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Mantra Wars and Mantra Weapons
By Bhakta-vaikuntha - 1.6 2023 I will concentrate on the nature of mantras and how they were used in ancient times or in ‘Vedic’ civilizations that go back more than 5,000 years and were employed not only for spiritual emancipation but in military applications as well. In other words, mantras were used to defeat the enemy in times of war. WHAT IS A MANTRA? The definition given in the glossary of the “Bhagavad-gita As It Is” by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the...Read more...
Off to War Again–Who’s Side is God on?
By Bhakta-vaikuntha - 1.5 2023 Now that we are ready to invade Iran and with the looming threat of a possible nuclear war with North Korea notwithstanding the nuclear threats posed by Pakistan and India, it seems the whole world is poised on the brink of a world war holocaust. But the big...Read more...
Man On The Moon - A Colossal Hoax that Cost Billions of Dollars
By Satsvarupa-dasa-goswami - 1.6 2023 Although many believe man first reached the moon in July, 1969, we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic scriptures, that the astronauts never actually went to the moon. The manned moon landing was a colossal hoax....Read more...
The Big Bang Theory
By Madhudvisa dasa - 1.6 2023 We have all heard it at school in the science class… In the beginning there was nothing… and from that nothing came a big bang, caused by no one coming from nowhere… It created all the mass of the universe completely by chance [...Read more...
Women In Krishna Consciousness - Questions & Answers
By Visakha-devi-dasi - 1.6 2023 The first step in spiritual understanding is to transcend the bodily concept of life. To think I am a man or I am a woman is to be in illusion. The body is a material dress for the soul, a dress that’s changing from moment to moment, as the body develops...Read more...
Mahamantra controversy: Hare Krishna or Hare Rama first ?
By editor - 31.5 2023 Many  people from other sampradayas raise concern over the order of usage of word Krishna and Rama in the Hare Krishna Mahamantra based on an advaitin edition of Kali Santarana Upanishad in the middle of 17th century  forgetting that Hare Krishna...Read more...
Mantra and the Theology of Sound
By editor - 31.5 2023 Mantras are a complex feature of the Hindu tradition that people sometimes do not understand all that well.  Different mantras are used for different things.  “For India, Mantras are real, palpable, mental artifacts to be revered and mastered, to be used...Read more...
Varnashrama Dharma and the Debt Ceiling
By Sankirtana Das (ACBSP) - 31.5 2023 If the Hare Krishna movement wants to be relevant and if they are serious in establishing varnashrama in one way or other,  than it is imperative for devotees to offer Vedic solutions according to time, place, and circumstance.  It’s time...Read more...
Vedic Art: Indian Miniature Painting
BY: SUN STAFF - 31.5 2023 Mamaki with Vajra on Lotus Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript Pala School, late 11th c.  A serial presentation of India's artistic legacy in devotional paintings, sculpture and temple architecture. Today we begin a summary study of the broad...Read more...
Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 17
BY: SUN EDITORS - 31.5 2023 Page thirty RECTIFICATION PROCEDURES We request that the GBC please adopt all of the resolutions we are now proposing. We further request that this be done during this spring festival. These rectification proposals should not be promised verbally only, but...Read more...
Krishna House Reunion at New Vrindaban
By Christina Kelly - 30.5 2023 Nearly 100 fresh-faced devotees in their late teens and twenties flocked to New Vrindaban on Mother’s Day weekend for the Vaishnava Arts Festival on May 12-14. The largely Western-raised crowd enthusiastically attended mangala arati, performed kitchen and...Read more...

BY: SUN EDITORS - 30.5 2023 Page twenty-nine SREYAS OR PREYAS When Srila Prabhupada departed from this mortal world, his last days contained emotional requests to his disciples. "...
By Satyaraja Dasa - 30.5 2023 The influential Beat poet assisted Srila Prabhupada in significant ways during ISKCON’s earliest years. A noted award-wining poet and icon of the 1960s...
By Steven J. Rosen - 30.5 2023 Among the earliest reincarnation narratives found in India’s Puranic texts, we find the stories of Jaya and Vijaya, the two gatekeepers of the...
By Sesa Dasa - 30.5 2023   Lord Caitanya launched His mission of mercy in West Bengal. Five hundred years later, Srila Prabhupada took that mission to heart and to the entire world...
BY: SUN STAFF - 29.5 2023 The river frontage at Benares with the Panchganga Ghat in the centre and Aurangzeb's mosque rising above it Painting by Seeta Ram, c. 1814 British Library...
BY: SUN STAFF - 29.5 2023 The Appearance Day of Srimati Gangamata Gosvamini is observed on May 29th. The Appearance day of Srimati Ganga Ma is celebrated beginning on the Amavasya (dark moon...
By editor - 29.5 2023 The Disappearance day of Sri Baladeva Vidyabhushana and the Appearance Day of Sri Gangamata Gosvamini are observed on May 29th. Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana The exact...
By Sadaputa Dasa - 29.5 2023 The ancient Greek writer Aratos tells the following story about the constellation Virgo, or the virgin. Virgo, he says, may have belonged to the star race, the...