History – Human Civilization
≻ Ancient Aryan Civilization Uncovered on the Russian Steppe The members of human society who strictly follow the principles of bhagavata-dharma and live according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are called Aryans or arya. More
≻ Krishna: The Supreme Personality Krishna is a historical person, but at the same time, in the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna says, "Fools think that I have assumed this historical personality. They do not know My higher nature and my transcendental dominion over all that be." More
≻ Once Under One Flag Originally this planet was under one culture, one flag, so to speak. Although there were provincial rulers ... like we have governors in the states, we have one supreme ruler. Similarly, originally, as far back as 5,000 years, the entire planet was under Vedic rule. More
≻ Finding the right job: mapping vocations to qualifications One should work according to his own nature; no work is abominable, if performed in the service of the Supreme Lord. More
≻ Dungeons of Demons The dungeons of mines, factories and workshops develop demoniac propensities in the working class. The vested interests flourish at the cost of the working class, and consequently there are severe clashes between them in so many ways. More
≻ Sanskrit: Perfect Language for Artificial Intelligence and Interplanetary Communication Sanskrit is the origin of all languages of the civilized peoples. It is most perfect, not only descriptive; the word "Sanskrit'' means "the most perfect''. More
≻ Leveled In the villages of India you would find a simple mud house or a cow dung house with a straw roof – practically no expenditures in building and maintaining a house, and no loss when the house is destroyed. More
≻ Some Missing Chapters of World History - Chapter 21 - ENTIRE PACIFIC REGION AS HINDU TERRITORY Hinduism was the only way of life, the only religion, if we may call it in modern terminology, prevalent throughout the Pacific region from India to Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Korea, Indochina and the Philippines right up to and including Japan, Australia and New Zealand on the east, and up to Mexico to the west. More
≻ Some Missing Chapters of World History - Ancient Hindu Empire Part 1 History as it is currently taught, presented and presumed throughout the world, harbours a number of misconceptions, at times so gross as to present an inverted image of past happenings. An instance of this is the current thinking propagated by Western scholars that the Aryans are a race and that the Aryans invaded India. More
≻ Some Missing Chapters of World History - Preface History as it is currently taught, presented and presumed throughout the world, harbours a number of misconceptions, at times so gross as to present an inverted image of past happenings. An instance of this is the current thinking propagated by Western scholars that the Aryans are a race and that the Aryans invaded India More
≻ How Old is Our Universe? The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of events that occurred before 5,000 years ago, and the anthropologists say that 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories, such as the Puranas and Mahabharata, relate human histories which extend millions and billions of years into the past. More
≻ Ancient weapon outperforms new weapons The heat created by the flash of a brahmastra resembles the fire exhibited in the sun globe at the time of cosmic annihilation. The radiation of atomic energy is very insignificant in comparison to the heat produced by a brahmastra. More
≻ Darwin's Mistake Neither Darwin nor anyone since has directly observed a transition from one species to another. More
≻ Rebooting civilization with spiritual culture The society is not in stable stage. Just like in America, they are also in trouble now. They are asking money from the federal government. They cannot make solution. So as soon as the monetary source will decline, this civilization will be finished. ...Because there is no culture. They are not standing on culture. They are standing on money. More
≻ Varnashram: progressive, cooperative society The whole Vedic civilization is meant for making people brahmana. Not to keep him in ignorance, not to keep him in the position of a shudra. The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence one can be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ A Headless Society At the present moment there is no intelligent class of men. But kalau shudra-sambhavah. Therefore things are all in chaos. Everywhere you go, any part of the world, nobody is happy, either in family or community and society, nationwide, you take. Everywhere is distrust, unhappiness, godlessness. Because the intelligent class of men is finished. More
≻ Who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil? GUEST: How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krishna or not? PRABHUPADA: Yes. GUEST: For example, a soldier fighting in a war... PRABHUPADA: Yes. Then you have got to talk with Krishna... GUEST: Or somebody... PRABHUPADA: Just like Arjuna talked. GUEST: No, I mean, for example, you know, somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know...? More
≻ Transforming the Untouchables The shastras do not speak of untouchables. Everyone is eligible to practice Krishna consciousness and return to Godhead, provided the necessary spiritual qualifications are there. More
≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More
≻ Beef and the degradation of the human race Beef is forbidden in the scriptures, and the bulls and cows are offered special protection by followers of the Vedas. But in this age of Kali, people will exploit the body of the bull and the cow as they like, and thus they will invite sufferings of various types. More
≻ China: the Far West Human civilization began in the East, in India, with the Vedic civilization, and has moved westward ever since. More
