Philosophy

Final Words of a Dying Father
Final Words of a Dying Father
By Janakinatha Dasa - 31.3 2020   Every December, the book marathon promises to be an exciting event. While travelling from door to door, village to village, through remote parts of India, we invariably meet someone who has been miraculously touched by Krishna’s mercy. One...Read more...
BHISMA
Kurukshetra
The Vanaprastha-asrama and its practical application
The Vanaprastha-asrama and its practical application
By Jaya Gaurasundara dasa Gauravanacari - 25.3 2020 A. Introduction 1. What is vanaprastha? The word vanaprastha is composed of the words vana, meaning “forest” and prastha, meaning “to go,” so a vanaprastha is “One has gone to the forest.” Vanaprastha...Read more...
Vanaprastha-asrama
The Purpose of Grhastha Asrama
Relativity and the Path to the Absolute
Relativity and the Path to the Absolute
By Arcana Siddhi Devi Dasi - 12.3 2020   Because many factors influence the way we see the world, too much faith in our own perspective can be materially and spiritually dangerous. My husband and I were counseling a couple and making progress, but then we reached an impasse. The...Read more...
Astrology Validated by Relativity
Parallels in Vedas and Modern Science
Ahankara – Foundational principle of our material existence
Ahankara – Foundational principle of our material existence
Following are the excerpts from S.B 4.7.33 lecture given by HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami at Zurich during Sept. 2001. ——— This is a very instructive chapter of Srimad Bhagavatam – the study of the activities of King Daksha. The whole event that took place during...Read more...
Evidence for the Existence of God
Nothing can exist without the Lord
Strength from Above
Strength from Above
By Yogesvara Dasa - 11.2 2020 ON DAYS SET ASIDE FOR SELLING Back to Godhead magazine, he packed copies in a cloth sack and boarded the morning train to Delhi. With nowhere to stay in Delhi he had to return to Vrindavan by evening, which gave him only a few hours of daylight. Sales...Read more...
THE MARATHAS (AND THEIR SOCIAL MOBILITY)
THE MARATHAS (AND THEIR SOCIAL MOBILITY)
By editor - 30.1 2020 Hinduism is composed of a caste, jati, system and class, varna, system (Rodrigues 132). According to Hindu myth, the four main varnas, compromising the brahmin or “priestly” class, the ksatriya or “warrior”...Read more...
Why Varna is Not Caste
THE KSATRIYA VARNA
Life and Afterlife
Life and Afterlife
Life and Afterlife: Does Modern Science Have it Right? By Navina Syama Dasa - 29.1 2020 The intellectual community fails to even consider the validity of evidence of reincarnation. I recently read one of the latest books by Ian Stevenson, entitled European Cases of the Reincarnation Type...Read more...
Reincarnation and Near-death Exp.
Belief in Reincarnation
Radha Dasyam - The highest Bhava
Radha Dasyam - The highest Bhava
By editor - 28.1 2020 Prabhodananda Saraswati  writes in his Vrndavana Mahamamrta 2.35 as follows: “Glorious are those persons who desire to climb out of the well of material existence and attain liberation; even more glorious are they who have dedicated themselves to the...Read more...
Sri Raya Ramananda Samvada
Radhasthami Mahotsavah
Sri Vishnupriya
Sri Vishnupriya
By editor - 28.1 2020 Katha-Kirtan on Sri Vishnupriya-devi (Gour Govinda Swami sings a song of Srila Narottama dasa Thakura) jaya jaya guru gosani-sri-carana sara yaha ha-ite haba para e bhava-samsara “All glories to the glorious feet of the spiritual master and the Supreme...Read more...
The Story of Shaubhari Muni
The Story of Shaubhari Muni
By Radhanath Swami - 27.1 2020 (SB 11.10.17) Translation Although the performer of fruitive activities desires perpetual happiness, it is clearly observed that materialistic workers are often unhappy and only occasionally satisfied, thus proving that they are not independent or in...Read more...
Alexander Great and Canakya Pandit
Mysteries of the Ramayana
Agamas
Agamas
By editor - 24.1 2020 Introduction: The Agamas (Sanskrit: आगम) are a collection of scriptures of several Hindu devotional schools. The term literally means tradition or “that which has come down”, and the Agama texts describe cosmology, epistemology,...Read more...
The Churning of the Milk Ocean, Part Two
The Churning of the Milk Ocean, Part Two
BY: SUN STAFF - 23.1 2020 Churning the Milk Ocean Thanjavur, c. 1830 Collection of British Museum   A two part summary of sastric descriptions of the great Churning pastime.   THE RAMAYANA CANTO XLV -- QUEST OF THE AMRIT High and more high their wonder rose As the...Read more...
