By Antony Brennan This weekend we celebrated Govardhana Puja at Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir in Sydney, Australia. Devotees built a large Govardhana hill from cake, sweets, biscuits and halava and Sri Prahlad brought his Govardhana Sila to adorn the top. The temple started to fill up early as people came to participate in...
Bhakta Prabhu was invited to a talk at the Middle Park’s Carmelite Centre on ‘The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People’s Spirituality in a Changing Australia’. carmel Dr Andrew Singleton, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University shared the findings of his survey based around religion in the life of those between 13 and...
New Govardhana is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness’ (ISKCON) main rural project in Australia. We are located in the beautiful caldera region of northern New South Wales. The community here engages in many activities, all of which are aimed at serving Krishna under the direction of ISKCON’s Founder/Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta...
Welcome to a Hobart Hare Krishna Devotees website As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our asociation with matter since time immemorial, our consciousness is now poluted by material atmosphere. In this polluted concept of life, we are all trying to exploit the resources of material nature,...
Shyamsundarananda Prabhu, the facilitator of the Yajna course says: “Mayapur Travelling Sankirtan devotees are extremely exemplary in every way. After just one day of presentation, they are able to perform the initiation fire sacrifice without mistakes. Also, their standard of cleanliness is very high. The tent was never before cleaned so nicely, during classes...
Mayapur Online Education is an initiative of ISKCON Mayapur to produce online courses on Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srimad-Bhagavatam and Caitanya-caritamrta and other major writings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Certificates will be offered for each book separately. These courses are designed to prepare the students for ISKCON certified Bhakti-sastri, Bhakti-vaibhava,...
Devotees from the Temple regularly go out on the street and perform Hari Nam Sankirtan. This is currently being done in the City every Friday afternoon beginning at 4pm from Govindas restaurant and every Sunday in a different suburb near you beginning at 2pm see Climate Change Lord Chaitanya inaugurated the Sankirtan Movement in...
Our worshipable Deities at ISKCON Brisbane are their Lordships Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. These are the forms of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Nityananda Prabhu who appeared on this earth five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya’s descent was predicted in the sastras. In the Srimad Bhagavatam it is said that in the age...
Iskcon Perth has been in operation since 1988 with a few devotees travelling out west to help spread the Sankirtan movement. Originally based in the Bayswater area, the temple proved a bit too small for the growing populus of devotees thus we have relocated to a bigger premises in the shire of Kalamunda.
Harinama sankirtan is the congregational chanting of the holy name of the Lord. It was inaugurated by Lord Caitanya, who is Krishna Himself, 500 years ago in Bengal India. Chanting the holy names of the Lord not only benefits the chanter, but anyone who hears the holy name receives eternal spiritual benefit
