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An Editorial Study in Four Parts by HG Mayesvara Dasa(ACBSP) 3. The Futility of a Non-Dual Dialogue The Neo-Non-Duality Charade The Non-dual path known in Sanskrit as Advaita has been around for…
An Editorial Study in Four Parts by HG Mayesvara Dasa(ACBSP) 2. Don't Waste Your Time, Or: Compassionate Patience? They Don't Deserve Krishna Consciousness Several devotees from all layers of the ISKCON hierarchy…
An Editorial Study in Four Parts by HG Mayesvara Dasa(ACBSP) 1. Stepping Away from the Choir What Attracted You? Srila Prabhupada gave us a radically new way to live and I am…
In 1971, as a young devotee in Calcutta, Giriraja Swami approached Srila Prabhupada, “I have been trying to understand what your desire is, and two things seem to please you the most: distributing…
Such are the criticisms that must be borne by the servants of Nārada Muni in the disciplic succession. Through the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are trying to train young people to become…
“Kṛṣṇa has given me hundreds of nice places of residence,” Śrīla Prabhupāda laughed. “But His order is you cannot stay.” Prabhupāda was explaining his transcendental predicament to a few disciples gathered in…
ISKCON Los Angeles, New Dvārakā, the Western world headquarters, was burgeoning with many Kṛṣṇa conscious projects. Book distribution was booming. The devotee population was growing. Money was available and was utilized in…
Before Prabhupāda’s arrival in Seattle, Upendra had written the head of the Asian department at the University of Washington, requesting a speaking engagement. The professor wrote back entirely in Sanskrit, knowing well…
The London party, now ready to go, went for a final meeting with Prabhupāda. He was sending them to start a center in London and thus fulfill his spiritual master’s dream. The sannyāsīs Śrīla…
Danavira: I'm in charge of the New Bhakta program in Los Angeles, and yesterday one boy called up the temple, and he was seventeen years old, and he said, "Five years ago,…
