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I was invited to give a talk on the highest yoga principles at the new Bhakti Yoga Studio near downtown Seattle. It is a nicely set up facility and especially meant for young people who are searching for the meaning of life.

When I arrived there was already a blissful kirtan happening that lasted more than an hour. At the end everyone was so ecstatic that they spontaneously got up and danced with arms in the air.

The young devotees organizing the program told me that they took the lead from simi

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Seattle is a large city so could have a lot of ISKCON temples in different areas. To accommodate a growing devotee community a property was bought in the Bellevue district, which is an important business area just outside downtown Seattle.

It has taken a number of years to renovate the new building and bring it up to the proper city standard for a place of worship. I’ve visited every year and was very inspired to see how close it was to opening. It is twice the size of our Sammamish temple with

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