The Ideal King Lord Ramacandra Reigns in Washington
From time to time God incarnates on earth to impart His instructions and enact His pastimes. One incarnation is Lord Ramacandra, who appeared in India millions of years ago as…
Receiving Krsna’s Teachings As They Are
Personalistic Bhagavad-gita scholars reject the idea that God is a formless entity. On the contrary, the personalists, or Vaisnavas, maintain that God's personal form is the source of all others.…
The Search for Self-fulfillment
Since everyone, no matter how he chooses to define the self, is interested in self-fulfillment, it is of paramount importance to know what the self is. Generally our concepts…
The Religion Beyond All Religions
The perfect socio-religious system is explained by Lord Krsna in Bhagavad-gita. (This system differs from the prejudicial system of caste by birth.)…
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out on Abortion and “Rabbit Philosophy”
Pregnancy means the child is already born. How can they say there is no child? What is this nonsense? When a woman is pregnant, why do we say she is…
Abortion and the Language of Unconsciousness
"Political language," wrote Orwell, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." But neither Orwell's essay nor the popularization of his lesson in Holocaust seems to have deterred…
Women in Krsna Consciousness—Questions and Answers
Although the women's liberation movement may offer some worth-while proposals, it generally ignores this highest goal. But by becoming Krsna conscious, a woman is liberated in this life and the…
A Message to Businessmen: Don’t Forget Spiritual Culture
We understand business to mean "occupational duty." According to our Vedic culture, there are different types of business. The four divisions of the social system, based on people's qualities and…
Sex and Suffering — Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out
Sex is the main happiness in this material world. That is the main happiness, and it is very abominable. What is this happiness? It is like the rubbing of two…
American Religious Life — A Vital Transition
the largest number of new groups have come from India—so much so that the phenomenon can almost be considered a missionary movement from India to America.…
Aristotle and His Teachings
By speculation Aristotle may have known something about God, but our point is that we can know everything about God from God Himself. This is not a question of "religion."…
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out On War and Death
The atom bomb manufacturer is thinking he is successful in his life by building an atom bomb, but he does not know how to save himself from death. Nothing he…
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out On Technology and Unemployment
In India many men are already unemployed, so to introduce more machinery there is a not a very good proposal. One hundred men's work can be done by one man…
How a Krsna Conscious Woman Achieved Liberation
Recently I was reading one of the many new books by women who feel they should make their miserable plight known to the world. The book read like a horror…
The Krsna Conscious Vision of Spiritual Equality
Attempts to establish equality among all people are naive and superficial unless supported by spiritual understanding. Materially, we are not equal. Some people are geniuses; others are fools.…
Dharma—Nature, Duty, and Divine Service
Srila Prabhupada often translates dharma simply as "religion." But he indicates that he uses this particular translation for convenience and for want of a better single English term, and he…
“Global 2000″—Kali-yuga Report to the President
The President was informed that the earth and life on it are slowly dying. And that's putting it euphemistically. The outlook is bleak. The report, entitled "Global 2000," paints a…
Decent, Hardworking “Misled” People — Notes from the Editor
A regular occurrence around here is that each year the local newspaper carries an article commending us for our hard work and decency but condemning us for not being Christians.…
Immortal Longings and Sex
The illusion I want to destroy is perhaps the most deeply rooted and pervasive of all human convictions. It is the idea that we can achieve happiness through the enjoyment…
The Hard Rain of Karma — The Vedic Observer
The whole world has come under the spell of economic development, which, in a simpler sense, means greed. And our leaders themselves openly admit it—they actually want us to become…
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