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Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 20162016 / #50-01 / 16 articles Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 20162016 / #50-02 / 14 articles Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 20162016 / #50-03 / 17 articles Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 20162016 / #50-04 / 18 articles Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 20162016 / #50-05 / 15 articles Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 20162016 / #50-06 / 15 articles

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Welcome2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada understood the power of theater to inform and inspire, and he encouraged his disciples to deliver Krsna consciousness through plays. In this issue's cover story, Jaya Krsna Letters2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016Help from the Demigods If we are in Krsna consciousness, can we worship the demigods for material boons? Modim Verma Guwahati, Assam, India Our reply: The goal of Krsna consciousness is pure devotion to Krsna. Even in th Founder's Lecture - Try to Hear About Krsna2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016New York City, April 19, 1973 The sound of Krsna’s name and of discussions about Him is auspicious for everyone, even those who don't understand the meaning. sri-suka uvaca variyan esa te prasnah krto loka-hitam nrpa atm Srila Prabhupada: Our Founder-Acarya2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016His Mission’s Roots From the day Srila Prabhupada was born, Lord Krsna prepared the events of his life for everyone’s ultimate benefit. by Suresvara Dasa To honor the fiftieth anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s incorporat Chariot of the Soul: A Metaphor to Distinguish Body from Self2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016By Satyaraja Dasa Though Plato and Freud used this analogy, the Srimad-Bhagavatam's version is the fullest and the clearest. Plato's dialogues, particularly Phaedrus, have intrigued me once again. In sections 246a–254e,

by Srila Bilvamangala Thakura

2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016I offer pranama to that foremost of thieves, who is famous in Vraja as the butter-thief, who steals the gopis’ clothes, and who, for those who take shelter of Him, steals the sins that have accrued over many lifetimes. I

Jesus Christ: A Pure Representative of God2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016The following conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 1977. Disciple: Prabhupada, you have said, "Preaching God's

e-Krishna2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016www.kirtanparty.com Kirtana, the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord, has long been at the heart of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Kirtanaparty.com aims to help you find ki

Faith: An Essential Element of Spiritual Progress2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016by Visakha Devi Dasi We all have faith, and deciding where to direct it demands careful consideration. In one of his Bhagavad-gita purports, Srila Prabhupada makes this startling statement: “It is only by faith that one

BBC Meditation 12016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016by 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 to eight million listeners, depending on

My Life as an Actor in ISKCON2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016by Jaya Krsna Dasa A devotee looks back on his thirty-five years of producing and acting in Krsna conscious plays. I come from a typically pious Gujarati family. My family moved from Kenya to the UK in the winter of 1969

Vaisnava Drama: Some Background2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016by Nandan Ray The Vaisnava spiritual tradition contains the deepest insights into the nature of the Absolute Truth, and with this comes a need for an appropriate vehicle to adequately convey the truths of this highly eso

Appreciating Sri Isopanisad2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016by Yudhisthira Dasa A study of one of Srila Prabhupada's books, even a relatively small book, delivers big rewards. Srila Prabhupada's Sri Isopanisad–that small book decorated with Lord Kesava Visnu on the cover, benignl

Karna's Options: Word of Honor or Life of Honor2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016by Caitanya Carana Dasa A mistaken sense of loyalty drives a hero to follow a villain instead of his greatest well-wisher. The Mahabharata is a fascinating book, with many of its characters not clearly black or white, bu

From the Editor2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016"This Is the Krsna Consciousness Movement" To begin our yearlong commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, I present here excerpts from Srila Prabhu

Vedic Thoughts2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-01, 2016The Sanskrit statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam are all transcendental sounds. Srila Vyasadeva revealed these statements after perfect realization, and therefore they are perfect, for liberated sages like Vyasadeva never co

Welcome2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016As we continue our yearlong celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, we begin this issue with a lecture Srila Prabhupada gave in December 1966, five months after he

Letters2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016Why Are You Against the Movies? I have read amazing articles by Hare Krsna devotees about amazing movies like Star Wars. I even read an article about the 2009 film Avatar and an editorial from an Indian BTG issue in Engl

Founder's Lecture - How to Identify an Avatar2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016New York City, December 26, 1966 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu points to the Vedic scriptures as unerring spiritual authority. sarvajña munira vākya—śāstra-’paramāṅa’ āmā-sabā jīvera haya śāstra-dvārā ’jñāna’ Sri Caitanya Maha

How I Came to Krsna Consciousness2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016Demigod Father, Demon Son By Caitanya Carana Dasa As told to Janakinatha Dasa How a father's dying wish and Srila Prabhupada's Gita changed one man's destiny. While distributing Srila Prabhupada's books village to villag

