Bhakta Sean Carolan

An Impersonator Gets Caught He’d never take the Hare Krishnas seriously or so he thought. [Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami said to Lord Caitanya]: “Jagai and Madhai had but ... Read more

Danavira Dasa Goswami

Saved from the Clutches of Maya “My father and the coach at UCLA were pleased with my volleyball successes, and my mother was satisfied with my academic work. But I wondered if ... Read more

Satyaraja Dasa

The Agni And the Ecstasy “I considered myself a sort of Renaissance man in my own right. But through reading Srila Prabhupada’s profound works, I came to understand what I ... Read more

Amala Bhakta Dasa

How I Found A Real Yoga Teacher After Thirteen Years With a “Yoga Cheater”. The path from the hatha-yoga ashram to the Radha-Krishna temple is a well-worn one. Many people who ... Read more

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