Äkāśamuṣṭihanana nyāyaḥ (striking sky with fist)
A man was threatening to strike the sky with his fist, because he was angry at it. But sky remained calm and silent as always, leaving the angry man bellow.
Atheists are proud of their meager powers, which are tiny compared with the vastness of thy sky, power of the nature, not to say the might of the Supreme Lord, under whose order the material nature works. Their performance of arrogance and intimidation result in anger, all that shorten their l
By Chaitanya Charan Das
Suppose we accidentally take a drink that acts like poison for us in our particular health condition. As soon as we realize what we are doing, we will immediately stop drinking it and take some antidote.
When we gain spiritual knowledge, we understand that sensual indulgence acts like poison, even if it tastes initially like nectar (Bhagavad-gita 18.38). Despite understanding this, we still succumb to sensuality because our conditions or conditionings highlight the initi
In Mechanistic and Nonmechanistic Science (1981) (MNMS), Richard L. Thompson presents a nonmechanistic theory of consciousness drawn from the Bhagavad-gita, a summary of Indian’s ancient wisdom.
He reveals his motivation:
It [science] tells us that the individual person is nothing more than a machine composed of material elements. This machine has come into being only because it and the other machines in its ancestral line happened to be effective at self-duplication in their particular environ
While devotees are often focused on caring for their spiritual health, our bodies are temples that we use to serve Krishna, and must not be neglected – especially as more ISKCON members become advanced in age.
“It is important to keep the body fit and healthy so that we will not meet the obstacle of ill health while serving Krishna,” Srila Prabhupada wrote in a letter dated June 19th, 1975. “Ill health may hinder one’s service, so, we want to avoid it as much as possible
SRI KRISHNAR PERUMAL , OUR SOLE COSMIC HEAD OF THE ALL THE WORLDS
(Perumal in Tamil means Parmaatman/Brahman, the sole creator Lord Sriman Narayana
AT THE VERY OUTSET, COUNTLESS PROSTRATION TO OUR MOST BELOVED SRI NANDA GOPA APPA, SRI YASHODA AMMA AND OUR MOST BELOVED REVERENTIAL AZHWAR SRI VISHNUCHITTAR ( SRI PERIA AZHWAR), OUR MOST LOVING SRI ANDAL AMMAS FATHER , WHOM NONE IN THE ENTIRE COSMOS CAN COMPETE IN VAATSALYAM BHAVAM (SUPERLATIVE MATCHLESS MOTHERLY LOVE)
On the very auspicious occ
WELCOME TO SRI KSHETRA PARIKRAMA
PURI DHAMA
14-17TH NOVEMBER 2019
On behalf of ISKCON Mayapur, we would like to welcome you to celebrate our 15th anniversary of Sri Kshetra Parikrama. This parikrama dates back to the time of Vidyapati, who was one of Lord Jagannatha’s most intimate worshippers, serving under the great King Indradyumna. Following the footsteps of our previous Acharyas, ISKCON Mayapur has been organizing this parikrama for the last 14 years. Honoring this tradition ISKCON Mayapur
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is celebrating an annual Mega Youth Fest ‘UDGAAR – An Expression of Goodness and Joy’, on October 6th at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. The theme for this year’s festival is ‘Anti-Addiction: Making India Addiction Free’. With this, ISKCON hopes to inspire youngsters to realize their true potential in a clean, green and progressive India. The annual festival will bring in a mix of academics, dignitaries and over 8000 young
Asnehadīpana nyāyaḥ (lamp without an oil)
A gorgeous golden lamp was purchased by a self-complacent poser. He spent all his money for that just to show off, so much so that he had no money left to buy an oil to light a flame in it.
The only reason for everyone here to be, here means in this world of temporarity, is to show one's own great self esteem in whatever way possible. For this reason this simple example of expensive lamp is used. The essence, what makes the lamp to be called a lamp, is o
By Madhava Smullen
Govardhan Ecovillage, ISKCON’s 100 acre farm in the foothills of the Sahyadri mountain range in Maharashtra, has won the 2019 National Energy Globe Award for India.
The Energy Globe Award was founded in 1999 by Austrian energy pioneer Wolfgang Neumann, and is one of today’s most prestigious environmental awards. Its goal is to present successful sustainable projects to a broad audience, to show that many of our environmental problems already have feasible solutions.
Every
Srila Prabhupada: The bhaktivedantas are impartial in distributing the transcendental knowledge of devotional service. To them no one is enemy or friend; no one is educated or uneducated. No one is especially favorable, and no one is unfavorable. The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish their lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead. By such endeavor, even the most
Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.17 at a home program in Highland Park, Dallas.
“A moment passed in the association of a pure devotee by hearing and chanting the transcendental messages of the Lord is a perfect guarantee for eternal life, for returning home, back to Godhead. Mad-dhama gatva punar janma na vidyate. In other words, a devotee of the Lord is guaranteed eternal life. A devotee’s old age or disease in the present life is but an impetus to such guaranteed eterna
