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By editor - 10.1 2025 HareKrishnaSearch.com is a customized search engine designed to provide devotees and well-wishers of the Hare Krishna movement with a more efficient and focused way to access authentic Krishna Conscious information online. HARE KRISHNA SEARCH Key features of...Read more...
5 Habits That Are Equally Harmful As Smoking
By Healthy Lifetricks - 20.6 2025 Many non-smokers think that staying away from cigarettes is enough to lead a healthy life, but they ignore other unhealthy habits that they make every day. The difference is in the “mechanism” of the long-term impact on the body and the...Read more...
What's the core of the problem in Kashmir?
By Vikas Kamat - 20.6 2025 What's the core of the problem in Kashmir?  The border dispute is the core of the problem. The dispute is complicated by matters of history, religion, and terrorism. Can you tell us the real truth about Kashmir?  I can try.  Both nations...Read more...
Why a Sattvic Meal is the Best?
By editor - 20.6 2025 In Ayurveda, the need to evolve and experience greater wellness is called Sattva. It is the quality of love, light and life. Sattva is a Sanskrit word denoting purity or sanctity in body and soul. The food that one eats is also an important aspect of our wellness....Read more...
Why Are Onions and Garlic Not Good For Spiritual Health?
By editor - 20.6 2025 Many people across the world use garlic and onion regularly in their cuisine to enhance taste and flavor. These edible plant offerings along with others like shallots, chives, scallions and leeks belong to a genus known as alliums. Most plants of this group are...Read more...
“THOSE GUYS WITH THE BOOKS”
By Manobhirama Dasa - 20.6 2025 I was doing sankirtan on Auckland’s Queen Street when I stopped a guy who looked vaguely familiar. Turns out we’d met four years ago, and apparently I tried to give him a book back then. “Yeah, I almost took it,” he reflected,...Read more...
Foods in Ayurveda for Good Health
By editor - 19.6 2025 During the monsoons months, the weather is rainy, soggy and damp. Although one may enjoy the rains, it is important to note the fact that the prevailing weather affects our body in more ways than one. As the monsoons sweep in, so does a range of diseases and disorders...Read more...
The Household Spice that Destroys Cancer Cells and Stops Heart Attacks
By Ty Bollinger - 19.6 2025 Did you know that there is a common spice in almost every kitchen that could rebuild the gut wall? So, when this spice improves and rebuilds the gut wall, it will provide many health benefits, such as improved digestion, destroy cancer cells, stop a heart...Read more...
Cult Mentality & Religious Fanaticism
Q&A with Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda - 19.6 2025 Is there such a thing as religious fanaticism? We always hear people talking about “religious fanaticism.” The two terms contradict. Analyze the two terms - fanaticism and religion. What’s the central characteristic of...Read more...
The Concept of Space in Śrimad Bhāgavatam
By  Ashish Dalela  - 19.6 2025 Many people believe that the things that science is currently discovering were known to Vedic philosophers and sages in the past. This notion is false because the concepts of matter in Vedic philosophy are radically different from those in modern...Read more...
Srila Prabhupada on Srimad Bhagavatam, Part 13
BY: SUN STAFF - 19.6 2025 A serial exploration of Srila Prabhupada's preaching on Srimad Bhagavatam. In our last segment, we presented Text 1 of the First Chapter, First Canto from the original Srimad Bhagwatam, offering a few comments about the differences between the various editions...Read more...
Effects of Hot & Cold Foods on Our Digestion
By editor - 18.6 2025 According to the ancient practice of Ayurveda all food is said to consist of different chemical compositions resulting in one of the six classified tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent. Each of these tastes is a combination of the five elemental...Read more...
10 Health Benefits of Eating Raw Vegetables
By Susan Jorg - 18.6 2025 The human race learned long ago that cooking food before eating would protect from certain diseases. Since then this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art. Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements,...Read more...