The Churning of the Milk Ocean
India Through the Eyes of Europe - Churning the Milk Ocean
Animals of Indian Mythology
Animals of Indian Mythology
Dr. Krishnanand Kamat - 22.1 2020 Excerpted from The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society Vol. LXXXV Issue 2, June 1994.   First published as "Attitude of our ancestors towards animals" Ancient Indians had recognized the animals' right to co-exist with man and...Read more...
Indian Scriptures are not Mythology
Ramayana is not Mythology
Yoga and Buddhism: Similarities and Differences
Yoga and Buddhism: Similarities and Differences
By Vamadeva (David Frawley) - 22.1 2020 Yoga and Buddhism are sister traditions which evolved in the same spiritual culture of ancient India. They use many of the same terms and follow many of the same principles and practices. For this reason it is not surprising that many of us,...Read more...
AHIMSA
Belief in Reincarnation
The Churning of the Milk Ocean
The Churning of the Milk Ocean
BY: SUN STAFF - 21.1 2020 A two part summary of sastric descriptions of the great Churning pastime. Samudra manthan, or the pastime of the 'Churning of the Ocean of Milk', is one of the most famous episodes in the Puranas, and is celebrated in a major way every twelve years at the...Read more...
Not One Blade of Grass
Not One Blade of Grass
BY: CAITANYA DAS - 17.1 2020 It is said not one blade of grass moves without Krishna knowing it. How can this be? Indeed this suggests that everything is connected or at one, consequently when one part of the gigantic body moves the other parts are aware, and in the case of Krishna fully...Read more...
Avoiding Sahajiyaism
Avoiding Sahajiyaism
BY: SUN STAFF - 13.1 2020   Following are a number of interesting quotes from our Sampradaya Acaryas on various aspects of sahajiyaism and the need to avoid it: "Bhakti-siddhanta-viruddha refers to that which is against the principle of unity in diversity, philosophically known...Read more...
ISKCON's sahajiya flirt
Qualification to read Astakaliya lila
Yukta vairagya
Yukta vairagya
Yukta vairagya or using everything in Krishna’s service By Haripada Dasa - 13.1 2020 In the Srimad Bhagavatam 7 canto it is said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotee know how to use properly lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy. In the Bhagavad Gita 3.37,...Read more...
Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s Influence
Renunciation through Devotion
Lord Shiva worship
Lord Shiva worship
Why Lord Shiva’s independent worship and dvaitavada promoted By editor - 7.1 2020 Please note that the contents of the article is not a personal opinion but the references from sastra. The intention is not to defame other panths dedicated to Shiva and Devi as one can attain...Read more...
Krsna's Cradle at Amriteshwara
Beauty of Khajuraho Temples
Qualification to read Astakaliya lila
Qualification to read Astakaliya lila
By editor - 3.1 2020 Asta-kaliya Lila are the divine erotic pastimes of Radha Krishna throughout the day . Many of us have often come across the situation that when we read and hear Radha Krishna’s madhurya lila or discuss it with other devotees including the Glories of Srimati...Read more...
Expose of the Radha Kunda babajis
Katha Upanishad with Commentary of Adi Shankaracharya
Katha Upanishad with Commentary of Adi Shankaracharya
By The Editor - 3.1 20230 [Katha Upanishad with Commentary of Adi Shankaracharya] The Katha Upanishad is a collection of philosophical poems representing a conversation between the sage Naciketas and Yama (the god of death). They discuss the nature of the atma (the soul), brahman (the...Read more...
On Sankara
Gaudiya Sampradaya
Different Indian school of Philosophy
Different Indian school of Philosophy
By Sri Satyanarayana Das Babaji Maharaj Indian civilization is the oldest living civilization in the world. The reason for it to survive even after being subject to the onslaught of foreign invaders and rulers for thousands of years is its roots that are grounded in philosophy. The very...Read more...
Different Indian school of Philosophy
Six systems of vedic philosophy
Vedic Influence in Iraq and Iran
Vedic Influence in Iraq and Iran
By Stephen Knapp - 6.12 2019 . Vedic Influence in Iraq and Iran, Bharatvarsha, and ancient Iran was also hardly distinguishable from India. It is recognized that some forms of Vedic culture prevailed in Western Asia. Long, before the advent of Islam, even as early as the third millennium...Read more...
The Gita Condensed
The Gita Condensed
By Kalakantha Dasa - 25.11 2019 A concise refresher on Lord Krishna’s immortal teachings. In 1968 His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada published the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, which has since sold tens of millions of copies in dozens of languages. As a lifetime devotee...Read more...
Rebirth According to the Bhagavad-gita
Bhagavad Gita As It Is
IS God a Person or Energy?
IS God a Person or Energy?
By editor - 25.11 2019 Excerpt from the Bhagavad-Gita As it Is 7.7: Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute TEXT 7 mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva SYNONYMS mattah—beyond Myself; parataram—superior; na—not;...Read more...
Your Energy vs Time Management
How Many Species of Lives in Creation?
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