Words From Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura
We are put to test and trial in this world. Only those who attend the Kīrtana of the devotees can succeed. (A Ray of Vishnu, Ch. 16, 1933 to 1936) Every spot on earth where discourses on God are held is a place of pilgrimage. (A Ray of Vishnu, Ch. 16,Continue Reading
People’s Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study (qz.com)
The science is settled. You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you? In the paper, published online by University of Southampton and due to be published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers note that Buddhism’s teachings that a meditation practice helps overcome the ego conflicts with U.S. psychologist William James’sContinue Reading
“If it is favorable to my idea, then I accept You.” That is not devotion.
Mādhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, once you said that to stop this transmigration, one has to become completely disgusted with this material world. Prabhupāda: Yes, unless…, how he can take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness? If he takes as a fashion, that is another thing. Just like the man who cannot tolerate commits suicide.Continue Reading
Three Times When One Spends Huge Money According to Vedic Culture
In Vedic civilization marriage is one of the important function of life. As death is important function, birth is important function, similarly, marriage is also important function. Janma-mrityu-vivaha. So in this age everywhere, not only…. The marriage is now farce. This is the symptom of Kali-yuga. There will be noContinue Reading
A Most Unlikely Sanskrit Enthusiast
Born in Manhattan in 1902 to a pharmacist and a housewife, Berg played baseball at Barringer High School in Newark, NJ. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in classical and romance languages and became notorious for practicing Sanskrit from behind home plate. Michael Kaplan, “This baseball player was secretlyContinue Reading
Cheating in the Field of Psychology
One of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology turns out to have been faked. There is so much cheating in the field. Why do we put our trust in these “experts” and entrust our children to them? From Medium: It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971,Continue Reading
What is the importance of the principle “Always remember Krishna and never forget Him.”
“Copyrighted content. Do not copy paste anywhere without the author’s permission. Contact Akincana.net“ The principle of always remembering Krishna and never forgetting Him is the essence of all other instructions given in the shastras. Shastras describe many rules and regulations governing all the different areas of human life. The ideaContinue Reading
Psychotherapy is useless
It looks like psychotherapy doesn’t help people all that much. When it comes to America, we must notice, as I have often said, that far too much American therapy is of the touchy feely variety. Patients are induced to get in touch with their feelings and to feel their feelings.Continue Reading
A Follow-up to the What the MS-13 Gang and ISKCON Have in Common Post
As a follow-up to the posting on MS-13 and ISKCON, I received a number of interesting reactions. But before I share some of those, I would like to make a few summary points: ISKCON and the MS-13 Gang’s point of commonality is that women are kept out of decision-making onContinue Reading
Modern Civilization of Mudhas
Modern civilization is about ahara(eating), nidra(sleeping) , bhaya(defense), maithuna(Sex) or sense gratification. In modern society nobody knows his original position and how to act properly. Because people are generally acting differently, they do not know what is proper- the modern population is so much ignorant about their life – itContinue Reading