Thursday 7 June 2012

ISKCON TEMPLE




Iskcon temples are situated in Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and west Bengal. The international society for Krishna consciousness society is abbreviated to ISKCON society. The ISKCON society is an international society, which has about 190000 devotees and developed around 6000 temples all around the world. The main aim is to teach the basic “Bhagavad Gita” all over the world. It host around 60 restaurant and 50 school all around the world. It promotes the well being of the society. It is mostly famous by the names of Radha-krishna temple and Hare Krishna temple. These temples are always open no matter of the season or holidays.

 A.C. Bhaktvedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna movement and it was completed in 1998.  ISKCON has firstly started as a spiritual society in New York, it was started to spread the message of “Bhagawad Gita”. There are almost 40 ISKCON temples in India. These temples preserve the pleasantness in it and are very quiet and calm. It is followed by many people. It is also said that one can attain a mental peace and harmony after visiting this place.

 The main mission of ISKCON temple is to promote the “Bhagavad Gita” in all over the world. They were built by the hare ram hare Krishna group followers, which consisted of followers all over the world. There are beautiful Russian paintings by famous Russian artists. These pictures depict ancient times. The pictures consist of Radha-Krishna, Sita, Ram, Laxman, Hanuman and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Various programs are held, for ex- kirtans, aartis, pravachans, and prasadams. They are sometimes held weekly or regularly.

  •     Mangala aarti
  •     Tulsi aarti
  •     Dhoop aarti
  •     Raj-bhoga aarti           
  •     Pushpa aarti
  •     Sandhva aarti




Four regulative principles
1.    No eating of meat or eggs.   
2.    No illicit sex                                              
3.    No gambling
4.    No antoxication


              

               Food for life
ISKCON has inspired and sponsored, a project called food for life. The goal of the project is to ‘liberally distribute pure vegetarian meals throughout the world’ 



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