The International Society For Krishna Consciousness was incorporated in July, 1966. Over a short four months the Society has expanded sufficiently to warrant larger quarters than the small Second Avenue storefront temple.
Lord Brahma, the spiritual master of Narada Muni, is the first living entity within the universe. He received all Vedic information from the Supreme Lord Krsna, who directly imparted the transcendental knowledge from within his heart.
BACK TO GODHEAD is a bi-monthly publication issued by the International Society For Krishna Consciousness. This publication is principally concerned with promulgating through the medium of essays, poems and articles the truths expounded by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita.
The a pada-yatra, or “walking festival,” is traveling a four-thousand-mile pilgrimage route, passing through all the holy places Lord Caitanya visited on His South Indian tour.
In that kingdom of perfect peace, where the knowledge of God will dissolve all evil, we won’t kill animals for food, because our food will be provided by God Himself.
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.
In 1969 I saw the devotees of Krsna on the television program Top of the Pops. Disgusted by the shaved heads of the men, I turned to my mother, “You’ll never catch me joining that bunch.”
Lord Krsna with His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani. Krsna is eternally a young boy, and Radharani, His dearmost devotee, is eternally a young girl. Their pure, spiritual love is the quintessence of all devotional exchange.
On the occasion of the appearance day of Lord Caitanya, thousands of Britishers heard the joyous vibration of Hare Krsna, the glorification of God’s holy name.
O Prabhupada, When will flowers of my devotion bloom And be worthy to place As an offering before thee?
ISKCON International in Photos
When will I have eyes to see you And to concentrate my attention on you? Your Divine Grace, our very lives Are dependent on your mercy.
Rasa Lila dance on the cover of Back to Godhead Magazine 1970
The pictures on these pages show devotees in Detroit engaged in spreading the rays of the benediction moon of the holy name by chanting Hare Krsna.
An Indian-style temple at the foot of a Manhattan skyscraper? Not for long. Aindra dasa’s van, transformed into an ornate temple, appears at different places in New York City every day.
I have become very much interested in the spiritual philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita. But my main problem is the existence of the soul: I still think that after I die there will be a complete end to all my consciousness.
A family enjoys an afternoon ride at the ISKCON farm near Dallas, where devotees are developing a fourteen-hundred acre agrarian community.
Spiritual life is blissful, but it is not whimsical. The regulative principles of bhakti-yoga (the yoga of devotional service), as defined by the spiritual master and the authorized scriptures, form the standard way for the conditioned soul to come to the purified stage of spiritual existence, and one must first reach that joyful stage of […]
This issue of Back to Godhead Magazine features ISKCON’s 1970 Boston Sankirtan Party.
Devotees seem to be antiscientific. Two articles in the July issue (“Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out” and “Science or Skullduggery?”) are critical of the theory of evolution.