Steps to Involvement
The closer your relationship is to Krishna, the more his opulence (All Attractive, All Wealthy, All Wise, All Knowing, etc) applies to you and your life. His love and mercy for us is unlimited. The temple is a means to come into His circle, to experience the bliss of His company. Here, there is offered a sequence of steps……
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Spotlight News
Toronto Veg Ad Campaign
Thousands of Torontonians take the TTC daily to go to school, work and back home. The TTC Subway carts are full of different ads, but recent ads by an independent group called Be Veg have been catching the attention of Subway goers.
Read more...US Military Gets First Hindu Chaplain
Meanwhile, for Hindu members of the military, Dharm conducts yoga classes and Hindu services, including regular classes on the Bhagavad-gita—India’s foremost sacred text—using ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada’s translation. For Chaplain Dharm, Lord Krishna’s personable nature makes Him the most attractive form of God. And being in the military, His message in the Gita of doing one’s duty is one she can apply practically in her life all the time. “While the book is of course very sacred to me, since Krishna Himself spoke it, it’s not just scripture—it is also very practical,” she says. “It helps me to stay grounded and to keep doing my duty in the wonderful way Krishna teaches, even when I’m in a situation I may not like. Our first instinct when anything gets difficult in life is often to run. But the Gita teaches us instead to look for what God is trying to tell us through a bad situation, and to think about what we can learn from it.” Read more...
N. American Leaders Meet in Dallas
The 2012 North American Governing Body and Temple President meetings opened on January 13, in Dallas, Texas, with more than sixty leaders from across the US and Canada in attendance.
Read more...Chanting Really Works
The incident will always be fresh in my mind. I had been a practicing devotee for ten years, eight of which were in the sacred holy land of Sri Dham Mayapur in India. Little did I know that Krishna would be sending me the test of my life, the test of chanting His holy names.
Read more...My Sweet Lord, Free Seattle Eatery
A Seattle eatery that’s celebrating its 10th anniversary this year serves sanctified pure vegetarian food with a difference. It’s completely free. My Sweet Lord, located ten minutes’ walk from the University of Washington in an area populated with student residences, vegan restaurants and arthouse theaters, is a haven for students, drifters, and the homeless youth of Seattle. It all came about when out-of-the-box preacher Hari-Vilasa Dasa, who had been holding weekly programs at a rented room in the University Heights Community Center for many years, decided to look for a more permanent spot in the area. Read more...
Realizations from N. American Tour
Visakha Dasi, a lifelong student of India’s foremost wisdom text the Bhagavad-gita, is sharing her philosophical realizations from the book—as well as her experiences of how it changed her life—in her second annual North American tour this year. Read more...
Personal Resolutions... Global Revolutions...
One evening, as we drove over the River Tyne and advanced toward Newcastle City Centre, the enormity of modern civilisation dawned on me; a complex web of flashing lights, billboards, rushing cars, tall buildings and amusement facilities. It made me wonder whether the few hundred books in our car boot would change anything in this bustling city. Was the five-hour journey from London even worth it? Would we do anything of significance while we were here?
Read more...Temple Diary
Farewell Levi
Levi was our third wwoofer. I'd like to think this special soul was thinking of Krishna at the time of his passing. Below his obituary is a letter he had sent us last summer.
Read more...Utah Japathon 2012
On New Years in the two Utah temples 120 participants chanted a total of 1,320 rounds. Spanish Fork devotees and guests chanted 758 rounds while Salt Lake City attendees chanted 526. Total number of mama mantras chanted was 142,568 and total number of God's names (Krishna & Rama) was 1,140,544.
Read more...Yoga: A Spritual Experience for all Faiths
Deseret News Dec. 30, 2012
On a recent Thursday night at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork, a thick wave of incense floats through the air as the chords of a singsong prayer echo off the temple's octagonal ceiling. Underneath a canopy of flowers and lights, a statue of the dark-skinned Krishna and his ivory-skinned wife Radha smile out at the half dozen students sitting cross-legged and bare-footed on the floor. Some sway back and forth to the music, singing along with the words of the prayer while others close their eyes in blissful meditation. The musical ceremony is a chance to offer gifts back to God, the original giver, and is the first portion of the evening's yoga class here. Read more...
Annual Japathon Sunday New Year's Day
Devotees start off the New Year trying to chant 1,000,000 names of God, or 950 rounds on their rosaries. It takes about ten minutes to chant a round (864 names of God). Devotees begin at home, come to the temple, attend the noon arati, enjoy a pot luck vegetarian feast (to which everyone is invited), and continue chanting thru the afternoon until the evening arati at 6 pm. All guests will be loaned a set of beads and invited to chant at least one round. All names and totals will be written on a board.
Read more...Deewali Festival 2011 in Spanish Fork, Video
This is a video which appeared on Youtube regarding the Diwali Festival observed at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork on Nov. 5.
Read more...Krishnas to Light up Spanish Fork, SLC - Daily Herald
For Utah Valley residents who only know about the Hindu observance of Diwali, also called the Festival of Lights, because of that one episode of “The Office,” next weekend offers an excellent opportunity to experience the festivities firsthand. Read more...
Wwoofing at the Krishna Temple
Every so often we update the latest comments from Wwoofers (World Wide Opportunities for Organic Farming) who have sojourned at the Krishna Temple. If you've read these posts before, best to start at the bottom, with Yelena and Dan, the most recent, and work your way backwards up the list.
Read more...Hare Krishna
Stumbled onto this blog by Greg who wwoofed at the temple mid summer with his girlfriend Jen. Check out the great photos, which I couldn't figure out how to download. "Long story short, there’s this beautiful Krishna temple smack dab in the epicenter of LDS Utah. There’s llamas and peacocks and parrots and chanting devotees in robes and statues of Hindu deities and huge gardens full of tasty organic vegetables. To say the place sticks out like a sore thumb is a bit of an understatement." Read more...
