Back To Godhead January 1982 PDF Download
On the Hare Krsna farm in central Pennsylvania’s fertile Juniata county, Bhurijana dasa. headmaster of the gurukula school there. integrates practical farm experience into the educational curriculum.
The “Krsna” Books: Antidote for Suffering
Srila Prabhupada’s Krsna books directly tell us what God is like in His original, personal form and what He and His liberated associates are doing in the eternal, spiritual world.
Close Encounter with Another Kind
The emu, like all animals, must follow the ways of his species according to the dictates of nature. For him no question arises of what to do with his life; his purposes are fixed and invariant. But the human is set apart from the animals; he is developed in consciousness.
Ghee: The Golden Essence of Milk
Milk, the miracle food, yields cheese, cream, yogurt, butter, and ghee. The essence of milk and the consummate cooking medium, ghee imparts such a refined, irresistible flavor that it’s earned the label “liquid gold” from those experienced in preparing Krsna’s cuisine.
Pain: The Truth Doesn’t Hurt
Devotees of Krsna recognize pain as a symptom of embodied life, nature’s way of signaling us that since we are eternal beings our presence in a fragile material body is a mistake and that the material body, no matter how well pampered or coddled, is simply a bad bargain.
The Yoga Dictionary
The Sanskrit language is rich in words to communicate ideas about spiritual life, yoga, and God realization. This dictionary, appearing by installments in BACK TO GODHEAD, will focus upon the most important of these words.
Letters on Back to Godhead Magazine
Your staff should be very proud of your achievements on this magazine. I salute you all for creating something worthwhile to read in this time of violence and madness. I also salute you for carrying on the work that Lord Chaitanya started centuries ago!
Prabhupada’s Palace: “It Sure Beats the White House!”
Senator Byrd inquired about the religious background of the New Vrindaban Community, where the Palace is located, and took with him a copy of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Dr. Patel: “My Life’s Most Precious Moments”
At our first meeting I started arguing with him, sometimes foolishly, sometimes methodically and logically. The first epithet I received from him was “You are a mudha, a big fool.”
Is Something Wrong in the Right-to-Life Movement?
Distinguished medical researchers have argued that real and unique human life begins at the moment of conception, when the male sperm and the female ovum unite, because at that point the ovum contains the forty-six chromosomes necessary to guide human development.
Srila Prabhupada Meets His Guru
Srila Prabhupada (then known as Abhay Charan De) was skeptical: he had seen too many “holymen” at his father’s house—professional beggars, ganja smokers, and the like. But this person was different . . .
The You That Doesn’t Change
From your childhood body to your boyhood body to your youthful body, your consciousness continues. Similarly, your consciousness will carry you into another body, and that transmigration from one body to another is called death.
Back To Godhead February-March 1982 PDF Download
His lotus-petal eyes full of love and compassion, Lord Krsna invites us to join in His pleasure pastimes in the spiritual world, Goloka Vrndavana. Playing as a cowherd boy bedecked with peacock feather, turban, and jeweled ornaments, He enchants all with His melodious flute-songs.
Sailing in the Hawaiian Islands Back to Godhead
Why did ISKCON need a boat? “The founders of this movement wanted to distribute love of God to every town and village,” Narahari said. “In other areas our members go by foot, car, train, and in India by bullock cart. But in the Hawaiian Islands the most practical way is by boat.
NASA’s Space Shuttle — A Small Step for Mankind
The most advanced spacecraft ever built, the orbiter Columbia, rose from the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last April 12 and propelled the United States back into the space race.
All Problems Can Be Solved by Krsna Consciousness –Notes from the Editor
The Krsna conscious way of life, aside from solving its followers basic social and personal problems, also overcomes the greatest problem of all—the problem of repeated birth and death.
The Yoga Dictionary
The Sanskrit language is rich in words to communicate ideas about spiritual life, yoga, and God realization. This dictionary, appearing by installments in back to godhead, will focus upon the most important of these words.
Abortion and the Language of Unconsciousness
“Political language,” wrote Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” But neither Orwell’s essay nor the popularization of his lesson in Holocaust seems to have deterred people from using political language.
Govinda’s Restaurant in Tehran
Through months of political turmoil, the devotees continued their distribution of sanctified food ‘prasadam’ and their work of propagating love of God according to the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita.
The Vision to See Life in Stone — Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
There is life—the supreme life—but you have no eyes to see it. Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena. A devotee—he can see that the Deity is alive. Are we fools, rascals, that we are worshiping a dead body?