The Yoga Dictionary
The Sanskrit language is rich in words to communicate ideas about spiritual life, yoga, and God realization. This dictionary, appearing by installments in BACK TO GODHEAD, focuses upon the most important of these words (and, occasionally, upon relevant... read moreLetters, Volume-17 Number-06, 1982
I am familiar with the basic tenets of Krsna consciousness, perhaps the most essential being that the bodies of all living creatures contain a spirit soul, which is their real self and which transmigrates from body to body. Recently I was reading a biology textbook... read more
Brahma Visnu Siva
Clearing up some misconceptions about "the Hindu trinity" The three interesting-looking persons depicted here are Brahma, the world-creator, Visnu, the world-maintainer, and Siva, the world-destroyer. Perhaps you've heard them characterized in that very... read more
Absolute Is Sentient Thou Hast Proved. by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
1935-1937: Bombay. A poem and a speech in praise of his spiritual master win Srila Prabhupada recogonition for his skill at presenting Krsna consciousness in English. After receiving spiritual initiation in 1932, Srila Prabhupada (then Abhay Charan De) sought to... read more