Author Archives: Dandavats

UF Archives 1976 – Richard L. Thompson & Svarupa Damodara das
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Vintage 1976 recording from the University of Florida Digital Collections sponsored by the George A. Smathers Libraries. Michael Gannon interviews Richard L. Thompson and Svarupa Damodara das where they discuss the relationship of science to religion a…

The Universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead – HG Chaitanya Charan
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Translation O Vidura, who can estimate or measure the transcendental time, work and potency of the gigantic form manifested by the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead? Purport The froggish philosophers may go on with their mental spe…

Maha-mantra
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Maha means “great” and mantra means “sacred chant for deliverance.” Of all mantras in the Vedas, one is called the maha-mantra, or great mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama Rama Rama, Hare Hare. The words …

ICCE Celebrates annual Children’s Ratha Yatra in Wellington
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“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” This was certainly true for the devotees and guests at the ISKCON Centre for Culture and Education, Wellington, on the 2nd of July as the young members of our congregation gave us a glimpse of t…

One book
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Some Burmese doctors were attending a medical convention in New York City and got a book from a devotee on the street. The book distributor showed them the Dasavatar painting in the Gita, pointed out Lord Buddha, and the doctors bought the book. When t…

The universality of what Srila Prabhupada is offering
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Recently, a harinama was taking place at the Atlantic Ave./Barclays subway station in New York City. While sitting at our harinama book-table, I had two nice encounters within fifteen minutes, before the police asked us to remove the table. A friendly …

The Pleasure of the Senses, The Cow, and the Land
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Anadir adir govindah. Govinda is a name for Krishna. Go means three things: the senses, the cow, and the land. Krishna gives pleasure to these three things. Wherever He is present, that place becomes blissful, ananda. ananda-mayo ’bhyasat. The Vedanta-…

“You have Arabic books? That’s my mother tongue.”
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While distributing at Richland College in Dallas, I met a couple who came to my table enthusiastic to hear about the teachings of the Gita, which they saw on the table. Both of them had heard of it. I showed them the illustrations and explained a littl…

Helping the Red Cross volunteer
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Just last week, some Red Cross volunteers came to our neighborhood in Perth. They were going door to door, raising awareness among people that thousands of Australian school kids were not getting proper food, and hunger would force many of them to take…

The Prince Passed On Too Soon
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The king had many wives, but,  strangely, he couldn’t have a son.  What happened when he finally  got one was even more strange. There’s a saying that parents live on through their children. How often we hear, for instance, a…

An anxious quest in a frozen universe of solitude
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Now that scientists like Jacques Monod have helped us toward “an anxious quest in a frozen universe of solitude,” here are some time-tested secrets for rediscovering the warm and wonderful. “Alienation,” social scientists say, i…