Miscellaneous

Answering Questions That Were Never Asked

20 Mar 2025

Those who have gotten a glimpse of the unending depth of knowledge in Srila Prabhupada’s books constantly face the question: how many can embrace this unique opportunity to change their destiny, move ahead, and possibly reach the highest goal—returning back home, back to Godhead?

Guru—Who is it?

11 Mar 2025

In times where the word "guru" has even been incorporated into the vocabulary of mainstream society entertainers, it is even more important to understand who a guru is and what our relationship with such a spiritual master may be.

Gṛhastha Āśrama: The End of Selfishness

28 Feb 2025

Once, many years ago, I heard one of my godbrothers, after his sannyāsa acceptance ceremony, commenting in an introspective way: "Now I am a sannyāsī. Now I am in trouble—nobody will tell me when I am wrong anymore."

Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: A Walk on a Razor's Edge

14 Feb 2025

With Śrīla Prabhupāda's arrival in the West, a spiritual revolution was set in motion. As is the destiny of all revolutions, the initial revolutionary spirit can turn into a more comfortable and established regime of maintenance at best, or an opportunistic lifestyle where the exploits of the original pioneers are turned into playgrounds for politically minded individuals. Sometimes, revolutionaries themselves turn out to be the enjoyers of the conquered territories, acting more in a colonizing rather than a cultivating spirit.

Don’t Criticise the Critics!

03 Feb 2025

Engulfed in a frenzy centred around ideas of being all one and the same, eliminating any form of judgement, the critics of those who voice their doubts about such sentimental ideas have even entered the ranks of devotees, trying to make us believe that any form of criticism constitutes an offence. Indeed, the threat of being guilty of vaiṣṇava aparādha is a heavy one. Even Lord Caitanya, the most merciful incarnation of the Lord, so liberally offering everybody the chance to become a devotee, can also be misunderstood as entirely dismissing any form of criticism.

Mayavada—Closer Than We Think

31 Jan 2025

Those who follow the path of bhakti yoga, devotional service to the Lord, see impersonalism, Mayavada, a doctrine declaring this world to be an illusory manifestation without any personal origin, as a daily challenge. They explore to what degree this "poison," as Srila Prabhupada used to call it, still affects our lives.

The Myth of Senior Vaishnavism

21 Jan 2025

As we learn from the Srimad Bhagavatam, seniority is highly valued in Vedic culture. Senior members of society can serve the younger ones with valuable practical advice not only on how to return back home, back to Godhead, but also on how to survive in this intricate material world governed by the law of karma.

Christianity...What Is It?

16 Jan 2025

There are some official ISKCON representatives who, with great pathos, propagate the oneness of religions and the importance of interreligious dialogues with representatives of various religious groups, better to say sects, all forgetting to ask the very basic question: what is actually real religion?

The Ineffective Brahminical Preaching

22 Oct 2024

It was in my presence when Srila Prabhupada stated that without the close cooperation of brahminical and ksatriya-motivated devotees, we will not be able to spread Krsna Consciousness.

The Cult of Endless Forgiveness

15 Oct 2024

In urgent need to forgive everybody everywhere all the time, we hear occasionally, as if in need to be forgiven themselves, the preachers of such an unconditional cult of forgiveness spreading their “love.”

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