By Madhava Smullen on 15 Oct 2010ISKCON of Houston, Texas has faced major challenges recently in its efforts to introduce a huge new Vedic-style temple to the local community and to the world. Within the span of just a few days, managers announced that they would not be able to complete the temple building at […]

By Gaura Hari Dasa on 15 Oct 2010As the sacred month of Kartika fast approaches, devotees around the world make their travel arrangements for the long journey to Vrindavana. The sacred land of Radha and Krishna’s eternal pastimes is the holiest of pilgrimage places for Gaudia Vaishnavas, and the experience is more powerful and fulfilling […]

By Madhava Smullen on 14 Oct 2010From the time of its opening in 1985 to the end of apartheid in 1994, this place of worship was a beacon of hope in a violent and segregated nation. And after 1994, it became a symbol of a new South Africa, praised by dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela […]

By Kripamoya Dasa for The Vaishnava Voice on 24 Sep 2010As I have mentioned before – at considerable length – our movement for Krishna consciousness has a wide variety of members from all different ages, nationalities, ethnic backgrounds and political persuasions. There are devotees of Krishna who are politically communist and who think that’s just […]

Diary of a Traveling Monk – Volume 11, Chapter 10 – October 11, 2010By Indradyumna SwamiLife on the festival tour in Poland this summer was austere – the cramped living facilities, the long hours, and the hotter-than-normal weather – but our three hundred devotees kept their spirits up all the way through. Many said that […]

Although they are often referred to as a tribe, the Bishnoi are, more properly, a sect within Hinduism. They were founded in the 15th century when a saint laid down 29 precepts for his followers (hence their name: bis means 20 in the local dialect, and noi means nine). Today, there are around 600,000 Bishnoi, […]

Officials with Houston’s oldest Hare Krishna temple are asking the vandals who stole two sacred statues from the house of worship this week to return them, promising no questions will be asked. Read More…

By Deena Bandhu DasAfter the talks, the senior devotees and dignitaries were taken on a tour of the facility. Everyone marveled at how nicely everything had been made, with many large windows overlooking the Vrindavan gardens and trees. In the 1990s, a famous artist from South Africa, Arca Vigraha Devi Dasi, a disciple of Giriraj […]

BY: SWARUP DASHer voice was so angelic and the fact that she was singing with such emotion to Jagannatha blew me away. Manmohini and I sat and listened to her sing for a few more minutes when suddenly, from behind the curtain, this beautiful devotee girl who was singing to the Lord appeared. Her name […]

by Sandamini dasi“Are you crazy,” the CBS news reporter asked me, “opening your restaurant for free and inviting the public?” “Maybe,” I said, “but our philosophy teaches us that no one should be hungry within a ten-mile radius of our centers. “Are you crazy,” the CBS news reporter asked me, “opening your restaurant for free […]