Philosophy

How Could Sri Rama Do That To His Pregnant Wife?

By Kesava Krsna Dasa - 12.4 2019 How many devotees will answer the question of how Mother Sita was banished by Sri Rama to Valmiki’s hermitage? “Rama was righteous… He set an example for all…?” Or is there a deeper reason? Such an answer can take the ‘...Read more...

The Golden Avatar

KING DASARATHA

Many Gods or One?

By Satyaraja Dasa - 8.4 2019 Many Gods or One? Five Prominent Deities and Their Universal Meaning Is Krishna consciousness polytheistic? A discussion of panchopasana provides a clear answer that also helps us understand all religions. At first blush, Vaishnavism may seem...Read more...

Seven stages of purification

The Golden Avatar

Ravana refused Rama’s invitation and met with annihilation

By Purushottam Nitai Das - 8.4 2019 With just his tail, Hanuman effortlessly burned the entire city of Lanka. But he too wasn’t successful in burning the lust and ego of Ravana, the powerful king of Lanka. In fact Ravana’s real well wishers such as his brother Vibhishana and his...Read more...

RAVANA

Have You Burnt The Ravana Within?

Religion and Hinduism

By Dayananda Das - 5.4 2019 The words “religion” and “Hindu” are problematic. Both are confusing, inaccurate, and not useful words. Religion Depending on the context, the use of the word religion can be ill-defined and even offensive—for example, when...Read more...

Hinduism, Hindus

About the Name “Hindu”

Intelligence and Example

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Lecture given in Hyderabad, December 17, 1976 The most learned members of society should show others by example how to live peacefully and become Krishna conscious. saktah karmany avidvamso yatha kurvanti bharata kuryad vidvams...Read more...

Parasites of the Mind

Sankirtana: Welfare for All Beings

Who are the Grama Devatas?

By Sainath Reddy - 3.4 2019 Is the system of local guardian deities has the sanction of scripture? Grama devata is a Sanskrit term for the guardian deity of a village, town, or even city. While it is the common truth that God is everywhere and present at all times, there is a...Read more...

Shiva and Prana Yoga

By Dr David Frawley - 2.4 2019 Prana Yoga is one of the most important Yoga traditions and an integral part of the worship of Lord Shiva, who represents the highest immortal Prana of pure consciousness beyond time, space and karma. Shiva and the Unitary Prana Shiva is the unitary...Read more...

PRANA

Prana and Pranayama

The Jiva's Freewill

BY: CAITANYA DAS - 28.3 2019 I find many devotees are under the impression Lord Krishna knows everything in terms of what we choose to do or not to do. Our Acaryas clearly tell us we have free will, and free will means what it says. Srila Prabhupada has said "we are not dead stones...Read more...

Energies of Lord Krishna

ISKCON controversy

BHAKTI

By editor - 26.3 2019 Bhakti as a Word The term bhakti describes loving devotion as a means of Hindu worship (Singh D 31). Record of its earliest use is found in the Rg Veda, a collection of hymns composed during early Vedic times. The word originates from the root word...Read more...

The Life and Teachings of Lord Caitanya

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Guru Nanak

The Chaitanya School: Role of Ethics

By Chanda Chatterjee - 25.3 2019 Any discussion on religion remains incomplete without a reference to moral and ethical values. The case of Gaudiya Vaishnavism is no exception to that. It is true that ethics has not been systematically treated by the Gaudiya philosophers and that the issue...Read more...

Deśa – Kāla – Pātra – Time, Place and Circumstances

By Yasoda nandana dasa - 22.3 2019 – deśa-kāla-pātra – Deśa means situation, and kāla, time, and pātra, means the subject, the individual. Deśa-kāla-pātra: according to time, according to circumstances, according to...Read more...

Our Progress in Life by Our Chanting

Surrendering to Krishna

Your true self, Vedanta and modern psychology

The following article by Dr David Frawley was first published by Zee News Modern psychology suffers from gaps, which the teachings of Vedanta address at a fundamental level. We live in an age of psychoanalysis. Since Freud a century ago, we have been taught the importance of...Read more...

Psychology

The Transcendental Trend in Science

Women and Lust

By Satyanarayana Dasa - 15.3 2019 There are popular statements found in smṛtis and nīti sāśtra that women have eight times more kāma than men. For example: strīṇāṁ aṣṭa-guṇā-kāmaḥ (Bṛhat-pārāśara-smṛti) kāmaśca aṣṭā-guṇaḥ smṛtaḥ (Garuḍa-purāṇa 1.109.33, Hitopadeśa 2.71) The word kāma...Read more...

