WE HAVE NOT ACTUALLY FALLEN
People are running around–“Oh, I am the manager. I am the factory owner. I am this. I am that. We know his politics, we have to defeat our competitors.” All these things are created just like a man creates a situation in a dream– svapna–drastur ivanjasa. So when someone asks,Continue Reading
ISKCON promotes the Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign
The post below has been taken and translated from the official page of ISKCON Belém, in Brazil. Engaged in the Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign, ISKCON Belém ( @iskconbelem ) and Vida Zen Belém ( @vidazenbelem ) hold a special program aimed at alerting women and society about theContinue Reading
You can only take a horse to the river… You cannot make it drink. ( On the recent FDG resolution ).
When a supposedly advanced group of devotees made a decision with full knowledge of Guru Sadhu and Sastra but only to reject all three and just yield to the pressure from western uncultured butchers of Vedic culture… When a common devotee gets this information and if that person rejects itContinue Reading
Cutting the Knots of Material Attachment
Our attempts at happiness in the material world keep us bound to repeated suffering, but there is a way out. bhidyate hridaya-granthish chidyante sarva-samshayah kshiyante chasya karmani drishta evatmanishvare “Thus the knots of the heart and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions, or karma, isContinue Reading
Song
Song Being a lifelong songwriter as well as initiated disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami I know the effect of song and it’s origination. My spiritual master often talked about the uselessness of ” rubbish sex songs”. By this he did not mean songs about the act of reproduction but theContinue Reading
TOVP Newsletter #10, October 2019
The TOVP newsletter for October 2019 has just been released. You may subscribe for future updates by clicking here and filling up the subscription form.Continue Reading
Resolution of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) Regarding Vaishnavi Diksa-gurus
Download as PDF October 15, 2019 Whereas in 2009 the GBC Resolved: The GBC accepts the philosophical conclusion presented in the SAC’s Female Diksa Guru Paper that a mature, qualified, female devotee may accept the role of an initiating spiritual master. The GBC Body authorizes local area committees to putContinue Reading
Learn to Love The Natural Mode of Life
This conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place at New Vrindaban, West Virginia, USA, on June 24, 1976. Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, once you said, “The tractor – this is the cause of all the trouble. It took all the young men’sContinue Reading
Why so many divorce happened ?
Everyone is engaged in these material activities, and the basic principle of material activity is gṛhastha, family life. Family life, according to Vedic system, or anywhere, is responsible life to maintain the wife, children. Everyone is engaged. They think this is the only duty. “To maintain the family, that isContinue Reading
Why I Wear a Sari
A graduate of Krsna conscious schools tells why she chooses to wear the traditional Vedic dress. WHY DO THEY cover their heads?” the small Catholic girl asked of the nun holding her hand. The girl was unabashedly pointing at me across the room of the glass blower’s cabin at colonialContinue Reading