Author: ISKCON Toronto

We stumbled upon this very nice video of Gaura-Vani and As Kindred Spirits leading a beautiful bhajan at the Sivanananda Ashram in the Bahamas from the spring of 2013. In the video, Gaura-Vani presents a delightfully beautiful rendition of the classic Vaisnava Song, “Udilo Aruna Purave Bhage“.  Mixing the traditional singing of the bhajan (along with a unique chorus) with …

In the Fall 2013, ISKCON News called out to Krishna devotee videographers to send their short videos of inspiring Krishna-conscious people, stories, interesting Krishna-conscious projects, events or activities, or their Krishna-conscious music videos. There were over 50 contestants applied from 14 different countries, and shared their inspiring short films of various subjects, including festivals, spiritual retreats, Deity worship, outreach and …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple will be hosting another Kirtan Standards Seminar with HH Bhaktimarga Swami on Friday, January 3rd, 2014 at 6:30 pm. This informative seminar will present the proper etiquette and standards that are meant to be followed at our temple with respect to leading kirtans. Moreover, this will give an opportunity to ask questions and discuss various …

Mangal Arati (4:30am) Darshan on On New Year’s Day (January 1st, 2014). Please join us tonight for our annual Srila Prabhupada Festival!  Promising to be a great way to start the new year!

On New Year’s Day, January 1st, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple will be hosting our annual Srila Prabhupada Festival!  Promising to be a great way to start the new year, the festival is usually one of the biggest of the year. The festival will feature plenty of kirtan, wonderful classes and as a new addition, a special yagna (fire ceremony) to …

The following is your detailed guide to ringing in the New Year “Hare Krishna Style”! As we do every year, devotees gather at the temple on New Year’s Eve and then head over to City Hall to join the tens of thousands of revelers, ushering in the new year. However, we come armed with our drums, karatalas (cymbals) and voices …

We recently relaunched our Sunday School program and rebranded it as Krishna Fun School! Here’s a pic:

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple would like to wish you and your family a very Happy Holidays!  During this time of gift-giving and warmth, we hope everyone is having a Krsna conscious holiday season!

With the City of Toronto in the throes of city-wide power outages due to a massive ice storm which had hit the city overnight on Saturday, there were more than a few pensive moments as the temple scrambled to keep things going with no power.  The lack of power meant no lights, no heat, no hot water in the temple. …

It was an eventful 57  hours, but the temple finally has power back in the building!  A collective cheer rang through the temple as the lights flicked on just before 12pm today!  Actually, the temple was just preparing to shut off the water in the building to help avoid the pipes from freezing and then bursting!  Luckily though, the power …