THE WAY OF DEATH by HH Jayadvaita Swami

Divya — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:51:20 +0600

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."...

BHUMI PUJA AT ISKCON SALEM by HG Basu Ghosh das

Divya — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:04:50 +0600

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....

COURTING CONVULSION by James Howard Kunstler

Divya — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:43:31 +0600

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

THE 2009 PRABHUPADA MARATHON by HG Vijaya das

Divya — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:38:42 +0600

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 ...

SAVE THE COW SAVE EARTH by Mr.Subramanian Swamy

Divya — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:54:38 +0600

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 ...

HOW MUCH OIL IS LEFT IN THE GROUND?

Divya — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:27:15 +0600

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 ...

CALLING LADIES "MATAJI" by HG Phalini Mataji

Divya — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:08:13 +0600

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" ...

ANSWERING THE WRONG RHETORICAL QUESTION by HG Shyamasundara das ACBSP

Divya — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:09:52 +0600

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, ...

EKALAVYA by HH Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

Divya — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:35:18 +0600

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

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

CHANNELING:EXTRASENSORY DECEPTION? by HH Suhotra Swami

Divya — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:41:07 +0600

"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, ...

THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF LIFE by Chaitanya Charan Das

Divya — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:19:36 +0600

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

ATHEIST NATION by Madhava Smullen

Divya — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:03:06 +0600

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...

THE FIRST SCHOLARS OF INDOLOGY by Satsvarupa das Goswami

Divya — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:59:13 +0600

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 ...

THE STORY OF A GIRL AND LORD NRISIMHADEVA

Divya — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:09:51 +0600

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 ...

LORD NRSIMHADEV SHOWS HIS MERCY EVEN TO A NON DEVOTEE

Divya — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:48:25 +0600

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 ...

FLORIDA COURT SETS ATHEIST HOLY DAY from Fillmore Gazette

Divya — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:45:21 +0600

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 ...

ACARYA UVACA by HDG A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Divya — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:58:17 +0600

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 ...

THE PSYCOBABBLE RAP by HG Shyamasundara das ACBSP

Divya — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:01:00 +0600

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 ...

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN AND WOMAN by HG Jhanu-dvipa das

Divya — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:55:08 +0600

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 ...

WHAT YOU'LL BE IN YOUR NEXT LIFE by HG Tulasi dd

Divya — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:19:28 +0600

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, ...

Local Diksha: For When the Oil Runs Dry by HG Kripamoya das(ACBSP)

Divya — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:01 +0600

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. ...

HYGIENE HORROR IN COMMUTER STUDY by BBC News

Divya — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:11:01 +0600

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 ...

HOW YOU CAN FIND A GURU? by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami

Divya — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:22:18 +0600

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 ...

WE STILL HAVE TIME... by HG Bhadra Balarama das

Divya — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:23:33 +0600

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 ...

PRACTICE OR PERISH - FARM COMMUNITIES by PlanetVeda

Divya — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:36:16 +0600

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