The ISKCON Toronto Blog is happy to present Episode Three 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 third episode, Rasa Krida devi dasi, a local devotee who recently returned …
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Morning Program with the Pandava Sena Youth
Kick off those winter “blahs” this Saturday, February 7th! We are calling on all congregation members (especially the youth) to come attend the morning program at the Hare Krishna Temple. It will be a great way to start off the day because it’s… Nityananda’s Appearance Day! We promise that after this program, the chill of winter will be gone and …
Three Days of Festivities this Weekend!
When it rains, it pours! After our annual Srila Prabhupada Festival on January 1st, the calendar seemed to show that we’d have to wait a few weeks before reaching in our bag of “festival-goodies” to celebrate in grand “Toronto Hare Krishna” fashion! Well the weeks have flown by and this upcoming weekend marks some very special festivals! This Friday evening, …
A “Snap”-shot of Our Hare Krishna Community
At any given point in time, particularly on weekends and festivals, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple is bustling with activity and energy. A quick glimpse can give us a snapshot of what our burgeoning community is all about! Marcus, a friendly contributer from Snap Downtown Toronto, a free monthly newspaper, recently ventured to our temple and captured a few memorable moments, …
Sunday Feast Recordings – Feb 1, 2009
Today’s Sunday Feast recording can be viewed 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.
Deity Darshan: Sunday Febuary 1, 2009
Gaura-Shakti Holds Debut Concert!
On Sunday, January 25, 2009, Toronto’s brand new kirtan yoga band debuted at the Hare Krishna Temple. “Gaura-Shakti”, a Toronto-based kirtan troupe, led an evening of sacred mantras and devotional chants (kirtan) performed in a call-and-response style. Kirtan yoga allows a musical tapestry to fill the heart and lift the spirit in a soul-piercing journey into the sublime. From transcendentally mellow kirtans …
“Food for Life” Hits the Streets Again!
Srila Prabhupada, our founding guru of the Hare Krishna movement, had a desire to have widespread prasadam (sanctified food) distribution around the world. In an ongoing endeavor to fulfill this desire, the youth from ISKCON Toronto have been distributing prasadam to Toronto’s homeless. This past Sunday, 100 bio-degradable take-out containers were filled to the brim with delicious hot pasta and …
“Toronto Hare Krishna News” Now Online!
For the last few months, our Toronto Hare Krishna newsletter has been back up and running and copies can always be found at the front desk at our temple. We also now have our newsletters online and will try to keep archived copies of them available for our blog visitors! We hope you enjoy this new feature of the blog …
Sunday Feast Recordings – Jan 25th, 2009
The Sunday Feast recording this week featured the debut concert by ISKCON Toronto’s new kirtan band, Gaura-Shakti! In lieu of posting the webcam recording (which was broadcasted online), we will instead be posting high quality video highlights from the concert, along with a small report, later this week. Stay tuned!!!