What is more essential than the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
For an ordinary man, worship of Sri Caitanya and Nityananda Prabhu or the Panca-tattva is easier than worship of Radha and Krsna. Unless one is very fortunate, he should not be induced to worship Radha-Krsna directly. A neophyte student who is not sufficiently educated or enlightened should not indulge inContinue Reading
TOVP Relief Panel Work Progress
The article below was originally published by the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium website. Here is a sample of the relief panel work of Krishna and Balarama, along with all his cowherd boyfriends, who are jubilantly herding all the cows of Vrindavan. This is only one of the four reliefContinue Reading
What if the whole universe becomes Krishna Conciousness ?
While we are preaching, opposing elements sometimes argue, “If all living entities were delivered by the Krsna consciousness movement, what would happen then? The universe would be devoid of living entities.” In answer to this, we may say that in a prison there are many prisoners, but if one thinksContinue Reading
Russian GBC goes against devotee preachers with false allegations
Some days ago a certain document was published in the internet (we don’t classify the document as there is neither a date nor a place and name of it, the signers are five persons). In the document some zonal secretaries of Russian GBCs have resolved to ban preaching of BalaramacharyaContinue Reading
HINDU VERSION OF CHRISTIANITY : NEW RELIGION ARISES
What is DHARMA? His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder Acharya of ISKCON, says, “dharma means the orders given by the supreme personality of godhead. That is dharma. You can not manufacture dharma. Just like nowadays many so-called dharma are being manufactured. These are not Dharma. DharmaContinue Reading
Does Krishna condone violence in the Bhagavad Gita ?
Indian man: Swamiji, most of our Hindus accept Lord Krsna as our Supreme Being, as God. Yet in the Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna won’t fight his brothers, but Lord Krsna encouraged this, to fight his own brothers, to kill his own brothers, to shed blood. Isn’t this condoning violence? Yet Hinduism doesn’tContinue Reading
Cow dung philosophy
Prabhupada: He is protected. Others are not protected. So his term has not yet come. But what is the answer, that “Lord has become your obedient servant to protect. And when He does not?” Actually, He does not. In Europe, they are very, very much afraid of war, next war.Continue Reading
ISKCON performs the first Hare Krishna gay marriage ceremony in Brazil
The excerpt below was translated from its original source, a news website in Brazilian Portuguese called Razões para Acreditar. Verônica Monteiro, 23 years old, and Tatiane Alves, 25 years old, performed a beautiful wedding ceremony inside the Hare Krishna Movement in Taubaté (SP), one of the strands of Hinduism. Besides theContinue Reading
A devotee is more merciful than Krishna
So if you become demon, then you are also infected with asuya, envious of Krsna. Then you cannot understand. Then you cannot understand. Krsna is very strict, but the devotees are very lenient. Krsna doesn’t want to speak even with demons. But the devotees are so kind, they go toContinue Reading
What is the most noble of all professions?
Prabhupada: Yes. Farming, agriculture, that is nice. There is a proverb: agriculture is the noblest profession. Agriculture is noblest, and Krsna was farmer, His father. (Room Conversation — May 11, 1969, Columbus) Prabhupada: Agriculture is the noblest profession. Give him some land, he cuts the wood, makes cottages. The landContinue Reading