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Mahamantra controversy
Mahamantra controversy: Hare Krishna or Hare Rama first ? By editor - 27.9 2019 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...Read more...
Tulsi Gabbard Leads Kirtan
Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Leads Kirtan at New York Rathayatra By: Madhava Smullen - 18.6 2019 Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard leads kirtan at New York Rathayatra - photo by Hari Kirtan Kaufmann Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Congresswoman from Hawaii, took a break from politics to...Read more...
The Cosmos is Manifested and Annihilated by Krishna
By Madhudvisa dasa - 2.6 2023 By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them. (Bhagavad-gita 9.4) The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not perceivable through the gross material senses. It is said that Lord Sri...Read more...
ISKCON Sacramento Prepares for New Temple Building
By Thomas Haribol - 2.6 2023 After nearly 25 years of preaching and service in California’s Sacramento and Folsom areas, devotees are delighted to announce the imminent arrival of a new temple building to meet the needs of their growing community and outreach. Sacramento, California,...Read more...
Dombas Prasad Distribution
Parasuram das - 2.6 2023 There are two main prasad distribution teams in the Dombas region since Krishna Tattva Prabhu and Madan Gopal Prabhu sadly left their bodies. One team is headed by Arjuna Prabhu, a young devotee who survived a rocket attack after being buried in the rubble. The...Read more...
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...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...
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...
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...
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...
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. "There is nothing new to be said. Whatever I had to say, I have already said in my books. I have...Read more...
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 counterculture was one of Srila Prabhupada’s earliest followers. While many people know that...Read more...
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 spiritual world. Though there is little in these stories to explain reincarnation in a philosophical sense...Read more...
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 flat, verdant ricelands of West Bengal’s district of Nadia appear timeless and remote....Read more...
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 Collection A serial presentation of the extraordinary collection of Sita Ram's early 1800's...Read more...
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 night) and lasting through to the dasami tithi (tenth phase of the Moon, the day before Pandava...Read more...
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 time and place of Sri Baladeva Vidyabhushana’s birth are unknown. Perhaps one day historians...Read more...
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 forefathers of the ancient stars. In primeval times, in the golden age, she lived among mankind as...Read more...
What Attracts Me to Krsna?
By Ranacora Dasa - 29.5 2023   An answer to the question: “Why is a good Christian like you worshiping a Hindu god?” People often ask me why I changed my faith from Christianity to worship of Krsna. They ask what made me give up Christianity. I am always quick to answer...Read more...
Conspiracy theories
By editor - 27. 5 2023 Conspiracy theories – The Monk’s Podcast with Madhavananda Prabhu Succinctly summarised by Chaitanya Charan Prabhu from 1.30.59: So, we discussed today broadly on the topic of going beyond conspiracy theories. We may blame people individually when we...Read more...
The Paintings of Sita Ram, Part 9
BY: SUN STAFF - 27.5 2023 The ghats at Benares: Dasasvamedh Ghat and the temples just downstream Painting by Seeta Ram, c. 1814 British Library Collection A serial presentation of the extraordinary collection of Sita Ram's early 1800's watercolors depicting Indian temples and...Read more...
Not a Timid Vaishnava
BY: ROCANA DASA - 27.5 2023 Modified reprise of a 2012 Gaura Purnima article. As devotees and conditioned souls, one of the main confusions we deal with is whether or not we are properly utilizing our time so as to advance our own Krsna Consciousness. Towards this end, the Sampradaya...Read more...
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