Philosophy – from the Greek words:
philo – love of, affinity for;
sophos – wisdom.
Philosophy – the love of wisdom
Wisdom – from the Old Norse visdomr – the ability to think and act utilising knowledge, experience, understanding, discernment, insight and common sense – coupled with just judgment as to action.
Philosophy means the love of wisdom, the ability to separate truth from error, reality from illusion, and the subsequent discernment as to correct action. Professional philosophers use the
… intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.”
Lord Sri Krishna says that the Bhagavad-gita is raja-guhyam, the King of Knowledge. The Bhaktivedanta Academy helps to equip those eager to learn with the knowledge of the Absolute. Those who have successfully completed their studies in the Academy are able to address common unanswered questions such as:
“Who am I?”
“Why am I here?”
“What is the purpose of life?”
The Bhaktivedanta Gita Academy started in 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – A loud toot from a conch shell kicked off the 51st annual Rath Yatra here July 30 morning, as more than 6,000 Indian Americans and members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness pulled chariots bearing replicas of Hindu deities on the mile-long pilgrimage down John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park.
“This is the one day of the year I can fully celebrate my Indian heritage,” Nikhil Swapan of Cupertino, Calif., who attended the day-long festival with his
Radharani Priya devi dasi Tuesday nights at the Griffith University Student Village are ‘Krishna Supper Night’, where we serve out free, hot nutritious vegetarian meals and have kirtana. This project was started through the University Chaplaincy department. The Cardamom Pod Restaurant sponsors the prasadam, and well-known cook Garuda dasa also brings an equal amount of prasadam from New Govardhana.
The Village houses 500 students, who are mainly from interstate and overseas. The students line u
The students and staff of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Mission School flagged off the Janmashtami Celebrations with a grand Jhulan festival at the school at Andheri, Mumbai. Besides the students and teachers the festival was enthusiastically attended by the parents as well.
The Janmashtami celebrations will be held on Fri, 11th August with abhishekha performed by the students followed by a boat festival in the temple hall. The 121st appearance day celebrations of Srila Prabhupada will be held on Mon
By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON New Vrindaban Communications
Neither Filippo Paonessa nor his wife-to-be Sukhayanti Dasi had any previous experience in cow protection or agriculture when they met at the Toronto ISKCON temple. But they found that they were both inspired by Srila Prabhupada’s words on simple living and shared a desire to follow them practically.
Sukhayanti had grown up in Israel and traveled the world in her twenties, meeting devotees at a Rainbow Gathering in Germany in 2005. Attr
The Turkish Pavilion at Tower Grove Park was the place to be last Sunday, July 30th, 2017! It was buzzing with excitement the whole day! The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) chapter in St. Louis, Missouri was excitingly preparing for celebrating The Chariot Festival for the third year in a row. The organizers and volunteers arrived at the site at 8 am and immediately began to set up and decorate the very colorful, tall,and impressive chariot cart. Other volunteers began
A new format for Padayatra
Padayatra is one of the biggest preaching programs of the year in Slovenia. For the past fourteen years Slovenian devotees have been organising a walk every summer. By walking in different sections each year they have covered the entire country, which is not a difficult task since Slovenia is a small coutry of 2 million people (less than 1/6 of Moscow’s population) with a superficy of 20 000 square kms, the size of Costa Rica or Macedonia, and 1/32 the superficy of Fr
After viewing the installed Kalashes and Chakras, Sadbhuja and Rangavati prabhus have decided that the Dome brackets which hold the Kalashes in place need a color adjustment to match the gold color of the titanium nitrate Kalashes and Chakras. They have created a new design which includes painting sections of the Dome brackets gold.
To fulfill the need for a durable, weather-resistant and long-lasting paint they have turned to a German based company named Keim known for its high quality paints.
Many artists are only recognised for their greatness once they are dead but Beethoven was famous during his life but then, he went deaf. Can you imagine that!? It was practically the worse thing that could have affected him. For a musician, the ear is essential. People who cannot sing, it is not that they cannot sing – they cannot listen! Music begins with listening. It is all about the ear, really!
Beethoven, with the perfect ears, who he could perfectly hear different tones and notes, went de
By Tara Duggan
Troupes of neon-vested Segway riders and strolling tourist families exploring Golden Gate Park on Sunday made way for an especially vibrant interruption: the Festival of Chariots, an annual Hindu parade and celebration with roots going back millennia in India.
Held since 1967 in San Francisco, the festival drew hundreds of smiling worshipers who helped pull three large chariots along John F. Kennedy Drive that carried likenesses of Lord Jagannath — who to many Hindus is known as
By GBC Brooklyn Temple Sale Committee
August 1, 2017
The former president of the ISKCON temple in Brooklyn, New York, Ramabhadra Dasa, has kept the temple locked shut for the last ten days, and this past Sunday he had the “ISKCON” sign removed from the face of the building. The sign had announced the temple’s identity for years.
“Hare Krishna Temple in Brooklyn with ISKCON sign prior to it being removed from the face of the building.”
“The congregation has no idea if and when the temple doors
By Tara Duggan
Troupes of neon-vested Segway riders and strolling tourist families exploring Golden Gate Park on Sunday made way for an especially vibrant interruption: the Festival of Chariots, an annual Hindu parade and celebration with roots going back millennia in India.
Held since 1967 in San Francisco, the festival drew hundreds of smiling worshipers who helped pull three large chariots along John F. Kennedy Drive that carried likenesses of Lord Jagannath — who to many Hindus is known as
Jhulan Yatra has been inspired from the swing pastimes of Krishna and his consort Radha during their romance in the idyllic pastoral groves of Vrindavan, where the divine lovers along with their cowherd friends and ‘gopis’ took part in joyful swinging in the cool monsoon season.
Everyday at 7:00am and 7:o0am between the 3rd and 7th of August 2017.
Conversation with Srila Prabhupada
Jan 21 1977
Hari-sauri: So those persons who can’t come up to the standard of the temple life…
Prabhupada: Yes.
Hari-Sauri: …they should remain outside.
Prabhupada: That is above all the guṇas.
Ramesvara: That’s very rare. That is the most rare.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Ramesvara: Not every man. You always say it’s not possible for every man.
Prabhupada: No, that you cannot do. Because you are in the material world, how you can avoid the influence of material qualit
