Lokanatha Swami

From Chemical Solution To The Ultimate Solution The unseen merciful hand of Lord Krishna helps a determined young science studentbecome one of Srila Prabhupada’s first Indian ... Read more

Ravikant Jagtap

I could not see the lord but lord could see me Hare Krsna! I was born on 5th of November 1983 and was residing at BARC colony Anushaktinagar, Mumbai. Since the age of 5 I had a severe ear ... Read more

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

Lisa Chastain

I Found Krishna in Las Vegas A lifelong search for God ends in the most unexpected of places. Last year I found myself at the doorstep of Govinda’s Center of Vedic India and Radha-Govinda ... 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

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

Arcana Siddhi Devi Dasi

Lost & Found “If death led to a better life, would suicide be a shortcut?” I FELT UNCERTAIN of what to expect as I walked slowly to the counseling center. A secretary ... 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