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Bg 2.12 vs. Sāyujya mukti

Hare Krishna,

Bg 2.12 — Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

Types of liberation — There are five types of liberation, namely sāyujya, sālokya, sārupya, sāmipya and sā

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Souls desiring separation

Devotees, please accept my humble obeisances.Why do souls desire separation from Krsna? If the soul never changes, how do we come to a platform of sanatan dharma? If the soul never changes, we would never desire anything different from what our soul

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Should we consume sugar?

Hare Krishna! 

I was just wondering, a lot of recipes in ISKCON cookbooks and those online, and in general, a lot of foodstuffs cooked contain sugar. What I'm confused about however, is the fact that a lot of a lot of refined sugar companies nowadays

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Is God really the Supreme?

Among the devotees, there is a common belief, God is the supreme and nothing is equal to Him or higher than Him. Lord Krishna says so in BG 7.7 "There is no truth superior to Me."

However if you analyze deeply, you will find a few contradictions in th

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Please help name this lila...

Hare Krsna dear devotees,

dandavat pranams,

all glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gauranga.

PLEASE HELP name this pastime, or offer a way to find more information about it.

It is Krishna combing Radha's hair, and it takes place in Kusam Sarovar... 

i really

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Preaching in Vedic scriptures

Hare Krishna, 

I am trying to find scriptural basis on preaching Krishna Consciousness. I understand that in many Bhagavatam purports, Prabhupada cited BG 18:68-71 and Chaitanya charitamrita. However, in the previous verses of BG Ch-18.67, Lord Krishn

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dream of shri krishna

today morning i have seen a dream of shri krishna baal swaroop. i saw the blue coloured full shiny body lord krishna was about 7 years old resting in vishnu aasna. I then went near to him and he was smiling and trying to make me understand something.

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Vadic varnasrama system

Hare krishna, Please take my humble obeiences, All Gloriourious to Srila Prabhupada.I want to know about the vadic varnasram system.Is it follow by birth?(That means one become a brahman, a khatriya, a vaisya or a sudra by birth).Please explain.Hare

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