The Importance of Sense Control in Spiritual Life

We all know in our own lives that sometimes we are in a “happy” situation and sometimes we are in a “distressful” situation. Our natural tendency is to work to try and maximize the happy situations in our life and minimize the distressful situations.   ...Read More

Bhagavad Gita As It Is 1968 Edition Available

A reprint of the first ever edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita As It Is, as published by the Collier Macmillan Company in 1968, is now available. It includes “Who is Krishna” by George Harrison and appreciations by Allen Ginsberg and Thomas Merton.   ...Read More

The Scientific Theory of the Soul

The Soul Theory opens up a vast field for research and study based on the scientific method. It opens up the areas of past-life-recall and out-of-body experiences to rigorous scientific research and it also enables science to study all manner of previously unexplained phoneme from a new angle.   ...Read More

The Living Guru is Here–Are we Ready to Follow Him?

As far as the living guru is concerned, the living guru is there, but it us up to us to recognize him and take advantage of his teachings.   ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada’s 1969 Sri Isopanisad Back in Print

When the BBT editors made extensive unauthorized changes to Srila Prabhupada’s Sri Isopanisad in 1977 Prabhupada, when he learnt of the changes, was very upset and directly ordered the BBT to return the next printing of Sri Isopanisad to the original way it was published without any unauthorized changes. Now, twenty-six years later, the BBT have reprinted Prabhupada’s original Sri Isopanisad. It is very good news.   ...Read More

The King of Education

We see so many educational institutions in this world, so many universities, colleges and schools. Every variety of education is available. If we analyse all these educational institutions we find they are all only imparting knowledge concerned with the material body. It’s all knowledge meant for fulfilling the animal instincts of the body.   ...Read More

Cases of Srila Prabhupada’s Original Bhagavad-gita–Please help distribute them…

I am encouraged that he is taking interest in selling our Bhagavad-gita As It Is. You may all try to distribute this book as far as possible and it will be a great service to our movement. If any sincere person reads this book I think that he will be impressed by the solid footing on which our Krishna Consciousness is based. All of the nonsense Bhagavad-gitas that deny Krishna are   ...Read More

Some of ISKCON’s Blind Spots

It is not our business to change, simply to receive the knowledge from Srila Prabhupada and distribute the same knowledge, without adding or subtracting anything, to the people we meet.   ...Read More

Abortion. No–It’s A Child!!

Nowadays there is very little regard for the life of a child within the womb of the mother. Most people are concerned about their own pleasure. Many want the right to have sex with anyone and then kill the child resulting from that sex life. Therefore so many young children are being murdered under the name of abortion.   ...Read More

Seeing The Supreme Lord

Once, Sri Madhavendra Puri travelled to Vrndavana, the holy place where Lord Krishna spent His childhood. There he came upon the hill known as Govardhana. This hill was very important to Krishna and the cowherd boys because it provided such nice grass for their cows.   ...Read More

Artificial Intelligence–Getting Computers to Think

How do we get a computer to think? The only way I can think of is the use of neural nets. Almost learning by trial and error, much like a small baby does. I think their has been research into this, but I’m not sure what the current situation is with this… Anyone any ideas? Mike Warren.   ...Read More

Questions About Initiation and Preaching

When someone is initiated they have received transcendental knowledge and their past karma is burned up, they must be a bit like a new born baby. Why is it they still appear and behave the same and even fall down, where has that divine knowledge gone?   ...Read More

Prabhupada DVD’s Now Available

All the film and video footage of Srila Prabhupada ever taken is now available on a set of 18 DVD’s for just \$85.   ...Read More

Life in Sydney and Life in Vrndavana

There is a contrast between the Vedic way of life and the Western way of life. It’s a great contrast. Vrndavana is the holy city where Krishna spent His childhood five thousand years ago. It’s not far from the Taj Mahal so if you’re ever in India at the Taj Mahal you should remember, Let me go to Mathura, let me go to Vrndavana.   ...Read More

Urey/Miller Experiment. Life from chemicals?

Urey and Miller followed the scientific method. Chemical compounds used by biological organisms were created using conditions simulating primordial earth, strongly suggesting that this method could eventually produce all the necessary compounds to allow the life force to settle in this realm.   ...Read More

Original Krsna Book Back In Print!!

Krsna Book. Full of activities of the Lord, in two huge 10 x 7 volumes of four hundred pages each with 132 full-color plates! So simply if you read and hear the activities you get liberation, simply by reading. You have got a tendency for reading book or hearing about somebody, if you transfer that tendency to hearing about Krsna, you get liberation. It is so nice thing.   ...Read More

Full Set of Prabhupada MP3 Audio & Video DVD’s at a special Price!

The full set of Prabhupada’s audio recordings in MP3 format plus all the Prabhupada Videos in DVD format at a special reduced price.   ...Read More

The Invisible Hand of the Lord

Krishna, I know this material desire is not befitting me, but still I have the desire for a wife, so will You please make an arrangement for me to get a wife. I know quite well that the process of asking benedictions from You, asking You to give me something for my sense gratification is a nonsense proposal. I should only be asking to be engaged in Your service…   ...Read More

2012 — The End of the World?

There is a great deal of propaganda that something dramatic will happen in 2012 and maybe the world will end… We have information from the Vedic scriptures about the nature of this material world. And very extensive information is given about the cycles that this world goes through. It is not that we are in uncharted territory.   ...Read More

The Mystery of Deity Worship

Many people can not understand why devotees worship Krishna in the form of the Deity. The Deity worship process is very mysterious. It is Krishna’s mercy for His devotees. Krishna agrees to appear in a form the devotees can see and serve with their material senses.   ...Read More

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