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International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972Amsterdam Holland Bethanien Straat 39, Centrum Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 4802 Red River? (512) 472-1542 Baltimore Maryland 2424 W. Rogers Avenue Berkeley California 2710 Durant Ave./ (41 It Is For The Greatest Scholar, It Is For The Innocent Boy …1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972A recent press interview with Śrīla Prabhupāda at Iskcon Headquarters in Los Angeles. Q. Your Grace, what is the basis of your teaching? Śrīla Prabhupāda: The basis of this teaching is Bhagavad-gītā As It Is; I have alre Kṛṣṅa In The Land Of Mandarins1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972A letter from an Iskcon missionary in China to a senior Godbrother in New York City. My dear Rūpānuga Prabhu, Please accept my very humble obeisances and prayers for our continuous association in the service of His Divin The Perfection of Consciousness1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972By Karandhara dāsa adhikārī (ISKCON—Los Angeles) Kṛṣṅa consciousness means God consciousness. We all have consciousness or awareness, but of what are we aware? For example, if you are pinched you will feel it—that is con Soul research1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972In 1968, speaking before a gathering of students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda pointed out an important lag in technological research. “Although you have s

Heart Surgeon Wants To Know What A Soul Is1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972By Rae Correlli WINDSOR—A world-famous Canadian heart surgeon says he believes the body has a soul which departs at death and theologians ought to try to find out more about it. Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow, head of the cardio

Vedic Evidence and The Scientific Conclusion1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Letter to Dr. Bigelow My Dear Dr. Bigelow: Please accept my greetings. Recently I have read an article in the Gazette by Rae Corelli entitled “Heart Surgeon Wants to Know What a Soul Is,” and it was ve

Advertisement1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972These Books Initiate You Into The Transcendental science Of BHAKTI Easy Journey to other Planets One can attempt to go to any planet he desires, but this is only possible by psychological changes in the mind or by yogic

Chant (Part 2 - 4)1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972Chant (Part 2 -4) The first part of “Chant,” a four-part Kṛṣṅa conscious poem, was published in Back to Godhead Number 36. It describes the transcendental activities of the spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktiv

The Passing of Grandfather Bhīṣma1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972By Satsvarūpa dāsa (ISKCON—Dallas) Grandfather Bhīṣma was lying at the point of death on a bed of arrows which had been shot through his body. Because he was the most famous warrior of his time and an expert yogī, all th

International Society for Krishna Consciousness Membership1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972The Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement is presenting a scientific program for the respiritualization of all of human society. Although man has made rapid material progress, there is a need for a spiritual method by which all m

Letters1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972The editors of Back to Godhead welcome correspondence pertaining to the subject matter of Kṛṣṅa consciousness. All letters will be personally replied, and correspondence of special interest will be published regularly. T

“I offer my respeciful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda …”1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972Siddhara-svarūpa dāsa I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, so dear to Kṛṣṅa on this earth, having taken shelter at the Lord’s lotus feet. He is always engaged in worsh

Kṛṣṅa, The Supreme Personality of Godhead1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #44, 1972The women entered the forest of Vṛndāvana which was verdant with vegetation and newly grown vines and flowers. Within that forest, they saw Kṛṣṅa and Balarama engaged in tending the cows. “Kṛṣṅa wore a nice garland of fo

Pronounciation of Sanskrit Words1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Sanskrit words and names in Back to Godhead are spelled according to a system accepted by scholars throughout the world which indicates the exact pronunciation of each word. Vowels in Sanskrit are pronounced almost as in

International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 4802 Red River Berkeley California 1521 San Pablo/ (415) 525-9793 Boston Massachusetts

A Devotee is an Ocean of Mercy1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Today I shall speak to you about the glorification of the holy name of God. This was discussed between Mahārāja Parīkṣit and Śukadeva Gosvāmī in connection with a brāh

Clearing the Pain1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Jamadagni dāsa (ISKCON—Boston) O I have kissed the feet Of every woman in town Cast aside my mother sweet And dragged my father down The list of my sins is carved On the faces of all I see, Whose fearful hearts are starv

Journey to the Real Self1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Hayagrīva dāsa Gross Body Defined The spiritual body, which is our real identity, is covered by the gross body composed of earth, water, fire, air and ether, and by the subtle body composed of mind, intelligence and ego.

Introducing Ourselves to a Nation1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Mr. Susskind: A particularly colorful group, often seen dancing and chanting in the major cities of this country—New York and Chicago and Detroit and Pittsburgh—is called the Hare Kṛṣṅa movement. Because their names are

The Advent of Lord Kṛṣṅa1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Madhupurī devī dāsī Once the world had great disturbance Caused by the ruling of demoniac kings. Though they posed as righteous rulers, Only calamities did they bring. Much aggrieved by such confusion, The form of a cow

Second Birth1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Satsvarūpa dāsa (ISKCON—Dallas) I graduated from Brooklyn College in 1961, spent two years on an aircraft carrier in the Navy, and subsequently returned to the New York City’s Lower East Side and its LSD, marijuana and “

