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

Why Do Devotees Have a Negative Outlook on the Material World?

The actual fact is that this material world is a miserable, negative place, full of danger at every step. It is a temporary abode of death, birth, disease and old-age, home of suffering and pain only. To come to this platform of understanding of things as they are, is not a very common thing, and therefore such persons who attain to it, they are described as great souls: Los Angeles 30 April, 1973 Lynne Ludwig 15163, Sylmar, California 93142 My dear Lynne Ludwig, ...Read More

Let There Be Calamities

I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths. Generally, the distressed, the needy, the intelligent, and the inquisitive who have performed some pious activities worship or begin to worship the Lord. Others, who are thriving on misdeeds only, regardless of status, cannot approach the Supreme due to being misled by the illusory energy. Therefore, for ...Read More

Ticket to a World Without Death–An ancient science provides the perfect vehicle for the ultimate journey.

If TWA were selling tickets for a flight to a newly discovered planet where no one grew old, no one suffered disease, and no one ever died, who wouldn’t want to purchase a ticket to go there, at any cost? We all long to live forever, but have you ever stopped to wonder why? If death is natural, why does everyone just as naturally try to avoid death? In Bhagavad-gita, one of the Vedic literatures, the ancient Sanskrit texts of India, ...Read More

Reincarnation FAQ

Answers to common questions people have about reincarnation. Common questions people have with the concept of reincarnation How many people believe in reincarnation? Statistics world-wide are difficult to obtain, but in the US the Gallup Organization made a survey in October 2001 of Americans’ belief in psychic and paranormal phenomena. For this survey, they asked adults 18 and over amongst other things if they believed in “Reincarnation, that is, the rebirth of the soul in a new body after death”. In the results, ...Read More

Finding out About Our Past Lives?

How does one find out what one was in their past life? I have been very curious about this. I sometimes have powerful feelings towards Napoleon. I sometimes wonder if it’s possible that I could have been him in another life. I also have visions of being a monk in greece, living in a monestary worshipping Jesus day and night. Certainly we were something in our past lives, but that is not ...Read More

A Sane Man

You can manufacture so many high-class medicines to cure disease. That will not cure. Temporary relief. But no scientist has discovered any medicine that Related PostsLiquid BeautyOnce upon a time a prince met very beautiful young girl. He visited her house to see her but she was very chaste. The prince wanted to marry this beautiful girl but she didn’t…America Has to Stop Demonism [Prabhupada Speaks Out]Your leaders do not see this sameness between their demonism and the communists’ demonism. ...Read More

Death – The Ultimate Philosophy

How you can say “The same body”? You shall have to give your own argument. Child had no mustaches; you have got now mustaches. How you can say the same body? The child had no sex desire; now you have got sex desire. Room Conversation – October 4, 1975, Mauritius Prabhupada: But the size of the body has changed. Brahmananda: The size has changed. It has grown, increased. Pusta Krsna: It looks different, completely… It looks different. There ...Read More

Is Reincarnation a Religious Fantasy?

One of the most common issues of arguments of skeptics regarding reincarnation is that the case of children who claims to remember their previous lives comes from cultures or communities whose people believe in reincarnation. Thus they try to rationalize that it is a kind of fantasy which arises from hereditary belief. The other day in one of the article in Times of India, Sukhwant Singh challenged why so far there are not any case from Moslem community. Thanks ...Read More

Reincarnation is Real!

During past three decades, Dr. Stevenson has collected about 3000 cases that showed evidences indicating that people have remembered their past lives. Stevenson concentrates his efforts on children because their stories are far less likely to be tainted than those of adults who claim to have memories of former lives. Children are more pure, less contaminated by experiences and exposure to things that might influence them. Many of the best cases Stevenson has examined are those of children who ...Read More

Forensic Evidence of Reincarnation

Is there a scientific basis for reincarnation? Indian forensic scientist Vikram Raj Singh Chauhan is trying to prove reincarnation is real. He has presented his findings at the National Conference of Forensic Scientists in India. Chauhan has discovered a six-year-old boy named Taranjijt Singh who says he remembers his previous life. According to his parents, he’s been talking about this since he was two years old and used to run away from home. The boy knew the village he lived in ...Read More