What Does GOD Sound Like? by Satyaraja Dasa
“O lotus-eyed one, Your sweet voice and charming words, which attract the minds of the intelligent, are bewildering us more and more.” – Gopis to Sri Krishna , Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.31.8 It Might seem naive to wonder what God sounds like, to speculate... read more
The Vulture is cursing the cow by Satyaraja Dasa
Prabhupada and the “God Is Dead” Controversy Although Friedrich Nietzsche (1844– 1900) was not the first philosopher to proclaim that “God is dead” – indeed, his predecessor Hegel had used the same phrase almost twenty years earlier... read more
Sehnsucht When Vocabulary Encourages Yearning for Krishna by Satyaraja Dasa
The more spiritually evolved we become, the more we long for life’s “missing piece." WOOOAHHH! That’s it!” I said when I came across the German word sehnsucht (ZEN-zookt). “That sums it all up!” Sehnsucht means... read more
Srila Prabhupada’s Transcendental “Otherness” by Satyaraja Dasa
How a local newspaper helped ignite the explosive growth of the worldwide Hare Krishna movement. I recently spoke to Peter Leggieri. The name might not mean much to most readers of Back to Godhead, but, in fact, Peter was engaged by Krishna to help establish the... read more