Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal — aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking why you can’t be bothered to actually cook a well-balanced meal now and then? Rajendra Pachauri would like to offer you one. The head of the U.N.’s Nobel [...]

THE HIDDEN COST OF EATING MEAT:
* The Amazon Forest releases 20 Billion tons of fresh water into the atmosphere every day.
* 24 Hours of deforestation releases as much CO2 as 8 million people flying from London to New York.
* Every second, a section of rain forest the size of a football field is destroyed to [...]

The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare is the sublime method for reviving our transcendental consciousness. As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krishna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our [...]

I recently went on a field trip to the IMAX movie theater, which shows educational 3-D movies. I viewed a movie about prehistoric sea monsters. The movie depicted the ocean as a place of constant danger for its inhabitants. The ocean was (or still is) a place where one animal is food for another, and [...]

One day high up in the mountain retreat of Shiva, Visnu came to visit and left behind, at the entrance, His eaglelike carrier, Garuda.  While Garuda sat alone, marveling at the natural splendor of the place, his eyes fell on a beautiful creature—a small bird seated on the archway crowning the entrance to the retreat.  [...]

My trip to India brought a few surprises. It’s been some twenty years since I was last there, and things are changing fast. The cities are still the same bustling mess of teeming madness, much like anywhere else I suppose, but it’s in the outlying rural areas that I was most shocked. In my many [...]

One morning Genghis Khan, the great king and warrior, rode out into the woods to have a day’s sport. Many of his friends were with him. They rode out gayly, carrying their bows and arrows. Behind them came the servants with the hounds.
It was a merry hunting party. The woods rang with their shouts and [...]

This is an excerpt from the 13th chapter of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srila Prabhupada’s commentated translation of the most famous spiritual text of India:
Text 21: Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this [...]

Americans love their pets. We feed them better than most humans in third world countries are fed. We dote on them with toys at Christmas, and we award them the honorary status of “children.” But do we acknowledge that all creatures are, like us, spirit souls? Do we honor them as living entities working their [...]