Nagaraja Dasa

Meeting The Challenge “I learned self-discipline and a reverence for duty, honor, and country. But I had an itch for a more basic constitutional right…” I first met Hare ... Read more

Amrtamsa Dasa

A Young Man’s Search For Identity Takes Him From Crisis To Krishna I grew up in Connecticut in the fifties and sixties. Always “the observer,” dissatisfied with the status quo, ... Read more

Muraridasa

My first memory of the devotees was when I was about 9 years of age. I was a passenger in the family car, enroute from Coffs Harbour to Wauchope to spend Christmas with our grandparents and ... Read more

Kashyapi Karan

Hare Krsna My life began with my beloved gopal deity, continuing my life with him and also want to end with him because he has always been too merciful on me. Since childhood my gopal deity ... Read more

Yoginatha Dasa

Journey with An Unseen Guide "A faint voice began to suggest that I was near the end of a long journey a journey I hadn't even realized I was on." I'm fifty-one years ... Read more

Madhumangala Dasa

From Punk to Monk “I couldn’t accept that I would be an engineer for the rest of my life, settle down, lead a steady life, grow old. I was bored. What was the point?” I ... Read more

Bob Roberts

Taking My Time "I remember the Gita's instruction that one cannot find real happiness in the material world. Although I had suspected that the statement was true, I felt ... Read more

Sastra Krit Das

How I Came to Krishna Consciousness by His Grace Sastra Krit Das Read more

Brian Fleming

Refreshing Encounters An uninitiated but committed member of ISKCON tells his story. IN 1965, THE YEAR Srila Prabhupada landed in America, I was browsing in a used book store in Glasgow, ... Read more

Kishore Kumar Sarder

My Journey to Theism “Though I was an atheist, God always attracted me, and He was a real mystery to me.” When I was a fourteen-year-old schoolboy, I met a communist who gave me some books ... Read more