BBT Manager Ramesvara dasa 1979 Interview

What follows is a very important unpublished interview with Ramesvara Prabhu (Swami at that time) and BaladevVidyabusana Prabhu for the Lilamrita recorded sometime in 1979. This interview covers a period of years when Ramesvara was traveling with Srila Prabhupada and when he was working as the Manager of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. What we read now after all these years would have helped solve some of the burning questions that have plagued our society. Recently this interview was uncovered by accident ...Read More

India’s Holy Cow Becoming Extinct — Video

Gaurapada: You are in the middle of the universe. [Laughs] Hare Krsna, welcome to Radha-kund. [Laughs] Radha-kund is a small village, maybe 3000 people only. But at certain times you will see, big-time is like one day 4 million people coming through this small town. The beauty of a small town is that still you can see more about Vedic culture, Vedic way of living and the main basis of Vedic lifestyle was that the cow was in the centre. ...Read More

Your Ever Well-Wisher — Srila Prabhupada Video Biography

 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The movement he started is now known to millions around the world. Yet he himself remained in the background. Without personal ambition he worked humbly to spread Krishna consciousness, devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yet his achievements and personal character did not go unnoticed. The worlds’ leading scholars and religionists praised his unique contribution. And thousands grew to love him as their dearmost friend and well-wisher. In his memory his disciples ...Read More

A fish is just a fish…

Many people write asking why there are so many problems in the world and why Krishna is making them suffer and why they are not happy here in the material world. People do not understand that this material world is a place of suffering and death and that we can not be happy here. We are not meant to be happy here. The material world is not designed to make us happy, it is designed to frustrate us. This material ...Read More

The Hare Krishna’s in 1970 — CBS Word News interviews Rupanuga dasa

The Hare Krishna chant. As you walk the streets of some of America’s larger cities you will occasionally come upon a group of people garbed in apparel which makes you think of India. The heads of the men will be shaven with just one streamer of hair remaining. The group will be carrying out a slow, shuffling dance to the tune of the Hare Krishna chant. The International Society for Krishna consciousness is one of a number of new religious experiences ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada — The Acharya — Part 2 — Video

In 1965 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, A vedic scholar and holy man in the renounced order of life left India for America to transform a bold vision into a historical reality of global dimension. To fulfill the desire of generations of Indian saints who wished to see India’s timeless spiritual culture benefit the entire world Srila Prabhupada left India and sailed to the United States. When he arrived by freighter he was practically penniless, but after nearly a ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada The Acarya — Part 1 — Video

The “Acarya” series of videos were made in the 1980′s by ISKCON television using the 16mm film footage that was left over from Yadubara Prabhu’s documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada: Your Ever Well-Wisher. Fortunately Yadubara Prabhu took far too much film to fit into a 50 minute biography so there was enough high-quality 16mm film left over to produce the Acarya series. In these films you will travel with Srila Prabhupada around the world as he introduces the science ...Read More

Krishna Assures Arjuna that he is the greatest yogi

Towards the end of the Sixth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita Arjuna is feeling a little dejected as he thinks that it is impossible for him to follow the system of yoga Krishna has described to him. In the previous article we discussed Arjuna’s statement: Arjuna said: O Madhusudana, the system of yoga which You have summarized appears impractical and unendurable to me, for the mind is restless and unsteady. The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Krishna, and ...Read More

Original Letters from Srila Prabhupada PDF Download

We are releasing for the first time scanned copies of Srila Prabhupada’s original letters. We do not have all the original letters, we have a few thousand of them, and hope that in the future Bhaktivedanta Archives will release scans of all the original Prabhupada letters. So by downloading the PDF files below you can see and read the actual original letters that Srila Prabhupada sent to his disciples and others. This is an on-going program and we will add the additional ...Read More

Arjuna could not practice Meditational Yoga

Over the past few weeks we have been discussing the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita where Krishna instructs His friend and disciple, Arjuna, on the process of meditational yoga. Krishna has outlined the practice of yoga as sitting in the lotus position and meditating with half-closed eyes and He has explained that to do this one has to go to a solitary sacred place like on the bank of the Ganges River or the Himalayan mountains for example. It is not ...Read More

How to offer food to Krishna?

