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13 Mile Long Crop Circle-like Formation (Sri Yantra) in Oregon

On August 10, 1990, Bill Miller, a pilot in the Idaho Air National Guard, noticed a huge etching on a dried-up lake-bed while flying...

Naimisharanya

The forest of Naimisharanya is the aranya svarupa or forest manifestation of Lord Vishnu, and is therefore a sacred tirtha. Over the ages, it...

The Birth of Sita Devi

In honor of Sita Devi's Appearance, we present a beautiful Indian Miniature depicting an episode from the Ramayana -- the Birth of Sita devi....

How Srila Vaman Maharaja was appointed Acharya of the Gaudiya Vedanta...

Bhaktivedanta Vamana Maharaja, Acarya of Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti Group Photo
In the following article Srila Bhakti Vedanta Yachak Maharaja gives us insight of how Srila Bhakti Vedanta Vaman Goswami Maharaja was appointed as the Acharya...

Japanese town named after Hindu goddess lakshmi: Consul General

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by IANS 'Kichijoi', a town near Tokyo in Japan, was named after Hindu goddess lakshmi, consort of Hindu god Vishnu," said Takayuki Kitagawa, Consul General...

Sanskrit in Croatia: from Sarasvati to Hrvati

by James Robinson Cooper For most of the Croatian people (or as they call themselves, Hrvati) when it comes to defining their origins and tracing their...

Glories of Sri Ramanujacharya: The ocean of mercy

Once Ramanujaacarya aproached his guru to recive secret mantra initiation. The guru, Gosthipurna began to consider the matter deeply, but still he was unwilling to...

Misconception of Indian Caste System

Casteism in India has gotten a lot of criticism, and rightly so. The way casteism is at present should not even exist. We should...

The Antiquity of Deity Worship in the Vedic Tradition

by Sri Nandanandana dasa (Stephen Knapp) There have been some people who have declared that the worship of Deities or images or the murti in...

Socrates and His Teachings

A lecture by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - excerpted from  Dialectical Spiritualism: A Vedic View of Western Philosophy. In Dialectical Spiritualism (book in manuscript), Srila Prabhupada...