Philosophical Articles

God does not interfere with our freewill

by Srila B.B. Tirtha Goswami Maharaja Sree Sree Guru Gauranga Jayatah! Our Most Revered Gurudev often used to say while delivering sermons, “An actual guru never...

A Self-Giving Attitude is Our Friend

by Srila B.R. Sridhara Deva Goswami Guidance must come from those above you. It is very rare, but it is most valuable to us. Whatever...

Time Lines and Circles

by Swami Tripurari Until the dawn of Christianity, all of the Eastern and most of the ancient world conceived of time as cyclical, not linear....

Vedic Literature Says Caste by Birth is Unjust

by Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) When it comes to the sensitive topic of Varnashrama, or what many people call the caste system of India,...

The World-Peace

by Prof. Nimananda Sevatirtha Attempts are made from time to time to make the Kingdom of Heaven descend on earth. They are of different characters....

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭami

(A lecture delivered by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja on Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭami 18th August 1995 in Bhubaneswar, India.) The Bhāgavata says, to hear this transcendental līlā-kāhāṇī of Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa...

Why Krishna Comes To This World

by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada August 1973 at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, in the countryside near London. Several thousand guests (including the Indian High Commissioner)...

Family ties

by Kadamba Kanana Swami Whenever we take birth in this world, immediately we are indebted. We are indebted to our parents who have brought us...

Unconditional Surrender

By Srila Gaura Govinda Maharaja Saranagati is the chief symptom of a devotee. Saranagati should be complete. The symptoms of it are there. One should have...

Magic

by Swami B.V. Tripurari Physicalists often accuse spiritually-minded people who believe in trans-physicalism of believing in magic. Indeed, physicalists (a term coined in English less...