The devotional community at ISKCON New Talavan, Mississippi, USA, is preparing to inaugurate their newly constructed temple complex through a series of public events scheduled from May 14 to May 25, 2026. The multi-day, in-person program will include a Vastu Yajna, kirtan gatherings, and a formal opening ceremony, marking the completion of a project that […]

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Recently, thanks to the pervasive presence of Vaisesika Dasa, ISKCON’s Minister of Book Distribution, the devotees of ISKCON London Sankirtan brought an unusual surge of spiritual energy to the streets of London on the grand day of the Monthly Sankirtan Festival (MSF). This devotional, inspiring, and encouraging spirit was further enhanced by the presence of […]

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Sankirtanamrita: The Nectar of Sri Krsna Sankirtana, the newly released book by Navina Nirada Dasa, published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT), has been acclaimed across the ISKCON world as a landmark contribution to Vaishnava literature. Blending memoir, philosophy, and practical guidance, it offers a deeply personal exploration of sankirtana, which is the sacred mission […]

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An estimated 20,000 visitors gathered on March 28–29 at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple near Spanish Fork, Utah, for the temple’s 30th annual Holi Festival of Colors, the largest Color Festival in North America. When the Festival first began almost three decades ago, it was regarded as the “unofficial spring break event” for Brigham […]

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As part of the ISKCON 60–50 global celebrations, and in alignment with the objective of increasing Śrīla Prabhupāda consciousness across the Society, the Śrīla Prabhupāda Introductory Course (SPIC) is being presented by the ICC 60–50 Education Committee. Based on the BBT publication Śrīla Prabhupāda: The Messenger of the Supreme Lord, this course is designed to gently […]

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A new initiative titled “Young Minds, Timeless Wisdom” is offering an 8-week online Bhagavad-gita course for youth aged 10 to 19, beginning April 11, 2026. The program is designed to present the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita in a practical and relatable format, helping young people develop clarity, discipline, and emotional resilience in today’s fast-paced environment. […]

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Participants gather in the Temple Hall for darshan of the deities. ISKCON Naperville, in partnership with Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), hosted an interfaith gathering on March 24, 2026, as part of the monthly meeting of the Naperville Interfaith Leaders Association (NILA). This session was dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of Hinduism and strengthening interfaith […]

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Ram Navami pilgrims happily receive prepared prasadam. Sri Ayodhya Dham witnessed a profound convergence of devotion and selfless service on the appearance day of the Supreme Lord, Shri Ramchandra Ji, as ISKCON organized a grand celebration to mark the birth anniversary of Lord Shri Ram. Hundreds of thousands of faithful thronged the streets of Ayodhya […]

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Mahaprabhu Dasa, Director of MOSA (center), with the curator Sushma K. Bahl (far right), and ICCR DG K. Nandini Singla, guides Minister S. Jaishankar through the exhibit. The newly inaugurated Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center opened its doors in Paris on March 26, 2026, featuring an exhibition organized by the Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA) in […]

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A short educational video titled “Life Comes from Life” released on YouTube presents the Vedic philosophical perspective that living beings originate from a higher source of life rather than from inert matter. Beginning with reflections on the vast and orderly cosmos, the video notes that, despite scientific advances—such as mapping the universe and studying cellular […]

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According to Dr. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (1927–2012), one individual vibrating at the high-energy level of pure love can counterbalance the negative vibrations of 750,000 individuals. Dr. Hawkins, founder of the Institute for Spiritual Research, interestingly enough, developed a “Map of Consciousness” ranging from the lower to the higher states and including the more advanced […]

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1500+ People gather to attend the festival. The grand festival Amrit Utsav, held on 22 March 2026 at ISKCON Patna, unfolded as a vibrant celebration of devotion, unity, and spiritual joy under the inspiring theme “Bliss of Chanting, Dancing & Feasting.” Organized by the Temple Management Council (TMC) of ISKCON Patna, in collaboration with congregation […]

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Vaidyaratnam Govardhan Ayurveda Hospital, located at Govardhan EcoVillage (GEV) in Maharashtra and operated in association with Bhaktivedanta Hospital & Research Institute, has been named Best Wellness Centre of the Year 2026 during the FICCI International Medical Value Travel Awards — one of Asia’s most prestigious recognitions in the healthcare and medical tourism sector. The award […]

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By Vrsabhanu das My experience of going to Sweden and to Almvik farm was really inspiring. Because the Scandinavian countries are very refreshing, to make a film in Almvik with the devotees there felt especially beneficial to me. It is difficult when most people in society are into selfish pursuits and not interested in supporting...

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Translation After controlling one’s mind and sitting postures, one should spread a seat in a secluded and sanctified place, sit there in an easy posture, keeping the body erect, and practice breath control. Purport Sitting in an easy posture is called svasti samāsīnaḥ. It is recommended in the yoga scripture that one should put the...

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Maharaj discusses a famous teaching: once someone has tasted the spiritual joy (rasa) of devotion to Krishna, they can never fully return to material life. Even if a devotee appears to fall down, they are not like ordinary people, because the memory of that divine experience keeps drawing them back. The concept of “rasa-graha” is...

