On Monday 14 August at 6.45pm, on the eve of Sri Krishna Janmastami, Mother Kulangana passed away surrounded by devotees chanting the names of Krishna. Mother Kulangana’s life...Read More

"Our goal is to become steadfast in our Krishna consciousness and in our lives, so that we can one day successfully run the Hare Krishna Movement.”...Read More

Srila Prabhupada has explained that the system of honoring the spiritual master is current in all sections of Vedic followers. In the Mayavadi (impersonalist) sects, the disciples offer respect to the spiritual master every year on Guru-purnima. And in the Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya, the disciples offer homage annually on the appearance day of the spiritual master; this occasion is called Vyasa-puja, because the spiritual master represents Vedavyasa, the empowered incarnation of Krsna who compiled the Vedic...Read More

The Vaisnava sampradayas mark significant samskaras with various functions and strive to establish in the minds and hearts of all involved the nature of the living entity as an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord. In ISKCON there are many rites of passage that are celebrated to mark the development of a child through different stages of life, to adulthood and beyond. These rites of passage are called samskaras and the goal of the samskara is to make a lasting impression on the consciousness of all involved. ...Read More

Vaishnav Songs gives you instant access to all devotional songs. Just hit play to stream anything you like. As every non-devotee has some kind of music app, we’ll have one for devotees too!...Read More

One may be compassionate to fulfill his own selfish desire. One may be compassionate to some and not compassionate to others. He has raga and dvesa, liking and disliking. He is not equal to one and all. He cannot be. Unless one sees Krishna how can he be compassionate? He will see, this is Krishna's jiva suffering. His heart bleeds. He cannot sit tight. He will go out and preach Krishna consciousness. And who preaches? Prana ache yara, sei hetu pracara; one who has life? What is life? Ji ...Read More

According to the Bhagavad-gita, one’s activities can either be in goodness, passion, or ignorance. There is no being existing, either here or among the demigods in the higher planetary systems, which is freed from these three modes born of material nature. Teachers will be affected by the modes of nature. Their style of teaching and discipline will, therefore, also be affected. In this chapter we analyze how the spectrum of discipline techniques are influenced by the three modes of material nature. This analysis is meant to remove common roadblocks to discipline and thus facilitate teachers, ..Read More

Since the time of Lord Chaitanya, Navadvip has been a place of scriptural learning. This is evident from Chaitanya-bhagavata: "Many people came from various provinces to study in Navadvipa because by studying there one achieved a taste for education.Therefore no one could count the innumerable students and millions of teachers gathered there.”...Read More