Mukunda Goswami introduces Padyatra India. This is a video made in the very beginning of the Padayatra festival in 1984. This is when Pradayatra was just in India. It was planned to trace the footsteps of Lord Caitanya who also travelled al
Srila Prabhuapda walks in Calcutta by the Ganges and passes many famous sites from the British Raj Era. Then we see the Victoria Memorial program. Then we see Srila Prabhupada arriving at the airport in New York then his arrival at the tem
Jagannath Puri, a city in Orissa, India, is a great holy city in India which was, before His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami came to the United States in 1965, practically unknown outside India. However, Srila Prabhuapda brought the L
Srila Prabhuapda performs the marriage ceremony of Bali Mardan Prabhu and Miss Toyota. Bali Mardan was the Temple President of ISKCON New Dwarka (Los Angeles) and he met a lady who claimed to be the heiress to the fortune of the Toyota ca
Vaishasheka Prabhu discusses methods of book distribution apart from the traditional method of standing on the street and stopping the people and selling them books. He describes Smart Boxes and Smart Tables , which are unattended displ
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
As a part of the Prabhuapda Centennial celebrations in 1996 the ISKCON GBC decided in 1994 to start the World Padayatra program. Padayatra is a Sanskrit word meaning Walking Festival. All the great acharyas of the past went on Padayatra
ISKCON Cinema documentary on BBT book production at New Dwarka, Los Angeles in 1975. This film follows one Srimad-Bhagavatam verse from the time Srila Prabhupada dictates his transcendental translation and purport through to the book dist
The son of a newspaper editor joins the Hare Krishna movement in 1978. At the time there was huge propaganda against the Hare Krishna movement, claiming it was brainwashing, and parents of devotees had started hiring deprogrammers who wou
The Pyramid House, located in picturesque Topanga Canyon, 20 miles from the New Dwarka temple in Los Angeles, might as well be on a heavenly planet. It is situated 1000 feet above sea level in the beautiful Santa Monica mountains. It has h
This video starts with Srila Prabhupada inflight from Philadelphia to San Francisco in July on 1975. Srila Prabhupada starts up a lively conversation with the pilot, giving him some information about the Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Then we see
George Harrison had a long relationship with Srila Prabhupada and his Hare Krishna movement. Very early George became a devotee and used his money for Krisahna by, for example, paying the full cost of printing Srila Prabhupada's, Krsna, The
Video from the UK Rathayatra website. Footage of Jagannatha Puri Rathayatra, Srila Prabhupada at London Rathayatra in 1973 and at other USA Rathayatras.
A Ramayana play put on by the kulis called The Adventures of the Great King Rama. It was performed at New Dwarka ISKCON temple [Los Angeles].
A play with Srila Prabhuapda and his disciples about Lord Caitanya's pastimes. Recorded in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in 1966. A truly wonderful film!
By the grace of Lord Sri Krishna, His Divine Grace A.C. Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhuapda was born a pure devotee of Krishna. In 1933 Prabhupada was accepted as a disciple by a bonafide spiritual master and ordered to spread Krishna consciousn
Srila Prabhupada arriving in Melbourne in 1974. Includes kirtan at airport plus press conference at airport.
Documentary film telling the story behind ISKCON's New Vrindavan, a spiritual farm community near Moundsville, West Virginia. Produced by ISKCON Cinema in 1976. Srila Prabhupada's vision for New Vrindavan was to create a spiritual place li
Two students at UCLA discuss the origin of life. Peter, who has recently discovered the Bhagavad-gita, a spiritual text from ancient India, introduces its perspective of the origin of life to his friend Mark. Mark begins to question the sc
This video was taken at the historic official ISKCON debate on the ritvik philosophy, the idea that Srila Prabhupada established a system in ISKCON which would enable him to continue to accept disciples, even after he was no longer physical
In 1966 Srila Prabhuapda, the Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) rented a storefront at 26 2nd. Ave, New York City, NY. Within weeks the news of this new Hare Krishna Temple and the Swami in the L
A film made by an independent film-maker. He is interviewing Srila Prabhuapda and he asks, Prabhupada, Who is Krishna? And this film shows Srila Prabhupada's reply to this question.
A documentary made by an independent film-maker on Srila Prabhupada's first Hare Krishna temple. This documentary was shot at 26 2nd Ave New York, just weeks after Srila Prabhupada opened the first Hare Krishna temple in America. It shows h
When you think of Texas certain stereotypes come to mind: cowboys, the old kind or the new football kind. You think of oil and JR (from the 1980's TV series Dallas ). And probably the last thing you would ever think of would be the Hare Kr
Enjoy the grand opening festival of ISKCON's Durban, South Africa temple. Now digitally remastered in 1080p HD video! Sri Sri Radhanatha Temple was opened in the 1980s. It was constructed by the South African ISKCON devotees on the desire
Amazing black and white silent films of Srila Prabhupada from 1967-1968 in USA. This is some of the earliest film footage of Srila Prabhuapda in the United States available. Watch as he preaches and very quickly establishes ISKCON, the Inte
Amazing film of Srila Prabhuapda's disciples preaching Krishna consciousness in the early years. Mostly on the East Coast of the USA. Boston, New York, and other cities.
Very interesting television news report by a Los Angeles Television station in 1982 on the children of New Dwarka, the Los Angeles Hare Krishna Temple. It focuses on the students of the Gurukula (Hare Krishna Primary School) that had been e
Lokananta Maharaja was the devotee Srila Prabhupada instructed to perform padayatra and in this video he explains the purpose and benefits of padayatra the plans to make padayatra a worldwide festival.
For a short time in the early 1980's ISKCON devotees in USA and Australia embarked on a program to sell full sets of Srila Prabhupada's books door-to-door like the encyclopaedia Britannica people do with their encyclopaedias. This shows on
An old promotional video for one of the designs for the proposed Temple of the Vedic Planetarium which Srila Prabhuapda desired his followers in ISKCON construct. It still has not been built. There have been a number of plans since this o
A play performed at ISKCON New Dwarka showing how Krishna kidnapped the beautiful Rukmini who was already offered to the demoniac Sisupal by her father King Rukmi. Rukmini was very distressed to hear this because she was already in love wit
Srila Prabhuapda speaks with the director of social services from the Australian government about social work. The discussion of sex comes up and the social worker is a bit surprised to hear Srila Prabhuapda's views on this topic.
This is a track from the Radha Krishna Temple Album produced by George Harrison. When Srila Prabhuapda first heard this song, The Govindam Prayers, some verses from the Sri Brahma Samhita put to a mixture of modern and classical Indian
Srila Prabhuapda gives class on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.7. Includes very nice devotee kirtan. By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the
And amazing collection of television coverage of the Hare Krishna movement in Australia in 1985. Includes news coverage of the Hare Krishna's being confused with the Orange People. Hare Krishna Food For Life feeding the homeless in Kings Cr
Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of
Mukunda Goswami appears on the television program Mid Morning LA to counter the claims that the Hare Krishnas were brainwashing people.
Documentary by Vasudev Das on the ISKCON Indian Padayatra
A US television show with four Christian ministers interviewing Rupanuga Prabhu, one of the first disciples of Srila Prabhuapda who joined ISKCON in 1966. They are trying to understand what is this Krishna Consciousness movement. This is