≻ India's spiritual culture One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More
≻ The War Against Evil If society creates animals, then how can it expect peace and prosperity? In spite of so many big universities and all educational facilities, this society is producing hippies and frustration amongst the youth because we are spirit soul and cannot become happy simply by amassing material comforts. We must have spiritual life. More
≻ NASA Images Find 1,750,000 Year Old Man-Made Bridge between India and Sri Lanka Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long. More
≻ Carrying On Gandhi's Principles Gandhiji, minus his spiritual activities, is an ordinary politician. But actually he was a saint amongst the statesmen and his basic principle was to overhaul the very foundation of present civilization by the novel philosophy of satyagraha and nonviolence. More
≻ Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. More
≻ 'Nobody has proved that Ram did not exist' According to rationalists, anything that cannot be proven does not exist. Therefore, since God's existence has not been proven, he too does not exist. I want to ask them: "Has it been proven that God does not exist? So, why are you so eager to believe that God does not exist." To compare the history of Islam or Christianity to that of Hinduism is not fair. Those are products of fairly young civilizations, not like Hinduism, which is a product of the oldest living civilisation in the world. More
≻ Evidence or Mythology? Now, we have got evidence from the Vedic literature. But the other party, they have no evidence. They are simply speculationist. We can give some evidence. The Vedas are accepted by acharyas, and they are following, and they are getting the result. More
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≻ Krishna: The Supreme Personality Krishna is a historical person, but at the same time, in the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna says, "Fools think that I have assumed this historical personality. They do not know My higher nature and my transcendental dominion over all that be." More
≻ Once Under One Flag Originally this planet was under one culture, one flag, so to speak. Although there were provincial rulers ... like we have governors in the states, we have one supreme ruler. Similarly, originally, as far back as 5,000 years, the entire planet was under Vedic rule. More
≻ Finding the right job: mapping vocations to qualifications One should work according to his own nature; no work is abominable, if performed in the service of the Supreme Lord. More
≻ Dungeons of Demons The dungeons of mines, factories and workshops develop demoniac propensities in the working class. The vested interests flourish at the cost of the working class, and consequently there are severe clashes between them in so many ways. More
≻ Sanskrit: Perfect Language for Artificial Intelligence and Interplanetary Communication Sanskrit is the origin of all languages of the civilized peoples. It is most perfect, not only descriptive; the word "Sanskrit'' means "the most perfect''. More
≻ Leveled In the villages of India you would find a simple mud house or a cow dung house with a straw roof – practically no expenditures in building and maintaining a house, and no loss when the house is destroyed. More
≻ Some Missing Chapters of World History - Chapter 21 - ENTIRE PACIFIC REGION AS HINDU TERRITORY Hinduism was the only way of life, the only religion, if we may call it in modern terminology, prevalent throughout the Pacific region from India to Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Korea, Indochina and the Philippines right up to and including Japan, Australia and New Zealand on the east, and up to Mexico to the west. More
≻ Some Missing Chapters of World History - Ancient Hindu Empire Part 1 History as it is currently taught, presented and presumed throughout the world, harbours a number of misconceptions, at times so gross as to present an inverted image of past happenings. An instance of this is the current thinking propagated by Western scholars that the Aryans are a race and that the Aryans invaded India. More
≻ Some Missing Chapters of World History - Preface History as it is currently taught, presented and presumed throughout the world, harbours a number of misconceptions, at times so gross as to present an inverted image of past happenings. An instance of this is the current thinking propagated by Western scholars that the Aryans are a race and that the Aryans invaded India More
≻ How Old is Our Universe? The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of events that occurred before 5,000 years ago, and the anthropologists say that 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories, such as the Puranas and Mahabharata, relate human histories which extend millions and billions of years into the past. More
≻ Ancient weapon outperforms new weapons The heat created by the flash of a brahmastra resembles the fire exhibited in the sun globe at the time of cosmic annihilation. The radiation of atomic energy is very insignificant in comparison to the heat produced by a brahmastra. More
≻ Darwin's Mistake Neither Darwin nor anyone since has directly observed a transition from one species to another. More
≻ Rebooting civilization with spiritual culture The society is not in stable stage. Just like in America, they are also in trouble now. They are asking money from the federal government. They cannot make solution. So as soon as the monetary source will decline, this civilization will be finished. ...Because there is no culture. They are not standing on culture. They are standing on money. More
