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Rutgers University Students Get Down to Sacred Sounds
Madhava Smullen | At 8:45pm on May 1st, the doors of Rutgers Student Center opened, and over six hundred students poured into the Center’s large multipurpose hall. Their excitement was palpable through the hum of conversation.
Fourth Annual Vaishnava-Muslim Dialogue Studies “Sacred Aesthetics”
Anuttama Dasa | More than twenty scholars and practitioner from the Islamic and the Vaishnava Hindu traditions, spent a day together at a retreat center just outside of Washington, D.C. on April 13 for an in depth discussion of “Sacred Aesthetics.”
The 20th Anniversary of ISKCON Communications Europe
Gandharvika Prema Dasi | 20 years ago the first Communications Conference was held in Europe. The anniversary of that first meeting has just been celebrated in Budapest, Hungary, early in May 2013.

Inside ISKCON

Madhava Smullen | Although ISKCON guru Tamal Krishna Goswami passed away in 2002 at the age of fifty six, his mother Lore Garrick—affectionately known to devotees as “Mother Lore” or to TKG disciples as “Grandma”—outlived him by eleven years. Her life was a fascinating one.

World News

When dining out, not all secrets are meant to be kept — at least that's partly the intent with the "secret" restaurant trend. Unmarked entrances, unadvertised contact information, and word-of-mouth marketing are typical attributes of this deliberately cryptic experience.

Opinion

Arcana-siddhi Dasi | If we grasp the full scope of our existence, we can understand the significance of each event that we struggle through. Krishna arranges everything for our ultimate benefit.
Chaitanya Charan Das | “Religion is the opium of the masses” is the argument often used by atheists to dismiss religion without addressing the substantial issues it addresses. Though many atheists have used this quote, its most well-known proponent is Karl Marx: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” What does this religion-opium argument imply?