U.S. Senator Gets Srimad-Bhagavatam
“I am overwhelmed,” said Senator Charles Mathias (R-Md.) recently upon receiving the Srimad-Bhagavatam from ISKCON life member Dr. Vibhakara Mody.
Govinda’s Restaurant Opens in Tirupati
In Tirupati, along the seven-mile-long mountain path to the temple of Lord Venkatesvara (a form of Lord Krsna), pilgrims stop for rest and refreshment at the newly opened Govinda’s Restaurant.
Australian Prime Minister Praises Devotees
A meeting with the acting prime minister and the opening of a long-awaited bridge highlighted a recent festival at the Hare Krsna farm community here.
Building Africa’s Largest Temple
With the generous financial help of South Africa’s Indian community, Hare Krsna devotees are building the largest temple of Lord Krsna on the African continent.
A New FATE in Detroit
The First American Transcendental Experience (FATE), an elaborate multimedia diorama museum, includes six beautifully detailed dioramas illustrating pastimes of Krsna taken from the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Hare Krsna Leaders Meet India’s President
Recently the president of India, His Excellency Sri Giani Zail Singh, cordially received three leaders of the Hare Krsna movement. They gave President Singh a set of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
BTG: You Won’t See it on the Streets Anymore…
The big change is that no longer will we be a magazine you see now and then or pick up when you meet a devotee on the street. At least in America, BACK TO GODHEAD is now a subscription magazine. You won’t see BTG on the streets anymore.
West Gets First Lord Nrsimhadeva Deity
Now, for the first time outside India, a Deity of Lord Nrsimhadeva has been formally installed in a temple—the temple at Nava-Jiyada-Nrsimha-Ksetra, the Hare Krsna farm deep in the Bavarian Forest.
London Chariot Festival
Last summer, thousands of tourists sightseeing in the center of this city may have been more than a little surprised to see a forty-foot-high, gaily decorated chariot being pulled around a corner onto Park Lane by scores of chanting and dancing Hare Krsna devotees.
Devotee Paints Mural for Civic Center
A 12-foot by 20-foot mural entitled “French Explorers” has been painted by Muralidhara dasa, a devotee at the New Vrindaban farm community, for the Wheeling Civic Center.
New Books in Thai and Indonesian
The Bangkok branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) has published two new books in Thai: Beyond Birth and Death and The Perfection of Yoga.
Bhaktivedanta Hilltop School Enrolls 425
The Hare Krsna movement has opened a gurukula school that has won a warm response from local parents. More than 425 children have enrolled in Bhaktivedanta Hilltop School and are studying the usual academic subjects side by side with Krsna conscious philosophy.
ISKCON GBC Adds New Spiritual Masters…
This year the GBC gave their blessings to three of Prabhupada's closest disciples to begin accepting disciples. Second, the GBC gave the go-ahead for some two dozen seasoned preachers to enter the renounced order, sannyasa.
Hridayananda Appoints Himself to Continue Prabhupada’s Bhagavatam Translation…
Srila Hridayananda dasa Goswami, thought of putting himself to the challenge. He had never formally studied Sanskrit—but he knew the Sanskrit basics, he had something of a genius for languages, and he thought he could learn whatever he still needed to know.
Five New Books Published
If there’s one thing His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada taught his disciples, it was to publish as many books as possible on the science of Krsna consciousness and to distribute them profusely. It seems they’ve taken his instruction to heart.
Ravana Killed, Rama Reigns in Washington
For the United States this was the first formal installation of a Deity of Rama, an incarnation of Krsna who personifies perfect government leadership.
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out on “Brainwashing”
On “Brainwashing” Last October a Queens, New York, grand jury leveled charges of extortion and “imprisonment through brainwashing” against New York ISKCON Temple President Adi-Kesava Swami. In mid-February of this year, one month before State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy threw the case out of court, Adi-Kesava traveled to ISKCON’s temple in Mayapur, India, […]
ISKCON News — Ratha Yatra Day Proclaimed in San Francisco
In a proclamation issued June 23, 1975, Mayor Joseph L. Alioto established July 20 as “Ratha-Yatra Day” in San Francisco. Ratha-Yatra is a large festival sponsored in San Francisco and many other cities and countries by ISKCON.
ISKCON News
Scholars and librarians are falling in love with Prabhupada’s books. The libraries of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Swarthmore and dozens of other major universities have placed standing orders for for all the volumes published and all those yet to come.