Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari – Back To Godhead

Krishna and the Vedic View by Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari

Jun 1, 1967 | Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari, Questions And Answers, Volume-01 Number-13

The Swami Responds Dear Swami, In some of your writings, you use the term Krishna, the Divine Lover. Do you mean that Krishna is the Universal Erotic Principle? Or is Krishna a symbol for universal brotherhood? Sincerely, Len Berkowitz Dear Mr. Berkowitz, It might be... read more

Poem to Walt Whitman by Hayagriva Dasa Brahmacari

Apr 21, 1967 | Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari, Poetry, Volume-01 Number-12

You too found Him all attractive, And your thoughts of Him you called Leaves of Grass For His green handiwork bends beneath His Feet, And you knew well those leaves of life Transpire from the breasts of the dead. Those leaves of grass for you Were tokens designedly... read more

Krishna Consciousness in American Poetry by Hayagriva Das Brahmacari

Apr 21, 1967 | Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari, Poetry, Volume-01 Number-12

Part III: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." O joyous seer! Recorders ages hence, yes, they shall hear In their own veins uncancelled thy sure tread And read thee by the aureole 'rond thy head Of pasture-shine, Panis Angelicus! (Hart Crane's homage... read more

Krishna Consciousness in American Poetry by Hayagriva Dasa Brahmacari

Apr 1, 1967 | Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari, Poetry, Volume-01 Number-11

Part II: Thoreau and Dickinson Thoreau made Emerson's injunction of "plain living and high thinking" famous when he set out to live outside Boston on an isolated tract of Emerson's land surrounding Walden Pond. Since then, Walden has come to... read more

Night Shower Sutra by Hayagriva Dasa Brahmacari

Apr 1, 1967 | Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari, Poetry, Volume-01 Number-11

Bathroom light bulb bulging energy Blissfully from the ceiling, White tile walls radiant, I strip naked, chanting, chanting, I prepare my billionth bath maneuvering myself behind rubber-plastic curtains and into the tub as if for the first time and turn on hot and... read more

Krishna Consciousness in American Poetry by Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari

Mar 20, 1967 | Bhakti-yoga and Krsna Consciousness, Hayagriva Dasa Brahmachari, Volume-01 Number-10

Part I: Emerson In the past 130 years the United States has swiftly travelled a long way down the road of materialism and atheism and has done a great deal in bringing the rest of the world down that road with them. It is a dead end road, but anyone jumping off that... read more