From the Reservoir of Knowledge1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Śrīla Prabhupāda answers question on the science of Kṛṣṅa Asking questions of a bona fide spiritual master is an important part of bhakti-yoga. It is stated in Bhagavad-gītā, “Just try to learn the truth by approaching a

Obituary1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Our spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, and his disciples of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, acknowledge the loss to our movement, within recent months, of two pro

Scarcity: the Fruit of Illusion1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Ecologists, economists, sociologists, etc., are greatly concerned with the population explosion, for they hypothesize that as the population continues to increase by leaps and bounds, the eventual result will be insuffic

Advertisement1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972Human Life Is Meant For Thoughtfulness Generally, a philosophical mind is inquisitive about the origin of all emanations. Such inquiry is natural for a human being because of his developed consciousness. To answer the si

Letters1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972The editors of Back to Godhead welcome correspondence pertaining to the subject matter of Kṛṣṅa consciousness. All letters will be personally replied, and correspondence of special interest will be published regularly. D

Vṛndāvana1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṅa, appeared in India 5,000 years ago in the town of Vṛndāvana. He came down from the spiritual sky with His eternal associates, pastimes and paraphernalia—and He brought His eterna

A Flower of Ecstasy1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972handed unto the lotus palm of His Divine Grace 108 Śrī Śrīmad Swami Śrī Bhaktivedantajī Mahārāja O preacher of the Saṅkīrtana Movement, In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it has been declared that chanting of the holy name of the

An Address of welcome1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #45, 1972To the most exalted, unlimitedly decorated Śrī Śrīmad Swami Bhaktivedantajī Mahārāja O most revered Svāmījī, India is well known as the land of religion, and the heart of this transcendental land is Śrī Vṛndāvana. This i

International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 4802 Red River Berkeley California 1521 San Pablo/ (415) 525-9793 Boston Massachusetts

KṚṢṄA, the Proprietor of Everything1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda āsāpaśa-śatair baddhāḥ kāma-krodhaparāyaṅāḥ īhante kāma-bhogārtham anyāyenārtha-sañcayān “Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires, by lust and anger, they sec

From Poverty to Bliss Through Kṛṣṅa Yoga1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972By Viṣṅu-jana Svāmī The urgent need of modern society is to realize the actual human mission, which is for man to develop his eternal loving relationship with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṅa. This is the direct, one-stroke method

Sleepers Awake!1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972New York: Summer 1966 Hayagrīva dāsa When I first met my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, I felt that there was never a time when I did not know him. I never tire of telling of my f

Munificent Lord Caitanya1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972Tusta Kṛṣṅa dāsa My dear Lord Śrī Kṛṣṅa, Blue-hued friend of old, Thoughtlessly we’ve neglected You— Our hearts have grown so cold. Beneath this frigid coldness, though, A spark of warmth still glows, And by Your causele

Association With Saintly Persons1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Lord Caitanya says that one should always try to associate with saintly persons because if one establishes a proper association with a saintly person, even for a momen

Letters1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972The editors of Back to Godhead welcome correspondence pertaining to the subject matter of Kṛṣṅa consciousness. All letters will be personally replied, and correspondence of special interest will be published regularly. S

The Enchantment of Goloka1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972Jayādvaita dāsa Sometimes just a few carefully chosen words can change our whole outlook. We may have had the experience of hearing or reading even a short passage of poetry or prose that carries such deep import that it

A Transcendental Invitation1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972The temples of the Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement do not belong to the devotees who live in them—they belong to Kṛṣṅa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṅa and His eternal consort Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī, as repres

Advertisement1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #46, 1972Let There Be One Scripture For The Entire World Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda PUBLISHED BY Collier-Macmillan Bhagavad-gītā, or the Song of the Opulent One, is the most ancien

Kṛṣṅa Is Nondifferent From His Name1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972Kṛṣṅa consciousness is the perfect process for solving all the problems of life because it can at once end our illusory separation from Kṛṣṅa [pronounced KRISHNA], the Supreme Lord. Kṛṣṅa is present everywhere, even with

International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 4802 Red River Berkeley California 1521 San Pablo/ (415) 525-9793 Boston Massachusetts

Kṛṣṅa Is1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972His Divine Grace Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Prabhupāda [The author of this article—who is the spiritual master of the founder-ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness—may e

The Urgent Need for Kṛṣṅa consciousness1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda This very important Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement is meant to save human society from spiritual death. At present human society is being misled by leaders who are blind

Gopīs’ Beloved1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972Drāvida dāsa Brahmacārī (ISKCON—Bombay) Hare Kṛṣṅa came into my ear, And out flew the purple night. With waves of beauty and the sound of His flute, He moved within my heart. His Name on my tongue, There was no way to ev

Removing the Bewildered Condition1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972Daivaśakti Devī Dāsī (ISKCON-New York) By acquiring a comfortable material position in life with a nice family, friends, etc., one strives for permanent sense satisfaction while ignoring the fact that his real satisfacti

From the Reservoir of Knowledge1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972Personal Letters from Śrīla Prabhupāda As a genuine spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda takes personal responsibility for the advancement of each of his students in the spiritual life o

