First Vedic scholars did not form a unified political or academic party; they were variously conservative, liberal, and radical. Sir William Jones, the first Britisher to master Sanskrit and study the Vedas, drew fire from the eminent British ...   more »

  Now allow me to tell a true story that happened some 10 years ago in
South-Africa. The father and the daughter who experienced this event told
this story to my friend, a sannyasi and devotee of Lord Nrisimhadev.
This stories was also found in the newspapers, and several witnesses ...   more »

  
    Yasoda Mata's 85-year-old foster father passed away two months ago.
During his stay in the hospital, Yasoda Mata prepared a tape recorder and
played the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra all day long in his ward. Her foster
father was actually in semi-coma, but miraculously when he heard the ...   more »

  In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter & Passover holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians, Jews & observances of their holy days. The argument was....it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized day(s).
The case was brought ...   more »

 The people of this age are also very lazy, not only materially but in the matter of self-realization. The human life is especially meant for self-realization. That is to say, man should come to know what he is, what the world is, and what the supreme truth is. Human life ...   more »

Dear Dr. Kraus,
We are well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of ISKCON. Your input, in
the guise of medical expertise, was not well intentioned but mean spirited
and meant to offend which it has.

In the future please do not send me or others this type of psychobabble ...   more »

 I would like to suggest that in order to really understand the difference
between men and women in general and the difference in their intelligence in
particular, we have to do it from the point of view of Srila Prabhupada's
Vedic psychology and not from the modern, western Freudian or ...   more »

  As I was speaking to someone in the airport, a man came up to me who was so
nasty -- cussing and criticizing -- that the person I was speaking to left.
Then the nasty man got even worse. He was so loud that everyone in the
airport lobby, ...   more »

    Sri Ramanujacarya (1017-1137) created 74 simhasana-dhipatis or ‘throne-holders,’ to give initiation after his death, he created what we in ISKCON would term ‘zonal acaryas.’ He chose 74 of his disciples to give diksha, each of them affiliated to one of the many temples spread far and wide throughout a large tract of India. ...   more »

 Anjali mudra versus shaking hands

Even when I lived in the West I always avoided shaking hands with people
especially ones I didn't know but instead would do Anjali mudra. Following
this principle of Krsna's culture in a foriegn setting often raised an
eyebrow, and even now a days in ...   more »

  Answer (by BV Swami) to a question after a lecture in Rijeka, Croatia, 4 Aug
08
Well, I'm promoting myself . . . I'm actually not promoting myself, I'm
being promoted here as a guru. That's not a very good way to find a guru -
just someone says ...   more »

 
EDITORS NOTE: A "natural" reaction of concerned devotee on current turmoil in financial world over the future of so called "non operational" policy of our leaders...

ARE WE TAKING  SRILA PRABHUPADA'S WARNING ABOUT TODAY'S ARTIFICIAL GLOBAL
ECONOMY LIGHTLY?   ARE WE STILL GOING TO KEEP BIG MONEY IN BANKS AND ...   more »

SP'S ORDERS & THE STATE OF THE WORLD
Dear devotees,
Hare Krsna! Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada.