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Photos from the first day of Jhulan Yatra 2017 at the ISKCON-London Radha-Krishna Temple.
The photo you see is of the newly renovated temple frontage.
This album is dedicated to Her Grace Mother Kulangana Devi Dasi, a few photos of whom are at the end.
(As I write this, she has not yet left her body.)
Slideshow (please turn on sound):
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/jhulan_yatra_2017/slideshow
Gallery:
http://davidc.zenfolio.com/jhulan_yatra_2017
With best wishes, Hare Krishna, David.

Owen Maher: The brahmachari ashram has a growing number of residents who are fully engaged in devotional service to ISKCON’s Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and New Govardhana’s most merciful presiding Deities. I was able to interview two such residents, Govardhana dasa and Suratanath dasa. Govardhana dasa received first initiation from His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami almost two years ago. Originally from Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandira in North Sydney, he

I remember watching a kirtana festival some years ago. I saw a devotee wearing a t-shirt with the wording: ‘This is what we do,’ which was quite impressive.

Actually, chanting the holy name in congregation is indeed what Hare Krishna devotees are supposed to do. Now different kirtana events are happening more and more at New Govardhana.

Did you know that there is kirtana every night at the temple? Feel free to come to the temple at 7pm for a lively kirtana.

Resident brahmachari Suratanatha dasa

More photos: http://davidc.zenfolio.com/mother_kulangana
(Please keep Mother Kulangana, a dear disciple of Srila Prabhupada, in your prayers during this Jhulan Yatra festival and beyond. She is still very weak and is being cared for by a team of devotees at Bhaktivedanta Manor.)

Philosophy – from the Greek words:

philo – love of, affinity for;

sophos – wisdom.

Philosophy – the love of wisdom

Wisdom – from the Old Norse visdomr – the ability to think and act utilising knowledge, experience, understanding, discernment, insight and common sense – coupled with just judgment as to action.

Philosophy means the love of wisdom, the ability to separate truth from error, reality from illusion, and the subsequent discernment as to correct action. Professional philosophers use the

… intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.”

Lord Sri Krishna says that the Bhagavad-gita is raja-guhyam, the King of Knowledge. The Bhaktivedanta Academy helps to equip those eager to learn with the knowledge of the Absolute. Those who have successfully completed their studies in the Academy are able to address common unanswered questions such as: 
“Who am I?”
“Why am I here?”
“What is the purpose of life?”

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If it is a given that Cow Protection’s most efficacious model is in the mode of goodness, the questions must be asked as to what that model comprises, how it works and what is the goal. Cows already exist in the mode of goodness so surely is it not just a question of keeping cows and protecting them from slaughter? If we just associate with anything in the mode of goodness is that not enough? Well, of course the answer is no. If it were that easy and straightforward then Cow Protection would na

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – A loud toot from a conch shell kicked off the 51st annual Rath Yatra here July 30 morning, as more than 6,000 Indian Americans and members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness pulled chariots bearing replicas of Hindu deities on the mile-long pilgrimage down John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park.

“This is the one day of the year I can fully celebrate my Indian heritage,” Nikhil Swapan of Cupertino, Calif., who attended the day-long festival with his

ISKCON Leadership Sanga (ILS) is the foremost gathering of leaders and devotees from around the world. The ILS is eight wonderful days of seminars on leadership and related topics within the sacred atmosphere of Sri Dhama Mayapur. Importantly, the ILS is an exclusive and unique opportunity to associate with members of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC), Zonal and Regional Leaders, Temple Presidents and Project Leaders throughout the world.

This will be the fourth ILS. Each ILS has exceede

Every year at FFLV we celebrate Srila Prabhupada's Appearance day by hosting a special feast for 1500 children at our schools. The feast includes Rice Pulao, Poori, Sabzi, Choley & Gulab Jamun (Srila Prabhupada’s Favourite). 

The Volunteer Care Council at Bhaktivedanta Manor annually organizes a spiritual retreat at Buckland Hall in the heart of the beautiful rural Brecon Beacons mountains of Wales. This year’s edition in late March saw a record number of attendees, including the management team and residents. There was a total of 170 attendees who were all enthusiastic to immerse themselves in topics about Krishna for the weekend. The theme was ‘Looking back, to move forward’, centered around our meditation for 201

Radharani Priya devi dasi Tuesday nights at the Griffith University Student Village are ‘Krishna Supper Night’, where we serve out free, hot nutritious vegetarian meals and have kirtana. This project was started through the University Chaplaincy department. The Cardamom Pod Restaurant sponsors the prasadam, and well-known cook Garuda dasa also brings an equal amount of prasadam from New Govardhana.
The Village houses 500 students, who are mainly from interstate and overseas. The students line u

The students and staff of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Mission School flagged off the Janmashtami Celebrations with a grand Jhulan festival at the school at Andheri, Mumbai. Besides the students and teachers the festival was enthusiastically attended by the parents as well.
The Janmashtami celebrations will be held on Fri, 11th August with abhishekha performed by the students followed by a boat festival in the temple hall. The 121st appearance day celebrations of Srila Prabhupada will be held on Mon

By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON New Vrindaban Communications

Neither Filippo Paonessa nor his wife-to-be Sukhayanti Dasi had any previous experience in cow protection or agriculture when they met at the Toronto ISKCON temple. But they found that they were both inspired by Srila Prabhupada’s words on simple living and shared a desire to follow them practically.

Sukhayanti had grown up in Israel and traveled the world in her twenties, meeting devotees at a Rainbow Gathering in Germany in 2005. Attr

A new format for Padayatra

Padayatra is one of the biggest preaching programs of the year in Slovenia. For the past fourteen years Slovenian devotees have been organising a walk every summer. By walking in different sections each year they have covered the entire country, which is not a difficult task since Slovenia is a small coutry of 2 million people (less than 1/6 of Moscow’s population) with a superficy of 20 000 square kms, the size of Costa Rica or Macedonia, and 1/32 the superficy of Fr

The Turkish Pavilion at Tower Grove Park was the place to be last Sunday, July 30th, 2017! It was buzzing with excitement the whole day! The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) chapter in St. Louis, Missouri was excitingly preparing for celebrating The Chariot Festival for the third year in a row. The organizers and volunteers arrived at the site at 8 am and immediately began to set up and decorate the very colorful, tall,and impressive chariot cart. Other volunteers began