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What Happened In Mayapur?

May 1, 1991 | Mayapur, Volume-25 Number-03

A report on the annual meeting of ISKCON's highest governing body. For ten days every year, thirty men gather in Mayapur, West Bengal, a village on the Ganges seventy miles north of Calcutta, to guide the course of the Krsna consciousness movement. This is the... read more

Flood!

Jan 1, 1988 | Mayapur, Volume-23 Number-01

Sri Mayapur is the sacred place where Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared and inaugurated the Hare Krsna sankirtana movement five hundred years ago. It is also the world headquesrters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON. To memebers of ISKCON... read more

The Culture of the Soul by Visakha Devi Dasi

Dec 1, 1985 | Education, Mayapur, Schooling Krsna's Children, Vishakha Devi Dasi, Volume-20 Number-12

Living naturally, studying the basics, cultivating transcendental knowledge these students from five continents know the real meaning of higher education. Rama-prasada's father earns ten rupees (eighty-five cents) a day as a farm laborer. He and his wife live in... read more

A Krsna Conscious City by Mandalesvara Dasa

Apr 1, 1978 | Mandalesvara Dasa, Mayapur, Volume-13 Number-04

Taking Shape A report from the birthplace of the Hare Krsna movement. On a verdant stretch along the bank of the Ganges, in India's province of West Bengal, lies the village of Mayapur. As history shows, Mayapur has long been a center for spiritual understanding... read more

Discovering the Lord’s Birthplace by His Holiness Acyutananda Swami

Apr 1, 1976 | Acyutananda Swami, Mayapur, Volume-11 Number-03&04

In 1886, when Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was stationed in Jagannatha Puri, India, as a government minister, he became so anxious to see the land of Lord Caitanya that he applied many times for a transfer to any town nearby. Upon not receiving the desired transfer, he... read more

The Glories of Sridhama Mayapur by Nitai Dasa

Mar 1, 1975 | Mayapur, Nitai Dasa, Volume-10 Number-03

Sridhama Mayapura is the home of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this abode, apparently located in the district of Nadia, West Bengal, the Supreme Personality of Godhead wonderfully appeared almost five hundred years ago. He appeared in the form of Sri Caitanya... read more