Judging Without Understanding: The Recipe for Ruining Relationships2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016by Caitanya Carana Dasa The final stage of the relationship between Vali and Sugriva, important characters in the Ramayana, provide important ethical lessons. A poignant subplot in the Ramayana is the fratricidal confron

The Forty-Year History of ISKCON Padayatra2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016by Gauragi Devi Dasi In our high-tech world, a time-honored low-tech tradition still proves to be an effective way to spread Lord Krsna's teachings. For thousands of years, people in India have performed padayatras ("wal

Book Excerpt2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016What profit in all our labors? An Old Testament sage holds before us the contradictions of human life. “Vanity of vanities, says Qohelet. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!” So begins the Old Testament book of Ecclesiast

BBC Meditation 22016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016by 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, depe

"Do Not Fear"2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016by Purusottama Nitai Dasa Wholeheartedly surrendering to Krsna, as the Bhagavad-gita urges us, is the guaranteed way to fearlessness. I was sitting in the college library one afternoon when suddenly my friend and classma

Does Asana Equal Yoga?2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016By Satyaraja Dasa Nowadays everyone knows what yoga is. Or do they? In the West yoga is more popular than ever. "It's at the top of its game," says Dan Gurlitz, general manager of Koch Vision, whose distribution of Yoga

Relief in Two Words2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016This conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Dr. Christian Hauser, a psychiatrist, took place in Stockholm in September 1973. Srila Prabhupada: I am prescribing, "Chant Hare Krsna."

Srila Prabhupada: Our Founder-Acarya2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016His ISKCON Branch After decades of planning, in the 1960s and ’70s Srila Prabhupada established the Hare Krsna movement by Lord Krsna’s supreme will. by Suresvara Dasa To honor the fiftieth anniversary of Srila Prabhupad

From the Editor2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016Happy Days of Struggle Traveling to Vrindavan or Mayapur from most places in America takes around thirty hours in cars, planes, and waiting areas. Devotees who make the trip tend to arrive exhausted. Imagine Srila Prabhu

Vedic Thoughts2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-02, 2016If one is not attracted by the transcendental nature of Krsna, one is sure to be attracted to material enjoyment, thus to become implicated in the clinging network of virtuous and sinful activities and to continue materi

Welcome2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016Last August, Kolkata's 15,000-seat Netaji Indoor Stadium was filled beyond capacity–twice–to commemorate Srila Prabhupada's departure for America in 1965. In this issue, "Celebrating Prabhupada's Historic Journey" report

Letters2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016Finding My Role in Life Many of my family members are devotees of Lord Krsna. I am always told that this world is not real and that we all are playing a role in life. I have lost myself. Can you please help me? Pronab Vi

Founder's Lecture - Take Shelter of Devotion2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016November 23, 1966, New York City To enter a true loving relationship with Krsna, we have stop seeing Him as our order-supplier. kabhu svarge uṭhāya, kabhu narake ḍubāya daṅḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya "In the materia

Learn to Love the Natural Mode of Life2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016This conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place at New Vrindaban, West Virginia, on June 24, 1976. Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, once you said, "The trac

A Pause for Prayer2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the all-auspicious Lord Sri Krsna, about whom glorification, remembrances, audience, prayers, hearing, and worship can at once cleanse the effects of all sins of the performer.

The Soul, Its Condition, and Its Path to Freedom2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016By Akshay Gupta Self-realization entails knowing not only who we are, but also how to free ourselves from our state of bondage. From birth to death we constantly change our body. The body we have now is different from th

Akshay Gupta is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016Kirtan Course: A Transformative Experience by Cintamani Madhavi Devi Dasi A young devotee from Chile travels to Belgium to increase her enthusiasm for chanting the holy names. In 2012 I had to move from the town where I

Vaishnaviministry.org2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016Websites come in all shapes and sizes. Some are encyclopedic and contain large amounts of information. Others are called "landing pages" and contain just enough information to whet your appetite and point you elsewhere f

BBC Meditation 32016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016by 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, depe

Vaisnava Compassion2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016By Mayapura-sasi Dasa Vaisnava acts of compassion are valuable even when apparently not on the level of transcendence. Pure Vaisnavas care deeply. They feel the suffering of others in the core of their hearts. Their grea

Not Your Everyday God2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016by Navina Syama Dasa Krsna is far more colorful and captivating than what most people expect of God. God. Perhaps no word in the English language is laden with more emotional baggage. For some it conjures reveries of gra

Celebrating Prabhupada's Historic Journey2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016by Radharamana Dasa On the morning of 13 August 1965, at the Khidirpur dock in Kolkata, Srila Prabhupada boarded the cargo ship Jaladuta to embark on a long and difficult voyage across the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Onl

