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

Back To Godhead Volume-01 Number-38, 1970

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

Back To Godhead Volume-16 Number-09, 1981

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.

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Back To Godhead Volume-16 Number-09, 1981

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

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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

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!!!

Happy to be A Bhakti Yogi t-shirts are avail

My Best Experience on Book Distribuition

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

ISKCON Europe Excellence Awards in 2012

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

• Suresh was advised by the      doctor to smoke just 2 cigarettes per day.
• Father told Arvind, if he      scores pass marks in mathematics then he would gift him a bicycle.

Do the above examples show that the doctor is promoting smoking and the father discouraging his son from scoring 100% in maths?

Absolutely Not. Suresh was a chain smoker and Arvind an irresponsible student. So to bring them on right track they gave them a means by which they can improve themselves. Suresh does not have to smoke d

So what to do at the time of death? One has to change. Death means change of this body. The modern civilization, they do not know it. That is the first understanding of spiritual knowledge, that we change our body. I am spirit soul, every one of us, spirit soul, even the animals and the trees and plants and aquatics, any living being. There are 8,400,000 different forms of living being. Of all of them, the human form is considered the best. Best means it has got..., the human form has got develo

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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