Defending As It Is by Abhijit Toley
Is ” Does the Bhagavad-gita allow for multiple interpretations? Scholars all over the world accept the Bhagavad-gita, which talks about the all-encompassing Absolute Truth, as one of the most important books from India. Simple yet profound, easily... read more
Queen Kunti’s Amazing Plea by Mukundamala Dasa
Why an exalted devotee asked Lord Krishna to keep putting her into dangerous situations. Most people worship God with a material motive. As Lord Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita (7.16), such people can broadly be classified into four groups: the... read more
From Ritual to Spiritual by Vraja Vihari Dasa
Why and how to go beyond the externals of religion Twenty-five-year-old Nitin Sawant, a software engineer, explains why he’s disillusioned with religious rituals. “I was at a friend’s wedding recently. The priest called upon the bride and the... read more
Fame: A Misguided Quest by Arcana Siddhi Devi Dasi
While the whole world runs after fame, the pure devotee runs away from it. When I was eleven years old, I had one of those defining moments when an eternal-truth realization interrupts the motion picture of normal everyday life. I was a burgeoning... read more
The Dis-United Nations
This conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Mr. P. Sharma, a former United Nations worker, took place in Paris in 1974. Srila Prabhupada: Suppose I ask the United Nations, as an organization, to explain the purpose of... read moreArtificial Life why not Real Life by Caitanya Carana Dasa and Aja Govinda Dasa
Even from a scientific perspective what to speak of a spiritual one there’s more to life than DNA. Scientists create artificial life,” declared newspaper headlines around the world in May 2010. Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter, the man behind the... read more
Transform Your Workplace Into The Spiritual World by Mahatma Dasa
Recently, I was at a Krishna conscious program in Tennessee (USA) where a devotee said that environment is more powerful than willpower. He later told me that he felt the environment at his workplace was not conducive to being Krishna conscious. Krishna... read more
The Path to Joyfulness by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Hearing and chanting about Krishna frees us from material contamination and uncovers our original state of pure consciousness. harer nama harer nama harer nama eva kevalam kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha “In this Age of Kali there is no... read moreLetters, Volume-45 Number-02, 2011
Grassroots Krishna Conscious Material I loved the article “Becoming Wealthy On $2 a Day,” by Dhanesvara Dasa, in the November/ December issue. It’s true that the U.N. sets a false bar for poverty and for measuring “having enough.”... read more