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Turmeric has been used for over two thousand years in India as a food and medicine - called Holy Powder. Ayurvedic medicine has used turmeric to treat many conditions, including wound healing and infections.

The year is 1925; the time 1:00 am. Niagara Falls has frozen over. The silence is so deafening that thousands have to see what`s up. The roar has ceased, and the people must discover what`s gone wrong. No sound! Sound. Love or hate it, it`s all around.

Every now and then the question arises: “where are the youths of ISKCON?”. During mangal arotiks or Srimad Bhagavatam classes is not easy to find Vaishnavas from the second or third generations. Nevertheless, as soon as the kirtan starts, groups of teenager devotees gather to listen, dance, play mrdanga and even to lead the chant. 


When New Vrindaban was founded, we used ox carts for transportation, just like people use in rural India. Later, however, the focus of the community shifted away from agriculture.

In celebration of Janmashtami 2010, Krishna.com will be re-launching the Deity Photo Gallery in its Photos section.

BBT announces new revisions for Prabhupada`s Bhagavad-gita Chapter Five.

In a profoundly sad development, the death of a devotee in ISKCON's New Mayapur community in France has been deemed a suicide. According to temple authorities, on July 23 Citra devi Dasi, a devotee for more then twenty years, committed suicide by setting her body on fire.

I conducted a wedding yesterday in the glass-domed Paul Hamlyn Hall of the Royal Opera House in London. At the height of the ceremonies, at the purna-huti of the fire sacrifice, to have hundreds enthusiastically singing the Hare Krishna mantra was an unexpected pleasure.

In the Vedic model, good government is never solely at the mercy of either natural or man-made crisis. Recognizing that we live in a less than perfect world, good government takes a proactive role in planning the protection of its citizens.

Established in 1993 by ISKCON guru and GBC Sivarama Swami, Krishna Valley is a sustainable farm community of the kind that ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada encouraged devotees to establish all over the world.

Is it a fast strongly recommended by our scriptures, or just an excuse to grow a beard? Is it an important spiritual process or just an unnecessary ritual? Should ISKCON devotees observe it? And if so, how?

Released on March 3rd, Prema Hara’s debut album, “Sweet Surrender,” is almost achingly beautiful. The soaring male and female vocals interlace with dazzling artistry, and draw spiritual emotion from the listener.

If ever there was a time for a group of former Hare Krishna adherents to come to New York to make their way as a band, it would be now. Thanks to groups like Animal Collective and its peers, the shamanic impulse is as alive as ever in indie rock. The embrace of Eastern spirituality is at an apex.

The ten plagues recounted in the Biblical book of Exodus may have actually occurred, according to scientists featured on a National Geographic Channel miniseries.

For American Muslims, the start of the holy month of Ramadan means reflection, fasting from sunrise to sunset, community - and a bit of confusion.

Students form non-profit organization dedicated to finding, defining and spreading world-unifying, universal truth.

On Thursday August 5, ISKCON representative Sukanti Radha Dasi met with Monika Mohta the Minister of Culture at the Indian High Commission of the United Kingdom for a discussion on ISKCON`s upcoming event connecting to Sri Dham Mayapur`s “Temple of Vedic Planetarium “ project.

“Bhagavad Darshanam”, the Malayalam version of Back to Godhead (BTG) magazine, was released to the public today in in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Srila Prabhupada established the GBC to provide leadership and governance for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In turn, the GBC develops global policies and strategies to ensure that ISKCON moves smoothly and sustainably into the future. The times call for both dynamic, visionary planning as well as the effective execution of those plans.