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What’s behind that glass of milk?
That image of tender care and worship that we are raised with, the image that is propagated in films and integrated with our cultural values — that’s a myth. In reality, the life of a cow in India is a horror show.
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Ananda Shanti Das: In His Own Words
I started preaching Krsna consciousness after Srila Prabhupada visited Moscow in 1971. Gradually people in the Soviet Union became more and more attracted to Krsna consciousness and it became quite widespread.
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How I Started Writing
I am writing this because many times people ask me how I got into writing, especially after having written so many books and articles.
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The Genuine Commentary on The Source of Religion
We often hear that the different systems of religious currents in India have more or less derived their origin from different interpretations of Vedānta. No one is recognized as the leader of the school unless he can maintain his position as commentator on Vedānta-darśana.
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No One Else to Blame
One who seeks Your compassion and thus tolerates all kinds of adverse conditions due to the karma of his own past deeds, who engage always in Your devotional service with his mind, words, and body, and who always offers obeisances unto You, is certainly a bona fide candidate for becoming Your unalloyed devotee.
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The Spectrum of Faith
In a recent Twitter discussion, I posited that atheists do indeed have faith. Their faith is in reason and sense perception, i.e., rationalism and empiricism.
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Reading Sri Geeta 'As It Is'
Once Supreme Lord Sri Chaitanya was on His visit to South India. He encountered a Brahmin at the Ranganath Temple who used to read the Geeta daily with great devotion.
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Animalism and Humanism
Is man an animal? According to the current evolution theory, he is. Undeniable, man exhibits animalistic features and propensities, strong enough to categorize man as animal.
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UN Suggests Eating Bugs to Fight World Hunger
The 200-page report, released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, on May 13 at the organisation’s Rome headquarters, called for restaurants, chefs and food writers to promote the eating of insects, in a bid to fight world hunger and global warming.
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Understanding Sri Ramchandra
The pastimes of Lord being eternal are beyond the comprehension of human material non-eternal sense organs. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Absolute; hence His pastimes are also Absolute.
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Mind exists, so does soul
Once Gurudeva, Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaj went to Punjab. He was there to attend a religious ceremony in Jalandhar. Lots of devotees have gathered. Srila Gurumaharaj was staying at a house of a doctor.
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The Appearance of Sri Gadadhara Pandita
The advent day of Gadadhara Pandita is on Amavasya, on the night of the dark moon. Mahaprabhu came in the full moon, Purnima, and He drew the entirety of internal wealth from Gadadhara Pandita. Mahaprabhu made him quite empty. He sent Gadadhara Pandita on a black night in the hot summer season.
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Srila Prabhupada Letter to Pope Paul
Your Holiness, please accept my respectful humble obeisances at your Lotus Feet. I beg to introduce myself as an Indian monk, following the Vedic principles of religious life. At the present, I am in the renounced order of Sannyas, aged 72 years, and am preaching God consciousness all over the world.
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Gaudiya Touchstone Issue 5 Now Online
This issue of the Gaudiya Touchstone's cover story is Kumbha-Mela, the world's largest act of faith. During January/February of this year news media across India and around the world turned their attention to the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mystical Saraswati rivers at Allahabad.
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Magic in Titicaca
A small group of Hare Krishna devotees are creating an ecological monastery on a tiny island in the remote Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.
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Go Green, Not Pink, for a Sustainable Future in India
India has long harbored a tradition of ethical vegetarianism, anchored on the dharmic traditions' commitment to ahimsa (nonviolence). This tradition can perhaps be encapsulated by Prabhupada's statement, "Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance,"
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World of Compassion
The Godhead’s desire to bestow liberation—his compassion—requires another world. Thus from the trans-spatial, timeless realm of Vaikuntha, the world of time and space manifests, and in the above verse, Krsnadasa Kaviraja identifies the deity from whom our world issues forth.
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Introduction to Shri Krishna
The ebullient human nature is regulated by censorious warning from ceremonial agencies. The sound waves irritate the auditory nerves and, the helping, prior experiences lead the aural reception to the brain for quodlibetic exploitation.
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New Book On Food Released Internationally
According to United Nations, a disease tsunami is sweeping the world. Humanity is dying out. This is the result of our deep ignorance about our food. Food processing and health care are now multi-trillion dollar industries.
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Rules for the Temple
We who have come to the Sri Chaitanya Math are all surrendered to Sri Chaitanya Deva, therefore we do not have any other goal besides devotional service to the Supreme Lord.
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What is a Goswami?
In the present material world people are interested in understanding the atma (a word meaning body, mind and soul) only in reference to the body.
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Guilty Conscience
Those who embark on the journey towards transcendence are brave indeed. They strive for purity in a world of degradation, they embrace simplicity amongst rampant materialism, and they cultivate selflessness in an atmosphere charged with exploitation.
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Scarcity: the Fruit of Illusion
Ecologists, economists, sociologists, etc., are greatly concerned with the population explosion, for they hypothesize that as the population continues to increase by leaps and bounds, the eventual result will be insufficient natural resources
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To Love God
It was Christ Jesus who first said "Love God with all thy heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and love man as thy brother." This is an absolute truth indeed; but different men put different interpretations to this noble expression.
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Reason and Love
We do not mean to say that Reason is a foolish principle. On the contrary we do not find better admirers of Reason than our humble selves. We hold that man's superiority amongst all created beings consists in man's possessing the noble gift of Reason.
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