The Best People in the World by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Jun 1, 1985 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-20 Number-06

In a recent meeting in Mayapur, India, the members of the Governing Body Commission of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness appointed several of my Godbrothers to posts of great spiritual responsibility posts requiring stringent vows of renunciation.... read more

Satisfaction Guaranteed by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

May 1, 1985 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-20 Number-05

While on a recent walk with a young devotee through downtown Boston, I found myself standing before the offices of the Atlantic Monthly magazine. The sight of the building evoked in me fond memories of a time fifteen years earlier when, as a missionary for... read more

True Love by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Apr 1, 1985 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-20 Number-04

People outside spiritual life sometimes criticize Lord Krsna's devotees and other spiritual aspirants for having renounced the material world. Spiritualists, the critics say, have abandoned loving relationships and therefore suffer emotional disturbances. For... read more

Watch Your Language by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Feb 1, 1985 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-20 Number-02&03

Misconceptions about the aims and methods of spiritual life are common in the West. Part of the blame may be laid upon those Indian svamis and yogiswho first traveled to America at the turn of the century and introduced ideas and techniques that... read more

Seeing the Bright Side of Illness by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Jan 1, 1985 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-20 Number-01

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 more