≻ Varnashram: progressive, cooperative society The whole Vedic civilization is meant for making people brahmana. Not to keep him in ignorance, not to keep him in the position of a shudra. The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence one can be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ A Headless Society At the present moment there is no intelligent class of men. But kalau shudra-sambhavah. Therefore things are all in chaos. Everywhere you go, any part of the world, nobody is happy, either in family or community and society, nationwide, you take. Everywhere is distrust, unhappiness, godlessness. Because the intelligent class of men is finished. More
≻ Who gets to decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil? GUEST: How does one find out that this act is pleasing Krishna or not? PRABHUPADA: Yes. GUEST: For example, a soldier fighting in a war... PRABHUPADA: Yes. Then you have got to talk with Krishna... GUEST: Or somebody... PRABHUPADA: Just like Arjuna talked. GUEST: No, I mean, for example, you know, somebody dropping bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. How does he know...? More
≻ Transforming the Untouchables The shastras do not speak of untouchables. Everyone is eligible to practice Krishna consciousness and return to Godhead, provided the necessary spiritual qualifications are there. More
≻ Vedas unlocked from Sanskrit The Vedic mantras are received not by learning Sanskrit, but by hearing from the authorized person. Therefore it is called shruti. It is in Sanskrit because there was no other language. Sanskrit was the only language. So now they're being translated into English. So it doesn't matter whether it is in Sanskrit or English, one has to learn it by hearing from the proper person. More
≻ Beef and the degradation of the human race Beef is forbidden in the scriptures, and the bulls and cows are offered special protection by followers of the Vedas. But in this age of Kali, people will exploit the body of the bull and the cow as they like, and thus they will invite sufferings of various types. More
≻ China: the Far West Human civilization began in the East, in India, with the Vedic civilization, and has moved westward ever since. More
≻ India's spiritual culture One reason I came to the West is that modern India has rejected spiritual knowledge. Today Indians think that if they can imitate Western technology, they will be happy. More
≻ The War Against Evil If society creates animals, then how can it expect peace and prosperity? In spite of so many big universities and all educational facilities, this society is producing hippies and frustration amongst the youth because we are spirit soul and cannot become happy simply by amassing material comforts. We must have spiritual life. More
≻ NASA Images Find 1,750,000 Year Old Man-Made Bridge between India and Sri Lanka Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long. More
≻ Carrying On Gandhi's Principles Gandhiji, minus his spiritual activities, is an ordinary politician. But actually he was a saint amongst the statesmen and his basic principle was to overhaul the very foundation of present civilization by the novel philosophy of satyagraha and nonviolence. More
≻ Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. More
≻ 'Nobody has proved that Ram did not exist' According to rationalists, anything that cannot be proven does not exist. Therefore, since God's existence has not been proven, he too does not exist. I want to ask them: "Has it been proven that God does not exist? So, why are you so eager to believe that God does not exist." To compare the history of Islam or Christianity to that of Hinduism is not fair. Those are products of fairly young civilizations, not like Hinduism, which is a product of the oldest living civilisation in the world. More
≻ Evidence or Mythology? Now, we have got evidence from the Vedic literature. But the other party, they have no evidence. They are simply speculationist. We can give some evidence. The Vedas are accepted by acharyas, and they are following, and they are getting the result. More
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≻ Human Animals and Animal Humans
This life, human life, is distinguished from animal life because the animal cannot inquire about transcendence. The human life, if it is not interested in transcendence, then he is animal. More
≻ Breaking History's Patterns: Change Yourself and the World will Change But you yourself can be Krishna conscious. You do not have to wait for the president. You can be Krishna conscious at once, so that at least your life will be successful. It does not depend on others. More
≻ From Superpower, it's a long fall to the bottom - but is USA more than halfway there? From history we can see that there were many powerful empires on the surface of the globe that were constructed with great pain and great perseverance, but in due course of time they have all been destroyed. More
≻ Where Gandhi's Good Intentions Failed: a wrong interpretation of religious principles If we do not follow the right person, mahajana — mahajano yena gatah sa panthah — then however I may be great in the estimation of the innocent public, that is wrong path. More
≻ Holy Cows, Sacred Bulls The principal sign of the age of Kali is that lower-caste shudras, i.e., men without brahminical culture and spiritual initiation, will be dressed like administrators or kings, and the principal business of such non-kshatriya rulers will be to kill the innocent animals, especially the cows and the bulls... More
≻ Human Civilization Downgraded Nature gave us the opportunity to realize God, but God-realization is meant for human being. The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More
≻ Mob Rule Nowadays these democracies' mob rule means instead of one king there are 300,000 kings in a state, and they are looting the hard-earned money by income tax, and everything is so polluted. More
≻ Class Not by Birth, Nor by Economic Status The four divisions of society—namely intellectuals, administrators, merchants, and laborers—should be determined not by birth but by merit, just as one becomes a doctor or a judge not by birthright but by merit alone. More
