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BY: SUN STAFF - 16.5 2024 Sita Devi's Appearance day is observed on May 16th. Today, in honor of Sita Devi's Appearance, we will revist a previously discussed Indian Miniature depicting an episode from the Ramayana -- the Birth of Sita devi. Sita devi, who is an incarnation of...Read more...

Mohini Ekadasi

BY: SUN STAFF - 16.5 2024 The observance of Mohini Ekadasi is on May 18th in Los Angeles, 19th in Mayapur. Sri Yudhisthira Maharaja said, "Oh Janardana, what is the name of the Ekadasa that occurs during the light fortnight (sukla paksha) of the month of Vaisakha (April-May)?...Read more...

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Garbage In Garbage Out

By Ramchandra Das - 16.5 2024 Please accept my humble pranams. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. In computer parlance a program is defined as a set of step by step instructions given to get the desired output. Usually, even though the program is written perfectly, since the computer just...Read more...

The Highest Charity

By Gautam Saha - 16.5 2024 Every civilized person is familiar with the concept of seva or service. Service can be of different types and of different qualities. At home, every member of the family is serving everyone else. Traditionally, the father traditionally earns for the family and is...Read more...

The Crisis of Capitalism and Its Remedies

The Challenges and Benefits of Charitable Giving

Tomatoes from Heaven

By Nityananda Ram Das - 16.5 2024 I was born in 1948 into a farming family. My uncle, my mother’s brother, was the family member who had more cows than the rest of us. All the family farms were simple in their operation and completely rural in their location. My uncle’s farm was...Read more...

What is Prāṇa Pratiṣṭhā?

By editor - 15.5 2024 Table of Contents 1 Prāṇa Pratiṣṭhā and the Tortoise 2 Attitudes of the Iconoclasts 3 The Scientific Process of Perception 4 The Sāñkhya Process of Perception 5 The Vision of the Sun and the Moon 6 Can We Convince the...Read more...

Who Can Be Guru?

By editor - 15.5 2024 Much discussion occurs on the internet about “guru-tattva”. I have watched these discussions for years but refrained from participation because I find these discussions don’t understand or appreciate the true nature of hierarchy; most of these...Read more...

Gurus in ISKCON

Why a Person Falls from a Spiritual Path

Lord Krishna is the eternal superstar who never disappoints his fans

By Purushottam Kumar - 14.5 2024 Krishna is the only superstar who never disappoints his fans because he is always ready to reciprocate with the feelings of his fans. In this world, film stars, sports stars, rock stars, politicians, rich and mighty have innumerable fan...Read more...

The Crisis of Capitalism and Its Remedies

By editor - 14.5 2024 Many people realize at present that there are problems with capitalism, but opinion is divided on what should be done about it. This post explores the alternatives to capitalism and their problems. The reality is that there are no provably stable economic models today....Read more...

Natural Economy replaces Capitalism

The Solution to the Problems of Democracy and Autocracy

My Arjuna Moment

By Ananda Vrindavanesvari Devi Dasi - 14.5 2024 There comes a time, sometimes regularly, where we may feel, Oh, Krishna. I can’t do this anymore. This ‘this’ will be different for everyone. It happened to Arjuna in the Gita – he wanted to give up, not to fight, and go...Read more...

Arjuna asks Krishna, why should I fight the Mahabharat war?

MYTHS OF ARJUNA AND KRSNA

The Vedic Understanding of Narcissism

By editor - 13.5 2024 My life has been uniquely blessed by the sheer number of narcissists that have entered into it. A narcissist destroys your self-esteem and manipulates you emotionally. If you feel strong, their first tactic is to make you feel weak. Under that weakness, they have a...Read more...

I was born in another sampradaya

I was born in another sampradaya, but became introduced to seriously bhakti through ISKCON. Which sampradaya should I follow? By Chaitanya Charan - 13.5 2024 Transcription by– Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: Can we follow any sampradaya and go back to Krishna?...Read more...

The Sampradaya of Sri Caitanya

Gaudiya Sampradaya

Rasa analysis of Krishna’s teasing of Rukmini

By Chaitanya Charan - 13.5 2024 Lecture Summary: Radharani is Satyabhama – neither is afraid to neglect Krishna. Chandravali is Rukmini – both wait for Krishna and are afraid that he will leave them. Both the moods are meant for pleasing Krsna. Krsna likes variety. Here...Read more...

