Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform — do that, O son of Kuntī, as an offering to Me.

Thus, it is the duty of everyone to mold his life in such a way that he will not forget Kṛṣṇa in any circumstance. Everyone has to work for maintenance of his body and soul together, and Kṛṣṇarecommends herein that one should work for Him. Everyone has to eat something to live; therefore he should accept the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Kṛ

A bearded man sit­ting across from me at the round table asks, “What is the descend­ing process?” I tell him, “It’s the way of receiv­ing Vedic knowl­edge. At the begin­ning of the cre­ation, the Supreme Lord revealed the Absolute Truth to the first cre­ated liv­ing being, Lord Brahma. Brahma passed it to his dis­ci­ple and son Narada, and Narada enlight­ened Srila Vyasadeva, who com­piled all the Vedic scrip­tures. Vyasadeva taught it to his son Sukadeva Gos­vami. And Suta Gos­vami received it

Vegetarianism in ISLAM

Anyone engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is known as a devotee, but there is a distinction between pure
devotees and mixed devotees.

A mixed devotee engages in devotional service for the spiritual
benefit of being eternally engaged in the transcendental abode of the
Lord in full bliss and knowledge. In material existence, when a
devotee is not completely purified, he expects material benefit from
the Lord in the form of relief from material miseries, or he wants
materia

A devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who seriously engages
in devotional service is equal to all living entities. There are
various species of living entities, but a devotee does not see the
outward covering; he sees the inner soul inhabiting the body. Because
each and every soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, he does not see any difference. That is the vision of a
learned devotee.

A devotee should not speak needlessly. He is always busy in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness. When

What is the significance of Number 108? As per vedic scriptures, Indian culture has a very special significance of number 108. What does this number represent, and why is it so important? 

1) In one minute, we breathe in approximately 15 times, in 1 hour 900 times, and in 12 hours 10800 times, and in a day 10800 * 2 times. A day consists of 24 hours, and if we set aside half the day for our day to day routines,then one can spend 12 hours for recitation of God's holy names.

If one wants to obtain

arthe hy avidyamāne 'pi

saḿsṛtir na nivartate

dhyāyato viṣayān asya

svapne 'narthāgamo yathā

TRANSLATION

Actually a living entity is transcendental to material existence, but
because of his mentality of lording it over material nature, his
material existential condition does not cease, and just as in a dream,
he is affected by all sorts of disadvantages.

PURPORT

The example of a dream is very appropriate. Due to different mental
conditions, in dreams we are put into advantageous and disadvantageous
position

The Story Of Gauri- Douji

Once On Balarama appearance day, Krsna along with the cowherd boys decided to have wrestling match.  Lord Balarama  is the only one that is stronger then Krsna and the only one that can beat Krsna at wrestling.  As Krsna prepared Himself for the fight He began boosting the He is the best fighter.

The first match was with Sridhama. After defeating Sridhama, Subal stepped up to fight with Krsna. After a tough fight, Subal defeated Krsna. Been a sour loser, Krsna wanted a

Knowledge is meant for distribution. Although there is already much scientific knowledge, whenever scientists or philosophers awaken to a particular type of knowledge, they try to distribute it throughout the world, for otherwise the knowledge gradually dries up and no one benefits from it. India has the knowledge of Bhagavad-gītā, but unfortunately, for some reason or other, this sublime knowledge of the science of God was not distributed throughout the world, alth

Ayodhya Dasa, a devotee of Indian descent, joined ISKCON in 1976 in Detroit and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1977. While in Detroit he distributed books while serving in the life membership department. But for many years he wanted to go to Vrndavana. In 1995 Krsna made the arrangement. That year his brother-in-law passed away in India and he was asked to attend the funeral ceremony because he was the only surviving male in the family. He took the opportu

Given below is the jist of the "only solution for all problems" as narrated by H.H.Radhanath Maharaj in the initiation lecture of 1997 during Gaura poornima. He was explaining this in 5 simple steps as follows.

1. The only purpose of human form of life is purification 
2. The only way to get purified is when Krishna is pleased with us 
3. The only way to please Krishna is to please Guru (Yasya prasadad Bhagavat ........) 
4. The only way to please Guru is to follow his instruction. 
5. The only way b