Sleepers Awake!1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972New York: Summer 1966 Part Two Hayagrīva dāsa (ISKCON-New Vṛndāvana) [Note: The following is a reminiscence by one of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s first students in the West. This section, from the book The Hare Kṛṣṅa Explosion, i

Kṛṣṅa Eternally Invites Us1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #47, 1972A fully Kṛṣṅa conscious person never sees anything as accident or chance because he sees Kṛṣṅa’s hand in all things. Actually, there is no such thing as chance; when we say that an event happens by chance or by accident,

International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 4802 Red River Berkeley California 1521 San Pablo/ (415) 525-9793 Boston Massachusetts

Freedom in Kṛṣṅa1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda vande rūpa-sanātanau raghuyugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau. We are following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu in order to understand Kṛṣṅa consciousness. Kṛṣṅa, th

The Disciplic Succession1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972His Holiness Satsvarūpa dāsa Gosvāmī Many times, when people inquiring about Kṛṣṅa consciousness hear from us about the importance of disciplic succession, they are not able to grasp what we are talking about. We say, “K

A New look at Lord Kṛṣṅa1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972(Reprinted, by permission, from the Sunday Guardian, Trinidad, West Indies) Suraśreṣṭha dāsa is a 22-year-old devotee of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness who is now in Trinidad helping to establish a c

Liberation of the Cave Dwellers1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972Hayagrīva Dāsa (ISKCON—New Vṛndāvana) It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that whoever understands beyond doubt that the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṅa is the origin and proprietor of everything is undeluded and free from all taint, a

Saṅkīrtana, The Divine Sound1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972The world becomes joyful upon hearing Your name, and thus everyone becomes attached to You. O my Lord, O divine Energy of the Lord, please engage me in Your service. Because there is no difference between Kṛṣṅa and His n

The Logician and Lord Caitanya1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972Jayādvaita dāsa Brahmacārī (ISKCON—New York) At the age of twenty-four years, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted sannyāsa, the renounced order of spiritual life, and soon thereafter He set out for the holy city of Jagannā

Let There Be One Scripture For The Entire World--Bhagavad-gītā As It Is1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #48, 1972Let There Be One Scripture For The Entire World—Bhagavad-gītā As It Is His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda PUBLISHED BY Collier Macmillan Bhagavad-gītā, or the Song of the Opulent One, is the most ancien

International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #49, 1972AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 4802 Red River Berkeley California 1521 San Pablo/ (415) 525-9793 Bloomington Indiana

The Search for the Divine1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #49, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda [On his way from Los Angeles to London to attend the annual Jagannātha Car Festival, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the founder and spiritual ma

Lord Caitanya’s Mission and Precepts Part One1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #49, 1972Lord Caitanya’s Mission and Precepts, Part One As foretold in Vedic scriptures, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared on earth 500 years ago in the form of Lord Caitanya, who is God Himself playing the role of a de

Lord Kṛṣṅa’s Friend Sudāmā1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #49, 1972His Holiness Satsvarūpa dāsa adhikārī Gosvāmī The wonderful history of Kṛṣṅa and His friend Sudāmā is told in its entirety in the Kṛṣṅa Book, Volume II, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prab

On Spiritual Life in This Age1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #49, 1972by His Holiness Revatīnandana Svāmī Problems of the Present Age It is not surprising that a significant number of young people, and some of their elders as well, have taken an interest in spiritual life in recent years.

International Society For Krishna Consciousness Centers Around The World1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50, 1972AFRICA Nairobi Kenya c/o ISKCON, P. O. Box 28946 (E. Africa) THE AMERICAS Atlanta Georgia 24 NE 13th St./ (404) 892-9386 Austin Texas 9714 Dallum/ (512) 837-0085 Bloomington Indiana 1130 W. 6th St., Bloomington 47401 Bos

God Is Not Void, Life Is Not Zero1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50, 1972His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Bhaktivinode Ṭhākura said, kṛṣṅera saṁsāra kara chāḍi ’anācāra: everyone can engage in family or worldly life, but one simply has to abandon his destructive habits. Th

Lord Caitanya’s Mission and Precepts Part Two1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50, 1972Lord Caitanya’s Mission and Precepts, Part Two As foretold in Vedic scriptures, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared on earth 500 years ago in the form of Lord Caitanya, who is God Himself playing the role of a de

Kṛṣṅa Consciousness: Secret and Confidential1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50, 1972By His Holiness Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī In Bhagavad-gītā Lord Kṛṣṅa tells His disciple Arjuna, “I shall give you the most secret wisdom,” and our spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, de

The Universal Principles of Spiritual Culture1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50, 1972The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a worldwide institution for the development of the spiritual culture necessary for a progressive human civilization. In the following interview, Dr. Stillso

Satan, Witches and homemade Gods1972 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50, 1972by Hayagrīva dāsa Adhikārī (Iskcon New Vṛndāvana) A black-caped figure stares out from the cover of Time, the world’s largest news magazine. “The Occult Revival: Satan Returns” announces the latest news, as though Satan