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The Warsaw Human Dimension Conference 2024, held from 30 September to 11 October in Warsaw, Poland, focused on critical human rights and fundamental freedoms across the OSCE region. This 10-day event, organized by the 2024 OSCE Maltese Chairpersonship with support from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), provided a platform for participants to evaluate current challenges and trends affecting regional security. Participants included representatives from OSCE participating States, inter-governmental organizations, civil society, and other relevant stakeholders. In addition to the main plenary sessions, the conference featured numerous side events that allowed participants to dive deeper into …

Venue: Amrita Sher-Gil Kulturális Központ, 1025 Budapest, Búzavirág u. 14. Date & time: 2024.10.30., 18.00 / 30.10.2024, 6 pm Entry is free, but registration is required, please kindly fill up the form below: https://www.eoibudapest.gov.in/ascc/news_detail/?newsid=593 The dance-drama Rāmāyaṇa is about a heroic deed of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, who came to earth in the form of a heroic archer, Rāma, in the Tretā age to deliver His devotees from the atrocities of demons and persons of demonic nature. Shortly after their marriage, Prince Rāma and his wife, Princess Sita, were banished to the jungle in the company of Rāma’s brother Lakṣmana. The …

New publication by Revatī Devī Dāsī www.kadamba.hu The aim of the book in review, The Divine Play by Rūpa Gosvāmī, is to make Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s drama, the Vidagdha-mādhava, accessible to the widest possible audience. The description of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes is literature of the highest order, an articulation of ultimate reality. In fact, the Vidagdha-mādhava is not literature, not a play, but a living divine act. It is a stream of nectar that can ease the miseries of material existence, elevate one from the repetitive cycle of birth and death, and bless one with the sweetest elements of …

A group of Krishna devotees will set off on a two-week pilgrimage on foot from Eger on 8 July. The pilgrimage, which promotes clean, virtuous living and environmental awareness, will this year visit the settlements around Lake Tisza. Launched 30 years ago and held every year, the motto of “We must take action!” pilgrimage is simple living, high thinking. This year, participants will again enrich the region by planting trees in the villages visited. The pilgrimage aims to raise awareness of the importance of sustainability and environmental protection, and to offer young people a healthy, substance-free alternative to partying. It …

For the 28th time this year, the chariot of Kṛṣṇa returns to Budapest for the Ratha-yātrā Chariot Festival on Saturday, 29 June. The festival consists of two main parts, the first is a music and dance parade through the city centre, and the second is an all-day Indian-themed outdoor festival in the City Park. Parade-goers will pull a huge, ornate, hand-drawn chariot along the road, on which a particularly lovely and smiling form of Kṛṣṇa, God, will ride and look around the city. According to ancient Indian tradition, pulling Kṛṣṇa’s chariot removes obstacles and harmful reactions from people’s lives and …

The driving force behind Rūpa Gosvāmī’s acts, including his vast literary repertoire, was Caitanya Mahāprabhu, renowned as the initiator of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava lineage in sixteenth-century India. In the eyes of his followers, Śrī Caitanya descended to earth to enact a specific redemptive mission. Indeed, his bhakti movement changed the hearts and faith of uncountable people, both in the India of his day and worldwide in the modern era, by instilling in them the path of pure love of God. Like many who were touched by Mahāprabhu and his teachings, Rūpa Gosvāmī left behind his worldly life and dedicated himself …