From Back to Godhead
By Lokanatha Swami
The unseen merciful hand of Lord Krsna helps a determined young science student become one of Srila Prabhupada’s first Indian disciples.
I was born in Aravade, a small village in the Indian state of Maharashtra that differs little from more than seven hundred thousand others in India. After I graduated from high school, my family sent me to Bombay to study chemistry in college. But my college career was not to be.
In the year 1971, in late March, somethin
By Brahma Tirtha Dasa and Vraja Vihari Dasa
The following is a collective report from participants and facilitators of the dialogue.
Participants: Brahma Muhurta Dasa, Dravida Dasa, Garuda Dasa, Kalachandji Dasa, Naresvara Dasa, Nrsimhananda Dasa, Radhika Ramana Dasa, Urmila Devi Dasi
Facilitators: Brahma Tirtha Dasa, Vraja Vihari Dasa
Srila Prabhupada wrote to Malati Devi Dasi on January 7, 1974: “I have already written to [name] and [name] about their difference of opinion. We have so much
“I am happy to hear that you continued to chant despite so many doubts and skepticism. That is the process. Even there may be doubts and skepticism, but if one continues the chanting process, the doubts will all disappear, and real knowledge will be revealed by the grace of Krishna. The example is given of the jaundice patient. He is suffering from disease, and when given sugar candy, which is the cure, he finds it very bitter and distasteful. But that does not mean the sugar candy is not sweet
Krsna is like the sun – the sun that appears in this world, the sun that rises and the sun that sets. Every night, the sun sets and in that way it looks like the sun disappears. But if you board a flight on an East-West route, then you sort of keep up with the sun. I have flown from Australia towards India and I witnessed like a 6 hour sunrise or something like that. The sun kept on rising and it appeared that it never stopped rising. You are flying and the sun keeps rising – it’s just chanting
Guḍanimba nyāyaḥ (molasses with Neem)
A sick child is given bitter Neem leaves with sweet molasses, to be able to accept the medicine.
Small child does not have sufficient knowledge about curing its disease. When sick, it needs to take bitter medicine. But to enthuse it to do that, one has to give him first a sweet under the condition that it will take unpleasant medicine. Similarly, when educating, the child is first given small and pleasant tasks, and gradually moves towards more complex and de
By Bhakta David
The annual ISKCON-London Volunteers Dinner honours all the devotees who have offered service during the past 12 months. For 2019, being the Golden Anniversary, all devotees who had offered service to Sri-Sri Radha-Londonisvara over the last 50 years were invited. The assembled guests were therefore blessed with the association of many Srila Prabhupada disciples and senior sevaks.
The venue for the event was Conway Hall, where Srila Prabhupada had given a series of lectures in 1
By Sacinandana Swami
SB 1.1.2 … sadyo hrdy avarudhyate ‘tra krtibhih susrusubhis tat-ksanat …As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhagavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.
Ref. VedaBase => SB 1.1.2
By the hearing process Krsna IMMEDIATELY (sadyo) is established in the heart.
Please note the word RAPT [attention, in the previous quote] – there is a consistency in the Bhagavatam methodology. One has to hear attentively
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is no more a strange organization in the field of spirituality. It’s already celebrated the golden jubilee of its establishment & devotees all around the world are relishing the joy of devotion today. All credit goes to ISKCON Founder-Acharya HDG A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA. He was the first & foremost person in the history of entire India & perhaps the world too who headed to West & spread the holy names everywhere & also showed
From the beginning of time, man has yearned for the perfect home a paradise, a Shangri-la, a Walden where he could live eternally in peace and happiness. Such a place cannot be found anywhere in the material world, however, for the material world is by its very nature temporary and frustrating. To end our weary searching, we must go beyond this world of duality, beyond the boundaries of space and time, into the spiritual realm.
Vrndavana, India, is that sought-after eter
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By Kesava Krsna Dasa
Have we ever thought of sitting Krishna on a diamond throne within our hearts as we chant japa? This thought probably never occurred to us in the first place. Would anyone say we’re not allowed to do this? We have to keep focus on Nama through sound, but how will the mind be engaged while wondering?
If we are taught to focus on the sound vibration during japa, what if the mind wanders, or thinks of something Krishna conscious, or visualises Krishna conscious images? Should
By Vishakha Devi Dasi
The luxurious growth of one of Krishna’s greatest devotees, who appears in a special form, attests to the devotion of two of her dedicated caretakers.
Srila Prabhupada once quoted an atheist as saying, “What is the use of watering the Tulasi plant? It is better to water eggplant. By watering the eggplant one can get some fruits, but what is the use of watering the Tulasi?”
Rudrani Devi Dasi, one of Tulasi’s caretakers at ISKCON Vancouver, responds to this challenge.
“Tula
Srutakirti dasa, Srila Prabhupada Remembers His Youth
Sometimes Srila Prabhupada affectionately spoke about his father. When he did, it was always with great fondness.
“My father would make sure that whatever I wanted I would get,” he said.
“Even if it was in the middle of the night and I wanted puris, my father would say to my mother, ‘Make him puris if he wants puris.’ Sometimes my mother would resist, but my father would make her do it. It was like that. I don’t know. Maybe my father knew. H
Gardabharomagaṇana nyāyaḥ (counting fur of donkey)
A man, out of sheer curiosity, counts the hairs on the body of the donkey.
A man may count all the hairs on animal body, all the send grains in the beach or all the atoms in the creation, still it does not move him an inch further. Yet, this is passing as education and science. Innocent children are drilled in the school to parrot mainly grammatical rules and mathematical formulas, just to forget them as soon as they leave school premises, instead
By HH Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
When His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada frst arrived in America in the midst ol the cultural turmoil of the sixties, he quickly captured the hearts and minds of the New York hippies and the San Francisco flower children with the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra.
Within three years, he journeyed to London, and by 1971, Hare Krsna had been recorded on hit records by former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison. By then the mantra had been heard b
