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Dying To Be Born

By Krishna Dharma das If we have to take birth again in this world there are some places we might prefer over others. Ireland, for example, would be a good choice. In that fine land abortion is mostly illegal, giving you a fair chance of emerging from the womb in one piece. But not everyone […]

Meeting Srila Prabhupada

By Sivarama Swami First meetings I first met my spiritual master on March 6th 1975 in Dallas Texas. Srila Prabhupada had just been in South America and had toured the Southern United States. I was on travelling book distribution with a sankirtan party and had strayed quite a distance from Montreal my home base. While […]

Karma

By Krishna Dharma Bad Karma For The England Coach: On January 30 this year (1999), Britain woke up to an unusual headline in the news. “Hoddle says disabled are paying for sins of previous life,” announced the more serious press, while the tabloids went for variations of “Hoddle goes mad.” The story had made headlines […]

Let Everyone be Happy

Our Quest For Happiness Do you sometimes feel that no matter how hard you try you just cannot find fulfilment? That despite your best efforts to be happy you somehow end up suffering? Does it sometimes seem that everyone is enjoying life except you? All those films and magazines depicting happy lifestyles you can’t seem […]

Vedic Perspectives

The evening news is populated with stories of war, famine and injustice from every part of the world; be they ‘civilised’ or ‘third world’. The resolution of one conflict gives rise to another. We have now become so used to this we accept the struggles of those in need of food, shelter and basic health […]

Celebrating Gita Jayanti

An Address by Giriraj Swami to Leaders of Hindu Organizations October 23, 2009 Houston This year, Gita Jayanti, the day on which Lord Krsna spoke the Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna, will be celebrated on November 28. The Bhagavad-gita is also known as the Gitopanisad and is considered one of the Upanisads. The title Bhagavad-gita is sometimes […]

Varnashrama as a means to freedom

ISKCONâ€™s four regulative principles (avoiding meat-eating, all sex except for procreation in marriage, gambling and intoxication) are sometimes referred to as â€œthe four principles of freedomâ€. If they really are the principles of freedom, then they should foster honesty. One can only be free in honesty- for deception is entangling. As the poem goes: Oh! […]

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