Back to Godhead Magazine #49-02, 2015
2015 / #49-02
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WelcomeThe founder of the Hare Krsna movement, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, sailed to America from India in 1965. He was on a mission to deliver an urgent two-part message to everyone in the world: perLettersKeats's Immortal Bird I refer to an article of your September/October 2014 issue, entitled "Taking Shelter." It reminded me of a poem I learnt many, many years back at school, "Ode to a Nightingale," where the author, KeFounder's Lecture - Initiation LectureJune 18, 1976, Toronto Why We Must Purify Our Existence Our inability to secure the complete happiness we all seek points to our diseased condition. The Sanskrit word for initiation is diksa. As stated in an authoritativEvery Body Is MiserableThe following conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place in Rome in May 1974. Srila Prabhupada: People are doing all kinds of forbidden activities. WhyIs Religion the Opium of the Masses?by Caitanya Carana Dasa Close examination of this old charge against religion raises the opposite question: Might atheism be the opium? “Religion is the opium of the masses” is the argument often used by atheists to dismThe Ultimate Rescue Missionby Purushottam Kumar Out of His infinite mercy, Lord Krsna descended as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to deliver us from our inevitable suffering in the material world. People in India are generally able to understand that GodA Texas-sized Temple with Room to Growby Sarvabhauma Dasa A dedicated congregation has developed the Hare Krsna temple in Houston into a vibrant center of devotion. Texas is a big state, but Srila Prabhupada's disciple Dina Bandhu Dasa recalls how the InternMatchless Gifts, the Movie: A Case of Spiritual SerendipityBy Satyaraja Dasa An early film about Srila Prabhupada in New York, misplaced by his first disciples, resurfaces at just the right time. After first arriving in America in September of 1965, His Divine Grace A. C. BhaktiArjuna and Usby Visakha Devi Dasi Like Arjuna, we have attachments, hopes, fears, guilt, and confusion. And a similar path to happiness. Recently, in rereading the first chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, I felt something I hadn’t before–Bhaktivedanta Hospice: Aid for the Journey HomeShortly before passing away in Vrindavan, a devotee requested her spiritual master to establish a “Back to Godhead” clinic there for Srila Prabhupada’s followers. by Visakha Priya Dasi In his book Mathura Mahatmya, the ge-KrishnaMany ISKCON farm communities around the world are fulfilling Srila Prabhupada's wish that devotees create self-sustaining rural projects. He wanted these farms to be the perfect places to practice Krsna consciousness andThe Alarm Is RingingAfter Lord Visnu created the raw materials for the universe, the Vedic literature tells us, the first created being to appear was Brahma. He didn't know who he was, where he was, or what he was supposed to do. Sound famiVedic ThoughtsReligious systems are meant to show the existence of God, who is then generally approached as the cosmic order-supplier. But Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s transcendental mission is to distribute love of Godhead to every