Mathuresa Dasa

Exeter, Harvard, SDS, drugs, Skinner, James, and a place on the bay in Maine. Then what? I first heard the chanting of Hare Krsna in 1968, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during my freshman ... Read more

Parul Upadhyaya

Temple Of My Dreams A young girl hankers and prays for association of devotees until a temple opens next door. On 31″ December 1999 was my first visit to an ISKCON temple. That day, ... Read more

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

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

Madhusudan Dasa

How I Met A.C. Swami Bhaktivedanta I had a “normal” childhood, had fights with the kids on the block, envied my older brother for his associations with pretty girls, and tried ... 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

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

Sankarsana Dasa

The Truth Is Humbling News "Thinking myself in the company of a fellow truth-seeker, I decided to impress him with my views of the truth." I lay on the ground ... Read more