History and Heritage

A Prabhupad’s Warrior: Hladini Devi Dasi

Hladini devi dasi was brutally gunned down by an extra-judicial firing squad in war-torn Liberia in western Africa in 1990.…

7 years ago

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura appearance day

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838-1914) was a pioneering spiritual leader, a magistrate working in colonial India under British rule, a prolific…

7 years ago

Vidyabhusana Project Update: Vedanta-syamantaka Gloss Discovered

It was a great joy and a surprise even to myself to find a manuscript with the gloss of Srila…

7 years ago

Lord himself defeating various opposing philosophies

Sometimes the Lord would establish the supremacy of Krishna consciousness by defeating various opposing philosophies. Once, a very learned Buddhist…

7 years ago

SRILA PRABHUPADA’S DISCIPLE CAME BACK FROM YAMPURI

This is an incident which happened in the 1930s. There was a disciple of Srila Prabhupada Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur…

7 years ago

Back in the Day (Part 6)

Feeling dejected I walked back into the temple room to lick my wounds and feel sorry for myself for my…

8 years ago

Back in the Day (Part 5)

There were only 5 or 6 of us there during those first months and we sat down three times a…

8 years ago

Back in the Day (Part 4)

“The potency is just in the hearing,” we would tell them….”The better you hear attentively, the better the effect will…

8 years ago

Back in the Day (Part 3)

We were so happy then. Each and every time you saw another devotee you were flat on the ground offering…

8 years ago

Back in the Day (Part 2)

So there we were on Forest Ave in Detroit. The first thing that happened to us was that we were…

8 years ago