At the beginning of the 1983 Sydney Rathayatra festival an Indian lady fell in front of Lord Jagannatha's cart and the wheel ran over her head and killed her. This is one of the many television news reports of the sad incident.
It’s surprising how long we can live without food, but without water, survival is impossible, that’s why it’s the most precious of our natural resources. Now though, only 1% of the world reserves are safely drinkable. Yet, we consistently f
In 1983 Australia's ABC National News covers Bhavananda arriving to inspect the new Sydney Kings Cross temple. Srila Visnupada, the second of the movement's world leaders since its founding was greeted in traditional fashion at the center
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
Bhavananda travels from India to Australia to perform the Deity installation at New Govardhan, Australia's Hare Krishna farm community.
A rather irreverent presentation of the 'old days' in ISKCON with enthusiastic devotees transforming into old blooped ISKCON devotees. Making fun of the mood of pure devotional service that permeated ISKCON when Srila Prabhupada was persona
Sadhus The Holy Men Risikesh and Prayag Kumba-Mela 1989
Songs by Alachua ISKCON devotees performed by Kalakantha das and Braj Bihari das. You can get anything you need at the Alachua community. It's a Vaisnava smorgasboard, everything from poverty to Alfred Ford, 39 nationalities, 54 former mem
In 1971, under the pretext of meeting with Professor Kotovisk, an Indologist from Moscow’s U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Srila Prabhupada accompanied by two of his disciples, Syamasundara and Aravinda, embarked into a dangerous mission to s
Rathayatra Festival in Russia, Kaunas, 1989
Documentation of the Dedication Ceremony of ISKCON Bangalore Center For Advancement of Culture when it was still an ISKCON temple. Features the President of India, Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma to the cause of promotion of Vedic culture and spi
The ISCKON Foundation was launched by the GBC in 1992 when they saw the Western devotees were loosing interest. So it was an attempt by the GBC to convert Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, which is supposed to be spreading Krishna consciousness al
An ISKCON promotional video describing the purpose and future plans of the ISKCON Mayapur Temple. Includes interviews with Jaypataka Swami and Harikesh Swami. From around 1986.
In the early days in Ukraine devotees would just set up a table and display Srila Prabhupada's books and people would line up. And sometimes it got a little unruly and the devotees had to try to get everybody orderly, to get them to stand i
During the 1980s in America vegetarianism became very popular. In most families at least someone was becoming a vegetarian. In their quest for physical and psychological wellbeing hundreds of millions of Americans changed their diets and in