Announcements

GBC EC Statement Regarding Indian SC Ruling & Proposal from ISKCON Bengaluru

GBC EC Statement Regarding Indian SC Ruling & Proposal from ISKCON Bengaluru By editor - 4.6 2025 Dear ISKCON Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) has noted the Supreme Court of India’s...Read more...

Join the 2025 Festival of India Tour!

By editor - 28.5 2025 **Festival of India: A Traveling Celebration of Culture, Devotion, and Joy** The Festival of India, also known as Harinam Festivals Inc., is a vibrant traveling cultural celebration that has brought the spiritual essence of Vedic India to cities across North America...Read more...

Paryaya festival Udupi

Danavir Goswami Releases Complete 30-Volume Garga Samhita Series

By Rsi Kumara Dasa - 19.5 2025 We are delighted to announce the completion of a monumental literary and devotional achievement in Gaudiya Vaishnava history: Danavir Goswami has successfully finished the printing of the Sri Garga-samhita in thirty volumes, the culmination of a...Read more...

Garga Samhita

Interview with Jason Lapeyre (Monkey On A Stick Movie)

By editor - 22.10 2024 Directed by Jason Lapeyre, MONKEY ON A STICK is a devastating doc that genuinely sends shivers down the spine. By telling the story of devotees such as Nori Muster, MONKEY investigates the horrors of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)....Read more...

ISKCON controversy

TOVP Announces: Jvala Nrsimhotsava, Festival of Lights for Nrsimhadeva, October 31, 2024

By editor - 14.10 2024 On March 1-2, 2024, the Nrsimhadeva Wing in the TOVP reached the first milestone and opened for all devotees to view. Now, to celebrate the next milestone of completion of the construction work in the Wing, another grand celebration is scheduled on Diwali, October 31,...Read more...

TOVP PRESENTS: Opening the World’s Largest Nrsimhadeva Temple

Completion of the TOVP Nrsimha Wing in 2023

Book Review: “Krishna’s Wonderful Form – A Guide for the Perplexed” by Krishna Kshetra Swami

By Uttamasloka Das - 21.8 2024 Krishna Kshetra Swami at ISKCON NYC; Book cover. In his new book Krishna’s Wonderful Form: A Guide for the Perplexed, Krishna Kshetra Swami gives his readers a “fly on the wall” immersive experience where you hear the characters in his...Read more...

New Book Explores Srila Prabhupada’s Standards for Kirtana

By Atma Tattva Das - 21.6 2024 To help preserve a crucial part of Srila Prabhupada’s legacy, Srila Prabhupada’s disciple Jayadvaita Swami has released a new book, Srila Prabhupada’s Kirtana Standards: A Handbook. The handbook serves as a guide for performing kirtana...Read more...

Kirtan Standards

Rupa Vilasa Dasa Continues to Chronicle the Legacy of our Vaishnava Acharyas

By Atma Tattva Das - 4.6 2024 Rupa Vilasa Dasa has dedicated his life to preserving and disseminating the rich heritage of our Vaishnava acharyas through his devotional biographies. Recently, he spoke with ISKCON News about his latest offering. At the heart of Rupa Vilasa’s service...Read more...

First-Ever Comprehensive Concordance for the Bhagavad Gita Released by Columbia University Press

By ISKCON News - 9.2 2024 The prestigious Columbia University Press has recently released a ground-breaking volume, the first-ever comprehensive concordance of the Bhagavad Gita, authored by Dr. Graham M. Schweig (Garuda Das), PhD. Entitled “Bhagavad Gita Concordance: A Comprehensive...Read more...

Giriraj Swami Launches His Latest Book, “Dancing White Elephants”

By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi - 28.11 2023 His Holiness Giriraj Swami has unveiled his latest book, Dancing White Elephants: Traveling with Srila Prabhupada in India, August 1970–March 1972, published by BBT Australia and launched in Vrindavan on November 14 during the...Read more...

BBT’s Transcend App

BBT’s Transcend App: A Revolutionary Integration of Spirituality and Technology By Atma Tattva Das - 27.11 2023 The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has taken a significant step forward with the launch of the Transcend app by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. It...Read more...

New E-book: “Apasampradayas – Traps in Our Path Back to Godhead”

By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi - 17.10 2023 Chaitanya Chandra Dasa has unveiled his latest offering, an e-book titled “Traps in our Path Back to Godhead.” Drawing inspiration from a publication by Suhotra Swami during the 1990s, this e-book sets a philosophical foundation to...Read more...

