Back to Godhead Vol 31, 1969 PDF Download
Special 1969 issue of ISKCON’s Back to Godhead Magazine featuring photographs of ISKCON centers in North America.
The Magic of a Real Guru
The foremost qualification of a guru is not that the guru establish his superiority (whether by magic tricks or whatever) but that he establish the superiority of God and be able to arouse the dormant love for God in the hearts of others.
Why God Descends
“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I manifest Myself.”
A Krsna Conscious Response to Terrorism
A Krsna conscious analysis of terrorism shows sectarianism to be the common denominator of the widely varied terrorist groups. Ignorant sectarianism, churned into hate by people already accustomed to violence, produces terrorism.
What is a Temple?
By taking advantage of spiritual association, by hearing transcendental philosophy, and by worshiping the Deity in the temple, an ordinary person is more likely to remember the Lord’s all-pervasiveness in day-to-day life.
Lotus-Flower Float Dazzles Cotton Bowl Crowd
The new year began here on an ecstatic note at the twenty-seventh annual Cotton Bowl Festival and Parade as a crowd of one hundred thousand and a national television audience of millions viewed the award-winning float built by “the Texas Hare Krishnas.”
Working Like Pigs
Pigs are also working day and night. Then what is the difference between the pig and me, if I am also working hard like the pig?
Scarcity In The Land Of Surplus
The United States has enough surplus wheat to provide more than two tons of cereal and baked goods for every American family and enough surplus cheese, butter, and powdered milk to put forty pounds of dairy products in every kitchen in the country.
Lord Caitanya and the Renaissance of Devotion
While Europe, as if weary of its medieval concepts of God, turned with new interest toward man and the mundane, a spiritual revolution in India—destined to spread worldwide—was revealing the dynamic nature of the Absolute Truth.
CHANT Hare Krishna!
In Sanskrit, man means “mind” and tra means “freeing.” So a mantra is a combination of transcendental, spiritual sounds that frees our minds from the anxieties of life in the material world.
Not Practicing What You Preach — Letters
Hare Krishna’s not practicing what you preach. You print magazines, use building materials for temples all over the world, use cars, trucks and other means of transportation to spread your gospel.
Animal Forum
Can an elephant feel sorrow? Do butterflies have worries or aspirations? Can you embarrass a squirrel, or a tiger, or a whale? What do animals think about?
Back To Godhead April 1984 PDF Download
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is also known as Syamasundara, “the dark, beautiful boy”. Whenever He plays His flute in His transcendental abode, Vrndavana, all the residents become enchanted by the sound .
Almost Instant Vegetarian Recipies
We’re featuring dishes that are quick and easy. Puffed rice is a light meal. Not exactly “instant,” but almost.When it comes to food, we want it effortlessly and fast.
“PURUSHOTTAM” THE GODHEAD (Rational Theism)
The Absolute Truth in His Supreme Feature is ‘Purushottam’ or the Personality of Godhead. Impersonal ‘Brahma’ and localised super-soul ‘Paramatma’ features are His hazy and partial realisation, although ‘Brahma,’ ‘Paramatma’ and ‘Bhagwan’ are one and the same Absolute Truth.
Back to Godhead — An Essential Service
“Back to Godhead” is published fortnightly to enlighten leaders, religionists, philosophers and people in general on Rational Theism. It is not blind religious fanaticism but it is scientific approach to the matter of our eternal necessity.
Back to Godhead Vol 03 Part 11, 1956 PDF Download
Back to Godhead — An Essential Service
Holy Rathayatra San Francisco 1969
Suddenly a frenzied storm of 10,000 young chanters startled San Francisco. A sea of people poured around the corner of Haight and Ashbury Streets in the dazzling noonday sun, completely surrounding the thirty-five foot high, brilliantly decorated Rathayatra car.
Srila Prabhupada’s Rathayatra Lecture
My dear boys and girls, I thank you very much for joining us on this Rathayatra Ceremony. I am going to sing an Indian song and then I will explain it. Even if you don’t understand the language of the song, still, if you kindly hear patiently, the sound vibration will act.
Lord Jagannath is Krishna Himself
Lord Jagannath is especially liberal and accessible to the aspirant devotee of Godhead. As for the history of the Appearance of the merciful Lord Jagannath, our spiritual master, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, has often told the incident.