A Facelift for Prabhupada's Palace of Gold2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016By Satyaraja Dasa (Archival research by Chaitanya Mangala Dasa) In the 1970s a dedicated group of devotees cooperated to build it; now a new group is determined to restore it to its former glory. In the summer of 1965 Hi

Book Excerpt2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016How to Mess Up Your Life with Astrology by Sri Radha Govinda Dasi Astrology is a tool that can help us materially and spiritually, provided we know how to use it. [Footnote on first page: Adapted from How to Mess Up Your

Srila Prabhupada: Our Founder-Acarya2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016His Varnasrama Challenge By Suresvara Dasa While spreading Krsna consciousness worldwide, Srila Prabhupada used the Sanskrit term varnasrama at least four ways, and applied it differently to ISKCON over three time period

From the Editor2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016Srila Prabhupada the Preacher At the time Srila Prabhupada left India for America, a superstition among the religious in India held that a sannyasi should never cross the ocean. The rationale apparently was that the deca

Vedic Thoughts2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-03, 2016In ignorance, people are imagining the form of the Lord; sometimes He has no form and sometimes He has form, according to their different imaginations. But the presentation of Krsna in the Brahma-saṁhitā is vijnana–scien

A Pause for Prayer2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016[This is Sudama Vipra thinking after he finds that Krsna has transformed his house into a palace. We have a couple of paintings of Krsna and Sudama in Dwaraka, but using just Krsna alone would be ok.] I pray to have the

Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Chapter 812016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016King Prthu Commands Mother Earth to Produce The earth having assumed the form of a cow, King Prthu threatens to kill her if she continues to withhold food grains from the citizens. amūṣāṁ kṣut-parītānām ārtānāṁ paridevit

Gopa-kumara Coddled by Laxmi2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016Overwhelmed after hearing Lord Mahapurua instruct Lord Brahma, Gopa-kumara faints in ecstasy. TEXT 134 atho tad ākarṅya catur-mukhaṁ ca pramoda-sampad-vivaśī-bhavantam anūdya nīcair anumodamānaṁ muhus tad-aṅghrīn abhivan

ISKCON Vladivostok: Lord Krsna's Home in Russia's Far East2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016by 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

Srila Prabhupada's Legacy Lives On2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016by Caitanya Carana Dasa Though Prabhupada was present for only the first eleven years of ISKCON's fifty-year history, he continues to guide and inspire his followers to expand what he began. "It's an astonishing story. I

Welcome2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016When Hare Krsna devotees bought an old Italian villa in the 1980s, they created a temple, offices, living quarters, storage places, and so on. But Villa Vrindavan, as it’s called, is a big place, and some spacious rooms

e-Krishna2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016One of the benefits of Internet technology is that a large volume of information in many locations and formats can be brought together and made accessible in one easy-to-use format. With the advent of mobile computing on

From the Editor2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016Radical Revolution A revolution was taking place when Srila Prabhupada arrived in America in the sixties. Or at least some people thought of it that way. Young people were challenging the status quo in various areas of l

BBC Meditation 42016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016by 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, depe

Letters2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016Wanting to See Krsna I want the darsana [audience] of God, Sri Krsna. When will He show His grace? I have been chanting for two years, and now I am becoming bored to chant because I am not getting darsana of God. When wi

The Dual Stories of Krsna’s Birth2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016By Satyaraja Dasa Yes, Krsna appeared as a newborn in a prison cell, but there's a lesser-known fact of His birth. Last year on Janmastami, the celebration of Krsna’s appearance in this world, numerous Indian newspapers

Founder's Lecture - The Key to Understanding the Supreme2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016December 27, 1966, New York City Understanding the Supreme Truth is not difficult for one who accepts the words of scripture and pure souls. tvāṁ śīla-rūpa-caritaiḥ parama-prakṛṣṭaiḥ sattvena sāttvikatayā prabalaiś ca śā

Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016Where Is Your Freedom? This 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. S

How I Came to Krsna Consciousness2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016An Accident . . . Or Maybe Not by Sri Caitanya Candra Dasa A decision at the scene of an auto accident leads to a small reward and a life-changing purchase. One day during my student years at MIT Pune (Maharashtra Instit

Reasons to Get Along2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016by Dr. A. D. Sriragapriya Ramanujadasan Some remarkable correlations between the lives and philosophies of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Ramanujacarya. This is Kali-yuga, the age of quarrel, when even good people are looking

Srila Prabhupada: Our Founder-Acarya2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016Finding Our Mission in His Mission by Suresvara Dasa To make our best contribution to the Krsna consciousness movement takes time, thoughtfulness, and guidance from experienced devotees dedicated to serving Srila Prabhup

