Akincana Gocara

So there we were on Forest Ave in Detroit. The first thing that happened to us was that we were able to stop all drinking, smoking and drugs– instantly!! Somehow we were released from the bondage. Of course, twice the first week I had to go out on the backContinue Reading

When I first joined Srila Prabhupada in 1969, it was very easy to engage in Krsna consciousness. All you had to do was be at the temple. All hours of the day there were devotional activities going on and all you needed to do was join in. We understood fromContinue Reading

Everything is always changing in the material world. Values and morals are always changing according to the fickle nature of those captured by the three modes of nature. In the dual nature of this relative atmosphere, there are no conclusive realities but always there are two sides. So as aspiringContinue Reading

When we went to Srila Prabhupada in the beginning and complained about something strange in a godbrother’s instructions or actions,which seemed to not perfectly line up with what we understood as our spiritual master’s words, he would simply say “what do I say in my books?” So if we hearContinue Reading

Surrender to Krsna is a gradual process. It is not that we just find out that we are the low man on the totem pole and Krsna is the boss, and so and so is there in some bodily chain of command whom you had better submit to and justContinue Reading

It is impossible to ever consider ISKCON’s giving in to the X———–X camp’s cherished desire to “just everyone get along and have mutual respect for each other,” and be one big happy family, etc., because it will only serve to give them a better chance to promote their agenda withContinue Reading

Woman guest (2): Could you… Do you think you could explain to me about the Deities and how it’s different from idol worship? Because no one has been able to explain that to my understanding. Prabhupāda: Idol means your imagination. And Deity is not imaginary. Deity is installed by theContinue Reading

Krsna is there intimately at every moment within our hearts, and He is aware of our every thought, “as one smells the aroma of a rose.” We always forget this, and thus all our problems in the material atmosphere begin. Of course, if i tell you “Krsna is there insideContinue Reading

Everyday there are innumerable choices to make. So to develop this mood of surrender to Krsna we can practice making the right choices, though some of them can be difficult. Krsna informs us in the Bhagavad gita that our activities in sense enjoyment and our attraction to material opulence bewildersContinue Reading