Srila Prabhupada story
Madhudvisa Prabhu
Another incident that comes to mind was in 1968 or 69. We had a very well attended temple on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. The devotees went to Griffith Park in Los Angeles and chanted and distributed prasadam. Visnujan had little puppets and we would have puppet shows there and bring people from Griffith Park to the temple. We also went to the meditation room in "The Mystic Arts Book Store" in Laguna Beach. They let us have kirtan there and we wo
tasmād ahaṁ mahi gṛṇāmi vigata-
viklava īśvarasya yathā manīṣam
nīco jayā guṇa-visargam anupraviṣṭaḥ
pūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena
[SB 7.9.12]
This is the prayer of Prahlāda Mahārāja, a great devotee of Lord. So he has described that although he was born of an atheistic family, but still, Kṛṣṇa, or God, does not take account of a devotee, in which family he belongs. Kṛṣṇa does not take account, God does not take account of the family of breeding. He's equally kind to everyone. You have seen t
Supreme Lord Krishna, incarnation of Lord Vishnu
Krishna is a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. He is a protector of oaths and cattle and is a joyful and loving god. His relationships exemplify the relationships humans have, such as the love between mother and son and the love of a devotee to the divine.
Lord Krishna's Childhood
The birth of Krishna was an unusual event. His mother, the princess Devaki, had been imprisoned by the demon king Kamsa because a prophecy said that her eighth c
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Back To Godhead Volume-22 Number-04, 1987
The most authoritative opinion on an age-old controversy.
mattah parataram nanyat
kincid asti dhananjaya
mayi sarvam idam protam
sutre mani-gana iva
"O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread." (Bhagavad-gita 7.7)
There are many philosophers. Some of them thi
Question: Scientific advancement in fields like artificial intelligence promises to produce conscious robots. When consciousness is thus produced by robots, will the soul hypothesis – the theory that the soul is the source of consciousness – be disproved?
Answer: No. The advances in artificial intelligence are proving, not disproving, the soul hypothesis. Let’s see how.
Most of us get our ideas of scientific advancement in artificial intelligence from science fiction movies depicting conscious rob
Question: Researchers have found precise correlations between specific areas of the brain and particular emotions. Doesn’t this make the idea of soul as the source of emotions redundant?
Answer: No, because correlation doesn’t imply causality.
Here’s an example to understand the difference. Suppose a tragedy novel leads to a spate of suicides. A researcher investigating the cause of the suicides, makes a detailed study of the number of times the letter “A” occurs in the book and then proposes a t
Question: When I talk about God, soul, rebirth, people often question: why discuss such unscientific things in this modern age of science?
Answer: Their question originates not from their scientific thinking, but from their belief in scientism, the peculiar school of thought that places around science a halo of “omniscience.”
The reputed physicist Fritjof Capra in his well-known book The Tao of Physics explains how scientific knowledge is like a map. Just as a map helps in navigating the mapped t
Locan Prabhu and His Daughter Rasa Priya made Prabhupada Deities
Locan Prabhu and His Daughter Rasa Priya Need Your Help
Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Locan Prabhu (ACBSP) has made the Prabhupada Murtis for most of the Deities of Srila Prabhupada that are worshipped in ISKCON temples around the world. Even many of the Deities that were not made directly by Locan were made from the molds that he supplied.
His daughter Rasa Priya is a wonderful Vaisnavi that was born in
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Sri Brahma-samhita is one of the oldest Vedic scriptures, and it is accepted by Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu (an incarnation of Krsna Himself who appeared 484 years ago) as the essence of Vaisnava (Krsna conscious) philosophy. The first verse of the Fifth Chapter of Sri Brahma-samhita reads: "Krsna, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Godhead. He
They Say Sri-gopya ucuh “maivam vibho rhati bhavan gaditum nr-samsam” (10.29.31) don’t be cruel like this to us “santyajya sarva-visayamstava pada-mulam” we have given up everything, everything do you know what we had to go through to come to you? You were not there but we know what we have gone to reach your lotus feet, we have renounced everything just to reach pada-mulam, coming to your Lotus Feet. So our request is prasida be kind to us “vrjinardana-te nghri mulam” (10.29.38) O! Lord you are
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Among the hippies in San Francisco were many young people who were sincerely searching for spiritual enlightenment and who found it when they met His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
As recently as 1965, Srila Prabhupada, at age 69, had been living as a renounced ascetic in the holy town of Vrndavana, India, where he was regarded as a pure, saintly devotee of Lord
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Questions at Harvard Divinity School
Recently Professor Harvey Cox of Harvard University invited Subhananda dasa, a Hare Krsna devotee, to give three talks on the traditional role of the guru. Later the talking went on, between Professor Cox and his divinity students and their guest.
Lord Krsna, Lord Brahma, Narada Muni
Student: The idea of "spiritual guide" or "spiritual master" is
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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A conversation with His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
In June 1976 at New Vrindaban, the Hare Krsna movements farm community in West Virginia, Srila Prabhupada fields questions sent to him from the editors of Bhavan's Journal, one of Bombay's leading cultural and religious periodicals.
Devo
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
The Congregational Development Ministry and His Holiness Jayapataka Swami are proud to present our new campaign to inspire all the members of International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Maharaj inspired us to create and promote this campaign to remind us to be happy in Krishna consciousness. We hope you will be happy to help us to promote this campaign and message!!!
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I was distributing at Cal State University in San Bernardino when a student came over to my table and said, "My friend! I've been looking for you for the past two years. I read the Bhagavad-gita many times, and I'm chanting Hare Krsna."
Emanuel had received a book from me at a nearby college three years ago. He hadn't read it for a year, but then he had a mystical experience in which he was told to read the book. He stayed up all night reading and didn't ge
Maya means the condition in which I enjoy material sense gratification. That is called maya. Maya japatiya dhare. Japatiya dhare means catches, catches: "All right, come on." There are two things: light and darkness. If you remain in light, there is no darkness, and if you prefer to remain in darkness, there is no light. Two things are there. So maya is darkness, and Krsna is light. That is our motto in the Back to Godhead. "Godhead is light and darkness is nescience. Where there is God, there i
Dear Vaishnavas,
Please accept our sincere obeisances. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Guru-parampara ki jaya!
We are pleased to introduce you to eleven devotees receiving the third ISKCON Europe Excellence Awards (IEEA): http://www.eurorgb.com/content/iskcon-europe-excellence-awards-2012
On behalf of Euro RGB,
Your servant,
Dinadayal dasa
Secretary for the Euro RGB
