Devotees outside the St. Louis center of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. 1976.…
Find out more about Krishna consciousness in this issue of BACK TO GODHEAD magazine.…
For thousands of years devotees in India have known that we can personally see and serve the Lord in His Deity form. Now, to the Western mind this idea may…
Many people think God is formless or void. But by using a little logic we can easily understand that if God is our eternal father, He must have form.…
After instructing the sculptor on the few changes I wanted made, I saw two rough chunks of marble—one white and the other black—that were to become the Deities of Balarama…
I first learned of Srila Prabhupada's plan for a "heaven on earth" in Vrindavan, India in May of 1970. He asked me to investigate a report that the king of…
We want to attract people from all over the world to visit the holy land of Lord Krishna's birth—and to provide nice facilities for them when they come. Vrindavan is…
It was at Sridhama Mayapura, almost five hundred years ago, that the Supreme Lord descended to this world as the great teacher Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu to propagate the chanting…
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…
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.…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
O Lord Damodara, Mother Yasoda bound You to a grinding stone with a rope. You then freed the sons of Kuvera, Manigriva and Nalakuvara, and You gave them the chance…
This castle is ISKCON's headquarters in Germany. Built in 1890 for a royal family, it's called Schloss Rettershof, ("the castle of the knights"). Now it's one of ISKCON's more than…
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…
The Hare Krishna temple in Paris in the elegant 16th district maintains sixty full-time devotees who teach a weekly course in Vedic Wisdom at Nanterre University, run a press and…
Some day the tiny soul will want to get out of material entanglement. This may happen because of frustration with painful experiences, because of a desire to achieve financial stability,…
We also invite you to visit one of the Krishna consciousness centers--anywhere in the world--and thus come closer to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.…
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