children was held today at the temple. Thanks to the enthusiasm of our wonderful moms Vaishnavas such holidays have become part of the community that I am personally very happy, because childhood - this is exactly the time when the jiva mind sufficiently pure to accept with all my heart the beauty, purity, the beauty of the spiritual life, Krishna’s service, the time when the form is very bright impressions that will be the foundation of our future life in this strange wor

Krsna’s beauty is stunning! It is said that those devotees who look at Krsna, they gradually become stunned! I am worshipping Krsna in the form of Giriraja Govardhan. It is said that Govardhan Hill is non-different from Krsna. Somehow or other, my Giriraja is really nice, extremely nice. He really is very beautiful! Look on the internet if you want to see Him.

Srila Prabhupada said that if we worship the deity of Krsna then we must try to decorate that deity very nicely and if you do so, then y