On February 26th and 27th, ISKCON Ministry of Education organized a international symposium in Sridham Mayapur where the leaders of many educational institutions gathered to present and discuss their work and strategize further development. The ministry presented their new web platform, which was created with the intention to connect all the educators working in ISKCON and make the information about the different courses taught available to a wider audience. Teachers were
Last day of Kirtan Mela… Now, it is the time for Navadvip Manda Parikrama!
Shravan, Kirtan and now Pada Sevanam…. walking in the dust of Navadvipa dhama, following the footsteps of Sri Nityananda Prabhu who took Jiva Goswami on first Navadvip Mandal Parikrama, in the association of devotees. Devotees walked to Yogapith- the birthplace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and took vow to perform the Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama.
HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami remarked in ToVP session that Where in the whole w
Today is a special day loaded with events!
Disappearance day of HH Tamal Krishna Goswami
Special session on ToVP
Kirtan Mela Day 3
Evening : First show of drama of HH Bhakti Marg Swami & group
Disappearance day of Srila Jagannath dasa Babaji & Rasikananda
Today’s Breakfast Prasada Sponsor: HG Nitai Charan Das
Lunch Prasada sponsored by Devotees of China , in memory of HH Tamal Krishna Goswami
Brahmacaries Breakfast : In memory of Sri Shashikant Tapidas Mehta
ToVP Special Session: Speake
By Yugala Kishor Gour dasa
On the 10th of March it will be exactly 60 years ago, 10th of March 1959, that the MS Jaladuta was launched at its shipbuilding yard in Lubeck Germany. It is this vessel that brought Srila Prabhupada from Calcutta, via Boston, to New York on a journey that started on the 13th August 1965, in what became an astonishing journey and also the beginning of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. This launch was organised by the Lubecker-Flenderwerke AG yard
By Khonika Gope-Kumar
How should a devotee treat his wife? How should he address her? How should he pacify her when she is angry? How should he guide her if she makes some mistakes? Can we get some clues about these topics from Srimad Bhagvatam?
One might wonder whether these are mundane topics and even worth being discussed among the devotees. Srila Prabhupada, nevertheless, stressed a lot on having a harmonious relationship between husband and wife. “A wife should always remain satisfied with
Hare Krishna to all Dear Mataji's,
Wish you Happy Women's Day.
यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवता:।
यत्रैतास्तु न पूज्यन्ते सर्वास्तत्राफला: क्रिया:।
Yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra Devata,
yatraitaastu na pujyante sarvaastatrafalaah kriyaah ||
Where women are honoured, the gods rejoice and where women are not revered, all undertakings become fruitless.
(Manu-smrti 3.56)
Srila Prabhupada Quotes on Womens | Audio | Video | eBooks | Presentation
From Back to Godhead
By Nikunja Vilasini Devi Dasi
Is life meaningless until we give it meaning?
A young woman from South Africa, where I live, is a candidate for the Mars One project, the brainchild of a Netherlands-based group hoping to set up a colony on Mars by 2025. She anticipates years of vigorous training, many grueling hours of intense research, an eight-month-long journey in a confined spacecraft, and difficult living conditions on a strange planet. She is excited to be
Back in October, 2018 we announced the launch of the TOVP Victory Flag Campaign wherein devotees can sponsor the raising of the daily TOVP Victory Flags onto the temple domes. The response has been very good and the TOVP management has now decided to start a monthly Flag Festival to continue into perpetuity as long as the temple stands.
On February 2nd the first Flag Festival was officially launched during the grand inauguration ceremony of the 2019 Gaura Purnima Festival, with sixty flags bein
The characteristics of Krishna are understood to be a storehouse of transcendental love. Although that storehouse of love certainly came with Krishna when He was present, it was sealed. But when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came with His associates of the Panca-tattva, they broke the seal and plundered the storehouse to taste transcendental love of Krishna. The more they tasted it, the more their thirst for it grew.
Sri Panca-tattva themselves danced again and again and thus made it easier to dri
Today is Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja’s disappearance day. He comes in the Gaudiya Vaishnava disciplic succession after Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana. He was a renounced ascetic, fully engaged in chanting the holy names of Krishna and meditating on His pastimes. For some time, he made his residence at Surya-kunda in Vraja-dhama, near the temple of Suryadeva, where Srimati Radharani used to come and worship the sun-god—or, I should say, where She u
By Sacinandana Swami
Our greatest problem is that we have turned away from Krishna. This one action has turned into our existential dilemma. We are lost servants. But strangely we think, at least unconsciously, that it is Krishna who has abandoned us. Only when we become eager to meet Krishna again, and serve Him with body, mind and heart – as eager as a drowning man is eager to breathe again – can we attain our spiritual success. Real love, however, will only flow when we move out of the cente
From Back to Godhead
By Srila Jiva Goswami
The preeminent philosopher in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s line explains why, in this age, the Puranas are essential for accessing the Absolute Truth.
[Excerpted from Sri Tattva-sandarbha, by Srila Jiva Goswami, translation and commentary by Gopiparanadhana Dasa. Published by Giriraja Publishing, a branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. The book is available from the Krishna.com Store.]
Sri Tattva-sandarbha is the first of Srila Jiva Goswami’s Bhagavata-san
By Muralimohan dasa
With the desire to maximize book distribution, ISKCON’s Ahmedabad temple devotees planned our thirty-second one-day padayatra to follow a route covering as diverse a cross-section of Indian society as possible. We contacted our groups regarding date, time and venue, but events then compelled me to think that this padayatra should include something special. On padayatra day many of our temple devotees were going to perform harinam sankirtan on the streets of Ahmedabad for the
As part of the ISKCON Deity Worship Ministry’s expanding regional training strategy, a nine-day temple worship course will be taught at ISKCON New Vrindaban, West Virginia for all of North America.
Between fifteen and thirty devotees are expected to take the course, which will run from May 29th to June 6th this year. Participants will hail from the US, Canada and Mexico and will comprise of current and aspiring ISKCON temple pujaris who have at least first initiation and are recommended by the
Today is the second day of Gaura Purnima festival. More and more devotees have started arriving at Mayapur.
Today is also the second day of Kirtan Mela and also of The Sanga of GBCs, Gurus and Sanyasis (SGGS). 100 of the most senior devotees have gathered and are discussing different preaching activities in ISKCON. For pictures of Sanga, visit here: https://t.co/Dulw0jY1l1
Srimad Bhagavatam Class : 6 March 2019
Speaker: HG Vrij Vasi das
Verse: SBG:9.15.26
havirdhānīm ṛṣer darpān
narān h
By Parasuram dasa
At the official opening of Krishna’s Castle in the City of London on March 1st 2019, representatives from 10 banks and businesses were in attendance.
Since 14 months Krishna’s Castle, situated in the heart of the banking world, has been a hive of devotional service.
We need about 10 volunteers daily and half of them are bankers who come to do their Corporate Social Responsibly.
One definition : The emerging concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goes beyond charity