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At the Bhakti Yoga Conference, Vishaka Devi Dasi shares her journey from atheism to Bhakti Yoga. Raised by parents who had rejected religion, she spent her early life as a convinced atheist. However, through her work as a photographer, she observed that even wealthy and successful people lacked fulfillment, which left her searching for something...

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Krishna is present in His Name. He is there when we are chanting. Sometimes when we chant, by His mercy, we really feel His presence. We know He is there and the kirtan becomes very wonderful. I experience this in different ways, never quite the same. The Lord in His deity form, Srila Prabhupada, or other spiritual personalities, appear in the mind. Sometimes spiritual feelings arise. RadheShyamAlachua2 Although Krishna is always there, sometimes we don’t feel His presence. He keeps Himself hidden, and I feel like a stone and the chanting seems empty...

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By Dayananda das

Today, most Vaishnavas make efforts to lead a theo-centric life. They struggle to remember that they are souls who are equal to the plants and animals, and that they are not their bodies, with the associated desires to exploit and kill the Lord’s nature. They try to remember that the universal soul or Supreme Soul is their friend who is in their hearts and who with love beckons them to turn away from violence and exploitation. Recent Vaishnava sages, like Prabhupada and his predecessors, envisioned the great contributions that the Vaishnava and genuine Vedic perspectives can make in a world of selfishness. They became Vaishnava activists and requested their followers to practice Krishna-centrism, which includes a non-anthropocentric relationship with His nature. Moreover, they urged their followers to propagate that view. There are more than half a billion Vaishnavas around the world. By Krishna’s grace and that of His divine nature, their struggles to have a deep ecological impact in the world will be successful.

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By Caitanya candrodaya dasa

The desire to see God, to touch God, to talk to God is in itself probably the strongest argument for His existence; besides the logic and evidences from the scriptures, this direct experience is very significant indeed. Bringing Deity Worship from the insiders circle of elderly pujari-priests and making it part of the congregational development is probably the only way it may become part of the positive future for many places in ISKCON. While everyone hankers for direct experience of God in person, it is rarely attained, even for great souls like Sri Narada of Srimad-Bhagavatam, what to speak of the beginners like us. Yet Srila Prabhupada and the acaryas place the arcana, or Deity Worship, in the realm of service opportunities for neophytes. It is true that the worship of God in His deity form may attract neophytes, but it will also promote us to the next level of advancement, if done properly. Thus expanding the scope of Deity worship is a direct preaching, especially if done in an attitude of care and encouragement to the aspiring devotees. The "proof of the pudding is in the tasting" (sometimes misquoted as "proof is in the pudding", which is not true..) and the practical experience of God via processes of bhakti-yoga provides that conclusive personal proof of His existence, yet the arcana process of tasting requires and demands the community expansion to survive these days.

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The Most Wonderful Day of the Year! The most wonderful day of the year is fast approaching: Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja day! Please sharpen your pencil or boot up your keyboard and let your love and appreciation flow for the most wonderful personality, whom we’re so fortunate to have as our eternal master. Written homages are...

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TRANSLATION The Personality of Godhead, after hearing the elephant’s plea, felt that the elephant needed His immediate help, for he was in great distress. Thus at once the Lord appeared there on the wings of the king of birds, Garuḍa, fully equipped with His weapon, the wheel [cakra]. With the wheel He cut to pieces...

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Maharaj explains how curses and blessings from sages are powerful but can sometimes be adjusted if the offender sincerely repents. Instead of being completely removed, a curse may be modified—for example, someone may become a demon but later be liberated by the Lord or His devotee. An example is given of conflicts even in the...

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Maharaj contrasts two kinds of unlimited reality: Rasa (spiritual experience) – the unlimited, ever-fresh loving exchanges with Krishna, which expand infinitely in variety and sweetness. Tattva (philosophical truth) – the unlimited aspects of reality understood through knowledge, including the structure of the material and spiritual worlds. In the material world, everything operates under time (kala): ...

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By Hari-Dhama das The Devotee Care Team at Bhaktivedanta Manor is currently spearheading a recruitment drive and training programme to equip suitable candidates with the relevant skills to undertake the role of a Hindu-Vaisnava chaplain in hospitals, hospices and care homes across the Greater London area and other major cities with significant Hindu – Vaisnava...

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By Pusta Krishna das

When our Godbrother, Atreya Rsi, was in Tehran in the 1970s, he wrote to Srila Prabhupad to inform him that he had gotten some of the Muslims to chant the Hare Krishna Mantra. Srila Prabhupad's reply was very interesting and enlightening...

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By Sri Nandanandana dasa

The environment means nature, and whose nature is it? It is God's nature. Did anyone else create it? Did anyone else put it all together so that it operates the way it does? In fact, humanity is still trying to figure out all the intricacies of its functionality....