≻ Outcastes Cast Away Hindu Bondage The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence, one can be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ Democracy Unraveled All these rascals, politicians, they are trying to occupy the post: "I shall become president, I shall become secretary, and then I shall exploit the state like anything." More
≻ Whose Nature is it, after all? There is a mechanism that we call "nature." And from it is coming everything we see around us. Now, how is it that this mechanism is so perfect? And who is it that has devised this mechanism? More
≻ War is Natural Prabhupada said war cannot be stopped. He said war is natural. It's natural. War means accumulation of sinful reactions, taking its toll. We should stop birth and death, not war. More
≻ Send the President to Iraq When there was a war, the king was the first to fight. Just like your George Washington. He fought when there was a war. But what kind of president is ruling now? When there is a war he sits very securely and telephones orders. He's not fit to be president. When there is war the president should be the first to come forward and lead the battle. More
≻ Caught in the Economy Trap And bank will say that "You take money. You pay your bills. We'll give you loan, we'll charge interest. And when you get your salary, then you have to deposit it in the bank." And they'll adjust. And again you are penniless. Again you take loan. The social arrangement is so made that you simply depend on loan. More
≻ Is Milk for Everyone? IF MILK IS SO BENEFICIAL, WHY IS there so much controversy about it? The controversy on milk dates back to the 1950s through the 1970s. During that time, international relief agencies gave out millions of tons of surplus milk at home and abroad. More
≻ Sorting Heads, Arms from Legs The kshatriya class, they would come forward to be recruited by the military department. They will not go away. They will be very glad to accept military service, because in their blood the kshatriya spirit is there. More
≻ Self-sufficiency closer to the ideal civilization Whatever he's grown he takes in a basket, goes to the market, immediately sold. And they're all fresh. Collected in the morning, and it is sold by eight o'clock. All fresh vegetables. There was no export, there was no facility of transport. These rascals introduced transport. More
≻ Getting A Head in Life In the history there is no woman who is a big philosopher, a big mathematician, big scientist, big educationist. We don't find. They were all men. More
≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More
≻ The War Industry The big two wars of the world happened only on account of this industry. Do you know that? The cause is the big, big industry. Germany industrial, they produce goods. They must have market. But when they go to sell, there is no market. Britishers will not allow to sell them. More
≻ Misplaced Trust, Loyalties and Votes If the people become educated in Krishna consciousness, and if they decide that "We shall vote for Krishna conscious leader," then there will be happiness. More
≻ Vedic Scientific and Technological Texts Ancient Sanskrit literature is replete with references to wonder missiles, miracle rays, interstellar travel and astounding medical cures. More
≻ Religion You can Drink
Milk—a product of the cow's goodness—enriches human consciousness. Meat—a product of man's ignorance —degrades it. More
≻ Sanskrit, Mother of All Human Speech and Thought All Western scholars who really apply their mind to the problem will find themselves concurring with Mr. Hallhead that Sanskrit is the oldest language, and that it was spoken all over the world. More
≻ Reclining Vishnu Statues
Since according to Vedic tradition Lord Vishnu reclining on the coils of the eternal cobra created the cosmos, it is but natural that statues depicting Lord Vishnu as the creator and sustainer of the universe should have been erected at important locations throughout the world... More
≻ Religious Scriptures That generalizing argument is an excuse to hang all manner of scriptures from the Vedas to the Buddhist Tripitakas or Shatapitakas, the Christian Bible, the Islamic Koran and many others on a common washing line. More
≻ The Vedas We may summarize the attempts made by several scholars to fix the age of the Vedas. Maxmueller, the doyen of the Wester school, whose faulty assumptions are being blindly followed by the West-dominated academic world of today, based all his calculations on the then prevalent blundersome assumption that the world was created in 4004 B.C. More
≻ The 5000-Year Barrier All modern historical research in any direction seems to stumble into some mysterious, incognizable 5000-year barrier. More
≻ Unified Field Theory of History This volume should rank as very unique in the entire range of world historical literature, because so far as we can see, in modern times no one has presented a consistent, plausible, continuous, single-source account of world history. Each one has begun at some random point, discussed some chosen periods and topics of history and called it a day. More
≻ Lord Macaulay's Address "I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage..." More
≻ What is the Matter with the World? The atheistic civilization is to be troubled more and more with the progress of materialism. We have such foretellings in the pages of Srimad-Bhagavatam. The more the people are turning to the atheistic, the more things of disturbing elements do appear before us. And that is the thing which matters at present. This is a wrong type of civilization. More
≻ Milk: Secret to Long Life One should take ample milk, and thus one can prolong one's life, develop his brain, execute devotional service, and ultimately attain the favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. More
