Articles tagged as Virtual

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  Krishna Fest Offers Immersive Janmastami Experience Online

  “This year, Janmastami Goes Digital,” reads the massive billboard that can now be seen all over Mumbai. The billboards are advertising “Krishna Fest,” presented by ISKCON Chowpatty and Govardhan Eco-Village from August 22^nd to 31st.

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  ISKCON Mayapur Launches Virtual Sri Gaura Purnima Festival

  Starting on 12th March, ISKCON Mayapur will bring to the community a condensed version of the key events of the festival every day.

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  Bhakti Center Offers Yoga Teacher Training Grounded in Vaishnava Tradition

  Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bhakti Center in New York City has been offering a new selection of virtual yoga teacher training and meditation teacher training programs, as well as training in Ayurveda and kirtan.

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  Czech Devotees Livestream Reading of Entire Bhagavad-gita For Gita Jayanti

  Devotees in the Czech Republic read the entirety of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is online during a nonstop 27-hour live broadcast on the sacred occasion of Gita Jayanti, December 25^th.

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  Virtual MAN-tra Men's Retreat Draws Global Participation

   Partakers appreciated the frank and open dialogues and creative, entertaining formats.

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  Free Entertainment, Expensive Entanglement

  The worst part of such entanglement is that we don’t even realize we are getting entangled.

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  Thriving During the Pandemic: The Story of ISKCON Naperville, USA

  The devotees quickly adapted to the new normal, and are now connected and bonded like never before.

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  Protecting Children Online

  More than ever before, children 'live' online. In collaboration, ISKCON's Ministry of Education, Child Protection Office North America, and Youth Ministry produced a set of recommendations for children's online safety.

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  Virtual Kartik Nabadwip Mandal Parikrama 2020

  Kartik Navadwip Mandal Parikrama 2020 organized by the Mayapur Chandra’s, is a virtual medium by which devotees are taken on parikrama to the nine-islands and various holy places in and around Mayapur, India.

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  MANtra Retreat for Men Goes Virtual This Weekend

  Topics include "Vaishnava Masculinity,"  "Men, Marriage and Myth," "Fatherhood,"  "Pornography, Pernicious and Prevalent," "Empowerment," "Brahmacari Ashrama—The Spirit Still Matters, and So Does the Form," and more.

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  Deepavali Virtual Celebration Achieves Malaysia Book of Records Feat

  Over 6,500 participated in ISKCON Malaysia’s virtual deepavali.

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  Ireland’s Govindadvipa Mellows Holds Virtual Kirtan Festival

  The third annual Govindadvipa Mellows – a kirtan festival usually held on the island also known as Inis Rath in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland – will be held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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  Virtual Program Takes a Close Look at One Day in the Life of a Vaishnava

  The intimate 90-minute interview gives us association with a variety of devotees, from Srila Prabhupada disciples, to sannyasis and gurus, to young devotees and gurukulis.

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  Virtual Bhakti Retreat for Spanish Speakers Celebrates Tenth Installment

  Husband and wife team Prema Rupa Madhava Das and Prema Rupini Madhavi Dasi, who previously organized Bhakti Vriksha programs and “Harinama Party Buses” in their hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina, launched the retreat when the pandemic halted those activities.

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  Looking Back on the Pandemic Kirtan That Reached 1.2 Million and Inspired a Flood of Virtual Kirtan Events

  Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most popular virtual events, drawing at least 1.2 million viewers, engaging multiple generations of devotees and inspiring many others to hold their own major online kirtan events to this day, was the Global Pandemic Kirtan.

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  ISKCON Toronto Holds Epic 12-Day Virtual Rathayatra Festival

  “Every year, there’s some new challenge that comes up while organizing Toronto Rathayatra, and we joke that Lord Jagannath always throws us a curveball,” says Rukmini Dasi, co-chair of the Rathayatra Committee. Little did they know, however, that 2020 would bring the ultimate curveball – a global pandemic that required people to social distance from each other and saw all gatherings and public festivities banned. 

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  European Yatras Organize 'Spirit of Ratha Yatra' Virtual Festival on July 18th

  ISKCON Berlin, London, Radhadesh and Zurich are organizing the Spirit of Ratha Yatra, a unique first-time European virtual collaboration festival jointly hosted on Saturday 18th July, 11:00 - 17:00 CEST / 10:00 - 16:00 BST. 

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  Daily Virtual Sanga Opportunities During Coronavirus Lockdown

  Most ISKCON members around the world are now in “lockdown” due to the corona virus pandemic, and struggling to maintain regular association with other devotees. However, due to modern technology, there are various daily live virtual classes, discussions, japa circles that devotees can take advantage of.