When sites for Sunday temple feasts become dining destinations
For many Americans, the common perception of the Hare Krishna faith is young men with shaved heads and saffron robes professing their faith in airports and city centers. Founded in the 1960s by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Hare Krishnas, or International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), formed to encourage the spread of bhakti yoga, a Hindu spiritual practice in which followers devote all actions and intenti
Mumbai: Actress-politician Hema Malini, who is currently in Russia as part of a parliamentary delegation, visited the Iskcon temple in Moscow.
Hema Malini on Monday night took to Twitter to share a string of images of herself from the temple where she did aarti.
"At the Iskcon Temple, Moscow, where we were given a warm welcome and served a tasty lunch," she added.
Source:http://zeenews.india.com/spirituality/hema-malini-visits-iskcon-temple-in-moscow-2022884.html
Siddha-svarupa: McDonald's, they are very proud. They announce how many hamburgers they have sold. They have branches everywhere in the world.
Prabhupada: Hamburger means?
Siddha-svarupa: Uh, that's beef. They kill the cows at an unbelievable rate, the number of cows they're killing for their meat.
Manasvi: I think up to now they have sold 200,000,000 hamburgers, or something like that.
Prabhupada: You also keep account? [laughs]
Manasvi: No, they put that ad in every day.
Siddha-svarupa: They
In the book The Seventh Goswami, a biography of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura , it is stated that Thakura Bhaktivinoda prayerfully invoked the Lord, and expressed his heartfelt desire, “When will that day come when the fair-skinned foreigners will come to Sri Mayapur-dhama and join with the Bengali Vaisnavas to chant ‘Jaya Sacinandana, Jaya Sacinandana!’ … Very soon the chanting of Harinama sankirtana will be spread all over the world. Oh, when will that day come when people from America, England,
There was arranged the Rathyatra festival on 25 June'17 Sunday, on the auspicious day of Ashadh dwitiya in the city of Surat, Gujarat. Since Surat is one of the major cities of Gujarat, many thousand faithful people took part in it with a great enthusiasm. It was one of the best chance for the devotees to please Srila Prabhupada by distributing his books as Rathyatra is a festival in which totally new beginners wh
Ever since his childhood, Srila Prabhupada was always very fond of Lord Jagannatha. At the young age of five, Srila Prabhupada, who at that time was known as Abhay Caran, wanted to hold his own Ratha-yatra festival in his birth home in Kolkata. Despite having some financial difficulties, Krsna arranged everything, and little Abhay held his first ever Ratha-yatra festival at home. Many years later, ISKCON's first ever Ratha-yatra was held in Los Angeles, San Francisco on July 9, 1967, and tens of
Lord Chaitanya’s verse: “My Lord Govinda, because of separation from You, I consider even a moment a great millennium. Tears flow from My eyes like torrents of rain, and I see the entire world as void.”
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Q. I encountered a verse that seemingly contradicts a verse in the Bhagavad Gita. and I was wondering if you could help me to understand how to reconcile these two verses.
Srimad Bhagavatam (Canto 2, chapter 2, text 27)
“In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional servi
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
"No meat eating, Including fish and eggs"
Unknown to most devotees and vegetarians in general we are breaking regulative principles by taking gelatin from cows, buffaloes, pigs, chickens and so on, we have started a petition to support government initiatives to use vegetarian capsules. Kindly support this cause so that devotees may be aware and demand vegetarian capsules. Currently there's apathy surrounding tak
SRIKSETRA PURI PARIKRAMA 2017
Org. by ISKCON Sri Mayapur
Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We would like to welcome you to our 13th anniversary celebration of Sri kñetra parikrama. This year the parikrama day falls on 22nd November. On this day, devotees will circumambulate the entire Sri Ksetra dhama, a distance of around 19 Km. This parikrama has been performed since the time Vidyapati visited Sri Ksetra. ISKCON has been organizing this parikrama for the last tw
This morning I read a posting by Vijaya Dasa, ISKCON’s Minister of Book Distribution, in which he relates an interesting encounter he had heard described after one of his classes:
When in Alachua I gave a Bhagavatam class about book distribution, a Vaishnavi, Guru Prasad dasi, commented on an experience she had had distributing books.
She was distributing at the Dallas airport without much success, but she was still happily approaching people.
A lady sitting nearby was watching and finally walk
The Russian Kalash installation team has now completed three Kalashes on the Chatris and is currently working on the Main Dome/Planetarium Kalash.
Alongside the installation of the Kalashes onto the Domes and Chatris, laying of the blue tiles also continues simultaneously. In the photos you can also view the GRC (Glass Reinforced Concrete) ‘ribs’ being placed onto the Main Dome.
By Vijay Krsna Kumar Das
Scholars and academicians from various parts of the country and abroad converged at the Kalina campus of Mumbai University to participate in a first of its kind International conference on the topic “Relevance, Role and Resurgence of Vaishnavism studies in 21st century.” Jointly organized by the Bhaktivedanta Vidyapitha Research Center of ISKCON and Shree Halari Oswal College, the conference witnessed participation of more than 200 students, scholars and administrators
If the name ISKCON conjures montages of Dev Anand’s 1971 blockbuster film Hare Rama Hare Krishna to mind, you are not alone. Many have associated the decadence of the hippie culture depicted in the film with the Vaishnava religious movement, but that is only one side of the coin. Although many of the initial followers happened to be hippies, ISKCON has evolved into something more. But it begs the question. How did the hippies cotton on to ISKCON?
“ISKCON, which turned 50 last year, was incorpor
The first Chatri Kalash is now officially in place!!!
Last week was the trial placement of the Chatri Kalashes to determine if any adjustments need to be made. After making all the necessary adjustments, the first Kalash has now been permanently fixed to the Chatri and the remaining Kalashes will be similarly installed one after the other.
The Chakras will be installed next and if everything goes according to schedule all the Kalashes and Chakras will be placed by the end of this year and an o
Since the time of Lord Chaitanya, Navadvip has been a place of scriptural learning. It is evident from Chaitanya-bhagavata (Adi 2.60-61),
nana-desa haite loka navadvipe yaya
navadvipe padile se ‘vidya-rasa’ paya
“Many people came from various provinces to study in Navadvipa because by studying there one achieved a taste for education.”
ataeva paduyara nahi samuccaya
laksa, koti adhyapaka, nahika niscaya
“Therefore no one could count the innumerable students and millions of teachers gathered there.”