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≻ Breaking History's Patterns: Change Yourself and the World will Change But you yourself can be Krishna conscious. You do not have to wait for the president. You can be Krishna conscious at once, so that at least your life will be successful. It does not depend on others. More
≻ From Superpower, it's a long fall to the bottom - but is USA more than halfway there? From history we can see that there were many powerful empires on the surface of the globe that were constructed with great pain and great perseverance, but in due course of time they have all been destroyed. More
≻ Where Gandhi's Good Intentions Failed: a wrong interpretation of religious principles If we do not follow the right person, mahajana — mahajano yena gatah sa panthah — then however I may be great in the estimation of the innocent public, that is wrong path. More
≻ Holy Cows, Sacred Bulls The principal sign of the age of Kali is that lower-caste shudras, i.e., men without brahminical culture and spiritual initiation, will be dressed like administrators or kings, and the principal business of such non-kshatriya rulers will be to kill the innocent animals, especially the cows and the bulls... More
≻ Human Civilization Downgraded Nature gave us the opportunity to realize God, but God-realization is meant for human being. The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More
≻ Mob Rule Nowadays these democracies' mob rule means instead of one king there are 300,000 kings in a state, and they are looting the hard-earned money by income tax, and everything is so polluted. More
≻ Class Not by Birth, Nor by Economic Status The four divisions of society—namely intellectuals, administrators, merchants, and laborers—should be determined not by birth but by merit, just as one becomes a doctor or a judge not by birthright but by merit alone. More
≻ Outcastes Cast Away Hindu Bondage The whole Vedic scheme is that from the lowest grade of existence, one can be elevated to the highest grade. More
≻ Democracy Unraveled All these rascals, politicians, they are trying to occupy the post: "I shall become president, I shall become secretary, and then I shall exploit the state like anything." More
≻ Whose Nature is it, after all? There is a mechanism that we call "nature." And from it is coming everything we see around us. Now, how is it that this mechanism is so perfect? And who is it that has devised this mechanism? More
≻ War is Natural Prabhupada said war cannot be stopped. He said war is natural. It's natural. War means accumulation of sinful reactions, taking its toll. We should stop birth and death, not war. More
≻ Send the President to Iraq When there was a war, the king was the first to fight. Just like your George Washington. He fought when there was a war. But what kind of president is ruling now? When there is a war he sits very securely and telephones orders. He's not fit to be president. When there is war the president should be the first to come forward and lead the battle. More
≻ Caught in the Economy Trap And bank will say that "You take money. You pay your bills. We'll give you loan, we'll charge interest. And when you get your salary, then you have to deposit it in the bank." And they'll adjust. And again you are penniless. Again you take loan. The social arrangement is so made that you simply depend on loan. More
≻ Is Milk for Everyone? IF MILK IS SO BENEFICIAL, WHY IS there so much controversy about it? The controversy on milk dates back to the 1950s through the 1970s. During that time, international relief agencies gave out millions of tons of surplus milk at home and abroad. More
≻ Sorting Heads, Arms from Legs The kshatriya class, they would come forward to be recruited by the military department. They will not go away. They will be very glad to accept military service, because in their blood the kshatriya spirit is there. More
≻ Self-sufficiency closer to the ideal civilization Whatever he's grown he takes in a basket, goes to the market, immediately sold. And they're all fresh. Collected in the morning, and it is sold by eight o'clock. All fresh vegetables. There was no export, there was no facility of transport. These rascals introduced transport. More
≻ Getting A Head in Life In the history there is no woman who is a big philosopher, a big mathematician, big scientist, big educationist. We don't find. They were all men. More
≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More
≻ The War Industry The big two wars of the world happened only on account of this industry. Do you know that? The cause is the big, big industry. Germany industrial, they produce goods. They must have market. But when they go to sell, there is no market. Britishers will not allow to sell them. More
≻ Misplaced Trust, Loyalties and Votes If the people become educated in Krishna consciousness, and if they decide that "We shall vote for Krishna conscious leader," then there will be happiness. More
≻ Vedic Scientific and Technological Texts Ancient Sanskrit literature is replete with references to wonder missiles, miracle rays, interstellar travel and astounding medical cures. More
≻ Religion You can Drink
Milk—a product of the cow's goodness—enriches human consciousness. Meat—a product of man's ignorance —degrades it. More
≻ Sanskrit, Mother of All Human Speech and Thought All Western scholars who really apply their mind to the problem will find themselves concurring with Mr. Hallhead that Sanskrit is the oldest language, and that it was spoken all over the world. More
≻ Reclining Vishnu Statues
Since according to Vedic tradition Lord Vishnu reclining on the coils of the eternal cobra created the cosmos, it is but natural that statues depicting Lord Vishnu as the creator and sustainer of the universe should have been erected at important locations throughout the world... More
