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Director Yadubara Das with Vijay Rupani, Chief Minister of Gujarat, who launched the Gujarati DVD of the film at ISKCON Ahmedabad “HARE KRISHNA! – The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All,” an award-winning film on the life of Srila Prabhupada, is continuing to see success and reach new people everywhere. Click […]

2,000 students cheer for the message of the Gita during the book’s launch at the prestigious Mahati Auditorium in Tirupati A new textbook for schools in the Telegu language, entitled “Bhagavad-gita for Complete Success in Life,” has been written by an ISKCON devotee and published by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), the organization that manages […]

This week as we head to the start of the #Giving TOVP 10 Day Worldwide Matching Fundraiser from May 7th (Akshaya Tritiya) until May 17th (Nrsimha Caturdasi), His Holiness Sivarama Swami speaks briefly about the importance of the TOVP and participating in this brief 10 day opportunity to make a donation to the project. Click […]

The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has just released a new Krsna book app with the full text in English, Russian, and German, with more languages being prepared. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

The Prime Minister opens a curtain to unveil the Astounding Bhagavad-gita, with Gopal Krishna Goswami at his side Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a giant version of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is, weighing 800kg (1,763 lbs) and running to 670 pages, at an event at ISKCON’s Sri-Sri Radha Parthasarathi temple in Delhi on […]

Nestled in the wooded hilltops of the Appalachian Foothills, New Vrindaban is a favorite destination for thousands of pilgrims every year. Varsana Swami’s new photo book is an invitation to realize and enter its deeper, magical dimensions of Sri Dhama. It offers a tangible glimpse of this enchanted realm, not easily seen with the naked […]

The covers of the three volumes of Bibek Debroy’s Bhagavata Purana combine to create one image of the devas and asuras churning the ocean of milk In his new translation of the Bhagavata Purana, renowned Indian economist, author and scholar Dr. Bibek Debroy references Srila Prabhupada’s commentaries on the Srimad-Bhagavatam and thanks an ISKCON devotee […]

Photos by Bhishmadeva Dasa.  In preparing for the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies’ Consciousness in Science 2019 conference opening ceremony at the University of Florida’s Harn Museum on Friday 18th January, so much interest arose that it was necessary for the organisers to curtail advertising efforts. The 225 capacity auditorium would not suffice. Spilling out into an […]

Left – artist Radhe Gendron. Right – Brothers, oil painting – ‘I like illustrating the simple moments of exchanged love between the Lord and his devotees, friends, or family’ Srila Prabhupada called Krishna conscious art “Windows to the Spiritual World.” Every once in a while, an artist comes along who is truly blessed with the […]

Offering arati to Srila Prabhupada in Alachua Kaliyaphani Das, an English disciple of Srila Prabhupada known for being multi-talented and always ready to serve – as an actor/director, book distributor, kirtan leader, and groundskeeper to name but a few – passed away in a motorcycle accident on January 3rd, 2019 in Alachua, Florida. He was […]

Photo Credits: Parade Towards the end of the Cow Culture Conference held in Kuala Lumpur on October 7, 2018, during the question-and-answer session, a devotee asked for practical advice on how to adopt a Vedic farm lifestyle. He wanted to know whether there are any model farms around the world that we could follow, and […]

Tha Madhavas Rock Band at the Udgaar festival The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), celebrated an annual Mega Youth Fest UDGAAR – “An Expression of Goodness and Joy’’, on October 14th, 2018, at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi. It marked the initiation of their  “Value Awareness Campaign”. Around 6,000 youngsters from across […]

The conference participants. The ISKCON Ministry of Education’s annual education conference was held in New Raman Reti Dhama – Alachua, Florida from June 21 through June 24, 2018. Alachua is home to two devotee-run schools serving in combination 250 children from pre-K through high school. About thirty participants attended from these schools and education programs […]

For the residents of Chedian, a few thousand-year-old village of muddy by-lanes and old stone courtyard houses, she is just another form of Guanyin, the female Bodhisattva who is venerated in many parts of China. But the goddess that the residents of this village pray to every morning, as they light incense sticks and chant […]

Science Proves the Power of Chanting Many of us have heard the Gyuto Monks of Tibet. With their extraordinary chanting and low throaty drone of ancient sacred texts, they have kept audiences in the West spellbound with their long, careful and accurate recitations of potent Tibetan Buddhist texts. Sitting in their presence you feel a […]

“Why do bad things happen to good people?” The perplexing question that haunts the minds of many when they see good people victimized by painful reverses in life. A video by ISKCON Desire Tree.

