Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam 3.31.40 given in Sridham Mayapur on 7.01.2010
"The woman, created by the Lord, is the representation of maya, and one who associates with such maya by accepting services must certainly know that this is the way of death, just like a blind well covered with grass."...   more »

On the auspicious occasion of “Makara Sankranti” (also celebrated as “New Year’s day” throughout Tamil Nadu), January 14, 2010, the “bhumi puja” (”worship of the earth underneath the to be constructed temple) and installation of Ananta Shesha (a Deity of an expansion of Lord Vishnu) was performed at ISKCON Salem....   more »

  How infantile is American society?  Last night's ...   more »

Dear Sankirtan devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Ah yes, the Prabhupada Marathon -- that glorious time of year when there
is an intense focus on the distribution of our jewels of wisdom, Srila
Prabhupada's books. More books going out means more people are going ...   more »

  Our West-influenced intellectuals sneer at the mention of the cow.
 The same intellectuals first sneered at yoga. Now it is a fashion to do pranayama at
cocktail parties The arguments in the West for cow slaughter are no more
uncontested. There are better sources of protein than beef. Any ...   more »

  In November 2009, the UK Guardian reported that two insiders at the International Energy Agency (the agency tasked with figuring out how much oil is left in the ground) informed the paper that the agency has intentionally been covering up this crisis for fear of setting off a panic ...   more »

Date: Thu, May 15, 2008
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, and Matajis,

Hare Krsna.  Please accept my most humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila
Prabhupada and all the acaryas.

My husband and I both joined ISKCON in 1973, and for thirty-five years, my
husband has respectfully addressed all devotee ladies as "mother" ...   more »

 Re: Response to Dr. Kraus. Was: Why I am leaving ISKCON

Dear Rasamandala Prabhu (and Malati Manjari dd, Hariballabha dd and Urmila
dd, etc who supported your view)

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Bhakti-vigna vinasha Narasimhadeva ki-jaya!

First of all please forgive my tardy response, ...   more »

  To many people, Ekalavya's devotion to his guru is ideal,

but there is a special consideration...What was Ekalavya's ...   more »

           

"If the guides were not guides after all, who were they?"

        -Hungry Ghosts by Joe Fisher, p. 202

  Seth, Ramtha, Lazaris, Ashtar, Mashiyach - the vaguely Biblical-sounding

names have the ring of "prophet" to them. Indeed, for millions the world over, ...   more »

10 friends lived together on top of a 100-storied building. Once when they returned after an   outing, they found, ...   more »

  The Unholy Trinity. From left to right: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris. It’s a strange world to be a theist in these days...   more »

  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 »

  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 »