With our constitutional position being that of a servant, one's ideal and inherent consciousness is revolving around Krishna: this is called Krishna consciousness. 

Putting Krishna in the center of one's life can bring fulfillment to every facet of their life.

Learn more about why one should, how they can practically, and the effects of orienting their life around the Supreme Lord, the object of our love and devotion

HG Visnugada Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Putting Krishna in the Center - 4.16.2023

The real way that we connect with Krishna and His special agents is through hearing. Furthermore, we come more into contact with the spiritual world by the quality of our hearing. But, hearing does not mean that we simply let the sound vibration hit the ear; rather, hearing means that we internalize and imbibe the message so that we know how to act.

Dhira Krishna Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Hearing Is Healing - 9.17.2023

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. These words of wisdom popular in the secular world are applicable to one's endeavors on the spiritual plane as well. When we choose the same, complacent, and "easy" material path we endure the same painful experiences; we are chewing the chewed. What is the way to break away from this insanity?

Pariksit Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Endure Pain or Change - 9.24.2023

The Bhagavad-gita explains how the mind can be the greatest friend or the greatest enemy. Knowing the strengths, weaknesses, and disposition of our mind allows us to protect ourselves from that which can harm our spiritual progress. Learn more about the technologies an aspiring spiritualist can employ to tactfully make one's mind their friend.

Anasuya Devi Dasi - Sunday Love Feast - Mind or Enemy - 10.1.2023

We know our protectors: the holy name, the Vaishnavas, the scriptures, the spiritual master, and ultimately Krishna. All of these act as catalysts to give us fortification and protection. 

We must remind ourselves that we are on a dangerous battlefield and constantly need protection. But how can we be aware of, appreciate, and align ourselves with our protectors who want only our love, cooperation, and success?

Padmanabh Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Our Protectors - 10.8.2023

There are so many activities and principles in the Krishna consciousness culture and philosophy that suggest the way to please Krishna: chanting, service, kirtan, cleaning, book distribution, etc. What is the foundation of all these activities that truly and undoubtedly will please Krishna?

Anasuya Devi Dasi - Sunday Love Feast - What Pleases Krishna? - 10.22.2023

We are fortunate to have Srila Prabhupada's disciple and wonderful well-wisher of our community, His Grace Vishnugada Prabhu, with us this coming Sunday to discuss his personal and relevant applications of the foundational literature of the Bhagavad Gita.

HG Vishnugada Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Bhagavad Gita: Practical Applications in Life - 12.3.2023

The famous text of the Bhagavad Gita is set on the plains of a battlefield where Arjuna faces a crisis of duty and purpose. This prompts Lord Sri Krishna to deliver 700 texts describing who he is, who God is, the meaning of life, how to attain this goal, and much more. Our acharyas or teachers reveal the cream of this text.

Pariksit Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Bhagavad Gita As It Is: The Essence - 12.10.2023

As such, it is understood in the beginning that one who does not follow the footprints of Arjuna cannot enter into the mystery of the Bhagavad-gita and therefore, nobody can preach the gospel of the Gita without knowing its mystery" (His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada). Discover the possibilities of entering the mystery of the Gita!

Anasuya Devi Dasi - Sunday Love Feast - Arjuna: Gita's Only Beneficiary? - 12.17.2023

Pariksit Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast Program - 12.24.2023

In Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 1, Srila Prabhupada thoroughly discusses the dilemma of Arjuna as he chooses to not fight his family members in war. Arjuna claims that this is out of compassion for his kinsmen. But is this the true definition of compassion? If not, then what truly is this divine quality?

Pariksit Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Compassion, The Wealth Of Diving Beings - 1.14.2024

HH Bhakti Vasudeva Swami is an ISKCON guru and a member of Spiritual Advisors Bhagavata Assembly (SABHA), a partner of the GBC. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences (AMDS) from Walden University, Minneapolis, USA. 

He is a consummate researcher and a scholar-practitioner of Leadership and Organizational Change (LOC). He has authored over 35 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and has extensive experience integrating Gaudiya-Vaisnava technologies with management science. 

His preaching adventures are mainly on members of the academia, professionals, and the youth's Krishna consciousness development. He received his first and second initiation from HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja in 1986 and sannyasa from HH Jayapataka Swami in 2009, in Sri Dhama Mayapur, India

HH Bhakti Vasudeva Swami - Sunday Love Feast - Special Putrada Ekadasi Class - 1.21.2024

Anasuya Devi Dasi - Sunday Love Feast - A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed - 2.11.2024

"Unless the senses are controlled, there is no chance of elevation to the platform of knowledge, and without knowledge and devotion, there is no chance of liberation. Arjuna was competent in all these attributes, over and above his enormous attributes in his material relationships" (Bhagavad Gita 2.6). Is it possible to gain the ultimate freedom by controlling aspects of material existence?

Pariksit Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Freedom to Control - 2.18.2024

Because He is intoxicated by ecstatic love and is an incarnation of mercy, He does not distinguish between the good and the bad" (Chaitanya Charitamrita Adi-lila, 5.208-209). Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, The most Munificent Incarnation, has unlimited glories. Taste a drop of the nectar.

Anasuya Devi Dasi - SLF - Who is More Merciful than the Lord? - 3.3.2024

In the beginning of the Bhagavad Gita, the reader is familiarized with the situation that the protagonist, Arjuna, is facing. It seems that this is a rare circumstance so should one internalize the wisdom that follows Arjuna's conflict? Is the Bhagavad Gita for only one class of people or those who experience a certain event? If not, then how can it be applicable to all?

Pariksit Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Gita For All - 3.31.2024

Practice means employing our senses in some particular type of work. Therefore devotional service in practice means utilizing our different sensory organs in service to Kṛṣṇa. Through this practice of service, our dormant consciousness for loving Kṛṣṇa will be invoked. What are things to keep in mind while serving? What are the barriers we have to service that doesn't allow us to keep it up? How can we value service?

Anasuya Devi Dasi - Sunday Love Feast - Devotional Service in Practice - 4.7.2024

In the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Verse 57 Lord Krishna says "In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge." To embody such stability, one must learn how to fix the mind in the midst of the rat race called life.

Dhira Krishna Prabhu - Sunday Love Feast - Life's Rat Race - 4.14.2024

One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness (Bhagavad Gita 2.58).

Special Sunday Class in honor of HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

Pariksit Prabhu - Special Sunday Program - Lessons from a Tortoise - 5.5.2024

Iskcon of Harrisburg Sunday Schedule
Kirtan:  4:30PM - 5:00PM
Discourse:   5:00PM - 6:15PM
Guru Puja:   6:15PM - 6:30PM
Maha Arati & Narasimha Arati:   6:30PM - 7:00PM
6200 Bedford St.
Harrisburg PA 17111

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