≻ Religious Scriptures That generalizing argument is an excuse to hang all manner of scriptures from the Vedas to the Buddhist Tripitakas or Shatapitakas, the Christian Bible, the Islamic Koran and many others on a common washing line. More
≻ The Vedas We may summarize the attempts made by several scholars to fix the age of the Vedas. Maxmueller, the doyen of the Wester school, whose faulty assumptions are being blindly followed by the West-dominated academic world of today, based all his calculations on the then prevalent blundersome assumption that the world was created in 4004 B.C. More
≻ The 5000-Year Barrier All modern historical research in any direction seems to stumble into some mysterious, incognizable 5000-year barrier. More
≻ Unified Field Theory of History This volume should rank as very unique in the entire range of world historical literature, because so far as we can see, in modern times no one has presented a consistent, plausible, continuous, single-source account of world history. Each one has begun at some random point, discussed some chosen periods and topics of history and called it a day. More
≻ Lord Macaulay's Address "I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage..." More
≻ What is the Matter with the World? The atheistic civilization is to be troubled more and more with the progress of materialism. We have such foretellings in the pages of Srimad-Bhagavatam. The more the people are turning to the atheistic, the more things of disturbing elements do appear before us. And that is the thing which matters at present. This is a wrong type of civilization. More
≻ Milk: Secret to Long Life One should take ample milk, and thus one can prolong one's life, develop his brain, execute devotional service, and ultimately attain the favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. More
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≻ Phantasmagoria The
whole universe, or for that matter all material existence, is moving on
as jagat, simply for planning business to make one's position
very comfortable or secure, although everyone sees that this existence is
neither comfortable nor secure and can never become comfortable or
secure at any stage of development. More
≻ Hog Civilization Life can be easily maintained by agriculture and cow protection. No. They will start big, big mills, factories, motor tires, cars, instruments. ... In the Bhagavad-gita it is called ugra-karma, fierce... Fierceful activities. Kashtan kaman. Unnecessarily creating problems. ...one after another, one after another. More
≻ Kashmir Blood on British Hands When the Britishers saw, "Now the soldiers are coming in national movement. There is no hope. Better break this and go peacefully so that our business may not be disturbed, our relation may not be disturbed. Make a Commonwealth and so on, so on, hodgepodge. And do as much harm as possible dividing Pakistan and Hindustan..." More
≻ The Ride to Rama Giri An American disciple of Srila Prabhupada and his Indian Sikh friend ride their classic motorcycles to an ancient hilltop shrine. More
≻ Kautilya's Artha Shastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India Kautilya—sometimes called chancellor or prime minister to Chandragupta, something like a Bismarck 3 —composed his Arthasastra, or "science of politics," to show a wise king how to defeat his enemies and rule on behalf of the general good. More
≻ Vagina Worshipers It is the vagina that makes man to rise and certainly sends them to sleep at night. The vagina is the almighty Goddess that locks the each man in the whirlpool of birth-death-rebirth engaging his talents and intelligence in never-ending and ultimately useless work. More
≻ Rascal Culture Based on Sex Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, people sometimes criticize, "Your Vedic culture was most solidly established in India. And India is now considered relatively poor and unfortunate. So why should we respect the Vedic culture?" More
≻ Wanted: First-class Man We want to raise the fourth-class man to first-class man. First-class man means with qualification who can control the mind, control the senses, always very cleansed and truthful, very simple, full of all kinds of knowledge, practical application in life, then to have full knowledge of God, these are the characteristics of first-class man. More
≻ Can You Pass the Test? 30 Qualifications for Human Society Nowadays there is propaganda everywhere, all over the world, for a secular state, a state interested only in mundane activities. But if the citizens of the state are not educated in the above-mentioned good qualities, how can there be happiness? More
≻ 500,000 palm leaf texts found in family collections In a unique initiative to catalogue the priceless heritage of the past, students in Tamil Nadu have discovered nearly 500,000 palm leaf manuscripts, including a Mahabharata text said to be over 1,000 years old, from private collections. More
≻ Talks with Stillson Judah - Part II
We must restore religious leaders in the world. Otherwise, there is no question of peace or love or brotherhood. The United Nations is talking all nonsense. Not a single nation is united, and brotherhood is a farce. Brother means one father. More
≻ Talks with Stillson Judah - Part I
Scientists have worked to create this bomb. It will be used. That is the next chapter of material advancement: complete destruction. All advancement will be nullified, because it is built on a false platform. More
≻ The Lowest of the Mankind The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted amongst the Naradhamas. More
≻ Cities and Regions Since Since during the last millennium it was the European Christians and West Asian Muslims who controlled world affairs, they confusedly referred to the various ancient communities mentioned above as indistinct, incoherent echoes of a deleted past which need not be taken seriously. More
≻ The historical perspective...
