On July 27th, 1969 in San Francisco the most powerful spiritual celebration the bay area has ever known, the Rathayatra Festival, took place. Words cannot describe the nectarean beauty of the holy day glorifying the Jagannath Deities.
Today is the Jagannath Car Festival. There is great excitement in the San Francisco temple. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, affectionately known as Prabhupada, had given a lecture the night before, and the chants had been sung with much enthusiasm.
Prabhupada emerged from a car which had cautiously nuzzled its way through the crowds up to the side of the great ratha car. Purple velvet steps were lowered onto the street by the devotees, and the Golden Guru rose up onto the ratha’s opulent throne, just below the Deities.
1969 San Francisco Rathayatra Festival
Children and grandmothers with tilok all wanting to pull the rope that will send dancing the grand Lord of the Universe. Then the conch is sounded and with the transcendental broom sweeping away the material dust, we dance towards Trafalgar Square.
You have been reading my paper ‘Back to Godhead’ for some time and certainly you might have formed some opinion about it. Some of my learned readers have already sent their valuable suggestions and opinions about it and I shall be glad to receive your opinion.
The Cosmos is a dream but it is the Almighty’s dream; and hence it is wonderfully perfect, mysterious, systematic and variegated in its Creation, Continuation, Catastrophes and Collapses also.
Each and every letter of the Vedanta Philosophy is a symbolic representation of transcendental sound represented by the symbol of ‘Omkar’ and as such Vedanta Philosophy has to be learnt from one authority like Shri Krishna, the Godhead.
Sri Krishna The Supreme Vedantist
This is a book written in Hindi as the autobiography of Shri Nagarji. The most interesting part of the book is that one can enjoy in it the pleasure of reading a fiction or novel by reading this autobiography of a successful householder in fact.
Every living being is ambitious to have the topmost level of enjoyment in the material world and yet he is always unhappy here. This unhappiness is present in all the above mentioned planets in spite of long life and standard of comfort.
Persons who seek happiness in the chain of hope against hope by sense gratification try to accumulate wealth by unlawful means. Everything is accumulated unlawfully because everything that we have all belongs to the Supreme Lord.
Hope Against Hope
Atheists sometimes claim that the advancement of science disproves the existence of God. According to this theory, the people of ancient times, being unable to understand or control natural phenomena, ascribed the mysterious workings of nature to the supernatural, or God.
In February 1944 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada published the first issue of BACK TO GODHEAD magazine. At his home in Calcutta, he wrote the articles, typed the manuscripts, and designed the logo.
Now the Vatican, through its Pontifical Academy of Science, is actively soliciting advice from hundreds of the world’s leading scientific brains
For a growing number of people on both sides of the Atlantic, the nuclear arms buildup is the issue of the eighties. Events just won’t let us forget our seemingly inexorable march toward Armageddon.
Miami—The ISKCON Food for Life program is in full swing here and in other cities across the United States and abroad.
Modern scientists say there is no brain behind the creation. How foolish they are. If we see a painting, we would not say, “There is no brain behind this artistic work. It is so wonderfully painted, yet it has been created automatically. There is no artist.”
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.