In 2007 Vaibhavi received the “Volunteer of the Year” award for her work with Lightning Peak, a program for troubled youth. Since 2003, and continuing to the present day, counselors bring 8 -16 teens every Monday to the temple for a couple of hours community service, supervised by Vaibhavi. Vaibhavi has the kids feed hay […]
by Vraja Bihari Das for back to Godhead MagazineAmbulances sounding their sirens screech to a halt. Bodies, mutilated beyond recognition, keep pouring in. Ten kilometers north, another blast—the seventh in eleven minutes—has terrorized the city. As anxious and bereaved relatives rush in, the neighborhood and the media are hysterical. Local politicians vie for space on […]
By Madhava Smullen on 27 Feb 2010ISKCON devotees received a “Second Place for Marching Units” award for their participation in LA’s annual Kingdom Day Parade at a ceremony at the Radisson Hotel near downtown Los Angeles this February 13th. Ratnabhushana Dasa with Kingdom Day Parade founder Larry Grant. ISKCON devotees received a “Second Place for […]
Feb 26, BANGALORE, INDIA (KNOWLEDGE@WHARTON) — Each school day, more than a million children in 6,500 schools across seven Indian states eagerly await the vehicle that brings their midday meal. For many of them, the food provided by the Bangalore-based Akshaya Patra Foundation is their first, and perhaps only, meal of the day. The promise […]
By John Longhurst for Winnipeg Free Press on 20 Feb 2010 A priestess holds an olive-tree branch as she participates in a ceremony honouring Zeus, the king of the ancient Greek gods, at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. So far, God and religion haven’t come up in the media coverage of the Vancouver […]
By Gaurav SharmaFebruary 15th 2010, saw the graduation ceremony for the newest Bhaktisastri graduates at the Mayapur Institute (MI) Sri Dham Mayapur Campus. The ceremony was graced by many senior ISKCON leaders and educators. About 75 Students hailing from 34 different countries were welcomed with a very different type of invocation prayers led by Prema […]
By Sraddhadevi dasi February 14th, 2010 On February 14th, all members of ISKCON’s Governing Commission attending the Annual General Meeting in Mayapur, India assembled in the center of a construction zone. It was the construction zone of the long-awaited Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), a massive and impressive temple dedicated to displaying the Vedic view […]
By Yudhistir Krishna Das on 19 Feb 2010Hundreds of ash-covered men marching into the river along with soulful chants of Vedic hymns. A multitude of people from varied backgrounds, jostling in and out of their tents. The sight of lamps and flowers being offered into the river in a spiritually-surcharged atmosphere. Such activity characterizes the […]
Contessa Gayles woke up very, very early to meditate and hang out with Columbia’s Bhakti Club. After a 7:00 AM mantra meditation session, she sat down to talk with Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, the current—and first ever— Hindu chaplain at Columbia. They spoke about a typical day in the life of a Hare Krishna monk, and […]
By Ravindra Svarupa Dasa on 23 Jan 2010 The communist philosophy as it is now practiced is vague, but it can become perfect if they accept the conclusion of the Bhagavad-Gita—that Krishna is the supreme proprietor. My beginning association with Krishna devotees offered me an extended sequence of astonishments. It amazed me, for example, […]