Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016
2016 / #50-05
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A Pause for PrayerPlease abide in the temple of my heart both day and night, O Krsna Murari, O Sri Krsna Murari! Devotion, love, flower garlands, and sandalwood–please accept, O please accept them, delighter of the heart! In life or in deThe Earth Pleads for ProtectionThreatened by the angry King Prthu, the earth planet, who has assumed the form of a cow, praises Him as the Supreme Lord. yenāham ātmāyatanaṁ vinirmitā dhātrā yato 'yaṁ guṅa-sarga-saṅgrahaḥ sa eva māṁ hantum udāyudhaḥ svISKCON Vladivostok: Where Krsna Reigns in Russia's Far Eastby B.V.V. Narasimha Swami Despite many challenges, the intrepid devotees in this remote city 5,700 miles from Moscow built a suitable temple to worship the Lord. The city of Vladivostok ("Ruler of the East") is situated Meditating on the Dāmodarāṣṭakaby Caitanya Carana Dasa The supreme controller is controlled–and still remains in control. Prayer is the universal language by which the human heart communes with the divine heart. Poetry is an artistic means for verbaliWelcomeWhen, in 1971, Srila Prabhupada arrived in Gainesville, Florida, just down the road from the Back to Godhead offices in Alachua, he said he was "very much obliged to you that in this remote place, which is thousands and How I Came to Krsna ConsciousnessSpiritual Exchange: A Correspondence Leading to Krsna By Donna Lee "I spent many years thinking that voidism and impersonalism were desirable concepts and that the goals of pursuing truth in those ways were noble aspiratSrila Prabhupada the HealerAmong the many ways in which Srila Prabhupada differed from other gurus who arrived in America in the sixties was his insistence that his disciples follow certain rules, or "regulative principles," the four main ones beiBBC Meditation 5by Krsna Dharma Dasa The author has been a regular British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) contributor since 1998. BBC Radio 2, where these meditations are aired, attracts from one million to eight million listeners, depeLettersSympathy for Kara I'd like to comment on the article "Kara's Options," by Caitanya Carana Dasa, in the January/February issue. According to Krishna Dharma's and Ganguli's versions of the Mahabharata, Kara was put into a Golden Anniversaries: Prabhupada's Arrival and the 1965 World's FairBy Satyaraja Dasa During Prabhupada's earliest days in America, his host took him for a little-known outing. Last year marked the Golden Anniversary of the 1965 World’s Fair, held in New York City. It also marked fifty yA Riverbed of Desireby Shatakshi Goyal A film on the plight of the Yamuna River fulfills a dancer's wish to portray the goddess Yamuna Devi. A dream vision: The curtains open slowly as if hesitating to reveal the concealed beauty of a moonlFounder's Lecture - Learn How to Love KrsnaSeattle, September 30, 1968 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught that by directing to Krsna our natural inclination to love, we'll progress in peace and happiness. ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanayas tad-dhāma vṛṅdāvanaṁ ramya kaFictitious HappinessThis conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place at ISKCON's farming village in New Vrindaban, West Virginia, on June 24, 1976. Srila Prabhupada: "BotheSrila Prabhupada: Our Founder-AcaryaTo Love Is to Cooperate by Suresvara Dasa More than a farewell request, Srila Prabhupada’s desire that his followers cooperate to spread Krsna consciousness everywhere remains a perennial call to action. To honor the fifVedic ThoughtsThe ambition to corroborate the existence of the transcendental Absolute Truth by limited conjectural endeavors cannot be fulfilled, because He is beyond the scope of our limited speculative minds. In an honest search fo