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

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

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

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

Hare Krishna Mantra Recorded on Peace CD

In March 2002, Paula happened to meet Hans Jurgen Kary (Hansadutta das) through her good friend Jim Seymour, and the adventure continued. Hansadutta, a local Swami from the Hare Krishna faith, offered a complete Kirtan (Chanting and eating tradition). The Hare Krishna chant was recorded in April of 2002 with six Krishna devotees, …   ...Read More

Shriman Hansadutta Das Suffers Heart Attack

Hansadutta das Prabhu, one of Shrila Prabhupada’s very early disciples suffered a massive heart attack at his isolated bhajan kutir in Northern California on Tuesday June 24th.   ...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

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