Some of you may remember the colorful Hare Krishna devotees, dancing and chanting on the streets of all the major cities around the globe. Distributing books, magazines, and different vegetarian foodstuffs. Most of those early devotees are still around, though not so easily recognizable, as they have become doctors, lawyers, businessmen, teachers,  truck drivers, tradesmen and other helping professionals. Some have remained living in the temples and ashrams located around the world, or on farming communities, where they continue to protect the cows, and grow their own food. But the one thing that we all have in common is how the books of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta have changed our lives forever, opened our darkened eyes and filled our hearts with transcendental knowledge.  And we like to chant the Hare Krishna mantra; Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Which, is the sublime method for reviving our transcendental consciousness; our original pure consciousness.

     "This Krishna Conscious Movement is 'trying' to bring back Vedic culture so that people may be happy.  It is not a business, it is not a religious sentiment, it is a program to make everyone happy"  -SP

Everyone wants to be happy. No one wants to suffer.  Because to be happy is our natural original consciousness sat-cit-ananda,  eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. 

Some of you have not yet, had the unique opportunity to meet the devotees or read the books of Srila Prabhupada. Therefore it is our warm invitation to all of you, kindly take a moment to view our pages, and select a book or two and begin or continue on your path towards self realization.

The Hare Krishna Movement or The International Society for Krishna Consciousness was formed in 1966 by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who came from India on the order of his spiritual master to preach love of God to the people of the West.  

Krsna consciousness is experienced as a process of self-purification, through the practice of Bhakti yoga.  And since the philosophy of Krsna consciousness is nonsectarian, any man, Hindu or Christian, etc, will become better in his faith by chanting the holy name of God and by hearing Bhagavad-gita "The Song of God".  So let everyone rejoice in the sankirtan movement, and may we see the prediction made by Lord Caitanya 500 years ago that the chanting of the holy names of God would be carried to every town and village of the world.  Only in this way can real peace prevail.  It is sublime and easy.  Hare Krsna!

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

 

Books are the Basis

The books of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, are the most important contribution of this Krishna consciousness movement. Everything else is superfluous, a by-product of these books. Even the temple and the Deity are secondary. Krishna consciousness, or the spiritual revolution which Srila Prabhupada envisioned, is based upon the publication and distribution of Vedic literature.

 

Until people have these books in their homes, we cannot expect a significant turn in their lives. The books will act where we cannot. With the printing press, one man's effort can very easily expand a millionfold.

 

Five thousand years ago, Vyasadeva, the author of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, foresaw the hellish situation of this age in which we live. Therefore he recorded the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Prior to Vyasadeva, the Vedas existed only orally. Vedic knowledge was handed down from spiritual master to disciple. In Lord Chaitanya's time, when there was no printing press, the Srimad-Bhagavatam was written by hand. It was considered a great gift to offer a copy of Srimad-Bhagavatam to a learned scholar, king or gentleman, because it was very difficult to obtain.

 

We have the facility to reproduce the Srimad-Bhagavatam by the millions with the printing press. Because we are not qualified scholars and are thus unable to translate Vedic literatures, it is obvious that our contribution to our spiritual master, or to the mission of Lord Chaitanya, is to publish what has been given to us by our spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, and to make a world-wide scheme for advertising, promoting and selling these books to the public.

 

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam must be placed in the home of every respectable person in the world. Just as we find the Oxford Dictionary, Encylopaedia Britannica, Shakespeare collection or any other important literary work in a respectable person's home, so also the Srimad-Bhagavatam and all the other books published by Srila Prabhupada must be placed in the homes of people all over the world.

 




 

These books are the basis of a Spiritual Revolution

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