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All about fasting

By editor - 21.1 2022 Health view Fasting attitude Removing sins Spiritual view Ekadasi Fasting unauthorized by sastras condemned Fasting to death Transcendental level The Sanskrit word for fasting is upavasa. Upa indicates nearness and vasa means 'to reside'. Thus the literal meaning of upavasa is "to reside with the Lord". Another reading of upavasa can also be "going back to life", withdrawing from sin and leading a proper life (upa - going back, and vasa - life). In other...Read more...

A Regulated Life is Very Important

Some Confusion Regarding Fasting

How can we improve our intelligence to control our mind?

By Chaitanya Charan - 21.1 2022 Question: How can we improve our intelligence to control our mind? Answer: By education culture and devotion, by education when we study the philosophy as given in the scriptures we understand that the things to which mind attracts us...Read more...

Mind and Consciousness

What is the actual difference between mind and intelligence?

Vedic Counseling and Ayurvedic Psychology

Dr David Frawley - 21.1 2022 Vedic counseling forms the background teaching for any education, guidance or therapy in the Vedic field. This includes Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta, Jyotish, Vastu and Sanskrit, along with the principles of Vedic living overall as karma and dharma. It extends to...Read more...

Mind and Consciousness

Psychology

Can Creation Come from Chaos?

By Madhava Dasa, Sadaputa Dasa and Svarupa Damodara Dasa - 21.1 2022 A challenge to the prevailing scientific view that life comes from a chance combination of material elements. Although scientists would like to assume that in the past, inert chemicals combined to produce life, as...Read more...

Why has God given us free will?

Ahankara – Foundational principle of our material existence

Receiving the Order to Preach

Sunanda Das - 21.2 2022 The TOVP Celebrates the Prabhupada Paschatya Desha Tarine Centennial, 1922-2022: Receiving the Order to Preach Many devotees may not be aware that this year commemorates the 100th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada receiving the order to preach in the West from Srila...Read more...

Why is Krishna not descending now when there is so much adharma?

By Chaitanya Charan - 20.1 2022 Question: Why is Krishna not coming as an Avatar now when things are so chaotic in the world? Answer: Things are always wrong in the material world; because here we all have to grow old, get diseased, and die; even if there were no terrorist even...Read more...

Dharma vs. Law

Why did Krishna allow the desecration of Deities by foreign invaders?

Why has God created a mind that misleads us?

By Chaitanya Charan - 18.1 2022 Question: Why did God create a mind that misleads us? Answer: Everything in the world that is created is meant to fulfil the purpose of the world. And the purpose of the world is twofold. One is experimentation and second is rectification. The...Read more...

Mind and Consciousness

What exactly is the mind

What is the matter with the world

By editor - 20.1 2022 By A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada On the 16th of February 1957 a meeting was held at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan to discuss the above subject matter. Distinguished gentlemen from different categories spoke on the subject, but practically nobody could give us a...Read more...

Srila Prabhupada video

Srila Prabhupada lectures online

What Happens After We Die

Colbert Asks Celebrities “What Happens After We Die?” (7 min. video) By editor - 20.1 2022 Colbert poses that question to the best, brightest, and most beloved stars on the planet, (George Clooney, Tom Hanks, & Meryl Streep), who really don’t know, and proceed to...Read more...

Why do serious devotees sometimes die prematurely?

Before I Die…

Developing our Gardens

By Bhaktivedanta Manor’s Head Gardner, Narahari Rupa das - 20.1 2022 “Last spring we worked on the burning and composting area to make it more efficient to use, we leveled the area and set new gates to close the area off and keep the public safe. We reseed the...Read more...

Jaganath Vallabha garden

Prabhupada’s Palace Restoration

Mauna: The Yoga of Silence

Dr David Frawley - 19.1 2022 Mauna as the Secret Silent Limb of Yoga Mauna refers to the practice of not-speaking, and one who does this regularly is called a Muni, a sign of great respect in Hindu and yogic thought. While not-speaking is an important part of Mauna, it is much more than...Read more...

