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Srila Prabhupada - Bharat Ratna or Vishva Ratna

Srila Prabhupada – A Bharat Ratna Or Vishva Ratna?

Nations take pride in praising and promoting their heroes. While some great personalities are loved and adored only by their own countrymen or a...
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The biggest danger faced by seniors in spiritual life

Spiritual life is a progressive activity. As we grow we realize its value better. Being seniors by age or by experience in spiritual life...
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Knowing Sri Mayapur As It Is – 10

As months after months and years after years pass by, I keep wondering if my appreciation for and attachment to Sri Mayapur Dham has...
Nrsimha Deva

Another reason why Lord Nrsimha killed Hiranyakashipu

Most of you may have read and heard why Lord Nrsimha Deva killed the great demon Hiranyakashipu. The well known reason is, the demon...
Lordships of Purushottam month

We will miss you, O Purushottam month!

Purushottam month has just gone. It has gone away from us to return after three years. It came to bless us and left after...
purana not mythology

Mythology is a wrong word for Vedas and Puranas

It's almost like an established tradition today that the super-science and the mind-boggling stories of historical value found in the ancient Vedic texts, called...
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Aliens? What the ancient Vedas say about extraterrestrial life

In his famous book, “Chariots of the Gods?” Erich von Däniken raises the hypothesis that members of an advanced civilization had visited our planet...
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Time according to the Vedas is not what you think!

We normally imagine time as a line that started at some point and stretches indefinitely. This affects even our language, with words such as...
bhakti charu swami

His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami departs – A great loss to ISKCON and the...

His Hoiness Bhakti Charu Swami, a prominent spiritual master and governing body commissioner of ISKCON, and a very dear direct disciple of ISKCON's founder...
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Stunning 5-minute visuals of Lord Nrsimha Abhishek in Sridham Mayapur

This year was a special Nrsimha Chaturdashi festival in Sridham Mayapur. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and government imposed lockdown, only a few devotees...

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India’s growth closely connected to a nationwide ban on cow slaughter

History shows that violence is a necessary element of good governance, but only as a last resort. Unfortunately, in the absence of righteous kings...

Ma Durga – Busting the biggest myth of all times

Mother Durga, or Ma Durga, is gorgeously worshiped all over the world during Durga puja festival. In India, especially in West Bengal, this is...

Ayurvedic drugs make a breakthrough – Substitute Antibiotics during surgery

Ayurvedic doctors once again prove how, in many ways, ancient medicines are superior to modern medicines. The latest in the news is, doctors in...

NASA speculates Black hole may be producing mysterious particles

Although too far from the reality, NASA's latest speculation does remind me of a few verses from the Brahma samhita, the prayer by Lord...

Archaeologists baffled again – 2,000 Tiny Gold Spirals Discovered

It's a golden enigma. Boeslunde is in Zealand, the large island that sits between mainland Denmark and the tip of Sweden. It's a hotbed...