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We are happy to share our March edition of our monthly newsletter!  Special thanks to Thulasi Sathianathan, one of our active young devotees, for taking the lead on the monthly newsletter project.  Click the image below (or click here) to open the February 2016 newsletter. Remember, you can receive our monthly newsletter right in your inbox by clicking here to …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple will be celebrating Siva Ratri on Sunday, March 13, 2016. Siva Ratri literally translates as, “the night of Lord Siva”. Devotees of Lord Krishna view Lord Shiva as the greatest Vaishnava (devotee of Vishnu), based on Srimad-Bhagavatam, 12.13.16 says this (among other things) about Lord Shiva: vaishnavanam yatha shambhu, “Amongst all Vaishnavas, Lord Shiva is …

On Saturday, February 20th, 2016, the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple celebrated Lord Nityananda’s Appearance Day in grand fashion!  The wonderful festival featured delightful kirtan, amazing prasadam and the most amazing darshan of our beautiful Deities!  Our wonderful congregation member, Sathi Prabhu, captured the festival on camera.  Check out the full festival video below:

*** Please Note: We will try to regularly post updates on this post about the latest news about both Jayapataka Swami and Kadamba Kanana Swami *** The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple would like to make a special plea for all devotees and well-wishers to extend their prayers for the health of two senior devotees of our international Hare Krishna movement: …

A Magical Evening Celebrating the Appearance of Lord Nityananda!Festival Report by: Smruthi VenkateshanPictures by: Sahil Srivastava This past Saturday, February, 20th, Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple celebrated the appearance of Lord Nitayanada with a special twist. The event started out with an arati ceremony where the stars of the event Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai beamed brighter than a 1,000 full moons, beside the …

Most of us may be accustomed to taking part in large kirtans (musical chanting sessions), weekly Sunday Feasts, or fantastic festivals at the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple.  In addition to these inspiring gatherings, many of our international Hare Krishna communities also have smaller gatherings called “Bhakti-Vrikshas”. Bhakti-Vrikshas are congregational development programs that utilize small group structures in order to encourage …

One of the sweetest festivals of the year Nityananda Trayodasi will fall on Saturday, February 20, 2016! A warm invitation goes out to you and your family to join us as we celebrate the advent (appearance) of Lord Nityananda. Lord Nityananda (also known as Nityananda Prabhu, Nitai, Nityananda Balarama) appeared in the village of Ekachakra, in West Bengal, India, around …

Tomorrow marks the Appearance of Lord Varahadeva – Lord Krishna’s boar incarnation.  Fasting for the occasion takes place today.  Below are some excerpts from a write up about this special day from the wonderful devotees at krishna.com: Lord Varaha is Krishna appearing in the extraordinary form of a gigantic boar—gigantic enough to carry the Earth on His tusks. Sound amazing? …

Today is Family Day and so the Hare Krishna Temple would like to wish you and your family all the best on this special day.  We actually had to Google the official explanation for Family Day and got the following, “Family Day is observed in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan on the third Monday of February. In …

One of the most amazing resources we have in our Hare Krishna movement is the Grihastha Vision Team (GVT) – an incredible group of senior devotees who dedicate themselves to helping our Hare Krishna communities become stronger by developing strength in families. Being Family Day weekend, this seems like the most opportune time to “plug” the work of the GVT. …