The other doctors never call him Samika Rsi dasa. Most of them don't even know he is an initiated devotee of Lord Krsna. In the hospital—St. Joseph's Hospital, Carbondale, Pennsylvania—he is Shyam Sundar Mahajan, director of the emergency ward.…
Surgery and Spirituality — Samika Rsi, M.D.
Higher Education — “What, No Television?”
The prosecution listed some of the shocking facts about the life of children in Krsna schools: they ate no meat, rose early every morning for temple services. And then came the clincher: "They don't even watch television."…
Srila Prabhupada: Guru in a Manhattan Monastery
He was maestro of the chanting, head of the kitchen, and spiritual father to a band of wild, candid young Americans.…
Krishna Consciousness: The Perfection of Yoga
In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.…
Children’s Books with a Spiritual Theme
By 1977 Bala Books (in Sanskrit bala means "child") was fully launched. The first book, Agha the Terrible Demon, had been prepared as carefully as possible to preserve the exact meaning of Srila Prabhupada's original translation of the story from the Sanskrit.…
Tasting the Nectar of Lord Krsna’s Holy Names
When Lord Krsna appears in the present age His complexion is golden, He is surrounded by various associates, and His mission is to teach people how to make their lives spiritually sublime through the sankirtana-yajna, or chanting of the holy names Hare Krsna.…
The Key To Self-Realization — Hearing from the Right Source
"Oh, why shall I hear from him? I can think. I can speculate. I can manufacture something new in my own circle of friends." This is nonsense. This is not the Vedic process. The Vedic process is hearing.…
A Life of Purity and Purpose in Australia and New Zealand
Today ISKCON in Australia and New Zealand includes four temples and three farms totaling more than 1,200 acres. It has opened four vegetarian restaurants, initiated two drug rehabilitation programs, and established the Ratha-yatra chariot festival.…
Srila Prabhupada — Taking on All Comers
Prabhupada retired through the rear door, back up to his apartment, his guests would disappear through the front door, back into the city. Don and Raphael would turn out the lights, lock the front door, and go to sleep on the floor in their blankets.…
Surgery and Spirituality — Samika Rsi, M.D.
Higher Education — “What, No Television?”
Srila Prabhupada: Guru in a Manhattan Monastery
Krishna Consciousness: The Perfection of Yoga
New York City Festival Diary — Notes from the Editor
The Chariots Roll Again
Why Krsna Comes To This World
The Rathayatra Festival’s Inspiration
Are you a good listener? — Notes from the Editor
In human society those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing.…
85.5 Million Prabhupada Books in Print (1979)
Last year the printing total surpassed the previous year's total by thirty percent, and BBT books appeared for the first time in Danish, Greek, and Kannada (a South Indian dialect).…