We must not allow ourselves, this Krishna consciousness movement, to be equated with or drawn into the same arena with Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc. as if all are on the same playing field. More
≻ Polished Animals A human being has higher duties to perform than animals who are always engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of a hungry stomach. More
≻ Spiritual Communism—Talks with Professor Kotovsky in Moscow To maintain the peace and prosperity of the whole worldly social order, you must create a class of men very intelligent, a class of men very expert in administration, a class of men very expert in production, and a class of men to work. More
≻ Energy Problems will be Solved As Soon As We are Localized [Oil prices are close to US$58 per barrel, having fallen from their all-time high of more than US$70 per barrel. When the oil companies reported highest profits in history this year (ExxonMobil alone reported $9.9 billion in profits last quarter), public outrage prompted the US Senate to... More
≻ Man is the Architect of His Own Fortune That is an old, well-known English maxim, and the good fortune that the man has evolved out for him at the present moment can be amply verified as soon as we receive our morning newspapers. The sample good news that we are receiving now in every morning are as follows... More
≻ A Global Economy at the Price of Civilization Has this civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into a hellish factory and the war fields at the whims of a particular man? More
≻ Equal Opportunity, Equal Importance Everyone should be expert. The leaders must be expert and the worker must be expert so that they may follow the instruction of the leader. If the leader says something and the workers, "Hm, I shall consider it, later on," then how the leader will execute his leadership? Both of them should be cooperating and know that "We are all working for Krishna." More
≻ Two-legged Animals Then what is the special advantage of human life? The special advantage is athato brahma jijñasa. Jivasya tattva-jijñasa. You should be inquisitive to know the value of life, the Absolute Truth. That is... The dog cannot do it. That is the distinction between dog and human being. More
≻ Description of the Age of Quarrel A person's spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on the same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next. A person's propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. ... More
≻ Vagina: Gateway to Death, Coming or Going There is one gateway through which we all must pass to enter this material world, and that gateway is the vagina. When we are in this world, we unfortunately seek to re-enter this gateway again and again through the process of sexual intercourse. The result is that at the time of death, our fascination with this vaginal gateway forces us to be injected again into a particle of male semen and be placed within the womb of another mother, and develop another body just suitable for receiving another term of material karmic reactions. More
≻ Sri Chanakya Niti-shastra Sri Chanakya Pandit, also known as Kautilya, or sometimes as Vishnugupta, attained lasting fame over 2300 years ago for two reasons: (1) his Sanskrit writings on polity and (2) the practical and effective counsel he gave to King Chandragupta Maurya, who conquered most of India under his guidance More
≻ It's All Vanity Material activities are aimed at bodily comforts, pleasure and prestige. For attaining this end of bodily satisfaction, we have created all kinds of extraordinary, novel and unique things to satisfy our senses--technological advancement, scientific advancement, economics, politics, music, art, poetry and industry. All of these are products of this mistaken concept of life. More
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≻ Hog Civilization Life can be easily maintained by agriculture and cow protection. No. They will start big, big mills, factories, motor tires, cars, instruments. ... In the Bhagavad-gita it is called ugra-karma, fierce... Fierceful activities. Kashtan kaman. Unnecessarily creating problems. ...one after another, one after another. More
≻ Kashmir Blood on British Hands When the Britishers saw, "Now the soldiers are coming in national movement. There is no hope. Better break this and go peacefully so that our business may not be disturbed, our relation may not be disturbed. Make a Commonwealth and so on, so on, hodgepodge. And do as much harm as possible dividing Pakistan and Hindustan..." More
≻ The Ride to Rama Giri An American disciple of Srila Prabhupada and his Indian Sikh friend ride their classic motorcycles to an ancient hilltop shrine. More
≻ Kautilya's Artha Shastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India Kautilya—sometimes called chancellor or prime minister to Chandragupta, something like a Bismarck 3 —composed his Arthasastra, or "science of politics," to show a wise king how to defeat his enemies and rule on behalf of the general good. More
≻ Vagina Worshipers It is the vagina that makes man to rise and certainly sends them to sleep at night. The vagina is the almighty Goddess that locks the each man in the whirlpool of birth-death-rebirth engaging his talents and intelligence in never-ending and ultimately useless work. More
≻ Rascal Culture Based on Sex Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, people sometimes criticize, "Your Vedic culture was most solidly established in India. And India is now considered relatively poor and unfortunate. So why should we respect the Vedic culture?" More
