Volume-18 Number-05 – Back To Godhead

Toxic Waste: Stopping It at Its Source by Dravida Dasa

May 1, 1983 | Dravida Dasa, From the Editor, Volume-18 Number-05

Guest Editorial Back in 1971, Russell Bliss sprayed oil mixed with dioxin on dusty horse arenas, dirt roads, parking lots, and farms at twenty-two sites in Missouri. His purpose was twofold: to control the dust and to get rid of the dioxin, a waste product that a... read more

The Yoga Dictionary

May 1, 1983 | The Yoga Dictionary, Volume-18 Number-05

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 English terms)... read more

Exeter, Harvard, SDS, drugs, Skinner, James, and a place on the bay in Maine. Then what? by Mathuresa Dasa

May 1, 1983 | How I Came to Krsna Consciousness, Mathuresa Dasa, Volume-18 Number-05

I first heard the chanting of Hare Krsna in 1968, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during my freshman year at Harvard University. My dormitory room overlooked the sidewalk in Harvard Square where the devotees chanted in the afternoon several days a week. I liked the... read more

Shopping With Krsna In Mind by Madhyama Devi Dasi

May 1, 1983 | Bhakti Yoga at Home, Madhyama Devi Dasi, Volume-18 Number-05

How to choose food to offer to the Lord. If you've decided to be a vegetarian, and to take the further step of offering all your food to the Lord, sooner or later you'll face the task of changing your shopping habits. When I first became interested in Krsna... read more

Guru by Patrick L. Garrison

May 1, 1983 | Patrick L. Garrison, Poetry, Volume-18 Number-05

Srila Prabhupada, We haven't met . . . yet, Or at least not on this plane, For you have gone on to be with Krsna. I remain yet in illusion. I listen to you chanting the Bhagavad-gita. You live yet in this world, For as long as one tape is played, One devotee... read more

Letters, Volume-18 Number-05, 1983

May 1, 1983 | Letters, Volume-18 Number-05

We welcome your letters. Write to BACK TO GODHEAD 51 West Allens Lane Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19119 I have been aware of the Hare Krishna movement for about a decade. I very often noticed the devotees chanting in downtown Vancouver. But for all those... read more