Prasadam: Cooking for God!
Cooking for God? How absurd that sounds to the sophisticates of this modern age! How anthropomorphic! But why not? Why not cook transcendentally?
London Airport Press Conference
I am trying to teach what you have forgot. That is God. Some of you are saying there is no God. Some of you are saying God is dead, and some of you are saying God is impersonal or void. These are all nonsense. I want to teach that there is God. That is my mission.
Back to Godhead Vol 32, 1970 PDF Download
On the cover is Caitanya Mahaprabhu leading a sankirtana chanting party through the streets of Puri in India, 480 years ago. The five-thousand-year-old Vedic scriptures foretell the appearance of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Standard Moraily
The first principle is this that one should be completely aloof from all womanly connection save and except his own married wife. In that sense child marriage is most convenient form of morality and there are many examples in the noble life.
Are Truth and Beauty Compatible?
Truth and Beauty are compatible terms. It is rather emphatically asserted that truth which is Absolute is always beautiful. The Truth is so beautiful that it attracts everyone including the Truth itself.
Back to Godhead Vol 03 Part 14, 1958 PDF Download
Truth and Beauty
The Need of Prayers
Peace is possible only when we actually pray to God knowing our relation with Him. Everything that be is an emanation from the Supreme Lord is the version of the Vedas, the most authentic sources of transcendental knowledge.
Anomalies of “Geeta Press” Gorakhpur
Unless one has undergone the spiritual training in the disciplic succession, it is not possible to comment on “Bhagwat Geeta” or any other revealed scripture. Simple academic knowledge is useless for this purpose.
The Need of the Time
The fortnightly periodical BACK TO GODHEAD is the need of the time as the panacea for all sorts of material diseases in their various forms.
Definition of Vice & Its Scope
So far vice is concerned it is a foreign acquisition to the living being when he is in contact with the three qualitative nature called by the names of goodness, passion and ignorance
Back to Godhead Vol 03 Part 12, 1956 PDF Download
Definition of Vice and Its Scope
Universal Citizens Forum
One religion means one God and one scripture namely the Bhagwat Geeta. One God means the All Attractive Personality of Godhead Krishna in His Absolute form.
Scholars Deluded (Dr. Radhakrishnan)
“It is not the personal Krishna to whom we have to give ourselves up utterly but the unborn, beginningless, eternal who speaks through (Krishna).”
Obstacles in the Devotional Path
If the living being does not come in contact with a pure devotee of the Lord he cannot get the seed of spiritual activity. Good consciousness for charity and austerity, without good association, is misused for the purposes which are detrimental to his spiritual interest.
Prayers of King Kulashekhara
A devotee of Godhead is he who glorifies the Personality of Godhead by transcendental ecstasy. This ecstasy is a byproduct of profound love for the Supreme Lord which is also attained by the same process of glorification.
Back to Godhead Vol 03 Part 13, 1958 PDF Download
Prayers of King Kulashekhara
“First We Must Understand What God Is…”
I meditate upon Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him.
Election Year: What Are the Choices?
The year of a United States presidential election always brings intense campaigning and debating, out of which we are supposed to choose our favorite candidate. But for many of us, election time also raises the question of whether a real choice exists.
CHANT Hare Krishna!
These sixteen words—Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—are especially meant for counteracting the ill effects of the present age of quarrel and anxiety.
For the Young at Heart
Haridasa leads his charges (armed with cymbals and drums) out into the bright sunshine of sankirtana—the dynamic praise of the holy names of God.
Haridasa leads the boys on one of their regular sankirtana outings to the covered bridge Haridasa leads the boys on one of their regular sankirtana outings to the covered bridge The drums resound and the cymbals play in time