Letters, Volume-12 Number-04 (Indian) 2015
Combined Personalities If the spiritual identity of every individual is eternal, including that of the Supreme Lord Krsna, then how should one understand different avataras like Dattatreya, who is a combination of Siva ,Visnu and Brahma, and similar avataras in... read more
Every Body Is Miserable
The 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. Why? What is the purpose? Nunaṁ pramattaḥ kurute... read more
Why We Must Purify Our Existence by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Our inability to secure the complete happiness we all seek points to our diseased condition. (An initiation lecture.) The Sanskrit word for initiation is diksa. As stated in an authoritative Vedic dictionary, divya jñanaṁ ksapayati iti diksa: “Diksa means... read moreLetters, Volume-49 Number- 02, 2015
Keats’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, Keats, explores... read more