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School Field Trips

We at the Krishna Temple and Cultural Center in Spanish Fork want to familiarize Utah educators with the facility here as they may deem helpful to the studies of their students. Krishna Temple & Cultural Center 8628 South State Street Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 801.798.3559 or 801.787.1510 Contact Caru Das and Vaibhavi Devi at: utahkrishnas@gmail.com […]

Diksha and Drugs: An Unfortunate Combination

Some years ago, when I heard the story of three young men celebrating their Vaishnava diksha with a round of cold Guinness, I thought it was the beginning of an Irish joke. Unfortunately it was true. The guru who’d given them their initiation had omitted to tell them anything at all about the practical disciplines of spiritual […]

Will those Sweet Days Ever Return?

By Indradyumna Swami After the Woodstock festival we went back to our programs on the Baltic Sea coast. We were exhausted but determined to make it through the last seventeen days of our tour. Read more…

The Surfing Swamis

Daruka Dasa looks out at the horizon, bobbing up and down in the Indian Ocean on a surfboard. “I see a wave out there that’s got your name written all over it,” he says. Read more…

ISKCON’s Second Generation Celebrates Kuli MeLA 2009

Nestled in the Hollywood Hills is the John Anson Ford Amphitheater, Los Angeles’ oldest performing arts venue. Tonight, it is nearly full with a glamorous audience of 950 people; some dressed in their very best suits or evening gowns, others in more exotic Bollywood attire. By Madhava Smullen on 19 Sep 2009 Los Angeles, Friday July […]

Polluted Ganga Still has Medicinal Qualities

BY: STAFF CORRESPONDENT Sep 18, INDIA (DECCAN HERALD) — Despite being polluted, the waters of the Ganges still possess ‘medicinal qualities’ and could pave the way for developing new ‘anti-microbial compounds’. According to a research conducted by a senior scientist of Lucknow-based National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), a prestigious CSIR laboratory, Dr. Chandrashekhar Nautiyal, the Ganga […]

In the Dungeon With Shridhar Swami

By Patita Pavana das Adhikary A condensed version of the following essay about HH (108) Shridhar Swami was read at a recent Vyasa Puja in Mumbai celebrated by his disciples… Read more…

Penguin Books Launches Children’s Ramayana

by Sudarshan das Posted September 18, 2009 At a packed house in Starmark, the biggest bookstore of Kolkata (Calcutta), Penguin Books has launched Advaita Candra das’s brainchildWhere’s Hanuman? — a picture adventure book that gives children a captivating and fun way to begin learning the treasured story of Hanuman and the Ramayana. Read more…

Scriptural Study

There is no process more valuable than to absorb Krishna’s virtues, names, forms, and pastimes, and the principles and process of the soul’s evolution.  In the Vedic scriptures these invaluable facets of the spiritual path are addressed in great detail.  Every spiritually aware person has many questions: Who is God?  What is our natural relationship […]