Srila Prabhupada Ashram

Srila Prabhupada ashram in Mayapur is newly renovated and is accepting applications from worldwide devotees for admission of their boys to the ashram. The ashram provides a holistic and balanced training in spiritual and material education, in the sacred and peaceful environment of Sri Mayapur dhama.

All ashram students are enrolled at Sri Mayapur International School (SMIS) where they learn and practice Krishna consciousness while following the Cambridge IGCSE curriculum culminating in an internationally recognised and respected high school diploma.

Applications are welcome for boys aged 11 to 16 and can be sent to [email protected]. Acceptance in the ashram is contingent on first being accepted in the Sri Mayapur International School.

School goes on break on October 6th and all parents are requested to pick up their boys by then. Have a great Kartika vacation!

Dear ashrama boys and parents. We are now assembling the new bunk beds and bringing them to the first floor. The clean up is almost finished. The lights are back. We now need to get the bhoga for a bunch of teenagers! Please everyone come this Friday the 21st ! Tell your friends in case they don't check facebook

A message to the ashrama boys and their parents; We started the clean up today. The walls are very humid but drying fast. The main problem now is getting groceries to the ashrama. Also the "kitchen" has no water. Please wait to come until the facilities are appropiate. Miss you guys!!!!!!

surviving the flood of Ganga!

The new bunk-beds are finished! All thanks to Tara Prabhu's generosity and support to the ashrama. Let us know if you are inspired!

The ashrama boys are gone on vacation,yet on my birthday (sick in bed) I received a one of a kind card dictated by them and put together by Raktim. Thankyou young adults you guys are super! Thanks Raktim.

the best mango season at the ashrama in years! At least five different varieties!

Ram Kumar tells me that there is a tree full of fruits by the roses, and the workers don't know what it is. When I saw it, I could not believe it. It is an AVOCADO tree! Murli literary jumped up and down. It's so full with avocados that a few days later it bended. Hope it does not break.

Is your teenage son spiritually inclined? Is he one of those kids who like to be active in devotional service? He likes to go to the temple more than others but feels a little out of place without peer association. Is he naturally indifferent to the latest fads, senseless parties and night life? He wants a more meaningful life and he wants good, fun friends to share it with. To those youngsters, normal life in the west can assert much unnecessary pressure and anxiety. They may give into that way of life to be “normal”, yet they feel unsatisfied within. Or they may become the odd boy in the community.
To those boys we are calling out! Come, here is a place where you don’t have to bend to the materialistic ways of the world.

Here at “Srila Prabhupada Ashrama” we offer you a beautiful simple setting surrounded by fruit trees where you’ll have the opportunity to meet others like you. These friends would become more like brothers to you. Here chanting japa is normal for most teenagers, and many of them have inner goals like chanting a set amount of rounds and finding a spiritual master. Here, you’ll get to go to mangala aratic and darshana aratic with the other ashrama youths. The Deity festivals are our big events, and we have the largest amount of festivals in all of ISKCON world. Here, you’ll get a chance to taste the sweetness of spiritual life through acts of devotion like fire yagnas and the chanting of mantras. You’ll swim in the sacred Ganga and play soccer on the holy dust of Nadia along with tens of other boys.

As a devotee parent you might be thinking “It all sounds wonderful, but what about education? Even most of our own ISKCON leaders have a degree.” The answer is that these boys attend SMIS, the Sri Mayapur International School. Through SMIS they’ll be able to graduate with a Cambridge degree accepted in most Universities throughout the world. Now it gets even better! During breaks the boys get to go home to reconnect with you. They also get to go on pilgrimage, camping and hiking in Lord Nrisimha’s Ahobalam or to the Himalayas, what a sacred adventure! How about prasadam? Now we offer homemade food. Your child will educate his palate to the international tastes; phalaphel, burritos, puri-subji, pasta, iddlis and (if I ever get an oven, pizza, bread and naans). All these foods offered with love to Srila Prabhupada, the worshipable deity of our ashrama.

Parents, take advantage of what Srila Prabhupada has given your children and give them a chance to develop firm faith in the Lord and his holy name in a sacred abode meant just for that. Young adults, without devotees like you the reality of an ashrama will be lost to the artificial pressures of the materialistic society here in Mayapur, just like it has been lost in the rest of the ISKCON world.

Our ashrama teacher, Ram Kumar, on the day of his wedding.