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 story. It told how nuptial love becomes a nightmare of neglect and abuse.…
How a Krsna Conscious Woman Achieved Liberation
The Wedding: The Biography of a Pure Devotee
Shortly after founding the first Krsna conscious temple in the West, Srila Prabhupada organized the first Vedic marriage ceremony, replete with fire sacrifice, garlands, exotic foods, and an intimation of the worldwide mission soon to follow.…
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 expresses dissatisfaction with a translation that could be misleading.…
“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 landscape of a wasteland that makes T. S. Eliot's portrait paradisal.…
Krsna Consciousness, A Gift for World Unity
As far as the Krsna conscious movement is concerned, there is really no such thing as East and West. For instance, the sun rises from the eastern horizon and sets on the western horizon, but the sun is the same. You cannot say "the eastern sun and "the western sun."…
People — Anne Schaufuss becomes Hare Krishna
A million dollars and three dozen magazine covers later, Anne had wealth, fame, and apartments in most European capital cities. Anne Schaufuss had everything. Except, maybe, happiness.…
Jnana Dasa — How I Came To Krsna Consciousness
I finished the school year, bade farewell to my family, girlfriend, and other intimates, and set off for Japan to practice Zen in earnest.…
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 of our senses, especially through that prototype of all pleasure, sex and sexual love.…
How a Krsna Conscious Woman Achieved Liberation
The Wedding: The Biography of a Pure Devotee
The Krsna Conscious Vision of Spiritual Equality
Dharma—Nature, Duty, and Divine Service
Chanting Hare Krsna is for Saints and Sinners — Notes from the Editor
Krishna Consciousness: The Perfection of Yoga
Tasting the Nectar of Lord Krsna’s Holy Names
Chanting the Holy Names in West Berlin
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).…