Every Town and Village, Volume-21 Number-07, 1986
A look at the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Lord Nrsimhadeva Deity Installed in New Vrindaban New Vrindaban, West Virginia At a recent festival here, devotees installed the Deity of Lord Nrsimhadeva and His... read more
Big Animals, Small Animals
Big Animals, Small Animals This is a continuation of a conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and a guest, Dr. Christian Hauser, a psychiatrist, that took place in Stockholm in September 1975. Dr. Hauser: Yes, I can... read moreRoyal Kofta by Visakha Devi Dasi
(Nargisi kofta) Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour Servings: 4-6 7 ounces white rice 6 medium-size potatoes 1 ¾ teaspoons salt 6 ounces panir 8 ounces chickpea flour 1 teaspoon black cumin seeds (optional) 10 saffron strands or ¼ teaspoon powdered... read more
On Becoming Total by Visakha Devi Dasi
Devotees of Krsna add the spiritual ingredient to integrate the parts of the "total person." In America during the 1950s, white flour and sugar were considered "good foods," pesticides and chemical additives were considered scientific improvements,... read more
ISKCON At Twenty
ISKCON (the International Society for Krishna Consciousness) is twenty years old. On the evening of July 11, 1966, at a storefront on Second Avenue in New York City (then the one and only ISKCON center), Srila Prabhupada requested a handful of his friends and... read more
The Heart’s Desire by His Divine Grace Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada
How can we find happiness that is not purchased with our pain? Have you ever wished upon a shooting star or thrown a penny in a magic fountain? In the spiritual world there are trees called "desire trees," which can fulfill any desire. If you could have just... read more
A Treasure House of Tribulations by Mathuresa Dasa
Freud's astute analysis of material suffering strikingly resembles the Vedic description. But does he offer a viable remedy? The conditioned soul . . . is always covered by ignorance and embarrassed by the threefold miseries of life. Thus he is a... read more
The Supreme proprietor, The Supreme enjoyer, The Supreme friend by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Unless we understand the father, how can we live as brothers? This conversation with a journalist took place at the Hare Krsna center in London in 1971. Srila Prabhupada: I have experienced that in my childhood there were not so many problems in India. But... read moreGaura-purnima Diary by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
The full moon night of March 26 marked the 500th anniversary [Quincentennial] of Gaura-purnima, the appearance day of Sri Krsna a Caitanya Mahaprabhu [Lord Krsna Himself appearing as His own devotee to teach love of God through the chanting of the Hare... read more
Path To The Spiritual World by Visakha Devi Dasi
Pilgrims circumambulating India's holiest city come to the end of the much-traveled thoroughfare of repeated birth and death. Nestled ninety miles southeast of Delhi near a curve of the winding Yamuna River, Vrndavana is for Hindus what Jerusalem is for Jews and... read more