Is Eckhart Tolle Right? Can Life Flow With Ease?

Can you really create the life that you want? Furthermore, can you create it in an easy and relaxed way, unfolding gracefully? Is it possible to offer no resistance to life, to be in a state of elegance, effortlessness, and buoyancy while still getting what you really want? Can you move beyond being dependent on things being a certain way, good or ill, and gently move toward the life that makes you feel content, safe, and successful? I think the best answer to this question can come from someone... Read more »

Reading The Signs of The Times

Several decades ago, Mohandas K. Gandhi warned against what he called the seven social sins: politics without principle, wealth without work, commerce without morality, pleasure without conscience, education without character, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. Gandhi’s social sins point to the crucial relationship between our ethics and our public life. That relationship has proven in the 21st Century to be the main subject in scholarly debates and the primary focus... Read more »

Ahimsa: The Greatest Form Of Self-Love

When Mahatma Gandhi gave us his philosophy of non-violence, or ahimsa, I believe he was preaching the highest form of self-love. Self-love not only means accepting myself the way I am, warts and all. It also means never tolerating anything - even from myself - that harms or disempowers me in any way. In the things that I will not tolerate, I include violence. It’s easy to perceive violence from an external source. It’s much harder to detect the internal violence we wreak on ourselves... Read more »

Imaging Technology Restores Damaged Madhva Text

Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old Vaishnava palm-leaf manuscript. The project, led by P.R. Mukund and Roger L. Easton Jr., professors at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, will digitally preserve the original writings known as the Sarvamoola-granthas, attributed to the scholarly preceptor Sripada Madhvacharya (1238-1317). The collection of 36 works contains his Sanskrit commentaries on... Read more »

Simple, But Powerful Key To Success for ISKCON

Dear GBC members, please accept my humble obeisances. I’d like to take this opportunity to express my genuine gratitude for all you have done and are still doing for our beloved Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya’s Sankirtana mission. To assist you and Srila Prabhupada, I’d like to offer my humble contribution to the improvement of the efficiency of our ISKCON society by submitting to you this letter, which is based on my study of successful societies, communities and companies.... Read more »

Philosphy About Reincarnation From the Vedas

Reincarnation means that the soul is changing bodies. This change of bodies occurs not only at death, but throughout life; from boyhood to youth to old age, then to a baby’s body. These moment by moment changes are too small for the person to be aware of, but when we consider greater amounts of time, then the change of bodies is obvious. The change of body known as death is the most apparent. The Bhagavad-gita compares the change of body at the time of death to a person discarding old and... Read more »

How To Select a Vaisnava Guru

Patrice states, “Here in my region we are not blessed by seeing so many Gurus.” But, perhaps help is closer at hand than he realizes. Many people make the mistake of thinking that the position of a Vaisnava guru is in the same position as an officially ordained priest, rabbi or minister. In fact, that is not the case. One does not become guru by undergoing any formally structured training. One becomes guru because a person asks him or her to become their spiritual master. It is not... Read more »

Tendencies of Conditioned Souls and The Post-Graduate Study of God

By reading this article carefully, become informed about the tendencies of conditioned souls. We are part and parcels of God, pure spiritual entities by nature, but due to contact with the material energy we become covered by ignorance. Because of this covering, we display faults in our character. Four types of faults are especially prominent: 1. The tendency to make mistakes, 2. The tendency to be illusioned, 3. Having imperfect senses, and 4. The propensity to cheat. Every conditioned soul (contaminated... Read more »

A Spiritual Perspective Against Euthanizing of Animals

A half-feral cat showed up at our door 8-1/2 years ago, apparently abandoned, and we began feeding him. Now that he is older and has mellowed out a bit through the aging process and the hearing of Harinam in our house, he wants to stay inside more and more, especially in winter, but he refuses to use the cat box, so we put him out to go to toilet. He also gets some food and occasional shelter from at least one other householder in the neighborhood. I strive to keep him as a pet without getting overly... Read more »

Bringing Krsna to Work

Recently, after hearing during a recent class from the LA Temple, that one shouldn’t think he could bring Krsna Consciousness to the work place and expect people there not to influence the devotee, it got me thinking so I am writing this today. I understand the speakers’ intention was to not fool oneself into thinking one can expect oneself to remain strong in one’s sadhana while associating with people outside the temple. For those who feel strongly in this regard, your point can... Read more »