Author: ISKCON Toronto

A sure sign that the annual Ratha-Yatra (Festival of India) is just around the corner (July 13-15, 2018) is the annual Jagannatha Snana-Yatra festival! Snana-Yatra is a wonderful festival, wherein Deities of Lord Jagannatha, Lord Balarama and Lady Subhadra will be bathed amidst amazing kirtan and chanting! After the bathing ceremony (Snana-Yatra), Lord Jagannātha becomes “sick”. He is therefore removed …

Please join us for a spiritual charged weekend deepening our understanding of chanting and the Holy Name from June 16 – 17, 2018. This Holy Name Seminar will be facilitated by Mother Devaki, who will be visiting us for the second time. Some highlights from the seminar include: Deepening your relationship with the Holy Name. Hear about the glories of …

Raseshvara Madhava Prabhu will be sharing his thirteen years of experience and leading an interactive Q&A on Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 2pm on a variety of topics on balancing work, school, family and spiritual life. Event will be geared towards university, post grad and young working professionals. A great opportunity to come forward with all your burning questions and have …

We are very pleased to share that HG Caitanya Avatar Prabhu will be facilitating a Bhakti Vrksa Training Program in Toronto on June 2nd, 2018. This very special 2 day intensive Bhakti-vriksa leader training course is for all devotees engaged or interested in the service of organizing Bhakti Vriksa Programs (spiritual gatherings), showcasing how to implement new programs in devotees’ …

Born in 2015, Vedic Roots Montessori Academy (VRMA) has grown into a fully-licensed preschool that integrates the world-recognized Montessori Curriculum with the timeless wisdom of Vedic Culture. In 2018, VRMA has moved into its first fully licensed location in Scarborough, with a capacity to serve 32 children (ages 18m – 6 years). Enrollment is steadily increasing! VRMA aspires to eventually …

As devotees of Krishna, have you aspired to transform your home into a small temple for God? Have you ever desired to perform personal service to Deities? Are you not sure how to do so authentically? The Hare Krishna Temple is organizing an all-day seminar on Deity Worship with Bhakti Yoga Dasa. This seminar will cover various topics, including how …

On Sunday May 13, 2018 we will be celebrating our Sweet Rice Festival! This festival will focus on the glories of our Deities, Radha Ksira-cora Gopinatha and Their special connection to sweet rice. On this occasion, our Deities are offered several different flavours of sweet rice in hand painted pots, painted by members of our community! If you would like the chance …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple welcomes Chaitanya Charan Dasa this weekend. Chaitanya Charan is a monk and spiritual author. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Pune. He subsequently served as a software engineer in a prominent multinational software corporation. Seeing the prevalent problems of stress, depression, addiction and overall misdirection – all …

We would like to present a summary report of our last Monthly Sankirtan Festival (MSF). This article has been written by one of our younger members of the community, Krishna Rajesh. We will be featuring more of these reports so you can follow along with all of the exciting developments and learn how to get involved! On Saturday, March 31st …

Saturday, April 28 we will be celebrating Nrsimha Caturdasi, the appearance day of Nrsimhadeva, the half-man half-lion incarnation of Lord Krishna.  Nrsimhadeva appeared to protect a saintly five-year-old boy Prahlada, the son of Hiranyakasipu, a demoniac king. Hiranyakasipu constantly tortured Prahlada for worshipping his worst enemy, Lord Krishna. He despised the Lord and obtained several benedictions from Brahma in order to …