This past Sunday, Toronto’s Hare Krishna temple celebrated the Panihati Festival for the very first time! The Panihati festival holds unique significance in our Hare Krishna tradition. The origination of the Panihati festival is beautiful and is deep with rich meaning and significance. Over 500 years ago, when Lord Nityananda first returned to Bengal, after spreading the sankirtan movement (the …
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Panihati Festival – This Sunday!!!
This Sunday, Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple is very excited to announce that we will be celebrating our first Panihati festival at New Remua Dhama! Panihati is located on the banks of the Ganges 10 miles North of Calcutta, in West Bengal India. It is the site of many wonderful spiritual pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His close personal associates. …
A Surprise Festival This Sunday! Can You Guess?
Things have been so busy at Toronto’s Hare Krishna Community that it’s almost too much to keep track of. This Sunday, June 7th, 2009 we have a special surprise up our sleeves for you! A surprise festival, which has never been celebrated at ISKCON Toronto (at least not for a long time), will be celebrated in grand fashion this Sunday! …
A “Booked” Weekend with Vaisesika das!
In the weeks leading up to the visit of HG Vaisesika das to Toronto’s vibrant Hare Krishna temple, excitement began to build about finally bursting beyond the doors of our comfortable home at 243 Avenue Road and hitting the streets to share Krishna Consciousness, our spiritual culture, through sankirtan. Sankirtan, known as “book distribution”, is one of the original …
Food for Life in Action!
This past Saturday, devotees from Toronto and Montreal hit the streets to distribute hot vegetarian meals (prasadam) to the homeless of the city. In typical jubilant Hare Krishna fashion, they sang and danced as well! Check out the video of the Food for Life program in action! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhul_kxbQLc&hl=en&fs=1&w=400&h=324] (Video Courtesy of Tara and Radha Voskoboynik)
A Sunday Feast with a “Québécois Touch”!
A visit from the youth of ISKCON Montreal left devotees at Toronto’s weekly Sunday Feast enamoured by the enthusiasm, creativity and warmth of our fellow devotees from “la belle province” (Quebec). It all started months ago, in February, when youth from ISKCON Toronto paid a visit to ISKCON Montreal, home of Sri Sri Radha Manohara. Amazing bonds were made …
Spend Your Long Weekend with Us!
Whenever there is a long weekend on the calendar, you can almost surely expect three days packed with lots of fun activities at the Hare Krishna Temple! This upcoming weekend carries on this fun tradition and we hope you can join us for some of the many activities scheduled to take place. The weekend will kick off with a special …
Roaring Celebrations for Lord Nrsimha!
Although falling on a Thursday evening, Nrsimha Caturdasi celebrations at Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple brought over 100 devotees as an evening dazzled with kirtan, class and ancient tradition awaited all. Nrsimha Caturdasi celebrated the appearance of Lord Nrsimhadeva, Lord Krishna’s half-man and half-lion incarnation. When King Hiranyakashipu tormented his youngest son Prahlada, a pure devotee of the Lord, Lord Krishna …
HG Bada Hari das Bringin’ the House Down!
At the ISKCON Toronto Blog, we love to write about how wonderful and thumping our festivals can be at the Hare Krishna Temple, but it so much more easier to show what we mean! This past Sunday marked Ratha-Yatra Launch Day celebrations, where we officially kicked off the countdown to our 37th Annual Festival of India (Ratha-Yatra). We hope you enjoy this …
Oh, What a Way to Launch a Countdown!
When we think of the word “launch”, perhaps the image of a space shuttle rumbling its way through the atmosphere as it carves a path to the stars comes to mind. Necks crane upwards to watch rockets burst towards the heavens and all that is left is a trail of smoke cast across the sky. While Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple …