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THE PEACOCKS DANCE TO KRISHNAS FLUTE MELODY

    An Excerpt From The Book Bhakti-Rasayana The Nectar-Tonic of Pure Devotion by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja by Gaudiya Vedanta Publications   The Peacocks Dance to Kṛṣṇa’s Flute Melody After preparing lunch for Kṛṣṇacandra and Baladeva, Yaśodā along with Nanda Bābā follows Them for a great distance as They take the cows out […]



THE TINY WORLD OF MODERN SCIENCE

During a morning walk in April of 1973, at Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Śrīla Prabhupāda discusses modern science and its high priests: Śrīla Prabhupāda: “They claim to have millions of dollars’ worth of knowledge, but if you ask them a question, they simply give you a post-dated check. Why should we accept it? They cannot […]


HAPPY RADHASTAMI EVERYONE

  TODAY IS THE ALL AUSPICIOUS APPEARANCE DAY OF SRIMATI RADHARANI.   ALL GLORIES TO SRIMATI RADHARANI Srila Prabhodananda Saraswati Thakura writes in his Sri Vrindavana Mahimamrta 14th chapter 4th verse. “Śrī Rādhā Ṭhākurāṇī is the embodiment of mahābhāva. (mahabhava. adhirūḍha-mahābhāva — highly advanced ecstasy; CC Madhya 23.58.) She is the repository of all good […]



THE CREST JEWEL OF INQUIRY

The Origin of the Living Entity Friday, 2000, Badger (New Braja) California, USA In his discourse below, Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja discusses a conversation between Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Sanatana Gosvami, from Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami's book, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. Srila Sanatana Gosvami is playing the role of a conditioned soul who is seeking divine […]



About Death

From the writings of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada One Life Is Just a Flash in Time From time immemorial the living entity travels in the different species of life and the different planets, almost perpetually. This process is explained in Bhagavad-gita: under the spell of maya, everyone is wandering throughout the universe on the carriage […]



Answers to the question “Why is there no tangible proof of God ?”

  On this page you can read various answers from just a few different devotees, about the question "Why is there no tangible proof of God? Each new paragraph represents a new answer . Please also visit "Can You Show Me God?" From the booklet Beyond Liberation. Based on the wonderful teachings of Sri Srimad […]



THE BENEFITS OF CHANTING HARE KRISHNA

  Dr. Daniel Coleman, associate editor of Psychology Today and author of The Varieties of Meditative Experiences, after studying the meditational techniques of members of the Krishna consciousness movement, said, "I found the Hare Krishna devotees to be well-integrated, friendly, and productive human beings. In a culture like ours, in which inner, spiritual development is […]



Whom Can You Trust?

By Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja We trust various persons of authority to inform us about material subject matters, but whom shall we trust in regard to transcendental subject matters and the transcendental world? We cannot experience transcendence with any of our material senses. How then, can we have an idea of that pure reality? We […]



We Are Not These Bodies

An exerpt from the booklet Beyond Birth And Death By Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada We are experiencing birth and death, but actually we are beyond birth and death. We are eternal spirit souls, but according to our work and desires, we are transmigrating from one body to another. This is the science of reincarnation.



REINCARNATION EXPLAINED

  By Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Remembrances of past lives can be fascinating, but the real goal of understanding reincarnation is to become free from the painful cycle of birth in death. In a lecture delivered in London in August of 1973, Śrīla Prabhupāda warns, "This is not a very good business—to die and take […]



The Truth of the Soul

A discourse given on June 15, 2005 in Badger, California, by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja, based on Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s book, Śrī Śrīmad Bhāgavata Arka Marīcimāla, which means “A Garland of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Verses.” The Truth of the Soul The subject matter regarding the established philosophical truths of the living entity (jīva-tattva) is very advanced. […]



THE AGE OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA

Transcendental Knowledge   At the present moment we have just passed through five thousand years of the Kali-yuga, which lasts 432,000 years. Before this there was the Dvapara-yuga (800,000 years), and before that there was Treta-yuga (1,200,000 years). Thus, some 2,005,000 years ago, Manu spoke the Bhagavad-gita to his disciple and son Maharaja Iksvaku, the […]



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THE PERFECT MEDITATION

  Thursday the 23th January 6.45 pm – 9.00pm The Riby Resource Centre 41-43 Kent St, Grimsby DN32 7DH North East Lincolnshire.



SIMPLICITY AND FAITH

Gopal and the Schoolboy   by Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja A mother has a six or seven year old son. She wanted to admit him into primary school so that he could get some education, but the school was a little far away. Still she told the boy that he should go every day […]



Sanatana-dharma The Solution to World Conflict

A speech delivered by  1st September 1983 Sri Meghalaya Gaudiya Matha, Tura, India First of all I offer my unlimited prostrated obeisances at the lotus feet of my gurupadapadma, jagad-guru nitya-lila-pravishta om vishnupada Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, and my due pranamas and regards to the assembled Vaishnavas and wise listeners respectively.   Cheating […]



More Intimate Than Our Soul

"Fear arises when a living entity misidentifies himself as the material body because of absorption in the external, illusory energy of the Lord, called maya. When the living entity thus turns away from the Supreme Lord, he also forgets his own constitutional position as a servant of the Lord. Therefore, an intelligent person should engage […]



Going Beyond Vaikuṇṭha

From Going Beyond Vaikuṇṭha Chapter 7 by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja Bhagavān’s Inconceivable Potency When Brahmā stole the gopas and calves and Kṛṣṇa Himself became all of them, He took on the same nature as all the boys and calves. He also became the


Sri Radhastami 29th August 2017

Srimati Radharani’s Appearance Day Lecture by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada [August 30, 1968, Montreal, Canada] Now today is our Radhastami ceremony. So, so far Radharani, Radharani, today is the