ISKCON Halifax

I want to share with our read­ers that the brah­macaris or monks are on their way back to Hal­i­fax today to visit fam­ily and friends for a week and a half.  If you can make it, please come for our Sun­day gath­er­ing — a night full of song, dance, dis­cus­sion, and food. 

For more details con­tact Theresa at iskconhalifax@live.ca

There is a notable gap in my posts and I want to fill it by giv­ing you a quick review of the last cou­ple of weeks.

David Dob­son (a stu­dent of AC Bhak­tivedanta Swami Prab­hu­pada) opened the doors of The Elkins Estate to Rad­hanath Swami and David New­man (Durga Das) on Sat­ur­day evening.

Erica Taxin Blez­nak and her fam­ily hosted Rad­hanath Swami at their house in Vil­lanova, out­side Philadel­phia, on Fri­day Novem­ber 26. She is the owner of Jai Yoga — a yoga stu­dio in Haver­ford PA that pro­vides classes, work­shops, kir­tans, and spe­cial­izes in pri­vate yoga.

On Wednes­day night, Rad­hanath Swami spoke at Prema Yoga in Brook­lyn. He first elab­o­rated on the San­skrit word prema or pure love — what it is, where to find it, and how to re-awaken it.

Fran­cis X. Clooney, Park­man Pro­fes­sor of Divin­ity and Pro­fes­sor of Com­par­a­tive The­ol­ogy and Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Study of World Reli­gions, intro­duced Rad­hanath Swami on Tues­day Novem­ber 23 at Har­vard University.

Mon­day Novem­ber 22 Rad­hanath Swami spoke at a yoga stu­dio in Maple­wood, New Jer­sey. He met Clair, one of the co-founders of Baker Street Yoga, before the pro­gram. She told him, “not every­body can do what you did — hitch­hike from Lon­don all the way to the Himalayas and get all kinds of lessons on the way.”

Rad­hanath Swami was part of a panel dis­cus­sion with MIT pro­fes­sors, stu­dents, and spe­cial guests. All present openly dis­cussed the inter­sec­tion of spir­i­tu­al­ity and sci­ence and steps to har­mo­niz­ing the two.

Rita Nether­sole, Asso­ciate Dean at UMass Boston, said in her intro­duc­tion on Thurs­day Novem­ber 18 that “as I was read­ing Rad­hanath Swami’s book The Jour­ney Home it invoked in me a sense of what UMass is about — peo­ple seek­ing in var­i­ous ways and the abil­ity to find wis­dom in so many peo­ple. I was once told that we are human beings on a spir­i­tual path but now I am learn­ing that we are spir­i­tual beings on a human path.”

Wednes­day Novem­ber 17 Boston Uni­ver­sity Holis­tic Yoga Club pro­vided an evening full of music, words of wis­dom, and a veg­e­tar­ian din­ner. Gau­ra­vani & gui­tarist Richard Davis — pro­fes­sor at Berklee Col­lege of Music — played as peo­ple trick­led in. Then a mem­ber of the Holis­tic Yoga Club described how yoga and med­i­ta­tion relieve stress.