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Reflections on Vaisnavi-dharma

I recently took up the study of Bhakti-Sastri under the instruction of my spiritual master. Living in Azerbaijan, the best ...

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RECONCILING SEEMINGLY OUTRAGEOUS FIGURES

Some of the numbers given in Vedic literatures seem too fantastic to be true. For example, ...

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Are there different sizes of infinity?

In the Purusha Sukta1.3-4 from

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FEMALE DIKSHA GURU PROPOSAL

Whereas, the body of ISKCON India leaders aka IIAC has taken cognizance of the ...

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Ramayana Book in Kannada

The timeless wisdom and teachings of the all-time classical epic “Ramayana” has been the beacon light ...

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Why We Should NOT Implement Female Diksha Gurus in ISKCON

Recently there was a meeting in Tirupati, India by the GBC on ...

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KURDS AND VEDIC INDIA

The mysterious relationship of the Kurds with Vedic India The Kurd ...

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An analysis of the paper “Some Evidence Regarding Education and Guruship for...

Among scholars, the position of women in the Vedic culture is a cause for ...

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GBC EC Uses Knowledge Filters and Loaded Dice to push FDG

In 2013 the GBC resolved that a four-man committee comprising of Badrinarayana Swami, Bhanu ...

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KRSNA CONSCIOUS MOTHERHOOD

(An expectant mother, who is also a devotee book distributor, submits a question to H.H. Bhakti Vikasa Swami. He gave ...

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In The Footsteps Of The Buddha

If I were to tell you, that once, no other country, save India, revered the cow as much ...

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Addressing woman as mataji

A father sometimes addresses his daughter in affection as “mother” and sometimes as “my darling.” SB 3.22.25   A brahmacari is advised to ...

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Mundane welfare work in iskcon

The following article was published on the Dandavats website on 26th July 2012 (5,533 views). The article appears below in ...

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Was Alexander the Great a Contemporary of Canakya Pandit? – the Puranic Version

Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Matajis, Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Bhakti-vighna-vinasa Narasimhadeva ...

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Gita Lessons to be Included in School Syllabus: Haryana CM

GURGAON: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said that lessons from 'Gita' and other holy books would ...

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Brahmananda Prabhu “The Mountain of our mission”

Though I was not in constant contact with Brahmananda Prabhu I always had great affection for him and ...

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Aren't we sometimes....

When I was a child, there was a young boy in my neighborhood whom I saw very often, ...

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HOW TO BE IN MAYA

The history of human kind is filled with examples how with full conviction leaders and followers in the ...

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Krsna’s sweetness

I remember, one year I was with Sacinandana Maharaj and a whole group of devotees on a boat, ...

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Spiritual Life means

Short and sweet presentation of "what spiritual life means" by Hare Krishna Media.

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Chastity – What Does It Actually Mean?

On the 26th of July we welcomed 40 ladies in Kharkov/Ukraine, who had traveled all the way from ...

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Nothing Can Taint The Words Of Srila Prabhupada

Q: Prabhu, how to distribute books if they are stolen from us by treacherous generals? You see, I'm ...

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Covering The Head Has Nothing To Do With Muslims

This is a response to a comment made by Gaura Keshava Prabhu in which he espouses the opinion ...

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Where Do the Fallen Souls Fall From?

When we hear that we live in this material world because we are “fallen souls,” it’s natural for ...

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Why are men frightened of marriage

More young men than ever before are refusing to get married. The reason? “Women aren’t women anymore.” Feminism taught a generation ...

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Bamboo Skyscrapers

H.H. Hridayananda Goswami’s Krishna West project is based on the simple idea that if you remove the non-essential, ...

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LEADING WITH SHASTRA

Dear prabhu, while you are an historic devotee who has done tremendous service for Srila Prabhupada, the way ...

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"How many likes" or "who likes"

The social media has become extremely popular among masses today. One among the different jargons that are used ...

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Is India the Rape Capital of the World?

Even before but more so after the sensational Nirbhaya gang-rape case of December 2012 India has been portrayed ...

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Can she become a guru?

This is a response to the video "She can become guru" for all those who want to know the arguments ...

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