Keeping Krsna’s Honey Bees
If for some reason the hive becomes queenless, all the bees become anxious and will do little or no work. In the queen’s presence, however, the bees work feverishly and almost never turn their back to her.
Srila Prabhupada: “Your Ever Well-Wisher”
ISKCON Cinema has just released a documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada. Titled Your Ever Well-Wisher, the film traces Srila Prabhupada’s life from his birth in Calcutta in 1896 to his passing away in Vrndavana in 1977.
Building Africa’s Largest Temple
With the generous financial help of South Africa’s Indian community, Hare Krsna devotees are building the largest temple of Lord Krsna on the African continent.
On Christians, Communists, and Cow-Killers
The Christians say, “We can commit all kinds of sin, but Christ will take our sins on himself. He has taken a contract.” Do they not say something like that?
Reincarnation: Do We Live More Than Once?
Sukla was one of those rare children whose testimony and behavior give evidence for the theory that your personality survives the death of your body and travels on to live in another body. This is the theory of reincarnation.
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.
Nuclear Bombs: The Dangers Of Rabbit Consciousness
A huge cross section of the earth’s population, both in nuclearly armed and conventionally armed nations, now feel shock and outrage at the current overmilitarized condition of the world. Why did we ignore this nuclear insanity for so long?
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The Kingdom of God is an ocean of love that Krsna and His devotees sport in. We can also enter that kingdom and experience that love, if we learn to serve Krsna in pure devotion.
“Thou Shalt Not Kill” — Meat Eating is Bad
Meat-eating is bad for many reasons. For health reasons: “The inherent cholesterol, toxins, uric acid, high bacteria count, general indigestibility, and lack of fiber in the flesh of an animal whose life was aborted in turn shortens the life of the carnivore”
Are Devotees of Krsna “Holier-Than-Thou”?
“The Hare Krsnas have a holier-than-thou attitude,” some people say. And whenever I hear that kind of talk, I start to reflect on why someone would think that.
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, focuses upon the most important of these words.
The Philosophy of Dr. Frog
There was once a community of frogs living in a well. They knew nothing of the outside world. Then one day a young frog leapt out of the well. He came to the beach and saw the ocean, he was astonished and he rushed back to the well to report his discovery.
Pure Love Through Transcendental Sound
One can extricate himself from the bonds of material life by hearing and chanting transcendental sounds. The common, unenlightened person is in a sleeplike state, oblivious of his real nature as a spiritual being and of his relationship to the Supreme Being.
The Logic of the Absolute
People often ask us, “Can you prove the existence of God?” Proof indicates a conclusive demonstration that establishes the validity of an assertion, in this case the assertion that God exists.
Govinda’s Restaurant Opens in Tirupati
In Tirupati, along the seven-mile-long mountain path to the temple of Lord Venkatesvara (a form of Lord Krsna), pilgrims stop for rest and refreshment at the newly opened Govinda’s Restaurant.
Making A Home Altar For Lord Krsna
One important step in the process of becoming God conscious is to make your home God’s home. Instead of going to visit Him only once a week, invite Him into your home through the process of a home altar.
Supporting Science — Letters
Prabhupada argues science is not scientific because it is upheld by belief rather than fact. The justification he cites is that science cannot prove that life originates from chemicals. Yet in 1953 Stanley Miller synthesized amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins and hence life.
Now His Art Has Meaning
Now Bhaktisiddhanta dasa has no time for the meaningless art of the commercialized West. From his headquarters in Mayapur, he oversees teams of sculptors, painters, and craftsmen as they erect a 160-foot-high memorial to Srila Prabhupada.
The Self And Its Bodies
As a sleeping person acts according to the body manifested in his and accepts it to be himself, so one identifies with his present body, which he acquired because of his past religious or irreligious actions, and is unable to know his past or future lives.
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Five thousand years ago, on the sacred Kuruksetra plain in northern India. Arjuna leads his army into battle against the Kurus. Lord Krsna has taken up the reins of His devotee’s chariot , and together the invincible pair are determined to restore just rule to the world.