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

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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

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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

Do Unto Others

katyayani maha-maye
maha-yoginy adhisvari
nanda-gopa-sutam devi
patim me kuru te namah

"O goddess Katyayani, O great potency of the Lord, O possessor of great mystic power and mighty controller of all, please make the son of Nanda Maharaja my husband. I offer my obeisances unto you." SB 10.22.4.

If Krishna is the center of the activity, a devotee can adopt any means to achieve that goal. The gopis could adopt any means to satisfy or serve Krishna. That was the superexcellent characteristic of the go

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

So when we employ our senses in the positive activities, that is liberation. That is liberation. Just like a diseased man and a healthy man, what is the difference? The difference is that a healthy man is engaged in healthy activities, and the diseased man is engaged in diseased activities. The diseased man is also lying down, and the healthy man is also lying down. There is vast of difference. The diseased man is also eating, and the healthy man is eating. There is vast difference. So these act

Taking Pleasure in Others' Progress

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

In his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam verse 1.15.8, Srila Prabhupada refers to the pastime with Maya Danava. Prabhupada writes "The demon Maya Danava was an inhabitant of the forest Khandava, and when the Kh