Kirtan: Ancient Medicine for Modern Man

What do football games, rock concerts, political rallies, boxing matches and revival meetings all have in common? The mass glorification of a person or persons engaged in extraordinary feats — a very exciting, even electrifying experience which can give incredible pleasure to large groups of people. This phenomenon is known as kirtana.   ...Read More

Some Statistical Reflections on the Awesome Stature of the Acharya

WHAT THE ACHARYA, SRILA PRABHUPADA, DID IN TEN YEARS.   ...Read More

New Website — The Bhaktivedanta’s / World Sankirtana Party

So many groups have sprung up under the generic title “Hare Krishna”, but the origin of the Hare Krishna Movement was Srila Prabhupada (His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami) and his books.   ...Read More

Keeping Above The Body Concept

The whole Vedic culture began with, “there is no happiness whatsoever on the bodily platform”. Even Krishna goes so far as to say, “From the highest planet in this material universe to the lowest, all of them are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death takes place”.   ...Read More

Talks with Dr. Stilson Judah Part II

Barbarians don’t know how to cultivate the land. They eat animals. That means they are not human beings, but subhumans. They will even eat one another. That is also coming. Bhagavat Purana says that in this age men will eat their own children…   ...Read More

Kirtana–The Song of Ecstasy, The Dance of the Soul

The singing and dancing of Hare Krishna is known as kirtana. My spiritual master Srila Prabhupada said, This is not ordinary dancing; this is the dancing of the soul, a soul awakened to his original consciousness, Krishna consciousness.   ...Read More

The Focus of Vedic Civilization

The Vedic civilization was the original culture of this world, but it disintegrated after a great world war that occurred about 5,000 years ago. That took place in India in what we know today as Kurukshetra, north of New Delhi. In fact, to this day scientists who go there and examine the sands find that they are fused, like sands are fused after a nuclear blast; because they were advanced in all kinds of technology.   ...Read More

Talks with Dr. Stilson Judah–Part 1

There is no necessity to manufacture anything such as capitalism, socialism, communism, and anarchism. Vedic culture was not like that. The leaders accepted the statements of the shastras, and according to shastric injunctions they ruled human society.   ...Read More

If you can be liberated by chanting once, why continue chanting?

When a child is born, the doctors are anxious to see “Is the child breathing, does he have a heart beat ?” if yes, they are relieved, the child is alive, still, the child must go on breathing, and heart beating, otherwise it will be a dead child.   ...Read More

Everything has to be Learned by Sound

People want to see God, they say, “Can you show me God? I don’t see Him, where is He?” But we don’t have eyes to see; we have to hear first.   ...Read More

Akruranath’s Challenge to Hansadutta

Even in the material world, if you tamper with the works of an author, musician, artist or kitchen chef you will find yourself the target of intense verbal, physical or legal reaction. How anyone could think himself qualified, or entitiled to tamper with the works of Srila Prabhupada is incomprehesible to me.   ...Read More

A History that Could Have Been Avoided

(response to Akruranath’s article Hansadutta Distorts History) Sometime in 1990, we published a Chinese Gita in Singapore when BBT refused to sell us books. In 1992, BBTI launched a copyright infringement suit against Bhima in Singapore. From the outset, Bhima responded, First show proof that you own the copyrights.   ...Read More

Just What is Jayadvaita’s Point?

I was one BBT trustee along with Srila Prabhupada and Bali Mardan when I went to Srila Prabhupada and suggested we reprint his Original Bhagavatams for the pleasure of his devotees who liked the old Indian version… Before finishing my proposal, Srila Prabhupada admonished me saying, no–whatever Hayagriva has done is perfect, I have full faith in him as the editor of my books. This was quite some time after the publication of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita. He went on to say “whatever he (Hayagriva) has done is perfect, do not touch it, I have full faith in him.”   ...Read More

Comments on The Power of Prabhupada’s Books [letter]

This letter is sweet beyond words. It just shows that Srila Prabhupada is as near and available to anyone who has the love, faith and enthusiasm to approach him. Even when Srila Prabhupada was physically present, most devotees had no access to him.   ...Read More

Gopimania!

Hansadutta Prabhu wrote the following paper, Gopimaini in response to reports of an attempt by Narayan Maharaja to win over ISKCON in 1993. Almost immediately after this paper was published, Tamal Krishna Gosvami and Giriraj Swami were hauled before the GBC and ordered to have nothing further to do with Narayan Maharaja. Those two backed off, but in the meantime, Narayan continued to attract disenchanted ISKCON devotees.   ...Read More

The Preaching Spirit and the Institution

Srila Prabhupada did not want to create another society of love friendship and socializing… A free hotel, a society of mutual admiration, a society of beaurocrats. Social parasites in the name of God and the Hindu religion. The world hates these religious institutions which have exploited them in the name of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and now Krishna, Chaitanya and Srila Prabhupada.   ...Read More