Seeing the Bright Side of Illness by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
While writing this month's column, I am confined with an illness that has stopped my normal work. It's a discouraging, uncomfortable interlude, yet I am seeing how illness can also bring one valuable realizations. For example, I wrote a poem that I don't... read moreLetters, Volume-20 Number-01,1985
We welcome your letters. Write to BACK TO GODHEAD 51 West Allens Lane Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19119 Earlier this year, with some patient perseverance on the part of my wife, I began reading some of the books published by the International Society... read more
Can God Do That? by Mathuresa Dasa
Some of Lord Krsna's transcendental pastimes may seem hard to swallow.But there's a sound explanation. If I were to tell you I knew a story about a boy who swallowed a raging forest fire to save his friends and relatives, you'd probably think it was a... read more
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
In Sanskrit, man means "mind" and tra means "freeing." So a mantrais a combination of transcendental, spiritual sounds that frees our minds from the anxieties of life in the material world. Ancient India's Vedic... read more
My Encounter With the Art of Perfection by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa
I, who had worshiped so long at the shrine of the Bard, now astounded myself by thinking, "This is greater than Shakespeare!" RAVINDRA-SVARUPA DASA, a devotee of Krsna for fourteen years, holds a doctorate in religion from Temple University. The above... read moreFuturists’ Follies by Grahila Dasa
How many times have you had trouble finding a parking space downtown? Well, according to some scientific theorists, the day may soon come when you won't have to drive around block after block looking the computer in your car will tell you where you can park. And... read more
Of Mice And Meat by Dvarakadhisa Devi Dasi
Consider for a moment the plight of the carnivorous beast. Skulking about the forest brush, sniffing and listening with intense concentration, hunger gnawing at his belly and burning in his eyes, he searches for prey. His meditation is single-pointed in hopes of a... read more
A Question Of Quotas by Drutakarma Dasa
A recent survey of the world economic situation published in the Los Angeles Times (Oct. 24, 1984) concludes, "Today despite 12,000 years of technological progress, an enormous increase in material production and consumption, bloody revolutions aimed at... read more
Every Town and Village, Volume-20 Number-01,1985
A look at the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Congressman Welcomes ISKCON Students Washington, D.C. U.S. Congressman John Bryant of Dallas recently took a break from his very busy schedule for what he called... read more
Advice to the United Nations
The following is a continuation of a conversation that took place between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Mr. C. Hennis of the U.N. 's International Labor Organization on May 31, 1974, in Geneva. Srila Prabhupada: The social body... read more