By Indradyumna SwamiAs my flight to Los Angeles took off, I looked through the window at the disappearing Australian landscape and thought about my three-month visit to the country. “Our festival tour was intense,” I thought, “but it went by in a flash. When you enjoy what you’re doing, time passes quickly.”  I was exhausted, […]

By Madhava Smullen on 14 Mar 2010A recent lecture tour of India by ISKCON scholar Radhika Ramana Dasa (Dr. Ravi Gupta) could have sparked the impetus to introduce religious studies into Indian university level education—something the country has always shied away from—while at the same time inspiring Indian students to take a deeper look at […]

By Basu Ghosh DasOn the auspicious day of papamochani (”freedom from sins”) ekadashi, Thursday, March 11, 2010, the Governor of Assam, His Excellency Sri Janakivallabh Patnaik, launched the efforts to construct a new Jagannath temple, on a fifteen thousand square foot property at Jaynagar Charali Beltola, Guwahati, Assam, donated to ISKCON by Smt. Shantidevi Kamikya […]

By Madhava Smullen on 12 Mar 2010At 3:45 on the morning of February 27, as a priest peacefully tended to the deities of Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai at the ISKCON temple in Santiago, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake suddenly struck Chile. Five hundred people were killed, and over 500,000 left homeless across the country, as buildings collapsed […]

By Casey Junkins for The Intelligencer on 7 Mar 2010Members of the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna Community in Marshall County can attest to that, as they are set to gain roughly $10 million in lease payments from AB Resources. Natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation is a hot commodity in the Northern Panhandle.Members of […]

By Gargamuni dasI cannot possibly put into words the loss I feel with the passing of Padmanbha Prabhu. Before he moved to Germany at the end of 1983, he lived on this side of the Atlantic, in a place called New England. Some 27 years after his move, his departure from this world has sent […]

By Sesa Dasa on 5 Mar 2010Our eternal nature is to be blissful, but we’ve forgotten.Nothing new here. It’s something all of us have either mentally or emotionally noted before. But, it’s just such a striking fact that I can’t help but mention it again: people just don’t smile.     I’ve just returned from […]

University of FloridaKrishna lunches have always been karma-neutral. Soon, they will be almost carbon-neutral.Beginning the Monday after Spring Break, the Krishna House, which has been serving vegetarian meals at UF since 1971, will begin to turn all waste from the utensils used for the lunches into compost. Since 2008, the program has used biodegradable utensils […]

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By Madhava Smullen on 27 Feb 2010On Wednesday, thousands of devotees returned to ISKCON’s headquarters in Mayapur to celebrate Gaura Purnima, the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, after spending a week walking a pilgrimage through holy spots relating to his life. Temples around the world will celebrate Gaura Purnima on Sunday February 28th, honoring […]