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On Friday, April 15, 2016, Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple will celebrate the Appearance of Lord Ramachandra – Rama Navami. Lord Ramachandra is Krishna’s avatar who ruled the earth as the ideal king. He appeared more than two million years ago. Under the order of His father, Lord Ramachandra lived in the forest for fourteen years, along with His wife, Sita …

Last month, the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple celebrated one of our biggest festivals of the year, Gaura Purnima, in grand fashion!  The wonderful festival featured delightful kirtan, amazing prasadam and the most amazing darshan of our beautiful Deities!  Our wonderful congregation member, Sathi Prabhu, captured the festival on camera.  Check out the full festival video below:

We are happy to share our April edition of our monthly newsletter!  Special thanks to Thulasi Sathianathan, one of our active young devotees, for taking the lead on the monthly newsletter project.  Click the image below (or click here) to open the April 2016 newsletter. Remember, you can receive our monthly newsletter right in your inbox by clicking here to …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple is excited to announce that HG Rohini Priya das will be back in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from April 15 to 18, 2016!  He will facilitating programs all around the GTA, including the Sunday Feast discourse on Sunday, April 17, 2016 at the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple. His Grace Rohini Priya Das Prabhu graduated …

Last month, the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple was contacted by a local production company that is working with Hollywood-based filmmakers for an upcoming big-budget movie set to be released in 2018.  They were scouting locations for a film shoot and came upon our building and fell in love with it!  They contacted the temple to see if they could shoot …

Picutres by Sahil Srivastava and Subhadra devi dasi On a rainy, full moon Tuesday evening in March, devotees from Toronto’s Hare Krishna community gathered to celebrate the advent of one of the most merciful forms of Lord Krishna – Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu!  A packed temple, filled with reveling devotees exploded with colour, kirtan and the aroma of a delectable vegetarian …

With recent news of the tragic passing of former Mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, many devotees of Toronto’s Hare Krishna Community have been fondly recalling how the then-Mayor visited our annual Festival of India (Ratha-Yatra) in 2014. It was the second day of our grand two-day annual event on Centre Island and word quickly got around that the Mayor had …

In 1965, a 69 year-old spiritual teacher from India arrives in the West and settles among the hippies of New York’s Lower East Side. From a tiny storefront, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami starts a revolution of consciousness influencing tens of thousands in the US and worldwide. Check out this inspirational video all about the worldwide contributions and growth of ISKCON!

There is an incredible video making the rounds online which paints an amazingly beautiful picture of what life is like in the holy land of Mayapur.  Told from the perspective of a young gurukula (school) student, this video promises to leave you with goosebumps!  Check it out below.

Srimad Bhagavatam is described as the ripened fruit of all Vedic knowledge. Reading and discussing Srimad Bhagavatam is a core practice amongst Hare Krishnas (bhakti-yogis). By the regular reading and discussing of the Srimad Bhagavatam, one not only acquires deep spiritual realizations but also overcomes several disturbances to ones  inner happiness and overall success in life. We invite you to …