Every Town & Village , Volume-29 Number-03, 1995
The worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) World News To get much of our news Back to Godhead teams up with ISKCON World Review, the newspaper of the Hare Krsna movement. For more detailed news... read more
Puranic Time and the Archeological Record by Drutakarma Dasa (Michael A. Cremo)
An address presented at World Archeological Congress 3, December 4-11, 1994, New Delhi, India The World Archeological Congress is an international organization that meets every four years in a different city of the world. Nine hundred archeologists and... read more
Notes from Motherhood by Visakha Devi Dasi
Since we can have a fully satisfying relationship with Krsna, why have children and settle for something less? BEFORE WE KNEW with certainty that our daughter Hari-priya existed when she was still smaller than a pea much had already been decided about her: her... read more
Srila Jayananda Prabhu Disappearance Day: May 11
Srila Jayananda Prabhu joined Srila Prabhupada and the fledgling Hare Krsna movement in San Francisco in 1967. Jayananda Prabhu had been driving a cab, and, encouraged by Srila Prabhupada, he kept that job to help support the storefront Hare Krsna temple. He also gave... read more
We Must Have A Definite Process
Here we conclude an exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and an official from an impersonalist ("God-is-simply-everyone-and-everything") movement. The exchange took place in Paris, on August 13, 1973, with Prabhupada's... read moreSrila Baladeva Vidyabhusana Appearance Day: June 8
Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana appeared in Orissa at the end of the seventeenth century or the beginning of the eighteenth. At an early age he learned Sanskrit grammar, poetry, rhetoric, and logic and then traveled to holy places throughout India. While traveling, he met... read moreSrimati Rukmini Devi Appearance Day: May 12
Srimati Rukmini Devi is the eternal consort of Lord Krsna in Dvaraka. When Rukmini and Krsna descend to this world, they enact many pastimes, including their marriage. Rukmini Devi was the daughter of a king, and her elder brother arranged for her marriage with... read more
The New Hare Krsna Temple In Nairobi
Back in 1972, when the Hare Krsna movement first acquired land for a temple in Nairobi, some members of the congregation thought the devotees were setting up in the wrong place. The land was near the center of the city, with its busy atmosphere and traffic. Better to... read more
Cleanliness and Krsna Consciousness by Rohininandana Dasa
WHEN I ONCE licked a stamp in a post office in India, a man next to me frowned and pointed to a little pot containing glue and a brush. All my life I'd been licking stamps and envelopes without a second thought, but in that simple, rather scruffy post office in an... read more
From Ignorance to Bliss by Vraja Kishor Dasa
PART 2 Begin the Journey HEY, IS THAT some calypso band around the corner? No. It's a group of fifteen or twenty people in strange outfits, dancing around with drums and hand cymbals … Oh yeah, the Hare Krsnas. You cross the street quickly and watch the... read more