This issue of Back to Godhead Magazine features ISKCON’s 1970 Boston Sankirtan Party.
Children at Hare Krsna schools around the world learn the glories of the Supreme Lord along with all regular academic subjects. These girls at the Krsna school near Valencay, France, enjoy a jaunt through the school gardens.
Going beyond the reverent worship of God as the almighty controller, the pure devotees of Godhead exchange intimate love with the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna in His eternal loving pastimes in Krsnaloka.
Ratha-yatra – the Festival of the Chariots – commemorates a pastime performed by Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, during His appearance on earth five thousand years ago.
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock’s feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids.
Lord Krsna, the Supreme Lord of the universes, is appearing as a cowherd boy in Vrndavana. His is worshiped by Lord Brahma, the four-headed creator of this universe, whose song of praise to Krsna, Brahma-samhita.
The Supreme Person is an ocean of captivating transcendental qualities, but His most endearing and exalted quality is His exquisite beauty. All beautiful and glorious manifestations in this world spring from but a spark of Krsna’s splendor.
On the cover is Caitanya Mahaprabhu leading a sankirtana chanting party through the streets of Puri in India, 480 years ago. The five-thousand-year-old Vedic scriptures foretell the appearance of Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Playing as a child in the transcendental land of Vrndavana, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, enjoys the association of His pure devotees. In Vrndavana even the animals, trees, and inanimate objects are conscious of Krsna’s all-enchanting beauty.
Special 1969 issue of ISKCON’s Back to Godhead Magazine featuring photographs of ISKCON centers in North America.
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