Soaps: Clean and Dirty
Soap gets you clean, right? Maybe not. Soap is made with fatty oils of various kinds, both vegetable and animal. But for devotees of Krsna, smearing the body with soap made from the fat of a slaughtered animal is not the best way to get clean. Which soaps have animal... read moreIs Krsna Consciousness Hindu?
Sometimes, it seems, devotees of the Hare Krsna movement say that Krsna consciousness is a form of Hinduism. Yet at other times we say it's not Hindu at all it's nonsectarian. So we seem to swing back and forth according to convenience. Several friendly Hindu... read more
Srila Prabhupada’s Rooms at Radha-Damodara
He left from these simple rooms in the heart of Krsna's land to bring others the spiritual bliss he knew here. Before bringing Krsna consciousness to the West, Srila Prabhupada lived for six years at the four-hundred-year-old Radha-Damodara temple in... read more
I Shall Not Fight
Having cast aside his bow and sat down on the chariot, the mighty Arjuna, overwhelmed with grief, told Krsna … "I Shall Not Fight" Fifty centuries ago, on the expansive Battlefield of Kuruksetra in northern India, huge phalanxes of fully-armed troops... read more