Immortal Longings (part I)

None of us can wholeheartedly trust in and surrender to the body, because we know, beneath the bluff and the bravado, that our bodies are frail and weak and dying and that the greatest pleasure it gives us it heartbreakingly brief. We find ourselves bound within a complexity of muscle and vein that nature can [...]

Meat Consumption

Following notes and graphics should help you follow the talk.
4 regs:
1. gambling -x- truthfulness
2. intoxication -x- austerity
3. loose sex -x- cleanliness
4. meat eating -x- compassion
Meat & Oil
· Like oil, meat is subsidized by the federal government.
· Like oil, meat is subject to accelerating demand as nations become wealthier, and this, in turn, sends prices higher.
Facts:
Demand [...]

Transmigration Of the Soul

Mike Robinson: Can you tell me what you believe—what is the philosophy of the Hare Krishna movement?
Srila Prabhupada: Krishna consciousness is not a question of belief; it is a science. The first step is to know the difference between a living body and a dead body. When someone dies, the spirit soul, or the living [...]

The Business of a Gardener

Student: Everything man creates…
Prabhupada: And why does he die? Who has created death? Man creates everything, but who has created your death, Mr. Man? What is the answer?
Student: Well, man has not created death.
Prabhupada: That means somebody else did. So how you can say that man has created everything?
Suppose man has created this building. Where [...]

Bless This House

BLESS THIS HOUSE
by His Holiness Jayadvaita Swami
Bless this house, O Lord, we pray.
Make it safe by night and day.
Bless our humble vestibule,
Bless the TV, bless the pool.
Bless our silly little notions.
Bless our week’s supply of Trojans.
Bless, oh bless the internet.
Bless our liquor cabinet.
Bless our kitchen, for it features
Places where we roast Thy creatures,
Bake them, broil [...]