Back To Godhead May 1977 PDF Download
This is the “We did not send men to the moon” edition of Back to Godhead. It also has a great photo article on a sankirtan (book distribution) party in France.
This is the “We did not send men to the moon” edition of Back to Godhead. It also has a great photo article on a sankirtan (book distribution) party in France.
We should not spoil this human form of life by acting like the hogs, then what is human life meant for? Austerity and penance. You should voluntarily accept some regulative principles, even if they are not very much to your liking.
Automation, in the form of computers is an attempt to exercise control, not only of the mechanical process itself, but of the human being who directed it, turning him from an active to a passive agent, and finally eliminating him altogether.
On an island in the Kaveri River the Lord saw the city of Sri Rangam. He also saw the beautiful temple of Ranganatha, the largest Visnu (Krsna) temple in all of India.
I’m in a peaceful little village, seventy kilometers north of Pondicherry. But while I write, trying my best to concentrate, the villagers we’re staying with have gathered in the next room—to watch the cinema, on television.
We want to introduce Srila Prabhupada as the specially empowered representative of Lord Caitanya who fulfilled His prediction that the holy name of Krsna will be preached in every town and village in the world.
Three chariots carrying Jagannatha, Balarama, and Subhadra, along with five decorated dioramas depicting the Vedic heritage of Bengal, recently journeyed through this city as part of ISKCON’s annual Ratha-yatra festival.
The fool who concocts a scheme for creating living beings from chemicals—he is given all credit, the Nobel Prize. And nature is injecting millions and millions of souls into material bodies at every moment—the arrangement of God—and no one cares. This is rascaldom.
There’s a long history to bumper stickers. It began with Stone Age cave dwellers, who sometimes painted pictures on the walls of their homes. Later on, the Egyptians invented pyramids and decorated them with hieroglyphics.
We long for permanence. Although aging is foretold by our very birth, we nevertheless fight to stave off its insidious encroach. Faced with mounting evidence that we will grow old and die, we may resort to various psychological schemes for relief.
We would sit together and eat fresh hot puris with hot milk. For me it is hard to see how Westerners enjoy dry bread when there is something as wonderful as puris.
Riding on an ox cart, deities of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda are the inspirational nucleus of one of recent history’s most ambitious walking pilgrimages.
It was the eve of Rajoman’s wedding. In anticipation he put on his finest silk turban, and robes. His father called him, “Rajoman! Please hurry! It’s getting late and we have a long journey before us!”
Someone asked Gandhi, “What do you think of Western civilization?” “I think it would be a good idea,” he said. “The real strength of India lies in her villages.”
A former civil rights worker went to war-torn Northern Ireland with an ancient peace formula. It was disarmingly simple.
Deprogramming groups have convinced police, judges, and district attorneys to bend the law. And deprogrammers have abducted not only Hare Krishna members but also Catholics and Protestants, among others.
“Do I think that my son is brainwashed? I can best answer this by asking the question, ‘Is our very society not being brainwashed daily by the advertising media (liquor and cigarette ads) and pornographic movies and literature’.”
People of all ages, especially young people, are investigating country life as a way around dependence upon oil and machinery and the health hazards of artificial fertilizers and insecticides.
Steaming hot and full of fruit, nuts, and buttery, wheaty goodness, halava will fuel you through the morning in good style. So, whether you’re going to climb the Himalayas or catch the 8:01, try going with your grain—halava.
When it comes to things cosmic, should we ask “Who”-or “What”? The Caracas Metaphysical Society interviews His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.