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Dear Devotees, Friends and Supporters,In celebration of the glorious 50th Anniversary of ISKCON, we are holding the first ever UK National Convention. This will be a free one day event on Saturday the 22nd August 2015 and the main theme will be glorification of Srila Prabhupada. The venue will be Granby Street ISKCON Leicester.

We see this as a great opportunity to bring devotees tog

These are the words of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who also said, “Vrindaban is my home and Bombay is my office”.

The TOVP Team has published a book by the above name with selected excerpts about the spiritual power of this holiest of sacred places and the manifestation of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.

E-book version can be downloaded by clicking the button below.

MayapurIsMyPlaceOfWorship

real freedom is to get liberation by mercy of lord krishna ! for mercy of lord krishna there are many ways but greatest ways in kaliyuga are reading/listening shrimad bhagwatam,hare krishna mahamantra japa ,hari-kirtana,sant-seva,lord's bhakt seva like shri mahadeva,shri hanuman..... by doing seva of this deities we get faster bhakti of shri krishna,also readling lila-katha from other puranas like brahma vaivarta ,vishnu purana,etc.

one who regularly reads shrimad bhagwatam,he gets liberation and

Hare Krishna.

15th August, 2015. Gurgaon.

 Today is the last in the three series of  glorification of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental qualities and the events leading to his departure to USA.

Lineage: Srila Prabhupada was an authorised spiritual teacher in an unbroken succession that can be traced back to God Himself – and his appearance was predicted. Sages in this line have learned and taught the pure wisdom of God’s original instructions for millennia, and include Vyasa, the author of the sacr

Hare Krishna

14th August, 2015. Gurgaon

( A murti of Srila Prabhupada at his birthplace in Tollygunge)

This the the second in the series of three part glorification of Srila Prabhupada’s qualities and the events leading to his departure to USA.

Teacher: Srila Prabhupada was not just a teacher, but also a teacher of teachers for the modern age. He translated more than 70 Vedic books into English and was honoured by many leading scholars. He taught and led by example, embodying the knowledge that he c

As of August 13, 2015 – the 50 year Anniversary since departure of Jaladhuta on Kolkata dock,

ISKCON can report there are:

CENTRES
602 ISKCON Temples World wide
65 Farms / Eco Villages
54 Educational Institutes: Including primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary Colleges
110 Vegetarian Hare Krishna Restaurants worldwide

DEVOTEES

75,000 devotees in ISKCON have received initiation (taken clerical vows)
7 million worshippers attend an ISKCON centre annually
2000 home study / worship (Bhakti

It was on this day 50 years ago, Srila Prabhupada set out on a Fifty years ago, on August 13, 1965, a lone elderly monk and teacher, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami boarded the cargo ship Jaladuta in Calcutta for the one month sea voyage to New York City not seeking riches, but to teach and distribute the greatest wealth of India and the East—knowledge of God, or “Krishna Consciousness”.

This historic journey introduced the Western world to the Bhakti tradition unlike ever witnessed in history b

Like a River to the Sea

Jahnavi Harrison and Musicians

Label: Mantralogy

Reviewed by: Sanjeevini Dutta

The debut album from kirtan artist Jahnavi Harrison – composer, arranger and principal voice of the collection, takes kirtan to a place ripe for genre crossing. Kirtan is Hindu devotional music which is based on the call and response singing of sacred names. Jahnavi herself grew up in the Hare Krishna community of Bhaktivedanta Manor in Hertfordshire, and as as she says, kirtan was ‘the sound

१९६५ में “सिंधिया स्टीम नेविगेशन कंपनी” देश की सबसे पुरानी, बड़ी और जानी-मानी जलपोत कंपनियों में इस एक हुआ करती थी। मालवाहक पोत होने के कारण अधिकतर उनके जहाजों में दवाइयाँ, कपड़े, खाद्य पदार्थ इत्यादि बड़े बड़े बक्सों में भर कर कई देशो में भेजा जाता था।
उसी वर्ष के अगस्त महीने में एक मालवाहक-पोत, जिसका नाम "जलदूत" था, एक ऐसे सवारी को बैठा कर ले गया जो आने वाले दिनों में संसार भर में एक इतिहास रचने वाला था।
जलदूत नाम का वह पोत अपने नाम का पूरक है,: ऐसा पोत जो जलमार्ग से भगवन्नाम के प्रचार हेतु आध्या

हमारे पडोसी देश पाकिस्तान के कराँची शहर में ९ अगस्त, २०१५ को एक “अपने आप में ख़ास” तरह का आयोजन हुआ । इस्कॉन पाकिस्तान द्वारा कराँची के स्वामिनारायण परिसर में पाकिस्तान की पहली रथयात्रा हुयी ।

यह इस्कॉन पाकिस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार हुआ और वहां के हिन्दू श्रद्धालुओं के आकर्षण का केंद्र बना । हम वहां के भक्तों को शत शत नमन करते हैं जो प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों में भी श्रील प्रभुपाद के आंदोलन को आगे बढ़ाते हुए हरिनाम का प्रचार कर रहे हैं । आइये जानते हैं की पाकिस्तान में हरे कृष्ण आंदोलन कैसे प्रारम

Hare Krishna.

13th August, 2015. Gurgaon

It was today, exactly 50 years ago, that Srila Prabhupada left for USA.

Srila Prabhupada, founder acharya of ISKCON, navigated 36 days through the tumultuous ocean on a cargo steamship, Jaladuta on 13th August 1965, to the western world with a mission to propagate Krishna Consciousness in the western world.

For next three days I will post parts from the 11th and 12th chapter of Prabhupada Lilamrita which describe the days leading to his departure for USA. I w