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Have a look at this painting called The Persistance of Memory by the famous surrealist Salvador Dali. How does it capture you? Does it even draw your attention at all? Many people find this painting captivating and definitive of the surrealistic movement in art. Here you have something familiar and distinctive – a clock. Clocks…

Oil heated beyond the smoke point breaks down in molecular structure and starts to turn carcinogenic. This is important to know when cooking for Krishna and His devotees. Below is a chart of maximum cooking temperatures for various frying mediums. They are listed in order from lowest smoke temperature to highest. Notice how ghee rates…

My dear Tejiyas, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated December 10, 1972, and I am very much disturbed to hear from you that you have become disturbed in your mind. Do not be disturbed. There is no cause for anxiety. You are doing your best to serve Krishna,…

“I have seen your advertisements as shown to me by Shyamasundar, and I think you have made the thing less important. This kind of ad is not good, it is not grave. Our process is to show Krsna consciousness as it is, not as others want to see it. By showing Krsna consciousness in this…

Kripamoya Prabhu has written another brilliant article here. While you are over there have a look around. There are a lot of interesting things to read.    

A devotee of Krishna and his companion lost their way in a forest. The companion despaired, but the devotee said maybe some good will come of this. They came upon a stranger who needed the devotee's help. The stranger turned out to be a prince who gave the devotee a beautiful horse. His neighbors praised…

A comparison between western city life and Indian village life. My camera skills here are amateurish but I still thought it worth posting for the sake of the content.

  This is an important request – pls follow this link to petition against the destruction of sacred hills at Barshana, the holy place of Srimati Radharani, in Vraja mandala (vrndavan). – dina  sign petition here … then just yesterday, one of my sanskrt pronunciation course students (a russian mataji) insisted i shd come to…

This Thai vet got his hand and part of his forearm pulled off by a nile Croc in the zoo. He was pulling out tranquilizer darts through a fence but the ol' croc was obviously not as sedated as they thought. Somehow they managed to re-attach his arm after a few hours of surgery. "So,…

from Hindustan Times: Compared to the other metros, the last one year has seen a remarkable growth of the spiritual phenomenon in Kolkata. And if one goes by the figures alone, the city elders and the youth have got hooked to the meditation sessions being conducted free of cost by the International Society for Krishna…

 When asked if he believed in God, Albert Einstein replied: "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows…

Here in New Govardhana our presiding deities are Their Beautiful Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Govardhandhari, Krishna-Balarama and Gaura-Nitai. As a community we try to please them with our offerings of devotion and nearly everyone here feels as if they have a personal relationship with Them through service. Sometimes Their reciprocation is clearly demonstrated for all of…

Have live webcam darsan of Sri Panca Tattva and Sri Sri Radha Madhava here. Here’s the live-program schedule (Calcutta Time, GMT +5:30) Morning program: 4:30 – 8:45 a.m. Noon program: 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Afternoon program: 4:15 – 6:00 p.m. Evening program: 6:30 – 7:15 p.m. Night program: 8:50 – 9 p.m. Sunday program: 3:15…