The Genes and the Soul

After the scientific survey on the human genome, the media’s attention turned to the news about cloning. Because of the plenty of invested money the scientists studying cloning have achieved considerable results. For a layman it may seem that the biologists have almost become omnipotent, and they can create animals or even human beings according to their choice, thus fully dethroning the Creator…   ...Read More

The Souls Origin

So the conclusion is that whatever may be our past, let us come to Krsna consciousness and immediately join Krsna. Just like with a diseased man, it is a waste of time to try to find out how he has become diseased, better to spend time curing the disease.   ...Read More

The Main thing is: I’M NOT THIS BODY

The main thing is we understand we are not the body so no matter what we do to the body it will not give us satisfaction in the long term.   ...Read More

Why don’t we feed the Driver Petrol? [A 1976 Press Interview With Srila Prabhupada]

The driver of the car is always important, either on the car or without the car but people in general are giving importance to the car only. They have no knowledge of the driver. The car requires petrol and the driver requires nice food. So people in general, when they see that we are not giving petrol to the driver, they are surprised…   ...Read More

The Soul and Reincarnation. Letter to a Christian.

As the embodied soul continually passes in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.   ...Read More

The Physics of the Self

We don’t say that this scientific knowledge is useless. Mechanics, electronics–this is also knowledge… but the central point is atma-jnana–self-knowledge, knowledge of the soul.   ...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