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This Saturday, January 19th, we are celebrating the three-year anniversary of CDM (Ceto Darpana Marjanam – monthly temple clean up) in our temple. This project entails organized cleaning of the temple as a group.  Three years have passed so fast that we didn’t even realize it due to being so busy with cleaning our beloved temple every month! To recognize …

There has been some confusion regarding the 2013 ISKCON Toronto Vaishnava Calendar. Saphala Ekadashi is on January 7th, however for Toronto fasting is observed on Maha Dvadasi – January 8th. Ekadashi is a bi-monthly observance where followers of Vaishnava traditions abstain from grains, the observance is based on the lunar calendar and occasionally Ekadashi will fall over two days, in …

For quite some time, Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple held weekly Bhagavad Gita classes every Friday evening. This was done as part of the Bhakti Sastri certification program. ISKCON Toronto is very happy to announce that the Bhagavad Gita classes are back! On Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 ISKCON Toronto will resume weekly Bhagavat Gita classes. Classes will start at 6:30pm and …

As is the annual tradition, on the evening of December 31st, 2012, a large contingent of exuberant devotees from Toronto’s vibrant Hare Krishna community went over to join the tens of thousands of people at City Hall as they rung in the new year.  A quick scan of YouTube yields some highlights uploaded by random Torontonians!  Check it out:

On New Year’s Day, January 1st, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple will be hosting our annual Srila Prabhupada Festival!  Promising to be a great way to start the new year, the festival is usually one of the biggest of the year.  This year’s festival will feature a new drama by HH Bhaktimarga Swami entitled, “Gita – Concise”. The schedule for the …