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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...

Ancient Mantra Weapons

The Divine Weapons of the Puranas

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...

Nonviolence or War

A peaceful war!!

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...

Srila Prabhupada and Moon Landings

Dark Side of the Moon: Stanley Kubrick and the Fake Moon Landings

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...

The Big Bang and the Sages

Exploding the Big Bang Theory

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...

How to be an Ideal Husband

Why are women considered less intelligent?

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...

Meaning of the Mahamantra

References to the Hare Krsna Maha-mantra

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...

The Mantra that changed my life

Essentials of Mantra Sadhana

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...

What Do We Mean by Varnashrama?

Explore Varnashrama Dharma

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...

Pictures

Art of Sharma

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...

Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 16

Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 15

Krishna House Reunion at New Vrindaban’s Vaishnava Arts Festival Presents Expansive Vision for Growth

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...

New Vrindaban Board Discusses Many Positive Projects

ISKCON Moundsville - New Vrindavan

Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 16 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. "...	Beats, Bhakti, and Allen Ginsberg 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...
The Reincarnation(s) of Jaya and Vijaya: A Journey through the Yugas 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...	A Prophecy Fulfilled 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...
The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 10 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...	Ganga Puja 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...
Sri Baladeva Vidyabhushana and Sri Gangamata Gosvamini 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...	Cross-cultural Traces Of Vedic Civilization 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...

What Attracts Me to Krsna?	Animal Theophanies of the ‘Hidden’ God
Conspiracy theories	How to Cope with the Digital Age
The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 9	Why did Rama worship Shiva?
Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 15	The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 5
Not a Timid Vaishnava	Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 11
The ISKCON 2023 Global Law Conference	The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 4
Thoughts from a Coronation	The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 3
Yoga and Ayurveda Practices to Protect our Nervous Systems in the High Tech Era	Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 10
Global Environmental Management and the Vedic Triguna	Srila Vrindavan Dasa Thakura’s Appearance Day
Doubt and Certainty In Krishna Consciousness	Material and Spiritual – What’s the balance?
Being Absorbed in God	Tulasi: The Dearest to The Divine
Praising by criticizing – The paradoxical ways of expressing love	Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 9
The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 8	How I Met Swami Bhaktivedanta
The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 7	Chanting for Liberation
Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 14	Does Lord Krishna “need” us?
How Sumati Morarji Fulfilled Her Father-in-law's Promise	Museum of Spiritual Art at Radhadesh Temple
Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 13	Man is the architect of his own fortune
Hearing the Unheard	The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 2
The Problem with Paradise	Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 8
Nonviolence or War	Sanatana-dharma, Not Hindu-dharma
Krsna consciousness is the Absolute Necessity for Mankind in this Age	The Special Kindness of Lord Caitanya
The Nectarean Teachings of Sri Caitanya, Part 3	Yoga and Ayurveda
The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 6	Karma, DNA of Our Soul
The Nectarean Teachings of Sri Caitanya, Part 2	GBC Body Appreciates The Bhaktivedanta Research Center
The Nectarean Teachings of Sri Caitanya	President of Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple Among Special Guests at the Coronation of King Charles III
Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 12	The Paintings of Sita Ram
The Great Apostle of ‘love of God’	Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 7
Teaching by Example	Challenging the Zonal Acarya System, Part 6
Hatha Yoga and the Bhagavad-gita	Constitutional Issues: Differing Positions on Guru-tattva
Principles of Freedom	Chitrakoot Dhama, Part 10