This Very, Very Critical Time
June 11, 2013 (VNN) Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja On May 3, 2001, many disciples of Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Prabhupada came to hear hari-katha from Srila Prabhupada’s bosom friend and … Read More
Category: PHILOSOPHY & COMMENTARY
Articles on Vaishnava philosophy
How I Started Writing
June 10, 2013 (VNN) How I Started Writing (And What Became of It), by Stephen Knapp I am writing this because many times people ask me how I got into writing, … Read More
Review: From All Angles of Vision
June 07, 2013 (VNN) Krishna Kshetra Das (Kenneth R. Valpey), From All Angles of Vision: Selected Essays 1996–2004: Lotos, 2012. Reviewed by Bhrigupada Dasa Krishna Kshetra Das is an initiating spiritual master … Read More
The Bud of the Holy Name
June 04, 2013 (VNN) by Bhaktiratna Sadhu Swami nāma ta akhaṇḍa rasa kalikā tāhāra | kṛṣṇa ādi saṁjñā-rūpe viśvete pracāra || Haridas Thakur to Gauranga in Hari Nam Chintamani by Bhaktivinod … Read More
Charity, Sacrifice and Austerity should not be given up
June 03, 2013 (VNN) by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada In Bhagavad-gītā (3.9) it is said, yajnārthāt karmano ‘nyatra loko ‘yam karma-bandhanah: one should act or work only … Read More
Conscience – even if it pains
June 02, 2013 (VNN) by Swami Bhakti Aloka Paramadvaiti We have to become activists of the good. There is so much garbage, so much cruelty that has to stop. Modern man … Read More
The Spectrum of Faith
May 28, 2013 (VNN) by Gauravani dasa “Faith is the conviction behind sustained effort.” —Swami Tripurari, Bhagavad-gita: Its Feeling and Philosophy In a recent Twitter discussion, I posited that atheists do indeed have … Read More
Preach the Truth Without Fear of Death
May 24, 2013 (VNN) by disciples of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada [The following passages from “Four Vaisnava Acaryas and Gaudiya Darsana”, published by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja, illuminate, … Read More
18 Bullets to the Gaudiya’s Hegemony
May 21, 2013 (VNN) by Radhakrsnadasa Brahmacari (GKG) of ISKCON The 15+1+2 Unique Aspects making Gaudiya Lineage the Cynosure of all Religionists’ Eyes The six Gosvamis of Vrindavana are considered the … Read More