Gainesville's Krishna House was established in 1971 by a young student couple who had turned their apartment into a peaceful place for students to practice bhakti yoga. In 1989 we moved to our current location at 214 NW 14th St.
The Hare Krishna have been offering hot, inexpensive, vegetarian meals to University of Florida students every week since 1971.
After only a few months of the Bhakti House Program, we have seen our new devotee population at the temple start to swell. It is an innovative way of introducing Krishna Consciousness to the youth of America. The whole setup is made different from a traditional Hare Krishna temple. In fact the guests are invited to a house next to the temple.
Our aim is to reveal to youth, that are between the ages of 15 and 25, the essence of the teachings of spiritual India.
Gita Sutras is an introductory course on the concepts of the Bhagavad Gita specifically designed to present the age old wisdom to a post-modern western audience. The course aims to present a message coming from an eastern culture in an transformative, experiential and entertaining way to a western audience.
The PRERANA Monthly Festival employs highly interactive sessions handled by experienced faculties who have graduated out of premier institutes such as the IITs and IIMs and who have dedicated their lives for over 20 years to share the same joy, which they have experienced in their lives. Prerana consists of Vedic wisdom be