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by Sugata das Posted February 6, 2005 Although I am a very junior disciple, being born in 1956, and personally associating with Srila Prabhupada for no more than four months total, and as a teenager at that, I believe I can shed some light (however dim) on whether Prabhupada ever exhibited anger or disappointment. I…

“Life as an animal, bird, insect, or any other of the countless thousands of species is acceptable, but taking shelter of deceit is thoroughly improper. Only an honest person possesses real auspiciousness.” The Upadesavali of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada

yah sastra-vidhim utsrjya vartate kama-karatah na sa siddhim avapnoti na sukham na param gatim tasmac chastram pramanam te karyakarya-vyavasthitau jnatva sastra-vidhanoktam karma kartum iharhasi “He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination. One should therefore understand what is duty and what is…

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…