New Cookbook: Srimati's Vegetarian Delights

New Cookbook: Srimati's Vegetarian Delights

It our pleasure to introduce the release of this wonderful vegetarian recipe book: Srimati Vegetarian Delights. Vegetarianism is becoming more popular as many people are adopting a more holistic approach to life. Part of today's trend is also the acceptance of other cultures and traditions and as a result, a natural blending of cultures is occurring. We can see this in the kitchen as oriental spices are being u

Srila Prabhupada’s Appearance Predicted in the Scriptures

By Demian Martins
Srila Prabhupada’s appearance and accomplishments are a turning point not only in Gaudiya Vaisnavism, but in the very history of human civilization, so it is not surprising that they were predicted many centuries ago. In several ancient religious traditions, the sacred scriptures usually include passages or whole sections dealing with predictions. Some of these passages are marked by a veiled language and are often interp

2012 Open Vyasa-puja book now online

The 2012 edition of “Srila Prabhupada Tributes” the “open Vyasa-puja book” is now available for downloading as a PDF file here: www.sptributes.com.

Scriptural Injunctions

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Our beloved Guru Maharaja is always insisting for us to seriously study the scriptures, understand them and put them into practice. We have not taken up the study of the scriptures with seriousness because we do not realize the consequences of ignoring the scriptural injunctions. Recently I was listening to a very

Dear Family,

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!!

Most of us, specially who lives outside India, are not quite fortunate to have much of Guru Maharaj's association. We may not have Guru Maharaj's personal association (vapu) but we can always associate through his words (vaani).

And I'm happy to share with you all that to facilitate this we have more then 15 exclusive websites up and running!! Thousands of d

Venue: Mayapur, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.24.59 at

                                        na yasya cittam bahir-artha-vibhramam

tamo-guhayam ca vishuddham avishat

yad-bhakti-yoga anugrihitam anjasa

munir vichaste nanu tatra te gatim

TRANSLATION

The devotee whose heart has been completely cleansed by the process of devotional service and who is favored by Bhaktidevi does not become bewildered by the external energy, which is just like a dark well. Being completely cleansed of all material contamination in t

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A lady bought some bathing soaps from a shop. When she opened one of the packets, she found that it was empty. There was no soap in there; it was just an empty wrapper! She lodged a complaint against the manufacturer and got her claim. That being settled, there was a task before the management of the soap factory. How had this happened? How could they ensure that the incident did not occur again? They had suffered enoug

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs wer

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The beauty of *Vaishnavism* (Krishna-bhakti) is truly divine. There are numerous religions in this world . But the facility of direct God-realization does exist only in Vaishnavism . It is not a man-made religion .

Bhagavan Sri Krishna Himself established Vaishnavism . He was assisted by Lord Ananta, Vayu-deva and Rishis like Narada . Bhagavan and His celestial team have established several Vedic temples in  BhArat. Thes

There may be some difficulty in surrendering to the father of this body, for he has limited knowledge and power, but Krsna is not like an ordinary father.  Krsna is unlimited and has full knowledge, full power, full wealth, full beauty, full fame and full renunciation.  Shouldn't we consider ourselves lucky to go to such a father and enjoy His property?  Yet no one seems to care about this, and now everyone is making propaganda that there is no God.  Why do people not seek Him out?  The answer i

Sankirtan Stories

By Yadavendra Das

This morning, the second stop was a small shopping center with only two or three shops open for business. The question on my mind was whether to stop or not to stop. I decided to stop anyway. It was a Vietnamese area and from experience I know that Vietnamese people generally like to engage freely and liberally in the Sankirtan Movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This is indeed a great credit to the Vietnamese people. As I entered the beauty shop the whole fami

Who am I?

Everyone tell their name if asked who are they. If "I" was the name then for any marriage or events I can send a note with my name on it instead of going there, isn’t it? Therefore its clear that I am not a name. My body responds to the calling of my name. After I go out of the body, my body does not move, it cannot feel the sense of touch, it does not respond if called. So, I am not this body.

As I am inside the body of a human I call myself as a human. An animal calls itself an animal.

Krishna - Jesus - Allah - Buddha are all same

How to understand our Vedas?

We are living in kali yuga. Kali yuga means the age of quarrel and hypocrisy. The reason for these quarrel and problems is man losing his good qualities like mercy, honesty, purity and discipline. If there is no mercy to any living entity, people start eating meat. If there is no discipline or regulation in mind and body, they start taking intoxicants. If there is no truth, gambling is performed or wealth is earned by wrong

So this material world is described in the Vedic literature as darkness. And actually it is darkness. Therefore we require the sunlight, the moonlight, the electric light. If it had not been darkness, then why so many light arrangements? Actually, it is darkness. Artificially, we made it light. Therefore Vedic injunction is that "Don't keep yourself in the darkness." Tamasi ma jyotir gama. "Go to the light." That light is the spiritual world. That is directly the effulgence, or bodily rays, of K

Envisaging Our Spiritual Existence

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

During his recent visit to Abudhabi, our beloved Guru Maharaja was emphasizing the importance of the last 18 verses of the second chapter of Srimad Bhagavad Gita. Maharaja was insisting that these verses should be recited before we go to bed in the night and again as soon as we get up, we should be recit

Christians Get Krishna’s Mercy

by Sastra-krit Dasa (Los Angeles)

I was distributing in downtown LA when two guys walked toward me. They were tall, with long flowing blonde hair, blue eyes, and tight T-shirts. They stopped when I said, "Excuse me. I'm stopping all the really koooool-looking guys today."

After stopping, one of them said with a serious face, looking me straight in the eyes: "You know, we're trying to look like Jesus Christ."

I was disturbed that after a tough day on sankirtan I had run

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As soon as we surrender ourselves to krsna, He welcomes us very cordially.  It is just like a lost child who returns to his father and says, "My dear father, due to some misunderstanding I left your protection, but I have suffered.  Now I return to you."  The father embraces his son and says, "My dear boy, come on.  I was so anxious for you all the days you were gone, and now I'm so happy you have come back."  The father is so kind.  We are in the same position.  We have to surrender to Krsna, a

As soon as we surrender ourselves to krsna, He welcomes us very cordially.  It is just like a lost child who returns to his father and says, "My dear father, due to some misunderstanding I left your protection, but I have suffered.  Now I return to you."  The father embraces his son and says, "My dear boy, come on.  I was so anxious for you all the days you were gone, and now I'm so happy you have come back."  The father is so kind.  We are in the same position.  We have to surrender to Krsna, a

A foolish puffed-up man defies the science of God and says that God has no meaning for him, but when is in the grip of God's law and is caught up with some disease like cerebral thrombosis, that godless man sinks into the ocean of nescience by the weight of his material acquisition. Advancement of material science without God consciousness is a heavy load on the head of human society. So one must take heed of this great warning.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada