One thousand devotees from all over Russia gathered in Moscow for an eight-day festival from June 12th to 19th this summer, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada’s first and only visit to the city.

The attendees included eighty veterans of ISKCON in Russia—devotees who joined during the oppressive communist reign, and before the movement’s official registration in 1988. They arrived for the festival from the Ukraine, the Baltics, and other ex-Soviet Union countri

Festival on New York’s Fifth Avenue

A devotee's only concern     ………....Droplets from Nectarean Ocean                 

This human form of life is an opportunity for self-realization, to realize God. This human form of life is such a gift, it is so precious, it is so valuable that we can never understand. To even utilize one moment of it for any other purpose is sorrowful. Therefore the devotees of the Lord are not very concerned with heat or cold, happiness or distress, honour or dishonour. They are only concerned with one thing -

Simply engage yourself in Krishnas service. That will protect you from any attack of maya. Maya can take Krishnas place in our heart as soon as there is a slackness on our part. Otherwise, if Krishnas seated always, maya has no opportunity to occupy the seat.

-By H.D.G Srila Prabhupada