Two recent court decisions confirming ISKCON’s right to conduct its public programs have increased the scope of the Society’s activities.The judge declared that the thirty devotees going to the fair would not inhibit the flow of the 1.5 million visitors expected.
ISKCON has established fourteen successful farming communities. ISKCON’s farms flourish and grow, proving that the Krishna consciousness movement is providing not only potent spiritual knowledge, but a viable alternative lifestyle as well.
Everything should be done on the basis of love. Strictness is not very good. The students should act automatically, out of love. That is wanted. Superficially, strictness may be necessary—if they don’t follow they’ll be reprimanded. But they should develop the idea of love.
Gurukul students will be the best educated children in society. Not only will they have knowledge of math and English and history, but they’ll also know their relationship with God. They won’t need material things to keep them happy. They’ll be very strong.
Why are women designated as inferior? If she wishes, a woman can be an author, a scientist, or a theologian. I fail to see how this kind of discrimination can occur in a text of such high, holy wisdom. Can you explain it to me?
People chant Hare Krishna for lots of reasons. Some people are just curious. Some want material benefits, or relief from anxiety. But the best reason to chant Hare Krishna is to get to know Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Today’s wars are brought about by the political desires of the leaders. An ordinary leader cannot kill and claim he has God’s sanction. However, in the Gita Krishna is personally instructing Arjuna to kill.
The following eight principles are the basis of the Krishna consciousness movement. We invite all our readers to consider them with an open mind and then visit one of the ISKCON centers to see how they are being applied in everyday life.
The Bhagavad-gita speaks of reincarnation. Why can’t we remember our past lives?The Bhagavad-gita speaks of reincarnation. Why can’t we remember our past lives? We forget our past lives in the same way that a person with amnesia forgets his past.
Every day each family puts their supply of milk into one big pot with a fire under it and takes out as much as they need for drinking and cooking that day. At night, whatever milk is left is converted into yogurt,
The BBT is proud to announce the completion of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. This classic presents the life and teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who initiated the Hare Krishna movement 500 years ago.
Some hesitate to join the Ratha-yatra parade, remembering God commands, “Thou shalt not worship a graven image.” What about this? Are the Hare Krishna people really idol worshipers?
Over the past nine years Prabhupada has established ISKCON centers in over seventy major cities. His message is clear: Chant Hare Krishna, and your life will be sublime.
Duties [dharma] executed by men, regardless of occupation, are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction for the message of the Supreme Lord.
Many of the spiritual seekers who come to Denver don’t really know what they’re looking for. They may sense that material happiness isn’t enough for them, and they may be looking for spiritual life, but they have only a vague idea of what that spiritual life might be.
Literature Distribution More Than Doubles In One Year, Srila Prabhupada’s World Tour
A few blocks from the house of Mexico’s president lies the Mexico City Hare Krishna Temple, one of the many centers of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness that have appeared in Latin America in recent years.
In New York the airlines advertise, “Enjoy peaceful Puerto Rico.” And in Puerto Rico they say, “Find satisfaction in New York.” But, really, going from one place to another in this material world won’t help us find the peace we want.
In New Vrindavan, the devotees find that by following the Lord’s example of living with what the land and cows provide, they can easily be free of all economic problems.
The human body is an opportunity to become free from repeated birth and death. The soul is eternal and by nature full of bliss and knowledge but the material body gives rise to distress.