Upcoming Events

  • Friday, June 21, 2013 - 17:22 - 20:30

    THIS COMING FRIDAY - JUNE 21st:

    SRI PANIHATI CIDA DADHI MAHOTSAVA FESTIVAL

    With Very Special Guest Speakers:
    HH Indradyumna Maharaja and HH Giriraja Maharaja

    Here's the Schedule of Events:
    5:00pm Initiation Ceremony for Sridevi Banerjee, Saroj Wadhera and other exalted vaisnavas
    6:00pm Bhajans
    7:00pm Lecture
    8:00pm Arati and Kirtan

    You are all most cordially invited to attend, with all your friends and family.

    We also have some wonderful sponsorship opportunities for any of you great souls who are so inclined:
    Sponsorship Opportunities

    Large Pots--Offerings to the Lord:

    Prasadam Feast (includes large pot) $501

    Temple/Altar Decorations (includes large pot) $301

    Deity Garlands (includes large pot) $301

    Large Pot of Chipped Rice $201

    Small Pots--Offerings to the Lord:

    Small Pot of Chipped Rice $108

    To sponsor:
    please call (949) 436-0588, e-mail info@lagunatemple.com or donate online http://iskcon.lagunatemple.org/page/56/Donate.

    Your contribution of any size, makes a big difference and we are most grateful to all our donors.

    In service,
    Tukarama dasa
    On behalf of ISKCON Laguna Temple

  • Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 17:15 - 19:30

    "Titiksava Karunika Das aka TK is the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Namrock Band. Namrock plays rock music in the style of 60's and 70's rock and roll with uplifting lyrics and also employs the use of sacred mantras. Mantras are used to elevate the consciousness of the listener. Sacred sound vibration in a rock candy coated package.

    TK is a transcendental poet who wrote over 200 songs in English lyrics revealing ancient teachings from the Vedas from his personal realizations.

    TK’s profound lyrics and his melodious chanting take the audience to the spiritual realm, where: “Every word is a song and every step a dance”This method of meditation satisfies the intellect as well as the heart of the listener." (Source: www.namrock.com)

Recent Events

  • Friday, June 7, 2013 - 18:30 - 21:00

    In lieu of our regular Bhagavad-gita study, we will have an evening of devotional music and spiritual discourse with HH Radhanath Swami.
    Who is Radhanath Swami (source: http://www.radhanathswami.com/about/)

    Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassin (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. He is author of The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth. His teachings draw from the sacred texts of India such as The Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Ramayana, and aim to reveal the practical application of the sacred traditions, while focusing on the shared essence which unites apparently disparate religious or spiritual paths.

    Born Richard Slavin, on December 7, 1950, in his teens he came to confront a deep sense of alienation from suburban Chicago life and the civil injustices of mid-century America. At the age of nineteen, while on a summer trip to Europe, his internal struggles culminated in a commitment to search for God wherever it might lead him. Meditating on the Isle of Crete, he felt a supernatural calling and the next morning set off alone to find spiritual India. The Journey Home documents his odyssey as a penniless hitch-hiker though Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally India. There he lived as a wandering ascetic, first amongst the forest dwelling Himalayan yogis and later amongst a wide variety of gurus and spiritual practitioners throughout India and Nepal. Ultimately, he was led to the holy town of Vrindavan, where he found his path amongst the Bhakti-yogis.

    In Vrindavan he found the teacher he was searching for in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and representative of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (the Krishna-bhakti tradition stemming from the 16th century mystic avatar Sri Chaitanya). In choosing Bhaktivedanta Swami, as his guru, Radhanath Swami felt compelled to shear his matted locks and reenter Western society with a mission to share the sacred wisdom he had received. This return exemplifies the form of devotional yoga which is at the heart of Radhanath Swami’s teachings, a spiritual practice expressed as tangible action meant to bring about personal fulfillment and benefit the world.

    At the the age of 31 he took the monastic vows of a Vaishnava sanyassin and became known as Radhanath Swami.

    Today Radhanath Swami travels regularly throughout India, Europe and North America, sharing the teachings of Bhakti-yoga. He resides much of the year at the Radha Gopinath Ashram in Chowpatty, Mumbai. For the past twenty-five years he has guided the community’s development and has directed a number of acclaimed social action projects including Midday Meals, which daily serves more than 260,000 plates of sanctified vegetarian food to the children of the slums of Mumbai. He has also worked to establish missionary hospitals and eye camps, eco-friendly farms, schools and ashrams, an orphanage, and a number of emergency relief programs throughout India.

  • Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 18:30 - 20:00

    His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami comes to the Laguna temple once a year. Please take advantage of his blissful association on Wednesday, June 5, from 6:30 PM-8:00 PM.

    His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami is a prominent religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He is an ISKCON Guru and a member of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission. He has also served as the ISKCON's minister of arts and culture, and is currently serving on an advisory panel of I-Foundation, a leading Hindu charity organisation in the United Kingdom. He is an initiated disciple of ISKCON's Founder-acarya His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

    Maharaj has translated Srila Prabhupada's literary works in Bengali and also produced a television serial on Prabhupada's life entitled "Abhay Charan," which is now available as a DVD set. He is one of the pioneers of the VIHE in Vrindavan, and taught the Vaishnava Etiquette course in 1987 and 1988, and Brihat Bhagavatamrita in 1989.

    In February 2006, Bhakti Charu Swami built a temple with three huge altars in the holy town of Ujjain. The Ujjain ISKCON temple under the direction of Bhakti Charu Swami feeds over 25,000 school children per day. To facilitate this feeding project Bhakti Charu Swami built a 6,000 sq ft industrial kitchen. This feeding project has plans to feed up to 100,000 children.

Laguna Book Distribution (Sankirtan) Report

The Laguna Beach temple's book distribution effort is featured in the top "Ten Stories that Shaped ISKCON in 2011."

"With a host of innovative ideas up their sleeves, temples like ISKCON Silicon Valley, Toronto, Washington D.C., and Laguna Beach have seen consistent dramatic success." ISKCON NEWS 3 Feb 2012 .Read more: http://news.iskcon.com/node/4177#ixzz1lurnTi5e

We are grateful to all of you who participated and supported this effort.

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