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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. The festival will feature plenty of kirtan, wonderful classes and as a new addition, a special yagna (fire ceremony) to …

The following is your detailed guide to ringing in the New Year “Hare Krishna Style”! As we do every year, devotees gather at the temple on New Year’s Eve and then head over to City Hall to join the tens of thousands of revelers, ushering in the new year. However, we come armed with our drums, karatalas (cymbals) and voices …

We recently relaunched our Sunday School program and rebranded it as Krishna Fun School! Here’s a pic:

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple would like to wish you and your family a very Happy Holidays!  During this time of gift-giving and warmth, we hope everyone is having a Krsna conscious holiday season!

With the City of Toronto in the throes of city-wide power outages due to a massive ice storm which had hit the city overnight on Saturday, there were more than a few pensive moments as the temple scrambled to keep things going with no power.  The lack of power meant no lights, no heat, no hot water in the temple. …

It was an eventful 57  hours, but the temple finally has power back in the building!  A collective cheer rang through the temple as the lights flicked on just before 12pm today!  Actually, the temple was just preparing to shut off the water in the building to help avoid the pipes from freezing and then bursting!  Luckily though, the power …

It was an incredibly beautiful Sunday Feast program tonight, with soft candlelight providing a beautiful backdrop for an evening that was highlighted by the presence of HG Vaiesesika prabhu!  We had some special cameras, which had been adjusted to accommodate the low lighting, set up to snap some photos.  We will post pictures of the program soon, but here is …

It has gotten pretty chilly in the last couple of days, but guess who’s bringing in a heat wave all the way from Northern California? As most of you must have guessed by now, His Grace Vaisesika Prabhu and Her Grace Nirakula Mataji will be in town next week (Dec 20th to 24th) with a line up of fun-filled events. So …

“You can lead a horse to the water but you can’t make him drink; you can give a man the wisdom but you can’t make him think.”The Friday seminar with His Grace Vaisesika prabhu and Her Grace Nirakula mataji was adorned with such pearls of wisdom, morning to night. Both the morning class as well as the evening seminar on “Finding the …

We stumbled upon a neat little recording of an interview done by our very own Bhaktimarga Swami from a few months ago (September, 2013), conducted by CBC Radio Saskatchewan! The public broadcaster caught up with our walking Swami as he made his way through Canada’s prairie province and this nice little interview highlights yet another way that people across this …