Is Duty a Four-letter Word?

By Satyaraja Dasa - 13.5 2024 The ideas of the Western philosopher Kant come close to the concept of dharma. For some, duty is a dirty word—we want to do what we want to do. Period. To hell with duty. But let’s consider this more seriously: What is duty, and should I...Read more...

Is Hinduism Just a Way of Life?

By editor - 10.5 2024 There is a popular but false dogma about Hinduism, that it is not a religion, but only a way of life. This dogma is misleading and toxic at many levels, and this post tries to uncover and examine the many flaws of this idea. First, when we say that Hinduism is a...Read more...

Indology, Hindu

Religion and Hinduism

“I am not this Body.” Easy to say…

By Madhudvisa dasa - 10.5 2024 The body is a machine, like a motor car is a machine. I am within this body as the driver is within the motor car. Now the motor car has many needs. It needs gas, it needs oil, it needs to have it’s tires pumped up and so on. But if one forgets the...Read more...

Vanipedia Reaching Millions More with YouTube Shorts

By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi - 10.5 2024 In just 480 days, Vanipedia has achieved a significant milestone—500 YouTube shorts on its channel Vanimedia Mayapur, which was first launched in 2013. These concise videos, typically lasting no more than one minute, have played...Read more...

Caring Krishna and His Caring Devotees

By Vishakha Devi Dasi - 10.5 2024 A devotee sees all as God’s dear children and wants to relieve their misery. As eternal parts of Krishna, we naturally possess some of His quality of being concerned for the welfare of all living beings. Krishna, the seed-giving father of all...Read more...

Samadhi Ceremony for HH Gopal Krishna Goswami

By ISKCON News - 9.5 2024 As condolences and appreciations pour in from political and religious leaders around the world and ISKCON temples host events in remembrance of HH Gopal Krishna Goswami, details have been released of his final Darshan and Samadhi Ceremony in Vrindavan. The...Read more...

SANSKRIT AND THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Vamadeva Shastri - 9.5 2024 Sanskrit is to experiential spirituality what mathematics is to science. Sanskrit can unlock the mysteries of universal Consciousness just as mathematics helps to decode the structure of the universe. This means for a science of Consciousness to be credible we...Read more...

Sanskrit’s Nature And History

Sanskrit, Latin And Greek: is there a relation between them?

The Departure of His Holiness Gopal Krsna Goswami

By Niranjana Swami - 9.5 2024 My heart grieves today, having heard about the departure of such an outstanding Vaisnava as His Holiness Gopal Krsna Goswami. I offer my condolences to the thousands of Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis worldwide whose hearts must be aching with intense feelings of...Read more...

HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Has Departed This World

A Tribute to HH Gopal Krishna Goswami from the global members of the BBT

Teaching evolution in schools

By Chaitanya Charan Das - 9.5 2024 An Indian Union Minister of State recently triggered a furor by stating that evolution is unproven scientifically and shouldn’t be taught in schools. Before examining the tenability of this statement, we need to understand what is implied by the word...Read more...

Scientific Pretensions of Evolutionary Theory

Evolution in the Vishnu Purana

The Solution to Food Shortages

By editor - 9.5 2024 The following exchange took place after a talk by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada before the World Health Organization, in Geneva, on June 6, 1974. WHO member: Your Divine Grace, do you have any suggestions for solving the worldwide problem of...Read more...

God is Greatness

By editor - 8.5 2024 God is great, is an oft-heard statement. It relies on a separation between the idea of greatness and the thing we call great. The idea is always “above” the thing, in the sense that it is used to judge whether something is great. In the case of God, the...Read more...

Arguments for the Existence of God

Looking for the Supreme God

HH Gopal Krishna Goswami Has Departed This World

By ISKCON News - 8.5 2024 The Governing Body Commission’s Executive Committee released the following announcement regarding the departure of His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami: “Dear Friends, Well-wishers, and Devotees of ISKCON, Please accept our humble obeisances. All...Read more...

A Tribute to HH Gopal Krishna Goswami from the global members of the BBT

Gopal Krishna Goswami

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