Enlightenment on Skid Row by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Now that Srila Prabhupada had left Seventy-second Street and had moved downtown, it wasn't long before new people were coming to see him. 'After a few minutes … the sound of the cymbals and the incense . . . we weren't in the Bowery any longer. We... read more
The Transcendence Comes Into View by Jayadvaita Swami
Lord Krsna's Advent "Our dear Lord, You have appeared in Your original unalloyed form, the eternal form of goodness, for the welfare of all living entities within this material world. Taking advantage of Your appearance, all of them can now very easily... read more
Why Krsna Comes To This World by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner) listen to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speak about the day Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth. Your... read more
Back To Godhead Volume-14 Number-08, 1979
Why Krsna Comes To This World by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada The Transcendence Comes Into View by Jayadvaita Swami Enlightenment on Skid Row by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami The Absurd Dialectic ... read moreMeat-eating: the West’s Sacred Cow by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Americans tend to scorn India's recent national ban on cow slaughter. We have difficulty appreciating the Hindus' view that the cows are holy, and most Americans have little knowledge of how a rural economy like India's is dependent on the life of the cow... read moreAn Astronomer Who Says “We’re Alone” in Our Galaxy by Jayadvaita Swami
We inhabitants of earth are quite likely the only civilized beings in our galaxy. So contends a scientific study that recently won front-page attention in the "Science" section of the New York Times. Dr. Michael H. Hart, an astronomer at Trinity... read more
On the Bowery by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
After he arrived in America, in September of 1965, Srila Prabhupada stayed at a family's apartment in Butler, Pennsylvania, nest at an impersonalist yogi's asrama in uptown Manhattan, and then in a tint room on Seventy-second Street. By March of 1966, a few... read more
Krsna’s Garlands Grace British Heads of State by Mukunda Dasa and Ken Shouler
The Queen, the Duke, and the Prime Minister and an encounter with "the all-attractive one." Krsna's devotees well know that He is. His name says, "the all-attractive one." It is the uninitiated who are generally slow in acknowledging... read more
Every Town and Village, Volume-14 Number-07, 1979
A look at the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) A New Farming Village in the Rockies Recently, Hare Krsna devotees from Denver started ISKCON's fifteenth farm community, a 340-acre spread atop Sunshine Mesa... read moreWaking Up From The American Dream by Hrdayananda Dasa Goswami
An Open Letter To A Writer ". . . You have written, 'When in recent memory has it been less a privilege to be young in America?". . . But when has it been less a privilege to be anything in America?" Harper's magazine recently... read more