The process of perception begins when light from an object enters the eye and is focused on the retina. This light stimulates a series of neurochemical reactions that ultimately reach the brain as a systematic pattern of pulses.…
Searching Past the Mechanics of Perception — Scientific Views
The Biography of a Pure Devotee — The Excursion
The small storefront temple at 26 Second Avenue had begun to thrive. Srila Prabhupada, by his chanting, his strong preaching, his delicious meals of prasadam, but most of all by his transcendental loving personality, had attracted a few sincere followers.…
Artisans of a Spiritual Order
1980-09-03Real craftsmanship is, above all else, a spiritual exercise." A mass of spinning clay turns between his fingers. The clay gradually grows into a slender urn that curves and tapers beneath his touch.…
Entering the Spiritual Sky
The material world appears like a cloud covering a small portion of the spiritual sky. The Vedic scriptures explain that although the material world undergoes perpetual creation and annihilation, the spiritual world is eternally manifest.…
Srila Prabhupada’s Perpetual Gifts
There were predictions that after his disappearance the movement and teachings he had established would soon fall apart. Now it is three years later, and Srila Prabhupada's unique contributions are still flourishing.…
Sri Krsna Jayanti
Hindus all over India celebrate Sri Krsna Jayanti (the anniversary of Lord Krsna's appearance) as a religious function every year. We have experience that sometimes non-Hindus, out of a deep respect for Lord Sri Krsna, also celebrate the ceremony of Lord Krsna's Jayanti.…
Spiritual Strategies for the Age of Iron
Behind Srila Prabhupada's appearance on the alien Manhattan streets stand five millennia of planning and effort. The story of it opens one sunrise fifty centuries ago in the Himalayas, where the sage Krsna-Dvaipayana Vyasa sits in trance on the bank of the Sarasvati.…
Prabhupada Preaching to Hippies in New York City
"The Swamiji doesn't want anyone smoking pot here." Don denied it: "I have not been smoking. You are not speaking the truth." The boy then reached into Don's shirt pocket and pulled out a joint, and Don hit him in the face.…
Socrates and His Teachings — A Vedic Perspective
Socrates faces his death calmly and without fear, an attitude he said was but proper for a philosopher who is interested only in the care of his soul and is unaffected by bodily conditions.…
Searching Past the Mechanics of Perception — Scientific Views
The Biography of a Pure Devotee — The Excursion
Artisans of a Spiritual Order
Entering the Spiritual Sky
Krishna Consciousness: The Perfection of Yoga
Tasting the Nectar of Lord Krsna’s Holy Names
Chanting the Holy Names in West Berlin
CHANT!
New York City Festival Diary — Notes from the Editor
The Chariots Roll Again
Why Krsna Comes To This World
The Rathayatra Festival’s Inspiration
Are you a good listener? — Notes from the Editor
In human society those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing.…
85.5 Million Prabhupada Books in Print (1979)
Last year the printing total surpassed the previous year's total by thirty percent, and BBT books appeared for the first time in Danish, Greek, and Kannada (a South Indian dialect).…