A Friday Night Celebrating Lord Rama!

It was an overcast, wet and soggy evening that threatened to “dampen” Rama Navami celebrations at Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple. As the rain drizzled across the city, one could just imagine devotees deciding to stay home, perhaps crawling under blankets and maybe throwing in DVDs of the “Ramayana” as their way of celebrating Rama Navami. At least that way, they …

Rama Navami Celebrations this Friday!

This Friday, April 3, 2009, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple will be celebrating Rama Navami, the appearance of Lord Ramacandra. In an epic victory of good over evil, Lord Rama, the pious King of the world and incarnation of Lord Krishna, defeated the wicked Ravana in the great battle of Lanka. Rama Navami celebrations will take place starting at 6:00pm on …

Meet ISKCON Toronto’s New Pet Monkey!!!

Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple is excited to announce that we will be welcoming a new little creature to our New Remuna Dhama family.  A few months ago, the temple filed some papers to request permission to acquire a pet monkey from South America. We learned this week that the City of Toronto’s Animal Services Division has approved the paperwork and …

Cooking for Krishna – Episode Four

The ISKCON Toronto Blog is happy to present Episode Four of Cooking for Krishna. Cooking for Krishna is a regular video series which shows how to create sumptuous vegetarian items! Once made, these preparations are lovingly offered to Lord Krishna and become “prasadam”, or sanctified food! In this fourth episode, Bhaktin Tara and her sister, Bhaktin Radha, two local youth …