Krsna’s Garlands Grace Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II bows slightly to receive a garland worn earlier by the Krsna Deity at London’s ISKCON center. Making the presentation is eight ·year-old Bhaktimati dasi.
A New Hare Krishna Farm in the Rockies
Hare Krsna devotees from Denver started ISKCON’s fifteenth farm community, a 340-acre spread atop Sunshine Mesa and overlooking the Peonia-Hotchkiss fruit valley, on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies.
A Manifesto of Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a movement aiming at the spiritual reorientation of mankind through the simple process of chanting the holy names of God.
Build Your Nations on the Spiritual Platform
The sage does not make any distinction on the basis of color, intelligence or species. He sees every living entity as a small particle of spirit soul.
Letters
It is so unfortunate that in most parts of India we know very little about Lord Caitanya. All I knew was that He was a very great devotee; I knew very little about His pastimes and sankirtana movement.
International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World
AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 9714 Dallum/ (512) 837-0085 Bloomington Indiana 1130 W. 6th St., Bloomington 47401 Boston Massachusetts 40 N. Beacon St./ (617) 254-7910 Buffalo New York 132 Bidwell Pkwy./ (716) 882-0281 Chicago Illinois 1014 Emerson, […]
London Soho Street Hare Krishna Temple
In London on Soho Street just off Oxford Street, English devotees of Lord Krsna have opened a new cultural center that includes a temple, a theater, and a vegetarian restaurant.
How to Get Free of False Ego
The original consciousness of the self cannot be awakened as long as it is contaminated by material affection. The soul in his pure state does not want anything material.
Notes from the Editor
“Did Shakespeare Know the Lord?” Joseph Gallagher, a liberal clergyman serving in Baltimore, is the author of Diary of a City Priest. In his chronicle for 1979 he noted, “One morning I preached on some of the secrets life had taught me about itself.” But after his sermon a young girl approached him and said […]
Letters
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The Vedic Observer
Transcendental Commentary on the Issues of the Day Relief Short-Lived by Dvarakadisa-devi dasi Nancy Wexler is a forty-one-year old neuropsychologist who, having witnessed her mother’s agonizing battle with fatal Huntington’s disease, now faces a fifty percent chance of dying in the same wretched way. She is also one of the developers of a test for […]
Every Town and Village
A look at the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Bolivia’s President Receives Books Bolivia’s president, Dr. Victor Paz Eastenssoro, received some of Srila Prabhupada’s books when he visited a Krsna consciousness booth at a fair held in Santa Cruz recently. The president’s acceptance of the books was an ecouraging sign […]
How Much Are You Worth? — The Vedic Observer
If we analyze our bodies we’ll find nothing more than a barrelful of water and five or six dollars’ worth of chemicals. Yet if we meditate on our selves—who we really are—we intuitively know that each of us is something more.
Letters
I am very confused about the pronunciation of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. If you could properly instruct me on the correct pronunciation, I would very much appreciate that.
ISKCON Free Clinic
The Minister for Health and Family Welfare in Maharashtra state, presided at the inaugural ceremonies for ISKCONs new free clinic and dispensary, the Bhaktivedanta Institute.
Toward Appropriate Living In the Vedic Tradition
Prabhupada wanted to start farm projects. For many years the devotees had been trying to get people to accept Krishna consciousness as it appears in books like Bhagavad-gita. “But, if the people are in chaos, how will they be able to accept this great philosophy?”
“You don’t know the first thing . . .”
A state government that poses itself as a democracy but whose actual policy is to persecute and harass religious communities—such as ours—can hardly be civilized, cultured, or lawful. Such a society is barbaric and animalistic.
Hare Krishna Food Relief in Kenya
ISKCON Food Relief workers are providing meals for thousands. The food is called prasada, “the Lord’s mercy,” since it is offered to Lord Krsna. A team of volunteers works adjacent to the ISKCON center and each evening people come for steaming bowls of a Kenyan staple.
Knowledge is the Solution
Knowledge is the solution. And for knowledge we have to go to the right person, the one who has actually seen or experienced the Absolute Truth. Unless we find such a person there is very little chance for our making spiritual advancement.
Education in ISKCON: The Blossoming of Spiritual Awareness
“These Krsna conscious children are all wide-eyed and alert, and they concentrate on their studies. Most public school kids are busy dressing up to attract the opposite sex, passing notes, and smoking marijuana.”