It was an overcast, wet and soggy evening that threatened to “dampen” Rama Navami celebrations at Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple. As the rain drizzled across the city, one could just imagine devotees deciding to stay home, perhaps crawling under blankets and maybe throwing in DVDs of the “Ramayana” as their way of celebrating Rama Navami. At least that way, they …
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Rama Navami Celebration Recordings!
The videos from the Rama Navami program can be seen by clicking the image below. As a reminder, the recordings from our weekly live web broadcasts are stored on our new ISKCON Toronto Video Archive Blog.
Rama Navami Celebrations this Friday!
This Friday, April 3, 2009, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple will be celebrating Rama Navami, the appearance of Lord Ramacandra. In an epic victory of good over evil, Lord Rama, the pious King of the world and incarnation of Lord Krishna, defeated the wicked Ravana in the great battle of Lanka. Rama Navami celebrations will take place starting at 6:00pm on …
Meet ISKCON Toronto’s New Pet Monkey!!!
Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple is excited to announce that we will be welcoming a new little creature to our New Remuna Dhama family. A few months ago, the temple filed some papers to request permission to acquire a pet monkey from South America. We learned this week that the City of Toronto’s Animal Services Division has approved the paperwork and …
Deity Worship Seminar – Begins April 19th, 2009
Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple has an exciting seminar coming in April. The temple’s Pujari Department, which manages the care of our beautiful Deities in ISKCON Toronto is welcoming all second initiated devotees to a seminar to learn about the Deity care that takes place here in Toronto. The siminar is mandatory for all current Pujaris, and any second intitiated devotees …
No Sunday Feast Video This Week
Due to technical dificulties we were unable to record our live broadcast of the Sunday Feast and so we are unable to post a recording this week. We apologize for any inconvenience.We will resume with live broadcasts and videos with this Friday’s Rama Navami Program and upcoming Sunday Feasts!
Deity Darshan: Sunday March 29, 2009
Cooking for Krishna – Episode Four
The ISKCON Toronto Blog is happy to present Episode Four of Cooking for Krishna. Cooking for Krishna is a regular video series which shows how to create sumptuous vegetarian items! Once made, these preparations are lovingly offered to Lord Krishna and become “prasadam”, or sanctified food! In this fourth episode, Bhaktin Tara and her sister, Bhaktin Radha, two local youth …
Join Us for a Harinama this Saturday!
For the second week in a row, devotees will be hitting the streets to chant, dance and blisfully sing as a means to share our jubilant spiritual tradition with the public. Known, as harinama, the outdoor chanting and dancing on the streets is sure to help usher in the warm weather of spring! The harinama will be led by HH …
March Newsletter
The March newsletter is hot off the presses and available at the front desk at the temple. In case you haven’t gotten a chance to grab one, you can download the latest edition here! Toronto Hare Krishna News – March 2009