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Religion

Shri Chaitanya And The Koran

December 5th, 2024 | by

The following is from the Sri Caitanya Caritamrita. It clearly presents the Gaudiya Vaisnava conception in regards to the Koran and Islam

Society

Why don’t we feed the Driver Petrol?

November 18th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami 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.

Letters

Questions From A Muslim With Answers From Khan

November 10th, 2024 | by

I am impressed by the teachings of Krishna Ji. Being a Muslim, some questions arose in my mind. If you could help me find the answers, I will be grateful

Society

Dog Race in a Dangerous Place [Prabhupada Speaks Out]

November 7th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Until world leaders read my books and take to the Vedic culture, what kind of civilization will they have? Dog race. Horse race. They want this. Rat race

Education

Modern Education–Making them Demons, That’s All.

November 6th, 2024 | by

The defect of modern education is children are taught nonsense. They do not get the first point of knowledge, that I am pure spirit soul part, parcel of God

Letters

United Nations Organization and World Health Organization

October 25th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

They have invented United Nations but these attempts are the same process as watering the leaves and the twigs. They don't know the missing point: Krishna

Society

Psychology — Can therapy and drugs save us from stress and depression?

October 21st, 2024 | by Madhudvisa dasa

People think the way to deal with suffering is to see a psychologist and take medication for stress like anti-depressants. What is you take on this?

Government

Perfect Communism

October 15th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The founder of your nation, Lenin, was intelligent. He understood people become united under guiding principles of a commonly accepted standard of truth.

Education

Srila Prabhupada on Gurukul

October 14th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The children should be trained in early rising, attending mangal arati, some elementary education: arithmetic, alphabet, some of our books, like that.

Society

A Spiritual Study of Greed [1944 BTG Article]

October 6th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Black-marketeers who have been recently raided in large scale by the police in Bihar, are almost in all cases rich merchants, millionaires, landlords

Women

Abortion–A Medical Procedure or Murder?

October 4th, 2024 | by Madhudvisa dasa

Abortion is the number one cause of death in the United States

Love

The Supreme Reservoir of Erotic Principles

September 24th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The sex-life on the material world is an adulterated spurious representation of the original pleasure potency of the Absolute Truth.

Homosexuality

The Homosexual Appetite of a Man for Another Man is Demoniac

September 23rd, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Brahma addressed the Lord: Please protect me from these sinful demons, who were created by me. They are infuriated by sex and have come to attack me.

Love

Pleasure is our Motivation

February 26th, 2017 | by Madhudvisa dasa

We are all engaged in some service and the motivation for us to render this service is the pleasure or taste which we get from it

Welfare Work

Great Souls Do Not Return to this World of Suffering

January 26th, 2016 | by Madhudvisa dasa

After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.

Religion

Who Is God?

January 19th, 2012 | by

There are a variety of names and many conceptions of God ranging from one of a formless spirit to that of an old man with a beard sitting on a throne

Society

Plain Living and High Thinking

March 3rd, 2011 | by Madhudvisa dasa

It is possible to live a comfortable, simple life in harmony with nature. All that is required is some land, cows and food grains.

Homosexuality

Homosexual Marriages in ISKCON?

August 23rd, 2010 | by

The contention of Hridayananda is homosexuals be allowed to stay with a partner as a heterosexual couple would stay together in the grhasta asrama

Love

Love, Ego, Truth, Knowledge

August 14th, 2010 | by Gadadhara das

Our desire to love someone is a reflection of our original desire to love Krishna. To awaken this original desire we have the opportunity to serve Krishna

Society

What Movies Have Devotees Appeared in Since 1990?

May 16th, 2005 | by

ITV is planning to update its Hare Krishna in the Movies. We request that if you know of any movies with devotees or mention Krishna let us know the names.