On Saturday, June 20th, we left Delaware after breakfast at the home of Krishna Mohan and Amala Sundari prabhus for the nearby Philadelphia Temple (where we had previously visited in March) for the Bhumi puja yajna of the new temple on the property.
By the grace of Lord Nityananda, only three weeks after we had visited for the TOVP fundraising presentation, they raised almost $900,000, enough to complete their entire project! The Padukas and Sitari were served with attention, and Radha Jivana a
On Friday, June 19th, after arriving at the home of Temple President Krishna Kirtan and his wife Shyamala and their children Gauranga and Vasudeva, we made our way over to the temple of this small but dedicated and growing community of devotees for the TOVP presentation.
During arati the Padukas and Sitari received Their abhisheka and puspanjali from the hands of all the devotees. Our presentation took place outside in a grassy area on the temple grounds and was attended by about 60 devotees a
New York Rathayatra New York is considered the most important city in the world. Therefore, it’s not surprising that it was the first city where Srila Prabhupada preached and established his first center. It was also in New York that he incorporated ISKCON, that the first Harinama samkirtana went out, that Back to Godhead magazine started, that the BBT (originally ISKCON Press) was established, and much, much more. Sri Sri Radha Govinda, the presiding Deities, were installed in 1972.
On Saturda
We spent the following four days in Toronto visiting different devotees’ homes and other nearby temples and devotee communities:
Monday, June
1 Brunch at the home of Shasank and Satyabhama prabhus in Toronto Travel to Muskoka for a TOVP presentation to 50 devotees and Indian congregation members organized by Jaya Gopal and Vyasacarya prabhus: $34,000 pledged
Night spent in Muskoka
Tuesday, June 2
Return to Toronto for lunch at the home of Rupa and Sanatan prabhus Evening sanga with Jananivas at
We had to take an extremely early flight on Saturday morning, May 30th, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to get to Toronto, Canada. We were picked up by Subha Vilas prabhu (his wife’s name is Ashalata), a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and father of one of the TOVP Canada Team, Indresh prabhu, in whose home we were staying for two nights. As a young child he had the extreme good fortune of sitting in Srila Prabhupada’s lap and offering his piggy bank of coins to him.
That evening Indresh and his wi
ISKCON Brampton is a suburb in the Toronto area that has a small temple and congregation of devotees. On Sunday, May 31st we made our way there for a special mid-day Sunday Feast TOVP program which was also attended by His Holiness Bhaktimarg Swami who had come especially for the TOVP presentations in Brampton and Toronto that day.
After an abhisheka of the Padukas and Sitari, puspanjali and kirtan, Bhaktimarg Swami, Radha Jivan and Jananivas all spoke and inspired the devotees with the greatn
We departed from Toronto, Canada and arrived in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, June 5th for the weekend of the Rathayatra and Panihati Festival. The Atlanta Yatra is also one of the original temples opened during Srila Prabhupada’s physical presence, and he visited a number of times, exhibiting various pastimes, including going into a deep trance of devotional love for several minutes before the main Deities, Gaur Nitai.
We initially intended on doing the TOVP presentation on Sunday, but felt the
Absolutely incredible Harinama by HH Bhakti Anugraha Maharaj at Moscow, Russia
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Lismore Lantern Festival - 20 June 2015 (Album with 103 photos)
ISKCON New Govardhana - Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari
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Auckland New Zealand: Friday night harinam (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the material world everyone is envious of his fellow man. Animalistic envy exists in human society as long as there is no performance of sankirtana-yajna, the chanting of the holy names – Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.30.35 Purport)
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Harinam party in Los Angeles, California
If you’ve been reading ISKCON News regularly, you’ll know that there’s been a very successful effort in North America over the past three years to keep increasing distribution of ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada’s books.
And now, the same innovator behind that idea has a plan to give the same boost to street chanting of Krishna’s Holy Names, ano
In order to fill a long felt lacuna for those who wish to start reading Samskritam, a new edition of theMula-ramayana has just been released by Bhakta Demian Martins, an ISKCON brahmacari who holds a Ph.D. in Samskrita from the Benares Hindu University. Bhakta Demian joined ISKCON at Brazil, and spent ten years studying Samskritam at Benares. He now resides at Vrindavan, where he has undertaken research into the works of the great Gaudiya Vaishnav scholar, Baladev Vidyabhushana. His aim is obta
Purushotama Month Preaching Programme at Sri Jagannatha Mandir, ISKCON Malaysia (Album with 103 photos)
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Krishna conscious festivals on the Baltic Sea of Poland began (Album with 86 photos)
Indradyumna Swami: This year we began our 28th annual summer festival tour in the town of Dzwirzyno, Poland on the Baltic Sea coast. It began auspiciously with numerous people approaching the harinam party thanking us for bringing the festival to the town again. The festival crowd was big, as always, and they thoroughly enjoyed our new stage dramas. So, one down and 39 more festivals to go!
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ISKCON Yoga conferences 2015-2016 - COMMUNIQUE
In a view of upcoming II European Yoga Congress which will be hosted by ISKCON Radhadesh, Belgium, in May 2016, initiative was started to set up an ISKCON European yoga teacher network. The final goal would be to create a simple and efficient ISKCON mantra yoga meditation system as an offering to ISKCON and wider yoga community for the 50th anniversary of ISKCON during the II European Yoga Congress. We would a
Does some aspect of our personality survive bodily death?
Some say no. But there are strong reasons for thinking it does. You’ll find some of them discussed later in this article. Meanwhile, here are the basic teachings of the Vedic philosophy, the teachings given by the ancient wisdom literature of India.
According to the Vedic literature, the psychophysical entity with which we no
Independance Day Harinam in Jacksonville, Fl (Album with 40 photos)
Vanavihari Madhava Das: Ecstatic Harinam at Jacksonville, Fl beach. Many wonderful devotees did Harinam and so many people danced on Hare Krishna Mahamantra. While chanting, Krishna blessed us with heavy rain which refreshed us and we Chanted more enthusiastically. More and more people joined us then in this Rain Dancing Harinam! Harinam & Prasadam was organized and sponsored by His Grace Godrum Prabhu ji and Her Grace Vishnu
Ratha-Yatra 2015 Budapest (Album with 61 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: If one somehow or other chats the holy name of the Lord (Hare Krishna) when he meets with an accident and dies, he will be saved from hellish life after death. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.2.15 Purport)
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There was one devotee who had sort of given up spiritual standards for a while and I was thinking of what to say to such a person without saying that you MUST chant Hare Krsna. Of course, that fell on deaf ears. Their answer was that they had no taste and could not do it. So I was thinking for days and finally I said, ‘You know, you have only two possibilities with your life. To either be a happy devotee or to be an unhappy devotee! It’s too late, you’re a devotee. Even if you don’t chant, you
50th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s Arrival in America (Album with photos)
50 years on and Srila Prabhupada is still spreading his divine mercy far and wide. A gathering of approximately 500 people at the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple Hall yesterday to commemorate the occasion was a huge success. 280 children from Tamil Schools in the Klang Valley took part in the Mahabharat Quiz while guests were treated to multimedia presentations on Srila Prabhupada. Sumptuous vegetarian delights were serv
