This is a delightful story of how Ghanashyam Giri was to donate the Deity of Gopal Jiu to HH Gour Govinda Maharaja, and how there was a delay in this giving, and how some extraordinary dreams expedited the final transfer of Gopal Jiu into the care of HH Gour Govinda Maharaja. Here is the account:…

“So far as your question about controversy amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, that is a fact. But this controversy is not material. Just like in a national program, different political parties are sometimes in conflict and make propaganda against each other, but their central point is always service to the country. Similarly,…

Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says: sadhu-sastra-guru-vakya cittete kariya aikya One should accept a thing as genuine by studying the words of saintly people, the spiritual master and the sastra. The actual center is the sastra, the revealed scripture. If a spiritual master does not speak according to the revealed scripture, he is not to be…

by His Holiness Jayadvaita Swami Can they clone a human being? They can. They will. They may already have. Does a clone have a soul? Yes. A clone has consciousness, and consciousness means soul. How does the soul enter the cloned body? No problem. It already happens in nature, with identical twins. One cell splits…

“The environment is burning in a hundred, in a thousand places worldwide. But there is no fire escape here, no ‘out,’ no other solution than a shift in knowing who we are.” Jim Nollman, Spiritual Ecology About sixty miles southwest of Melbourne, Australia, in rolling hills studded with gum trees, lies New Nandagram, an environmentally…

by His Holiness Jayadvaita Swami When Sukla Gupta was a year and a half old and barely able to talk, she used to cradle a pillow or a block of wood in her arms and address it as “Minu.” Minu, she said, was her daughter. And if you believe the story Sukla gradually told over…

A few months before Śrīla Prabhupāda’s first visit to ISKCON Dallas, a strong windstorm hit the area, felling trees. A tall, valuable shade tree in the courtyard of the temple also fell over and remained leaning against an adjoining building, the children’s prasādam hall. The tree still had its roots in the ground, but its…