Getting congregation members to sponsor books
The story of this year’s Czech Padayatra began in autumn 2015 when we were thinking how to best celebrate the 50th anniversary of ISKCON and how to please Srila Prabhupada. Our first beacon was Lokanath Maharaja’s appeal to organize at least 50 padayatras around the world. This was our first “DOUBLE IT” moment – to double the number of padayatras in Central Europe. This year we managed to again have a padayatra in Czech Republic and also to i
I read this article about organ donations. Someone sent it around and the article described how you cannot take organs from a dead body. It is not possible because then the organs are spoilt already and can no longer be used for transplant. Therefore you still have to be ‘alive and dead’ at the same time to donate an organ. So this type of death where you can be ‘alive and dead’ at the same time is called brain-dead, the heart still beats but the brain is dead. So people that are heavily inju
During the month of November, every day early in the morning the young daughters of the cowherds would take one another’s hands and, singing of Krishna’s transcendental qualities, go to the Yamuna to bathe.
Desiring to obtain Krishna as their husband, they would then worship the goddess Katyayani with incense, flowers and other items.
Going strong since its launch one year ago the New Raman Reti 2nd Generation Initiative - dedicated to the 25 to 45-year-olds in our community - is going strong since its launch one year ago. Its three main programs are as follows:
1) The Mentoring Program offers an opportunity to develop a working relationship with a qualified senior devotee of your choice and confide in him or her with the aim of improving your spiritual wellbeing. A dozen of our community’s senior devotees have volunteered t
ISKCON Youth Sankirtana Bus Tour Across Mexico
ISKCON Youth Ministry’s annual Mexico Bus Tour is coming up December 9, 2016 - January 3, 2017, taking youth and young adults ages 16 and older on an amazing adventure of a lifetime. Young people will be flying in from all over the USA and Canada, the UK to spend three weeks traveling across Mexico, presenting Krishna culture festivals in towns and villages, going on Harinama Sankirtana, and visiting Mayan pyramids, jungle waterfalls and beaches a
Grihastha Training - The Language of Love and Appreciation.
Free Three-Hour Course.
What: The Five Love Languages Mini Course (no charge)
Where: Bhaktivedanta Academy
When: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., Sunday, November 20, 2016
Who: Presented by Tamohara das and Mantrini devi dasi
Ever wonder why when you try to do something nice for someone, it is not always appreciated? Ever wonder if your spouse appreciates you at all? Maybe the appreciation is there, but you just don’t know the right “love language”
Family of famed architect Joseph Goddard present historic archives to ISKCON
The archives of famed Leicestershire architect Joseph Goddard were handed over to ISKCON in a ceremony on Monday 14th November.
Tony and Joe Goddard, the great grandsons of Joseph Goddard, the architect of Leicester’s Clock Tower and the grade 2* listed former bank on Granby Street, signed over archives and their copyright to the care of ISKCON in the presence of members of Leicester City Council, representatives fro
Recently, there were incidents of anti-corruption protests started by some national leaders in India. They had started nation-wide awakenings to make the people alert and aware for corruption free India and curbing the use of black-money. Such efforts may be appreciable to some extent but they are not perfect as far as wiping out of corruption from a state is concerned. The people are in general attached to sense gratificatory propaganda, and such protests can’t withdraw sinful tendencies from
Going forward with correct policies in place, ISKCON Australia, like other religious institutions, have had to re-evaluate and clarify their policies and procedures in line with expectations of today’s society.
Child Protection:
After the last ISKCON Australia National Council AGM, a proposal was presented and passed that ISKCON Australia strikes up an engagement with the Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF).
The Australian Childhood Foundation has extensive experience in undertaking collabor
As ISKCON’s 50th Anniversary draws to a close, Bhaktivedanta Manor would like to make an epic final offering. Every December the entire ISKCON world focuses all attention on distribution of transcendental literature, something we all know was so close to Srila Prabhupada’s heart. Indeed, he said it gave him life. When a new book was printed, Prabhupada felt as though he had conquered an empire. He told one disciple – “the best of me is in my books.”
Last year’s historic “100k Effort” at the Ma
The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust’s long-anticipated release of Gopiparanadhana Prabhu’s posthumas translation of and commentary on Sri Laghu-bhagavatamrta has finally arrived. This work is particularly important to the devotees of ISKCON because its author is Srila Rupa Gosvami, whose Upadesamtra and Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu are foundational texts of ISKCON’s canon. Indeed, ISKCON’s Founder-acarya, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in The Nectar of Devotion (his summary study of Bhakti-rasa
The family of a Victorian architect who designed some of Leicester's most famous landmarks have handed over his archives to a Hindu temple.
Joseph Goddard designed the Clock Tower in 1868 and the old Midland Bank building on Granby Street in 1872.
More than 100 artefacts, some a 160-years-old, have been donated to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).
It said his "amazing contribution" of designs will go on display.
Updates on this story and more from Leicestershire
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I woke up this morning thinking about the recent election and how we have a new leader, and we have no idea the direction we as a country will go. I would feel better if he was an enlightened, self realized person, with Godly qualities. This however is not the situation, which lead me to review the four defects of the conditioned soul.
A foolish person who manufactures his own ways and means through mental speculation and does not recognize the authority of the sages who lay down unimpeachable
Question: I have not done anything for Krsna. Why would he care about me?
Long before… what happened is this… One day, you were in a street and you did not remember your name. You stood there, looking and you did not know your name or where you are from. You were suffering from amnesia! You had lost your memory and your identity. Anyway – some people saw you and they kind of took care of you. They noticed which languages you spoke and someone of the same language took care of you. So somehow o
By Visvadhika dasi
Obeisances to all the residents of Mayapur Dham. Obeisances to all devotees of the Lord. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On the very auspicious 8th day of the bright fortnight of Kartika, Mayapur Goshala celebrated Gopashtami. It was a jubilant day celebrated by residents of Mayapur, devotees and guests from many different regions of India and from all over the world. To celebrate the day that Krsna and Balarama reached their Pauganda age and became Gopalas, Goshala staff,
And here are the latest blissful photos of Chinese book distribution to university students and tourists from mainland China. In this case, all of them insisted on getting an assortment English books after being delighted, and even shocked, to receive books in their own language! (feel free to share this too 
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** 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
HH.Jayapataka Swami meets HH. Sri Sri Vishwesha Tirtha Swami:
In his recent visit to Udupi, Jayapataka Swami met with Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of the Pejawara Adhokshaja Mutt. Sri Vishwesha Tirtharu is the current Svamiji of the Pejavara Adokshaja Matha, founded by Sri Madhvacharya. Born in 1931, Sri Vishwesha Swami took Sanyas at a very young of 8.
The Krishna deity in Udupi was personally worshiped by Lord Krishna's queens. Vishwesha Swami is now under a two year term, during which he worships
A devotee who is a taxi driver in New York recently picked a person who after seeing Srila Prabhupada’s photo in the car he recalled his meeting with him 50 years back!
“Very providentially he and wife were going to get a rental car, passed by the taxi and decided to take it. I had been sent to a different taxi stand but it was full, so I met them there…. my good fortune!”
This is the video recording of what he said.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/jsliHk
Srila Prabhupada: The yogis are trying to control the senses by force. “I shall go to the Himalayas. I shall not see any more beautiful woman. I shall close down my eyes.” These are forceful. You cannot control your senses. There are many instances. You don’t require to go to Himalaya. You just remain in Los Angeles city and engage your eyes to see Krsna, you are more than a person who has gone to Himalayas. You’ll forget all other thing. This is our process. You don’t require to change your po