Lust blinds love liberates

Is Sex An Addiction

Lord Chaitanya Visits Vrindavan

By Lokanath Swami - 15.3 2019 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was always absorbed in thoughts of Sri Vrindavan, often enquiring in a deep devotional mood, “Where is Vrindavan?” On several occasions, His devotees, fearing separation from Him, diverted, discouraged, or dissuaded Him...Read more...

Commemorative Coin on “Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu”

Doyal (Merciful) Nitai

Meat Eating

By The Editor - 14.3 2018 Vedas Nowhere Supports Meat Eating – Here are Evidences Vedic scriptures nowhere support meat eating. Sayan and Mahidhara in middle ages wrongly interpreted the Vedas in support of meat eating. The western indologists like Maxmuller/Griffith copied it...Read more...

Vegetarian articles

Inconvenient Foods: The Happy Facts

The Transcendental Trend in Science

By Damodara Dasa and Jagajivana Dasa - 14.3 2019 For a long time scientists have been asking, What’s going on? And some of them have tried to find out, What’s behind it all? Sir Isaac Newton once made a remarkable model of the solar system. Thanks to a...Read more...

Science and Krishna Consciousness

What explains science

Energies of Lord Krishna

By Jaya Gaursundar Dasa GauraVanacari - 13.3 2019 God is one. Moreover, according to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that one God is Krishna, the cowherd boy of Vrindavan, who chooses to expand Himself unlimitedly still remain the same one Supreme Person, just to increase His own pleasure. Śrīmad-...Read more...

Two Energies Choices

Matter and Consciousness Are Linked

HUMILITY DETERMINES YOUR SUCCESS

Venugopal Acharya - 8.3 2019 “Pride must die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you.” – Andrew Murray (19th-century South African writer and Christian pastor) 5.00 a.m. – You rise early today and in the solitude of your room...Read more...

A Few Words on Humility

Humility and Faultfinding

Mauna – The Practice of Observing Silence

By Om Swami - 7.3 2019 When you practice silence, the voice of the soul opens up like an unfolding bud. You emit beautiful fragrance then. The first practice on the path of self transformation is the art of observing silence. Observing silence can help you achieve silence of...Read more...

The Authority of the Puranas

By Srila Jiva Goswami - 6.3 2019 The preeminent philosopher in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s line explains why, in this age, the Puranas are essential for accessing the Absolute Truth. [Excerpted from Sri Tattva-sandarbha, by Srila Jiva Goswami, translation and commentary by...Read more...

New Bhagavata Purana

Puranas

Raja Yoga of Shankaracharya

By editor - 28.2 2019 The Fifteenfold Non-dualistic Raja Yoga of Shankaracharya Shankara, the Great Yogi Shankaracharya, or Shankara the teacher, is one of the greatest spiritual masters in the history of India. Shankara has often been called the greatest philosopher of India, if not of...Read more...

Adi Shankaracharya

JNANA YOGA

Parasites of the Mind

By Caitanya Carana Dasa - 25.2 2019 How to immunize our minds against attacks by agents harmful to our spiritual life. Many of us may sometimes feel fed up with the way things are going in our life. At such times, we feel mentally tired even when we are not physically tired. Because of...Read more...

What Is Mind?

The Mind Can Be Our Friend or Our Enemy

Why Krsna left?

By Bhurijan Das - 25.2 2019 Krsna says that the gopikas (Srimati Radhika being the topmost) are so dear to Him. And then He leaves them and goes to Mathura. How is it possible? Is He so casual, just “Ram Ram. There are beautiful women in Mathura also”? No, His heart is so...Read more...

Why Srimati Radharani descended from Goloka?

Story of Ekalavya

By editor - 25.2 2019 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s commentary on the story of Ekalavya In his book of essays, entitled Upakhyane Upadesa, “Instructions in Stories” (Gaudiya Mission 1936), Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura gives the following commentary...Read more...

Why did Krishna kill Ekalavya?

Ekalavya and Arjuna

Doubt, Fear, and Mercy

By editor - 22.2 2019 Q&A with Satyanarayana dasa Babaji, originally published at the Jiva Institute. Question: I have been practicing bhakti for about 10 years and somehow I have become discouraged in my practice because of doubts, thus I am humbly asking for help....Read more...

History of Kirtan in ISKCON

Philosophy

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