On Saturday, May 2nd, we celebrated Nrsimha Caturdasi at the Los Angeles New Dwaraka Temple. The TOVP presentation began in the evening and gradually the temple began to fill up with devotees. A water abhisheka and puspa abhisheka of the Padukas and Sitari took place during the arati. Svavas prabhu then introduced the TOVP Team

New Dwaraka is the North American ISKCON Headquarters and home to Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadisha. It is also one of the original temples opened during Srila Prabhupada’s presence and the place of many of his pastimes, including the famous morning walks along Venice Beach. Under the able leadership of Svavas prabhu, who is also the

On Wednesday, April 29th, on the auspicious day of Rohini ekadasi, a special home program was arranged by Giridhari das, a disciple of Radhanath Maharaja who lives in Singapore, for several wealthy Indian friends of his from Silicon Valley. He flew all the way from Singapore for the occasion. After some initial informal talks and

On Tuesday evening, April 28th, Jananivas, Samik Rsi and Sunanda prabhus attended a program at the home of Sanatan Sundaram, Gandharvika Radha and their daughter Priya Kishori. The small home was packed with devotees enthusiastically chanting and dancing while the Padukas and Sitari were bathed, offered arati, and adorned with flowers. The 3 TOVP Team

The San Jose Temple (ISV) is home to some of the biggest book distribution scores in North America. This dedicated team of grhastha devotees living outside the temple, under the inspiration and guidance of His Grace Vaisesika prabhu, distributes almost as many books as some of North America’s full-time book distributors. On the weekend before

The day following Portland, Sunday, April 26th, we caught an early flight to nearby Boise, Idaho where another growing congregation of devotees is developing under the leadership of Anantarupa das. However, while going through the airport security Lord Nityananda decided to give his darshan to a security officer who opened the Lord’s carrying case and

On Saturday, April 25th we left Vancouver on a short flight to Portland, Oregon, to bless a small, budding community of devotees under the guidance and care of Jaisacinandana Das with the mercy of Lord Nityananda. 75 devotees attended the TOVP program presented by Radha Jivan and Jananivas prabhus, along with kirtan and darshan of

On Friday, April 24th we had a chance to relax from our hectic schedule after 6 weeks and take a breather: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

On Thursday, April 22nd we visited the home of Chaitanya Hari, one of the temple managers, for prasadam. In the evening he had arranged for a second fundraiser for the TOVP at the temple, and after Radha Jivana prabhu’s and Jananivas prabhu’s talks another $150,000 was pledged by the attending devotees bringing the Vancouver pledge