In the Lap of Mother Nature by Vamsi Vihari Dasa
Amid fields, cows, rivers, and mountains, the author finds himself closer to God. God is our supreme father, and one of His energies, nature, is our mother. A mother nourishes her child with the milk from her body, and she also sees to the overall development... read moreIn Memoriam
His Holiness Mahavisnu Goswami This article originally appeared in ISKCON News, the news agency of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, and was made available to BTG by special arrangement. For more news about ISKCON, please visit... read more
God & Google by Radhika Ramana Dasa
The race for supremacy continues even in the virtual world This is the age of internet.People are spending more and more time online. They are emailing, socializing, chatting, downloading, uploading, sight-seeing, blogging. And of course they are searching. In... read more
Surrendering to Krishna is Real Intelligence
The following conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place in January 1974 on an early-morning walk in Hawaii. Disciple: Materialists think that everything in nature is meant for man, for his... read moreConviction by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa
Is Certainty; possible in an age of Doubt. Doubt is the motor of the modern mentality, the indefatigable engine that drives the spirit of our age. Doubt was honored with an early recognition in the essays of the Renaissance courtier Michel de Montaigne:... read moreIn Your Own Words
What do you like most about ISKCON’s Rathayatra festivals? What I like most about Rathayatra Is that it gives nondevotees the wonderful chance to see Their Most Glorious and Beautiful Lordships in person and to see another side of ISKCON and ISKCON... read more
Blinded by Vision
Yoga essential to see the soul and the Supersoul The perfect yogi knows that the Lord is eternally transcendental and is not materially affected by His presence in either a dog or a brahmana. That is the supreme neutrality of the Lord. The individual soul is also... read more
The Divine Form by Ananta Sakti Dasa
An artist realizes his dream of finding the perfect form. During my school days in the 1960s, it wasn’t difficult to see that the modern education system was a kind of slaughterhouse for the mind and intellect, a place where individuals were reduced to... read moreMaya Friend Norm by Padma Devi Dasi
The Vedic scriptures reveal that Mayadevi, Lord Krishna’s deluding potency, works with certain energies that have the capacity to make material life seem like normal life. As we go about our everyday activities in the material world, we are continuously... read more
Diksa Without Tapa Initiation in Name Only by Krpamoya Dasa
Did you hear the story of the man who rode up to the gates of our Mayapur, West Bengal, temple to sell ice cream? He had one of those tricycles you see a lot in India the ones with a refrigerated box on the back. Nothing sells quite like ice cream on a hot day.... read more