Question on Karma — Letters
If it is your karma to be Krishnas, then why bother to go out and try to convert people to your way of life? Why not let them just live…
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.…
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.…
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…
New Vrindavan — Parts & Parcels
New Hare Krishna centers are constantly being opened in order to fulfill Lord Chaitanya's prophecy that Hare Krishna will someday be sung in every village and town throughout the world.…
The Vancouver Show Hosts Hare Krsna Guru
I travel around the world preaching the message of Bhagavad-gita. I encourage people to take advantage of the human form of life and achieve liberation from the cycle of repeated…
Krishna Consciousness in Canada
As in all Hare Krsna temples, the devotees in Canada begin the day at 4:30 in the morning with a formal arati ceremony. Accompanying themselves on drums and hand cymbals,…
Devotees are “Too Good”? — Letters
I think the Hare Krsnas (along with the members of most other religions) are in danger of falling into the "virtue trap." How "good" should a person be? …
A New FATE in Detroit
The First American Transcendental Experience (FATE), an elaborate multimedia diorama museum, includes six beautifully detailed dioramas illustrating pastimes of Krsna taken from the Srimad-Bhagavatam.…
On Jesus Christ — Letters
In the October issue of BTG, the "Yoga Dictionary" made a careless definition of Christ. It was stated, "The Bible speaks of Jesus Christ as the son of God, and…
“THE BOOK” — Book Review
THE BOOK purports to be a reinterpretation of Vedanta, one of the ancient Scriptures of India. This is necessarily like re-writing The Bible, and it wouldn't be possible not to…
The Meaning of the Mantra – Letters
Arthur Avalon [a writer on yoga] places as: Ram the mantra of the Manipura cakra (around the navel) and Ha . . . Ksa . . . for the petals…
Hare Krsna Leaders Meet India’s President
Recently the president of India, His Excellency Sri Giani Zail Singh, cordially received three leaders of the Hare Krsna movement. They gave President Singh a set of Srila Prabhupada's books.…
BTG: You Won’t See it on the Streets Anymore…
The big change is that no longer will we be a magazine you see now and then or pick up when you meet a devotee on the street. At least…
West Gets First Lord Nrsimhadeva Deity
Now, for the first time outside India, a Deity of Lord Nrsimhadeva has been formally installed in a temple—the temple at Nava-Jiyada-Nrsimha-Ksetra, the Hare Krsna farm deep in the Bavarian…
On Rabbi Kushner’s book again… – Letters
After reading Ravindra-svarupa dasa's article on Rabbi Kushner's book Why Bad Things Happen to Good People, one really begins to wonder how someone who's supposed to have some religious responsibility…
Caribbean Journal — Notes From The Editor
Sesa dasa, my traveling companion, says that in this pleasant tropical clime people don't watch the problems of world politics so closely. They tend to drift mildly in this climate,…
Articles about Black Devotees? — Letters
I would like to know why you never seem to write articles on Krsna consciousness in the black community? I've seen so many talented black devotees. I feel you owe…
Krishna-Balaram Temple in Vrindavan
Apart from the hundreds of European and American devotees who come to visit Krsna-Balarama tourists constantly fill the guesthouse and vegetarian restaurant, which are considered Vrndavana's finest. …
SIDDHARTHA, a novel by Hermann Hesse — Book Review
SIDDHARTHA could only have been written by a European scholar, and even though the setting is India, however every line and page seems to crackle with European Heaven, European Hell,…
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