Lord Nityananda’s Appearance Day Festival recording can be viewed by clicking the image below. As a reminder, the recordings from our weekl y Sunday Feastlive web broadcasts and Festival broadcasts are stored on our ISKCON Toronto Video Archive Blog.
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Better Late Than Never… New Year’s Eve 2009!
Well, it took us a number of weeks, but we finally have a video report of the wild and crazy New Year’s Eve maha-harinama that took place on the night of December 31st, 2009. Led by Bhaktimarga Swami, over 75 kirtan-lovers burst out from the temple, hopped on the subway at Rosedale station and chanted their way to City Hall …
Celebrating Lord Nityananda’s Appearance Day this Thursday!
The Toronto Hare Krishna temple would like to extend a warm invitation for all to join us as we celebrate Lord Nityananda’s Appearance Day (birthday!) on Thursday, January 28th, 2009. Lord Nityananda is considered identical to Lord Balarama, the elder brother of Lord Krishna. He is regarded as being like the elder brother of Lord Chaitanya. Lord Nityananda is known …
Appearance of Varaha Avatar (Boar Incarnation)
This year, January 27th marks the appearance anniversary of Varaha avatar (Lord Krishna’s boar incarnation). As described in the Srimad Bhagavatam, Lord Krishna assumed this form of a gigantic boar to lift the drowning planet Earth from the cosmic ocean with his tusks. A demonic personality had thrown the planet Earth from her orbit into this ocean but the Lord …
Deity Darshan: Sunday January 24, 2010
No Broadcast Today :-(!
Due to some technical issues, we will not be broadcasting the Sunday Feast today. We apologize for any inconvieniece this may cause.
Appearance Day of Advaitacharya
Today, Friday, January 22nd, marks the appearance anniversary of Advaitacharya, one of the foremost teachers of bhakti in the Hare Krishna tradition. On this day we fast till noon in his honour. Advaitacharya appeared some sixty years before Lord Chaitanya’s own advent, over 500 years ago. It was Advaitacarya who asked Lord Chaitanya to descend. Before Lord Chaitanya’s advent, Advaitacharya …
Food for Life Efforts in Haiti
With the tragic events in Haiti caused due to the massive earthquake, we learned that Hare Krishna Devotees have begun relief efforts through the International Food for Life program. The Food for Life project, started in 1974, has now expanded to over 60 countries and over 1,500,000 hot vegan meals are distributed daily. Check out an excerpt from their website …
Why No Onion & Garlic in the Krishna Diet?
Devout bhakti-yogis of the Hare Krishna tradition choose a vegetarian diet that also includes the avoidance of onion and garlic. While many Krishna devotees know the basic reasons behind this, we often struggle to explain this to friends, family or even people that are new to Krishna consciousness. A link was sent to us recently from Kurma das’ website. Kurma …
2009 Year in Review Video Presentation
Yesterday during our weekly Sunday “Love” Feast, the Toronto Hare Krishna temple showcased a special video presentation that covered all the amazing things that happened during the year 2009. This has been a yearly tradition (check out the 2008 and 2007 videos) and, for our online audience along with anyone who missed it, we present the very same presentation. The …