≻ Wanted: First-class Man We want to raise the fourth-class man to first-class man. First-class man means with qualification who can control the mind, control the senses, always very cleansed and truthful, very simple, full of all kinds of knowledge, practical application in life, then to have full knowledge of God, these are the characteristics of first-class man. More
≻ Can You Pass the Test? 30 Qualifications for Human Society Nowadays there is propaganda everywhere, all over the world, for a secular state, a state interested only in mundane activities. But if the citizens of the state are not educated in the above-mentioned good qualities, how can there be happiness? More
≻ 500,000 palm leaf texts found in family collections In a unique initiative to catalogue the priceless heritage of the past, students in Tamil Nadu have discovered nearly 500,000 palm leaf manuscripts, including a Mahabharata text said to be over 1,000 years old, from private collections. More
≻ Talks with Stillson Judah - Part II
We must restore religious leaders in the world. Otherwise, there is no question of peace or love or brotherhood. The United Nations is talking all nonsense. Not a single nation is united, and brotherhood is a farce. Brother means one father. More
≻ Talks with Stillson Judah - Part I
Scientists have worked to create this bomb. It will be used. That is the next chapter of material advancement: complete destruction. All advancement will be nullified, because it is built on a false platform. More
≻ The Lowest of the Mankind The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted amongst the Naradhamas. More
≻ Cities and Regions Since Since during the last millennium it was the European Christians and West Asian Muslims who controlled world affairs, they confusedly referred to the various ancient communities mentioned above as indistinct, incoherent echoes of a deleted past which need not be taken seriously. More
≻ The historical perspective...
We must not allow ourselves, this Krishna consciousness movement, to be equated with or drawn into the same arena with Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc. as if all are on the same playing field. More
≻ Polished Animals A human being has higher duties to perform than animals who are always engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of a hungry stomach. More
≻ Spiritual Communism—Talks with Professor Kotovsky in Moscow To maintain the peace and prosperity of the whole worldly social order, you must create a class of men very intelligent, a class of men very expert in administration, a class of men very expert in production, and a class of men to work. More
≻ Energy Problems will be Solved As Soon As We are Localized [Oil prices are close to US$58 per barrel, having fallen from their all-time high of more than US$70 per barrel. When the oil companies reported highest profits in history this year (ExxonMobil alone reported $9.9 billion in profits last quarter), public outrage prompted the US Senate to... More
≻ Man is the Architect of His Own Fortune That is an old, well-known English maxim, and the good fortune that the man has evolved out for him at the present moment can be amply verified as soon as we receive our morning newspapers. The sample good news that we are receiving now in every morning are as follows... More
≻ A Global Economy at the Price of Civilization Has this civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into a hellish factory and the war fields at the whims of a particular man? More
≻ Equal Opportunity, Equal Importance Everyone should be expert. The leaders must be expert and the worker must be expert so that they may follow the instruction of the leader. If the leader says something and the workers, "Hm, I shall consider it, later on," then how the leader will execute his leadership? Both of them should be cooperating and know that "We are all working for Krishna." More
≻ Two-legged Animals Then what is the special advantage of human life? The special advantage is athato brahma jijñasa. Jivasya tattva-jijñasa. You should be inquisitive to know the value of life, the Absolute Truth. That is... The dog cannot do it. That is the distinction between dog and human being. More
≻ Description of the Age of Quarrel A person's spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on the same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next. A person's propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. ... More
≻ Vagina: Gateway to Death, Coming or Going There is one gateway through which we all must pass to enter this material world, and that gateway is the vagina. When we are in this world, we unfortunately seek to re-enter this gateway again and again through the process of sexual intercourse. The result is that at the time of death, our fascination with this vaginal gateway forces us to be injected again into a particle of male semen and be placed within the womb of another mother, and develop another body just suitable for receiving another term of material karmic reactions. More
≻ Sri Chanakya Niti-shastra Sri Chanakya Pandit, also known as Kautilya, or sometimes as Vishnugupta, attained lasting fame over 2300 years ago for two reasons: (1) his Sanskrit writings on polity and (2) the practical and effective counsel he gave to King Chandragupta Maurya, who conquered most of India under his guidance More
≻ It's All Vanity Material activities are aimed at bodily comforts, pleasure and prestige. For attaining this end of bodily satisfaction, we have created all kinds of extraordinary, novel and unique things to satisfy our senses--technological advancement, scientific advancement, economics, politics, music, art, poetry and industry. All of these are products of this mistaken concept of life. More
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