Free accommodation is available for any devotee (single or couple) who wants to stay in Vrindavan permanently and in return he/she can take care of our Guesthouse “PRABHUPADA ASHRAM”. Please contact Syamasundara das on (Click here for the full article)

The committee of the Hare Krishna Society of Queens is looking for a qualified brahman to assist with daily deity worship and other services. Room and meals will be provided. Other details will be discussed with applicable candidates. For more information contact (Click here for the full article)

Dr. Jill Bormann’s research on chanting the “Hare Rama” mantra as a therapeutic tool is increasingly attracting the attention of health professionals and media sources (e.g., Click Here). In the 1990s, as part of my doctoral thesis, Dr. Neil Abell and I conducted quantitative studies on the effects of the Maha Mantra on mental health indicators, such as life satisfaction, stress and depression. My dissertation is entitled Effects of the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra on Stress, Depression, and the Three Gunas. Dr. Bormann contacted me several years ago because, amongst research on mantras, she was particularly impressed with the Maha Mantra studies published by Wolf and Abell. She referenced our writings in her work, and actually during a phone conversation with me she expressed that she would like to replicate the Maha Mantra studies. Parts of my dissertation and some articles on the Maha Mantra studies that have been published in scholarly social science journals are available at www.yedaveda.net. Below is an article I published in a magazine for the general public a few years ago, that relates to the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra and cites Dr. Bormann. (Click here for the full article)

New three-room apartment in Purana Kalide area. The area is approx. 100m2 + balcony 16m2. Two bathrooms. The apartment is equipped with AC, fans, inverter. The height is 3m up to ceiling, large bright rooms, aluminum windows. Floor - sandstone.

Nearby there is a 1-bedroom apartment, 32m2 + balcony area of ​​14m2 (along the perimeter of the apartment). The apartment is equipped with AC, fan, inverter. Nice view over Madan Mohan Mandir & Yamuna river.

To get full information please call: (Click here for the full article)

ISKCON Prison Ministry needs volunteers to offer one-time or regular programs for the inmates. Inmates read Prabhupada's books and chant Hare Krsna, but they are craving face to face devotee association, as the following letter expresses:

“Our chaplain seems to be very helpful, and I’m sure he would be open to any volunteer devotees who wanted to be of assistance. A service or study could be held on a weekly or monthly basis. There is also an evening mentor meeting once a month where a volunteer can meet with an inmate in the chapel for 2 ½ hours; that would also be an option, it all depends on the availability of the devotee. I want to learn all I can about Krishna, and would be overjoyed to meet with a devotee face-to-face who would help guide me. I would be eternally grateful.”
Ricky Jones; Huntsville, Texas

If you would like to volunteer to give programs at this prison, or any other prison, please contact me at (Click here for the full article)

Looking for good association, service connection and friends in Hawai'i. I will be moving back to the Big Island in April and am needing to connect with the devotees on the island. I lived on the Big Island back in 2007 and that is actually where I was introduced to Krsna Consciousness, so it is a very special place to me. I am single and in my mid twenties. I'm interested in meeting devotees and possibly collaborating on projects together, be they preaching, kirtan, agricultural, etc. By Krsna's mercy I have the following skills I can offer: organic farming including Hawai'ian-style permaculture and fruit trees (used to operate a CSA in the mainland), organic gardening, prasadam prep, editing, preaching projects (aspiring kirtaniya and lecturer), and many other practical type things. I would be especially interested in living with devotees in some sort of devotionally-oriented arrangement, perhaps work-trade or for a small rent. I live very simply, eat healthy, practice Ayurveda and by Krsna's mercy follow all four regs closely with daily sadhana. If any devotees out there in Hawai'i are kind enough to contact me and introduce themselves I would be most grateful and perhaps we could meet in May. I need the association of sincere devotees and by Krsna's mercy I have something to offer back. Please contact me at (Click here for the full article)

In an effort to better serve our worldwide audience, the BBT is improving its presence on the World Wide Web. BBT.info is in need of an overhaul to increase search engine optimization, provide more comprehensive information to all visitors, and attract attention to the vast catalog of teachings by our Founder-Acarya A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada by educators, librarians, and new seekers.

If you are well-versed in Drupal design and implementation and would like to help the BBT in this way, please send me an email (Click here for the full article)

Several prominent Buddhist groups in Thailand (some of them strict vegetarians) invited Dr Sahadeva dasa for a series of countrywide programs and visit to their communities. They hosted a series of TV shows with him. His talks covered a wide range of topics –from Lord Buddha and promulgation of Buddhism to fate of modern civilization, ancient solutions to modern problems, absolute morality and ethics, comparative theology etc.

