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"Prabhupāda: Hitler one side, fought with the Britishers, smashed them. This is one cause. Another cause = Hitler helped Subhas Chandra Bose to organize I.N.A. Two causes, the Britishers to go away.…
Everyone knows that Śrīla Prabhupāda thought big: “Take over the world with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.” But Prabhupāda also thought small. He did not like over-centralization or top-heavy management. When he saw devotees in…
The very first supporting argument in the recent GBC resolution concerning female devotees becoming gurus contains the following sentence: "So I hope that all of you, men, women, boys and girls, become spiritual…
Kuntī says that this intoxication position, madaḥ, edhamāna-madaḥ (
War and bloodshed can become a glorious act if done under divine guidance. aho bata mahat papam kartum vyavasita vayam yad rajya-sukha-lobhena hantum sva-janam udyatah “Alas, how strange it is that we…
Ambarisa Dasa (Alfred Ford) is the great-grandson of Henry Ford. He was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1973. A disciple welcomes the challenge of fulfilling a difficult order from his spiritual master. Back…
A Reply to the GBC Action Order 305 (2009)
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…
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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…