There is a common misunderstanding that devotees of Krishna are vegetarians. Actually this is not true. Even if one becomes a vegetarian eating vegetarian food is still sinful and will still cause karmic reactions and will still bind the person eating it to take birth in the material world over and over and over again and suffer perpetually. So simply becoming a vegetarian is not very helpful in spiritual life. in the Bhagavad-gita 3.13 Lord Krishna says: The devotees of the Lord ...Read More

Prabhupada Vani Samadhi Microfiche from Bhaktivedanta Archives

Original Transcripts of Prabhupada’s Lectures and Conversations The Prabhupada Vani Samadhi DVD-ROM is a copy of a microfiche archive of the Bhaktivedanta Archives collection of typed and hand written transcriptions of Srila Prabhupada’s lectures and conversations. It was produced in 1983 in a few copies only on microfiche. It contains 38,085 original scanned pages and is organized by year and month starting from November 1966 and ending in November 1977. We are presenting this ‘as it is’ and have preserved it ...Read More

ISKCON: From the Absolute Truth to Insanity…

Srila Prabhupada has given us the greatest gift. The absolute truth. Krishna consciousness, pure love of Krishna. He explains in great detail the simple and beautiful philosophy of Krishna consciousness. It is this beauty, perfection and simplicity of the timeless philosophy of Krishna consciousness so perfectly presented by Srila Prabhupada which attracted me to Krishna consciousness. Over the years, to my great dismay, I have seen ISKCON systematically reject, misinterpret and now, with the book changes,  change the teachings of Srila ...Read More

NASA Images Discover Ancient Bridge between India and Sri Lanka

Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long. The bridge’s unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 1,750,000 years ...Read More

Nothing happens without the sanction of God

It is often said, Not a blade of grass moves without the sanction of the Supreme Lord, and that is a fact. Nothing happens without the sanction of God. There is an English saying, Man proposes and God disposes. This is correct because we can’t fulfill any of our desires without the sanction of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes, when we meet Christians and explain this to them, they find it difficult to believe. They question there are ...Read More

Is the Universe a Computer Simulation? — The Nature of Reality

Scientists are discussing the nature of reality. They have made a discovery in physics pointing to the possibility that the universe is not billions of light-years across as astronomers speculate but may be quite small. So they are speculating that when we look out in the sky at night we may be looking at some sort of projection, similar to what you would see in a planetarium. It looks like the vast night sky but is actually just a piece ...Read More

Krishna, The Ultimate Object of Knowledge

In the revealed scriptures the ultimate object of Knowledge is Sri Krishna, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose of performing sacrifices is to please Him, yoga is for realizing Him and all fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Him only. He is supreme knowledge and all severe austerities are performed to know Him. Religion, dharma, is rendered in loving service unto Him. He is the supreme goal of life. Here we see all spiritual activities are meant for realizing Vasudeva, Krishna. ...Read More

The ISKCON Krishna Consciousness Handbook (1970) PDF Download

This is the first annual edition of The Krishna Consciousness Handbook. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was founded in 1966 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and is now becoming firmly established, with centers in thirty major cities around the world and world headquarters in Los Angeles, California. The goal of the Society’s members is to attain love of God by following the principles of bhakti-yoga, as taught by the Vedic scriptures and the disciplic succession ...Read More

Just what is Samadhi?

We are continuing our journey through Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is and have now come to the place where Krishna explains to Arjuna what the actual perfection of yoga really is. And that perfection is the state of samadhi. Many of us have heard the word ‘samadhi’ but the true meaning of the word still escapes most of us. Please read this short message and understand from Krishna Himself the true meaning of the word ‘samadhi.’ The stage of perfection ...Read More

Teachings of Lord Caitanya PDF Download

The Teachings of Lord Caitanya is one of Srila Prabhupada’s most important books. It is a summary study of the Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and contains the life and teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu who appeared in West Bengal around five hundred years ago and who is Lord Krishna Himself appearing in the mood of a pure devotee of Krishna. To download Teachings of Lord Caitanya please click on the book cover image on the left. In the Kali Yuga the Supreme Lord ...Read More

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