Apasampradayas

Defining Sahajiya

The Mission of Rupa Goswami

By Revati Devi Dasi - 28.10 2022 The driving force behind Rūpa Gosvāmī’s acts, including his vast literary repertoire, was Caitanya Mahāprabhu, renowned as the initiator of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava lineage in sixteenth-century India. In the eyes of his followers, Śrī Caitanya...Read more...

Srila Rupa Goswami

Radha Damodara Temple

GBC Releases Decision on Lokanath Swami

By ISKCON Communications Ministry - 9.9 2022 Dear Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) today released its decision regarding the status of Lokanatha Swami. That resolution is attached below along...Read more...

Pragosha Dasa, GBC Member, Resigns

Lokanath Swami Case

Vanipedia-Behind the Screen (video)

By editor - 12.7 2021 Vanipedia-Behind the Screen-Live conversation with Visnu Murti Das GBC SPT brings to you inside insight into one of the most valuable projects within ISKCON-Vanipedia. This live interview aims to bring us to an understanding of how Vanipedia is invoking and fully...Read more...

India’s Book of Wisdom

Feature Documentary on “India’s Book of Wisdom—The Bhagavata Purana” Released By: Madhava Smullen - 13.4 2021 The film 'India's Book of Wisdom' introduces the Bhagavat Purana to people completely new to this crown jewel of ancient Sanskrit...Read more...

Justin Davis - The First Novel By H.D. Goswami

By: Krishna West Inc - 12.4 2021 Renowned ISKCON author, Hridayananda Das Goswami, aka Howard Resnick, presents a spellbinding novel that scales literary heights while delivering a powerful Krishna conscious message. What if an ancient Sanskrit text holds the...Read more...

Ekalavya Das Sannyasa Celebration on Gaura Purnima

By: Ekalavya Das - 9.4 2021 Ekalavya Das is a disciple of His Holiness Lokanath Swami and is scheduled to receive Sannyasa (the renounced order of life) on Gaura Purnima, March 28, 2021, in Sri Pandharpur Dham, India. Ekalavya Das was born in New York City in 1965, the same year that...Read more...

Gaura Purnima with Srila Prabhupada

Centennial Celebration Marked for HH Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja

By: Radha Damodar das (UK) - 23.2 2021 The year 2021 marks the centennial celebration, the 100th appearance anniversary, of His Holiness Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja. A disciple of Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Maharaja—himself one of the foremost disciples of Srila...Read more...

Narayana Maharaja

New Book Recounts History of Building Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi

By: Madhava Smullen - 22.2 2021 The interior of Srila Prabhupada's samadhi in Vrindaban “The Rising Sun: Vrindaban Samadhi Diary” by Alfred Valerio (Bhaktisiddhanta Das), now available on Amazon Kindle, recounts the story of how the Vrindaban samadhi, or mausoleum, for...Read more...

The Big Bang and the Sages

The Big Bang and the Sages - A New Book on the Puranas and Science By: Siddha Hari das - 28.1 2021 The book's cover Bibek Debroy, Chairman of India’s Prime Minister's Economic Council has launched Sidharth Chhabra (Siddha Hari Das) and Madhavendra Puri Das...Read more...

In Defense of the Vedic View

Not One Blade of Grass

I’ll Build You a Temple: The Juhu Story

By Giriraj Swami - 12.1 2021 In August 1965, a few weeks before Srila Prabhupada left for America, on his way to see Srimati Sumati Morarji, the shipping magnate who secured him passage to the US, he passed a neglected four-acre plot of land near her residence on Juhu Beach, outside Bombay,...Read more...

ISKCON Mumbai - Juhu

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Virtual Cosmography Workshop

Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies Holds Virtual Cosmography Workshop By: Prisni Devi Dasi - 2020 The new headquarters of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies in Gainesville, Florida, USA. In 1976, Srila Prabhupada instructed the founding members of the...Read more...

Vedic Cosmography

Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy

Bhaktivedanta Manor Gurukula – Can you help?

By editor - 17.12 2020 The first thing that has changed about the Bhaktivedanta Manor Gurukula is that it is no longer called that, it is now simply referred to as the Gurukula – The Hare Krishna Primary School. This is part of the story which has seen big changes happen over the last...Read more...

Bhaktivedanta Swami Gurukula

Management: Material or Spiritual?

Announcing – The BBT/TOVP Books Are Bricks Campaign

By editor - 11.12 2020 In 1971, as a young devotee in Calcutta, Giriraja Swami approached Srila Prabhupada, “I have been trying to understand what your desire is, and two things seem to please you the most: distributing your books and building the big temple in Mayapur.”...Read more...

The Opening of the TOVP postponed

TOVP: Sri Sri Prahlad-Narasimhadeva Temple Design

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