Mauna – The Practice of Observing Silence

Benefits of Mauna According to Vedas

Prana Beyond the Breath and Life Beyond Death Dr David Frawley - 19.1 2022 Prana is not the breath, though it is closely related to it at a physical level. Many people define prana as the breath or call it the breath. This can help...	Movies for Devotees: The Game Changers By Nrsimhananda Das, ISKCON Television, Inc. - 19.1 2022 Overwhelmingly, Srila Prabhupada preached that vegetarian or non-vegetarian was not the issue.* He nearly always took the...
Eating Meat Proven to Cause Cancer By Janatari Devi Dasi - 19.1 2022 An international committee advisory committee advocated that processed and red meat as high priorities for assessmentby the IARC Monographs Programme. The...	Jagannatha Temples in Midnapore District BY: SUN STAFF - 19.1 2022 Jagannath Temple Bahiri, East Medinapore Gloom and Bloom: The Case of Jagannatha Temples in Midnapore District, by Prof. K. S. Behera. The famous Jagannatha...
What is Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s contribution to our tradition? By Chaitanya Charan - 18.1 2022 Question: Can you briefly explain the contribution of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur in our sampradaya? Answer: Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s...	Are sahajiyas better than Mayavadis? By Chaitanya Charan - 18.1 2022 One place Srila Prabhupada is saying that sahajias are much much better than mayavadis and that they are devotees. Question: Are...
Serving Prabhupada Is Serving Krishna. By editor - 18.1 2022 Prabhupāda: So you all become bhagavad-dūta, bhagavad-dūta, messenger of God. That is perfection of life. Otherwise you shall be obliged to become the servant of the...	“Who is Crazy?” By editor - 18.1 2022 One of the first pieces of Krishna conscious literature widely distributed in the western world, “Who Is Crazy?” inspired many people to investigate the...

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Sri Krsna Pusya Abhiseka	The Process of Surrender
Ahankara – Foundational principle of our material existence	Mahotsaha Das Breaks Book Distributing Record
Self-Denial, With Pleasure	What is the relationship between Sadashiva, the Shiva born from Brahma and the eleven Rudras?
Hatha Yoga and the Bhagavad-gita	Why do we do pradakshina?
Cult Mentality & Religious Fanaticism	Nicholas Roerich's Himalayan Art
Worship of Genitalia	Burger King to sell vegan nuggets in bid to go 50% meat-free
What is the difference between free will and desire?	ISKCON and the Vaisnava Paradox
Why did Arjuna despite being a pure devotee hunt animals?	Jesus in India: The Lost Years, Part 5
What is the logical proof for the existence of the spiritual world?	Srila Jiva Goswami and Sri Jagadisa Pandit
Talking to the Hare Krishna Leader	Srila Jiva Gosvami
Ojas: The Power of Immunity in Yoga and Ayurveda	Is Jiva Gosvami’s philosophy the same as Sri Caitanya’s?
Hell	Sri Locana Das Thakur
If Krishna is God, how could he have been killed by a hunter’s arrow?	Jesus in India: The Lost Years, Part 4
Dangerous Education	Narada Muni – The Father of Devotional Service
Principles of Freedom	Narada Muni — The Transcendental Spaceman
Who Can Be Guru?	Material and Spiritual – What’s the balance?
What is Daivī Varna System?	How is the holy name different from ordinary sound
Why has God given us free will?	Jesus in India: The Lost Years, Part 3
Different Puranic versions of the origin of Lord Shiva?	The Cause of Offense, the Formula for Friendship
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Wealth or Poverty?	Yamuna devi dasi
New World Age	Materialism: The Root Cause of Crime
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Rectifying Mistakes by Repentance	Where does people’s evil tendency come from?
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What exactly is the mind	The Mind-Control Controversy: Brainwashing
Mayavadis	The Controversial True Story Behind George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord’