Life in United States of America is very fast, or so it seems to us. Even though we have spiritual aspirations and want to continue develop our spiritual side, we often have very little time for that. The best way to develop love for the Supreme Lord is association of devotees. Thus, in order to facilitate spirituality in our lives and especially our children's lives, some of us friends decided to start a small spiritual program every Friday. We decided to study Bhagawat Gita, which is the basis of spiritual foundation.

We started this effort in Oct 2003. Since then, by the mercy of Their Lordship SriSri Radha Krsna, Srila Prabhupad, and Vaishnavas, many other families have grown interested in it and have joined us. In order to facilitate growing number of devotees in the program, we started hosting the program at a rental facility in Harrisburg in Dec 2005. We immediately fell in love with Hidden Lake Community Hall in Harrisburg. But Sri Krsna has other plans. By the mercy of SriSri Sita Ram Laxmanji, we got an opportunity to present a request to HARI temple for allowing us to have programs in the HARI premises. By Lord's mercy, the temple board approved our efforts and kindly gave us the permission to have program in temple. Since June 2nd 2006, we have been having programs at temple (for which we are very thankful to the temple BOT and executive committee).

Friday program mainly consists of Bhajans, Kirtans, Discourse on Bhagawat Gita, Questions and Answers (to remove doubts), and sumptuous vegetarian feast - prasadam.

This program is a team effort and is based on the teachings of HDG Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad.

Our Mission:

• To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all people in the techniques of spiritual life in order to check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and peace in the world.

• To propagate a consciousness of Krishna (God), as it is revealed in the great scriptures of India, Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam.

• To bring the members of the Society together with each other and nearer to Krishna, the prime entity, thus developing the idea within the members, and humanity at large, that each soul is part and parcel of the quality of Godhead (Krishna).

• To teach and encourage the sankirtan movement, congregational chanting of the holy name of God, as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

• To bring the members closer together for the purpose of teaching a simpler, more natural way of life.