There is another truism concerning history besides the one that Rocana prabhu mentions. It is the truism that Gokulananda is personifying, which is that "The only thing that we ever learn about history is that we never learn anything about history...

Today I was informed by Dayanidi das that the deities of Radha-Govinda that had been installed by Narayana Maharaja at the Venice Beach Radha-Govinda temple in California, USA, have been stolen. Not only that, but the temple community...

There are so many thought provoking articles upon the Sun as well as transcripts and audio feeds of Srila Prabhupada that sometimes I think that one need only its pages to provide one with endless inspiration. One of the things that inspired me a while back was a consideration by...

I have noticed with disinterest the present debate questioning whether it is possible or not for a spirit soul to fall from the spiritual sky. There are many things in the scriptures that I don't understand and even doubt, but I do not think that through the power of my intellect that I can ever...

Even if he is GBC, even if he is decorated with tilak and tulsi and 10,000 disciples adorn his feet, even there they are not safe from those who mean to safeguard religion and society, who mean to conquer the world, to protect its denizens and to place it as a shining jewel at the Sampradaya Acarya...

I never could figure out whether I was a "fringie" because I stuck around but never joined the movement, or whether it was that I "blooped", seeing that I did in actuality join the movement and lived in a temple for about a year. Either way, it's nice to know that at long last I am considered by Ravindra Svarupa to be a...

"Those who have seriously studied Srila Prabhupada's teachings could easily conclude that he wanted to create brahmans, first and foremost. Whether you want to focus on the Varnasrama aspect, on ISKCON itself as a society, or on the sankirtana...

Rocana prabhu has made many salient points in his critique of such biographies as this, and yet he kindly continues to allow me to publish mine. I must ask myself then why? Perhaps because I was never more than a bhakta and thus unlike advanced devotees he realizes that I cannot be expected to be...

I never met Kirtanananda, never met the murderer of Sulocana, but I doubt that anyone of any actual spiritual advancement would have formed such a close association with these two individuals. It would simply be intolerable, for both the spiritually advanced person...

"When a person realizes himself to be an eternal servitor of Krishna, he loses interest in everything but Krishna's service. Always thinking of Krishna, devising means by which to spread the holy name of Krishna, he understands that his only business is in spreading the Krishna consciousness movement all over the world.

I have yet to have anyone turn this offer down, which is one reason that I cannot believe that hope for success in our preaching mission in the Americas is doomed to failure. The fault is not in the mission itself but in those who are presenting it. The simple problem is that many who are presenting themselves as Krishna conscious devotees are not self-realized, nor does it seem that they ever expect to be so, at least not in this life.