One of the sweetest festivals of the year Nityananda Trayodasi (appearance day) will fall on Sunday, February 1st! A warm invitation goes out to you and your family to join us as we celebrate the advent (appearance) of Lord Nityananda. Lord Nityananda (also known as Nityananda Prabhu, Nitai, Nityananda Balarama) appeared hundreds of years ago as Lord Chaitanya’s principal associate for …
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Join Us for the First Monthly Sankirtan Festival (MSF) of 2015!
This coming Saturday, January 31st is the 1st Monthly Sankirtan Festival (MSF) of 2015!It’s an auspicious time of the year, decorated with many festivals. The theme for our first MSF – The Mercy of Lord Nityananda – coincides with this Sunday’s festival of Nityananda Trayodasi. Sankirtan is a Sanskrit term which means the congregational chanting and sharing of the names and …
Seminar: Nectar of Instruction – Feb 8, 2015
On Sunday, February 8, 2015, the Hare Krishna Temple will be hosting a one-day seminar on the Nectar of Instruction. Across five centuries comes this incredible guidebook of essential spiritual teachings. How to choose a guru, how to practice yoga, even where to live — you’ll find it all in Nectar of Instruction, originally written in Sanskrit by Rupa Goswami, …
Blast from the Past – Ratha-Yatra 2004!
A quick YouTube search yielded some jewel-like videos – clips from Ratha-Yatra 2004. These 10 year old videos show elements of the two-day festival over the course of the weekend. With the entire community coming together to put on the festival, this video has plenty of fun little treats!
Join Us for the 3rd Anniversary of Tuesday Sanga!
On Tuesday, January 27th we will be celebrating the 3rd anniversary of Tuesday Sanga and HH Bhaktimarga Swami will also be joining us for this special gathering. Since January of 2012, your ISKCON Toronto Temple has been hosting “sangas” which consist of an evening gathering which includes reading, chanting, interactive discussions as well as a feast. Sanga is nice weekday …
Highlights from Sankirtan 2014
The year 2014 is already in our collective rear view mirror but that shouldn’t stop us from taking a moment to appreciate all the amazing things that took place throughout the year! The sankirtan spirit flowed throughout the year as a whole team of devotees dedicated themselves to sharing Srila Prabhupada’s books with the public at large. Here is a …
Reliving Nuit Blanche Kirtan
Several months ago, the City of Toronto hosted it’s annual Nuit Blanche festival wherein entire swaths of the downtown core were transformed into giant art exhibits. With the public encouraged to walk around and take in the sights and sounds all night long, the devotees from our Hare Krishna community took to the streets (in the middle of the night) …
Survey – Govardhana Farms: Farming by Devotees for Devotees
Fil and Sukhayanti devi dasi, two of our very own congregational members from our Toronto Hare Krishna community have just returned from a six month training period at the ISCOWP farm in West Virginia, USA. They are very excited to start their own farming project here in Ontario so that, one day, they may be able to provide both the …
Seminar – Bhagavad Gita: Practical Applications in Your Own Life
REGISTER FOR THE COURSE BY CLICKING HERE! Are you a student? Or maybe you work for a living? Bringing up children? Caring for elderly parents? Do you see yourself as rich, poor, lonely, worried, concerned about where the world is headed? Or just struggling always? Was our life meant to be a struggle like this? Will it ever end? Is …
Two-Day Mridanga Course – Jan 17-18, 2015 -REGISTRATION CLOSED
UPDATE – REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED – COURSE IS FULL!The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple is very excited to announce that we will be hosting a special two-day mridanga course for anyone and everyone – all ages and mridanga playing levels welcome! The course will be taking place on January 17-18, 2015 from 10:00am to 5:00pm on each day. The course will be taught …