2019

“Be an invisible guide, like the scent of roses that shows where the inner garden is.” ~ Rumi To travel through the world in a mood of detachment carrying within ourselves the inner knowledge and identity that, I am spirit. I am not of this world. My home is elsewhere. I belong to Krsna. Click to read full […]

9th and 10th grade students bring Prabhupada’s books and prasadam cakes to CordaRoy’s furniture store in Gainesville This Christmas season, students from Alachua’s Bhaktivedanta Academy (BANA) participated in “Outreach Week” from December 16th to 20th.  A tradition stretching back decades, and since 2008 in its current form, it’s designed to give students a positive experience of […]

Governor DeSantis lights the lamp at the Diwali celebration in his mansion Nandini Kishori Dasi, Director of the Motel Gita project, presented Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with a full Srimad-Bhagavatam set during the first ever official Diwali event at the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee on November 6th. DeSantis is a Yale and Harvard graduate, and […]

Gopal Lila Das speaks at the U.N. earlier this year An ISKCON devotee has been nominated co-chair of the UN Multifaith Advisory Council on Religion and Development. Gopal Lila Das (Gopal Patel) is Director of the Bhumi Project, an environmental effort of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He also co-leads The Sacred Ecology Forum […]

Murali Gopal (left) with two Russian devotee scientists Nari Dasi and Damodar Pandit Das in Saint Petersburg, Russia. How can devotees trained in science and other academic disciplines best use their education in Krishna’s service? This question inspired the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies (BIHS) to sponsor an international conference last January on “Consciousness in […]

The book cover’s art design A new book ‘Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita,’ published by Sage Publisher wonderfully combines the two worlds of management and spirituality. The author Ace V. Simpson, a.k.a. Shri Prahlada Das is a well-known kirtaniya from Australia, but he is also a scholar with a Ph.D. and now teaches at […]

For the past twenty-five years, ISKCON Youth Ministry’s Manorama Das and his wife Jaya Sri Radhe Dasi have taken youth on tours across the US, Canada and Mexico, where they spread Krishna consciousness and get inspired themselves in the process. Since 2015, they’ve branched out to tour the Caribbean every two years. “The main reason […]

Uproot yourself before life does it to you rudely and when you least expect it Slowly loosen the roots by the daily process of chanting break the soil of lifetimes of conditioning that make us think we belong here crack the hard earth that packs the roots by hearing about Krishna shake off through service […]

Sustainability, energy conservation and healthy eating are some of the areas that Harvard intends to focus on in a bid to realize its long term goals. Harvard plans to focus promoting plant-based food as part of a commitment to reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030. The university has signed the Cool Food […]