When Krishna was unable to find the calves immediately He understood that Brahma had taken them away. To hide the loss from their mothers, Lord Krishna expanded Himself and exactly duplicated the missing boys and calves.…
The Stealing Of the Boys and Calves
Srila Prabhupada in New York City, 1965 – Struggling Alone
In New York, Srila Prabhupada had nowhere to stay but the asrama of an impersonalist svami. To see students listening to a speaker who denied the Personality of Godhead was painful for the pure devotee. But was he to go homeless and beg in the streets?…
Yoga – Making Friends with the Mind
The whole purpose of the yoga system is to make the mind our friend. The mind in material contact is our enemy, just like the mind of a person in a drunken condition.…
These Farmers Know a Lot More Than Farming
Srila Prabhupada didn't want just an ordinary farm, and he certainly didn't want an agribusiness. What he did want was a self-sufficient spiritual community where all kinds of people would want to live and work.…
The Yoga for Our Age
In this Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, the Lord explains that the eightfold yoga system is a means to control the mind and the senses. However, this process is very difficult for people in general to perform, especially in this age of Kali [quarrel and hypocrisy].…
Theosophy Ends in Vaishnavism
In brief, a believer in Theosophy accepts as a fact that, "in and through all things, a Directing Will is at work, with a plan of Action from moment to moment towards a predominated end." That is the version of the Theosophist in a different way as the Vaisnavite works. The predominated end is to serve the purpose of the Predominator Absolute.…
Godhead and His Potentialities
The highest form of philanthropic or altruistic service that a man can render to his fellow brethren—is the propagation of transcendental service of the Personality of Godhead by awakening the spiritual sense of all sleeping men caught hold of by the grip of the "Maya" Potency. The easiest method for reviving such spiritual sense in the heart of all fallen souls, was taught by Lord Chaitanya who took compassion with the fallen souls of the present age, as congregational chanting of the Holy Name of Godhead.…
“BACK TO GODHEAD” — The Purpose of the Magazine
My duty will be simply to repeat in the "BACK TO GODHEAD" just like an interpreter what I have heard from and what I have been ordered to deliver by my great spiritual master H.D.G. Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada. Nothing will be manufactured by me by my mental concoction. Such words will descend as Sound Transcendental and when they are given proper serving reception by the aural channel, surely they will act like medicine to carry all back to home and "BACK TO GODHEAD."…
Krishna Kills the Great Python Aghasura
Through his mystic power Aghasura took the form of an eight-mile-long python. At first, the boys thought the demon was just a statue. But then one boy said, "Just see—isn't this more like a big serpent lying down in the road and widening his mouth to eat all of us?"…
The Stealing Of the Boys and Calves
Srila Prabhupada in New York City, 1965 – Struggling Alone
Yoga – Making Friends with the Mind
These Farmers Know a Lot More Than Farming
What is a Mantra?
Questions People Ask About Chanting
Sankirtan: The Science of Congregational Chanting of the Name of the Lord
Questions People Ask About Chanting Hare Krishna
“Krishna Temple Is Labor of Love”
Puri — City of Jagannatha
The Sovereign Who Served the Lord
The Appearance of Lord Jagannatha
Letter from a Hare Krishna Devotee’s Father
My visit was a very moving and I know I will never be the same again. I think you are a tremendously impressive and dedicated group of young men and women, who have dedicated your lives in as total, beautiful, and significant a way as anyone possibly could.…
ISKCON News: Book Distribution Climbs 34.5% in 1975
Defying the serious recession that slowed the world economy in 1975, ISKCON devotees increased their sale of Krishna conscious literature last year by more than one third over 1974. The total topped nine million books and magazines…