The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was formed in 1966 by Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who came from India on the order of his Spiritual Master to preach love of God to the people of the West.
This process is especially recommended for self-realization in this age. By performance of Samkirtan, one can achieve the perfection of human life, and the process is so simple that anyone can take it up without qualification.
In this Age of Kali spiritual life is difficult. Handicapped by short life span, poor memory, and political turmoil, few if any can take up the path of self-realization by means of meditative yoga, temple worship or study of the Vedas.
Back to Godhead Magazine Volume 28 1969
ISKCON London 1969 in Photos. Kirtans at Albert Hall, St. Pancras Hall, Oxford, the “Middle Earth Round House” and the “Art Lab”, Interview with the BBC.
After five years of patient effort and a heroic last-minute marathon, the devotees of the ISKCON center in Vancouver have completed building an ornate Vedic-style temple for their worshipable Deities, Sri Sri Radha-Madana-mohana.
The 170 million motor vehicles registered in the United States pump 80 million tons of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrocarbons into the air annually.
In “The Vedic Observer” section of your October issue you say that since everything belongs to the Supreme Person, we’re thieves if we claim anything belongs to us. Does that mean that the house I’ve lived in for the past twenty-five years isn’t mine?
India’s chariot festival, Ratha-yatra, now appears annually in major cities on five continents. The Ratha-yatra parade features three enormous chariots carrying the deities of Lord Jagannatha.
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Goswamis, named Sanatan Goswami, Rupa Goswami, Raghunath Bhatta Goswami, Raghunath Das Goswami, Jiva Goswami and Gopal Bhatta Goswami, who are always engaged in chanting the Holy Name of Krishna and dancing.
TEACHINGS OF LORD CHAITANYA begins with the Lord’s instructions to Rupa Goswami. “The science of devotional service is just like a great ocean and it is not possible to show you all the length and breadth. I shall explain about the nature of the ocean by taking a drop of it.”
“I found out what being famous was like. It’s a drag responsibility. I spent a long time looking; meditation in India and all that. It was all okay, you know, but it wasn’t the answer. And then I met Yoko, and we worked our sort of thing out between us, fell in love and that.” John Lennon.
John Favors, alias Toshombe Abdul, had become Bhaktitirtha Swami of the Hare Krishna movement. He had set aside the politics of the revolution and adopted the life of a monk.
At the Vatican recently, Pope John Paul II received from Kirtiraja dasa Polish editions of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is and Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Said the pontiff: “Thank you very much. They’re very beautiful.”
Five centuries ago, while spreading the maha-mantra throughout the Indian subcontinent, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu prayed, “O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name You have invested all Your transcendental energies.
Do I have to be initiated and live at a temple in order to become a pure devotee, in order to see Krsna face to face and become His eternal servant? Or do I just keep chanting?
I was advised to have my daughter deprogrammed. I read up on deprogramming and its ramifications. I also felt my daughter had and has freedom of choice, freedom of religious beliefs. I decided to do nothing. My philosophy is “live and let live.”
As a child in Vrndavana, India, Krsna used to steal freshly churned butter from pots stored in His neighbors’ houses. During the month of Karttika Krsna’s devotees especially like to remember these naughty child hood pastimes.
Long, long ago there once lived brahmin devotee of Lord Krishna. One day a mercantile man came to the brahmin’s house and said, “My dear brahmin, will you marry my daughter? She is very pretty and so nice. Please marry her.”
DROP OUT of movements employing artificially induced states of self-realization and expanded consciousness. Such methods only lead to spiritual laziness and chaos. End all bringdowns, flip out and stay for eternity.