Yuga Purana Timeline of Events
BY: PRADIP BHATTACHARYA - 18.6 2025 A gold dinar honoring Lord Shiva, who is pouring water from flask and holding the vajra (thunderbolt), trident, and tamgha (he-goat). Indications from 'Yuga Purana' help establish timeline of Puranic events, dyanasties. Despite the casual...Read more...
Archaeology and Vaishnava Tradition, Part 13
BY: SUN STAFF - 18.6 2025 The Birth of Krsna he last from a monograph by Ramaprasad Chanda, published by the Archaeological Survey of India, 1998. The old fortified city of Mahasthan, on the river Karatoya, 7 miles to the north of Bogra in Bengal, is evidently so-called because two spots...Read more...
 Please Pray for the Safety of Devotees in Israel and Iran Amid Ongoing Conflict
By editor - 18.6 2025 Dear Devotees, You are likely aware of the intense conflict currently taking place between Israel and Iran. There are many ISKCON Vaishnavas in both countries. Devotees in Tehran have been evacuated to other cities for their safety. In Tel Aviv, everything is shut...Read more...
Srila Prabhupada on Srimad Bhagavatam, Part 12
BY: SUN STAFF - 17.6 2025 A serial exploration of Srila Prabhupada's preaching on Srimad Bhagavatam. Today we begin with Text 1 of the First Chapter of the First Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam. Throughout this First Canto, we will continue to offer a comparative view of the text as it...Read more...
Who is Sadhu?
BY: VRINDAVAN DAS - 17.6 2025   Room Conversation with Malcolm — July 18, 1973, London Srila Prabhupada: ... Sādhu means he must be a devotee. Sādhu does not mean having saffron color and long beard and doing all nonsense. No. Sādhu means... First test is that he is...Read more...
Archaeology and Vaishnava Tradition, Part 12
BY: SUN STAFF - 17.6 2025 Vasudeva (Vishnu), Mathura, c. 400 A.D. From a monograph by Ramaprasad Chanda, published by the Archaeological Survey of India, 1998. [Continuing discussion of the fragmentary stone inscription from Mahakshatrapa Sodasa referring to Bhagavat Vasudeva at Mathura...Read more...
Watering the Tree of Love
By Niscala Dasi - 17.6 2025 Loving Krishna means loving everyone because Krsna is in their heart. Conversely, applying that logic backwards, if you don’t love everyone, it means that you are not loving Krsna. Using the root and leaves example, if the leaves are looking healthy, it is...Read more...
Vakresvara Pandit Appearance
By editor - 17.6 2025 Vakresvara Pandit Once in the house of Srivasa Thakura Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu sang while Vakresvara Pandit danced in, constant ecstasy for seventy-two hours. At that time Lord Caitanya said, "Vakresvara, I have only one wing like you, but if I had another...Read more...
Archaeology and Vaishnava Tradition, Part 11
BY: SUN STAFF - 16.6 2025 Vasudeva Red Sandstone, Mathura, 5th c. From a monograph by Ramaprasad Chanda, published by the Archaeological Survey of India, 1998. III. Our last document throwing light on another phase of the early history of Vaishnavism is a fragmentary stone inscription...Read more...
Srila Prabhupada on Srimad Bhagavatam, Part 11
BY: SUN STAFF - 16.6 2025 A serial exploration of Srila Prabhupada's preaching on Srimad Bhagavatam. Today we complete our comparative review of 'A short life sketch and teachings of Lord Chaitanya, the Preacher of Srimad Bhagwatam' as presented in the Introduction to Srila...Read more...
Rain-drenched New York Rath Yatra
By editor - 16.6 2025 Didn’t know what to expect. The number of people who are not yet devotees was very low at the parade and festival today. But: devotees turned up in force to pull the carts of Lords Jagannath, Baladeva, and Lady Subhadra Maharani, and to dance in kirtan. We were...Read more...
 Health Update from Niranjana Swami
By editor - 16.6 2025 Dear Devotees, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I believe it is an appropriate time to provide an update on my current health situation. I am writing from Hungary. I was supposed to stay longer in the clinic in India, but the heat and...Read more...
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