Kirtan: A New Healing Tool for Veterans?
Some veterans are discovering that kirtan—a form of chanting from India—is helping them cope with conditions such as PTSD, as well as life back home. When you picture a kirtan enthusiast in your mind’s eye, do you think of a retired American sniper who did three tours in Iraq? What about a former female sergeant who’s struggling with lung injuries, More...
IPBYS Prison Program
August 05, 2013 (VNN) IPBYS Prison Program Update, August 2013 by Vasanti dasi By the mercy and power of Srila Gurudeva, the IPBYS Prison Program expands and reaches the lives of so many jivas on its own accord. More...
Yoga Takeover of New York’s Times Square
June 27, 2013 (VNN) Summer Solstice celebrated with Yoga Takeover of New York’s Times Square via theprovince.com People around the world were up at the crack of dawn on Friday to celebrate the longest day of More...
The History of Lord Jagannātha’s Snana-Yatra
June 23, 2013 (VNN) Śrī Jagannātha Mahā-Bhāva-Prakāśa An evening lecture by Śrī Śrīmad Gour Govinda Swami Mahārāja, given on the 23rd June 1994, in Towaco, USA. Today is Snāna-pūrṇimā, the More...
ShaktiFest 2013
June 16, 2013 (VNN) By Vasanti dasi Over the years, I had heard vaguely about Shaktifest and Bhaktifest, but never quite knew what they were. This year, by Srila Gurudeva’s inspiration and understanding that More...
ISKCON’s Self Discovery Programs Celebrated “Festival of Love and Trust”
Houston, May 28, 2013 (VNN) By Ravinder Yerram via Indoamerica News On Saturday, May 18, as Part of “Self Discovery” programs all over the Houston conducted by ISKCON, the Hare Krishna Dham, devotees grand More...
The Name of God: A Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue
Potomac, Maryland – May 26, 2013 (VNN) By Krishna Lila dasi via ISKCON News It’s a topic that one might have expected was studied by this group years ago. But that fact is, only after a decade and a half More...
New Vrindaban Rebuilds, Sees Bright Future Ahead
May 12, 2013 (VNN) By Madhava Smullen via ISKCON News New Vrindaban Board Members with Srila Prabhupada in his Palace of Gold Established in 1968 in West Virginia, New Vrindaban was ISKCON’s first rural More...
Hare Krishna Temple vandalized; 2 men arrested
May 07, 2013 (VNN) by Greg Hamilton via Gainesville.com Two men went into the Hare Krishna Temple in Alachua while a service was going on Saturday morning and began throwing bleach around the temple, saying it More...
Sri Radha Govindaji Gaudiya Matha Inauguration Festival
May 05, 2013 (VNN) by Vishnu Das Sri Radha Govindaji Gaudiya Matha Inauguration Festival Houston – July 11th – July 14th, 2013 On behalf of our Dearmost Divine Spiritual Master, Om Vishnupada 108 Sri More...
