The second annual Diwali celebration at the Bhakti Center in New York City not only drew around 350 festivalgoers including 200 new guests, but was also covered by the CBS News New York television station.

CBS2's Valerie Castro reports.

Twenty-five devotees from all over the US and Canada began a Zonal Supervisor Training program, run by the GBC College for Leadership Development, to learn how to become top leaders in ISKCON recently.

The Governor personally helped carry the 50lb box of Srimad-Bhagavatams to be placed in his Mansion. His wife, First Lady of Florida Casey DeSantis, appreciated the gift of a garland offered to Srila Prabhupada on his Vyasa Puja Ceremony at the ISKCON Alachua temple.

Deep In The Desert of Rajasthan. A video by Ananta Vrindavan.

The more we help others overcome worldly illusions by equipping them with spiritual insights and practices, the more we become spiritually absorbed ourselves and go beyond worldly illusions.

Rasa Purnima marks the first of Sri Sri Radha Madhava’s weekly elephant processions in Mayapur. During this festival, Their Lordships come out of the temple and go on a procession around the Mayapur campus on the back of an elephant.

Mayuri's first full feature recording of the bhajan "Sundara Bala" (the Beautiful Boy), produced by Rajeev Kumar.

A video by the Madhavas Rock Band.

A video by ToVP.org

Grammy Nominee, Jahnavi Harrison gives a live concert at an evening of devotional song and divine mantra that will transport the audience to the sacred space within — where beauty resides, where songs of love echo eternal and where every step is a dance. Saturday, November 16, 7:30pm – 9:30pm, the Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk Street. New York, NY 10002.  

Tickets: http://bhakticenter.org/jahnavi-harrison-concert/ (Use the code “mantra” with friends to save 10%)

Our "Paramahamster" comic strip follows an enthusiastic devotee as he navigates a 9 - 5 work day in the corporate world. Please check back weekly for new episodes!

Fifty years ago, in 1969, three couples – Mukunda and Janaki, Gurudas and Yamuna, and Shyamasundara and Malati – were inspired by Srila Prabhupada to start the first ISKCON center in London.At the time, London was the music capital of the world, with bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Moody Blues conquering global pop culture.

What makes some people resilient and some people weak? It’s primarily because of the way they look at things, especially when they go wrong. 

Badrinath is famous as one of the larger Char Dhamas of India;. They are Ramesvaram, Jagannath Puri, Dwarka and Badrinath. Situated high in the Himalayas on the banks of the Alakananda river Badrinath has been visited by great saintly persons since time immemorial. The deity in the temple is self-manifested from a salagram sila and is two feet high. Nearby is the cave where Srila Vyasadeva wrote down the Vedic scriptures. The border of China is only a few meters away.

A video by Mikey Jay.

A prayer for the blessing of all of humanity released in collaboration with Radha Krishna Records. The prayer is taken from the prayers of Prahlad Maharaj as found in the Srimad Bhagavatam 5:18:9 The song was produced by Shammi Pithia and Jag (a.k.a Jagannatha Suta) and released as part of the Mantra Lounge Vol. 2 release from Radha Krisna Records Music video is by Raj Hirani at Filmwork Studio.

An Indian health ministry official said the city's pollution monitors did not have enough digits to accurately record pollution levels, which he called a "disaster".

The landmark effort is the first time a Bhakti Sastri degree has been offered in French on such a worldwide scale. With twenty-nine countries where French is the official language, it’s an important step.