2011 marked another year of exciting sankirtan achievements for the Toronto Hare Krishna community. With lofty goals of sharing record numbers of Srila Prabhupada’s books, enthusiastic devotees from our community hit the streets as ambassadors of goodwill as we happily shared Krsna consciousness. (Our favourite moment of the video starts at the 8:35 mark!) :o) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yU96TQrlU?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0&w=500&h=339]
Category: General
Second Anniversary of the Monthly Temple Clean-Up – This Saturday!
This Saturday, January 21st (10am to 3pm), the temple is celebrating the two year anniversary of Ceto Dharpana Marjanam (CDM) or the Monthly Temple Clean-Up. This project entails organized cleaning of the temple as a group. To recognize our hard work throughout two amazingly exciting years, there is going to be a special pizza party as part of our tradition …
New ads in the Toronto Subway on being Vegetarian
Thousands of Torontonians take the TTC daily to go to school, work and back home. The TTC Subway carts are full of different ads, but recent ads by an independent group called Be Veg have been catching the attention of Subway goers. Using a simple question of “Why love one but eat the other”, these ads ask Torontonians why do …
Tuesday Sangas at the Hare Krishna Temple!
Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement often talked about the importance of getting together and discussing spiritual topics. These spiritual and devotional discussions between devotees is known as Sangas. Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple along with the Toronto Sankirtan Team warmly invite you to come check out Tuesday Sangas which take place at the Hare Krishna Temple every …
Deity Darshan: Sunday, January 15, 2012
A Spiritual Retreat for Women – “Vaisnavi Sanga Retreat” – Brighton, Ontario – April 5-8, 2012
Many women in our Hare Krishna community, if not all, undoubtedly have incredible amounts of responsibilities and duties to manage in every day life. Whether it’s being a wife, a mother, a university student, an employee or a even head of a company, being able to manage personal lives with spiritual endeavours can be a difficult task to manage. Toronto’s Hare …
Priceless in Seattle: Free Prasadam Cafe Says “It’s Fun to Give”
We were recently visiting ISKCON News and read an incredible article about a devotee-run project in Seattle. Check it out! A Seattle eatery that’s celebrating its 10th anniversary this year serves sanctified pure vegetarian food with a difference. It’s completely free. My Sweet Lord, located ten minutes’ walk from the University of Washington in an area populated with student residences, …
Deity Darshan: Sunday, January 8, 2012
January Book Club: Teachings of Lord Caitanya
The Toronto Hare Krishna Book Club is starting the new year with a great book called ‘Teachings of Lord Caitanya’. It consists of 360 pages so if you read just 12 pages a day, you can complete the book in a month. Here is a nice synopsis of the book: “Lord Caitanya chanted, danced, wept in ecstacy and flooded the …