Archive for the ‘Answers’ Category



A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

By Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja North Shore, Hawaii: December 25, 2006 (Listen) Opens in a new tap. In this way you can go back to this page and read along. Srila Narayana Maharaja: “Today is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ. In Europe and other countries, hardly anyone knows what Jesus Christ […]



Evidence Proves Darwinian Evolution Never Happened

By: Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D. 1.0 Introduction There are two dominant ideas that have shaped the scientific search for the origin and explanation of biological forms. One of them, the blind watchmaker logic is the basis of Darwinian and post Darwinian evolution theory. As the contingent adaptionist model of Darwin has failed to explain vast non-adaptive […]



DARWINS BLACK BOX

A Science Article by Yogesvara Das In 1996 Michael J Behe, a professor of biology at Lehigh University in America, shocked the scientific world with his international best seller “Darwin’s Black Box.” Voted one of the 100 most



GOVARDHANA PUJA

Worshiping Govardhana Hill From Krishna Book Chapter 24 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada While engaged with the brahmanas who were too much involved in the performance of Vedic sacrifices, Krishna and Balarama also saw that the cowherd men were preparing a similar sacrifice in order to pacify Indra, the King of heaven, […]



WE ARE ALL ETERNALLY INDIVIDUAL PERSONS

This is a transcript of a class given by Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in New York on March 7th, 1966, on the Bhagavad-gītā Chapter 2 Text 12 Srila Prabhupāda: So yesterday we were speaking about the Second Chapter, eleventh verse. Just read it. Second Chapter, eleventh verse. Devotee: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While […]



THE APPEARANCE OF LORD BALARAMA

      Vrndavana, India: August 19, 2005 Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja This year, 2015, Sri Baladeva Prabhu's appearance day is on the 29th of August and Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmīs Disappearance was on the 27th of August. On August 19th 2005 Srila Narayana Maharaja gave a class in Hindi in Vrndavana, India, glorifying both […]



WE ARE ONE FAMILY, SRI GURU PURNIMA KI JAYA

From The Hari Katha Team This year, Guru Purnima is on July 31st. In honor of this auspicious day, please read or listen to this lecture by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, from May the 30th 2000, given in Los Angeles, California: To hear this class, please visit…



NON-DUPLICITY AND COMPASSION

  ON-DUPLICITY AND COMPASSION: PREREQUISITES FOR THE SINCERE OBSERVANCE OF BHAGAVAT-DHARMA “The great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam, compiled by Maha-muni Vyasadeva from four original verses, describes the most elevated and kindhearted devotees and completely rejects the cheating ways of materially motivated religiosity. It propounds the highest principle of eternal religion, which can factually mitigate the threefold miseries […]



THE HIGHEST ATTAINMENT AND PRESENT ADJUSTMENT

Add to Flipboard Magazine. Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaja JUL 26 2014  (The following article was first published in Back To Godhead magazine in 1944) The Vedic culture is considered to be the most ancient and mysterious in the scholarly circle. The great spiritual dictator Sri Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasadeva is known to be the deliverer of […]



THE WORD ‘KRISHNA’ IS NOT AN ALLEGORY

By Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Through words, as with their other senses, ordinary men gain knowledge. The languages derived from Brāhmī, Kharoṣṭhī, Sānkī, Puṣkarāsādī and so on are the sources of that knowledge. But such men are guided by secondary meanings, which are more or less different from the primary meanings of words. The […]



KALI YUGA THE AGE OF QUARREL AND HYPOCRISY

  From the translations and purports of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The age of Kali is the most condemned age due to its quarrelsome features. Kali-yuga is so saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest misunderstanding. Those who are engaged in the pure devotional service of […]



THE ENEMY EGO AND REAL EGO

Excerpted from “Loving Search for the Lost Servant – Chapter Two” By Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj Here, everything is but a reflection of the perfect world. Originally everything is there, including all types of service, but here we have only a perverted reflection. Leaving this variegated world behind, we should not attempt to […]


Rama Navami — The Appearance Day of Lord Sri Rama

By Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja On Saturday the 28 Mar 2015 is Rama Navami: The appearance day of Lord Sri Ramacandra [In the year, 2005, Srila Narayana Maharaja celebrated Lord Ramacandra's appearance day during his short visit to Penang. The following, spoken at the house of Paramesvari prabhu and Malati dasi, was the […]



THE DIVINE APPEARANCE DAY OF LORD SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

 This year on the 5th of March 2015 is Lord Caitanyas appearance day. This is a talk by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja. Given at Sri Keshavaji Gaudiya Matha, on the divine birthday of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Navadvipa, India: March 14, 2006 pm After the completion of Lord Sri Krsna's pastimes in Vrndavana […]



CAN YOU SHOW ME GOD?

  From the booklet Beyond Liberation. Based on the wonderful teachings of Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja. CAN YOU SHOW ME GOD? Once, in India, there was a king who desired to see God. Calling for his chief minister, he asked, "Can you show me God? Can you clearly tell me what God is […]



FOR THE APPEARANCE DAY OF LORD NITYANANDA PRABHU

Appearance Day of Lord Nityananda This lecture was given on 2nd February 1977, Lord Nityananda Prabhu's Appearance Day by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada in Bhubaneswar, Orissa at a foundation cornerstone laying ceremony for Sri Sri Krsna Balaram Mandir, the last founded temple project of Srila Prabhupada. This lecture is unedited and […]



WE ARE SIMPLY WASTING OUR TIME HERE

Prabhupada: Sa amrtatvaya kalpate [Bg. 2.15]. Amrtatva. Here, in this material world, we are put into mrtatva, subject to birth, death, old age and disease. But there is another position where there is no birth, death, old age and disease. So which position we should like — birth, death, old age and disease, or no […]



DELIBERATION UPON THE TRUE NATURE OF DEVOTION

This is an excerpt from the book Bhakti-tattva-viveka, "Deliberation upon the true nature of devotion" Composed by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and translated from the Hindi edition of the book by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja. Please also visit our Book Store at http://bhaktistore.com/ Chapter One The Intrinsic Nature of Bhakti



WHY WE DONT EAT MEAT

By A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada The Vaishnava philosophy teaches that we should not even kill plants unnecessarily. In the Bhagavad-gita (9.26) Krishna (God) says: "If someone offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or a little water, I will accept it." We offer Krishna only the kind of food He […]