5 Best Restaurants in Mayapur
The growing number of residents in the past few years in Mayapur Dham have led to an increase in the number of restaurants serving prasadam to the devotees. Whether you are planning to have a full course meal or want to grab a quick bite, there are numerous options at your disposal both inside and outside the ISKCON campus Govinda’s Restaurant Govinda’s Restaurant is the oldest fine dining restaurant and also is the most popular one in Mayapur. If you are planning to stay in Mayapur for few days, you cannot afford to miss it out. One notable point, is the amazing hospitality and polite natureRead More →
6 Places to visit while in Mayapur
ISKCON Chandrodaya Temple Mayapur ISKCON Chandrodaya Temple is the major reason why devotees all over the world come to this sacred land. Inside you can see the magnificent statues of Pancatattva, Lord Nrisingha Dev, Srila Prabhupada and Radha-Madhav with the Gopis. This is a place flowing with devotion like no other place on earth. Srila Prabhupada’s Pushpa Samadhi Established after Srila Prabhupada left for Vaikuntha Lok in 1977, Pushpa Samadhi is one of the major attractions in Mayapur at present. From the top, you can see the entire Mayapur. It consists of beautiful gardens and inside there is a brass statue of Srila Prabhupada that isRead More →
George Harrison – The Hindu Beatle and His Hare Krishna Pop Song
When Mukunda Goswami interview George Harrison in 1982, the later reminisced: “Before meeting Prabhupada and all of you, I had bought that album Prabhupada did in New York, and John and I listened to it. I remember we sang it for days, John and I, with ukulele banjos, sailing through the Greek Islands chanting Hare Krishna. Like six hours we sang, because we couldn’t stop once we got going. As soon as we stopped, it was like the lights went out. It went on to the point where our jaws were aching, singing the mantra over and over and over and over and over. We feltRead More →