Some of these Buddhist groups are politically very influential and strict vegetarians. They have created exemplary self-sufficient communities, producing their own food and leading a chemical and plastic free life. One of the communities lives in boat houses, grows its food on barges and even have a floating supermarket selling the community wares. There were few mantra concerts, both in private homes and in public places.

Thailand is a tropical paradise and culture is very similar to that of India. Centuries ago, Buddhism went there and the country became officially Buddhist. Thai Monarchy still wields power and everything there appears to be colourful, exotic and full of life. Religion plays an active role in people’s lives and in the morning, groups of monks can be seen wandering everywhere, begging alms. Sanskrit words are very common and there is this huge (Click here for the full article)

I have revised this recipe on April 29, 2012. The important point is not to shake the yogurt water at start, but only at finish.

The St. Augustine Ratha Yatra which was held on Saturday, March 24th. The St. Augustine Mayor Mr. Joe Boles, (with a blue shirt and white beard) is shown breaking a coconut and sweeping the road before the chariot procession starts. He is following the ancient tradition of Jagannatha Puri where the King of Orissa cleans the road to welcome Lord Jagannath.

Also kindly see our website festivalofchariots.org for a list of all Ratha Yatra festivals we hold in the state of Florida.

There is a nice newspaper article & photo also which appeared in the St. Augustine newspaper, Sunday first page. Here is that link: Click Here

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March 2012 – Krishna Kitchen in Costa Rica – Krishna Kitchen serves prasadam for the first time overseas.

Krishna Kitchen was originally launched as Krishna Camp in 2006 when younger ISKCON devotees from New Vrindaban established a presence at two alternative festivals—West Virginia’s Rainbow Gathering and Nevada’s Burning Man. Since then, Krishna Kitchen has evolved into a full scale prasadam catering company that hit fifteen events across the U.S. in 2011.

Here is a report from the Envision Festival in Costa Rica where the Krishna Kitchen team catered at their first event overseas in honor of Nitai Das, the founder and Director of Krishna Kitchen who left this world on January 31st 2012 to join Srila Prabhupada and Yamuna Devi in their eternal transcendental pastimes…

A ten person devotee team from Phili, DC, Alachua and Costa Rica joined forces to continue Nitai Dasa’s vision… serving prasadam to the attendees of (Click here for the full article)

Hare Krishna School in Auckland has a position vacant from the second of July 2012 for a qualified and motivated devotee educator. The position will come with some aspect of school management which will be appropriately rewarded.

Our school is a Primary/intermediate school catering for students up to 12 years of age. It is situated 20 kms North West of Auckland within 3 minutes walk from the ISKCON Radha Giridhari temple. Salary is set by the New Zealand Teachers Collective Agreement and is available on line through the Ministry of Education website.

Many traveling devotees confirm that our school is one of the very best schools in our movement. It is a Government funded school with a mandate from the Government to ensure that our philosophy and culture is prominently presented in our curriculum and the ethos of the school. We currently have 90 students with a capacity of 150. (Click here for the full article)

We are in need of a devotee to design the front cover of a DVD case for a documentary producer/edited and about Hari Naam Sankirtana.

Remuneration will be discussed based upon experience.

I will provide ideas and sketches to facilitate the creative process. We are looking for something very sweet and unique.

Please contact (Click here for the full article)

ISKCON Hawaii is pleased to announce the schedule for it's 40th Installation Festival of Sri Panca-tattva in Honolulu, Hawaii. These were the first Panca-tattva Deities established in the Western World and They were personally installed by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Please come join us for any or all of the following celebrations:

Gaura Nitai deities flank Lord Keshav Ji with our parampara on the altar.

For the past four months, devotees from ISKCON Vrindavan have been holding regular Sunday feast programs in Karhagarh, the prison house of Kamsa where Vasudev and Devaki were once imprisoned. The temple, popularly known by locals as Prachin Janambhumi (the very old birthplace of Lord Krishna), houses the beautiful deities of Vasudev, Devaki and Keshav Dev Ji (baby Krishna with four arms).

Prachin Janambhumi is west of Potara Kund (where Mother Devaki washed baby Krishna’s dirty cloth) and a five-minute walking distance from the heavily guarded Janambhumi. Prachin is centrally situated in Malpura (district of the wrestlers), so Kamsa had the prison guarded by these wrestlers.

According to current sevaite Krishna Chand Goswami, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu met the sanodiya brahmin here, and Srila Prabhupada often visited this temple during his visits to Mathura. (Click here for the full article)

Mature female devotee (44) seeks mother-in-law apartment or room with attached bathroom for rent from mid June to mid August 2012, preferably within an 8 mile radius of the temple. Quiet area, garden and/ or trees a distinct advantage. Please reply to (Click here for the full article)