Srila Prabhuapda initiates a group of devotees in the Melbourne, Australia, ISKCON temple in 1974.
Perhaps the best ever film of a Rathayatra festival. This film features Srila Prabhuapda chanting and dancing in ecstasy in front of Lord Jagannatha. It is a huge scale Rathayatra festival with three big carts that have an arrangement so th
A wonderful film showing the Australian Hare Krishna devotees in Melbourne building the Jagannatha Rathayatra carts for the 1975 Rathayatra festival. It is a very beautiful film and shows the carts come from nothing to the glorious finished
A truly amazing film documenting Srila Prabhupada's arrival in Melbourne in 1974. Although there was one devotee cameraman there at the airport to film the arrival, there were also many televison news cameramen. So this film is a combinatio
A very ecstatic Rathayatra festival in Melbourne, Australia. Srila Prabhupada is dancing in front of the carts and everyone is having a great time!
Science of God is a documentary filmed in Melbourne, Australia in 1975 on the visit of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (The International Society for Krishna Consciousness). Shows Srila Pra
A historic occasion where Srila Prabhupada is invited to speak to a very large group of Franciscan monks. Srila Prabhupada's talk was very much appreciated by the priests and many of them asked very thoughtful questions after the class also
A truly wonderful film showing Srila Prabhupada installing very large and very beautiful Gaura-Nitai Deities in Melbourne, Australia. The installation festival is full of ecstatic kirtans, some lead by Kurma Prabhu who went on to become the
The biggest Australian breakfast television show, 'Good Morning Australia' celebrates the freedom of the Russian Hare Krishna devotees who had be put into psychiatric hospitals and tortured by the Russian communist government.
This video shows the festival after the Rathayatra in Melbourne, Australia in 1974. Srila Prabhuapda is present and gives a very nice address to the guests. There is nice kirtan, sumptuous prasadam and chanting and dancing.
An amazing hall preaching program by Srila Prabhupada in Melbourne, Australia in 1974. A very ecstatic class by Srila Prabhupada which he begins by quoting the Christian prayer, Hallowed be Thy Name... And then goes on to explain the name
Srila Prabhupada had many very successful preaching engagements during his visits to Australia, however this was not the case at Melbourne's Latrobe University. The Australian ISKCON devotees organized a speaking engagement for Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness [ISKCON] went on daily early morning walks with his disciples and guests. Here we see Srila Prabhuapda in Melb
Wonderful, first class color film of Srila Prabhupada giving and introductory class on the Srimad Bhagavatam. This was recorded in Melbourne, Australia in 1974.
Very good quality film of Srila Prabhupada and his disciples on a morning walk in Melbourne, Australia in the winter on 1975. Srila Prabhupada had a regular daily routine of rising very early in the morning to write his books and later he
This is one of the earliest complete and professionally-made full-length films made about life in ISKCON in the early '70s. The filmmaker, William Kerr, went on to make many more iconic films of Srila Prabhupada's visits to Australia that h
We start at the 1976 Mayapur Festival where Srila Prabhupada is giving sannyasa initiation to a number of his young American disciples. After the Mayapur Festival Prabhupada and some of his disciples continue on to New Delhi where they have
Good Morning Australia crosses live to ISKCON Sydney temple to cover Bhavananda's visit. Australia's Hare Krishnas have really got something to sing about. Srila Visnupada, their spiritual master throughout the world is in Australia at the
Devotees from all over Australia and the world come together to relive Prabhupada's ecstatic pastimes in Melbourne. This is one of the first Prabhupada disciple reunions held by ISKCON temples in the 1990s. It was an attempt to bring old de
Australian television program Compass documentary on Kurma, the famous Australian cook. Very well produced and interesting show.
In Following Srila Prabhupada Part 8 we see Prabhupada's at the Krishna Balarama temple opening and deity installation in Vrindavan. In a very short time, in less than two years, Srila Prabhupada was able to acquire the land for constructin
Srila Prabhupada arriving in Melbourne in 1974. Includes kirtan at airport plus press conference at airport.
The ecstatic arrival of Srila Prabhupada in Sydney, Australia for the first time. Shows the first Hare Krishna temple in Australia. Even though the devotees are not ready Srila Prabhupada installs the beautiful Deities, Sri Sri Radha Gopina
Srila Prabhupada gives an inspirational talk to the general public assembled in the Melbourne Town Hall in Australia in 1974.
This film documents the ecstatic conclusion to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's visit to Melbourne in 1975. We see Srila Prabhupada in his room preparing to leave and sharing his final moments with his Australian disc
An ecstatic preaching program in the Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia in 1974 around the time of the Ratha Yatra Festival
Follow Srila Prabhupada's travels in 1974. We start in Bombay at Hare Krishna Land where things are developing on the new ISKCON temple. Includes roof darshan, walk, Guru Puja, evening aroti and prasadam distribution. Prabhupada then trave
This episode of Prabhupada Darshan covers the period of May and June in 1975. In this period Srila Prabhupada was touring Australia and we see him in Melbourne at the ISKCON Sri Sri Radha Balabha temple in Albert Park. Srila Prabhupada then
Black and white footage of the Australian Traveling Temple Hare Krishna bus with Prahlada presenting a letter to the Russian Embassy to be delivered to Mikhail Gorbachev asking the Russians to free the Hare Krishna devotees they had impriso
For many years the Adelaide City Council banned the chanting of Hare Krishna in the city. When the Traveling Temple visited Adelaide to collect signitures for the petition to free the Russian Hare Krishna devotees the Adelaide Hare Krishna
Prahlada and the Krishna Kids appear on Australian National Television singing Please Mr. Gorbachev Let Our Friends be Free and explaining the plight of the Russian devotees imprisoned for practicing their religion.
The Hare Krishna devotees open a Food For Life storefront in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia in 1991
In a history lesson devotee children discover Russia has put many Hare Krishnas in prison and a Krishna baby has just died in prison. This inspired this class of 12 year old Krishna devotees to try and do something to raise awareness of t
In the 1980s Russia, under communist rule, punished its citizens who chose to practice religion and they were particularly brutal with Hare Krishna devotees. The Russians locked many Hare Krishna devotees, including children, in prisons and
National breakfast television program Good Morning Australia covers the Hare Krishna Traveling Temple program to collect a million signatures on a petition to free the Russian Hare Krishna devotees who had been imprisoned for following thei
1983 television interview with Cita Hari, the Sydney Temple President, and his wife. Very interesting to see the mood in ISKCON at that time.
1982 Television Interview of Sydney Australia's ISKCON Temple President. Interesting to see the mood of devotees in those days.
In 1985 ISKCON Melbourne opened the first Hare Krishna Fast Food Restaurant. They were unfortunately only able to keep it open for a few months. But it was an idea that caught the attention of the Australian media. This is the coverage of t
Good Morning Australia interviews the devotees at the ISKCON New Govardhan Farm about their proposed expansion and the problems getting the local council to approve their plans. This is part of a national public relations program which forc
Australian Traveling Temple Kirtan party banned from chanting Hare Krishna in North Queensland 1985.
