ISKCON of Delaware serves people throughout the state through annual festivals, vegetarian food distribution, spiritual discussions, Sunday gatherings, children’s activities, summer camps, retreats, yoga and meditation classes, and spiritual counseling.
Our temple strives to serve everyone without any discrimination. People of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, and religious backgrounds are welcome to participate in our programs and community.
OUR MISSION
We seek to bring greater peace, well-being, and connection to the community through bhakti yoga—the practice of cultivating loving devotion through everyday life.
Bhakti yoga encourages us to approach our activities as service to others and to God. One of its central practices is mantra meditation, the repeated recitation of sacred words and phrases. The mantra most closely associated with our tradition is:
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA
KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA
RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
HARE KRISHNA
HARE KRISHNA
KRISHNA KRISHNA
HARE HARE
HARE RAMA
HARE RAMA
RAMA RAMA
HARE HARE
Many people find that chanting this 16-syllable mantra helps calm the mind, deepen their spiritual awareness, and inspire a greater desire to serve others and God.
FOUNDER ACHARYA
SRILA PRABHUPADA
For millennia, the teachings and the rich culture of bhakti-yoga, or Krishna consciousness had been hidden within the borders of India. Today, millions around the globe express their gratitude to Srila Prabhupada for revealing the timeless wisdom of bhakti to the world.
Born as Abhay Charan De on September 1, 1896, in Calcutta, as a young man, he joined Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement. In 1922, a meeting with the prominent scholar and spiritual leader, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati proved to be most influential on young Abhay’s future calling.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was a leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava community, a monotheistic tradition within the broader Hindu culture. At their very first meeting, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati asked Abhay to take the teachings of Lord Krishna to the English-speaking world. Deeply moved by his devotion and wisdom, Abhay became a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati in 1933 and resolved to carry out his mentor’s request. Abhay, later known by the honorific A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, spent the next 32 years preparing for his journey west.
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