Author: ISKCON Toronto

Radiant Radhastami Celebrations!Festival Report by: Smruthi Venkateshan With summer winding up, it may seem that festivities around the city have quieted down, but that is not the case at the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple. With great pomp and show on Friday, September, 9th devotees at the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple celebrated the birthday of Srimati Radharani who is the female …

Balarama’s Appearance Day FestivitiesFestival Report by: Smruthi Venkateshan Devotees gathered at the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple to celebrate Lord Balarama’s birthday on the evening of August, 18, 2016. Lord Balarama is the elder brother of Lord Sri Krishna and is an expansion of Krishna. The festivities kicked off with an arati ceremony for their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Chora Gopinatha, …

The Hare Krishna Temple warmly invites you and your family to join us on Friday, September 9, 2016 for Radhastami celebrations – celebrating the appearance of Srimati Radharani! Festivities will commence at 6:00pm. Details of the festival are listed below. As an annual tradition, the highlight of the evening will be when we open gifts for Srimati Radharani that have …

Our new session for Krishna’s Funskool (Weekly Sunday Classes) begins on Sunday September 4th. In addition to following a curriculum which is based on the Vedic Scriptures, this year we have many new attractions which include monthly ‘Service Sundays’, Exhibition days, Picnic days, Movie Nights, Special Activity days, Competitions and much more! This year, there are four age-groups: 3-5 years, …

ISKCON Toronto’s 2016 Congregational Vyasa Puja Book The appearance day (birthday) of Srila Prabhupada is a very special occasion for all Hare Krishna devotees.  Srila Prabhupada appeared on Nandotsava – the day that Nanda Maharaja had a big festival to celebrate the birth of Lord Krsna (Sri Krsna Janmastami).   This year, Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja falls on Friday, August …

The day after celebrations for one of our biggest festivals of the year, Krsna Janmastami, we will be celebrating one of the most important festivals for us as Hare Krishnas – Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja starting at 11am on Friday, August 26, 2016. The Vyasa Puja festival is always held the day after Janmastami and the festival honours the appearance …

Thursday, August 18, 2016 marks the auspicious appearance day (birthday) of Lord Balarama, Lord Krishna’s older brother! The Supreme Person appears in innumerable forms to enjoy transcendental relationships. Some of His expansions are tiny, dependent beings, like us, and some are complete and omnipotent beings like Himself.  Balarama, or Baladeva, is Krishna’s primary all-powerful expansion.  Lord Balarama symbolizes strength and …

We had a wonderful Festival of India this month but the summer fun isn’t over yet – join us for the annual Summer Kids Camp, which is happening this year from August 15th – 19th. You can register for any number of days! As always we have lots of fun activities planned out with sumptuous prasadam (vegetarian meansl) for all …

We are very excited to announce that we will now be posting daily darshan of our beautiful Deities on our website!  You can find the daily darshan pictures posted on the right-hand side of the page. Our pujari (priest) department has been capturing photos each day and have been sharing them on Facebook.  We’ve now added them to our temple …

A lone, broke and aged man once embarked on a cargo ship to an unknown land. He suffered three heart attacks but what kept the him going was a mission which was not even his own but his guru’s. A perfect beginning to the history in making. Decades later he is celebrated on CNN as one of the top 10 …