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By Payal Shah

In older civilizations, it was possible to conceive, understand and retain spiritual knowledge by simply hearing from a spiritual master. In today’s day and age, however, the majority of us need to read scriptures alongside hear in order to learn, digest and remember spiritual knowledge. The foundation of the Krishna consciousness movement is predicated on the principles presented by Lord Krishna in Bhakti literatures such as the Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrita.

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This month Mayapur, Mumbai-Chowpatty, and Ujjain were the top three large temples. London-Soho, Bengaluru-South and Bhopal were the top three medium temples. Surat, Atlanta Krishna Life and Chandigarh were the top small temples and Porto Alegre, Bologna and Heidelberg were the top maha-small temples this month.

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Amid the antiwar protests of late 1966, Śrīla Prabhupāda put out a mimeographed leaflet (among the very first of his publications in America) from his small storefront temple on New York’s Second Avenue. Śrīla Prabhupāda’s followers and sympathizers handed this leaflet out by the thousands on the streets of New York, and later in San...

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In the age of Kali Yuga, the real problem is not our philosophical understanding of Lord Ramachandra or Krishna, but our deep tendency to forget Krishna at every moment. This forgetfulness is like rejecting Him completely—and it leads to struggle, confusion, and suffering in material life. When life becomes painful and unsatisfying, that moment of...

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Srila Prabhupada was so personal in his dealings with the devotees, and that was one aspect that was so attractive to people in the early days of the Krishna consciousness movement. You see how Srila Prabhupada, he always relished reciprocating love with his devotees. It simply wasn’t Srila Prabhupada asking for service or demanding things...

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By His Divine Grace A.C.B. Swami Prabhupada

Every living being is ambitious to have the topmost level of enjoyment in the material world and yet he is always unhappy here. This unhappiness is present in all the above mentioned planets in spite of long life and standard of comfort more and more increased. That is the law of material nature. You can increase the duration of life and standard of comfort to your highest capacity and yet by the law of material nature you shall feel unhappy; the reason is that the quality of happiness which is compatibly suitable for our very constitution is different from the happiness derived from material adjustment. The living entity is a minute particle of Sachidananda Vigraha and therefore he has proportionately the necessary propensity for joyfulness which is spiritual in quality but he is vainly trying to derive it in a foreign atmosphere of the material nature.

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By Ravindra-svarupa dasa

Fifty centuries ago, during a fierce war, Lord Krishna and one of His pure devotees achieved a unique intimacy. In the midst of the great battle, surrounded by the clash of arms, the pounding of hooves, the rattle of trappings, the shouts of warriors, and the screams of wounded men and beasts, where the dust churned up by the horses dimmed the sun and blood turned the earth to mud, Krishna suddenly stopped the chariot and sprang to the ground. Raising the wheel of a disabled chariot over His head, the Lord raced toward the great general Bhishmadeva like a lion charging an elephant. Just moments before, wave after wave of lethal arrows from Bhishmadeva’s bow had crashed relentlessly down upon Arjuna’s chariot. In amazement, the other warriors had seen the figures of Arjuna and his driver Sri Krishna completely disappear behind the curtains of the general’s arrows. It had been certain that Arjuna was about to fall before the fury of the attack.

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By Sri Chaitanya Chandra Das

Once when Pandavas, great devotees of Lord were in exile they were extremely thirsty while nomadic in the forest. Yudhistir asked his brothers to search some lake nearby. When after long time they didn’t return he himself went in search of them. No sooner he found them near a lake in unconscious state than a supernatural voice resonated, “Your brothers didn’t care to answer my questions before drinking water from my lake hence their current state. If you too don’t answer you will follow them.” Yudhistir nodded solemnly. One of the many questions asked by the supernatural voice was “What is most astonishing thing in this world?” Yudhistir impeccably replied “One sees death everywhere around but he thinks he is an exception. This is most astonishing.”

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Braja Vilasa and the TOVP Team are pleased to announce our annual matching fundraiser campaign this year: Prabhupada 50 12-Day Matching Fundraiser. The fundraiser begins on the auspicious Akshaya Tritiya day, April 19 and ends on the most joyful appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva, April 30. ALL donations will be matched by Ambarisa prabhu who has pledged another $10 million for TOVP construction.

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We are pleased to present the TOVP Prayer, written by H.G. Sriman Kalakantha prabhu, to all devotees. It is an appeal to the Lord to help us all do our part to complete this great and magnificent temple, Srila Prabhupada’s dearmost project, and the new home of our beloved deities at ISKCON World Headquarters in the sacred place of Sridham Mayapur.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the new TOVP Archival Videos page on the TOVP website, featuring videos of Srila Prabhupada in Sridham Mayapur and other important footage and documentaries.

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A lecture by Dr. Richard L. Thompson (Sadaputa Dasa)

Origins Magazine #7 - Evolution Part 2: Reliable Science or "Just So" Stories?

The extreme complexity and interdependency of biological systems forces descriptions of evolutionary mechanisms into the realm of vagueness. Would the subsequent formulation of "just so" stories , Sadaputa Dasa (Richard L. Thompson) queries, be tolerated in harder sciences such as physics?

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