Appreciating Our Friends

We have been blessed with the greatest, most auspicious mission of delivering the entire world from its multitude of distresses and calamities. It is no doubt the most awesome of all tasks. Thus we need all the help we can get and very much appreciate those who have expressed sympathy with our movement and have also been active in helping to promote our cause of bringing this entire planet back to sanity in harmony with the Supreme Person, who is the source of all existence. I could list hundreds and thousands of such persons. But a few that come to mind are singers George Harrison and Jagjit Singh, US President Barack Obama, the learned scholar Dr. J. Stillson Judah, and the poet Allen Ginsberg. Our Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, very much appreciates and blesses all those persons who have in any way helped to serve this mission, even a guest at one of our temples who volunteers to take out the garbage.

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We Very Much Appreciate Them

George Harrison

George Harrison

Jagjit Singh

Jagjit Singh

Former US President Barack Obama

Former US President Barack Obama

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Mantra and Motto?

What is the difference between a mantra and a motto?

Roksana Parvin Yasmin

Answer: Belief Capsule and Liberating Sound Vibration

Dear Roksana,
A motto is a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals guiding an individual, family, or institution such as "Where there's a will, there's a way.” And a mantra is a transcendental sound vibration that has the power and potency to deliver its sincere chanter from the cycle of death carrying him or her back to their original home in the spiritual world. An example of mantra is the Hare Krishna mantra:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Sankarshan Das Adhikari



Monks Chanting Hare Krishna Japa

Monks Chanting Hare Krishna Japa


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