The First Prabhupada Lecture I Attended

On 27 June 1971 I was absolutely thrilled to see Srila Prabhupada for the first time in my life and to hear his lecture from Subhadra Devi's cart at the Ratha Yatra festivl. This lecture was on the subject of how to see God. Srila Prabhupada gave it to about 3,000 hippies and 300 devotees. Click here to hear Srila Prabhupada's lecture. On 29 September 2019 in Kaunas, Lithuania it was my great privilege to be able to give a lecture on Srila Prabhupada's lecture. Click here to hear my lecture.

A San Francisco Ratha Yatra Festival

A San Francisco Ratha Yatra Festival

Revive Your Krishna Consciousness Now

Revive Your Krishna Consciousness Now

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Is Life Eternal Suffering?

Is life an eternal cycle of suffering and realization? What is the point of realizing enlightenment when your memory is just wiped in the next incarnation, only having to start from square one all over again?

Mya Hazel

Answer: Not for Those Who Awaken Love of God

As long as we have material desires we must remain suffering endlessly in the cycle of repeated birth, death, old age, disease. But when we revive our loving relationship with God we escape the cycle of birth and death and regain our original, ever-youthful, eternal forms in the spiritual world. Genuine enlightenment is that awakening of love of God within the heart. This liberates us from ever having to suffer here in this material existence ever again.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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