Yamaraja at work Back to Godhead magazine designer, layout artist and photographer Yamaraja Das passed away on the morning of Friday June 22ndafter a ten-year battle with multiple myeloma cancer. He was 69 years old, and was BTG’s longest-running servant, having worked with Srila Prabhupada’s beloved magazine for 42 years. Click to read full article […]

BB Govinda Swami leading kirtan at Cape Town Bhakti Bash Cape Town, known as the beautiful ‘Mother City’ at the tip of South Africa, saw a weekend mesmerized with the holy names and laughter-filled devotee association which was graced by the presence of BB Govinda Swami and Akincana Krishna Das. Click to read full article […]

Each year, March 22 marks the ‘World Water Day’ established by the United Nations and celebrated all over the globe, with the purpose of focusing our attention on the importance of water. On this occasion, the production team of ‘The Stolen River’, a 40-minute documentary about the sacred Yamuna, has made the film available for public […]

Over the years there has been a tradition of using fiction, and in particular the allegorical spiritual journey, to teach people about how to find success and satisfaction in life: John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” Herman Hesse’s “Siddhartha,” and Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist,” to name just a few. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

Between May 7-10th 2018, the European Council of Religious Leaders (ECRL) holds its annual conference in Budapest, Hungary. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

On April 25, twenty officials and staff from the Israeli Embassy, including a representative from its Community Relations office, visited ISKCON of Washington D.C. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust has already translated ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada’s books into 87 languages, and is distributing them all over the world. But even now, 52 years after ISKCON’s inception, new frontiers are being reached. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

The ISKCON Tribal Care Initiative’s 2018 convention ran from March 30thto April 1stin Mayapur, West Bengal this spring. It drew 2,000 tribespeople from thirteen tribes in five Indian states – each with their own culture, language and dressing style. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

ISKCON participated in a meeting organized by the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) of Washington D.C., on how to protect and promote religious freedom, in Sri Lanka this March 14thto 16th. Click to read full article on ISKCON News.

Wise-Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness, a book by Pranada Dasi, has hit the Amazon Hot New Releases list at number one in Indian Eastern Philosophy. The book is available now in the temple gift shop. For more information, click here for the original article on ISKCON News.

ISKCON50 Academic Conference at Harvard from Karuna Productions on Vimeo. Original article by Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on Feb. 15, 2018 Please read about this exciting conference of academic scholars held at Harvard University, celebrating the 50th anniversary of ISKCON. The organizers brought together a superlative interfacing of religious scholars and full time devotee monks and […]

Bhaktivedanta Academy has been featured in a major article in redefinEd, a publication dedicated to school choice and educational alternatives. The article can be found here.

**To donate, please visit the GoFundMe page here.** The backbone of ISKCON is the unsung heroes, those devotees who dedicate their lives to Krishna’s service with no recognition or material gain in return. And now one of those heroes desperately needs your help. Yamaraja Dasa joined ISKCON in 1971 and took initiation from Srila Prabhupada. […]

Clearing tree debris Three months after the category 4 Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico on September 20th, the U.S. territory’s infrastructure is still far from recovered. Only 20 per cent of traffic lights are powered; forty per cent of Puerto Ricans, especially in the countryside, are still without electricity, and many have barely any running […]

Participants pose for a group photo at a previous Heart of Yoga Retreat Lovers of spiritual inspiration may want to set a weekend aside this summer for the Heart of Yoga retreat, to be offered in New York for the sixth time from June 1stto 3rd. The event grew out of the Bhagavad-gita classes senior […]

Fortunate People, a project started in the UK by Russian devotee Shaktyavesha Avatar Das, began in 2016 as an offering to Srila Prabhupada for ISKCON’s 50thAnniversary. Participating devotees distribute books and then film the recipients chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra for the first time. During the recent Prabhupada Marathon of December 2017, the project reached […]

Schedule: 10:15 AM – Meet in the temple room (kirtan) 10:20 AM – Group Bhagavad Gita reading 10:40 AM – Inspirational talk by a sankirtan warrior 10:50 AM – Team formation and departure for Sankirtan in Gainesville 2:00 PM – Picnic lunch prasadam at Park Ave Apartment clubhouse, Gainesville. Sharing of sankirtan realisations REGISTRATION IS […]

Devotees gift a happy chaplain a copy of Srila Prabhupada’s one-volume biography ISKCON Baltimore’s Jiva Daya Sankirtana Team has been distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books in many creative ways over the years, including placing them in prison libraries and motels. This year so far, for instance, they have put 500 books in prisons, and 13,000 Bhagavad-gitas […]

Fri. Dec 1 6p-8.30p “Goodwill Ambassador” 8.30p Light Prasadam Sat. Dec 2 8-10a “How to distribute a Gita on its own merit” 10-11a Breakfast 11a-2.30p Sankirtan outing w/Vaisesika prabhu 3-4.30p lunch and sharing of sankirtan experiences 6.30-8.30p Gaura arati and bhajans w/Vaisesika prabhu 8.30p Light Prasadam Sunday Dec 3 8-10a How to organise a “Monthly […]

From left to right: Amrita, Hrishi, Ambarish, Svaha and Anisha. Vaisesika Prabhu has written about book distribution in “Our Family Business.” Closely connected to it, or inseparable from it, is the manifestation of the TOVP as funds from book distribution around the world directly contribute to the TOVP every year. These two heartfelt desires of […]

Some of the participants of the Houston interfaith prayers.  In the wake of Hurricane Harvey’s unprecedented flooding and devastation, Texas Governor Greg Abbott proclaimed Sunday, Sept 3rd as a Day of Prayer in Texas—which happened to coincide with the birth anniversary of Bhaktivinoda Thakur, a 19th century Vaishnava Hindu saint and theologian who envisioned people […]

The devotees from the TOVP team are developing a project called FullDome. This project will be located on a small piece of land near Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi. Operation FullDome is a way to give any visiting guest to Sri Dham Mayapur an opportunity to experience the most unique immersive spiritual experience in a spiritual town. […]