Philosophy

Who is Krishna? Why do people dress in robes and chant His name on the streets? What is the philosophy of these Krishna devotees? What's the meaning of their chant? Krishna is a name of the Supreme. It means "all- attractive." Anything that might attract you has its source in the...Read more...

What Are The Benefits of Chanting

Transcendental vibration

Hare Krishna philosophy

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), otherwise known as the Hare Krishna movement, includes five hundred major centers, temples and rural communities, nearly one hundred affilated vegetarian restaurants, thousands ofnamahattas or local meeting groups, a wide variety...Read more...

Philosophy for Everyone

Basic Philosophy

Searching for a guru

By editor, 29 March 2015 Searching for a guru Q: Hare Krsna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I have been "into" Krsna consciousness for eight years, I have been to temples, I stayed a couple of times at New Goloka in N.C., I have stayed down at the Potomac temple in Maryland. I...Read more...

Guru-sastra-sadhu

By editor. 15 February 2015 Vedic tradition has an internal check system of truth validation. Guru (spiritual master), sastra (revealed scripture) and sadhu (holy persons) must be in harmony and then an issue can be accepted as verified. This principle also exists in other monotheistic...Read more...

Is it really necessary to believe in God

By editor, 22 february 2015 Q: Is it really necessary to believe in God? A: Thank you for your enquiry. Belief is a relative thing, once we all believed that the world was flat now we know it to be round. So God's existence does not depend on our belief. There are many scriptural...Read more...

Questions about suffering

By editor, 29 january 2015 Q: Why is there sorrow, pain and death? Why is not there peace? It would be so much better if there was only happiness. A: Yes, this is an intelligent observation. The Vedic scriptures say that duhkha, suffering, is an inherent part of this material world....Read more...

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