Recently we informed our blog readers about the one year anniversary celebrations for our Toronto Sankirtan Team, who have organized monthly sankirtan festivals, where bhakti yogis go out on the streets and share books, cookies, the holy name and a smile! The plan was to have a memorable festival at Niagara Falls on June 26th, 2010. However, due to the …
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Pandava-Nirjala Ekadasi – Today!
Devout followers of the Hare Krishna tradition are used to the idea of enthusiastically celebrating their spirituality through chanting, dancing and feasting! The feasting is such an important part of our tradition, that we have become known as the “kitchen religion”! Now every fortnight, we observe Ekadasi, a day of prayer and meditation. On this day we fast (or simplify …
Bhagavad-Gita Course Starting Monday!
The Hare Krishna temple is very excited to announce that HG Uttama Sloka das will be once again visiting our temple to conduct the third and final part of his Bhagavad Gita Course. Uttama Sloka das has visited Toronto in the last two years and facilitated courses that were attended by over 50 devotees! He is a disciple of HH …
No Sunday Feast Recording this week :(
Due to technical difficulties with the temple internet connection, we were unable to broadcast or record our live broadcast of the Sunday Feast and so we are unable to post a recording this week. We apologize for any inconvenience as many devotees wanted to listen to Uttama Shloka das’s amazing class again! However, if you want to listen to him …
Deity Darshan: Sunday, June 20, 2010
Festival of India Postering and Card Distribution!
There is a lot of excitement in the air with Festival of India (Ratha-Yatra) just a month away! But how many Torontonians know about this wonderful festival? This is what the “Lord Baladeva’s Invitation Crew” will set out to do from now until the festival by personally inviting people and putting up posters throughout the city! Postering and inviting people …
Sunday Feast Recording – June 13, 2010
The Sunday Feast (Pani Hati Festival) recording of can be viewed by clicking the image below. As a reminder, the recordings from our weekly live web broadcasts are stored on our ISKCON Toronto Video Archive Blog.
Deity Darshan: Sunday, June 13, 2010
Panihati Festival – This Sunday!!!
This Sunday, Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple is very excited to announce that we will be celebrating our second Panihati festival at New Remua Dhama! Panihati is located on the banks of the Ganges 10 miles North of Calcutta, in West Bengal India. It is the site of many wonderful spiritual pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His close personal associates. …
Flashback Photo – Beverley St.
This edition of ISKCON Toronto’s Flashback Photos features a very special sannyasi (monk). It shouldn’t be too hard for many of us to guess who this is, but we still encourage comments for those who would like to venture a guess! HINT: It was on the instruction of Srila Prabhupada that he came to Toronto to open the first center …