Aim of creation.

The aim of creation is to give a chance to all the souls to become human beings and then to realize God Who is absolute Bliss. They can realize God by doing absolute good actions and surrendering to Him. Souls are unlimited in number and are in an infinitesimal ‘life’ form, having a subtle mind of their own. When they receive human body during the creation they do good or bad actions according to the discrimination of their own mind. The record of these actions, called the sanska

Bhartiya Chronology 3228 BC - 1947

HISTORICITY OF MAHABHARATA WAR

In January 2001, Indian History Congress was holding its Annual Conference at the Alipur Campus of the University of Calcutta and at the concluding session of the said Conference the Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Amartya Sen, while addressing the delegates, said that Ramayana and Mahabharata do not have any historical value. These two epics are simply mythology and nothing but poets’ fancy. He also said that neither Rama nor Krishna was a historical personality and b

• I am not able to properly chant my rounds and even complete my rounds because I don’t get sufficient time.
• My job is too tough. Practicing devotional life is too difficult for me.
• If only my spouse would have been more cooperative I would have practiced Krishna consciousness very sincerely.
• I don’t have sufficient money. I need to earn more to properly maintain my family. After I have accumulated sufficient wealth then I will sincerely absorb myself in Krishna’s service.
• I don’t have

Nondeceptive Penance - Part 1

 Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev!

The following is a humble effort to transcribe the class by our beloved God brother HG Devakinandan Prabhuji in Chennai on Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.4

aatma-tattva-vishuddhy-artham / yad aaha bhagavaan rtam
brahman

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

My Dear Dr. Bigelow:

Please accept my greetings. Recently I have read an article in the Gazette by Rae Corelli entitled "Heart Surgeon Wants to Know What a Soul Is," and it was very interesting. Your comments show great insight, and so I thought to write you on this matter. Perhaps you may know that I am the founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. I have several temples in Canada Montreal,

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

At Christmas Mandalesvara dasa and an airman talk of peace

"This book will tell you about real peace on earth," I promised.

"All right, sir, I'll give it a look." The young airman smiled as he tucked the volume under his arm.

"Have a nice Christmas," I added. "Hare Krsna."

I'd been distributing my spiritual master's books to San Antonio servicemen since nine o'clock that morning. Now I had to catch the bus from the base bac

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Atheist-existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre writes that because man wants to be God but cannot, he is a "useless passion" in a universe that has no purpose and thus, he is always in anxiety. "That is foolishness," says His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. "You are not God but God's servant…. Sartre believes the universe has no purpose because he is blind. He has no power to see that there is a plan. We are

Chew, Digest and Preach

Dear Vaishnavas, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.  The following is my notes from His Holiness Mahavishnu Gosvami Maharaj's Srimad Bhagavatam classes 1.5.10 and 1.5.14 given in London on October 28, 2007.  na yad vacash citra-padam harer yasho jagat-pavitram pragrneeta karhicit tad vaa

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

What does God's abode look like? What does God Himself look like? "I have yet many things to say unto you," Christ told a world, filled with crudeness and ignorance, "but ye cannot bear them now" (John 16:12). The son of a Baptist minister now looks to ancient India's Vedic literature for the facts about God that Christ left unsaid.

An Interview with Kirtanananda Swami

Back to Godhead: Can you say a little bit about your

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The following conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Cardinal Jean Danielou took place at ISKCON's Paris center.

Srila Prabhupada: Jesus Christ said, "Thou shall not kill." So why is it that the Christian people are engaged in animal killing?

Cardinal Danielou: Certainly in Christianity it is forbidden to kill, but we believe that there is a difference between the life of a human bei

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Some planning, anticipating, and looking forward to future events and accomplishments are an important and necessary part of success. You need to know where you’d like to go in order to get there. 

However, most of us take this planning far too seriously and engage in futuristic thinking far too often. We sacrifice the actual moments of life in exchange for moments that exist only in our imaginations. An imagined future

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Can I interact with the God direct ?

The answer is a definite YES, if you are a Krishna-bhakta ( devotee of Sri Krishna) .

The world now accepts that, ancient Rishis had possessed divine powers.  The living example they demonstrated is compiled as *Sanatana Vedic Dharma* .  Righteousness,  is action according to the Vedic rules  which are mentioned in the Scriptures.

When King Dasaratha dismissed his crown-prince son Sri R

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The Sanskrit verbal root of Veda can be interpreted variously, but the purport is finally one. Veda means knowledge. Any knowledge you accept is Veda, for the teachings of the Vedas are the original knowledge. In the conditioned state, our knowledge is subjected to many deficiencies. The difference between a conditioned soul and a liberated soul is that the conditioned soul has four kinds of defects. The first defect is

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In Fact and Fantasy

A conversation in Los Angeles in June 1972

Charles Darwin

Devotee: Darwin tried to show how the origin of living species could be fully explained by the purely mechanical, unplanned action of natural forces. By the process he called "natural selection," all the higher, complex forms of life gradually evolved from more primitive and rudimentary ones.

So it is duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15], and you have to practice tapasya if you want to get out of it. Tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyet sattva [SB 5.5.1]. We are now accustomed to this miserable condition of life. If you want actual happiness, then you have to undergo austerity, tapasya. Tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyet yasmad brahma-saukhyam anantam. You are hankering after happiness. That happiness, brahma-sukha, eternal happiness, you will get by practicing tapasya. So don't believe, don

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