Villa Vrindavan: Krsna's Home in Tuscany2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016by Tattvavit Dasa Lord Krsna's Renaissance estate has become a Vrindavan temple–and more. Villa Vrindavan, in Italy, almost looks too old to have a future, but the humble devotees there are confident it will. ISKCON’s ol

Vedic Thoughts2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-04, 2016One must understand the transcendental birth of the Lord and the devotee. The purpose of the Lord's taking birth is to establish devotional service, which is the perfect system of religion, and the purpose of the birth o

A Pause for Prayer2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016Please 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 de

The Earth Pleads for Protection2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016Threatened 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 sv

ISKCON Vladivostok: Where Krsna Reigns in Russia's Far East2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016by 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 Dāmodarāṣṭaka2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016by 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 verbali

Welcome2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016When, 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 Consciousness2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016Spiritual 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 aspirat

Srila Prabhupada the Healer2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016Among 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 bei

BBC Meditation 52016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016by 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, depe

Letters2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016Sympathy 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 Fair2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016By 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 y

A Riverbed of Desire2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016by 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 moonl

Founder's Lecture - Learn How to Love Krsna2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016Seattle, 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 ka

Fictitious Happiness2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016This 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: "Bothe

Srila Prabhupada: Our Founder-Acarya2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016To 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 fif

Vedic Thoughts2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-05, 2016The 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

Welcome2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016Srila Prabhupada encouraged his disciples to write articles for Back to Godhead. He gave these basic guidelines: They should read the books he was translating, and write their realizations in their own words. Because his

Letters2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016A Special Thank You from BTG We would like to express our gratitude to Ms. Vidula “Vidu” Dave, of Winter Park, Florida, who passed away in November last year and had included Back to Godhead among the beneficiaries of he

Founder's Lecture - Successful Life2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016New York City, January 3, 1967 Lord Krishna teaches that success in life begins by cultivating knowledge of matter and sprit. buddhir jnanam asammohah kshama satyam damah shamah sukham duhkham bhavo ’bhavo bhayam cabhaya

Worlds of Magic, Worlds of Truth2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016By Nikunja Vilasini Devi Dasi The Vedic literature reveals a real world beyond our experience and beyond our imagination. Extra-terrestrial and mythical creatures have invaded our world, along with gods and superheroes,

No Newspapers! The Miners’ Mentality2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016by Karuna Dharini Devi Dasi How to protect our spiritual lives from the constant allure of mundane topics. Srila Prabhupada a few times repeated a story he had heard from a friend about a preacher trying to persuade coal

Devastation by Disinformation2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016We can learn valuable lessons from the actions of Kaikeyi, who was drawn into her maidservant's cunning scheme. by Chaitanya Charana Dasa One of the most heartwrenching events in the entire Ramayana is the conspiracy tha

Srila Prabhupada: Our Founder-Acarya2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016Fictional Prabhupadas While developing a personal relationship with Srila Prabhupada, it is important to dispel impersonal and sentimental misconceptions we may have about him. by Sureshvara Dasa To honor the fiftieth an

Are We Bound or Free?2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016by Vishakha Devi Dasi A discussion on the options for the soul under the influence of Krishna's material energy. A controversy arose during a Sunday discussion at ISKCON's Saranagati Village, in British Columbia, Canada.

Austerity and Pleasure: Managing Our Sexuality While Waiting for Transcendence2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016By Urmila Devi Dasi Because sexual desire has a spiritual origin, the practices of bhakti-yoga can recover its pure eternal purpose. Bhakti-yoga gives us the key to the origin of sexuality and its means of total fulfillm

Don't Forget Your Real Business2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016This conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place at New Vrindaban, ISKCON's farming village in West Virginia, on June 24, 1976. Srila Prabhupada: A chil

Yoga and the Great Mantra for Deliverance2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016By Satyaraja Dasa A talk given at a yoga center in Rockland County, New York, explains why yoga and chanting Hare Krishna go well together. I’ve been asked to introduce this program by briefly speaking about the relation

e-Krishna2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016http://links.krishna.com is the curated links section at Krishna.com. You can browse the sections by topic or use the search box to find what you're looking for. If you have a Krishna conscious website, or know of a webs

Unfathomable!2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016by Braja Sevaki Devi Dasi Even after this year's celebrations of ISKCON's Fiftieth Anniversary are over, we should always remember the great journey Prabhupada took for us. Friday, August 13, 1965: a date every ISKCON de

From the Editor2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016The Best Religion With a particular religion, and perversions of it, grabbing the headlines today, one might wonder, Is one religion better than another? For clarity on this subject, I look to the Vedic literature and te

Vedic Thoughts2016 / Back to Godhead Magazine #50-06, 2016A self-realized person, or a devotee, knows well that this material cosmic manifestation is a temporary, illusory representation appearing to be truth. It is like a phantasmagoria. But behind this shadow creation there i