International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON in Photos 1969
ISKCON MONTREAL
ISKCON MONTREAL in photos 1969.
Back to Godhead Vol 31, 1969 PDF Download
Special 1969 issue of ISKCON’s Back to Godhead Magazine featuring photographs of ISKCON centers in North America.
The Magic of a Real Guru
The foremost qualification of a guru is not that the guru establish his superiority (whether by magic tricks or whatever) but that he establish the superiority of God and be able to arouse the dormant love for God in the hearts of others.
Lotus-Flower Float Dazzles Cotton Bowl Crowd
The new year began here on an ecstatic note at the twenty-seventh annual Cotton Bowl Festival and Parade as a crowd of one hundred thousand and a national television audience of millions viewed the award-winning float built by “the Texas Hare Krishnas.”
CHANT Hare Krishna!
In Sanskrit, man means “mind” and tra means “freeing.” So a mantra is a combination of transcendental, spiritual sounds that frees our minds from the anxieties of life in the material world.
Not Practicing What You Preach — Letters
Hare Krishna’s not practicing what you preach. You print magazines, use building materials for temples all over the world, use cars, trucks and other means of transportation to spread your gospel.
San Francisco Rathayatra Festival 1969
On July 27th, 1969 in San Francisco the most powerful spiritual celebration the bay area has ever known, the Rathayatra Festival, took place. Words cannot describe the nectarean beauty of the holy day glorifying the Jagannath Deities.
Lord Jagannatha’s Journey to the Sea
Today is the Jagannath Car Festival. There is great excitement in the San Francisco temple. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, affectionately known as Prabhupada, had given a lecture the night before, and the chants had been sung with much enthusiasm.
Rathayatra Parade San Francisco 1969
Prabhupada emerged from a car which had cautiously nuzzled its way through the crowds up to the side of the great ratha car. Purple velvet steps were lowered onto the street by the devotees, and the Golden Guru rose up onto the ratha’s opulent throne, just below the Deities.
Back to Godhead Vol 30, 1969 PDF Download
1969 San Francisco Rathayatra Festival
Rathayatra, London 1969 Photos
Children and grandmothers with tilok all wanting to pull the rope that will send dancing the grand Lord of the Universe. Then the conch is sounded and with the transcendental broom sweeping away the material dust, we dance towards Trafalgar Square.
40 Years of Back To Godhead Magazine
In February 1944 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada published the first issue of BACK TO GODHEAD magazine. At his home in Calcutta, he wrote the articles, typed the manuscripts, and designed the logo.
ISKCON Food for Life in Major Cities
Miami—The ISKCON Food for Life program is in full swing here and in other cities across the United States and abroad.
CHANT Hare Krishna!
These sixteen words—Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—are especially meant for counteracting the ill effects of the present age of quarrel and anxiety.
Practical Action in Politics? — Letters
In the face of perhaps a global nuclear holocaust, is there any scope within Krsna consciousness for practical action—say as in the realm of politics?
Back To Godhead February-March 1984 PDF Download
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the creator of both the material and spiritual universes and is the father of all living beings. Not even a blade of grass moves without His sanction.
New York Samkirtan 1969 in Photos
Many photos of ISKCON’s Sankirtan Party in New York City during 1969.
Srila Prabhupada at New Vrindaban
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrived at New Vrindaban, West Virginia on the morning of May 21st, 1969. It was his first visit to the mountain ashram, which is the first community in the West dedicated to Krishna conscious living.
What is The International Society for Krishna Consciousness?
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness was formed in 1966 by Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who came from India on the order of his Spiritual Master to preach love of God to the people of the West.