Better Than the Animals
As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.
Bright Day of the Soul
We stood on a rooftop in Manhattan, gazing out over the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge toward Brooklyn. I asked him, “Do you actually love Krishna?” He thought for a second. “I love pleasure,” he said finally. “To be truthful.”
The History of a Great Boy Devotee Dhruva Maharaja
Dhruva’s stepmother said, “My dear boy, you cannot sit on the lap of your father. Although you are his son, you are disqualified because you have not taken birth in my womb.”
Prayers Of King Kulasekhara
King Kulasekhara, a pure devotee of the Lord, shows us the way to offer prayers to the Lord. It is our prime duty to follow in his footsteps in order to achieve the highest devotional platform.
On the Bowery — The Biography of a Pure Devotee
Most of the Bowery’s 7,600 homeless men slept in lodging houses that required them to vacate the rooms during the day. Having nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, they would loiter on the street—standing silently on the sidewalks, leaning against walls, or shuffling slowly along.
Benediction At the University of Maryland
We are all in the womb of the Age of Kali, a historical age in which the faults of society and the individual are like a great ocean. Who has not experienced this current phenomenon? To some extent we are all implicated.
How to Eat in Bhakti-Yoga
Krishna wants us to eat only food offered first in sacrifice to Him: “The devotees of the Lord are released from all sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.”
Gajendra the Elephant — Breaking Open the Jaws of Death
Suddenly, a huge crocodile attacked the mighty elephant’s leg. Gajendra was uncommonly strong, but though he tried and tried, he could not get free. His wives felt aggrieved and began to cry.
New York City, January- February 1966 – “It Will Not Be Possible to Assist You”
I am trying to open a temple here because Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura wanted it. I think that after the temple has started, some men, even from America, may be available.
The Hare Krsna People of Canada
I couldn’t find any reason for living the way people do. Because their death is just inevitable. They’re all just going to die anyway. And it makes everything kind of useless. All these things people are so caught up in—but they could just die at any second.
Looking Toward “The Unity of Man”
You may hold unity conferences—hundreds and thousands. But the leaders will never unite, because they have no common platform. You are trying that’s nice. But it will never be successful. You can write it down in your notebook.
Developing the African Spirit
The Krishna consciousness movement can help Africa develop in an atmosphere of peaceful cooperation and harmony, beyond racial or territorial conflicts caused by lack of true spiritual understanding.
Hare Krishna Safari Africa
The Sankirtana Safari is on. Chanting and dancing to the hypnotic beats of Hare Krsna, a few American sadhus are daily seen on the main streets of Nairobi and other towns in Kenya, East Africa.
“Hearing is the beginning of understanding.”
The most potent method for self-realization in this age is to hear the transcendental sound vibration of Krsna’s name and glories from the lips of a pure devotee.
The First Initiation, Srila Prabhupada Opens the Door
Srila Prabhupada dropped a bomb no one was expecting. At the morning lecture, someone asked him about the significance of initiation, and he answered, “Initiation means you accept a spiritual master and agree to worship him as God.” There was a stunned silence.
Back to Godhead Vol 51, 1973 PDF Download
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, attracts the minds of the gopis, the goddesses of the fortune in the spiritual world, by playing His transcendental flute.
Finding Calm In a World of Calamities
During a strife-filled era in India Queen Kunti and her sons endured many hardships. Their enemies drove them out of their kingdom, tried to poison them and trapped them in a burning house Yet Krsna always saved them, and Kunti’s devotion to Him grew stronger.
The Anatomy of the Self
I remember we played for hours, taking him apart and piecing him back together. In the process we were learning about our own bodies—the heart, lungs, brain, muscles, veins, arteries, and the rest. But we never asked Which part is it that makes the body alive?
How Krsna’s Garden Grows
“A few days ago,” says Jennifer, “a woman stopped by the nursery and mentioned she’d just been to an interesting spiritual asrama in Miami. She said I ought to drive up and see for myself.
Questions People Ask About Chanting
If I chant Hare Krsna, will I be able to levitate? Why not keep the Hare Krsna mantra secret, like other mantras? If you chant a mantra in public, won’t it lose its power?