As many devotees within Toronto’s growing Hare Krishna community may know, the temple has regularly facilitated classes, seminars and workshops over the last several years based on books like Bhagavad-Gita, Isopanisad, Nectar of Instruction and topics like Vaisnava Etiquette and the Yoga Ladder. All of this has been orchestrated, arranged and facilitated by HG Brhat Mrdanga das. Having founded the …
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Flashback Photo – 1972!
Correction: Oops! We made a mistake! This picture was actually from the original installation of Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Chora Gopinatha in 1972 (we stated earlier that this was a picture from 1976, when the Deities first came to our current temple). It makes it even more special! As a small treat, here is a photo of our dear Deities, Sri …
Youth Service Day this Saturday!
We are calling all youth to come this Saturday, March 21st from 1:00pm until 3:00pm to help clean up the temple. We will be cleaning and re-organizing one of the rooms on the balcony and the dry items area beside the kitchen. If cleaning is not your thing, there is also cutting up vegetables for the Food Expo which the temple is …
Holi Celebrations Give a Feast for the Eyes!
Fresh off larger-than-life festivities for Gaura Purnima mere days before, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple held Holi celebrations on Sunday, March 15th, 2009. A festival filled with colour and kirtan welcomed devotees as the temple filled to capacity, yet again, for another fun-filled festival. Celebrations kicked off with the 6:00pm arati and it only took a quick glance around the temple …
Sunday Feast Recordings – March 15, 2009
The Sunday Feast and Holi Celebration 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, March 15, 2009
Holi Celebrations This Sunday!
The Hare Krishna Temple will be celebrating Holi this Sunday, March 15th and an open invitation goes out to one and all to join us for this colourful event. We have been regularly announcing at our recent Sunday Feasts that there will be no throwing of coloured powders during the festival (it causes a very big mess) but that the …
ISKCON Toronto Celebrates Gaura Purnima!
Despite falling on a Tuesday on the lunar calendar, this year’s Gaura Purnima celebrations still resulted in a temple filled with devotees ready to celebrate the birth anniversary of Lord Caitanya! Lord Caitanya is an incarnation of Krishna who appeared in Nadia, West Bengal, India in the 15th century A.D. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krishna Himself, appearing as His own …
Gaura Purnima Festival Recordings!
The videos from the Gaura Purnima program can be seen by clicking the image below. Stay tuned for the festival update and pictures! As a reminder, the recordings from our weekly live web broadcasts are stored on our new ISKCON Toronto Video Archive Blog.
Gaura Purnima 2009
This year’s Gaura Purnima festivities were a grand success filled with lots of highlights! A full festival report will be posted shortly, in the mean time please enjoy the stunning darshan of their lordships Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.