Benediction At the University of Maryland
At U. of M.'s recent commencement ceremony, Hare Krsna chaplain Alankara dasa Brahmacari spoke these words to a crowd of 15,000. Members of the Board of Regents, President Toll, Chancellor Gluckstern, learned faculty, honored graduates, parents, and friends: I... read more
A Manifesto of Krishna Consciousness by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
read this statement at a press conference in Los Angeles, during December of 1968. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is a movement aiming at the spiritual reorientation of mankind through the simple process of chanting the holy names of God. The... read more
Back To Godhead Volume-14 Number-07, 1979
A Manifesto of Krishna Consciousness by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Benediction At the University of Maryland The Chariots Roll Again by Jagajivana Dasa Why Our Schools Don’t Have a Prayer ... read moreAnthropomorphism Revisited: God as Obstetrician by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Astronomer Carl Sagan's theory of why man believes in God ("The Amniotic Universe," Atlantic Monthly, April 1979) is a rather old-fashioned speculation, but with a few new twists. Sagan says our ideas of God and the afterlife are no more than... read more
The New Group by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
One of the first American young people to take an interest in Prabhupada was Robert Nelson. Although he had grown up in New York City, he was more like a slow, simple country boy with a lumbering, homespun manner. At that time he was about twenty years old and was... read more
America’s Karma
"A Little Negative" His Divine Grace Hrdayananda dasa Goswami talks with guests at the New Orleans Krsna center. HIS DIVINE GRACE HRDAYANANDA DASA GOSWAMI is one of the spiritual masters that ISKCON's founder-acarya Srila Prabhupada selected to... read moreAbortion and the Hypocritic Oath by Jagajivana Dasa
My sister was just back from Europe and just hearing for the first time about a Southern California obstetrician named William Waddill. I told her that after an unsuccessful abortion, Dr. Waddill had allegedly strangled the baby. "What? Oh, how awful?."... read more
This Material World Is Zero
This exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and a graduate student took place in Los Angeles, near the shore of the Pacific Ocean, during January of 1974. Student: Today's scientists and philosophers and psychologists they say... read more
Every Town and Village, Volume-14 Number-06, 1979
A look at the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) City Hails Krishna Restaurant Cleveland The City Council recently passed a resolution congratulating ISKCON for opening a budget vegetarian restaurant in the heart... read more
The History of Krsna And the Kaliya Serpent by Drutakarma Dasa
After fifty centuries,the encounter between Lord Krsna and His hundred-headed adversary is still celebrated. Last summer I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to see "The Sensuous Immortals," a sculpture exhibit from the Pan Asian... read more